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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents TO SIR\, WITH LOVE
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents TO SIR\, WITH LOVE at Crosstown Theater.\n\nJames Clavell / 1967 / 105 minutes / Rated M\nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nIn memory of the great actor Sidney Poitier\, Crosstown Arts is excited to screen TO SIR\, WITH LOVE. Poitier plays Mark Thackeray\, an immigrant from British Guiana who wants to be an engineer but takes a job as a teacher in an inner city school in London. Without experience\, Thackeray (Poitier) powers through changing the lives of his young and troubled charges\, as well himself. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-to-sir-with-love/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:The Memphis Symphony Orchestra: Vaughan-Williams Fantasia
DESCRIPTION:The Memphis Symphony Orchestra presents Vaughan-Williams Fantasia\, with works by Fela Sowande\, Ralph Vaughan-Williams\, and Camille Saint-Saëns. Featuring pianist Maxim Lando. \nCrosstown Theater | 6:30pm (doors open at 6:00pm)\nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event.  \nTickets: $35  \nRobert Moody\, conductor\nMaxim Lando\, piano \n  \nSOWANDE  African Suite\nVAUGHAN-WILLIAMS  Tallis Fantasia\nSAINT-SAËNS  Piano Concerto No. 2 \nThe young pianist\, Maxim Lando\, has been described as “individualistic with over-the-top charisma”. Nigerian composer Fela Sowanda’s music integrated musical ideas from his West African musical traditions with his love for the music of Bach and Handel. The Vaughan-Williams Fantasia is one of the most hauntingly beautiful string works ever composed. \nClassic Accents Series Sponsored by Paul and Linnea Bert. \n \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-memphis-symphony-orchestra-presents-vaughan-williams-fantasia/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Iris at Crosstown: Celebrating the Upside
DESCRIPTION:Join Iris Orchestra for a concert honoring the life of Peter Formanek at Crosstown Theater. \nTICKETS: $40 advance general admission | $45 day of show general admission\nDoors open at 2:30 pm | Show at 3 pm \nIris Orchestra honors the life of Memphis philanthropist Peter Formanek with a special concert featuring pianists Inon Barnatan and Alon Goldstein. These international concert artists\, welcomed as guests and friends in the home of Peter and Mary Lee Formanek during their visits to Memphis as Iris concerto soloists\, will each perform music for solo piano and then join forces in music for piano four-hands. The Sunday concert at Crosstown Theater completes a weekend honoring Peter that begins with the orchestral program featuring the two pianists at Germantown Performing Arts Center on Saturday\, March 5. \nProgram \nDebussy: Estampes\nBernstein: “The Masque” from Symphony No. 2\, Age of Anxiety\nAlon Goldstein\, piano \nGershwin: Prelude No. 2\nGershwin/Wild: I Got Rhythm\nChopin: Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante in E-flat Major\, Op. 22 \nInon Barnatan\, piano\nSchubert: Fantasia in F minor\, D.940 for piano four-hands\nInon Barnatan and Alon Goldstein\, piano \nMasks are strongly recommended. Read HERE about Iris Orchestra’s COVID season health and safety protocols. Presenting sponsor: nexAir \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/iris-at-crosstown-celebrating-the-upside/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220308T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220308T150000
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SUMMARY:Eighth Blackbird
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents the dynamic GRAMMY Award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird at Crosstown Theater. \nTICKETS: $20 ($10 student tickets with ID) plus fees\nDoors open at 7:00pm / Performance at 7:30pm \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required. \nEighth Blackbird\, hailed as “one of the smartest\, most dynamic ensembles on the planet” (Chicago Tribune)\, began in 1996 as a group of six entrepreneurial Oberlin Conservatory students and continues today under the leadership of founding members Lisa Kaplan (executive director) and Matthew Duvall (artistic director). \nEighth Blackbird has won four Grammy Awards for Best Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Performance over its 23-year history and has become “a brand-name defined by adventure\, vibrancy and quality” (Detroit Free Press). It has commissioned and premiered hundreds of works by established and