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Opening Friday, Nov. 19 from 6-8 pm Contingency Plan showcases the work of nine graduating seniors in Studio Art and Photography at the University of Memphis. Despite quarantine and classes taught on Zoom, these students have persevered to make work exploring identity, humor, vulnerability, resilience, function, intuition, and memory. Participating student artists: Tess Cleary, Ethan […] 
Opening Friday, Nov. 19 from 6-8 pm In the last five years, the Department of Art at the University of Memphis has experienced a generational sea change with new faculty and an expanded curriculum. These new voices and fresh viewpoints complement the decades of rich experiences provided by veteran faculty to create a full learning […] |
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Doll McCoy has curated a playlist of songs from Apple Music and Spotify that include her favorite B-sides, requests from the audience, and original music. Follow the playlist (click on this calendar listing to access the playlist), send your request, and she’ll perform it at the show. |
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Anthony Wilson will perform music from his upcoming release “The Plan of Paris” and his current project-in-progress “Knowledge Tree.” Performing with Tom Lonardo (drums), Alvie Givhan (piano), and Liam O’Dell (bass). A guitarist and composer/songwriter known for a wide-ranging body of musical work that moves effortlessly across genres, Wilson has released twelve solo albums, including his Grammy-nominated debut. The three most recent — “Frogtown,” “Songs and Photographs,” and “The Plan of Paris” — reveal his growing dedication to the art of songcraft as a powerful mode of musical communication.
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From JANUS: The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of '90s cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of romantic longing. |
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A special evening showcasing Memphis sacred soul from the late 1960s to present day at Crosstown Theater. With an exclusive showing of The D-Vine Spirituals story documentary followed by performances by Elizabeth King and Elder Jack Ward, supported by the Sacred Soul Sound Section. A meet-and-greet/record signing with the artists will be held at Memphis Listening Lab prior to the show.
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Qemist is a multi-faceted electronic artist from Memphis, TN, who has mastered a wide range of production and music creation techniques. Having toured and performed at festivals like Deep Tropics and SXSW, Qemist has been met with outstanding reviews for his heady club mixes and melodic and refreshing lounge-style productions. NICOTHEGODDESS is a singer/songwriter and classical violist from North Little Rock, AR. NICOTHEGODDESS was classically trained in viola and voice, and she has utilized those talents to ultimately create her own unique signature in alternative R&B music. |
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This show, entitled “I Don’t Think About You Anymore,” will explore themes of letting go — from memories of a past love and the old versions of ourselves we can be afraid to grow away from to all the anxieties we’ve developed over this past year and a half of confusion and bewilderment. Aaron will be debuting several new songs, including tracks from his upcoming three-song EP “Sunrise,” set to release December 3. Come with something to leave behind. |
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Throughout the year, Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts bring cinematographers, directors, editors, writers, actors, and technicians to Shoot & Splice, the monthly filmmaking forum. Come help us celebrate the end of another wild year with the return of the annual Shoot & Splice Movie Trivia extravaganza! Test your film knowledge against returning Trivia Masters John Beifuss of The Commercial Appeal and Chris McCoy of the Memphis Flyer. The trivia masters will take full advantage of the theater, so be prepared for some fun video and audio rounds! |
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If you loved Last Night in Soho, come to the Crosstown Theater to catch Blood and Black Lace! From AGFA: Before Dario Argento’s Deep Red, there was Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace. At the Cristiana Haute Couture fashion house, models and their boyfriends excel at the art of backstabbing, blackmail, and snorting cocaine. That is, until a faceless maniac embarks on a mission of death! After the one-two punch of Black Sunday and Black Sabbath, Mario Bava unleashed Blood and Black Lace — the movie that perfected the ultra-violent sub-genre that would come to be known as “giallo.” With a mood that mashes together the elegance of a quiet rain on a summer night with the luridness of a trashy paperback, it’s no wonder why Martin Scorsese once referred to this movie as “an incredible moment for cinema.”
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Crosstown Arts presents Deborah Swiney with Ed Finney, Bob Buckley, and special guest drummer Ra Kalam Bob Moses in The Green Room. |
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Come celebrate/mourn the final day of Tm. Prudhomme’s Crosstown Arts’ artist residency! A cavalcade of músicos* will present renditions of compositions old and new. Prepare to be confused and confounded by “songettes,” visual mis-cues, and happenstance! Masks required, diapers optional. * Steve Shelley, Tripp Lamkins, Keith Cooper, Dustin Cropps, Andrew Geraci, et al. |
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Sorry for the inconvenience, but this film is being postponed until further notice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn tells the story of an Irish immigrant family, the Nolans, living out their lives in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1912, about 100 years before Williamsburg got to be the gentrified hell-hole that it currently is. This story takes place when the neighborhood was filled with thousands of first-generation immigrants from all different parts of the world, crammed together in tenements and hustling every day to put food on the table and maybe a little liquor down their gullet! With Dorthy McGuire (Old Yeller, Swiss Family Robinson) as the perpetually pregnant Katie Nolan! Joan Blondell (Glenda in Stay Away, Joe) as sassy Aunt Sissy!! Come out and get in the spirit with us!! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a CAN’T MISS!!!
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Folk All Y’all presents stars of The Black Opry Revue, a collective celebrating Black artists in Americana/country, featuring Lizzie No, Jett Holden, Roberta Lea, Tylar Bryant, and The Reverend Shawn Amos, with special guest Toni Mack. This show is sponsored by Folk All Y’all patrons and presented in collaboration with Crosstown Arts. |
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Fire up the prayer chain and clutch your pearls, because Christmas is coming and so are The (blank) Dicks! After a long medical hiatus (we're not saying who, but someone had an "incident" at the bathhouse that required a full restringing of their guitar, if you know what I mean), your favorite queer country band is back for their first show under a new name, to be revealed for the first time at the show! They'll ruin your favorite holiday songs, unload some special gifts and guests from Santa's big ole sack, and make the yuletide gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. So gather up the family, tell them all to leave you alone and stay home for at least one night for the love of God, and then skip on down to Crosstown for the holiday show you deserve! |
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Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs, and mp3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December. People bring their own boomboxes (phones with Bluetooth speakers are fine, too!) and drift peacefully through a cloud of sound, which is different from every listener's perspective. Since 1992, this 45-minute work has grown into a worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of many winter holiday celebrations. This is the first time for the event to take place in Memphis! |
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