Events
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A regional quilt challenge in conjunction with Stitched: The Art of Quilting. The BLUE challenge features over 230 quilts in blue made by quilters and artists from the Mid-South. This event is in conjunction with Stitched: Celebrating the Art of Quilting — a festival at Crosstown Arts with art exhibitions, public quilting workshops, and a Gathering of the Guilds showcase. Stitched runs from May 10-July 28, 2019. 
Crosstown Arts welcomes Stitched: Celebrating the Art of Quilting from May 10-July 28, 2019. This festival will feature two art exhibitions, public quilting workshops, and a Gathering of the Guilds showcase. 
These works represent 29 internationally recognized artists working in the quilt form who have been featured in the new book Art Quilts International: Abstract & Geometric by Martha Sielman. Participating artists come from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, and across the US. The works of art represent a range of styles across the abstract art spectrum. This event is […]
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Need information on how to submit a competitive residency application? Crosstown Arts Residency Manager Mary Jo Karimnia along with Danielle Tyler will answer your burning questions about what a residency is, where to find the right one for you, how to present your work and write a strong application. They will also discuss the specifics of applying for a residency at Crosstown Arts. |
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Please join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts for a special Shoot & Splice event: Works In Progress Screening. This screening will provide filmmakers an opportunity to present a rough cut of their work and engage in conversation with the attending audience in order to receive constructive, guided feedback. As a result, filmmakers and audiences will have a unique opportunity to share in the creative process. |
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Join us for a performance by the Atlanta-based R&B singer-songwriter Chantae Cann in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. |
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Join us for a performance by drummer George Sluppick with his new quartet (Logan Hanna, electric guitar; CJ Manning, upright bass; Jim Spake, tenor saxophone) in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. |
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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: Jonathan Butler, Grammy-winning contemporary jazz musician from South Africa. |
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Crosstown Arts is challenging musical artists to create a body of new work for A Change of Tone: In/Out of Sync, an exhibition of live music, applicable to musicians of all genres, scheduled for April 18th - 21st, 2020. This four-part, four-day event will feature a selection of four musical acts, one act per night, who will “exhibit” their music for a listening audience over loudspeakers in one venue as they simultaneously perform it in another, creating a non-traditional listening experience. Click the link for more info and application link.
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Spend your lunch hour listening to the Memphis Jazz Workshop student musicians in the Memphis Jazz Workshop Summer Showcase. Cultivating the future of jazz, young Memphis musicians show off their talent during a free lunchtime concert at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts.
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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. |
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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: Aubree Penney & Lance Layman |
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Join us for a performance by Americana band The Lost Wages in The Green Room. The Lost Wages is a sibling-led band from Memphis, TN. Lead singers/songwriters Houston and Cyrena Wages fuse honky-tonk edge with anthemic melodies reminiscent of the 70's Laurel Canyon scene, and soulful ballads that nod at the nature that makes Memphis, Memphis. Now based in East Nashville, the two children of a small-town judge elicit an unapologetic thumbprint and a “fresh take on a nostalgic sound.” |
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Crosstown Arts summer session resident artists Tad Lauritzen Wright, Eden Wiseman, Ori Dvir, and Joey Slaughter will present artist talks in the Pecha Kucha style.
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Indie Memphis presents a screening of Roll Red Roll. At a pre-season football party in small-town Steubenville, Ohio, a heinous crime took place: the assault of a teenage girl by members of the beloved high school football team. What transpired would garner national attention and result in the sentencing of two key offenders.
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The 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: HEAD (NARRATIVE, 1968) |
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Crosstown Arts residency applications are due July 15th! Still have questions about how the process works? Join us in the cafe at Crosstown Arts (on the second floor near the top of the red spiral stairs) to help us fold artist residency brochures (we only have about 2,000) and get all of your burning questions […]
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Join us as queer country band The Dixie Dicks welcome you to Fist City, a night devoted to the divas of country. With special performances by Hunny Blunt, Imagene Azengraber, and Bela d’Ball. |
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Did you know? Zine making is for everyone! No matter your skill or experience levels, you can do it! Come get your zine on at this free Public All Ages Zine Making Workshop on Saturday, July 13 from 1-3 in the Crosstown Concourse Central Atrium.
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Join us for a FREE Open Studio event featuring Crosstown Arts resident artists Nick Peña, Tad Lauritzen Wright and Alex Paulus. Followed by a performance in The Green Room featuring resident artists Eden Wiseman, Ori Dvir, Baishui, and Marcus Tate. From 6-8 pm, guests can tour the studios of Nick Peña, Tad Lauritzen Wright and […] |
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THIS WORKSHOP HAS REACHED CAPACITY! Please join us for Memphis Zine Fest on Friday, July 19 though! Free and open to the public. During this week-long course, students will learn about the origin of zines, how to develop their ideas into a tangible product, and how to flex their social skills muscles. At the end of the week, students are given the opportunity to sell their wares at Memphis Zine Fest. Taught by local artist and Zine Fest curator Erica Qualy. We provide all of the basic supplies they’ll need to get started, they just need to bring their ideas. Classes run Monday July 15 - Friday July 19 from 2:30-5:00 pm (with the option of students sticking around and selling their wares at Zine Fest on Friday July 19 from 5-8 pm). |
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Part of a two-night event with Joe's Wines, Indie Memphis, Restaurant Iris, and Kysela Imports. Indie Memphis will be screening the Oscar-winning Babette’s Feast on Tuesday July 16th. |
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Join us in The Green Room for Songwriters in the Round, featuring D'Monet, Jeremy Stanfill, and Lisa Mac. |
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The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. This week: BOYZ N THE HOOD. |
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Memphis Zine Fest is an annual celebration of zines and zinesters in our community! For one night only, come out and see what your favorite local zine makers have been creating this year and check out brand new zines from the students in our youth zine making workshop. This year’s fest will take place on Friday July 19th in the Crosstown Concourse Central Atrium from 5-8 pm. As always, this is a free and all ages event, so feel free to bring your friends, your kids, and your grandparents.