emerging composers\, including Steve Reich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Double Sextet and works by Andy Akiho\, Bryce Dessner\, Michael Gordon\, Jennifer Higdon\, Amy Beth Kirsten\, David Lang\, David T. Little\, Nico Muhly\, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez\, Julia Wolfe\, and Pamela Z. Through performances in its Chicago home base and at venues across the U.S. and around the world\, Eighth Blackbird has brought innovative presentations of works by living composers to tens of thousands of music lovers. \nThe ensemble’s extensive recording history\, primarily with Chicago’s Cedille Records\, encompasses more than a dozen acclaimed albums. Its most recent release on 37d03d/Secretly Canadian\, 2019’s When We Are Inhuman\, is a collaboration with The National’s Bryce Dessner and Will Oldham (aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) that features new arrangements by Lisa Kaplan\, who also co-produced the album with Dessner. Singing in the Dead of Night\, written for Eighth Blackbird by Michael Gordon and Pulitzer Prize winners David Lang and Julia Wolfe\, will be released on Cedille Records on June 12\, 2020. Other collaborations with some of today’s most well-regarded artists include heralded performers such as Dawn Upshaw and Jeremy Denk\, seminal composers such as Philip Glass and Nico Muhly\, and genre-fluid composers and performers Dessner\, Oldham\, Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry\, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver\, My Brightest Diamond frontwoman Shara Nova\, and Iarla Ó Lionáird of The Gloaming. \nIn addition to its Grammy Awards\, Eighth Blackbird’s many honors include winning the 1998 Concert Artists Guild Competition; pioneering a year-long residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art—Chicago in 2016\, during which the ensemble served as a living installation with open rehearsals\, performances\, guest artists\, and public talks; receiving the prestigious MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions and Chamber Music America’s inaugural Visionary Award; and being named Musical America’s 2017 Ensemble of the Year. \nThe members of Eighth Blackbird value their roles as curators\, educators\, and mentors. The ensemble was named music director of the 2009 Ojai Music Festival\, has held residencies at the Curtis Institute of Music and at the University of Chicago\, and serves as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Richmond. In 2017 and 2018\, Eighth Blackbird led its boldest initiative yet\, the Blackbird Creative Laboratory\, an inclusive\, two-week summer workshop and performance festival for performers and composers in Ojai\, California. During the 2018–19 season\, some of the Lab’s network of 60 alumni presented regional events and side-by-side concerts across the U.S. and in Melbourne\, Australia with members of Eighth Blackbird. In the 2019–2020 season\, Eighth Blackbird performs works by Lab alumni Fjóla Evans\, Nina Shekhar\, and Viet Cuong. In 2020\, it will give the world premiere of a new work for sextet and the U.S. Navy Band by Cuong in conjunction with Chicago’s Year of Music. \nThe name “Eighth Blackbird” derives from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens’s evocative\, imagistic poem\, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: “I know noble accents / And lucid\, inescapable rhythms; / But I know\, too\, / That the blackbird is involved / In what I know.” \nMatthew Duvall\, Artistic Director \nLisa Kaplan\, Executive Director \nLina Andonvoska\, flutes \nZach Good\, clarinets \nMaiani da Silva\, violin \nAshley Bathgate\, cello \nMatthew Duvall\, percussion \nLisa Kaplan\, piano \nEighth Blackbird is managed by David Lieberman Artists. Carol Fox & Associates is Eighth Blackbird’s Public Relations Agency.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/eighth-blackbird/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:MicroCinema/Shoot & Splice: An Evening with Hope Tucker
