Scenic Roots
Mondays - Thursdays / 3 PM - 3:30 PM
"Scenic Roots" offers conversations that matter in the heart of Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley.
From the mountains to the river, our conversations are rooted deep within every corner of our community - reflecting who we are, who we were and who we can become.
We engage with the news that affects our community, behind and beyond the headlines. We build bridges that span from creators and innovators to storytellers and the outdoors. We focus on our challenges as many communities in one - as we celebrate what inspires us. We resonate with countless voices - in words and spaces, sounds and songs.
We are "Scenic Roots."
- Ray Bassett hosts and produces "Scenic Roots" at WUTC.
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Last year, a series of Chattanooga storytellers began telling their true tales at Barking Legs Theater. This weekend, Cast Iron Storytelling returns to Barking Legs with “Mileage” - a first anniversary story swap, on Sunday starting at 5:30 PM. Jason Tinney is founder and director of Cast Iron Storytelling. -
For educators here in Chattanooga and Hamilton County, it takes a toolkit to cultivate learning through the arts for students in the classroom. That toolkit is teacher training in arts integration through a Kennedy Center Partners in Education team - or PIE. -
Tanqueray Harper, known as Tangles, is a performance artist across disciplines who is on the move - and who flows with movement. She is one of the teaching artists in the Wolf Trap program at the Arts-Based Collaborative here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: abc@utc. -
Here in Chattanooga and Hamilton County, the first Arts Week is in full swing. At event after event since Monday and through Saturday, local creatives and arts organizations are weaving a tapestry of talent for the community to celebrate the nonprofit arts sector and its impact in this area. -
(Aired Tues 4/22/25) What do Daniel Tiger and Lyla from “Lyla in the Loop” have in common? You’ll find them on PBS, of course. And on Saturday, you can meet them at WTCI PBS, as our public media partner hosts “Be My Neighbor Day” - from 10 AM to 2 PM at 7540 Bonnyshire Road. -
(Aired Tues 4/22/25) At Creative Arts Guild in Dalton, the sculpture garden is the star this weekend. That’s where the Guild’s “Art & Soul” celebration takes place - on Saturday starting at 11 AM - coinciding with International Sculpture Day. -
(Aired Tues 4/22/25) Nearly twenty years ago, sculptor John Henry envisioned what is today Sculpture Fields at Montague Park here in Chattanooga. On Friday, “Best for Last” - his final work before his death in 2022 - will be dedicated at Sculpture Fields, as part of two days of events. -
(Aired Tues 4/22/25) Here in downtown Chattanooga, it’s a new chapter at the Tennessee Aquarium. Andrew Wood joined the Aquarium as its new president and CEO at the end of March. For the past seven years, he served as chief operating officer at The Florida Aquarium in Tampa. -
(Aired Tues 4/22/25) Lorrie Moore - the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University - is the featured author at this year’s Writers@Work, a series of free events from Tuesday through Thursday presented by Chattanooga State Community College. -
On Tuesday evening, at Soddy-Daisy Middle School, Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp delivered this year’s State of the County Address - which we bring you here from the County’s livestream.
