A planner's field notebook
Briana Yates — community events, Gallatin, Tennessee. Where the fry is hot and everyone's welcome.
— the same notebook that runs the June street fair, the youth art workshops, and one very patient chow-chow grandmother —
My short film on the invisible backstage of a community festival. The jazz trio tuning at dawn, the rain plan in a jean pocket, the quiet count of folding chairs. Watch it on my 4ort.mov channel — it renders as you read this.
→ festival-morning · 4ort.mov
Color-coded vendor maps, the chalkboard of volunteer shifts, the master list that saves a Saturday. Readable at a glance — the way every good backstage should be.
→ the-planning-board
Southern soul food as event logistics: the grandmother's jar that anchors a food row, exact hours and heat for the collards, the cornbread that must come out golden. A recipe-as-roster, with the failure modes.
→ the-chow-chow-line
— Live from the field —
What I know
What I made
— Neighbors building alongside me —