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present a special combined MicroCinema / Shoot & Splice screening of short films + discussion at Crosstown Theater.\n\n\nDoors open at 6:30pm | Screening & Discussion begin at 7:00pm\nFREE EVENT / Pay-What-You-Can at the door \n\n\n\nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card (or a photo of card) or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.  \n\n\n\n\n\nCrosstown Arts and Indie Memphis are thrilled to be hosting the first combined MicroCinema and Shoot & Splice experience: An Evening with Hope Tucker! Join us as we dive into the experimental documentary shorts and filmmaking practice of filmmaker and Memphian Hope Tucker – whose most recent short\, What Travelers Are Saying About Jornada Del Muerto\, screened at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and here in Memphis as part of our Sundance Satellite Screenings!\n\nTucker’s shorts\, or obituaries\, as part of her longitudinal project The Obituary Project\, contain a rigor that invites viewers to consider constructions of public memory\, the long lasting impacts of nuclear research on place and people\, and largely through text and materials\, illustrates the ways in which people interact and reframe the various sites she’s visited throughout the twenty-two year span of the Project.\n\nThe evening will begin with a screening of three of the filmmaker’s works\, and will be followed by a conversation centered on Hope’s approach and experiences with creating experimental documentary work.\n\n**This event will also be livestreamed here: https://bit.ly/3JM94CS
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/microcinema-shoot-splice-an-evening-with-hope-tucker/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THE BIG BIRD CAGE
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THE BIG BIRD CAGE at Crosstown Theater.\n\nJack Hill / 1972 / 88 minutes / Rated R\nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) \nIn the ’70s\, mad genius producer Roger Corman took his crew to the Philippines to create the most enduring women-in-prison films in cinematic history. Inside the hellish women’s prison called THE BIG BIRD CAGE\, inmates like Terry (Anitra Ford\, THE PRICE IS RIGHT) struggle to survive. They get their chance to escape when scheming revolutionary Blossom (Pam Grier\, COFFY; FOXY BROWN) engineers a prison break… from the outside in! “Half of you won’t get ten steps before you get a boobful of lead!” Also starring Carol Speed (ABBY THE BLACK EXORCIST) and directed by the legendary Jack Hill (SPIDER BABY; THE SWINGING CHEERLEADERS). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-the-big-bird-cage/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T160000
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse presents MIRACLE IN MILAN
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents MIRACLE IN MILAN at Crosstown Theater.\n\nVittoria De Sica / 1951 / 96 minutes / Rated M\nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nVittorio De Sica’s follow-up to his international triumph Bicycle Thieves is an enchanting neorealist fairy tale in which he combined his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan\, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil\, however\, it’s up to the cherubic orphan Totò (Francesco Golisano)—with some divine help—to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair\, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini (adapting his own novel) craft a big-hearted ode to the nobility of everyday people. Restored from the original camera negative by Cineteca di Bologna and Compass Film\, in collaboration with Mediaset\, Infinity\, Arthur Cohn and Variety Communications at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-presents-miracle-in-milan/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220324T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220324T160000
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents BREATHLESS
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents BREATHLESS at Crosstown Theater.\n\nJean-Luc Godard / 1960 / 90 minutes / Rated M\nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nSmall-time crook Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) steals a car and murders a policeman. While on the run\, he reconnects with Patricia (Jean Seberg)\, a journalism student living in Paris\, and tries to convince her to go on the lam with him. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-film-series-presents-breathless/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220325T173000
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SUMMARY:Craig Brewer’s Secret Screening with special guests Lucky 7 Brass Band
