| December 20 - 26, 2021 Newsletter
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Cumberland Winds a hidden gem that provides great entertainment
There is a community treasure here in Clarksville that gets too little credit but continues to entertain and inspire over and over again, year after year. That community treasure is the Cumberland Winds.
This non-profit organization presents a variety of ensembles that include a concert band, the Jazz Project (big band), brass and woodwind quintets, horn quartet, jazz combo, a Dixie band, and a German band. These musicians offer everything from concerts to solo performances that please all ages and celebrate as the occasion demands.
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CSA is offering a free "Writing for Military and Family Members" starting in the new year
"Writing for Military and Family Members"
Each Tuesday, January 25 - March 1, 2022
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Cost: None
Instructor: Shana Thornton
Location: The Newton Military Family Resource Center
Class Description:
Open to active duty and veteran military personnel and military family members.
"The Writing for Military and Family Members" course will offer opportunities to explore writing about the life experiences of military families. This could include the effects of war, the benefits and effects of that lifestyle, and much more. We will establish an open sharing space in the classroom, a safe atmosphere for writing about not only war experiences but also about the personal lives of military families who have a wide variety of experiences and backgrounds. Styles of writing can be nonfiction, fiction, and/or poetry. Styles can be drama, suspense, humor, free verse, narrative, personal journaling etc. Participants may consider experimenting with different styles of writing. Students will learn writing strategies and use different writing prompts and challenges in order to help them create work that speaks about and to their experiences. Some of the classroom time will be used to share work, and students will be offered a chance to voluntarily practice reading aloud to an audience.
This is not a grammar course, and students should have an understanding of English language and usage. This course is for creative writing development. If you have a manuscript-in-progress, bring it with you to the first class. If requested, students can receive critical feedback about how to improve your writing.
*The class is limited to ten individuals. You do not have to attend APSU to participate in this class.
To sign up, contact Dawn Martin Dickins via email at csa@apsu.edu or 931-221-7034.
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Paul Harmon’s Petite Voyage Comes to the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center
Over the course of 2020, Tennessee artist Paul Harmon created more than 100 works all under the size of ten inches. Most of these small oil paintings are making their debut in the Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery of the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center this month. Along with a selection of Harmon’s painted boxes and bottles, the exhibition, The Petite Voyage, treats viewers to the still lifes and figures reminiscent of the artist’s much larger canvases. Among these familiar scenes is a forest of landscapes full of red-roofed houses and swaying trees, not often found in Harmon’s series.
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