Events
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New work by Tampa, Florida-based artist Ezra Johnson in the Screening Room. 
Group exhibition featuring artists whose use of color is a primary consideration in their work. Our senses are affected by the vibrations of color immediately and intrinsically. This exhibition will focus on the meaning, sensitivity, and passion that the intensity of color creates. 
New work by Crosstown Arts resident artist Olaniyi R. Akindiya Akirash. This exhibition looks deep into the immigration issues that plague our society. It has become a big bone that has stuck in our throat, difficult to chew or swallow. It is a nightmarish, poisonous trauma that has stained our history forever. |
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Drawing inspiration from Akirash's beautiful hanging sculptures in Asiko: Moments in the East Gallery, participants will use bottles, cans, plastics ,and other recycled items to build their own hanging piece. |
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Join Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts for Shoot & Splice: The Business of Acting with Jade Abrielle. Jade will discuss the many facets of being a professional actor, both on set and off, including how to market yourself, identifying your type, how to get an agent, audition taping, budgeting for your career, and more. Whether you are an actor or a filmmaker looking to learn more about the actor's process, you don’t want to miss this presentation. |
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Students will engage with work from Color Schemes: The Value of Intensity in the West Gallery. They will then create their own inspired works based on randomized criteria, which will be determined by spinning a giant color wheel. Over the course of four weeks, students will complete 3-5 works each, to be displayed in a pop-up gallery the following week (February 1-6).
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a special world music concert by World Soul Project. The World Soul Project consists of Gerard Harris (guitar), Ben Flint (keyboards), James Sexton (drums), and Ekpe (percussion, flute, and Kalimba). This band's musical blend includes Brazilian and African beats, hip hop, jazz, and funk. |
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This show is sponsored by Folk All Y'all patrons and presented in collaboration with Crosstown Arts. Born and raised in New Orleans, Mia Borders' powerhouse vocals and charismatic songwriting have made her a perennial figure in the regional music scene. |
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Crosstown Arts presents The Modern Masters Jazz Series, a monthly series featuring jazz soloists from around the country. For January's performance, New Orleans-based saxophonist Ed Petersen will be featured in an unforgettable performance with the series house band, the Ted Ludwig Trio. |
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Artists Anthony Lee, Susan Maakestad, and Justin Bowles, who have work on view in Color Schemes: The Value of Intensity, will join a panel moderated by Dr. Todd Richardson (co-founder of Crosstown Arts), discussing their work and use of color in their art.
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Crosstown Arts presents the Brophy Sisters, featuring violinist Linnaea Brophy and pianist Maeve Brophy in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts. The program will feature works for violin and piano by Eugene Ysaÿe, Amy Beach, Lili Boulanger, Clara Schumann, and William Grant Still. |
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Crosstown Arts presents The Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Series, a monthly concert series showcasing internationally acclaimed guitarists. This series is in partnership with the Little Rock-based Argenta Acoustic Music Series. January's performance features Italian virtuoso guitarist Alberto Lombardi in an intimate, solo performance. |
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After viewing Ezra Johnson's film What Visions Burn, on view in Selected Animations in the Screening Room, participants will spend some time reflecting on an exciting story from their life. Using four pre-cut squares, participants will create a four-panel storyboard to share with the group.
