Weekend Arts Preview 5/17 – 5/19

Discover the spectrum of diversity within Nashville’s arts community this weekend with symphony concerts, inclusive performances, new plays, movies, music, art crawls and more!

Image Credits: Nashville In Harmony

Psst! Get your tickets now for our biggest party of the year, Arts Immersion, coming up on May 22!


Nashville Symphony

Thibaudet plays Turangalila
May 18–19, 2019
Schermerhorn Symphony Center


Nashville Children’s Theater

Tomás and the Library Lady
Ongoing through May 19, 2019
Nashville Children’s Theater


Nashville In Harmony and Intersection

Spectrum
May 18-19, 2019
OZ Arts Nashville


The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park 

Musicians Corner
May 17–18, 2019
Centennial Park


Centre Stage Productions

Mary Poppins Jr.
May 18–19, 2019
Academy Park Performing Arts Center


Frist Art Museum

Architecture Tour
May 18, 2019

Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing
Ongoing through May 27, 2019

Connect/Disconnect: Growth in the “It” City
Ongoing through August 4, 2019
Frist Art Museum


Nashville Rep

Ingram New Works Festival: Crying on Television
May 17, 2019

Ingram New Works Festival: Becky Nurse of Salem
May 18, 2019
Nashville Children’s Theatre


Parnassus Books

Author event with Bridget Moynahan and Amanda Benchley authors of Our Shoes, Our Selves
May 17, 2019

Saturday Storytime
May 18, 2019

Author Event with David Zahl, Author of Seculosity
May 18, 2019

Author Event with Jay Farrell, Author of Abandoned Nashville
May 19, 2019

Game Night
May 19, 2019
Parnassus Books


Kennie Playhouse Theatre

Ethel Waters “His Eye Is On The Sparrow”
Ongoing through May 19, 2019
Robin’s Gallery, Nashville


Create It Donelson

Godzilla
May 18, 2019
Robin’s Gallery, Nashville


Germantown Art Crawl

Germantown Art Crawl
May 18, 2019
100 Taylor Street


Tennessee Performing Arts Center

Rob Lowe “Stories I Only Tell My Friends” Live
May 18, 2019
Andrew Jackson Hall at TPAC


Belcourt Theater

The Biggest Little Farm
Opens May 17, 2019

RAFIKI: Post-screening discussion with Terrance Dean and Oasis Center’s Students of Stonewall
May 17, 2019

The Blair Witch Project
May 18, 2019

MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ: Introduction from Mae Moreno, Belcourt Theatre
May 19, 2019
Belcourt Theater


Scarritt Bennett Center

Liberating the Soul Through Sound & Color
May 18, 2019
Scarritt Bennett Center


Tennessee Women’s Theatre Project

Sistas: The Musical
Ongoing through May 19, 2019
Z. Alexander Looby Theatre


Cheekwood Estate & Gardens

Derived from the Decorative
Ongoing through June 9, 2019

In Bloom: Works from Cheekwood’s Permanent Collection
Ongoing through September 1, 2019
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens


Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery

Embodied: Mosaic Arts International 2019 Invitational
Ongoing through May 25, 2019
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery

Refuting “Noble Savages”: Reflections of Nature in Ancient Mesoamerican Artifacts
Ongoing through May 25, 2019
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery


The Arts Company

The Altered Image | Giving Up The Ghost
Ongoing through May 25, 2019
The Arts Company


David Lusk Gallery

Christina Renfer Vogel & John Salvest
Ongoing through May 25, 2019
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville


Ground Floor Gallery + Studios

Fruit Punch
Ongoing through May 25, 2019
Ground Floor Gallery


COOP Gallery

Terry Thacker: A Theory of /Cloud/
Ongoing through May 30, 2019
COOP Gallery


Tennessee Arts Commission

Denise Stewart-Sanabria
Ongoing through June 7, 2019
TN Arts Commission Gallery, 401 MLK Jr. Blvd.


Red Arrow Gallery

In Between
May 11–June 15, 2019
Red Arrow Gallery


LeQuire Gallery

Juliette Aristides: Interiors and Still Lifes
Ongoing through June 22, 2019
LeQuire Gallery


Tinney Contemporary

ASHES TO SNOW New Work by Jane Braddock
Ongoing through June 29, 2019
Tinney Contemporary


Locate Arts and Zeitgeist

TEXTUREXTRA: Zipporah Thompson + Richard Feaster
Ongoing through June 29, 2019
Zeitgeist


Tennessee State Museum

Between the Layers: Art and Story in Tennessee Quilts
Ongoing through July 7, 2019
Tennessee State Museum


Galerie Tangerine

Wendy Walker Silverman: An Opal Ring and the Stories that Scared Me 
Ongoing through August 9, 2019
Galerie Tangerine


Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Little Big Town: The Power of Four Exhibit
Ongoing through June 9, 2019
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Exhibit | The Judds: Dream Chasers
Ongoing through July 14, 2019
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Exhibit | Emmylou Harris: Songbird’s Flight
Ongoing through August 4, 2019
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

American Currents: The Music of 2018
Ongoing through February 9, 2020
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum


21c Museum Hotel

The SuperNatural
Ongoing through October 2019
21c Museum Hotel, 221 2nd Ave. N.


Know something we missed? Let us know at info@abcnashville.org