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SUMMARY:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents: FEMALE TROUBLE
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Female Trouble at Crosstown Theater. \nJohn Waters / 1974 / 97 minutes / Rated R\nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nGlamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble\, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine\, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse\, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport\, the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra\, “Crime is beauty\,” who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair. Shot in Waters’ native Baltimore on 16 mm\, with a cast drawn from his beloved troupe of regulars\, the Dreamlanders (including Mink Stole\, David Lochary\, Mary Vivian Pearce\, Edith Massey\, and Cookie Mueller)\, this film­—the director’s favorite of his work with Divine — comes to life through the tinsel-toned vision of production designer Vincent Peranio and costume designer/makeup artist Van Smith. An endlessly quotable fan favorite\, Female Trouble offers up perverse pleasures that never fail to satisfy. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-crosstown-arts-film-series-presents-female-trouble/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:MicroCinema: Selections from the Odù Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts present MicroCinema: Selections from the Odù Film Festival in Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater at Crosstown Arts\nWednesday\, July 19\, 2023\nDoors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7 pm\nTickets: Pay-What-You-Can \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nIndie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are excited to present a program in partnership with Black Freedom Fellowship and their Odù Film Festival! \nExperience a transformative selection of Black\, Indigenous\, and Queer voices from Bahia\, Brazil\, through this MicroCinema event curated by the Black Freedom Fellowship’s Odù Film Festival. These films intertwine the preservation of our planet\, ancestral heritage\, and queer identity to craft an action-inspiring path toward a future vital to our collective survival. This Indie Memphis x Black Freedom Fellowship MicroCinema event happens two days before the in-person “Odù Film Festival” takes place in Salvador\, Bahia\, Brazil\, featuring two days of film screenings from all over the world as well as art exhibitions\, art markets\, and music concerts.  \nThe films in this program will also be available to watch for a week virtually following the in-person screening on July 19. \nwww.blackfreedomfellowship.com/odu  \nwww.patreon.com/BlackFreedomFellowship
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/microcinema-selections-from-the-odu-film-festival/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Kafé Kirk: The Gospel According to Jazz Edition (SOLD OUT)
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Kafe Kirk: The Gospel According to Jazz Edition featuring Kirk Whalum\, Kevin Whalum\, and Keia Johnson. \nSunday\, July 16\, 2023\nCrosstown Theater\nBox office opens at 5 pm | Doors open at 5:30 pm\nShow begins at 6 pm\nTickets: SOLD OUT \nJoin Grammy-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum for Kafé Kirk\, an ongoing jazz series in Crosstown Theater featuring musical and spiritual collaborations with special guest artists. This iteration’s performance will feature Keia Johnson and Kevin Whalum. \nKEIA JOHNSON \n With over a decade of experience in the entertainment field; Keia has made a name for herself as the multifaceted artist that attacks each opportunity with gusto and her signature smile. Keia was born in San Antonio\, Texas but grew up all over the world in a military family. She listened to a wide range of artists growing up\, but it was the move to Memphis that helped her establish her sound and performance style. She has performed on some of the most iconic stages in Memphis (The Orpheum\, Cannon Center\, and festivals) and with some of the best talent Memphis has to offer\, like Justin Timberlake\, Wendy Moten\, The Bar-Kays\, and David Porter of Stax Records. Years later\, It was American Idol that served as the true catalyst for Keia to recognize who she was as an artist; the talent competition led her to Hollywood where “Miss Congeniality” wowed the judges for two seasons. Her audition performance of Celine Dion’s vocally rigorous “My Heart Will Go On” prompted guest judge and musical role model Mary J. Blige to simply declare: “She can sing!” In 2016\, the world seemed to open up for Keia as she