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents CRAIG BREWER’S SECRET SCREENING\nwith special guests LUCKY 7 BRASS BAND at Crosstown Theater. \nDoors open at 7:30 PM | Screening begins at 8:00 PM\n$5 DOLLAR TICKETS AT THE DOOR \nJoin Crosstown Arts and filmmaker and Memphian Craig Brewer in the Crosstown Theater on Friday March 25th for a special\, mystery screening of one of Craig’s most favorite films! What is the film? You will have to come and find out as Craig will be on hand to introduce the film himself! GUARANTEED TO BE A GOOD TIME!! With music by LUCKY 7 BRASS BAND. $5 DOLLAR TICKETS\, CHEAP! 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/craig-brewers-secret-screening-with-special-guests-lucky-7-brass-band/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220326T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220326T163000
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SUMMARY:Soul Kids (Memphis Premiere + Performance)
DESCRIPTION:Featuring in-person Q&A with Director Hugo Sobelman and subjects of the film + performance from 926\, the Stax Music Academy Alumni Band \nEvent presented by Indie Memphis\, Stax Music Academy\, and Crosstown Arts \nDoors open at 6:30pm | Event begins at 7:00pm\nTickets: $15 \n\nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \n\n*In accordance with Crosstown Arts’ COVID-19 policies\, any Indie Memphis event hosted at Crosstown Arts will now require that attendees show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test in order to attend. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn Memphis\, one of the USA’s most distressed city\, the Stax Music Academy is an oasis. Founded in 2000\, the academy continues the legacy of Stax Records\, the legendary 60s soul label which was a refuge and an active space for dialog during the Civil Rights movement. By learning and understanding soul music in after school programs\, teenagers embark into Black Americans legacy and open themselves to new future prospects. Soul Kids is a musical odyssey through history and the concerns of a new generation.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/soul-kids-memphis-premiere-performance/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220327T163000
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SUMMARY:Arooj Aftab with Ouri at Crosstown Arts
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Arooj Aftab at Crosstown Theater with an opening performance by Ouri. This concert is presented in part by Sonosphere\, Inc. \n\n\nTickets: $25 \nDoors at 6:30 pm | Show at 7:30 pm \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required. \n\nArooj Aftab\nBorn and raised in Lahore\, Pakistan\, Arooj Aftab came to prominence in Pakistan in the early 2000s when she developed a style that combines Sufi-mystical poetry with the spirit of independent rock. This sound catapulted her to stardom from a then-fledgling underground and online music community in Pakistan. She eventually moved to the U.S.\, earned a degree at the Berklee School of Music\, and now lives in New York City.\n\n\nHer music is inspired by the poetry and musicality of Rumi\, Abida Parveen\, and other Sufi poets\, as well as the reworking of classical Pakistani and North Indian forms like khayal and kafi. She says Sufi words have impacted her writing: “It is very much about the feeling that (Sufi poetry) leaves you with: calmness\, peace\, patience\, simplicity. And then sadness\, longing\, wandering\, searching\, openness\, oneness. I try to take all these qualities and weave them into my music.” She is adamant that her music not be defined as retro; instead\, she’d prefer that her music be understood as a new approach to an old form. She says her music is\, “something new that’s both musically and politically resonant for the contemporary moment.” \n\n\nIn 2011\, NPR listed Arooj as one of the Top 100 Young Composers of today\, alongside names such as Grammy Award-winning Esperanza Spalding and Fusion Jazz piano virtuoso Vijay Iyer. The New York Times included Arooj in their list of Best Concerts of 2012. TimeOut Magazine rated one of her collaborative projects in the Top 10 Classical Albums of 2013. Most recently\, Curious Animal Magazine has listed Bird Under Water among the 10 best albums including Bjork\, Sufjan Stevens\, and Kendrick Lamar. \n\nArooj has collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Meshell Ndegeocello\, Esperanza Spalding\, DJ /rupture\, and Abida Parveen to name a few. She has performed her music at major venues such as the Lincoln Center\, Highline Ballroom\, Le Poisson Rouge\, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has also been invited to perform at festivals such as The Big Ears Festival\, The Ecstatic Music Festival\, and the SF Jazz Festival to name a few.