Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti is an emerging interdisciplinary artist. Her recent practice is related to exploring her body by creating performance, video, photography, and installations. Through multiple discourses and contexts, she is always rediscovering, reinventing, and reinterpreting her Iranian identity as a pivotal point for exploring her work in multiple and heterogeneous contexts.
“I am dealing with the psych of feeling ambiguity as being a multicultural individual, as this sense of ambiguity is ….
Devan Collins Del Conte is a queer fiction writer interested in how physical laws and landscapes shape human understanding and mythmaking, from folklore to science fiction. Her creative work employs the fantastical to explore those domains. Devan earned a BS in Physics and an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Memphis, where she served as a fiction editor and contest coordinator for the Pinch Literary Journal. She is a former SAFTA ….
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Crosstown Arts presents Morgan James’ Memphis Magnetic Tour in The Green Room. Memphis Magnetic is the third studio album from soul singer Morgan James. This album is a love letter to one of the great American birthplaces of soul. Rooted in her love of Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Otis Redding, Morgan James delivers as only she can. The Memphis Magnetic Tour will be a feast for the ears and the heart, from the soul of a great artist with a love for what is real and true in American music.
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Black Orpheus is a retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in the streets of Rio during Carnival. When released in 1959, Black Orpheus was an arthouse hit, driven by incredible cinematography, location, and bossa nova music.
Only later, people started to re-examine Black Orpheus, its popularity, and its audience — especially the idea of an all-black cast being shoehorned into a Greek myth through the lens of a white French director.
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.
Join us in The Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by contemporary jazz and soul artist Lynn Cardona.
Lynn Cardona is a contemporary jazz and soul artist living in Los Angeles, where she pens unguarded songs about love: the unrequited, the returned and ecstatic, the slow burn of longing and lust.
Khari Wynn is a guitarist from Boston, Massachusetts, now based in Memphis, Tennesee, best known for his work in the jazz-rock genre and hip hop. He is the son of acclaimed music critic/writer Ron Wynn and lived across from Willie Mitchell’s Royal Studios as a child. He began playing electric guitar at age fourteen and placed second in the 1999 National Jimi Hendrix Competition.
Khari has worked with and been the Music ….
