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Craft your Nashville Design Week

Celebrate all things design at the 2024 Nashville Design Week
Nashville Design Week attendees gathered around a building with NDW 2021 projected on the side of the building.
Pull out your calendars, Nashville Design Week’s schedule is live. | Photo by Daniel Meigs via Nashville Design Week | Photo by Daniel Meigs via Nashville Design Week
One of Nashville’s most creative weeks is coming up soon. Enter: Nashville Design Week.

The five-day celebration of design industries — from architecture and interiors to graphic, industrial, and fashion — returns Monday, Oct. 30-Friday, Nov. 3. Sketch out your schedule with 19 panel discussions, hands-on workshops, presentations, and networking opportunities.

Here are four happenings to get you excited for this year’s event.

Design for Reuse | Monday, Oct. 30 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Make Nashville, 620B Davidson St. | $30 | Make Nashville’s Steve Roche hosts a workshop where participants will repurpose a pile of parts to make their own desk lamp.

Design for Neighborhood Identity | Wednesday, Nov. 1 | 5-7 p.m. | Depart from T3 Wedgewood-Houston, 1234 Martin St. | $15 | Tim Delger, the founder of Studio Delger, leads an immersive walking tour of Wedgewood-Houston with creative directors, fabricators, and developers behind local art installations.

Nashville Design Week attendees gathered in a room with art all on the walls and ceiling

Pro tip: Nashville Design Week events are individually priced. | Photo by Daniel Meigs via Nashville Design Week

Design for the Black Culinary Experience | Wednesday, Nov. 1 | 7-9:30 p.m. | Hardison House, 1010 Hardison St. | $40 | Brian and Cassia Garrett of HUE, a private dinner series celebrating Black chefs, host Marcus Buggs (Coneheads and Plane Jane), Star Maye (“Chopped” champion), Karen Thomas (The Pepper Pott), and more for dinner and conversation.

Design for Dance | Thursday, Nov. 2 | 7-9:30 p.m. | Soho House Nashville, 500 Houston St. | $30 | A movement-based light installation and performance featuring choreography by Banning Boulding, a Juilliard graduate, choreographer, and the founding artistic director of New Dialect.

“From working with your hands, hearing from local leaders, or experiencing immersive showcases, there’s something for everyone,” said Shanese Brown, Nashville Design Week co-director of programming.

View the full schedule on Nashville Design Week’s website. Ticket prices range from free to $40 per event and registration is required for attendance.
 
Events
Friday, Oct. 13
  • Coffee Class: Iced Coffee & Cold Brew | Friday, Oct. 13 | 11:30 a.m. | Crema Coffee Roasters, 15 Hermitage Ave. | $45 | “Ice Ice Baby” takes on a whole new meaning in this class where you learn about the science and technique behind iced coffee and cold brew.
  • “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown’’ | Friday, Oct. 13 | 7 p.m. | TailGate Brewery, 7300 Charlotte Pk. | Free+ | Join the brewery for spooky slushies, taproom eats, and a screening of this classic Halloween special.
  • Nashville Nightmare: 13 Years of Fear | Friday, Oct. 13-Saturday, Nov. 4 | Times vary | 1016 Madison Sq. | $19.99+ | Experience multi-themed haunted houses, mini escape games, a laser maze, and more.
Saturday, Oct. 14
  • Resolution Fall Hoedown | Saturday, Oct. 14 | 8-11 p.m. | Diskin Cider, 1235 Martin St. | Cost of purchase | Celebrate the return of Diskin’s cinnamon spice cider with an evening of live music, instructor-led line dancing, and fall treats.
  • “Hocus Pocus” In Concert | Saturday, Oct. 14-Sunday, Oct. 15 | Times vary | Schermerhorn Symphony Center, 1 Symphony Pl. | $66+ | Watch the Halloween favorite as the Nashville Symphony performs the score live.
Sunday, Oct. 15
  • Carve in the Boiler Room | Sunday, Oct. 15 | 12-6 p.m. | Monday Night Preservation Co., 1308 Adams St. | Free+ | The brewery will have free pumpkins for carving or painting and fall-inspired beer and cocktails.
Monday, Oct. 16
  • “Nosferatu” | Monday, Oct. 16 | 8 p.m. | Belcourt Theatre, 2102 Belcourt Ave. | $14+ | F.W. Murnau’s vampiric classic featuring a live synth score by Eve Maret, Dream Chambers, and Belly Full of Stars.
Tuesday, Oct. 17
  • USMNT vs. Ghana | Tuesday, Oct. 17 | 7:30 p.m. | GEODIS Park, 501 Benton Ave. | $31+ | This match marks the USMNT’s first visit to GEODIS Park.
Events calendar here
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Giveaway

Enter to win our Opry Mills Fall Haul Giveaway
Graphic promoting the Opry Mills Fall Haul Giveaway.
Spend a fall day shopping at Opry Mills — Nashville’s largest outlet shopping destination with 200+ stores. | Graphic by NASHtoday
Want to spend a day updating your fall wardrobe, noshing on seasonal dishes, and wrapping up with a unique wine tasting experience?

