Rob Jungklas at The Green Room
2019-08-02 14:30 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us as Rob Jungklas performs new songs from his forthcoming project, Gone To Water. Opening act: Jana Misener.
Tickets: $10
Doors at 7 pm | Show at 7:30 pm
About Rob Jungklas:
Rob Jungklas came roaring back into the Memphis music psyche with 3 new critically acclaimed recordings in a few short years: Arkadelphia, Gully, and Mapping The Wreckage. Ever prolific, he has released four more since his reemergence. The Spirit and The Spine, Nothing To Fade, and Blackbirds on Madjack Records, and 7 Sisters.
He issued his debut LP, Closer to the Flame, in 1987 on Manhattan Records. On the strength of an MTV video aired for the single “Boys Town,” the record garnered airplay and modest chart success for his effort, while creating the iconic regional anthem “Memphis Thing.”
The more reflective Work Songs for a New Moon, that followed two years later on RCA, showcased Jungklas’ nuanced blend of pop songwriting and Memphis style R&B.
Lee Froelich calls Rob’s songs “profane and poetic, haunted by ghost and damnation” and the sentiments are echoed by the likes of Rolling Stones’ David Fricke who describes the sounds as “bloodied bottleneck guitar and choked prayer.”

Shoot & Splice: Filmmaker Opportunities
2019-08-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater for a panel discussion on various filmmaker opportunities, including grants, residencies, and other supporting services.
Panelists include Indie Memphis’ Artist Services Director Joseph Carr to discuss the IndieGrant program, Crosstown Arts Residency Manager Mary Jo Karimnia to provide information on filmmaker residencies opportunities, and filmmaker Joann Self Selvidge will give tips, insights, and strategies for writing and applying for film grants.
Whether you are seeking funding for your next film project or need dedicated time and resources to commit to your filmmaking career, you won’t want to miss this talk.
Shoot & Splice is a monthly filmmaker forum presented collaboratively by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts.
Free and open to the public
Doors at 6:30 pm | Presentation at 7 pm

The Last Pig Documentary Screening
2019-08-08 13:30 - 16:30 | TN
Presented by Pigtopia and Vegfund
Through this personal journey, The Last Pig raises crucial questions about equality, the value of compassion, and the sanctity of life. Comis’ soul-bearing narrative carries us through his final year of farming pigs, the struggle to reinvent his life, and the ghosts that will haunt him forever.
Tickets are $5

Crosstown Arthouse Presents Anniversary Screenings: 30th Anniversary of DO THE RIGHT THING
2019-08-08 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. This week: DO THE RIGHT THING
Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp.
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)
Come celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Spike Lee’s powerful DO THE RIGHT THING at Crosstown Theater. Mookie is the pizza delivery man for Salvatore. Salvatore has owned his pizzeria for 25 years and seen a change from being a neighborhood made of Italian immigrants to one mostly inhabited by African American and Puerto Rican residents. Salvatore loves the community but is rooted in his own traditions. The pizzeria features a Wall of Fame that only highlights Italians. The film really begins when neighborhood activist Buggin’ Out questions Salvatore as to why there are no pictures of black celebrities in a neighborhood made up almost entirely of black and brown people. Often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, preserved by the Library of Congress in the National Film Registry, DO THE RIGHT THING features Spike Lee himself as Mookie, Rosie Perez, Danny Aiello, John Turturro, and OSSIE DAVIS AND RUBY DEE!

Larry Springfield at The Green Room
2019-08-10 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a soulful performance by Memphis Native Larry Springfield.

Tickets: $15 advance/$20 at the door
Doors 7pm | Show Begins 7:30pm
Larry Springfield is a singer-songwriter whose voice is vibrant and full of soul. He’s written and produced music for artists such as Gerald Levert, Chante Moore, and Wayne Brady. He’s also toured the U.S. with Keith Sweat, Al Green, Chante Moore, Barry White, and B.B. King. Larry’s live performances are fun and exciting, and he’ll be bringing that energy to The Green Room on Saturday, August 10!

Amy LaVere Album Release Show at Crosstown Theater
2019-08-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us as Memphis-based singer-songwriter Amy LaVere performs on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater in anticipation of her new album release. Painting Blue is due out on August 16th on Nine Mile Records.
Tickets: $20
Doors at 7 pm | show at 8 pm

About Amy LaVere:
There’s something uniquely fun about Amy LaVere, even when she’s breaking your heart.

She is well known among songwriters and critics alike. NPR’s Robert Siegel says she“specializes in lyrics that are more barbed than her sweet soprano prepares you for.” Her growing catalogue of material and steady critical acclaim suggest a first-tier presence on the Americana and indie-folk/punk circuits. Her latest album Painting Blue comes out August 16th on Nine Mile Records (Glorietta, David Wax Museum, Carson McHone, Patrick Sweany, Greyhounds).
Amy’s live performances are anything but predictable. She might appear on stage with a full band, sporting a mask and pink wig, or simply be a natural in blue jeans and sandals, but her upright bass and clever song delivery are constants. Her voice is at once the bully and the victim. She’s performed in venues as wide-ranging as St. Andrew’s Hall in London and Memphis’ famed dive bar Earnestine and Hazel’s. There’s no room she can’t find an audience in and charm it to pieces.
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, this future bard moved continuously throughout childhood due to her father’s job. She spent notable parts of her life in Canada, Texas, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. Outside of Detroit and only just entering high school, Amy formed her first band and began writing and performing. Music fans first discovered this “sweet soprano” on This World is Not My Home in 2005, but it was her Jim Dickinson-produced breakout album Anchors & Anvils two years later that put Amy LaVere on the map. Stranger Me, the 2011 release on Archer Records, was called “the break-up album of the year” by Spin. Paste said it was “among the year’s best,” and it earned a first listen feature from NPR’s All Things Considered. She followed it in 2014 with another critical smash: Runaway’s Diary, a concept album based on her own experience as a teenage runaway, produced by Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars). American Songwriter called it “boundary pushing… heartfelt, reflective, challenging and consistently compelling.” NPR Music’s Robert Christgau said it was her best yet. Of Hallelujah I’m A Dreamer (Archer Records, 2015) No Depression said simply: “pure bliss.”
In addition to her solo records and a tireless touring schedule, Amy enjoys working with otherartists. In 2012 she joined an all-star collaboration called The Wandering, composed of Amy, Luther Dickinson, Shannon McNally, Sharde Thomas and Valerie June. They released Go On Now, You Can’t Stay Here (Songs Of The South, 2012) to critical acclaim and sold-out shows.
In the afterglow of The Wandering, Amy and Shannon McNally hit the road together and released an EP titled Chasing the Ghost, The Rehearsal Sessions (Archer Records, 2012), featuring songs from both artists recorded live during rehearsals for the tour. Amy next paired up with noted Memphis rocker John Paul Keith to create Motel Mirrors. Their styles clearly complemented one another, which made for magic on stage and in the recording studio. Their eponymous vinyl EP release was named one of the “10 Essential Albums of 2013” by No Depression. In 2017 Motel Mirrors released a full length effort, In the Meantime; this record had the addition of some Will Sexton co-writes and his powerful guitar work throughout. Motel Mirrors later released a live recording, Gotta Lotta Rhythm, on the Italian label Wild Honey.
Painting Blue, produced by her husband Will Sexton, captures perfectly the moment that Amy is in. Will Sexton’s masterful production and Amy’s soft, clarinet-like vocal pour over you, pushing and pulling, stirring and calming. As we’ve come to expect, this record is honest, revealing and sounds uniquely like no one else.

