Profs and Pints: A Campy Summer Evening
Jun
24
7:00 PM19:00

Profs and Pints: A Campy Summer Evening

Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “A Campy Summer Evening,” on a distinct style and its history, politics, and pleasures, with Stephanie A. Graves, lecturer in English at Middle Tennessee State University and scholar of film, television, and media.

[Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7.]

When something is called “campy,” what does that mean? What exactly is camp style, and why does it remain so culturally provocative? 

Throw on something outlandish and come to Nashville’s Fait La Force taproom to hear answers delivered by Stephanie Graves, whose past talks have earned her a loyal following among Profs and Pints fans.

She’ll look at camp in film, television, fashion, music, and popular culture, moving from Oscar Wilde to Trixie Mattel, from classic Hollywood melodrama to contemporary internet memes.

In defining camp, she’ll describe its association with excess, drama, irony, and artifice. She’ll discuss how it’s evoked in the play with gender and sexuality in Rocky Horror Picture Show, in the visual excess and exaggerated style of Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and in art as varied as Wilde’s plays and Lady Gaga’s concerts.

We’ll look at how camp thrives in the spaces where “good” and “bad” taste and “high” and “low” art collapse into one another, such as in John Waters’s Hairspray and Pink Flamingos, in RuPaul’s Drag Race, and in the films of Baz Luhrmann. More than just an aesthetic of flamboyance or kitsch, camp emphasizes stylization, performance, and spectacle in ways that deliberately provoke cultural norms of respectability and decorum. 

You’ll learn how the tenets of camp were widely popularized by writer Susan Sontag in her influential 1964 essay “Notes on Camp.” In reality, however, camp’s history stretches back much further, emerging from queer subcultures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and flourishing in spaces where humor, performance, parody, and coded self-expression became tools of survival for marginalized communities. It was carried forward in the glamour of old Hollywood stars, the theatricality of disco and drag culture, the hyper-femininity of contemporary pop icons, and in the pleasures of cult films and television.

We’ll consider why camp continues to resonate—and why exaggeration, artifice, and “bad taste” still carries surprising cultural power. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)

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Profs and Pints: Understanding Urban Legends
Jul
8
6:00 PM18:00

Profs and Pints: Understanding Urban Legends

Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “Understanding Urban Legends,” an exploration of the tales we tell to terrify each other, with Cory Thomas Hutcheson, folklorist, lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University, and author of New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic.

[Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7.]

The call is coming from inside Fait La Force! Or if it were, anyway, it would summon you to sit at one of the beloved taproom’s tables for a summertime treat: A talk about that modern folktales that get circulated around campfires, on school playgrounds, and in the dark corners of the internet.

Folklorist Cory Thomas Hutcheson, whose reputation for giving excellent talks has earned him a following among Nashville’s Profs and Pints fans, will give you a deeper understanding and appreciation of urban legends—also called contemporary legends—than you have ever had before.

You’ll recognize something hauntingly familiar as he talks about a hook-handed killer terrorizing teenage lovers out for a drive, or the person who woke up in a tub full of ice possessing one less kidney, or a shadowy figure shown by an ongoing trucker’s headlights to be in the backseat of a car.

But he’ll also lead you deeper into such lore, discussing where such tales come from and the deeper meanings that drive them and keep them alive via word-of-mouth or their online circulation on subreddits.

You’ll gain an understanding of how these stories connect to bigger issues in the culture around us. 

You’ll see how anxieties about disease and contagion became stories about food contamination or about vicious ghosts wearing medical masks, and how both teen and adult fears about teens growing up too fast became tales of amorous adolescents pursued by sadistic killers. 

You’ll also learn a bit about how these tales change over time with different tellings and tellers, and whether troubling facts lurk within any such fictional accounts. You'll encounter murderous bathroom ghosts, traverse the haunting liminal-space lore that inspired the new hit film Backrooms, and meet the infamous Slenderman.

