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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 understanding of one another. This month's discussion topic: "Why Black History?" facilitated by Dr. Sonia Walker and featuring panelists Joy Marseille, Joshua Narcisse, Scott Morris, Micah Greenstein, Chris Miner, and Jenny Koltnow. |
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by Streeter & The Tribe. Charles Streeter is a drummer, producer, composer, bassist, and keyboard player who has worked with such artists as Chaka Khan, The Jacksons, Jennifer Lopez, Stephanie Mills, and DW3. He’s currently on tour with Tori Kelly. |
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Directed by Otto Preminger and based on an Oscar Hammerstein musical, in turn based on the opera Carmen, CARMEN JONES tells the story of Carmen Jones , who works in a parachute factory in North Carolina during WWII. Carmen is arrested for fighting with a co-worker who reported her for arriving late for work. Foreman Sgt. Brown assigns young soldier Joe to deliver her to the authorities, much to the dismay of Joe's fiancée Cindy Lou, who had agreed to marry him during his leave. Carmen Jones features a Saul Bass title sequence and Diahann Carroll (Dominique Deveraux in the hit television show Dynasty)!
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts as Caroline Keys presents songs from Woman of the Woods. Caroline Keys, who comes to Memphis from Montana, will present songs from Woman of the Woods, her response to Justin Timberlake’s Montana-themed Man Of The Woods album. |
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** This exhibition is temporarily suspended. 
** This exhibition is temporarily suspended.
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Opening reception for new work by Dennis Congdon and Susan Lichtman in the Crosstown Arts West Gallery.
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Opening reception for painting, drawings, and digital drawings by Keiko Gonzalez in Crosstown Arts East Gallery.
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by singer-songwriter Gurf Morlix. |
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Artists with work on view at Crosstown Arts will deliver talks in their respective galleries. Artists Susan Lichtman and Dennis Congdon will discuss their work in Here Is Where We Meet in the West Gallery at 1 pm. Curator Laurel Suscy will deliver their introduction. Artist Keiko Gonzalez will discuss his work in STUDIOS in […]
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Join us for a jazz tribute to the music of saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. featuring Bill Hurd (alto/soprano sax), Keenan Shotwell (piano), Gerard Harris (guitar), Sylvester Sample (bass), and Melvin Robertson (drums).
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by former Memphian and singer/songwriter Nick Pagliari with local duo Me & Leah. |
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Many people assume that the role of a producer is only about finding money and selling a film. But what does it mean to be a creative producer? Join Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts in a conversation with producers Tracee Comfort and Princeton Echols to find out why producing is one of the more misunderstood but creatively fulfilling roles in production. Topics will include how to manage a production, casting, story and script development, working with a director, and much more.
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by Hint of Lime Brass Trio. This young and energetic chamber ensemble, featuring Sarah Ford (Colorado Springs Philharmonic), Nicole Gillotti (Texas A&M International University), and Morgan Fite (New York City Freelancer), will present a varied program of works by Poulenc, Bernofsky, Corelli, Gluck, and Mañas. In celebration of National Women’s History Month, the group will prominently feature works written by female composers. |
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Crosstown Arts presents Alice Hansen & the Blaze with an opening performance by Blueshift Ensemble in The Green Room. Born in Vermont and based in Memphis, Alice Hasen is a professional violinist, recording artist, and songwriter. She leads Alice Hasen & the Blaze and is part of the Blackwater Trio, an acoustic rock band. Alice is known for her unique playing style, which combines the virtuosity of her classical upbringing with the freedom and creativity of improvisation.