Kafé Kirk with special guest Michael Lington
2019-08-11 13:00 - 16:00 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join Grammy-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum for Kafé Kirk, a monthly jazz series in Crosstown Theater featuring musical and spiritual collaborations with special guest artists. This month’s guest: contemporary soul/jazz saxophonist Michael Lington.
Doors at 5 pm | performance at 6 pm
General admission tickets — $45
VIP tickets (includes a meet-and-greet and free CD) — $60
About Kirk Whalum:
Soulful, passionate, stirring … these are the words most often used to describe Kirk’s music. Forged from his Memphis gospel roots and his 1980s initiation into the thriving Houston nightclub scene, Kirk’s big, rich tenor sound is unmistakably his.The 80s were highlighted by Kirk’s stepping out of his blossoming sideman role and forming his own band. It was there that Kirk ultimately developed both his “voice” and songwriting in the crucible of the local club scene — especially at a rooftop club called Cody’s. It was also in Houston where jazz pianist Bob James “discovered” him and brought him on tour, which led to five successful albums with Columbia Records, including Cache, Kirk’s first No. 1 album. Kirk and Bob also received a Grammy nomination for their collaboration album, Joined at the Hip.
After moving to Los Angeles, Kirk became an in-demand session player for top artists like Barbara Streisand, Al Jarreau, Luther Vandross, Larry Carlton, Quincy Jones, and, most notably, Whitney Houston, amongst many others. It’s his sax heard on the mega-hit, “I Will Always Love You.” Kirk soon followed that career high point with his phenomenal hit album released on Warner Bros. Records, For You, perhaps the most successful of over 25 solo recordings to date. Others include his eclectic, and much-lauded, Gospel According to Jazz series, (Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4). In addition to his many solo projects, Kirk was also a member of the popular soul/jazz group, BWB, which features Kirk as the “W” of the group with Rick Braun (trumpet) and Norman Brown (guitar).
About Michael Lington:
Growing up in Copenhagen, Michael Lington remembers the precise moment he decided he needed to move to America if he was going to seriously pursue a career in music. He was still a budding musician at the time, who loved several different genres: jazz, pop, R&B, and more — as a young boy he’d even met the American swing legend Benny Goodman. But it wasn’t until he was on the verge of turning 20 that Lington—now recognized as one of the most creative and successful contemporary soul and jazz saxophonists in the world—made his fateful decision.
Immersing himself in his favorite music — David Sanborn, Michael Brecker, King Curtis, Hank Crawford, Cannonball Adderley, and Grover Washington — Michael started out on clarinet but soon found his true calling, the saxophone. Already established in his homeland, he made the move to the U.S. and began to grab a foothold in the music industry there. Eventually, after much hard work, his place within the American and international music scene came to him naturally.
Michael Lington is releasing Silver Lining, his 10th solo album, the followup to 2016’s critically acclaimed Second Nature. Silver Lining features mostly original compositions by Lington and producer/co-arranger/keyboardist Barry Eastmond, as well as a pair of stunning, choice covers.
Silver Lining begins with “City Life,” one of three consecutives Eastmond/Lington compositions at the top of the track list. It features guitar from the legendary Dave Stewart of Eurythmics. Following the next two originals, “Break the Ice” and “Déjà Vu,” arrives the first interpretative piece on Silver Lining, Curtis Mayfield’s classic, timeless ballad “People Get Ready,” which the late R&B icon recorded with the Impressions in 1965. To sing the song, Lington recruited 2017 Grammy winner William Bell, himself a soul legend who recorded for Memphis’ Stax Records back in its heyday.
Lington has learned much about business as his musical career progresses, eventually leading him and his business partner, Roy McClurg, to launch his own record label, Copenhagen Music, in 2014. Lington is also an entrepreneur outside of music, operating his own wine and cigar companies. He continues to tour, performing as many as 80 concerts per year, and has played in more than 40 countries, working many of the world’s most prestigious venues. He’s even performed for a U.S. President.

Open Crit
2019-08-13 13:00 - 15:00 | TN
Crosstown Arts’ Open Crit series is a monthly critique event where visual artists are invited to bring new and/or in-progress studio work for critical feedback and group discussion particular to each artist’s practice.

Facilitators: Kimberly Jacobs

Presenting artists: Ziggy Mack, Cameron Long, Joshua Asante
A dedicated facilitator with experience in a group critique setting will guide discussion for each critique event, which will include up to 4 artists’ work, with 15-25 minutes devoted to the work of each.
All visual artists and anyone interested in joining the discussion are welcome to participate regardless of their level of expertise, prior professional art experience or background/education in fine art. Participation is free and open to the public. Input during the critiques from everyone in attendance is welcomed and encouraged.
No formal preparation is necessary for participating artists, who will have an opportunity to introduce and contextualize their work on view at the beginning of each critique. Participating artists are only asked to be open to (and interested in) considering reactions to their work by the group, which will always be done in a supportive, constructive and casual environment, but could at the same time be challenging.
Special thanks to Art Center Supply Store for donating a $25 gift certificate for each participating artist.

To participate, artists can sign up here:
Open Crit Request form

Contact Mary Jo at maryjo@crosstownarts.org with any questions!
Artists are asked to bring no more than 8 individual pieces (in any medium). Maximum run time for time-based work(s) is 10 minutes.
Participating artists are encouraged to invite friends, peers and colleagues to the open crits, both to see their work in progress and to give constructive feedback.