Just make sure you check your backseat before you start driving home. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)

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FLF Reading Club
Jul
21
6:00 PM18:00

FLF Reading Club

On the third Tuesday of every month, we'll be gathering together to read, chat, and then read some more!  Here’s the plan:  For 30 minutes, we'll be diving into our individual books. This isn’t a book club, so there will be no assigned reading or group discussions. After 30 minutes of reading, there will be a 15 minute breather to chat (or not) with other folks about our latest reads before diving back into your books! Then repeat to your hearts content, or until the brewery closes, whichever comes first.

This group is intended for all levels of social comfort and reading style. Whether you can’t wait to chat with a new friend about your favorite author or you’ll be using those 15 minutes of chatter to order yourself another beer, please join us!  We’re excited to unite a community of book lovers, so we hope to see you out!

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FLF Reading Club
Aug
18
6:00 PM18:00

FLF Reading Club

On the third Tuesday of every month, we'll be gathering together to read, chat, and then read some more!  Here’s the plan:  For 30 minutes, we'll be diving into our individual books. This isn’t a book club, so there will be no assigned reading or group discussions. After 30 minutes of reading, there will be a 15 minute breather to chat (or not) with other folks about our latest reads before diving back into your books! Then repeat to your hearts content, or until the brewery closes, whichever comes first.

This group is intended for all levels of social comfort and reading style. Whether you can’t wait to chat with a new friend about your favorite author or you’ll be using those 15 minutes of chatter to order yourself another beer, please join us!  We’re excited to unite a community of book lovers, so we hope to see you out!

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FLF Reading Club
Sep
15
6:00 PM18:00

FLF Reading Club

  • Fait La Force Brewing Company (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

On the third Tuesday of every month, we'll be gathering together to read, chat, and then read some more!  Here’s the plan:  For 30 minutes, we'll be diving into our individual books. This isn’t a book club, so there will be no assigned reading or group discussions. After 30 minutes of reading, there will be a 15 minute breather to chat (or not) with other folks about our latest reads before diving back into your books! Then repeat to your hearts content, or until the brewery closes, whichever comes first.

This group is intended for all levels of social comfort and reading style. Whether you can’t wait to chat with a new friend about your favorite author or you’ll be using those 15 minutes of chatter to order yourself another beer, please join us!  We’re excited to unite a community of book lovers, so we hope to see you out!

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FLF Reading Club
Jun
16
6:00 PM18:00

FLF Reading Club

On the third Tuesday of every month, we'll be gathering together to read, chat, and then read some more!  Here’s the plan:  For 30 minutes, we'll be diving into our individual books. This isn’t a book club, so there will be no assigned reading or group discussions. After 30 minutes of reading, there will be a 15 minute breather to chat (or not) with other folks about our latest reads before diving back into your books! Then repeat to your hearts content, or until the brewery closes, whichever comes first.

This group is intended for all levels of social comfort and reading style. Whether you can’t wait to chat with a new friend about your favorite author or you’ll be using those 15 minutes of chatter to order yourself another beer, please join us!  We’re excited to unite a community of book lovers, so we hope to see you out!

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Profs & Pints Nashville: Ancient Tattooing
Jun
10
6:00 PM18:00

Profs & Pints Nashville: Ancient Tattooing

Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “Ancient Tattooing,” on tattooing traditions around the world and throughout human history, with Aaron Deter-Wolf, archaeologist with the Tennessee Division of Archaeology, visiting fellow with the University of Southampton, and leading scholar of ancient tattooing.

[Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7.]

Dr. Aaron Deter-Wolf has spent two decades working alongside other archaeologists, tattoo artists, and indigenous researchers to record ancient, preserved tattoos and to understand the artifacts and methods of tattooing in the distant past. Profs and Pints is bringing him to Nashville’s Fait La Force taproom to give a talk on the rapidly developing field of “tattoo archaeology.” 

He’ll describe how archaeological evidence for tattooing dates back at least 5,000 years, and includes figurines, statues, possible tattooing materials such as bone needles, and rock art that shows human-like figures with carved or painted body decoration. Actual marks have been found preserved on mummified remains from over 70 archaeological sites on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. 

Such evidence of ancient tattooing has been present in archaeological collections for more than a century, but it was largely overlooked by archaeologists until recently. Older generations of Western scholars, who themselves were rarely tattooed, viewed the practice negatively and thus were prone to ignore or misinterpret evidence. 

Drawing from communications with indigenous practitioners and from a decade-long survey of hundreds of museum collections and historical records, Dr. Deter-Wolf will describe global patterns in traditional tattooing technologies and techniques. They include hand poking, hand tapping, and incision tattooing, all of which predate electrical tattooing by thousands of years.

You’ll learn about experimental studies in which Dr. Deter-Wolf worked with professional tattooers to recreate stone, bone, and metal tools which they then tested on their own skin and elsewhere to identify the microscopic wear patterns created on tool tips during tattooing. Comparing the marks left on living skin during these studies with preserved ancient tattoos enabled them to correct earlier assumptions about tattooing methods in Copper Age Europe, on the Iron Age Eurasian Steppe, and among pre-Inca cultures of the Andes.

Finally, we’ll look at how Dr. Deter-Wolf and is fellow researchers have used digital-imaging technology to record thousands of never-before seen tattoos on naturally mummified remains from the deserts of the Peruvian central coast. This talk is sure to leave an imprint on you. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)

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Meditation Magic
Jun
8
5:30 PM17:30

Meditation Magic

Join us for an evening of stillness, connection, and inner renewal.

Discover how meditation and mindfulness can help you cultivate more peace, clarity, and joy in your everyday life.

Whether you’re brand new to meditation or deepening your practice, this gathering offers a welcoming space to pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself.

Meditation Magic with Dr. Suman Chaudhuri

Fait La Force Brewing | Nashville

Monday, June 8 at 6:30 PM

Free Event

Come as you are. Leave feeling grounded, inspired, and restored.

#NashvilleEvents #MeditationMagic #Mindfulness #Meditation #ConsciousLiving #WellnessCommunity #NashvilleWellness #InnerPeace #MindfulLiving #SpiritualWellness


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Saucy Day
Jun
6
3:00 PM15:00

Saucy Day

June 6th it’s Saucy Fest in the taproom! Aka it’s our Pride Party aka it’s our favorite day of the year! AND we are re-releasing the Saucy Ballerina, our crowd favorite Belgian Tripel.

From 3-7pm:

🎨 @everydayaliens.art is hosting The Art Party! Come be part of making an amazing community art piece!

🎶 DJ Gadget will be in the house playing the best music and keeping the vibes high 🎶

🌺 Grab some whimsical wonderful floral arrangements made with love by MiMi

🧑‍🎨 Find some amazing art for sale made by talented local artists

All day, a portion of sales will benefit our friends at @justusoasis who do incredible work to support LGBTQ+ youth in our community.

See you there!

L’Union Fait la Force || Strength in Pride!

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Tennessee Party for Prevention
May
29
9:00 PM21:00

Tennessee Party for Prevention

Nashville, come party with us!

The Party for Prevention is a low-key, fun way to support suicide prevention in your community. There will be a silent disco, silent auction, great beer, and more! Tickets are $25 and include your first drink, or if you have a group of 10, you can save 20% and buy them together for $200.

All proceeds will go toward suicide prevention programming and education, survivor support, and advocacy in the state of Tennessee.

Get your tickets today at giving.afsp.org/tnpartyforprevention

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Astronomy on Tap - Deep Dive Edition
May
27
6:00 PM18:00

Astronomy on Tap - Deep Dive Edition

RSVP: Here!

Come out for astronomy, beer, prizes and more to the world famous Astronomy on Tap, here in Nashville. Sold out? Don't worry. Just show up!

Please join us at Fait La Force Brewing at 6pm Doors | Event 7pm

* If tickets are unavailable, contact aotnashville@gmail.com OR just show up!

  • This Eventbrite page is only set up as a public notice. Registration is not required, but registering provides AoT a means to reach attendees if necessary.

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The world famous Astronomy on Tap is THRIVING in the Music City!

Can't believe it's been over a YEAR since AoT was established in Nashville!

Join us for a stellar evening of astronomy and beer at FAIT LA FORCE BREWING. Get ready to enjoy a low-key evening of local astronomers and scientists giving an engaging talk on what the Universe is up to while sipping on local brews.

