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  • The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    This stark modern homage to Howard Hawk’s Rio Bravo updates the action with a youth gang attacking a closing police station in a blighted ghetto neighborhood.

  • The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents ALMA’S RAINBOW

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Almas’s Rainbow is a coming-of-age comedy/drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn. Ayoka Chenzira’s feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) who is entering womanhood and navigating conversations and experiences around standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights of Black women have over their bodies.

  • Shoot & Splice: Short Film Case Studies

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a case study of the 2022 Indie Memphis Film Festival Hometowner award-winning short films, “Nordo” (Best Narrative Short) and “What We’ll Never Know” (Best Documentary Short). Directors Kyle Taubken (Nordo) and Lauren Ready (What We’ll Never Know) will share insights and stories from each stage of the production process — from early development to production and into festival distribution.

  • Iris Collective: Intersections

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Crosstown Theater Thursday, February 9, 2023 Doors at 6:30 p.m. | Show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $35 | $30 in advance PURCHASE TICKETS HERE In partnership with Iris Collective, Avery Fisher Career Grant winner Randall Goosby and New York Times “Best of 2021” pianist Zhu Wang will perform with Iris musicians celebrating music’s capacity […]

  • Juilliard String Quartet

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946 and hailed by The Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history,” the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works, a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring.

  • Microcinema: 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival Shorts Tour

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are honored to start off Microcinema this year with a program of shorts from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America! This program of shorts features fascinating works from filmmakers from around the world who employ an array of approaches — an absurdist music video, a mediation on physical and mental spaces within the African Diaspora, and a video essay exploring the innocence and role of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema. 

  • The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents COOLEY HIGH

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Michael Schultz directed this deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago's near North Side in 1964. Like American Graffiti, Cooley High deals with girl, school, and police troubles as a group of high school seniors prepare for post-high-school life.

  • Leyla McCalla

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Leyla McCalla finds inspiration from her past and present, whether it is her Haitian heritage or her adopted home of New Orleans, she — a bilingual multi-instrumentalist, and alumna of Grammy award-winning African-American string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops — has risen to produce a distinctive sound that reflects the union of her roots and experience.

  • The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Jim Jarmusch combined his love for the ice-cool crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically postmodern take on the hit-man thriller.

  • Memphis Symphony Orchestra: SERENADE AND SONG – THE MSO STRINGS

    Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    The Robert Moody and the MSO Strings plumb the musical depths of the music for strings. Featuring music by William Grant Still, Missy Mazzoli, Giovanni Bottesini, and Tchaikovsky.