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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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Out of an abundance of caution, with Covid cases on the rise, Citizen Cope has made the tough decision to postpone the planned January 6 show at Crosstown Theater. We're issuing full refunds to all who have purchased tickets. We're so sorry for any inconvenience! Describing his music is difficult; he's been inspired by artists such as John Lennon and Stevie Wonder to Bob Marley and Outkast. Citizen Cope's compositions have been recorded by Carlos Santana, Dido, and Richie Havens. In 20 years of touring, he has built a devout following, performing at sold-out theaters and ballrooms across the country. Over time, Cope's music has become the soundtrack to the lives of those who have embraced it, and he continues to inspire audiences through what can only be described as deep personal connection. |
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In partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance and Indie Memphis, we are excited to be starting off Microcinema in the new year with a selection of films from Southern Foodways' incredible catalog of films that document various Southern food cultures, traditions, and practices that have shaped the past, present, and future of the South. This program features short films that consider farmers' (particularly Black farmers') relationship to the land, water, and sky that they steward and the lineages that make it possible to consider the future in farming and food.
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Due to rising Covid cases, Peter Bernstein’s January 11th performance in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts has been postponed. Crosstown Arts is issuing full refunds to ticket holders. Thank you for understanding! |
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Crosstown Arts tried this before back in series 6, but we got pandemic-ed before we could actually screen it, so we are trying again! The legend(s) surrounding Buford Pusser loom large over both Memphis and McNairy County, where he was sheriff from 1964 to 1970. Buford was a professional wrestler who became a sheriff in an area overrun by the Dixie Mafia. He went to war with and killed Louise Hathcock, the operator of The Shamrock Motel, where the Babushka lady was supposedly seen hanging out a week or so before JFK got popped. Buford’s star really started to shine when his friend, country and rockabilly singer Eddie Bond, started singing about him. One story has it that when Buford got ambushed by the Dixie Mafia (and his wife was killed and his face was shot off), he hid out in Memphis at a nightclub on Madison that Eddie Bond owned with "The Fabulous One," Jackie Fargo. Buford’s legend and story was interesting enough that they made THREE movies about him and the first is Walking Tall. Walking Tall fictionalizes Buford’s journey from bear wrestler to one man crime crusader. The movie stars character actor Jo Don Baker (Joysticks, Fletch) as Buford Pusser and Elizabeth Hartman (A Patch of Blue, The Secret of NIMH) as his wife Pauline. Lief Garrett (Macon Count Line, Walking Tall Part II, Final Chapter: Walking Tall, Tiger Beat Cover Model) and Lief’s real-life sister Dawn Lyn as the Pusser kids!! Walking Tall is BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN IN MEMPHIS FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!! YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO SEE IT!!!! |
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Reba Russell got her start in the early 1980s with bands Visions, Portrait, and Reba Russell and the Portables. These days, she's fronting The Reba Russell Band, and she's covered most bases in the music industry. Reba is a published songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, backing vocalist, bandleader and producer, as well as a touring and recording artist. She and her band have toured throughout the United States and Europe and have released eight independent original blues albums. Reba and her band members have countless recording credits with a multitude of various artists. |
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Due to rising Covid cases, the artist has asked to postpone his planned January 15th Musical Journalism: Continuing a Legacy Through the Flute performance at Crosstown Theater. Crosstown Arts is issuing full refunds to ticket holders. Stay tuned to crosstownarts.org or our social media channels for an announcement about a new date. Thank you for understanding! Adam will be joined on stage by pianist Dr. Artina McCain, clarinetist Dr. Andre Dyachenko clarinetist, and a guest narrator. *The artist has requested proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test for this event. Please be prepared to present your vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours at check-in. |
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2K Restoration! From Janus: A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history is as much a film as it is a poem composed in images, as much a work of cinema as it is a hypnagogic hallucination. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics upon its release due to its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the titan director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.