\n\n\nOURI\n\nOuri is both a producer and a performing artist\, a DJ\, a cello & harp player\, a vocalist\, songwriter and composer. Heralded in the electronic music space for a breadth of sound that reaches into the variety of her abilities\, Ouri grows beyond its confines for the next phase of her career as a solo artist. \nOurielle Auvé\, known professionally as Ouri\, grew up in France in a family of afro-carribean descent before arriving in Montreal at the age of 16 to pursue a degree in composition. Here her artistry and vision were able to flourish\, establishing herself in the city’s music community as a producer\, collaborating with peers like Helena Deland and Mind Bath\, and circulating Montreal’s rich\, underground rave culture with wizardry late-night DJ sets. \nTapped for Red Bull Music Academy’s 2017 Montréal Bass Camp\, it was a quick ascent for the producer turned songstress. Opportunities quickly followed suit. She was invited to headline Boiler Room’s Montreal show\, signed to Ghosty (international) & Make it Rain Records (Canada) for the release of her EP ‘Superficial’ — dubbed  a “startling\, exploratory piece of digital soul” by Clash Magazine — and was asked to make official remixes for the likes of Tokimonsta\, Selah Sue\, Busty and the Bass and others. \nInvited to support Jacques Greene\, Yves Tumour & Kllo live in concert\, Ouri toured the world through 2019\, popping up in America\, Europe\, the UK and Mexico across a busy year supporting the release of her EP and growing notoriety\, as affirmed by millions of streams and praise from Fader\, Line of Best Fit\, Clash\, Jamz Supernova\, Red Bull and Majestic Casual. \nIt was in the many collaborations through Ouri’s journey as a producer that the itch to explore her own abilities as a vocalist and songwriter took shape. Arriving in Montreal Ouri dreamed of being a composer\, hiding her identity and womanhood in an enigma behind the laptop\, staying hidden and ambiguous as a means of survival. Yet\, with a burning sense of limitation\, masked in compromise between herself as a producer and the accompanying vocalist\, swirled with the catalyst of a breakup spinning ideas of new beginnings\, Ouri embraced the inevitable. What comes next is the first manifestation of said change\, an initial offering of a project fully imaged and executed by Ouri\, the producer\, the song-writer and the voice. \nRecent times have seen Ouri embrace a period of realignment\, finding solace in her artistic practice while staying close to home to work on a new project poised for release next year. On it\, she stretches beyond the boundaries of electronica for a deliberate synthesis of moods and sounds that allow for a purity that no longer lives inside her computer. \nOuri’s multi-instrumental talents and classical training steer her approach to melody and bass in entrancingly emotive\, bold and playful ways. Pairing traditional song structure with abstract spatial dynamics she creates unparalleled tension between aggressive rhythmic progression and soothing harmonic fluidity. At the centre of it all lies Ouri’s ethereal voice; her words and melodies lay ground for a soulful emotional honesty that swirl around deftly produced arrangements of harp\, cello\, steel guitar\, synthesizer and a mélange of percussion. \nOuri is both fierce and delicate in its most evocative balance as expands her sonic spectrum in her next offering. With single ‘Shape of It’ — a song composed exclusively of her performance on cello and harp — Ouri exposes her bare vocals to find space for vulnerability. She sings of fear in a manner in which to look past it\, to build a safe place after abuse\, to desire hope as a means of generating hope\, to celebrate sex\, to celebrate creation\, all while in these times of crisis.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/arooj-aftab-at-crosstown-arts/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Bang on a Can All-Stars
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents the Bang on a Can All-Stars\, an ensemble that crosses the boundaries between genres\, at Crosstown Theater. \nTICKETS: $25 first-level seating | $20 second-level seating\n$10 students (with student ID at the door) \nDoors open at 7:00pm / Performance at 7:30pm \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. Masks are required. \n“A fiercely aggressive group\, combining the power and punch of a rock band with the precision and clarity of a chamber ensemble.” – The New York Times \nFormed in 1992\, the Bang on a Can All-Stars are recognized worldwide for their ultra-dynamic live performances and recordings of today’s most innovative music. Freely crossing the boundaries between classical\, jazz\, rock\, world and experimental music\, this six-member