Belcourt Theater Program Director Toby Leonard

I talked with Toby Leonard, who has been with the Belcourt Theater for nearly 20 years and now serves as the theaterâ€s Program Director. Toby is behind selecting many of the films that play, and doing the work necessary to get access to them, and—as far as I can tell from our conversation—isnâ€t as weird about thinking what he does is Godâ€s work as I am. Like a lot of Nashvillians, heâ€s a warm and laid back guy with a rye sense of humor who will talk about pretty much anything you ask about.

I also talked with private investigator, writer and educator Veronica Kavass about why the Belcourt is important to the city.

(And I should note that Veronica is todayâ€s “New Nashvillian,” though—reflecting the incredibly complicated nature of that term—she is not new at all. She is originally from the city—she was raised here and bounced around a bit as a teenager, then over the past decade—but sheâ€s back here and writing a book about the cityâ€s outsiders and so sheâ€s not, in fact, a New Nashvillian in the traditional sense. But labels are tricky like that, arenâ€t they?)

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