Crosstown Arthouse Presents Women Pioneers of Cinema — BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ
2019-08-15 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. This week: BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ
Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp.
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)
Narrated by Jodie Foster, BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ is a documentary about the first female filmmaker, Alice Guy-Blaché, which explores the heights of fame and financial success she achieved before she was shut out from the very industry she helped create.
Guy-Blaché started her career as a secretary to Léon Gaumont and, at 23, was inspired to make her own film called La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy), one of the first narrative films ever made. After her filmmaking career at Gaumont (1896-1907), she had a second decade-long career in the U.S., where she built and ran her own studio in Fort Lee, N.J.
Over the span of her career, she wrote, produced, or directed 1,000 films, including 150 with synchronized sound during the silent film era. Her work includes comedies, westerns, and dramas, as well as films with groundbreaking subject matter such as child abuse, immigration, Planned Parenthood, and female empowerment. She also etched a place in history by making the earliest known surviving narrative film with an all-black cast.
Green has dedicated more than eight years of research in order to discover the real story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873-1968), not only highlighting her pioneering contributions to the birth of cinema but also her acclaim as a creative force and entrepreneur in the earliest years of movie-making. Green interviewed Patty Jenkins, Diablo Cody, Ben Kingsley, Geena Davis, Ava DuVernay, Michel Hazanavicius, and Julie Delpy to name a few. Green discovered rare footage of televised interviews and long-archived audio interviews which can be heard for the first time in Be Natural, which affords Alice Guy-Blaché to tell her own story.

Blueshift Ensemble & Iceberg New Music: Continuum Festival Pre-Show
2019-08-15 15:00 - 16:30 | Crosstown Brewing Co., 1264 Concourse Ave., Memphis TN 38104
Join us as we kick off the 2019 Continuum Music Festival with a FREE pre-festival concert at the Crosstown Brewing Company!
The festival features exciting collaborations among musicians and other artists from Memphis and beyond, including a collaboration between Memphis-based Blueshift Ensemble and NYC-based composer collective Iceberg New Music.
The program features a wide variety of pieces by Max Grafe, Drake Andersen, Yu-Chun Chien, Stephanie Ann Boyd, and Victor Baez. Performers include Delara Hashemi, Bill Shaltis, Catherine Lee, Jenny Davis, Priscilla Tsai, Jennifer Puckett, and Jonathan Kirkscey.
The rest of the festival’s genres span from
classical to electro funk to experimental rock to neo-soul, hip-hop, and more. Friday, August 16 & Saturday, August 17 at Crosstown Arts. More info at Continuum Music Festival.

Continuum Music Festival
2019-08-16 - 2019-08-17 | Crosstown Arts at Crosstown Concourse, 1350 Concourse Avenue, Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
A festival of collaborations among musicians and artists of diverse genres from Memphis and beyond, bringing to life unique performances and workshops in the award-winning Crosstown Concourse. Now in its third year, this festival for the adventurous listener will include performances at Crosstown Theater, The Green Room, East Atrium Stage, and a special collaboration with Opera Memphis.

A free festival kick-off performance featuring Blueshift Ensemble and ICEBERG New Music will be held at Crosstown Brewing Company on Thursday, August 15.
Time: Friday 6pm-10pm / Saturday 10am – 11pm
Tickets: $30/day & $55/weekend pass

Performances:
‘As One’, a chamber opera created by Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell, and Kimberly Reed and presented by Opera Memphis
Project Logic with DJ Logic, MonoNeon, Vernon Reid and Daru Jones
Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel
Blueshift Ensemble performs ICEBERG New Music
Two Way Street performs Sarah Hennies’ ‘The Reinvention of Romance’
New Memphis Colorways
& more
Interactive Workshops & Talks:
Sweet Soul Restorative – Yoga with Live Music
The Quest for the Perfect Pop Song
The Metaphysics of Sound
Sheltering Voices: Impactful Community Storytelling
Breaking Boundaries: The Music of ShoutHouse
The Sounds of ‘Starry Night:’ Writing Music to Van Gogh’s Masterpiece
Film:
‘Prodigal Sons’ with filmmaker Kimberly Reed
Crosstown Arthouse Presents Women Pioneers of Cinema — BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ (free with festival pass)

Schedule of events:
Friday 8/16
5:00 – 5:20pm Welcome and opening performance – CENTRAL ATRIUM
5:30pm Film: Prodigal Sons: A Kimberly Reed Film – CROSSTOWN THEATER
Returning home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, filmmaker Kimberly Reed hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother, Marc. But along the way she uncovers stunning revelations, including a surprise relationship to Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, intense sibling rivalries and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender that force them to face challenges no one could imagine.
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Best Documentary Jury Prize at NewFest, and Special Jury Prizes for Fearless Filmmaking at the Florida Film Festival and Bravery in Storytelling at the Nashville Film Festival, Prodigal Sons is a raw and provocative examination of one family’s struggle to come to terms with its past and present.
6:50 – 7:30pm Presentation: “Sheltering Voices: Impactful Community Storytelling”, Stephanie Ann Boyd – BIG STAIR
In Sheltering Voices: Impactful Community Storytelling, Stephanie Ann Boyd delves into the story behind Eureka Ensemble’s work with women’s shelters in Boston, and how it inspired her contemporary mass whose performance went viral and changed lives. Stephanie Ann Boyd is a composer based in New York City and is a member of the ICEBERG New Music collective.
8:00pm Performance: Opera Memphis presents ‘As One’, a chamber opera created by Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed. Featuring Blythe Gaissert, Michael Kelly and Blueshift Ensemble string quartet. – CROSSTOWN THEATER
The most produced new American opera in North America, As One is a chamber opera in which two voices—Hannah after (Blythe Gaissert, mezzo-soprano) and Hannah before (Michael Kelly, baritone)—share the part of a sole transgender protagonist. Fifteen songs comprise the three-part narrative; with empathy and humor, they trace Hannah’s experiences from her youth in a small town to her college years—and finally traveling alone to a different country, where she realizes some truths about herself. Created by Laura Kaminsky, Kimberly Reed, and Mark Campbell. Produced by Opera Memphis.

