💖 About Nooga Has Heart — The Web Series

Created by the Noogavision Theatre team.

Nooga Has Heart is a new community-focused web series from Noogavision Theatre that shares real stories of strength, art, and humanity throughout Chattanooga.
Through each story, we celebrate individuals whose lives remind us that healing and hope often begin with connection.

Our first featured story — the “Heart to Heart” episode — spotlights Laurence Woods, a wordsmith, poet, and musician who is currently awaiting a kidney transplant.
Laurence’s courage, creativity, and unshakable spirit reflect the very heart of what this series stands for: the power of art and community to uplift and sustain one another.

This marks the beginning of Noogavision’s Nooga Has Heart initiative — a platform built by our team to unite storytelling and social impact.
Each performance, each film, and each act of giving is part of something bigger: a movement that reminds us all that there truly is no Heart without Art.

🎵 Meet Laurence Woods — Our 2025 Nooga Has Heart Recipient

His journey continues. Together, we keep the music alive.

Laurence Woods is a wordsmith, poet, and musician whose voice has long been a part of Chattanooga’s creative heartbeat. His words inspire and his presence in our arts community reminds us that storytelling and song have the power to heal.

Today, Laurence faces one of life’s most difficult waiting periods — he is awaiting a kidney transplant.
While he waits, the daily challenges are real: transportation to treatments, medications, nutrition, rest, and maintaining stability through the unpredictable rhythm of dialysis and medical care.

Through Noogavision Theatre’s 2025 benefit event, Nooga Has Heart: An Afternoon for Life, featuring the stage production “Who Lives?”, we’re joining together to stand with Laurence — to help him meet these everyday needs and remind him that he is not alone while he waits for his match.

This year’s event isn’t just a performance — it’s a movement of compassion, creativity, and community. It’s a promise that while Laurence waits for his new beginning, he will have what he needs to keep writing, keep dreaming, and keep creating.

Your donation provides direct support for housing, food, transportation, and ongoing medical costs as Laurence continues his journey toward transplant.

When words fade, and music pauses — kindness keeps playing.

Presented by Noogavision Theatre in partnership with the Kidney Foundation of Greater Chattanooga

Nooga Has Heart: An Afternoon for Life

By Noogavision Theatre and Performing Arts Company

Nooga Has Heart: An Afternoon for Life

There is no Heart Without Art.