Nashville Visitor Information Center
501 Broadway
Located in the Glass Tower of the Gaylord Entertainment Center
615-259-4747; 800-657-6910
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Open daily from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, the Visitor Information Center (VIC)
is the perfect starting point for your visit to Music City. The VIC
provides city maps and brochures for your vacation planning, concierge
services for dinner and show reservations, and discounted attraction
combo tickets when you are ready to see the sites.
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Tennessee Performaing Arts Center
Phone: 615-782-4000
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The Tennessee Performing Arts Center is a private, non-profit corporation dedicated to providing and supporting the presentation of the performing arts to the citizens of Tennessee. Among its many operations, TPAC presents a series of Broadway shows and special engagements, and administers a comprehensive education program. Its four stages are home to The Nashville Symphony, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Nashville Opera Association, Nashville Ballet, and Circle Players. The performance venues at TPAC are Andrew Jackson Hall (2,472 seats), James K. Polk Theater (1,075), Andrew Johnson Theater (288) and War Memorial Auditorium (1,668), the historic landmark located across 6th Avenue and the plaza from the Center.
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The Belcourt Theatre
2102 Belcourt Ave.
In Historic Hillsboro Village
Nashville, Tn 37212
Phone: (615) 846-3150
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For over 80 years, The Belcourt Theatre has provided a space for premiere
entertainment in the heart of Nashville's Hillsboro Village. Opening in 1925
as a silent movie house, the theatre was home to the Children's Theatre of
Nashville (30's) and the Grand Old Opry ('34-'36). Renamed the Nashville
Community Playhouse in 1937 it housed both film and live theatre until 1966
when it become The Belcourt Cinema until 1997. When the Belle Meade Theatre
was converted to a bookstore in 1993, The Belcourt became the last
traditional neighborhood movie house in Nashville. Home to Watkin's Film
School in the late 1990's, the Belcourt finally become the non-profit
organization it is today in 1999 with the creation of Belcourt Yes! The
theatre is now thriving as a home to independent, foreign, and classic
films, two theatre troupe's, People's Branch Theatre and the Old World
Theatre Company, an alternative concert venue, and a house for special
community and cultural events. The Belcourt has programming for everyone
including Kids Court (children's programming on Saturday mornings), the
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Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
Phone: 615-356-8000
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The Botanical Garden includes specialty gardens throughout the property, greenhouses, and landscaped vistas. Cheekwood’s gardens change throughout the year and are lovely in every season. In Botanic Hall, the Botanic Library is a useful reference center for garden scholars and enthusiasts.
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Artists' Cooperative Theatre
Phone: 615-726-2281
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ACT I (Artists' Cooperative Theatre) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing theatrical gems, classic and modern, to Middle Tennessee Audiences. Now in its fifteenth season, ACT I has presented performances of over 50 of the world's greatest plays. ACT I continually receives high praise from critics and audience members alike.
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Creative Artists of Tennessee
Phone: 615-292-2151
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This organization was created to enable professional artist, self taught artists, writers, performers, seniors, young people, all people regardless of culture or ethnicity to come together and create an atmosphere of freedom through the arts. We have agreed as a group that the arts must provoke thought or change. We are not a one-dimensional group, as we will work with any subject matter as it relates to our condition as human beings.
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Metro Nashville Arts Commission
Phone: 615-862-6720
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The Metro Arts Commission serves arts organizations, individual artists, and the general public as a facilitator, technical assistance provider, and partner-collaborator with other arts groups. Specifically, the Arts Commission presents workshops focusing on arts related issues. The agency holds forums to discuss important arts issues, conducts research, and produces multiple publications.
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Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Phone: 615-244-3340
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The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is a nonprofit art-exhibition center, with approximately 24,000 square feet of gallery space, dedicated to presenting the finest visual art from local, state and regional artists, as well as major U.S. and international exhibitions.
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Nashville Ballet
Phone: 615-297-2966
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Founded in 1981 as a civic dance company and becoming a professional company in 1986, Nashville Ballet has flourished into the only professional ballet company in Middle Tennessee, earning the respect of Nashville audiences and reviewers alike by making classical and contemporary ballet accessible to new and traditional audiences.
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Nashville Film Festival
Phone: 615-742-2500
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The Nashville Film Festival (NFF) was founded in 1969 and is one of the longest running film festivals in the country. Hosted by Regal Cinemas 16 in the Green Hills area of Nashville, Tennessee, the NFF has enjoyed double-digit growth in the past five years. With over 14,500 people attending last year's event, it is rapidly becoming the arts event in Tennessee.
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Nashville Opera
Phone: 615-832-5242
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One of the fastest growing opera companies in the nation, Nashville
Opera Association produces four spectacular operas with national and
international stars each season. All TPAC performances include projected English translations so audiences can get every word.
For ticket information and schedule, please click here.
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Nashville Symphony
2000 Glen Echo Rd. Suite 204
Phone: 615-783-1200
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The Nashville Symphony is widely regarded as "the cornerstone of the
performing arts" in Middle Tennessee. With more than 200 performances
annually, The Symphony offers local audiences a range of Classical, Pops,
Pied Piper and Summer series concerts, as well as a variety of special
events. A true cultural ambassador for the citizens of Nashville, The
Nashville Symphony also shares its artistry with national and international
audiences through critically acclaimed recordings on the Naxos label's
American Classics series, as well as its highly successful East Coast Tour
and Carnegie Hall debut in 2000, which The New York Times declared "youthful
and fresh...a knockout."
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The Parthenon
Phone: 615-862-8431
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The Parthenon stands proudly as the centerpiece of Centennial Park, Nashville's premier urban park. The re-creation of the 42-foot statue Athena is the focus of the Parthenon just as it was in ancient Greece. The building and the Athena statue are both full-scale replicas of the Athenian originals. Permanent collection and changing exhibitions are housed in Galleries in the lower level.
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Ryman Auditorium
Phone: 615-889-3060
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From Christian to country, rock to classical, new age to jazz, there's no better venue to experience your favorite musical performer.From star-studded benefit concerts to dance to stage drama to the biggest names in comedy, the Ryman has it all!
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Tennessee Association of Craft Artists
Phone: 615-385-1904
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For more than three decades, the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists has connected crafts and people through education, marketing, and networking. TACA was founded in 1965 to encourage, develop, and promote crafts and craftspeople in Tennessee. The Tennessee Association of Craft Artists (TACA) is a statewide, independent, nonprofit organization and was founded in 1965.
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Watkins College of Art & Design
Phone: 615-383-4848
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Watkins College is unique as the only independent art and design college in the region offering four-year, undergraduate bachelor degrees with studio-based programs that produce practicing artists.
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