Saturday 8/17
10:00-11:00am Sweet Soul Restorative, yoga and live music presented by Sean Murphy and Anne J. Froning – STUDIO 208
Treat yourself to the gift of Restorative Yoga with Live Music! This workshop focuses on the breath, supported yoga poses, and gentle somatic movements. Live music, vibrational sound, and healing touch will sustain and deepen your experience. A wide range of ancient instruments from around the world combined with modern looping technology are used to weave an atmospheric soundscape. The music works twofold: first, it gives the mind a place to focus as the body begins to relax and open; second, the vibratory nature of this music is very balancing.
12:00am – 12:30pm Presentation: “A Brief Metaphysics of Sound”, Jonathan Russ – EAST ATRIUM
In “A Brief Metaphysics Of Sound”, Jonathan Russ uses the properties of sound waves and the basics of musical cognition as a jumping-off point for a wider discussion of what music is, how it is written, and what role it can play in our lives. Jonathan Russ is a composer based in New York City and a member of ICEBERG New Music.
12:40 – 1:30pm Presentation: “The Sounds of ‘Starry Night’: Writing Music to Van Gogh’s Masterpiece”, Derek Cooper – EAST ATRIUM
In “The Sounds of ‘Starry Night,'” Derek Cooper explores the setting of Van Gogh’s Starry Night and the way that it inspired the sounds and atmospheres of his new composition for chamber orchestra. Derek Cooper is a composer based in New York City and a member of ICEBERG New Music.
1:30 – 2:00pm Performance: Spottswood Flute & Guitar Duo (Kelly Herrmann and Ben Minden-Birkenmaier) – CENTRAL ATRIUM
Flutist Kelly Herrmann and guitarist Ben Minden-Birkenmaier perform works by . Jacques Ibert, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Máximo Diego Pujol.
1:30 – 2:20pm Presentation: “The Quest for the Perfect Pop Song”, Alex Burtzos – EAST ATRIUM
In “The Quest for the Perfect Pop Song”, Alex Burtzos explores attributes that tie together great songs from different eras, searching for constants that will illuminate why we like the songs we do, and how we can create great songs going forward. Alex Burtzos is a composer based in New York City and Orlando, FL. He is the founder and director of ICEBERG New Music.
2:30 – 3:00pm Performance: Michael Shults, saxophone & Alvie Givhan, piano – EAST ATRIUM
Saxophonist Michael Shults has been praised for his “strong, imaginative” improvisations (Downbeat Magazine) and “fresh and intelligent musical ideas” (The Pitch). A first-call musician on the Kansas City jazz scene for nearly a decade, Shults remains an active performer in the Fountain City and beyond, and has twice appeared as a sideman on the Jazzweek National Radio Airplay Charts. Michael is Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the University of Memphis. Prior to Memphis, he taught for four years at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is a Yamaha and D’Addario performing artist and performs on their instruments and reeds exclusively.
Alvie Givhan has played with numerous pop, jazz and classical artists including Wayne Newton, Marvin Stamm, Mable John, Bill Easley, Slide Hampton, Joe Lovano, Roseanna Vitro, Luis Bonilla, Kathy Kosins, Mika Nakashima, Kirk Whalum, Kallen Esperian, Calvin Newborn, and Joyce Cobb. He has worked with the Jackson, Tupelo, and Memphis Symphony Orchestras and has been featured at the IAJE Conference in New Orleans.
2:30 – 4:30pm Performance: Opera Memphis presents ‘As One’, a chamber opera created by Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed. Featuring Blythe Gaissert, Michael Kelly and Blueshift Ensemble string quartet. – CROSSTOWN THEATER
The most produced new American opera in North America, As One is a chamber opera in which two voices—Hannah after (Blythe Gaissert, mezzo-soprano) and Hannah before (Michael Kelly, baritone)—share the part of a sole transgender protagonist. Fifteen songs comprise the three-part narrative; with empathy and humor, they trace Hannah’s experiences from her youth in a small town to her college years—and finally traveling alone to a different country, where she realizes some truths about herself. Created by Laura Kaminsky, Kimberly Reed, and Mark Campbell. Produced by Opera Memphis.
4:30 – 5:00pm Presentation: “Breaking Boundaries: The Music of ShoutHouse”, Will Healy – EAST ATRIUM
In “Breaking Boundaries”, Will Healy discusses what it’s like to compose for MCs and pop musicians alongside classical instrumentalists, and shares excerpts from NYC ensembles ShoutHouse’s latest record. Will Healy is a composer based in New York City and a member of ICEBERG New Music.
5:00 – 5:30pm Panel with ‘As One’ opera creators Laura Kaminksy, Kimberly Reed, and Mark Campbell – THEATER STAIRS
5:00 – 6:30pm Performance: Two-Way Street performs Sarah Hennies’ ‘The Reinvention of Romance’ – STUDIO 208
“The Reinvention of Romance” by Sarah Hennies is a new work for percussion and cello that examines the care and empathy that emerge when two lives share space. Over 90 minutes, a series of repeating patterns creates a peculiar kind of harmony in which two musicians are rarely “playing together” but are nonetheless intimately bonded. The Knoxville-based duo Two-Way Street (Ashlee Booth and Adam Lion) commissioned Hennies to compose “a very long piece;” for this performance they step into its two intertwining roles.
6:30 – 7:15pm Performance: Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel – GREEN ROOM
“The name of this Atlanta duo implies a proper classical recital, a rigid formality. But Scott Burland (theremin) and Frank Schultz (lap steel) don’t do scripted, improvising not so much distinct sounds as evolving eddies of sound, vapors of tones that develop and transform gracefully. Hypnotic pulses and dreamy drones weave together to form a kaleidoscope of sounds and moods, ambient clouds and swooning collages that are as much about texture as they are timbre, like a long-lost soundtrack to a deep-sea documentary.” -P. Wall, Columbia Free Times
7:20 – 8:00pm Performance: New Memphis Colorways – EAST ATRIUM
One of the best kept secrets from Memphis, yet well respected by those who know of him outside of the city= multi instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and producer, Paul “Snowflake” Taylor has been writing and recording his own material as a one man band since very early childhood and working as a professional musician since he was 14 years old. With 3 solo releases under his belt – “Open Closed” (2007) & “Share It” (2009) both on Makeshift Records, and self released The Old Forest Trail EP (2015), Paul has now embarked on a new project called New Memphis Colorways and released a new EP, Old Forest Loop, which embodies wide ranging influences from his storied career as a Memphis musician.
8:15 – 9:15pm Performance: Blueshift Ensemble performs ICEBERG New Music – GREEN ROOM
Blueshift is a Memphis based contemporary chamber music ensemble dedicated to bringing artists and audiences together through artistic collaboration. By programming both new and existing classical repertoire alongside multi-genre collaborations, Blueshift aims to connect a wider audience to today’s classical music. The ensemble draws upon Memphis’s uniquely diverse musical heritage by combining classical music with popular music genres such as rock, blues, soul, and hip hop and featuring local musicians, visual artists, and composers.
This performance features works composed by ICEBERG New Music composers Alex Burtzos, Will Healy, Jonathan Russ, Harry Stafylakis, and Derek Cooper.
9:15 pm Project Logic with MonoNeon, Vernon Reid and Daru Jones Official – CROSSTOWN THEATER
The theorem of turntablist as musician has been long proven in the capable hands of DJ Logic, whom with jazz as his foundation has become a wax innovator by crossing genres and mixing his sound across the map. As one of the world’s most accomplished turntablists, DJ Logic is widely credited for introducing jazz into the hip–hop realms and is considered by most as a highly-respected session musician and an innovative bandleader.
Dywane Thomas, Jr. also known as MonoNeon, is an American bassist and experimental musician. He is known for his presence on YouTube playing bass guitar and known for being one of the last people to work with Prince. Thomas also played with Grammy Award-winning R&B artist, Ne-Yo, on his fourth studio album. He is a native of Memphis, Tennessee.
As the lead guitarist of Living Colour and a co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition, Vernon Reid has done a great deal to undermine stereotypical expectations of what music black artists ought to play; his rampant eclecticism encompasses everything from hard rock and punk to funk, R&B and avant-garde jazz, and his anarchic, lightning-fast solos have become something of a hallmark as well.
Daru Jones is one of the most respected drummers of his generation. Born to two professional musicians, he began playing the drums at the age of four. Though he got his start in the church, Jones has been influenced by musicians from a wide range of genres. These eclectic musical tastes have carried over into his own career as he has recorded, performed, and toured with renowned artists and producers such as: Jack White, Slum Village, Talib Kweli, Black Milk, Dwight Yoakam, Jamie Lidell, Pete Rock, Salaam Remi, Gloria Gaynor, Kim Burrell, Rance Allen, Black Violin, Ski Beatz & The Sensei’s, Lorenzo Jovanotti and Jon B and more.

