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. 
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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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). |
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National film and television shows (like the Hallmark “Graceland” films & Bluff City Law) have caught on to what an incredible place Memphis is to make their work. For the September Shoot & Splice, Sharon O’Guin (Deputy Film Commissioner for the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission) will talk about the hard work the Commission is doing behind the scenes to both bring national level productions to Memphis and assist local film and television professionals. Then hear some on-set experiences from some very talented Memphians, including Kevin Brooks, Kerri Mahoney and Jil Szewski - all three currently working on Bluff City Law. Shoot & Splice is a monthly filmmaker forum presented collaboratively by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts. |
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Crosstown Arts welcomes Americana pioneers and legends Two Tons of Steel to The Green Room. Before there was Americana, before there was Texas Country, Two Tons of Steel rocked a sound that blended the best of musical worlds and pushed the envelope with a signature brand of country punk. |
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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: SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG
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Join us in The Green Room for a performance by jazz pianist Orrin Evans. Many may know Orrin Evans as the pianist for Jazz juggernauts The Bad Plus. But with more than 25 albums to his credit, without ever relying on the support of a major label, Evans has become the model of a fiercely independent artist who’s made a habit of rattling the jazz world’s confining cages. That determination has paid off in accolades like topping the “Rising Star Pianist” category in the 2018 DownBeat Critics Poll. |
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Memphis-based Detective Bureau presents a live score of Seijun Suzuki's "Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!" Detective Bureau explores late '60s and early '70s Afro-Brazilian soul jazz stylings. Featuring Joe Restivo (guitar), Marc Franklin (trumpet), Landon Moore (bass), Pat Fusco (keys), George Sluppick (drums), and Felix Hernandez (percussion). |
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Join us for a performance by the Grammy Award-winning, New Orleans-based Rebirth Brass Band on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater. |
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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 MSO principal trombonist Greg Luscombe and pianist Brian Ray for a special performance in The Green Room. Featuring works by Leonard Bernstein, Jacques Casterede, Arthur Pryor, Lars-Erik Larsson, Tommy Dorsey, and Eugen Reiche. |
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Open call to visual artists in any medium whose use of color is a primary consideration in their work. Our senses are affected by the vibrations of color immediately and intrinsically.
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Welcome award-winning musicians Alisa Horn and Maeve Brophy back to Memphis with a “Bloch Party” featuring works for cello and piano. The program will feature works by Ernest Bloch, Ethyl Smyth, and Nadia Boulanger at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. |
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Female artists of all genres and women who work in the arts sector are invited to join us for cocktails and conversation at Art Bar at Crosstown Arts. Stick around afterward for a Crosstown Arthouse screening of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am at Crosstown Theater at 7:30 pm. The meet-up is free, and tickets […]
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is an artful and intimate meditation on legendary storyteller Toni Morrison. It examines her life, her works, and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, history, America and the human condition. |
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Come join us at Crosstown Theater as we celebrate the works of composers of African descent from around the world. Featuring rhythms from gospel to jazz, the serene to classical influences, there is something for everyone. Featuring award-winning artists James Rodriguez (baritone), Gwendolyn Alfred (soprano), Alisa Horn (cello) and Artina McCain (Piano).