This event is open to everyone whether you're a science enthusiast or a beer connoisseur

So grab your friends and come on down to Astronomy on Tap - Nashville for an out-of-this-world experience!

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FLF Reading Club
Apr
21
6:00 PM18:00

FLF Reading Club

On the third Tuesday of every month, we'll be gathering together to read, chat, and then read some more!  Here’s the plan:  For 30 minutes, we'll be diving into our individual books. This isn’t a book club, so there will be no assigned reading or group discussions. After 30 minutes of reading, there will be a 15 minute breather to chat (or not) with other folks about our latest reads before diving back into your books! Then repeat to your hearts content, or until the brewery closes, whichever comes first.

This group is intended for all levels of social comfort and reading style. Whether you can’t wait to chat with a new friend about your favorite author or you’ll be using those 15 minutes of chatter to order yourself another beer, please join us!  We’re excited to unite a community of book lovers, so we hope to see you out!

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Nashville Public Library Trivia : Twilight Edition
Apr
15
7:00 PM19:00

Nashville Public Library Trivia : Twilight Edition

  • Fait La Force Brewing Company (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Gather your fellow Twihards for a night of Twilight-themed trivia at Fait La Force Brewing. Get ready to immerse yourself in all the “hoa hoa hoa” vibes and battle it out on the field! Giveaways, prizes, and more. Wear your team Edward or Jacob gear.

To register, please email megan.adovasio-jones@nashville.gov by April 13. Spots are limited. Maximum 6 people per team.

Location:
Fait La Force Brewing
1414 3rd Ave S, St 101
Nashville, TN 37210

Contact: Inglewood (615) 862-5866

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Astro on Tap - Science And Secrets Edition
Mar
31
6:00 PM18:00

Astro on Tap - Science And Secrets Edition

Dear AoT-ers!

We are pleased to announce that our Science And Secrets Edition event for Astronomy on Tap will be held on TUES. Mar 31st at Fait La Force Brewing!

This event will feature:

  • Professor Steve Taylor
    The Occult Origins Of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab

There will be trivia and more prizes after! So come on out after a long day of hard work in the middle of the week and relax while we bombard you with fun astro facts, beer, and prizes!

Make sure to RSVP for the free event at EventBrite. It helps us plan the seating!

Please share to all and any who might be interested!

Doors 6:00pm | Event 7:00 pm

Check out our Chapter Site and upcoming event dates.

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Women's Adventure Film Tour : Presented by Climb
Mar
29
7:00 PM19:00

Women's Adventure Film Tour : Presented by Climb

The 2026 program will highlight the resilience and creativity of individuals navigating the challenges of both the outer world and their own inner landscapes. These films represent the spirit of perseverance and the power of women in the outdoors to inspire, entertain, and spark important conversations. Each year, the festival brings together the best and brightest of the outdoor community, offering a space for meaningful dialogue and inspiring new generations of filmmakers. Get your tickets now!

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Profs & Pints Nashville: Ireland’s Easter Rising
Mar
25
6:00 PM18:00

Profs & Pints Nashville: Ireland’s Easter Rising

  • Fait La Force Brewing Company (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “Ireland’s Easter Rising,” on a pivotal moment in Ireland’s fight for independence, with Mark Doyle, professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University, scholar of Irish history, and author of Fighting like the Devil for the Sake of God: Protestants, Catholics and the Origins of Violence in Victorian Belfast.

[Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7.]

During Easter Week of 1916, a time when hundreds of thousands of other Irishmen were fighting on Britain’s behalf on the First World War’s Western Front, a small band of rebels staged an armed anti-British rebellion in Dublin. 

Their goal was to rid Ireland of the British domination that it had been under in one form or another for nearly 800 years. Although in the short-term their uprising ended disastrously, in the long-term it managed to inspire a largely successful fight for independence.

Learn in depth about this rebellion and how it altered Ireland’s history with Professor Mark Doyle, a scholar and teacher of Irish and British history who has conducted extensive research in Dublin and Belfast. He’ll explain the background, course, and legacy of the Easter Rising, which will mark its 110th anniversary next month.

