✈️ Flying cheap at BNA

✈️ Flying on the Cheap

Today on the City Cast Nashville podcast, Andrea Giordano, a.k.a. @BNACheapFlights on Instagram, shares her secrets for finding low fares and taking advantage of airline sales to make travel accessible at almost any budget. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🎼 A Census of Nashville’s Musicians

The Greater Nashville Music Census had a record-breaking 4,256 respondents. Their average annual household income was $93,000, with $52,000 coming from music work. The industry remains overwhelmingly white (85%), and respondents want better affordability and more music-friendly policies. [The Tennessean]

🏠 Homes to be Destroyed at Old Tent City

Six homes will be destroyed at Old Tent City, the unhoused encampment from Hermitage Avenue to the Cumberland River. The encampment has existed since the 1980s, and some homes took years to build. Officials state the structures violate building codes. Metro also wants to build Wharf Park at the site. [Nashville Scene]

🚌 Mural Honors Nashville’s First Female Bus Driver

A new mural honors Nashville’s first female bus driver, Elizabeth Duff, at the eponymous WeGo transit center. As a Black child in the 1950s, a bus driver once told her she couldn’t sit in the front. She vowed to one day drive a bus, and when she heard the MTA was hiring women, she jumped at the chance. [NewsChannel 5]

• Speakin’ of buses, check out Choose How You Move’s new interactive maps. [Transit.Nashville.gov]

Fall break for MNPS and Williamson County students is right around the corner: Oct. 7-11. If you, like me, are working during fall break, I rounded up these camps to keep the kiddos entertained. There’s something for all kinds of interests, from sports to theater to coding and more.

Fun Company, YMCA

• Grades: Kindergarten-5th grade
• Where: Select MNPS Schools
• Time: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
• Cost: $25 a day
• About: YMCA’s Fun Company runs before- and after-school care, and extends its care all day during breaks at select schools. Only six schools are listed for fall break. Expect fun activities, sports, and crafts.

Adventure Science Center: Space

• Grades: Kindergarten-6th grade
• Where: Adventure Science Center, Nashville
• Time: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., before care starts at 7:30 a.m., and aftercare ends at 5:30 p.m.
• Cost: $399/week, before and aftercare is $30+ per day.
• About: Kids will see a planetarium show, and participate in a range of space-themed activities and projects, including making rovers and launching rockets.

Nashville Children’s Theater

• Ages: 4-14
• Where: Nashville Children’s Theater
• Time: 9 a.m.-3 p.m., free before care starts at 7:30 a.m., and free aftercare ends at 5:30 p.m.
• Cost: $350+/week
• About: Nashville Children’s Theater offers five different fall break camps with various themes. All camps end with a performance.

Camp Twigs Break Camp

• Ages: 5-12
• Where: Sanders Ferry Park, Hendersonville
• Time: 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Cost: $335/week
• About: Kids will explore nature and participate in fall-themed activities and crafts. Aftercare is available.

Boost Gymnastics: Let the Ghoul Times Roll!

• Ages: 5-10
• Where: Boost Gymnastics, Bellevue
• Time: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
• Cost: $350
• About: Kids will have a spooktacular time with open gym play, Halloween-themed games, pumpkin painting, fall snack crafts, swimming, and more.