travelled for three years with the BB King Allstar band on Holland America Cruise lines singing blues\, rock-and-roll\, jazz\, classic R&B\, and soul. She officially launched KJ Management\, an Entertainment Agency in 2021\, under which she had developed exclusive Memphis soul and jazz shows for riverboats. She gives private Vocal lessons to Artists & Students as well as artist development. She is currently writing/producing shows and musicals for regional theaters and stages. Make sure to keep up with her at XperiencEntertainment.com. \nKEVIN WHALUM \nKevin Whalum is best known for his stellar work with Kirk on his brother’s gospel series entitled\, Kirk Whalum\, The Gospel According To Jazz\, Chapters 1-4. \nChapter One was released in 1998 to critical acclaim\, and it put Kevin on everyone’s radar with his medley take on the Negro spirituals\, Wade In The Water/Motherless Child. It broke new ground in gospel. No one had tried anything that daring vocally in the genre previously. When he and Kirk performed the song later that year on the Stellar Awards broadcast\, the audience gave them a standing ovation. That was a pivotal moment. “Yeah\, that was special. I knew I was in front of some gospel purists who believe gospel should be one thing and one thing only\, but I reject the notion that praise for the Almighty has anything to do with a certain group of chords\, \nor a certain rhythmic pattern. Gospel is defined as the good news\, and as long as that is what fills my heart as I perform\, that is what will exude from me as I stand before God’s children anywhere in the world; in churches or nightclubs. They will feel me if they allow themselves to\, and aren’t too busy judging me because I sound a little different than what they consider gospel. If you love Jesus as I do\, you will feel me.”If Chapter 1 was Kevin’s introduction to gospel music fans\, then\, Chapter 2 was the \nsolidification of his presence. That release spawned the remake of an old Johnny “Guitar” Watson classic called\, I Wanna TaTa Ya\, Baby from the 1970s. Kirk has always left Kevin alone to choose the songs he wanted to record on each volume. “Kirk trusts me to provide him with solid ideas for covers\, so I said we should take that song and rename it I Wanna TaTa Ya\, Jesus. Our ‘thing’ is to take established hits from artists who didn’t necessarily write them for a gospel audience\, and flip them on their heads\, so I rewrote the lyric to change TaTa\, Ya to mean Thank Ya\, and boom…people loved it. That song was released in 2003\, and yet it is still requested everywhere from Dallas to Tokyo\, and from Stockholm to Cape Town.”Chapter 3 is responsible for bringing in the R&B fans among the Whalum brothers’ audience. For this live recording\, Kevin chose a song by the late Luther Vandross called\, Make Me A Believer. He would be joined on it by the now three-time Grammy winner\, Lalah Hathaway. The song was a runaway hit\, and was nominated for a Stellar Award for best video in 2008. Again\, Kevin rewrote the original lyric to suit its new purpose\, and found massive critical and commercial success. “Lalah and I are good friends\, and we had an absolute blast singing together. She’s such a singular talent. I knew it would do well\, although I had no idea it would do \nwhat it eventually did.”Chapter 4 is the latest installment in the series\, and it promises to be as noteworthy as the previous three. Kevin now has three solo albums under his belt: the self-produced solo debut\, Timetable (2002); the George Duke-produced\, One Life To Love (2008); and the new self-produced\, I Live For You (2016). Although Kevin eschews any effort to force him into a category or genre’\, he freely admits to defining himself as “primarily a jazz vocalist who just happens to be a Christian.” He exhorts\, “I hope I never agree to be just one thing. A true artist never wants that. I have been—and will remain—free to explore the musical universe. There’s too much out here to stay locked into one soundscape forever. Music is big\, but Jesus is infinitely bigger. I want to touch his face with everything he puts in my heart to do. I hope people find my new record\, I Live For You\, refreshing\, and dare I say it\, groundbreaking.” \nKIRK WHALUM \nSoulful\, passionate\, stirring…these are the words most often used to describe Kirk’s music. Forged from his Memphis (Tennessee) gospel roots and his 1980‘s initiation into the thriving Houston\, Texas nightclub scene\, Kirk’s big\, rich tenor sound is unmistakably his. The ’80s were highlighted by Kirk’s stepping out of his blossoming sideman role and forming his own band. It was there that Kirk ultimately developed both his “voice” and songwriting in the crucible