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David Byrne makes his directorial debut with TRUE STORIES, a movie loosely based around drawings Bryne had made about tabloid stories. Byrne is the main narrator as he traverses through the town of Virgil, Texas, as they prepare for the “Celebration of Specialness.” With Spalding Gray (Swimming to Cambodia!! Farmer’s Daughters!!) and Pops Staples!!! |
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On-site installation and recent works by Adam Farmer One night only Organized by the artist
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance of psychedelic, avant-garde jazz by Frog Squad. |
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This workshop is held in conjunction with the "Here Is Where We Meet" exhibition on view in the Crosstown Arts West Gallery. Students will be given samples of writing , and then they’ll create a piece of visual art that represents or reflects that writing sample. Participants will use will use watercolor, colored pencil, crumpled […]
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by Marc Ribot. Rolling Stone points out that “guitarist Marc Ribot helped Tom Waits refine a new, weird Americana on 1985's Rain Dogs, and since then he's become the go-to guitar guy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp.” Additional recording credits include Neko Case, Diana Krall, Elton John/Leon Russell’s The Union, Solomon Burke, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, Marianne Faithful, Joe Henry, Allen Toussaint, Medeski Martin & Wood, Caetono Veloso, Susana Baca, Allen Ginsburg, Madeleine Peyroux, Nora Jones, Jolie Holland, Akiko Yano, The Black Keys, and many others |
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Crosstown Arts presents The Modern Masters Jazz Series, a monthly series featuring jazz soloists from around the country. March's performance features award-winning saxophonist Joel Frahm performing with the series house band, The Ted Ludwig Trio. |
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** This event is postponed until further notice. This workshop is in conjunction with "Here Is Where We Meet," on view in the West Gallery. Over the course of several sessions, students will amass a body of work based upon specific prompts, such as “choose a person/scene in one of Crosstown Arts’ spaces.” Students will […]
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by guitarist Julian Lage and drummer Dave King. Hailed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation, Julian Lage has spent more than a decade searching through the myriad strains of American musical history via impeccable technique, free association, and a spirit of infinite possibility. Love Hurts , which marks his first album to feature drummer Dave King (The Bad Plus), sees the GRAMMY-nominated guitarist exploring the American song catalog from a truly unique vantage point, performing music written by a range of audacious and original artists, from Roy Orbison to Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Giuffre to Peter Ivers. |
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Crosstown Arts resident artists Carl E. Moore, S. Erin Batiste, Adriana Monsalve, Robert Goodman, and Zaire Love will discuss their work in a Pecha Kucha-style artist talk. The Crosstown Arts residency program offers multidisciplinary residencies to visiting and Memphis-based artists and curators, working in any creative discipline including visual and performing arts, music, film, and writing in all genres.
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You know that story "Little Red Riding Hood"? You know that girl who works over at the City Thrift on Summer? The one with the creepy stepdad and the mom who hooks up by Tee Jay’s? The one who’s always talking about blowing Memphis to go live with her me-maw in a trailer park in […] |
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Shards of Color and Other Broken Things is an exploration of color and the way it's manipulated by image and perspective. Joy Murray works in a narrative style and uses text in her paintings. She uses many kinds of paper, watercolor, acrylic, and collage. She explores concepts of transformation and the intersection of human life and the natural world. This show will feature many of her pieces focused on disability and sacred transformation of the body. TheOuterCircle travels all over the world to expand his vision. His abstract paintings voice subconscious ideas. His pieces have multiple layers and create texture within color. In addition to paint brushes, he uses everything from his fingers to credit cards to achieve a chaotic balance between color and texture.
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Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by pop/R&B singer-songwriter Marco Alexander. Marco Alexander is an American pop/R&B singer-songwriter and all-around artist. Born in Memphis, TN, Marco began his study of music at a young age. Marco grew up watching his mother lead the church choir (while sitting next to the organ player so he wouldn’t get into trouble). Growing up in a musical family granted Marco the opportunity to travel and study sounds that were unfamiliar to him, whether it was the sound of beating on pots and pans or listening to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. A versatile musician, Marco has performed with the National Festival Symphony at Carnegie Hall and in musical theater productions, such as Thoroughly Modern Millie, Aida, and Dreamgirls. |
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** This event is postponed until further notice. This workshop is held in conjunction with the “STUDIOS” exhibition on view in the Crosstown Arts East Gallery. Utilizing fabric, paper, paint, and other provided materials, participants will create art pieces inspired by Keiko Gonzalez’s abstractions on view in “STUDIOS.” These pieces will be showcased in a […] |
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** This event is postponed until further notice. Best of the 2019 Ottawa International shorts, including films that defy logic, defy physics, defy convention, and especially defy expectations. Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can. |
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** This event is postponed until further notice. This special performance by Memphis Symphony Orchestra musicians Priscilla Tsai, Jordan Musgrave, Ruth Burgess, Josh Muzzi, and pianist Tingting Yao features a program of piano quintets "lost in time" by composers Dora Pejacovic and Zdenek Fibich.
