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Ellen Gerst, reporter for The Chattanooga Times Free Press. Reed Caldwell on this year’s Youth Talent Show at Songbirds. Sarah Moore on the upcoming 4 Bridges Arts Festival. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

What does it take to restore the voting rights of a person who has served a sentence for a felony conviction here in Tennessee? Ellen Gerst is a reporter for The Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Opportunities to showcase young musicians how music is deeply woven into the cultural fabric of this city. - and next month, the Songbirds Foundation will host its Youth Talent Show: Friday, April 21st at the Songbirds Guitar and Pop Culture Museum.

A crescent moon hovers at the top of the poster for this year’s 4 Bridges Arts Festival. Chattanooga’s premier showcase for the visual arts - presented by the Association for Visual Arts - returns to First Horizon Pavilion on Saturday, April 22nd and Sunday, April 23rd with a preview party on Friday, April 21st.

Opening tomorrow’s doors in tech for women and girls. Identity meets place in Jenny Sadre-Orafai’s “Dear Outsiders.” Looking for a few new Opportunity Fellows at ArtsBuild. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

On Saturday, the nonprofit ChaTech presents “STEM for Her - Chattanooga’s Summit for Women and Girls in Technology” - on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Vicki Farnsworth is UTC’s vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer - and vice chair of ChaTech’s board.

Jenny Sadre-Orafai is an essayist, poet and author with roots here in Chattanooga. Her new collection of poems - “Dear Outsiders,” published by the University of Akron Press - explores what it means to be local to a place where you don’t belong. On Wednesday at 6:30 PM, she'll give a reading at The Book and Cover in Chattanooga.

Opportunity is knocking at ArtsBuild. The nonprofit that supports the arts here in Chattanooga and Hamilton County is now taking applications for its summer Opportunity Fellows.

Nick Wilkinson, Tivoli Theatre Foundation's executive director. A first-ever report on health equity across Tennessee. Youth, arts & learning in Chattanooga & Hamilton County. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

The Tivoli Theatre here in downtown Chattanooga - now more than a century old - is known as “The Jewel of the South.” For now, that jewel is under renovation - closing last year, set to reopen next year - as part of a project that also includes a new performing arts center next door in the former Fowler Brothers Building.