Tennessee Performing Arts Center Schedule

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The board usually meets four times each year in Nashville.

Other companies also use TPAC's facilities for plays, dance performances, concerts and other cultural programs.TPAC also hosted the Tennessee Bicentennial Arts and Entertainment Festival in 1996.The Tennessee Performing Arts Center Management Corporation is governed by a 20-member Board of Directors.

Eight of these directors are appointed by the Tennessee Performing Arts Foundation (the Foundation that led the efforts for TPAC and raised an endowment to support TPAC operations).

The Tennessee Performing Arts Center, or TPAC, is located in the James K.Polk Cultural Center at 505 Deaderick Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, occupying an entire city block between 5th and 6th Avenues North and Deaderick and Union Streets.

Four Directors are named by the Tennessee Arts Commission and four directors are named by the Governor of Tennessee (one of the Governor's appointees must be the Commissioner of Education of the State of Tennessee (or his/her designate).

Also housing the Tennessee State Museum, the cultural center adjoins the 18 story James K.Polk State Office Building.The idea for a large-scale performing arts facility developed in 1972 when Martha Rivers Ingram was appointed to the advisory board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

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