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** This event is postponed until further notice. Vocalist Lisa Nobumoto and Her Sizzling Six perform the music and arrangements of tenor saxophonist Teddy Edwards in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. |
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** This event is postponed until further notice. Join us in The Green Room for a listening session and discussion of Rufus Thomas' 1970 album, Do the Funky Chicken. Moderated by Dr. Charles Hughes of Rhodes College and a special guest. Of all the landmark albums released by Stax Records in 1970, “Do the Funky Chicken” […] |
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** This event is postponed until further notice. This workshop is held in conjunction with the "STUDIOS" exhibition on view in the Crosstown Arts East Gallery. Using Keiko Gonzalez’s work in “STUDIOS” as inspiration, participants will be encouraged to paint without a particular destination in mind. Drawing from Keiko’s style of “circular arguments that never […]
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** The event is postponed until further notice. Live music by Dolla Black as part of the Rebirth 2020 Tour Organized by the artist
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** The event is postponed until further notice. Jane Fonda (Cat Ballou, They Shoot Horses Don’t They?, Barbarella) stars as a groovy call girl and wannabe actress who may or may not be connected to a dead john (who ran a chemical company by day). Donald Sutherland (MASH, The Kentucky Fried Movie) plays the title character Klute, a detective brought in by a chemical company executive to find out what really happened. Co-starring Roy Scheider (Jaws, Jaws II) as Jane Fonda’s pimp. Also co-starring the super-fun and sleazy NYC of the 1970s. Klute won a lot of Oscars, but don’t hold that against it. IT IS A GREAT MOVIE ANYWAY!! The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. |
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Crosstown Arts presents The Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Series, a monthly concert series showcasing internationally acclaimed guitarists in partnership with the Little Rock-based Argenta Acoustic Music Series. March's performance features guitarist Paul Asbell in an intimate, solo performance. |
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** This event is postponed until further notice. Exhibition of work by Central High School students
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** The event is postponed until further notice. Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by The Adam Larson Band, featuring tenor saxophonist Adam Larson with Michael Shults (alto sax), Joe Restivo (guitar), Carl Caspersen (bass), and James Sexton (drums).
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** The event is postponed until further notice. Join us at Crosstown Arts for Memphis vs New Orleans, featuring The Stax Music Academy & Trombone Shorty Foundation with special guests. Stax Music Academy's 20th Anniversary celebration continues as The Stax Music Academy and Trombone Shorty Foundation join forces to celebrate the indigenous sounds of the world-renowned music cities of Memphis and New Orleans. Enjoy one night of Memphis soul battling it out with New Orleans’ funky jazz at Crosstown Theater. |
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** The event is postponed until further notice. Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance of trumpeter Jamie Branch's debut album, "Fly or Die." A mainstay of the Chicago jazz scene and an active recent addition to the New York scene, Jaimie Branch is an avant-garde trumpeter known for her “ghostly sounds," says The New York Times, and for "sucker punching" crowds straight from the jump off, says Time Out. |
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** The event is postponed until further notice. Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for Music for Cello and Jazz Trio, including works by Claude Bolling, David Baker, and more. Featuring Alisa Horn (cello), Maeve Brophy (piano), Tom Lonardo (drums), and Tim Goodwin (bass). |
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** The event is postponed until further notice. Tokyo Knights is about a boy named Koji who is good at, well, everything. Koji’s pop passes, and Koji goes home to take over his family's “construction business,” crush it at school, and get the truth as to what happened with his daddy. The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features. |
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** The event is postponed until further notice. Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a special performance by Tonya Dyson in a tribute to the legendary Sarah Vaughan. |
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** This event is postponed until further notice. This workshop is held in conjunction with the "STUDIOS" exhibition on view in the Crosstown Arts East Gallery. Using Keiko Gonzalez’s work in “STUDIOS” as inspiration, participants will be encouraged to paint without a particular destination in mind. Drawing from Keiko’s style of “circular arguments that never […] |
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** This event is postponed until further notice. This show will feature two performances — a matinee at 4 pm and an evening show at 7 pm. VIP tickets will ONLY be available for the 4 pm performance.
** This event is postponed until further notice. This show will feature two performances — a matinee at 4 pm and an evening show at 7 pm. VIP tickets will ONLY be available for the 4 pm performance. |
