Clarksville Parks and Recreation says one week remains to enter Riverfest Virtual Talent Competition
Clarksville, TN – As the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic continues to have a widespread impact, the Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department is adapting the traditional three-day Riverfest celebration into nearly two weeks of in-person and virtual events.
The Riverfest Virtual Talent Competition is included in the lineup of events, and only one week remains for contest entries.
Participants have until August 26th, 2020 to complete an online application that includes a video of their performance that is no more than four minutes in length.
Kay Martin gifts piano to APSU Department of Music for All-Steinway School Initiative
Clarksville, TN – Kay Martin recently contributed an in-kind gift of a Steinway piano to the Austin Peay State University Department of Music. The gift enabled the department to acquire two new Steinway instruments.
Larry Martin (’67) and his Steinway piano. (APSU)
Customs House Museum celebrates Women’s Suffrage, Twenty Years of Cumberland Furniture Guild
Clarksville, TN – August has been a month of exciting change exhibit-wise at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center. Two new, highly anticipated exhibitions are now up for the public to visit: The Power of Women: Celebrating the Suffrage Movement and Practice Makes Perfect: Twenty Years of the Cumberland Furniture Guild.
This month the country will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, and Clarksville has plenty of history to share on the subject.
Practice Makes Perfect: Twenty Years of the Cumberland Furniture Guild
APSU recognizes Outstanding Professors with 2020 Faculty Awards
Clarksville, TN – On Monday, August 17th, Dr. Maria Cronley, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Austin Peay State University (APSU), honored several outstanding professors during a virtual meeting with all APSU faculty.
Austin Peay State University 2020 Faculty Awards. (APSU)
Austin Peay State University animation student work to be featured at international computer graphics conference
Clarksville, TN – The work of 10 Austin Peay State University (APSU) animation students will be highlighted at an international computer graphics conference that started Monday, August 17th, 2020.
Screen capture of the Austin Peay State University student trailer. (APSU)
Crunch Franchise announces Newest Gym opening in Clarksville Tennessee
Clarksville, TN – Crunch Franchise today, Monday, August 17th, 2020, announced the opening of a 40,000 -square foot gym with state-of-the-art equipment and amenities in Clarksville, Tennessee and will begin selling memberships mid-November. The modern, expansive Crunch Clarksville gym is located at 1596 Fort Campbell Boulevard, Clarksville, TN.
Crunch Clarksville makes serious exercise fun, offering top-quality cardio and strength training equipment, circuit training, personal training, a functional training area with indoor turf, a dedicated group fitness studio, a dedicated ride studio, Kids Crunch, tanning beds and sunless spray options, HydroMassage beds, and more.
Crunch Clarksville gym is located at 1596 Fort Campbell Boulevard
Austin Peay State University professor Somaditya Banerjee’s new book examines making of modern physics in colonial India
Clarksville, TN – Dr. Somaditya “Soma” Banerjee, an assistant professor at the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Department of History and Philosophy, has published a book that examines how modern physics developed in colonial India early in the 20th century.
Austin Peay State University professor Somaditya Banerjee poses outside the new Ann R. Ross Bookstore with his book. (APSU)
APSU creative writing professor Barry Kitterman’s “30 Poets, 30 Poems” celebrates the people, places of Clarksville
Clarksville, TN – “Poetry and place are the oldest of friends,” said Barry Kitterman, Austin Peay State University (APSU) creative writing professor and author of Stories from San Joaquin and The Baker’s Boy, in his effusive introduction to his 30 Poets, 30 Poems Clarksville anthology.
This collection is a love letter to all things Clarksville: the people, the places and the memorialization of this marriage through art.
Clarksville Parks and Recreation’s Movies in the Park kicks off Saturday
Liberty Park Athletic Field remains the site Movies in the Park
Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department’s Movies in the Park presented by Kyrstin Frate with Keller Williams is back for a third time this summer.
“Pokemon: Detective Pikachu” will be shown on Saturday, August 15th, 2020 at the Liberty Park Athletic Field. Activities will begin at 5:30pm, followed by the movie at sunset, which is around 7:30pm.
The first 40 guests will receive a free Movies in the Park popcorn bucket and one free bucket of popcorn provided by Loaves & Fishes TN. The branded bucket will allow guests to receive a $1.00 discount on popcorn at future Movies in the Park events this year.
Austin Peay State University Student room move-in starts Saturday, to last seven days
Clarksville, TN – The fall move-in schedule at Austin Peay State University (APSU) will look a little different this year as the University strives to protect the well-being of its students.
Austin Peay State University freshman moving onto campus. (APSU)
