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Barking Legs Theater’s mission is to enhance the community by cultivating and mentoring diverse artists, presenters, and audiences in an accessible and creative environment. We envision a sustaining artistic renaissance in Chattanooga marked by diverse participation and elevation of the human spirit. As a center for artistic exploration, we are a leading community resource, empowering people to discover their talents, broaden their horizons, and become active participants in shaping the future. We value diversity, creativity, freedom of artistic expression, development of artists, respect, accessibility, education in and through the arts, collaboration, and community. We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the work of contemporary performing artists in the Southeast and beyond. We are committed to supporting and presenting work that challenges the barriers that inhibit new growth and exploration and that push outside the prescribed boundaries of the performing arts. We seek to serve the community through outreach programs, arts projects, and classes. Barking Legs an intimate concert hall and performance venue that has established a reputation as a great place for musicians and listeners alike. We are known throughout the Southeast as a venue with great acoustics and remarkable intimacy. Barking Legs is a listener’s dream, where each note and word rings clearly, promoting the sort of rapt attention impossible in the typical club or barroom setting. Performers love it! Our 76 fixed seats all have great sight lines and we can accommodate overflow crowds up to 150. And if you’re curious about the name, its origin stems from the “bark leggins” that were worn by scouts and woodsmen of the Appalachian region in the last century.