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  • Family Workshop: Akirash Inspirations

    Crosstown Arts, East Gallery, Crosstown Concourse 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

    Participants will explore Akirash's work in Asiko: Moments, on display in the East Gallery, and spend 10-20 minutes sketching their own inspired works based on the exhibit. Afterward, participants will […]

  • Crosstown Arthouse presents Handsworth Songs

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

    In October 1985, Britain witnessed a spate of civil disturbances in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in urban centers of London. These were violent, tragic events, marked by the death of an elderly black woman, Joy Gardner, and a white policeman, Keith Blakelock .

    HANDSWORTH SONGS (BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE/JOHN AKOMFRAH)/1986/58 minutes) takes as its point of departure these events and the inability of the British media to go beyond its concern with demonizing or rationalizing the rioters and their motives, to break the anxiety-driven loop of morbid responses to the presence of blacks in Britain. 

  • Up in Arms Collective presents Response 4

    Twenty-two artists converge at Crosstown Arts to create original works that explore today’s America. Up in Arms Collective was born out of the need for the dance community to respond to what is happening in America in an open and affirming environment. What originally began as a community of diverse Memphis dance artists has since grown to include local filmmakers, actors, and artists.

  • Chris Stamey & Friends at The Green Room

    Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United States

    Join us at The Green Room for a special concert of Chris Stamey’s New Songs for the 20th Century (Omnivore Recordings), new original compositions inspired by the canon of the Great American Songbook. With a full acoustic band and guest singers Skylar Gudasz, Brett Harris, Django Haskins, and more. As well as classic songs from Chris’s days with lauded pop-rock icons the dB’s.

  • No Meat Meet-Up Vegan Potluck

    Cafe at Crosstown Arts 1350 Concourse Ave, Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United States

    Join us at the cafe at Crosstown Arts for a vegan potluck. Bring a vegan dish to share, and mingle with like-minded folks. This event is open to everyone — […]

  • Folk All Y’all: Cory Branan’s Birthday Show

    Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United States

    Cory Branan's turning 45. That's hilarious in so many ways. But regardless, let's celebrate with him. Maybe there will even be surprise guests, who knows?

  • A Performance of Big Star’s Third & More

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

    Join us for a performance of Big Star's Third and more on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater. Featuring Big Star's Jody Stephens and conducted by Carl Marsh, the album's original arranger. Plus, Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Chris Stamey (the dbs), Mitch Easter, Skylar Gudasz, Django Haskins (the Old Ceremony), Brett Harris, Charles Cleaver, Dale Baker, Jimmy Stephens, and members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

  • MicroCinema Club: 2019 Documentary Shorts Festival Encore

    Monthly screening of short films presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts.

    This month: Catch ann encore screening of documentary shorts in competition from the 2019 Indie Memphis Film Festival, curated by Senior Programmer Brighid Wheeler. Pay what you can.

  • The Sanctuary Jazz Orchestra in The Green Room

    Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United States

    Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a special performance from The Sanctuary Jazz Orchestra.

    The Sanctuary Jazz Orchestra has performed in a variety of venues including local music festivals such as the annual Memphis Heritage Festival, The Bartlett Festival, The Whitehaven Jazz Festival (which featured Donald Brown and John Birdsong); The Center for Southern Folklore; Rhodes College; Tennessee Cultural Heritage Preservation Society Benefit Galas; and church galas. The Orchestra has performed with Memphis' premiere jazz, blues, and gospel vocalist Erliz Taylor in a benefit jazz concert for missions charity relief for Haiti at Bridges of Memphis.

  • Panel Discussion: Can We Talk?

    Crosstown Arts East Atrium 1350 Concourse Avenue, Memphis, TN, United States

    Inspired by the work of Joey Slaughter, participants will engage in a conversation about controversial topics before spending 10 minutes creating visual representations of how the conversation affected them via […]