You’ll learn how the leaders of Ireland’s Easter Rising sought to occupy key places around Dublin in hopes of sparking a general uprising and persuading Germany, Britain’s enemy in the Great War, to help their cause. Their plan failed because not only did no island-wide rebellion occur, but most Dubliners scorned them as reckless adventurers. In less than a week, hundreds of rebels were killed and thousands arrested, with central Dublin being left a smoking hull.

The Easter Rising was, by most measures, a dismal failure. But in the weeks and months that followed something remarkable happened. Britain’s brutal suppression of the rising, combined with the dignified way in which the rebel leaders met their deaths and skillful organizing by surviving rebels and other Irish nationalists, eventually caused the Easter Rising to be seen not as a tragic farce but as the first blow in a longer struggle.

Dr. Doyle will shed light on how a doomed band of rebels lit the flame that eventually consumed the whole island. He’ll examine what their memories mean today in an Ireland that, despite having changed utterly from what it once, still struggles to realize the lofty goals of the men and women of 1916. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)

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FLF Reading Club
Mar
17
6:00 PM18:00

FLF Reading Club

On the third Tuesday of every month, we'll be gathering together to read, chat, and then read some more!  Here’s the plan:  For 30 minutes, we'll be diving into our individual books. This isn’t a book club, so there will be no assigned reading or group discussions. After 30 minutes of reading, there will be a 15 minute breather to chat (or not) with other folks about our latest reads before diving back into your books! Then repeat to your hearts content, or until the brewery closes, whichever comes first.

This group is intended for all levels of social comfort and reading style. Whether you can’t wait to chat with a new friend about your favorite author or you’ll be using those 15 minutes of chatter to order yourself another beer, please join us!  We’re excited to unite a community of book lovers, so we hope to see you out!

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Checkmate Boogie - Chess and Vinyl
Mar
12
5:00 PM17:00

Checkmate Boogie - Chess and Vinyl

Chess night hosted by Timothy Miles and Vinyl records being spun by the Deli Shop Boys!

If you know the game, great! Come play or teach others.

If you play, but don;t know the game well, great! We’re no grandmasters over here either.

If you’re unfamiliar but would love to learn the game, perfect! We’ll get you started on the right foot.

We’ll play 20-20Min (max) timers to keep games rotating.

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SOLD OUT-Profs & Pints Nashville: The Occult Mother Goose
Mar
11
6:00 PM18:00

SOLD OUT-Profs & Pints Nashville: The Occult Mother Goose

  • Fait La Force Brewing Company (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “The Occult Mother Goose,” on the twisted origins of many nursery rhymes, with Cory Thomas Hutcheson, folklorist, lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University, and author of New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic.

[Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7.]

We may think of Mother Goose as a sweet old woman adorning the cover of children’s books. The truth, though, is that she’s got more than a few tricks up her tatted lace sleeves. Rooted in pre-Christian myths from Germany and Scandinavia, she has deep connections to witchcraft and magic. 

The nursery rhymes collected in the books that bear Mother Goose’s name are no sickly-sweet lullabies for bouncing babies, either. Many are derived from old magic spells, creepy legends about terrifying child-eating monsters, or horribly tragic events, despite being transmuted over time into innocent-seeming songs, dances, and games. 

Join folklorist Cory Thomas Hutcheson, whose great past talks have earned him a loyal following among Profs and Pints fans, for a night that might forever change how you think about blind mice, mulberry bushes, and Jack and Jill. Delving into a weird world of cursed couplets and revolting rhymes, he’ll look at the mythic origins of Mother Goose and explore some of her weirdest wordplay and eeriest entries. 

We’ll look at fortune-telling poems that promise to predict the future husband of those who “make a rhyme, make a rhyme, see your beau before bedtime.” 

We’ll consider poems that warn of summoning evil: “Speak of a person, and he will appear. Then talk of the devil, and he’ll draw near.”