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Join us for a performance by singer-songwriter Kevin Morby in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. Opening for Kevin is William Tyler (Lambchop/Silver Jews). Kevin Morby released his beloved solo debut Harlem River in 2013 and has released a full-length nearly every year since. His latest, 2017’s City Music, is a collection Kevin says "is a mix-tape, a fever dream, a love letter dedicated to those cities that I cannot get rid of, to those cities that are all inside of me.” |
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Focusing on the work of artist Wang Chen, participants will explore their inner-selves and challenge the concept of alter egos to create a puppet representation of themselves. Wang Chen's work is currently on display in The Sin Park at the Crosstown Arts Screening Room and East Atrium. Free and open to kids of all ages
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Join us in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by Katharine Hedlund. Join jazz vocalist/pianist Katharine Hedlund for a special live album recording performance at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts with Paul Taylor, Jim Spake, and Carl Caspersen. Katherine Hedlund was becoming quite the fixture and turning heads in Memphis before she departed for San Francisco in 2018, and we are thrilled to be hosting her in a rare return appearance. |
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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: former New York Yankees center fielder and World Series Champion/jazz guitarist Bernie Williams. |
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Crosstown Arts staff will moderate a conversation with Mauricio Calvo and Sharolyn Peyton exploring how sexuality and sexual expression are linked to, and affected by, social and civic politics. |
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A FACE IN THE CROWD chronicles the rise and fall of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith), a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas drunk tank by Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal), a local radio producer with ambitions of her own. |
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Join Bible & Tire Recording Co. and D-Vine Spirituals for a night of Memphis Soul Gospel featuring The Sensational Barnes Brothers, Elizabeth King, D-Vine Spiritualettes, The Vaughn Sisters, the Rev. John Wilkins, Elder Ward, Liz Brasher, and Gary "Lucky" Smith on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater. The concert will celebrate the launch of The Sensational Barnes Brothers’ newly recorded, rugged ‘Nobody’s Fault But My Own' and Elizabeth King & The Gospel Souls’ 1970s gems ‘The D-Vine Spirituals Recordings.’ Both recordings will be released on September 20th from the new Bible & Tire Recording Co., headed up by Bruce Watson of Fat Possum Records with the aim of showcasing new and archival Memphis gospel releases. |
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Enjoy a private tour of Scott Carter’s Counterpoint, on view in Crosstown Arts East Gallery, following by drumming demonstration inspired by Carter’s work. Scott Carter's Counterpoint is on display in the Crosstown Arts West Gallery. Free and open to the public
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Join us in The Green Room for Those Pretty Wrongs, a musical partnership between Jody Stephens (of Big Star) and Luther Russell.
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Former Memphian Todd Snider is back, and he's performing a solo show at Crosstown Theater. Opening act: Dean Alexander |
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Join us for a free sound test performance by The PRVLG and Paul Taylor at Crosstown Theater. Please note that this is not a concert. The performers will be starting and stopping as our staff works to perfect the sound in Crosstown Theater, but the public is invited for free music. Free and open to […]
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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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Join Dr. Charles Hughes of Rhodes College and Memphis author and filmmaker Jamey Hatley for a close listen of and a lively discussion about the classic Stax album, Woman to Woman by Shirley Brown (1974). |
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More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, the ground-breaking documentary THE QUEEN is about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag. |
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Miss Pussycat will perform a new puppet show, "The History of Egypt," in conjunction with Gonerfest 16. Music by synth master Benni
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Join us for a performance by The Lost Wages in The Green Room, with opening acts Jessie Cole and Sister Justice. |
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The SPINS series features music as diverse as the City of Memphis. Each month, a rotating line-up of DJs will play everything from old-school Hip-Hop and House to Ultra Lounge and Afrobeat. There’s something for everyone to enjoy. So, come chill. Come hang. Come Party! Hailing from Youngsville NC, DJ B.A. embraced everything from rock, hip hop, country, east coast rap, and R&B.
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Focusing on the work of Scott Carter, participants will be challenged to create instruments from re-purposed materials. Scott Carter’s work is currently on display in Counterpoint in the Crosstown Arts East Gallery. Free and open to kids of all ages
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Scott Carter's work explores the intersection of music and sculpture. In this short experience, participants will enjoy a private tour of the Counterpoint exhibition in the West Gallery, immediately followed by a musical demonstration inspired by Carter's works.
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Jazz tribute to Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian featuring Chip Henderson (guitar), Alvie Givhan (piano), Earl Lowe (drums), John Lux (tenor sax, clarinet), and Tim Goodwin (acoustic bass). |
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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 — vegans, vegetarians, and the veg-curious, but please bring a dish prepared without meat, dairy, and eggs. There's no set standard for how many people your dish […]
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Join NYC-based pianist Eunbi Kim for a special performance of solo contemporary works for piano, prepared piano, and works for piano and pre-recorded electronics. The program features works by living composers and is inspired by themes of family, childhood, and immigration. |
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by up-and-coming jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player John Raymond. |
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Join us as The MD's — a Memphis-based Booker T & the MG's tribute band — perform The Beatles Revolver album on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater. Since The MD's main goal is to keep the incredible catalog of Booker T & The MG's music alive, they have decided to try something a little different. With the utmost respect to Booker, Steve, Duck, and Al, they are going to perform Revolver as they think the MG's would have in the '60s. |
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Join us for an intimate evening with Memphis-based vocalist Susan Marshall at The Green Room. One of the region’s finest vocalists, international recording artist Susan Marshall's released three critically praised solo albums — “Susan Marshall Is Honey Mouth,” “Firefly,” and “Little Red.” She has performed with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Memphis Jazz Orchestra, and is also known for her solo and duo performances in residency at Itta Bena. |
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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: jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon |
