Mission Statement

Nashville Youth Jazz Ensemble (NYJE) was created to provide a high-level educational/performance experience in a jazz big band for students, grades 8-12, in the Greater Nashville community. An important goal of NYJE is to fill a community need for jazz education/performance for young people, especially those who do not have access to such an experience.

Another goal of NYJE is to foster appreciation and support for jazz music in our community. By performing concerts alongside regional or national jazz artists, students present to our community an authentic experience in jazz, America’s truly original art form.

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Mission Statement

The mission of the Nashville Steam Preservation Society is to preserve our history by restoring and operating relevant historic railroad equipment for the purpose of education, tourism, and goodwill to and for Metro Nashville and the State of Tennessee.

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The Nashville Symphony inspires and engages a diverse and growing community with extraordinary live orchestral music experiences.

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The mission of Nashville Shakespeare Festival is to educate and entertain the Mid-South community through professional theatrical experiences.

The Nashville Shakespeare Festival enriches and unifies the community with bold, innovative, and relevant productions along with empowering, participatory educational programs, setting the regional standard of excellence in educational outreach and theatrical performances.

To ensure inclusion, diversity, and equity, the Festival partners with arts and community groups, nonprofits, schools, colleges, and universities in productions and educational outreach.

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Mission Statement

The mission of the Nashville Repertory Theatre is to entertain and inspire by creating exceptional theatre that explores the diversity of human experience.

Our vision is to be a strong and vital professional regional theatre that is an indispensable part of our community’s creative life, widely embraced and deeply valued as an essential source for illuminating artistic experiences, engaging diverse groups in conversation about contemporary issues and providing exciting entertainment. As such, we strive to be recognized as a model of sustainability that is home for a diverse, thriving community of professional artists, and whose name is synonymous with excellence in every aspect.

As Oscar Wilde said, ‘Theatre is the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it means to be human.’ We believe there are few things more important than reminding Nashvillians of their shared humanity as a means of building community.

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