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Join us for a performance by For Now, a quintet led by vocalist and composer Isabel Crespo, in The Green Room. The Gary Topper Group will open the show. Wandering carefully between genres, For Now performs compositions influenced by modern jazz, contemporary classical music, visual art, and poetry. Fueled by an unending curiosity, they explore the personal and the political, turning complex situations into musical vignettes. |
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A class focusing on demystifying computer-aided crafting and small-scale industrial design using CAD (Computer Aided Design) and CNC routers. This seminar will include: - CNC Basics and File Workflows (Illustrator, Rhino, AutoCaD, G-Code, etc.) - Use of CNC in the Shared Art Making Space - Project Demos
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Third annual arts event presented by The A.R.T.S. Initiative, Inc. Live performances, art gallery, fashion show, food and drinks. Featuring Charlee Pearl, Angela Blair, Andrew Travis, Amy Beth, Tre Lesean, D-Mo, Isaiah Woods, Prince Lucius, Walking Threads, and many more.
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Choro das 3 — the "First Family of Choro" — returns to Memphis on their 7th U.S. tour for an unforgettable evening of joy, excitement, and megachops in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. Brazilian choro music is a living gem — the "roots music" of that country and the mother of the samba and bossa nova we love. In choro, the flavors of immigrant mazurkas, polkas, and waltzes are seasoned with smoky tango and simmered in an irresistible Afro-Brazilian groove. |
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The arts movement is a collective of performance and visual artists. It a collaborative effort among creatives and arts organizations to promote arts advocacy, entrepreneurship, and engagement in the arts community. The arts movement is a five-day, pop-up exhibition that features local and traveling artisans and performing artists.
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Crosstown Arts summer session resident artists Dehanza Rogers, Tom Cho, Marcus Tate, Aubree Penney, Baishui Gan, and Melanie Manos will present artist talks in the Pecha Kucha style. |
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Exhibition of works in the miniscule spaces around the first and second floor of Crosstown Concourse in the Central and East Atria. Curated by Crosstown Arts resident artist Aubree Penney. On view through August 25. Featured artists: Sully Allen, Jesse Butcher, Zahria Cook, Dehanza, Mulanre "Eddie" Gan, Mary Jo Karimnia, Melanie Manos, Jeremiah Matthews and Kayla Selby, Natalie Minik, Alex Paulus, Cat Peña, Nick Peña, Terri Phillips, Corkey Sinks, Joey Slaughter, Jessica Weaver, Terri Weaver, and Tad Lauritzen Wright.
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Join us for a multidisciplinary art showcase featuring work by Crosstown Arts resident artists. Free and open to the public.
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Opening for an exhibition of works in the miniscule spaces around the first and second floor of Crosstown Concourse in the Central and East Atria. Curated by Crosstown Arts resident artist Aubree Penney. On view through August 25.
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The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. This week: JUVENILE COURT |
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Tribute to jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon featuring Art Edmaiston (tenor sax), Patrick Fusco (piano), Neal Bowen (acoustic bass), and Jeff Burch (drums).
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Join us for an evening of classic disco hits spun by the DJs of Sparkle City Disco. The Rolling Wheels of Memphis skate group will be there, turning the party into a roller disco as they skate to classic disco tunes. All vinyl. All disco. Lust and dust. Sparkle City Disco's monthly residency at The Basement in Nashville has set the city back decades. They rocked Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, earlier this month, and now they've set their sights on Memphis. |
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Join us on July 28 from 1-3 pm to celebrate the STITCHED exhibitions at Crosstown Arts. This will be the last time you'll be able to see the shows. We're going to announce the viewer's choice awards, debut the community quilt made during Maria Shell's workshop in June, and acknowledge all of the artists and volunteers who made these shows a reality. |
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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 […]
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Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts present MicroCinema Club, a monthly screening of short films. This month: 2019 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. |
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Join us for LIVE from THE GREEN ROOM with Memphis-based singer-songwriter Tia Henderson. The LIVE from THE GREEN ROOM music series offers an intimate experience featuring some the best up and coming artists in the region. |
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The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. This week: PARIS, TEXAS
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Join us in The Green Room for an album release concert with Memphis' own Joe Restivo, a member of the Bo-Keys. “One of the city’s truly special Memphis music experiences.” – Bob Mehr, Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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Join us as Rob Jungklas performs new songs from his forthcoming project, Gone To Water. Opening act: Jana Misener. |