We’ve teamed up with Opry Mills to give one lucky Nashvillian and a friend a prize pack filled with tickets + gift cards to select, sought-after retailers from their 200+ store lineup including:
  • (1) $150 gift card to The Cheesecake Factory
  • (2) $100 gift cards to H&M, Coach, Movado, and Nike
  • (2) Tickets for a Wax and Wine experience at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum featuring Amber Falls Winery
Head over to our Instagram (@theNASHtoday) to enter now through Thursday, Oct. 26 at noon. We’ll announce the winner here in our newsletter on Friday, Oct. 27.
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News Notes
Arts
  • The approval of $200 million in grant funds paves the way for TPAC’s relocation plans. According to details shared at yesterday’s State Building Commission meeting, TPAC must match 20% of the grant funds. The East Bank is being studied as a potential area for relocation. (The Tennessean)
Edu
  • Belmont University’s Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine plans to open applications in early November after receiving preliminary accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. The college will begin enrolling its inaugural 50-student class in July 2024.
Health
  • The American Red Cross is urging Middle Tennessee residents to donate blood, platelets, or plasma. Those who make an appointment and donate between Saturday, Oct. 21 and Thursday, Nov. 9 will receive a $10 gift card to any restaurant that will be sent via email.
Eat
  • South Carolina-based breakfast and lunch chain Eggs Up Grill plans to launch 10 locations in the Nashville area. The first two eateries will open in Hermitage (4606 Lebanon Pkwy.) and Murfreesboro in December and next spring, respectively. Browse the menu.
Theater
  • It’s showtime. Single tickets go on sale today for “Beetlejuice” — a Broadway musical based on the 1988 film of the same name — ahead of its Nashville premiere next spring. The show will take over TPAC’s Jackson Hall March 12-17.
Read
  • Maren Morris will release a new children’s book next spring. “Addie Ant Goes on an Adventure,” co-written with Karina Argow and illustrated by Kelly Anne Dalton, chronicles Addie’s first solo garden adventure. Preorder the book.
Seasonal
  • This is the last call for submissions in our NASHtoday Pumpkin Carving Contest. Decorate your pumpkin, take a picture, and submit it by this Sunday, Oct. 15 for a chance to win the inaugural NASHtoday best jack-o’-lantern award. Make a submission.
Wellness
  • Noticing hair changes? Root causes of hair thinning can change over time making it difficult to know where to begin. Learn more about how Nutrafol can help.*
Nashvillian
  • And the best neighbor award goes to… you, for directly supporting NASHtoday with the gift of your membership. Not only will you join our super cool membership club (and get perks including birthday shoutouts), but you’ll keep this newsletter free for the entire neighborhood. Way to go, neighbor.
 
Biz

📈 Nashville’s rise to the top

Nashville leads other major US cities in post-pandemic recovery
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Talk about a rebound. | Photo by NASHtoday
Nashville’s economy has rebounded to 2019 levels — and is the only major US city to have done so completely — according to a new study.

Philadelphia’s Center City District surveyed the nation’s 25 largest cities for its “Downtowns Rebound” report, specifically looking at downtown recovery rates. Music City ranked No. 1 — above San Jose’s 92% recovery rate — when comparing the total number of workers, residents, and visitors downtown in 2023 to the same time in 2019.

Fast facts from the report:
  • Nashville and San Jose have the highest percentages of visitors and the highest worker recovery rates.
  • Nashville tourists are most likely to be from outside the region, rather than from within the Metro area. This is also the case in Washington DC, San Antonio, and Austin.
  • San Antonio, Nashville, and San Diego have the highest share of residents employed in hospitality.
Nashville Downtown Partnership independently verified the findings using the same data tool used in the study to confirm the boundaries for a 100% match of the city’s definition of downtown.
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The Wrap
 
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Today’s edition by:
Dylan
From the editor
Happy Jason Isbell Ryman residency weeks to all who celebrate. Fun fact: Nearly 20,000 fans will fill the pews over the course of eight sold-out shows these next couple of weeks. I’ll be living vicariously through y’all this time around.
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