The Perfect Summer Pop-Up Market
2019-08-17 05:00 - 12:00 | TN
Shop from original artworks by members of the Memphis Arts Collective.
Organized by the artists
Learn more about Memphis Arts Collective on their website or follow them on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.

MicroCinema: Best of Ottawa International 2018
2019-08-20 14:00 - 16:00 | TN
MicroCinema is a monthly screening of short films presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts. Pay what you can.
Best of the 2018 Ottawa International short films, from cutting-edge to quirky, the largest animation event in North America.

Screening:
FEST
2018 | NIKITA DIAKUR | GERMANY | 2:55
*CRAFT AWARD FOR BEST TECHNIQUE*
Drone. Stunt. Rave.

FACING IT
2018 | SAM GAINSBOROUGH | UK | 7:32
*PUBLIC PRIZE*
As Sean anxiously awaits a meeting in the local pub, he is forced to explore his own unhappy memories and relationships in an evening that will that will leave him changed forever.
HEDGE
2018 | AMANDA BONAIUTO | USA | 6:01
*AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT ANIMATION*
A family visits a funeral home.
BIRD MILK
2018 | CHRISTOPHER STRICKLER | CANADA | 4:33
*CANADIAN STUDENT COMPETITION AWARD WINNER*
Using a macro lens, the artist focuses on the magni ed details of inks, stencils, and printed media. Traditional media is brought together with chaotic digital music to create an immersive audio-visual experience.
KENSINGTON MARKET
2017 | BRUCE ALCOCK | CANADA | 1:00
*AWARD FOR BEST COMMISSIONED ANIMATION*
KENSINGTON MARKET depicts the evolution of a small shop within a vibrant community as new arrivals make their home in Canada. This is the 88th short in the Heritage Minute series and the rst to be fully animated.
III
2018 | MARTA PAJEK | POLAND | 12:00
A Man and a Woman meet in a waiting room and immediately get closer to each other. They commence a game that gradually gets more and more ferocious. Their faces resemble masks while shapes slowly lose their integrity. III is a portrait of a woman in an exhausting relationship with a man, which allures and repulses at the same time. The lm is the third part of the triptych, IMPOSSIBLE FIGURES AND OTHER STORIES II.
MY DEAD DAD’S PORNO TAPES
2018 | CHARLIE TYRELL | CANADA | 13:38
*VIMEO AWARD WINNER*
*BEST CANADIAN ANIMATION AWARD WINNER*
Filmmaker Charlie Tyrell seeks to better understand his emotionally distant late-father through the personal belongings he left behind… including a stack of VHS dirty movies. Narrated by David Wain.
SOLAR WALK
2018 | RÉKA BUCSI | DENMARK | 20:51
*NELVANA GRAND PRIZE FOR SHORT ANIMATION WINNER*
The journey of individuals and their creations through time and space. Any meaning of action is only existent from the perspective of the individual, but never mandatory when looking at it from the perspective of a solar system. It’s about the melancholy of accepting chaos as beautiful and cosmic.

Spotlight Concert Series: Lenore McIntyre, Shelly Sublet, and Tingting Yao
2019-08-20 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a special performance of the Spotlight Concert Series, featuring Lenore McIntyre, Shelly Sublet, and Tingting Yao of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

Doors 7pm | Performance 7:30pm
Admission $10 (or $5 w/ student ID)

The Spotlight Concert Series showcases members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in the intimate Green Room at Crosstown Arts. The series provides the Memphis community the opportunity to get to know and learn more about the talented musicians that make up the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Each month will feature a different musician or small chamber group as soloist or featured ensemble.
Program:
J.S. Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor BWV 1060
Brahms: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano
Rachmaninoff: Vocalise Opus
About the artists :
Lenore McIntyre has been a core member of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra Violin section since 2005 and will celebrate her 15th Season in 2020 as Assistant Principal Second Violin of the MSO. As a celebrated violinist in the United States and Canada, she has brought exceptional musicianship and virtuosity to many Solo and Chamber Music performances. Lenore is enthusiastic about performing the Classical repertoire as well as modern day compositions. She has performed on stage for world premieres of some very relevant compositions by modern composers Jennifer Higdon, Mason Bates, D.J. Sparr and John Corigliano.
Tingting Yao is currently Staff Pianist at the University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music. Before joining the staff of the University of Memphis, she was a freelance pianist in Oklahoma City area, the University of Oklahoma, and University of Central Oklahoma.
Shelly Sublett has been Solo English horn and assistant principal oboewith the Memphis Symphony Orchestra since 1985. She has also held theposition of second oboe and English horn with the American Sinfonietta andthe Tennessee Summer Symphony. Her recordings are available on the Pro Organo label.

Hopeless Fashion Show
2019-08-22 13:00 - 16:00 | TN
Debut fashion show with music and an art showcase.
Doors open at 6 pm | show starts at 6:30 pm
Organized by the artist

Crosstown Arthouse Presents Women in Horror: THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE
2019-08-22 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. This week: THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE
Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp.
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)
Amy Holden Jones turned down an editing job on E.T. to direct this movie. She made the right choice! Rita Mae Brown wrote the screenplay of THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE sometime between when she wrote the classic lesbian coming-of-age tale Rubyfruit Jungle and her long series of cat mystery novels. SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE was intended to be a commentary on the inherent sexism of the slasher genre but was filmed completely straight. THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE is a terrific inside joke that also delivers the goods as a skid row photocopy of HALLOWEEN, complete with a killer who’s figuratively castrated when the tip of his power drill is hacked off. With its stylized photography, plot points involving pizza and an endlessly cool homemade synth score, THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE is a drop-dead masterpiece of subversive trash-horror.

