Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Weekend Arts Preview 6/19-6/21

Friday, June 19 is Juneteenth, a celebration of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. This Juneteenth weekend, we invite you to explore virtual events on the importance and history of Black music, museums and cultural competency, and the virtual Jefferson Street Jazz & Blues Festival. Plus, join the Frist Art Museum for an online conversation with Donna Woodley, whose paintings are featured in their current online exhibit We Count: First Time Voters, and the Belcourt Theater for an online screening of Words Caught in My Throat followed by a discussion of the impact of muted power on Women and Girls of Color. Through the arts, we are able to both celebrate freedom and interrogate the inequities that still exist today.

Image credit: Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum

Tennessee State Museum

Juneteenth Reflections: Museums and Cultural Competency
June 19 at 10 a.m.

SESAC

How Black Music Shapes Us: The importance & history of Black Music and the significance of Juneteenth
June 19 at Noon PDT (2 p.m. CDT)

Black Business Boom, The Equity Alliance, The Elevate Cafe and Honest T’s

Juneteenth Weekend Nashville
June 19—20

Jefferson Street United Merchants Partnership

Jefferson Street Jazz & Blues Festival
June 20, Facebook Live

ABC & the National Museum of African American Music

The Real Deal with #BlackoutTuesday
June 23

Metro Arts Thrive Projects

Stephcynie Curry’s original songs “Bright Side” and “Rise Up,” inspired by the Nashville community’s post-tornado resilience
Available now

“Preparing for a Socially Improved Future,” Isle of Printing’s postcard project to connect folks offline
Available now

Taria Person’s “Storm: a Hip-Hop Exploration of the Tornadoes of 2020,” inspired by the life of the artist’s grandmother
Available now

The MuMu Memoirs, an original social distanced theater experience from Bel Stuart of Poppy and Pimento, inspired and portrayed by the women of Nashville
Premiers Saturday, June 20

Learn about these projects and others from the April 2020 round of THRIVE funding at MetroArtsNashville.com/thrive

Frist Art Museum – Reopening information

We Count Conversation: Donna Woodley with Beverly Glaze-Johnson and Shaun Giles
June 18

Online Exhibition: We Count: First-Time Voters
Available Now

J.M.W Turner: Quest for the Sublime
Now closing September 7

Jitish Kallat: Return to Sender
Now closing October 12

Mel Ziegler: Flag Exchange
Now closing October 12

The Nashville Flood: Ten Years Later
Now closing January 3, 2021

Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar
Now closing January 10, 2021

Belcourt Theater

Words Caught in My Throat: “In the Shadows” Screening and Discussion on the Impact of Muted Power on Women and Girls of Color
June 18

Queen of Lapa
Available June 19