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April 2015
Centro Cultural Spring Showcase
Centro Cultural Latino de Memphis invites you to its first exhibition of 2015, where there will be music, dance, art and free admission.
Open Crit
Visual artists from all backgrounds and levels of experience are invited to present works in progress/newly finished for discussion led by an experienced facilitator. Anyone is welcome to participate in the discussion.
Artists begin setup at 5 pm. Critique & discussion with group begins at 6 pm.
Delta Jewels: Visiting Artist, Alysia Burton Steele
An evening to celebrate photojournalist Alysia Burton Steele and the publication of Delta Jewels, her collection of portraits and oral histories of church mothers of the Mississippi Delta.
Shoot & Splice: What It Means to Be a Producer
Ever wonder what it takes to produce an independent film or commercial project? Have you ever asked yourself what a producer even does?!
Please join us for a discussion with three of the most talented producers in Memphis, Waheed AlQawasmi, Laura Jean Hocking and Ryan Watt.
PechaKucha Night Volume 11
PechaKucha Nights take place all over the world and feature presenters from innumerably diverse backgrounds. The key to PechaKucha Night is the 20×20 format: all presenters show 20 slides for 20 seconds each, making each presentation succinct and dynamic.
March 2015
Belongings
An open call exhibition organized by Crosstown Arts and the Cleveland Street Flea Market
A flea market is filled with unique objects invoking curiosity, nostalgia, humor and surprise. A blue and white Pyrex bowl recalls helping Grandma mix stuffing for holidays past. A cut-crystal candy dish reminds us just how much we love that old-world pink color. A darkly framed formula-landscape evokes dreams of scary monsters. A planet-shaped radio, reflecting design aspects of the early Star Wars days, reminds us ….
Visiting Writer Jamie Kornegay
Join us for our latest collaboration with The Booksellers at Laurelwood as we welcome Jamie Kornegay to Memphis to read from and sign his first novel, SOIL. Jamie is also the owner of Turnrow Book Co., in Greenwood, MS, so please help us celebrate this writer who daily champions other writers in his work as an independent bookseller.With elements of rural noir, dark comedy and domestic dysfunction, SOIL – published by Simon & Schuster – is a ….
Visiting Writer Amy Greene
Presented by Booksellers at Laurelwood and Crosstown Arts
Reading and discussion with the author and WKNO’s Darel Snodgrass
Free admission and refreshments
Author’s website
Reviews of “Long Man”
“The Tennessee Valley Authority was designed to help modernize the state during the Great Depression, but [it] only spells destruction for the town of Yuneetah. Greene’s excellent second novel focuses on the holdouts who refuse to leave, chief among them a husband and wife [whose] 3-year-old daughter goes missing. The lead suspect ….
February 2015
Visiting Writer Alan Lightman
Presented by Burke’s Book Store and Crosstown Arts
Mr. Lightman will be reading from and signing copies of his memoir, Screening Room: Family Pictures ($25.95 hardcover, Pantheon Books)
A Q & A session will be moderated by Memphis historian and author Wayne Dowdy
From the acclaimed author of the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams, here is a stunning, lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s that includes the early days of the movies and a powerful grandfather whose ghost remains ….
January 2015
Delicate Tension
Featuring work by members of the Pine Hill Community Center, Lewis Senior Center and Memphis Knit Mafia, plus Nikkila Carrol and Morgan Montalvo
“Delicate Tension” connects a diverse group of Memphis-area crocheters and showcases their work in a public setting, some for the very first time.
The exhibition not only exposes the generational contrasts of needlework created by a wide range of artisans/artists with varying techniques and aesthetic concerns, but also aims to re-imagine defined notions of fine ….
