Austin Peay State University Senior Art Show Highlights Interactive Photographs
Heather Kennedy
Clarksville, TN – This week, Austin Peay State University graduating senior Heather Kennedy will present her Senior Thesis exhibition, United. This interactive display of photographs will be featured in a dynamic exhibition in APSU’s Gallery 108 located on the first floor of the Trahern Building. Kennedy’s exhibition is the third in the series of seven exhibitions by graduating Arts Majors this Fall.
This exhibition is the culmination of Kennedy’s Senior Thesis and involves an interactive display of photography detailing what unites and brings us together as people. [Read more]
APSU Provost Lecture Series explores adoptive, foster parenting as next topic
Clarksville, TN – Popular rhetoric often promotes the idea that to foster or adopt a child, “all you need is love.”
“In actuality, adoptive and foster parents need much more than love,” said Dr. Katherin Flower, assistant professor of sociology at Austin Peay State University. “In fact, there are no uniform criteria for becoming foster or adoptive parents.
Instead, a complex set of federal, state and local policies as well as agency specific mandates establish the criteria for approving parents.” [Read more]
“A Tale of Two Cities” opens tonight at the Roxy Regional Theatre
Clarksville, TN – Tonight is opening night for the Charles Dickens’ Classic Tale of Love and Revenge, “A Tale of Two Cities”. Directed by John McDonald, Dickens’ famous epic novel of the French Revolution comes to the stage in a thrillingly ingenious adaptation.
The performance is Friday, November 4th, at 8:00pm, and it is pay-what-you-can preview night. All tickets not pre-sold at the regular ticket price when the box office opens that evening at 7:30pm will go on sale for whatever price you wish to pay.
Christmas on the Cumberland to open November 22nd
Clarksville, TN – The City of Clarksville’s Christmas on the Cumberland is sure to create lasting memories this holiday season as thousands experience the captivating displays of over one million lights! Join the City of Clarksville and US Bank as we celebrate Christmas on the Cumberland’s 13th year with a grand opening ceremony, November 22nd at 6:30pm at McGregor Park’s RiverWalk.
The grand opening will feature the official lighting of the Cumberland by Mayor Kim McMillan along with special guests, Channel 4 News Snowbird, and the jolly old man himself- Santa Claus!
A young girl visiting with Santa Claus at Christmas on the Cumberland 2010.
APSU hosts 17th annual Bread and Words reading on November 22nd
Clarksville, TN – Every November, on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, the Austin Peay State University Department of Languages and Literature hosts a benefit reading that not only celebrates the written word, but also raises public awareness of hunger in the local community.
(Front row) Laura McClister, Raven Jackson, (back row) Chase Davenport, Charles Booth and Ryan Boyd will all read during the November 22nd Bread and Words Benefit at APSU. (Photo by Rian Barger/APSU Public Relations and Marketing)
Essayist Ashley Butler to give nonfiction reading at APSU on November 7th
Clarksville, TN – In her new collection of essays, “Dear Sound of Footstep,” author Ashley Butler tackles such strange subjects as the fastest man on earth and the bizarre, echo-free chamber at Harvard University. But if you were to ask someone who read this compelling work what it was about, they might give simple one-word answers, such as “mortality” or “existence.”
More specifically, the essays in this book use their subjects to explore the death of Butler’s mother from cancer, and the author’s estranged relationship with her father.
Ashley Butler
Fronkensteen Calls out to Local Playwrights
Written by Ricky Steven Young Jr.
Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group
Clarksville, TN – Ricky Steven Young Jr., the Founder and Artistic Director of the Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group announces that they will be holding their first ever open submissions by local playwrights.
“Open Submissions open the doors to everyone in the community to share their work to us,” says Young, “Fresh voices always make for greater theatre and it has been our mission to share those voices with the community.” Any playwrights that send in a new play to Fronkensteentheater@gmail.com by November 30th are guaranteed to have their work considered for its next season. [Read more]
Clarksville Celebrates Halloween
Clarksville, TN – On October 31st, the residents of the City of Clarksville turned out to enjoy the Halloween festivities.
On Madison Street, the Mobley-Seifried family was out Trick or Treating. I caught up with them at the Williams House where Paisley (5), Crispin (4), and Alessandra (9) were singing the Halloween song for Mark Williams and the neighbor son John (6).
Paisley (5), Crispin (4), and Alessandra (9) were singing the Halloween song for Mark Williams and the neighbor son John (6)
November First Thursday ArtWalk
Written by Kendall Welsh
Clarksville, TN – You’re invited to join the merchants of Historic Downtown Clarksville for The monthly Art Walk, on November 3rd, from 5:00pm–8:00pm.
Kendall Welsh from ARTifacts, sent us this information about November’s artistic extravaganza. Participating merchants include Ingredients, Edward’s Steakhouse, Couture Crush, ARTifacts, Fleur de leis, Hodgepodge, and many more. [Read more]
Revolution Comes to the Roxy Regional Theatre with “A Tale of Two Cities”
Dickens’ Classic Tale of Love and Revenge
Clarksville, TN – Charles Dickens’ famous epic novel of the French Revolution comes to the stage of the Roxy Regional Theatre this fall in a thrillingly ingenious adaptation of “A Tale of Two Cities”, opening Friday, November 4th, at 8:00pm.
Directed by John McDonald, “A Tale of Two Cities” stars Michael Mizwicki and Jonathan Reed Wexler as Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, the English lawyer and French aristocrat caught up inextricably in the violence and bloodshed of the Revolution. Also featured are Ryan Bowie, Ashton Crosby, Brianna Hertzberg, Ted Jones, Travis Kendrick, Alan Lee, Phil Perry, Linda Speir and Joylene Taylor. [Read more]
