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“No Smoke Sundays” is a free hangout for middle and high school youth here in Chattanooga. The event - Sundays this month from 6 PM to 8 PM in Miller Park - was created after the recent shootings in the city to provide fun activities and inspirational conversations for youth as a safe and alternative gathering during a peak time for gun violence.

As the Hunter Museum of American Art celebrates 70 years here in Chattanooga, there is room for fantasy. The summer exhibition at the Hunter is titled, “Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration” - and one of the programs inspired by the exhibition is a hip-hop performance: “Hip-Hop Fantasy,” tomorrow night at 6 PM.

The Jauntee - a band from Colorado - will headline this week’s Off the Rails concert in downtown Dalton. Performances for the free summer music series - which began last month - are on Fridays, starting at 6:30 PM at Burr Performing Arts Park.

This month, nine authors across genres in Chattanooga will gather for a celebration of this city’s homegrown literature. On Thursday, August 25th, Southern Lit Alliance - now known as SoLit - will present the Chattanooga Author Showcase at Stove Works, starting at 6 PM.

This week, on our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: Photo Night. The showcase of professional photographers - presented by UTC’s Department of Communication - will be held on Wednesday, starting at 6 PM, in the University Center Auditorium.

It was a pivotal partnership across racial and religious lines during the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s. That story is told in the documentary film “Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance” - and on Thursday starting at 6 PM, it will be screened at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center here in Chattanooga.

This weekend, Chattanooga Ballet brings four contemporary ballets from four world-class choreographers here to our campus. “Art / Contour” is Saturday starting at 6 PM - and Sunday starting at 3 PM - at the Roland Hayes Theater in the UTC Fine Arts Center.

Next week, the Mayor’s Youth Council here in Chattanooga and Be the Change Youth Initiative are hosting “Breaking the Stigma” - a free event on teen mental health - at Waterhouse Pavilion on Monday from 6 PM to 8 PM.

Here in Chattanooga, the Velvet Chair Experience - a concert series fusing jazz and uptown soul - premiered last month at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, where the next concert will be held on Sunday, June 25th starting at 6 PM.

How much do arts and culture nonprofits power the economy here in the Greater Chattanooga area? Quite a lot - and in more ways than one - according to Arts and Economic Prosperity 6, a recently released study by Americans for the Arts. James McKissic is president of ArtsBuild.