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Raneem Imam is a singer/songwriter and producer from Memphis, Tennessee. She graduated cum laude from Rhodes College with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. Throughout college, she began to hone in on her songwriting, co-producing her first mixtape "DIALOGUE." in 2017 and, later, her solo debut "Wise Up" in 2018. Toward the end of 2018, she was awarded the prestigious Robert H. Buckman Fellowship to spend a semester abroad in England studying music production and performance at the University of Kent Medway. The Rhodes College Music Department also granted her the Jane Hyde Summer Fellowship award to fund her first solo project during the 2019-2020 academic year. |
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Possessing a wide color palette, the Joshua Espinoza Trio (Joshua Espinoza, Kris Monson, and Jaron Lamar Davis) explores shimmering harmonies and shifting orchestral contours with the aesthetic of a chamber ensemble as much as a jazz trio. Influenced by artists as disparate as Herbie Hancock, bassist Avishai Cohen, Gerald Clayton, and composer Maurice Ravel, the Joshua Espinoza Trio takes listeners on a journey for the ears and the mind. Through their genre-bending approach to songwriting, they've built a cross-generational audience of diverse backgrounds bound together by their love of good music. Their debut album "Journey Into Night" was released in June 2019. |
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Due to the recent surge in Covid cases, Paul Taylor & The PRVLG's January 25th performance in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts has been postponed. Crosstown Arts is issuing full refunds to ticket holders. Thank you for understanding! |
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If you know, you know! Come see The Holy Mountain on the Crosstown Theater’s giant screen in deep, full color!!!! From ABKCO: The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The Holy Mountain is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept’s intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe. |
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Indie Memphis is an official Sundance Satellite screen partner for 2022. In collaboration with Crosstown Arts, they will be screening a specially curated selection of 2022 Sundance Film Festival Films during the festival’s closing weekend, Friday, January 28 - Sunday, January 30, 2022, at Crosstown Theater.
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Crosstown Arts presents a night of original music by Bailey Bigger and her bluegrass band, featuring Mark Edgar Stuart, Eric Lewis, Andy Ratliff, and Wyly Bigger, plus special guest Rowdy Franks who will open. Bailey is promoting her new full-length album "Coyote Red," which will be released in the spring. Come out and support your local Memphis folk scene! |
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The Fourth Wall blends music, theater, dance, and acrobatics into a new hybrid art form. This trio of musicians creates new interdisciplinary works and reinterprets classic repertoire to make music that leaps off the stage. On Saturday, January 29, The Fourth Wall presents their one-of-a-kind family-friendly variety show, Fruit Flies Like a Banana, in the East Atrium at Crosstown Arts. |
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The story of four teenage girls living in LA in 1980, mostly doing what they hell they want, anytime they want, with hardly any supervision or input by any sensible adult. Foxes takes place in a world and a time when being a teenager was fun, free, and DANGEROUS. Directed by Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, Flashdance)!! With a cameo concert by Kiss proteges and fellow Casablanca Records artist Angel (Punky Meadows!!!). Also with Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone, The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane, Freaky Friday - and that was JUST WHAT SHE WAS IN THAT WAS RELEASED IN 1976!!!!!), Cherie Currie (THE RUNAWAYS LEAD SINGER YA’LL!!!), Randy Quaid (Midnight Express, The Long Riders, Independence Day) in an early, super-creepy role and HOT LIPS Sally Kellerman (MASH, A Little Romance), as Jodie Foster’s uptight but distant mother!! |
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Mempho Presents Todd Snider on the Kemmons Wilson Family Stage at Crosstown Theater on Friday, February 4, 2022 and Saturday, February 5, 2022. |
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Prepare to be immersed in an atmosphere of artistic freedom that will take you on a journey through the striking melodies and uncharacteristic rhythms of jazz intertwined with spoken word. This platform will showcase a collaborative experience of the music, art, culture, heritage, and forms of jazz including renaissance jazz, be-bop, cool, and more. Experience the electrifying sounds of various legends such as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakely, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, and others. Get ready to be caught up in the mix of Notez&Flow! |