Category Archives: Arts

Southern Festival of Books

I hosted an author session at the Southern Festival of Books in downtown Nashville this weekend.  I have attended the festival for many years and despite a little rain yesterday and today, this weekend’s was as enjoyable an experience as … Continue reading

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Theatre and creativity alive and well

I attended the closing performance of Beth, the Musical last night. It is good to see that people are still willing to use their creativity, share their talent, work hard in production and put on a play.

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“Beth”, a musical about Beth Slater Whitson

Beth is a new musical/drama written by Clay Harris and Daniel Bey that is based on the life of Beth Slater Whitson (1879-1930). Beth will be staged at the Johnson Theatre in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center on June 17th at 7:30pm … Continue reading

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"But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we’ll not fail!" — Lady McBeth

Today, I attended a session for Nashville area CEOs at the Center for Non-profit Management called Playing Shakespeare, a sample of Nashville Shakespeare’s Festival‘s Shakespeare in Business workshops. The play’s the thing for improving public speaking skills as well as … Continue reading

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