Events
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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. 
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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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. |
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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. |
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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
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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: DO THE RIGHT THING |
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Join us at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a soulful performance by Memphis Native Larry Springfield.
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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. |
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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: contemporary soul/jazz saxophonist Michael Lington. |
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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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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. 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. |
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Debut fashion show with music and an art showcase. Doors open at 6 pm | show starts at 6:30 pm Organized by the artist
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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: THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE
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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. |
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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. 
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. 
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. Chen Wang 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.
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Join us for an opening reception for 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.
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Join us for an opening reception of new work by Jia Wang. On view through Oct. 20.
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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. |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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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: ERASERHEAD
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Join us at The Green Room for a performance by The PRVLG, a musical twin duo from Memphis. |
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Join us at The Green Room for a performance by Memphis musician Grace Askew, celebrating her first full-length album release in five years. The 12-song culmination of writing and performing a new song every day for over 500 days straight, Denim & Diesel is a raw and vulnerable collection of stories about the struggles of daily life. The album was self-produced and recorded at Grace's home — a.k.a "Tumbleweed Ranch," a creaky, old, tin-roofed ranch house on 100 acres in Eads, TN, and features two co-writes with Mike Doughty (of '90s cult band "Soul Coughing).
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WLOK presents a screening of Dreamgirls at Crosstown Theater as part of its annual Black Film Festival. WLOK is hosting its annual Black Film Festival from August 29-September 1 at Levitt Shell, The Memphis Pink Palace Museum IMAX Theater, The Malco Paradiso, The National Civil Rights Museum, Southwest Tennessee Community College, and Crosstown Theater. |
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Jazz tribute to American jazz singer Al Jarreau, featuring Ashley K. Davis (Keys/MD), Donald Thomas (Vocals), Marlon Branch (Guitar), Eddie Gatewood (Bass), and Cedric Keel (Drums). |