Michael Shults Quintet featuring Clint Ashlock
2019-08-22 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by Michael Shults Quintet featuring Clint Ashlock.
Kansas City transplant and current professor of saxophone at the University of Memphis Michael Shults joins forces with one of the central figures of the Kansas City scene – trumpeter and composer Clint Ashlock – and a rhythm section of Memphis stalwarts, presenting original music and standards. With Alvie Givhan, piano, Alan Maguire, bass, and James Sexton, drums.
Tickets: $10
Doors 7pm | Performance 7:30pm
About Clint Ashlock:
Trumpeter/composer/bandleader Clint Ashlock grew up in the Kansas City area. A dedicated and tireless contributor to the scene, Clint has performed with such luminaries as Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Nicholas Payton and Natalie Cole, as well as being a mainstay on the local KC circuit, most notably as Artistic Director of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, leader of his own groups of varying size and genre, and as a member of ensembles such as The Project H and The Marcus Lewis Big Band. Ashlock has produced a number of recordings, including the latest KCJO album “Rhapsody,” which includes a 30-minute tour-de-force arrangement of “Rhapsody in Blue,” “New Jazz Order” featuring Bobby Watson, and with Denver pianist Ben Markley, entitled “The Return.” As a trumpeter, Ashlock reflects the lineage of his hard bop idols such as Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw, and his big band writing is heavily influenced by Duke Ellington, Thad Jones, Kerry Strayer and Dan Gailey. Ashlock has been featured as a soloist at the First Jazz Education Festival in Shanghai, China, and at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Sydney, Australia, as a clinician across the country, and currently needs to stop buying so many shoes.
About Michael Shults:
Saxophonist Michael Shults has been praised for his “strong, imaginative” improvisations (Downbeat Magazine) and “fresh and intelligent musical ideas” (The Pitch). A first-call musician on the Kansas City jazz scene for nearly a decade, Shults remains an active performer in the Fountain City and beyond, and has twice appeared as a sideman on the Jazzweek National Radio Airplay Charts. As a graduate student at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Michael was a finalist in the 2012 North American Saxophone Alliance Jazz Artist Competition, and was the winner of the Graduate College Soloist category in the 2012 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards Issue. He has performed by invitation as a featured soloist at the North American Saxophone Alliance biennial conference, the Jazz Education Network conference, the Wisconsin Music Educator’s Association conference, the Minnesota Music Educator’s Association conference, and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.
Michael is Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the University of Memphis. Prior to Memphis, he taught for four years at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is a Yamaha and D’Addario performing artist and performs on their instruments and reeds exclusively.

Opening Reception — Scott Carter: Counterpoint
2019-08-23 13:00 - 15:00 | Crosstown Arts, West Gallery, Crosstown Concourse, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us for an exhibition of new work by Scott Carter. The artist’s intent is that this body of work reflects a fragile intertwining of music, performance, and sculpture while reflecting both digital and intuitive methods of problem solving in the studio.
About the exhibition:
This exhibition emphasizes a relationship between disparate voices. As a metaphor, these
voices represent contrasting and divergent forms of the artist’s creative practice. Carter’s
interest in music, performance and sculpture oscillates between utter failure, disinterest and frustration to moments where both practices seemingly make sense existing in the same place, both physically and metaphorically. This body of work represents the struggle to produce in both creative fields.
During his recent residency at Crosstown Arts, Carter was allowed the freedom and space to work intuitively and pursue both of these creative endeavors with the assistance of digital tools and advanced fabrication equipment. The artist’s intent is that this body of work reflects a fragile intertwining of music, performance and sculpture while reflecting both digital and intuitive methods of problem solving in the studio.

Artist statement:
The connections between humans and the built environment interest me, serving as the
primary source material for my work. I formulate thoughtful assessments of my environment, exploring connections between art, design and sound.
The physical development of my work is related to a tactile sense for materials. Through
the process of examining materials and their function, I am interested in bestowing new
value and subverting function. My practice often involves a re-purposing of materials ranging from drywall, carpet, and fluorescent lights to used guitars, drum sets, and
electronic components. Metaphorically, these material transitions allow me to explore my
interests in the way we experience culture, objects and physical environments.

About the artist:
SCOTT CARTER (b. 1984, United States) is a Wisconsin-based artist, whose work is influenced by the experience of living amongst mass-produced materials, spaces and objects that are inherent in contemporary architecture and design. His work manifests as immersive installations and interactive objects that facilitate subtle shifts in value and attempt to redefine utility in relation to everyday experiences. His practice parallels contemporary discourse in art, design, architecture, and sound.
Scott received his MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in
2011, where he was the first recipient of the Eldon Danhausen Fellowship for Sculpture.
He has attended funded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont and the Ox Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, Michigan. In addition he is a recipient of the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship for Midwestern artists (2013) and a first place recipient of the Beers Contemporary Emerging Artist Award in Sculpture (2013)
Selected solo shows include include Velocity – Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, Il (2017); The Nature of Being – Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, Ga (2015); The Shape of Things – Beers Contemporary, London (2014); Disonar – Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Il (2013) and Force Majeure – Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, Il (2012); Recent group exhibitions include as site specific installation for In Situ and Linda Warren Projects at Expo Chicago (2014), Building Stories – Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI (2014) and I am What I am Doing – La Esquina Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2014).
In addition, he was a visiting artist as part of DeFINE Art 2015 at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah Georgia and recently completed a three month residency as part of the Kohler Arts/Industry program in Kohler, Wisconsin.

Opening Reception — Jia Wang: Residual Imprint
2019-08-23 13:00 - 15:00 | Crosstown Arts, East Gallery, Crosstown Concourse, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us for an opening reception of new work by Jia Wang. On view through Oct. 20.
Jia’s work explores the traumatic memories that are prevalent in a family. Examining and displaying how trauma is revealed through complex family relationships and how it alters an individual and a family’s identity when visualized. Her work addresses both a personal and cultural perspectives, through site-specific installation comprised of video, collage, and photographic images.
In Jia’s work, she exploring domestic violence and sharing her visual inquiry into trauma through personal storytelling. These stories are both past’s future and future’s past, physically and psychologically speaking. In traditional Chinese culture, the family is the most basic unit and many aspects of Chinese life can be tied to honoring one’s parents or ancestors. Family practices, such as interactions between family members and disciplinary actions, are passed down from one generation to another. Family is the most intimate relationship but also the most confusing as love and hostility can be difficult to separate.
About Jia Wang:
Jia Wang was born in Lanzhou, Gansu Provence, China. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China and an MFA in Imaging Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Jia has exhibited internationally including in the Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China, the Yeiser Art Center, Pauducah, KY, and the PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Hungary. Her art work has published in Art Maze Mag, UK, ArtAscent Magazine, USA, and the PhotoWorld magazine, China. Residences include the Chanorth Residency Program and the Crosstown Arts Residency Program. In Fall 2019, Jia will participate in the Bronx Museum’s AIM (Artist in the Marketplace) Program.