amplified ensemble has consistently forged a distinct category-defying identity\, taking music into uncharted territories. Performing each year throughout the U.S. and internationally\, the All-Stars have shattered the definition of what concert music is today. \nTogether\, the All-Stars have worked in unprecedented close collaboration with some of the most important and inspiring musicians of our time\, including Steve Reich\, Ornette Coleman\, Burmese circle drum master Kyaw Kyaw Naing\, Tan Dun\, DJ Spooky\, and many more. The group’s celebrated projects include their landmark recordings of Brian Eno’s ambient classic Music for Airports and Terry Riley’s In C\, as well as live performances with Philip Glass\, Meredith Monk\, Don Byron\, Iva Bittova\, Thurston Moore\, Owen Pallett and others. The All-Stars were awarded Musical America’s Ensemble of the Year and have been heralded as “the country’s most important vehicle for contemporary music” by the San Francisco Chronicle. \nCurrent and recent project highlights include “In C”\, a new dance collaboration with Sasha Waltz & Guests based on Terry Riley’s minimalist classic; Dance Party\, a brand new multi-media concert pairing composers and choreographers; a new recording of legendary composer/performer Meredith Monk’s MEMORY GAME; Julia Wolfe’s Flower Power for Bang on a Can All-Stars and orchestra\, a multi media concert exploring the sonic landscape of the late 1960s; Road Trip\, an immersive and visually stunning concert collaboratively-composed by Michael Gordon\, David Lang\, and Julia Wolfe to commemorate the 30+ year journey of Bang on a Can; the touring performances and recording of Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize winning Anthracite Fields for the All-Stars and guest choir; Julia Wolfe’s acclaimed Steel Hammer\, plus a moving theatrically staged collaboration with SITI Company and director Anne Bogart; Field Recordings\, a major multi-media project and CD/DVD now featuring 30 commissioned works by Tyondai Braxton\, Mira Calix\, Anna Clyne\, Bryce Dessner\, Florent Ghys\, Michael Gordon\, Jóhann Jóhannsson\, David Lang\, Christian Marclay\, Steve Reich\, Todd Reynolds\, Julia Wolfe\, and more; the Lincoln Center Festival 2017 world premiere of Cloud River Mountain\, a collaboration featuring Chinese superstar singer Gong Linna; the world premiere performance and recording of Steve Reich’s 2×5 including a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall\, and much more. With a massive repertoire of works written specifically for the group’s distinctive instrumentation and style of performance\, the All-Stars have become a genre in their own right. The All-Stars record on Cantaloupe Music and have released past recordings on Sony\, Universal and Nonesuch.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/bang-on-a-can-all-stars/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THRILLING BLOODY SWORD
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THRILLING BLOODY SWORD  at Crosstown Theater.\n\nHsin-Yi Chang / 1981 / 89 minutes / Rated R\nTickets: $5 at the door\nFilms begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nIf He-Man and the Masters of the Universe dropped acid with the Shaw Brothers while knocking out a martial arts horror-fantasy movie\, that movie would be THRILLING BLOODY SWORD. This head-spinning slice of Taiwanese psychotronic cinema builds a movie out of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS\, impossible fight scenes\, and wild monsters that include a cyclops\, a pterodactyl\, and Satan himself! A comet impregnates a queen. She gives birth to a fleshy egg. In disgust\, the king tosses the egg in the river. Seven little people stumble onto the egg. They stab it with a knife and find a cute baby inside —one who grows up to be a beautiful princess. One day\, she runs into a prince\, who is fighting a multi-headed dragon. Of course\, the two royals fall in love. Unfortunately\, a group of dastardly wizards want to keep them apart\, and they’ll use every creature at their disposal to do it! Previously only available via VHS bootlegs\, Gold Ninja Video is proud to present this hallucinogenic fantasia in a new 2K preservation from the only known 35mm print in existence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground and documentary features. \nCrosstown Arts is requesting proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crosstown-arthouse-film-series-presents-thrilling-bloody-sword/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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