You’ll have a great time learning all sorts of wicked history and lore. Cross our hearts and hope to die! (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)

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It's Always Sunny at Fait la Force : 4 Year Anniversary Pop-Up Bar
Mar
10
to Mar 22

It's Always Sunny at Fait la Force : 4 Year Anniversary Pop-Up Bar

  • Fait La Force Brewing Company (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

As our perennial inspiration Frank Reynolds says, “We don’t know how many years on this Earth we’ve got left. We’re gonna get real weird with it.” So to celebrate our 4th Anniversary, we’re transforming the taproom into an Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia pop-up bar for two weeks, running from Tuesday, March 10 to Sunday, March 22.

There will be tons of Easter eggs from the show throughout the taproom, and we will have a themed drink and food menu including fan favorites such as “spaghetti policy” and “fight milk”.

And it will all culminate on Saturday, March 21st when we are joined by @everydayaliens.art for The Art Party along with DJ @elgnashador to keep the vibes right.

There’s so much more to announce so keep your eyes on our socials over the next couple of weeks!

L’ Union Fait la Force || Strength in Rum Ham

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Profs and Pints: Love and Lust in Ancient Greece
Feb
25
6:00 PM18:00

Profs and Pints: Love and Lust in Ancient Greece

  • Fait La Force Brewing Company (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “Love and Lust in Ancient Greece,” with Chiara Sulprizio, senior lecturer in Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University and scholar of ancient gender and sexuality.

[Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7.]

The ancient Greeks revered the goddess of love, Aphrodite. They believed her erotic power to be the most powerful force in the universe, even surpassing the powers of Zeus, and they celebrated this force with a singular passion in their art, literature, and sex lives.

Join Chiara Sulprizio of Vanderbilt University for a thrilling exploration of how love and desire were imagined, discussed, and experienced by men and women in ancient Greece—at all levels of society, from the humblest slaves to the highest aristocrats.

We will consider the socialization of girls and boys, and how the institution of marriage, as well as the threat of adultery, shaped the course of ancient Greeks’ lives.

We will also examine the importance of the phallus in this patriarchal culture, and its defining role as a symbol of male dominance, fertility and fortune. 

Dr. Sulprizio will discuss the practice of pederasty and why it was so prevalent a feature of elite Greek identity. She also will investigate the lives of ancient prostitutes and consider the mystery of women’s erotic experiences, explaining why they are so difficult to trace in the historical record. 

Finally, we’ll consider the various ways that ancient ideas about love and eroticism remain alive in our culture today. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)

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Astronomy on Tap
Feb
24
6:00 PM18:00

Astronomy on Tap

  • Fait La Force Brewing Company (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Come out for astronomy, beer, prizes and more to the world famous Astronomy on Tap, here in Nashville. Sold out? Don't worry. Just show up!

Astro on Tap is at a new location and time!

Please join us at Fait La Force Brewing at 6pm Doors | Event 7pm

We are lining up speakers right now, so stay tuned for updates!

* If tickets are unavailable, contact aotnashville@gmail.com OR just show up!

  • This Eventbrite page is only set up as a public notice. Registration is not required, but registering provides AoT a means to reach attendees if necessary.

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The world famous Astronomy on Tap is THRIVING in the Music City!

Can't believe it's been over a YEAR since AoT was established in Nashville!

Join us for a stellar evening of astronomy and beer at FAIT LA FORCE BREWING. Get ready to enjoy a low-key evening of local astronomers and scientists giving an engaging talk on what the Universe is up to while sipping on local brews.

This event is open to everyone whether you're a science enthusiast or a beer connoisseur

So grab your friends and come on down to Astronomy on Tap - Nashville for an out-of-this-world experience!


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FLF Reading Club
Feb
17
6:00 PM18:00

FLF Reading Club

  • Fait La Force Brewing Company (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

On the third Tuesday of every month, we'll be gathering together to read, chat, and then read some more!  Here’s the plan:  For 30 minutes, we'll be diving into our individual books. This isn’t a book club, so there will be no assigned reading or group discussions. After 30 minutes of reading, there will be a 15 minute breather to chat (or not) with other folks about our latest reads before diving back into your books! Then repeat to your hearts content, or until the brewery closes, whichever comes first.

This group is intended for all levels of social comfort and reading style. Whether you can’t wait to chat with a new friend about your favorite author or you’ll be using those 15 minutes of chatter to order yourself another beer, please join us!  We’re excited to unite a community of book lovers, so we hope to see you out!