Opening Reception — Wang Chen: The Sin Park
2019-08-23 13:00 - 15:00 | Crosstown Arts, Screening Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us for an opening reception of new work by artist Wang Chen. Chen’s work will be on view in the Screening Room at Crosstown Arts and projected onto walls in the East Atrium. On view through October 20.
Wang Chen is a multimedia artist whose work incorporates installation, performance, drawing and animation to create digital videos that depict fantasy worlds with humanoid characters, whom she uses to examine gender, sexuality, and politics. By layering different mediums into one digital composition, Chen creates an overwhelming fantasy world of multiple, moveable layers and elements that together become unstoppable and continuously transforming as a way of considering the possibilities of imagined worlds.
In her videos, hand-sewn costumes fuse the human body into the virtual space where humanness blends in, dissolves, and potentially succumbs to the digital fantasy. As the costumed performer, Chen herself becomes a physical component of the worlds she creates, becoming multiple. These clones represent variously unstable identities: undefined genders, cartoonish humanoids, ghostlike apparitions and thus can adopt multiple identities, abstracting her own role as the artist-architect to become many things at once.
Chen’s playground of electric city-space, neon landscapes, and nightmarish amusement parks becomes itself a representation, if not a fun-house mirror, of our own reality. The juxtaposition and melting of these dark yet fantastical scenes act as a playful reflection of Chen’s complicated response and rejection of societal norms while constructing a new vision of gender and sexuality in our world.
This work may not be appropriate for younger audiences.
About Wang Chen:
Wang Chen was born in China and is a multimedia artist currently living and working in NYC. The installations that Chen creates begin with physical drawings. Chen makes costumes and props for her videos and builds unimaginable spaces using virtual reality. Chen received her BFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited/screened internationally in China, UK, US, Sweden, Venezuela, and Greece. Chen has participated in several residencies including The Studios at MASS MoCA and the NYFA Immigrant Mentoring Program. She is the fellowship recipient of Roswell Artist in Residency, Vermont Studio Center and Nars Foundation.

Chuck Mead "Closer to Home" Tour
2019-08-23 15:00 - 17:00 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us for a performance by Grammy-nominated country singer Chuck Mead. Mead’s latest solo album, Closer to Home, was produced by Matt Ross-Spang at Sam Phillips Recording Studio in Memphis.

Tickets: $15
Doors at 7:30 pm | Show at 8 pm

About Chuck Mead:

CHUCK MEAD is a Country singer with a rock n roll heart. He’s also a renowned songwriter, producer, music director, musicologist and architect behind the rebirth of Lower Broadway and the Global Neo Traditional Country music movement.
This Kansas native, has been at the forefront of what has come to be known as Americana Music for the better part of 25 years. Perhaps best known for co-founding the famed ‘90s Alternative Country quintet, BR5-49, whose 7 albums garnered a CMA Award for Best International Touring Act and three Grammy nominations, helped build an indelible bridge between authentic American Roots music and millions of fans worldwide.
Since then he’s toured the globe, entertained thousands on the high seas, released 3 solo albums, made 137 appearances on the Grand Ole Opry, co-produced critically acclaimed tribute albums to Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings, acted as Musical Director/Supervisor/Producer of the Broadway hit musical Million Dollar Quartet AND the companion CMT television show Sun Records.
With a deep connection to Memphis and a burning desire to keep building musical bridges, Chuck packed up the band and took time out of his crazy schedule last summer to record his fourth solo album with Matt Ross-Spang (Margo Price/John Prine/Jason Isbell/Al Green) at legendary Sam Phillips Recording Studios, the result of which, ‘Close To Home’ was released on June 21, 2019 on Plowboy Records.

Scott Carter: Counterpoint
2019-08-23 - 2019-10-21 | Crosstown Arts, West Gallery, Crosstown Concourse, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States

Jia Wang: Residual Imprint
2019-08-23 - 2019-10-21 | Crosstown Arts, East Gallery, Crosstown Concourse, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us for an exhibition of new work by Jia Wang. Jia’s work explores the traumatic memories that are prevalent in a family. Examining and displaying how trauma is revealed through complex family relationships and how it alters an individual and a family’s identity when visualized. Her work addresses both a personal and cultural perspectives, through site-specific installation comprised of video, collage, and photographic images.
In Jia’s work, she exploring domestic violence and sharing her visual inquiry into trauma through personal storytelling. These stories are both past’s future and future’s past, physically and psychologically speaking. In traditional Chinese culture, the family is the most basic unit and many aspects of Chinese life can be tied to honoring one’s parents or ancestors. Family practices, such as interactions between family members and disciplinary actions, are passed down from one generation to another. Family is the most intimate relationship but also the most confusing as love and hostility can be difficult to separate.
About Jia Wang:
Jia Wang was born in Lanzhou, Gnasu Province, China. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China and an MFA in Imaging Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Jia has exhibited internationally including in the Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China, the Yeiser Art Center, Pauducah, KY, and the PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Hungary. Her art work has published in Art Maze Mag, UK, ArtAscent Magazine, USA, and the PhotoWorld magazine, China. Residences include the Chanorth Residency Program and the Crosstown Arts Residency Program. In Fall 2019, Jia will participate in the Bronx Museum’s AIM (Artist in the Marketplace) Program.

TOMORROW at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts! Come hear the TULSA REVUE featuring John Fullbright, Paul Benjaman, Jacob Tovar & special guest Jesse Aycock! Experience individual sets from each artist with a supporting cast of players, as the the evening wraps with all joining together for a family jam of epic proportion.

