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Chattanooga Design Studio is now guiding a planning process with community input on the future of the downtown's Civic Center District. The next chance for people to connect with the process is a charrette on Monday, August 12th at the Chattanooga Public Library, starting at 4 PM.

Imagine you’re at a music festival with huge crowds. Your friends are there, too. But somewhere along the way, you can’t find them, they can’t find you - and for whatever reason, your phones won’t reconnect you. Totem is a startup here in Chattanooga that is launching a friend-finding compass.

An intermission is a short break - for a play, in a movie, at a concert. For the nonprofit ArtsBuild, “Intermission” is the annual event that celebrates the impact of the arts here in the Chattanooga area. It takes place Wednesday, September 25th - starting at 5:30 PM - at Chattanooga Theatre Centre.

The Reverend Naomi Tutu - Episcopal priest, activist, educator and daughter of the late South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu - is the guest this Thursday at 8:30 PM for this season’s finale of “The A List with Alison Lebovitz” on public media partner WTCI PBS.

Rhyme ‘N Chatt is a community of poets and spoken word artists now celebrating 25 years here in Chattanooga. Since 1999, the collective - full name, Rhyme ‘N Chatt Interactive Poetry Organization - has hosted open mic sessions free for people to participate and enjoy.

For this episode, we talk about social connectedness with Jessica Pilcher, Director of United for Working Families at United Way of Greater Chattanooga - and April Manning, Director of Total Rewards at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.

A birthday bash to celebrate a century of James Baldwin. Food for Thought: Stories through words and images. Artists + Entrepreneurs = Opportunities at Periscope CHA. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

James Baldwin, the African-American author and activist, was born in New York City a hundred years ago this Friday. To mark the milestone, the Chattanooga Festivals of Black Arts and Ideas will host a birthday celebration that starts downtown at the Chattanooga Public Library.

Food for Thought is an invitational group exhibit set to open this fall at the Jewish Cultural Center here in Chattanooga, in partnership with the local media startup Food as a Verb. An open call for people to submit their images for the exhibit ends on Monday, August 5th.

Periscope is a business development program that connects artists with entrepreneurs in the Chattanooga area. The nonprofit ArtsBuild offered the training for the first cohort of Periscope artists last year - and applications for a new cohort of artists are due by this Friday, August 2nd.