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L'Union Members Only Party
Feb
15
6:00 PM18:00

L'Union Members Only Party

  • Fait La Force Brewing Company (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Calling all our amazing FLF Union Members!!

Sunday February 15th from 6-9pm we want to say thank you at our exclusive, members only party! You and a plus one get your first round on the house and then $4 pours after that.

🍻 Both owners, Parker and Zach, will be onsite hanging out to answer all your pressing questions

🍻 Our production team Zach and Zac will welcome guests back into the brew house to discuss all things beer and lead exclusive tours

🍻 We will bring a few specials bottles from around the world to share. If you have anything you want to bring to share do it!

🍻 Underberg toast at 7:30

Union members should receive a text to their number on file with an e-vite by the end of the week with a link to RSVP. If you don’t receive this, please reach out to let us know! And if you’ve been on the fence about signing up, now is the time so you don’t miss our first ever members party!

We are so grateful for the support of our regulars, and especially our union members. Your ongoing support of our small business means the world to us.

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Vintage Cake Decorating Class
Feb
14
1:00 PM13:00

Vintage Cake Decorating Class

  • Fait La Force Brewing Company (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

🎂 VINTAGE CAKE DECORATING CLASS 💘

Spend an afternoon at the @faitlaforcebrewing taproom on February 14h for a vintage cake decorating class. The ticket price includes your choice of a chocolate or vanilla 6 inch heart shaped cake to decorate, all decorating supplies to use during class, one cocktail or mocktail to enjoy, a goodie bag of baked treats to take home, and a cake box. Two classes offered and each is limited to 12 participants. To grab your tickets head to @eastleighdesserts and click the link in her bio.

L’Union Fait la Force || Strength in Decorating Your Cake and Eating It Too

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Galentine's Day
Feb
13
4:00 PM16:00

Galentine's Day

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  • Google Calendar ICS

Galentine’s Day!!

Grab your gals and get to the taproom on February 13th (as mother Leslie Knope commands) from 4-9pm

🩷 @horsegirl_vintage and @fashiongirlvintage will be in the taproom with a highly curated selection of vintage goods. 🩷They will also be hosting a “smell-good-swap”. Bring perfumes or candles or anything else that smells good that you’re interested in trading for something else!

🩷 Tarot card readings will be available by @adhd.alli
🩷 While your hanging out, make your bestie a postcard or card (all supplies free)
🩷 @shygirlbakingco will be on site selling DELICIOUS treats
🩷$6 rosé wine

See you there 🥂👯‍♀️

L’ Union Fait la Force || Strength in gal pals

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Profs and Pints: Love, Sex, Magic
Feb
11
5:00 PM17:00

Profs and Pints: Love, Sex, Magic

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Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “Love/Sex/Magic,” an exploration of love magic, sex spells, and questions of desire and consent in early modern Europe, with Jessica C. Lowe, historian of early modern Europe and lecturer in gender and sexuality studies at Vanderbilt University.

[Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7.]

In early modern Europe, as in America today, people sought to secure sex, attract love and marriage, and make babies. Not everyone, however, could fulfill this ideal, so many ended up turning to practitioners of magic for the answers. 

Learn in depth about how Europeans in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries turned to magic to solve their romantic woes with Jessica C. Lowe, who teaches Vanderbilt courses on “supernatural sexuality” and early modern European witch hunts.  

Drawing heavily from her “supernatural sexuality” course, which examines how early modern beliefs in love magic, witches, werewolves, and vampires shaped our current ideas about gender, sex, and sexuality, Dr. Lowe will deliver a talk combining delicious parts of both Valentine’s Day and Halloween.

She’ll talk about how both sex and love magic were widespread across European society and across the European continent, and how both were practiced in fascinating ways. 

Need to attract the attention of a woman? Find some bat blood and write her name on your hand. Invested in her virginity? Gather some vervain plants (under the right astrological conjunction) and make her sit on it while she prays, knowing that she’ll be compelled to flee if she is “defiled.”

Wanting to conceive a son? Roast some boar testicles and bring the warm pot to bed!

