Welcome to the website of the Firebrand Community Center! This website is part of a project to create a new community space for grassroots activists in Nashville.

The Firebrand is currently a decentralized network of community centers and organizations which are based in several locations in the Nashville area. This website is a working attempt to connect everyone that is doing awesome stuff in Nashville. We are also working towards aquiring space in which to operate our many projects that are getting bigger than our homes.

The Firebrand Community Center is in middle development phases, but the community network is active and growing.  With your participation, we can make the Firebrand Community Center a reality as well.  Read about our plans for the space in progress and find out how you can contribute to creating Nashville's first infoshop!

What's the Firebrand about?

Our vision for the Firebrand is to create a community space that will inspire and inform people. It will be home to several different organizations and activities and include a wide variety of facilities. Our current projects include: An independent publications and socially catalytic literature library, a print co-op, a free school (skill share), free store, performance space, art space, a bicycle building, maintenance & repair shop, and Food Not Bombs.


These links connect to

Member Organizations


 & some of The Firebrand's

Current Projects

What's Happening in Nashville

So, perhaps you're sitting around your house bored, or wondering; "Where is everyone hanging out, & what on earth is there to do in Nashville?"

Visit our Events calendar and find out! There's always something to do or someone to hang out with. Most of our events are listed on the calendar, but people are doing things every day. Email someone or visit one of our spaces and find out what's going on!

If you have any events you'd like to be added, email Rat and she'll get them up all quick-like and then all the kids will know where to go for a rockin good time!

What's an infoshop?

"An infoshop is a space where people involved with radical movements and countercultures can trade information, meet and network with other people and groups, and hold meetings and/or events."
- Brad Sigal, Beehive Collective

"An infoshop is a cross between a radical bookstore and a movement archive. Activists go there to read or buy movement literature; attend meetings, lectures, or films; or just plain hang out."
- Slingshot

"Infoshops combine a social space, zine archive and library, meeting hall, day care center, concert venue and bookstore into one autonomous space... Infoshops are rooted in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) ethic - they are created by people who are interested in making the revolutionary process happen, not just sitting around and talking about it."
- Chuck Munson, MaximumRockNRoll