Wang Chen: The Sin Park
2019-08-23 - 2019-10-21 | Crosstown Arts, Screening Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us in the Screening Room at Crosstown Arts for a new exhibition of work by Wang Chen. Chen’s work will also be exhibited on the pop-out walls in the East Atrium.
Wang Chen is a multimedia artist whose work incorporates installation, performance, drawing and animation to create digital videos that depict fantasy worlds with humanoid characters, whom she uses to examine gender, sexuality, and politics. By layering different mediums into one digital composition, Chen creates an overwhelming fantasy world of multiple, moveable layers and elements that together become unstoppable and continuously transforming as a way of considering the possibilities of imagined worlds.
In her videos, hand-sewn costumes fuse the human body into the virtual space where humanness blends in, dissolves, and potentially succumbs to the digital fantasy. As the costumed performer, Chen herself becomes a physical component of the worlds she creates, becoming multiple. These clones represent variously unstable identities: undefined genders, cartoonish humanoids, ghostlike apparitions and thus can adopt multiple identities, abstracting her own role as the artist-architect to become many things at once.
Chen’s playground of electric city-space, neon landscapes, and nightmarish amusement parks becomes itself a representation, if not a fun-house mirror, of our own reality. The juxtaposition and melting of these dark yet fantastical scenes act as a playful reflection of Chen’s complicated response and rejection of societal norms while constructing a new vision of gender and sexuality in our world.
This work may not be appropriate for younger audiences.
About Wang Chen:
Wang Chen was born in China and is a multimedia artist currently living and working in NYC. The installations that Chen creates begin with physical drawings. Chen makes costumes and props for her videos and builds unimaginable spaces using virtual reality. Chen received her BFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited/screened internationally in China, UK, US, Sweden, Venezuela, and Greece. Chen has participated in several residencies including The Studios at MASS MoCA, the NYFA Immigrant Mentoring Program, and the Crosstown Arts artist residency program. She is the fellowship recipient of Roswell Artist in Residency, Vermont Studio Center and Nars Foundation.

Alvin Youngblood Hart's Muscle Theory at The Green Room
2019-08-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Roots, Rock, Rebellion. Grammy-award winning artist Alvin Youngblood Hart returns home to Memphis for a special night in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts.
Alvin is the cosmic American love child of Howlin Wolf and Link Wray. Respected around the world as a “musician’s musician,” Alvin Youngblood Hart’s praises have been sung by everyone from Bob Dylan to guitar gods Eric Clapton & Mick Taylor.
Tickets: $10
Doors 7:30pm | Show at 8pm

The Mystic
2019-08-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
On the last Tuesday of each month join Crosstown Concourse neighbors and friends for The Mystic.
The Mystic is a time set aside each month to experience the undefinable together through music, dialogue and silence. The Mystic is not affiliated with any defined belief system, but is a shared listening experience intended to deepen our understand of one another.
The Mystic is hosted by a rotated panel including Rabbi Micah Greenstein, Chris Miner, Dr. Scott Morris, Dr. Sonia Walker, and Kirk Whalum, with a variety of musical guests.

Remission
2019-08-27 13:00 - 17:00 | TN
Art exhibition featuring new work by Noah Miller
This series of work was made by Miller during a season of treatment and recovery during chemotherapy. He self labels this as “not my best artwork, but necessary for the process and for the mind, a self catharsis in a way.”
By placing this artwork out of his mind and having it published, he plans to move forward in life and with his work. This is a celebration of life in addition to an exhibition of thought. Projections, photography, poetry, and collages were made as a way to not let his hands or mind be idle during the process of treatment.

Austin Lucas at The Green Room
2019-08-28 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Austin Lucas returns to Memphis for a performance at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts with his band, The Bold Party, on their fall US tour.

Tickets: $10

Doors 7:00pm | Performance 7:30pm

“Sometimes an artist just has a voice that’s so true and so clearly coming directly from the soul that you just can’t argue with it, and Austin Lucas is one of those guys.” – BBC Radio
It’s been over two decades since the songwriter packed his bags and left Bloomington, Indiana, the Midwestern town where he spent his childhood years falling in love with rock & roll, embracing his punk roots, and standing his ground whenever intolerant locals didn’t understand his way of life. He returns to that place – both creatively and physically – with his seventh studio album, Immortal Americans. Written after a tumultuous period that found Lucas getting sober, supporting his partner through a battle with cancer, and breaking up with his longtime record label, Immortal Americans is a clear-eyed album for murkier times, rooted in stripped-down heartland rock songs that find the artist reflecting upon the changes in both his hometown and himself.
Co-produced by Lucas and Will Johnson (Centro-matic), recorded/engineered by Steve Albini, and captured in a series of live, full-band performances, Immortal Americans was written after Lucas resettled in Bloomington. He’d been away for years, touring the world as an independent solo artist before signing a record deal with New West in 2013. In many ways, the albums he released during that period were reflections of the music he’d grown up with, from the mountain music of his father (bluegrass musician Bob Lucas) to the punk records that soundtracked his teenage years. Appropriately, Lucas earned a fanbase as a folksinger with punk roots – or was it the other way around? – while touring the country with artists who represented both ends of that spectrum, sharing shows with Willie Nelson one minute and Chuck Ragan the next.

Crosstown Arthouse Presents Avant-Garde Cinema: ERASERHEAD
2019-08-29 14:30 - 16:30 | Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. This week: ERASERHEAD
Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp.
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)
This is it — David Lynch’s 1977 avant-horror masterpiece, ERASERHEAD. Henry (JACK NANCE!) finds out he has a child with someone he isn’t quite sure he has been with. Henry invites his girlfriend and the baby to come live with him in his apartment. Dad, mom, and baby bring to life every nightmare you have ever had — on the big screen. Come for the monster baby, and stay for the lady in the radiator singing the great Peter Ivers’ “In Heaven.”

The PRVLG at The Green Room
2019-08-29 14:30 - 17:30 | Crosstown Arts, The Green Room, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us at The Green Room for a performance by The PRVLG, a musical twin duo from Memphis. This is a benefit concert for their mother who has Multiple Sclerosis. All funds raised will be donated towards her treatment

Tickets: $10

Doors at 7pm | Performance 7:30pm

A privilege is considered a rare opportunity, which is exactly why The PRVLG fits this dynamic duo so effortlessly. Their act brings the rhythm section to the forefront of the stage unlike any other band around.
The duo, consisting of twin brothers Christian and Christopher Underwood, grew up surrounded by music. The brothers developed a very unique musical connection, which is on full display in their live performances. As bass and drum players, the pair have the ability to lock in a powerful rhythm and bass foundation, effortlessly making up for each other’s shortcomings and complementing one another’s strengths.
Growing up in a musical family and listening to their father – a guitarist – play classics by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, and Earth Wind & Fire, it was only natural for them to begin writing together at the age of 16 and continue to develop their writing talent from then. Since officially forming in early 2017, the duo named themselves The PRVLG, chosen due to the privilege they experienced by growing up playing music together and connecting with others through the universal language.
