Roxy Regional Theatre now accepting Registration for Fall 2021 School of the Arts
Clarksville, TN – Calling all budding young performers and adults interested in honing their craft or discovering a new passion! Registration is now open for the Fall 2021 session of the Roxy Regional Theatre’s School of the Arts.
Since 1995, the Roxy Regional Theatre has been introducing youth to the experience of live theatre and expanding their knowledge of the craft through the School of the Arts.
The School of the Arts continues to operate with smaller, more focused classes due to the ongoing COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic and a more specialized approach to education.
Roxy Regional Theatre School of the Arts students performing in 2019’s production of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, Jr.
Commemorative Air Force B17 Texas Raiders visit Clarksville Regional Airport
Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Regional Airport’s Director, John Patterson reached out a couple of years ago to the Commemorative Air Force B17 Texas Raiders from Conroe, Texas, to arrange a visit. But, COVID-19 Coronavirus issues delayed things. He was thrilled when the group contacted him recently to say they wanted to put Clarksville on their schedule this year.
Commemorative Air Force, Gulf Coast Wing’s B17 Flying Fortress at Clarksville Regional Airport
Dunbar Cave State Park to host Unknown Realms Cave Tour, Saturday
Clarksville, TN – Dunbar Cave State Park will hold “Unknown Realms” cave tour on Saturday, July 24th, 2021.
This experience is designed to be a follow-up to our standard cave tour. We venture beyond what you have already seen and explore some of the less frequented areas of the cave. Paths that one time were part of the old commercial tour but have been out of use for 50 years or more.
We discuss the history and legends of the cave that developed as Dunbar Cave became the social hotspot of the 19th century.
Entrance to Dunbar Cave.
How an iconic photographer’s images became a part of Austin Peay State University’s Art Collection
Clarksville, TN – Shortly after the spring semester ended, The New Gallery Director Michael Dickins and the Austin Peay State University (APSU) inaugural Hazel Smith Summer Research Fellow Katie Boyer began cataloging and preserving pieces in the University’s art collection.
A photo taken by fashion, celebrity, and art photographer Albert Watson was recently found in Austin Peay State University’s art collection. (APSU)
Clarksville’s Customs House Museum August 2021 Exhibits, Activities
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in Historic Downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science, and history.
Some of the events in July at the Museum are Select Works from the Reliant Bank Collection, C. Douglas Charlton: Out of Darkness, Start Your Engines!, Customs House Museum Ice Cream Social, Touching History, Museum Discovery Quest.
Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
Dunbar Cave State Park to hold Hike, Cave Tour
Clarksville, TN – On Saturday, July 24th, 2021, Dunbar Cave State Park will hold “If Rocks Could Talk”.
Dunbar Cave has a unique place in the indigenous story that has persisted through time. Join Seasonal Interpreter Marley on a lantern lit journey through this narrative.
As day transitions to night we will journey through the forest discussing myths and legends related to Mississippian Culture.
Dunbar Cave State Park Visitor Center.
Downtown Commons brings Live Theater back to Clarksville with comedy Complete History of America
Clarksville, TN – The Complete History of America (Abridged) reviews over five hundred years of history, highlighting pivotal points in American history in a breathlessly, fast-paced sequence of silly vaudeville sketches, word-association games, and parodies of movie and television genres.
The play is free and open to the public. Chairs and blankets are welcome; however, pets, coolers, smoking/vaping or outside alcohol will not be allowed on site.
Roxy Regional Theatre’s Back to the Movies presents National Lampoon’s “Vacation”, Friday
Clarksville, TN – Line up a babysitter this weekend and join us on an outrageously hilarious road trip as we get Back to the Movies at the Roxy Regional Theatre with National Lampoon’s “Vacation” this Friday, July 23rd, 2021 at 7:00pm.
The all-American Griswold family just wants to go on an all-American vacation. Everything is planned, packed … and about to go hilariously wrong as a simple trip quickly becomes a madcap cross-country odyssey.
National Lampoons’ Vacation
Montgomery County welcomes BlueCross Healthy Place at Woodlawn Park
Woodlawn, TN – Representatives of the Montgomery County Government and the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Foundation recently gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the grand opening of the BlueCross Healthy Place at Woodlawn Park.
The Montgomery County Government applied for the BlueCross Healthy Place grant, sharing the positive impact a revitalized community space would have on the area.
BlueCross Healthy Place at Woodlawn Park
Critically Acclaimed Novelist Joshilyn Jackson to Keynote 16th Annual Clarksville Writers Conference, August 12th and 13th
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville Arts & Heritage Development Council is partnering with the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University (APSU) and the Tennessee Arts Commission to once again bring acclaimed authors and songwriters to town for the 16th Annual Clarksville Writers Conference.
The event will be held Thursday, August 12th, and Friday, August 13th, 2021 at the Art + Design Building on the campus of Austin Peay State University.
Joshilyn Jackson, 16th Annual Clarksville Writers Conference keynote speaker.
