Inclusion & Access

Our Commitment

Tennessee Performing Arts Center is committed to being a welcoming and respectful organization through which everyone can share and enjoy meaningful arts experiences. We believe the arts must reflect the society which produces and experiences them and that we are made richer through the creation, presentation, and celebration of wide-ranging stories that are representative of the full, exquisite beauty of the human experience.

As we chart a new course toward a more fair and inclusive society through the arts, TPAC has launched initiatives like the Arts Access Program, with support from Amazon, helping more than more than 500 Tennesseans from our varied communities experience the performing arts for the first time this season, and the TPAC Internship Program to recruit college students with varied academic, cultural, and personal experiences for administrative careers in the arts and cultivate the next generation of arts professionals. TPAC’s community connections continue to expand initiatives that have engaged more than 20 organizations in an effort to further our reach as a cultural pioneer that believes in the arts for all people.

Land Acknowledgment

Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) acknowledges the land upon which it presents arts experiences once belonged to the prominent Indian tribes of Cherokee, Shawnee, and Chickasaw in what is now the State of Tennessee. When we gather together, we honor the Indigenous peoples, their continuing legacy, and their deep connection to the land and its resources and respect those who carry, protect, and maintain the cultural values and traits of their culture while navigating the barriers and challenges of the dominant/majority culture. We know it is our obligation to acknowledge and revere the culture and experience of those to whom who this land once belonged.