Events
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TN Screamers at The Green Room
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesJoin for in The Green Room for "real-deal country music" by the TN Screamers. Featuring Jesse Davis (aka Yesse Yavis), Keith Cooper, Frank McLallen, and Graham Winchester. Also featuring DJ Andrew McCalla.
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Double Feature: The Lock-In 1 & 2
Northwest Prep Academy 1266 Poplar, Memphis, TN, United StatesStudents from Northwest Prep Academy High School are some of the most brilliant, unheard voices in Memphis. Watch their creative minds and talents on display at this intimate screening of […]
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Open Crit
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.
Facilitator: Kristin McWharter
Presenting artists: Mia Baer, Jia Wang (Crosstown Arts resident artist), and Melissa Farris -
Ted Ludwig Trio at The Green Room
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesEnjoy an evening with New Orleans-based seven-string jazz guitarist Ted Ludwig with drummer Brian Brown and bassist Joe Vick at the Green Room at Crosstown Arts.
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Green Room Sessions — BiSOULtennial: 200 Soul Classics for 200 Years of Memphis
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesThe Stax Museum of American Soul Music is celebrating the Memphis Bicentennial with BiSOULtennial, a unique list of 200 indelible soul songs recorded in Memphis between 1957 and 1975. Join us for a special ballot release and conversation event taking place on May 15. The listening party and conversation event will feature an all-star panel of Memphis musicians, fans, DJs, scholars, and writers will discuss the song selections. Panelists include Dr. Charles Hughes (Rhodes College), DJ Eddie Hankins (WEVL-FM), Tonya Dyson (Memphis Slim House), Kameron Whalum (Stax Music Academy artist in residence and Bruno Mars’ trombone player), and Jared Boyd (The Daily Memphian newspaper). Each panelist will select and discuss two songs from their choices for Top Ten.
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Crosstown Arts Weekly Film Series: Ladies and Gentleman, The Fabulous Stains
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesThe Crosstown Arts Weekly Film Series is an arthouse-style film series showcasing a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. This week: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS (NARRATIVE, 1982)
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Songwriters in the Round
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesJoin us in The Green Room for Songwriters in the Round, featuring Will Sexton, Marcella Simien, and Delta Joe.
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NUJAS Roll Call Pop-Up & Film Screening
Roll Call is a pop-up exhibition and film screening devoted to offering a platform for women and queer artists of color, who often have trouble finding space or platforms for their work. A majority of the artists represented are Memphis based. This event is curated by NuJas, a multi-disciplinary co-operative dedicated to creating programing and content that is relevant to black women and LGBTQA + Memphians.
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Voices of the Mississippi with William Ferris
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesShort films based on the life’s work of William Ferris, an audio recordist, filmmaker, folklorist, and teacher with an unwavering commitment to establish and to expand the study of the American South. Indie Memphis Nights presented by Orion FCU. Presented with Crosstown Arts.
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Grace Askew feat. Marcella Simien
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesJoin Crosstown Arts in welcoming Memphis' own Grace Askew, in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. This will be a fully curated, Southwestern/Southern-Gothic full-band show, including all musicians featured on the much-anticipated Summer 2019 album release, plus a screening of old road footage and many more aesthetic surprises. The Swamp-Soul queen herself, Marcella Simien, to kick things off.
