Weekend Preview 7/26 – 7/28

The streets of Nashville will come alive this weekend! Art exhibits, theater performance, and dance productions abound. When you enjoy the arts in Nashville, you discover the unexpected and delightful moments that only a vibrant and thriving arts scene can offer!

Image Credit: Courtesy of Open Street Nashville

Open Street Nashville

Open Streets Nashville Presented by JUMP!
July 28, 2019
DB Todd Blvd. & Buchanan St.


Nashville Symphony 

Classic Albums Live Performs Led Zeppelin II
July 26, 2019
Schermerhorn Symphony Center

Summer of Love
July 28, 2019
Schermerhorn Symphony Center


Numinous Flux Dance Company

Breathe
Ongoing through July 27, 2019
4th Story Theater at West End UMC


Nashville Ballet

Nashville Dance Day
July 27, 2019
Nashville Ballet


The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park 

Kidsville at the Parthenon
July 27, 2019
The Parthenon

INSTRUMENTHEAD
Ongoing through September 8, 2019
The Parthenon

Architecture Tours
Ongoing through July 27, 2019
Centennial Park

Moment to Moment: The Art of Martin Weinstein Exhibit
Ongoing through September 22, 2019
The Parthenon


Frist Art Museum

Film: Coco
July 28, 2019

Architecture Tour
July 27, 2019

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Ongoing through September 2, 2019
Frist Art Museum

Teens Take the Frist
Ongoing through September 21, 2019

Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
Ongoing through September 29, 2019


110 Taylor Arts Collective

Full Moon Market
July 27, 2019
100 Taylor Street Buiding


Parnassus Books

Saturday Storytime
July 27, 2019

Author event with Mark Grisham author of Bedlam South
July 27, 2019


Create It Donelson

Dragonfly
July 26, 2019


Scarritt Bennett Center

Art Exhibit: Local Color: A Sense of Place
Ongoing through September 25, 2019
Scarritt Bennett Center

Vespers & All That Jazz
July 28, 2019
Wightman Chapel


Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center

I Didn’t Know How to Tell You: American Veterans Art Show
Ongoing through August 11, 2019
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center


Tinney Contemporary

Street Cred
Ongoing through August 23, 2019
Tinney Contemporary


Nashville Children’s Theater

Songs for a New Word
An NCT Emerging Artists Production
July 26–28, 2019
NCT’s Hill Theatre

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Ongoing through August 4, 2019
Lipscomb University


Nashville Women in Film and Television

SWIFT Summit
Ongoing through August 4, 2019
Ezell Center Lipscomb University


Belmont University’s Department of Art & the Tennessee Arts Academy

My Blue Heaven: Works by Brooklyn-based artist Susan Bee
Ongoing through September 6, 2019
Leu Art Gallery


Actors Bridge Ensemble

Kodachrome by Adam Szymkowicz
Ongoing through July 28, 2019
Actors Bridge Studio


Cheekwood Estate & Gardens

Member Appreciation Day
July 29, 2019

In Bloom: Works from Cheekwood’s Permanent Collection
Ongoing through September 1, 2019

Summer Camp
Ongoing through August 2, 2019

Storybook Houses
Ongoing through September 1, 2019


Vanderbilt University Fine Arts

Refuting “Noble Savages”: Reflections of Nature in Ancient Mesoamerican Artifacts
Ongoing through September 13, 2019
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery

Don’t Slam the Door” from artist, Kristi Hargove
Ongoing through August 29, 2019
Space 204

Susan DeMay, Divergent Practices: A Career in Ceramics
Ongoing through September 13, 2019
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery


David Lusk Gallery

Caroll Todd & Carlyle Wolfe
Ongoing through July 27, 2019
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville

Jack Spencer
Ongoing through August 17, 2019
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville


COOP Gallery

Houseguests: The Things We Takeaway
Ongoing through August 25, 2019
COOP Gallery


Red Arrow Gallery

Alexander’s Dark Band
Ongoing through July 27, 2019
Red Arrow Gallery


Locate Arts and Zeitgeist

Xanadu
Ongoing through August 31, 2019
Zeitgeist Gallery

Rockwall Gallery

Andres Bustamante: Birth.Death.Rebirth
Ongoing through August 1, 2019
Rockwall Gallery

Unrequited Leisure

Jody Rushin: Wears Weelsee Ween
Ongoing through July 28, 2019
Unrequited Leisure

Channel to Channel

Flava Of Haiti Presents…Eat&Paint
July 27, 2019
Channel to Channel

Marcus Manganni: Dead Horse Bay
Ongoing through August 24, 2019
Channel to Channel

Elephant Gallery

Smoke Show
Ongoing through August 3, 2019
Elephant Gallery


Tennessee State Museum

Storytime in the Children’s Gallery
July 27, 2019

Pop-UpRight Shakespeare #5
Presented July 27 by Nashville Shakespeare Festival

Gallery Demonstrations
Daily

Historic Games
Daily

Talk With a Tennesseean
Daily

Museum Highlights Tour
Daily


Galerie Tangerine

Wendy Walker Silverman: An Opal Ring and the Stories that Scared Me 
Ongoing through August 9, 2019
Galerie Tangerine


Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Family Program: Explore Steel Guitar: Kacey Musgraves Style: Songbird’s Flight
July 27

Creative Zone: Embellished Instruments
July 12, 2019

Songwriter Session: Tia Sillers
July 27


21c Museum Hotel

The SuperNatural
Ongoing through September 30, 2019
21c Museum Hotel, 221 2nd Ave. N.


Nashville Improv Company

Friday Night Improv with Street Theater Company
Every Friday
Street Theatre Company


Center for the Arts

The Lion King
July 26–27, 2019
Murfreesboro Center for the Arts


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