Scenic Roots

On display this month at Stove Works here in Chattanooga, “The People’s Gallery” is an exhibition that highlights a few grassroots chapters of this city’s past through art.

This Saturday and Sunday, Between the Bridges is back at Coolidge Park in downtown Chattanooga. The locals-only arts festival is presented by the Association for Visual Arts, or AVA - where Sarah Moore is director of festivals.

For years, Andrew Nigh has crafted the wooden sculptures for “Fire Up the Fields” at Sculpture Fields at Montague Park here in Chattanooga - which returns this Saturday.

A few months ago in downtown Chattanooga, a local history pop-up opened its doors: a kaleidoscopic starting point to just a few of the many threads of history in this city and Hamilton County.

STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. A free community event in downtown Chattanooga celebrates all the above.

Next weekend, the Scenic City Sense Circus comes to downtown Chattanooga. The free community event happens on Saturday, October 10th in Miller Park.

The next event from the latest cohort of Emerging Producers is the On the Horizon Resource Fair - a free community event this Saturday at the downtown Chattanooga Public Library.

“What’s past is prologue.” That line from William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” also rings true for this year’s celebration of America 250.

In 1931, a Black woman injured in a car accident died after she was refused care at a segregated hospital in Dalton during the Jim Crow era. Her name was Juliette Derricotte.

Throughout October, stories of individuals buried at Chattanooga's Pleasant Garden Cemetery - one of the oldest historically Black cemeteries in Tennessee - will come to life in a series of original poetic monologues.