Were these helpful tools, or consoling beliefs, or coercive power? We’ll tackle these questions by considering the social construction of desire, coercion, and consent. Drawing from spell books and trial records, we’ll also look at love magic as both a belief system and an industry. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)

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Astronomy on Tap – It’s (Cosmically) Complicated Edition [RESCHEDULED TO 2/3]
Feb
3
6:00 PM18:00

Astronomy on Tap – It’s (Cosmically) Complicated Edition [RESCHEDULED TO 2/3]

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This event will feature 2 amazing speakers:

  • Marcelo Disconzi

              Are Neutron Stars Sticky?

  • Wynter Brigitta-Maita

             Cosmic Ghosting: A Tale of Interstellar Communications

There will be trivia, and more prizes after! So come on out after a long day of hard work in the middle of the week and relax while we bombard you with fun astro facts, beer, and prizes!

Make sure to RSVP for the free event at EventBrite.

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Doors 6:00 pm | Show 7:00 pm

More parking in the back if the front lot is full!

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Profs and Pints: WW1 & the Middle East
Jan
21
6:00 PM18:00

Profs and Pints: WW1 & the Middle East

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This talk has completely sold out in advance and door tickets will be available based on no shows only.

Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “World War I and the Middle East,” on an often-overlooked theater of the Great War and its long-term impact on global affairs, with Andrew Patrick, professor of history at Tennessee State University and scholar of American engagement with the Ottoman Empire.

[Doors open at 6 pm. Talk starts at 7.]

When we think of World War I we often think of filthy trenches, futile assaults, and stagnant battle lines in France and Belgium. The experience was much different, however, beyond the Western Front.

Gain a deep understanding of how the war was fought in Ottoman lands, and how the outcome of the conflict there continues to have a profound impact on our world today, at Fait La Force on January 21st. 

Professor Andrew Patrick, who has written a book and several articles on World War I in the Middle East and teaches courses on World War I and Middle East and global history, will give you a much richer understanding of the war in Ottoman lands than you might have gleaned from watching classic films like Gallipoli or Lawrence of Arabia.

He’ll talk about how historians increasingly place the Ottoman Empire at the center of the First World War’s origins, and how the conflict in Ottoman lands lasted far longer than the war itself, arguably from 1911 until 1922.

You’ll learn how the character of the conflict on Ottoman lands differed substantially from fighting elsewhere—even though it was similarly gruesome. Along with warfare, people in the region faced ethnic cleansing, famine, and even locusts.

By 1922, European imperial powers finally accomplished the violent dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, replacing it with unwanted colonial rule, fragile states, and the beginnings of a “national home” for European Jews. In doing so they gave birth to the modern Middle East and ensured that the region would experience instability in the ensuing century. The consequences of their actions still haunt us today. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)

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FLF Reading Club
Jan
20
6:00 PM18:00

FLF Reading Club

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On the third Tuesday of every month, we'll be gathering together to read, chat, and then read some more!  Here’s the plan:  For 30 minutes, we'll be diving into our individual books. This isn’t a book club, so there will be no assigned reading or group discussions. After 30 minutes of reading, there will be a 15 minute breather to chat (or not) with other folks about our latest reads before diving back into your books! Then repeat to your hearts content, or until the brewery closes, whichever comes first.

This group is intended for all levels of social comfort and reading style. Whether you can’t wait to chat with a new friend about your favorite author or you’ll be using those 15 minutes of chatter to order yourself another beer, please join us!  We’re excited to unite a community of book lovers, so we hope to see you out!

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Half New Years Eve
Dec
31
4:00 PM16:00

Half New Years Eve

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Our annual Half New Year Party is back for a fourth year in a row!🎆🎇⁠

As is tradition here at Fait la Force, we will be ringing in the New Year with our friends in jolly ole England at 6pm CST! ⁠

Want to celebrate the new year, but struggle to make it to midnight? Looking for a place to pregame your big midnight party? Just want a beer after the long holiday season with your in-laws? Well this is the spot for you! It’s always a fun night with all you FLF regulars, so we hope to see you out!⁠

L'Union Fait la Force || Strength in Auld Lang Syne

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