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Booker T Jones celebrates the release of his memoir, Time Is Tight, with a special concert on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater. |
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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 […] |
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Blues musician Ryan Lee Crosby will perform with George Sluppick (drums) and Grant Smith (calabash and percussion), with an opening set by Shaun Marsh. |
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Considered by many to be one of the greatest and most influential silent-era films ever made, A TRIP TO THE MOON has turn-of-the-20th-century astronomers taking a proto-rocket to the moon and back to Earth. While on the moon, they are attacked and captured by moon natives who turn out to be surprisingly easy to kill and out-maneuver. In a similar tale of Earthmen hurling themselves into the void of space, AELITA: QUEEN OF MARS is a Russian silent film about a man who leaves his boring Earth wife behind to go to Mars and lead a revolution with the help of a Martian Queen named Aelita. These two silent-era classics will be live-scored by Alex Greene and The Rolling Head Orchestra! |
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by The Reba Russell Band. Reba Russell's name is synonymous with the Memphis music scene. She is a published songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, backing vocalist, bandleader, and producer, as well as a touring and recording artist. Reba Russell and her band tour throughout the United States and Europe and have released eight independent albums.. |
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Join us for a jazz tribute to the music of pianist Joe Sample featuring Keenan Shotwell (piano), Bryant Lockhart (tenor sax), Kem Gray (bass), Jeremy Wright (guitar), and Tevin Curtis (drums). |
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Monthly screening of short films presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts. This month: An encore screening of shorts themed around the sometimes complicated and harmful nature of female friendships from the 2019 Indie Memphis Film Festival, curated by Senior Programmer Brighid Wheeler. Pay what you can.
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This month's theme: "Talking About My Generation," hosted by Rabbi Micah Greenstein Each generation label (Greatest, Boomers, Millennials, X, Y, Z) serves as a shorthand to reference nearly 20 years of attitude, motivations, and historic events. As people grow older, what can we learn from younger adults and elders beyond the stereotypes? Come to the Mystic in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for deep conversation, moving music, and true community. All are welcome so spread the word. |
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Pam Santi, local artist and community collaborator, will discuss how she uses her artwork to engage the community and create inspired works. This talk is in conjunction with Color Schemes: The Value of Intensity.
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Join us for a performance by KO & The Crew in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. KO & The Crew presents an eclectic blend of jazz, hip-hop, poetry, neo-soul, and rhythm & blues. The band, led by musician and poet Kori Wallace, is an ensemble of instrumentalists and vocalists whose goal is to redefine the way stories are told. |
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Join us for a performance by the Rev. Shawn Amos & The Brotherhood in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. Since 2018's acclaimed, politically charged "The Reverend Shawn Amos Breaks It Down," The Rev has been on the road non-stop with The Brotherhood — a cohesive band of legit titans featuring drummer Brady Blade (Buddy & Julie Miller, Dave Matthews, Indigo Girls), bassist Christopher Thomas (Norah Jones, Carly Simon, Macy Gray), and the long-time Rev aide-de-camp/guitarist Chris "Doctor" Roberts. All are friends from a life in music who are now gathered on a singular mission.
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Lee Moses (1941-1998), a music prodigy, is considered one of the greatest unknown musicians among Baby Huey or Sixto Rodriguez (Sugar Man). He was part of a soul scene in Atlanta between the '60s and the '70s. His one album, Time and Place (1971), did not take off. During his time in New York, Moses played with greatest, including Jimi Hendrix and James Brown. His music has now garnered a community of appreciation. Songs such as “Bad Girl” was used in the 2014 French film House of Tolerance, and “If Loving You Is A Crime” was used in 2013 American film The Teacher. What makes his story remarkable is there’s not much to be found on Lee Moses. Even in his hometown of Atlanta, there are no physical traces of him. The locations where Moses once performed no longer exist. TIME AND PLACE aims to connect the time of Lee Moses with the place Atlanta is becoming now. |
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Please join us for a special album release party with Crosstown Art’s own Paul Taylor. He's releasing his first full-length album — "The Music Stands" — under the nom de plume, New Memphis Colorways. And he’s assembled a very interesting cast of musical characters for the evening — Susan Marshall & Reba Russell on background vocals, Pat Harrington on electric guitar, David Collins on keyboards and auxiliary sounds/textures, Rob Douglas on bass, and Kyle Neblitt on the drums. |
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Patrons will engage with work from Color Schemes: The Value of Intensity, on view in the West Gallery, before choosing a color to represent their current mood. Using colorful painted objects, participants will create their own still-life sculpture using their chosen color as the focal point of their arrangement. They will then use oil chalk and black paper to create a colorful still-life picture of their arrangement. |
