Movies in the Park 2013 season to kick off May 4th
Clarksville, TN – Movies in the Park, the free outdoor movie series, will kick off its eighth season, Saturday, May 4th at the Heritage Park Soccer fields with the popular animated film, “Brave” – which is rated PG.
New this year to Movies in the Park- an added venue! The first half of the movie showings will take place at the Heritage Park Soccer fields with the second half taking place at the new outdoor amphitheater at Liberty Park.
Disney – Pixar’s Brave kicks off Movies in the Park May 4th.
Clarksville Parks and Recreation’s Kleeman Community Center offers positive alternative to teens
Clarksville, TN – The Kleeman Community Center, located at 166 Cunningham Lane, offers a positive alternative to teens in the community with the Teen Challenge Recreation and Education Program.
The Teen Challenge will be held Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 2:30pm to 5:00pm through May 22nd. [Read more]
Clarksville Civil War Roundtable’s next meeting is April 17th, 2013
The 109th meeting.
Clarksville, TN – The next meeting of the Clarksville (TN) Civil War Roundtable will be on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 at the Bone & Joint Center, 980 Professional Park Drive, right across the street from Gateway Medical Center. This is just off Dunlop Lane and Holiday Drive and only a few minutes east of Governor’s Square mall.
The meeting begins at 7:00 pm and is always open to the public. Members please bring a friend or two – new recruits are always welcomed.
Topic: “Grant’s Canal in the Vicksburg Campaign”
Ulysses S. Grant
Austin Peay State University Area of Theatre and Dance to present Lysistrata April 17th-21st
Clarksville, TN – Around the year 410 B.C., the Greek comic playwright Aristophanes wrote a play that caused many in his audience to blush.
When Darren Michael, Austin Peay State University associate professor of acting/directing, reread “Lysistrata” earlier this semester, he realized little has changed in the last two thousand years.
APSU Area of Theatre and Dance to present Lysistrata
APSU Provost Lecture Series to have History professor present at next session
Clarksville, TN – An Austin Peay State University history professor will present the next session of the Provost Lecture Series this week at APSU.
Dr. Jason Verber, assistant professor of history, will present at 3:00pm, Thursday, April 11th in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. The title of his presentation is “Germans in the French Foreign Legion.”
All sessions of the Provost Lecture Series are free and open to the public. [Read more]
APSU Chamber Singers to perform Bach’s Mass in G Minor April 26th-27th
Clarksville, TN – The German composer Johann Sebastian Bach wrote more than a thousand complex musical works in his lifetime, but modern audiences know only a few of the baroque musician’s masterful creations.
His Mass in B minor is one of his most played works, with some music scholars arguing that his reputation could rest on that composition alone.
APSU Chamber Singers
Fly Away to Neverland with the Roxy Regional Theatre’s Peter Pan, April 12th – May 18th
Clarksville, TN – “Second star to the right, and straight on ’til morning …” Let your inner child soar to new heights and fly away to Neverland with the Roxy Regional Theatre! Enchanting fun for audiences of all ages, the award-winning Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure makes its regional premiere on Friday, April 12th, at 8:00pm.
Based on J.M. Barrie’s original play, with permission from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Peter Pan features music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe (award-winning composers of Honk! and Mary Poppins) and book by Willis Hall.
“Peter Pan” stars Richie Sklar as Peter Pan and Hannah Church as Wendy Darling.
Clarksville Montgomery County Library has Civil War Photo Contest Exhibit on Display
Clarksville, TN – A winning photograph of cannon at Fort Donelson by Clarksville Middle-school student Miles Wilbur is among photographs currently on display at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library as it hosts the photo exhibit “Living Legacies: Capturing the Scenic Beauty in Tennessee’s Civil War Heritage.”
The exhibit is located in the library’s first-floor alcove (behind the fiction section). At the end of May the exhibit will close and move to the Obion County Public Library.
“Ready to Fire” by Miles Wilbur, Palmyra, TN – 7th grade, Montgomery Central Middle School, Clarksville, TN
Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department hosts the next Cumberland Arts Experience at the Kleeman Center April 27th, 2013
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department is offering another session of the new program, the Cumberland Arts Experience, at the Kleeman Community Center located at 166 Cunningham Lane.
The Cumberland Arts Experience will be held Saturday, April 27th and will teach basic painting skills as participants paint along with an instructor to create a piece of art they can take home with them. [Read more]
Customs House Museum continues Women’s History Month Celebration
Clarksville, TN – Today there are many recognizable names of women artists, yet according to the National Museum of Women in the Arts only 5% of art currently on display in U.S. museums is made by women.
Eclipsed – Tanya Tewell