of the local club scene––especially at a rooftop club called Cody’s. It was also in Houston where jazz pianist Bob James “discovered” him and brought him on tour\, which led to five successful albums with Columbia Records\, including Cache\, Kirk’s first #1 album. As well\, Kirk and Bob received a Grammy nomination for their collaboration album\, Joined at the Hip. After moving to Los Angeles\, Kirk became an in demand session player for top artists like\, Barbara Streisand\, Al Jarreau\, Luther Vandross\, Larry Carlton\, Quincy Jones and most notably\, Whitney Houston\, amongst many others. It’s his sax heard on the mega-hit\, “I Will Always Love You.” Kirk soon followed that career high point with his phenomenal hit album released on Warner Bros. Records\, For You\, perhaps the most successful of over 25 solo recordings to date; others include his eclectic\, and much lauded\, Gospel According to Jazz series\, (Chapters 1\, 2\, 3 and 4). In addition to his many solo projects\, Kirk was also a member of the popular soul/jazz group\, BWB\, which features Kirk as the “W” of the group with Rick Braun (trumpet) and Norman Brown (guitar).Kirk is the recipient of numerous awards and acknowledgements for his musical excellence including three Dove Award nominations\, an NAACP Image Award nomination and has won two Stellar Awards- Gospel music’s highest honor. A twelve time Grammy nominee\, Kirk won his first Grammy award (2011) for Best Gospel Song (“It’s What I Do”––featuring Lalah Hathaway) alongside life-long friend and gifted songwriter\, Jerry Peters.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/kafe-kirk-the-gospel-according-to-jazz-edition/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents: THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents The Marriage of Maria Braun at Crosstown Theater. \nRainer Werner Fassbinder / 1979 / 120 minutes / Rated R\nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nMaria (Hanna Schygulla) marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II\, only to have him disappear in the war. Alone\, Maria uses her beauty and ambition to prosper in Germany’s “economic miracle” of the 1950s. Fassbinder’s biggest international box-office success and the first part of his “postwar trilogy\,” The Marriage of Maria Braun is a heartbreaking study of a woman picking herself up from the ruins of her own life\, as well as a pointed metaphorical attack on a society determined to forget its past. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-crosstown-arts-film-series-presents-the-marriage-of-maria-braun/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Screen Acting
DESCRIPTION:Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts present Shoot & Splice: Screen Acting in Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater at Crosstown Arts\nTuesday\, July 11\, 2023\nDoors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7 pm\nTickets: Free and open to the public \nIndie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present our next Shoot & Splice: Screen Acting hosted by Akono Dixon. Akono will lead a presentation and discussion on the craft of acting; from building a character and working with a director\, to script analysis\, auditioning technique\, and more. A Memphis native\, Akono is a rising filmmaker with credits including DOLEMITE IS MY NAME\, EUPHORIA\, and the lead role in the upcoming Hallmark film\, SPRING BREAKTHROUGH directed by Mykelti Williamson.\n\n\n*Complimentary beverages provided by Crosstown Arts \nShoot & Splice is a FREE filmmaker forum presented by Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis\, featuring a wide variety of technical\, educational\, and unique topics of interest to the Memphis filmmaking community.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice-screen-acting/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents: PARIS IS BURNING
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Paris Is Burning at Crosstown Theater. \nJennie Livingston / 1990 / 76 minutes / Not Rated\nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nWhere does voguing come from\, and what\, exactly\, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene. Made over seven years\, Paris Is Burning offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses\,” from fierce contests for trophies\, to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia and transphobia\, racism\, AIDS\, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers\, drag queens\, and trans women — including Willi Ninja\, Pepper LaBeija\, Dorian Corey\, and Venus Xtravaganza — Paris Is Burning brings it\, celebrating the joy of movement\, the force of eloquence\, and the draw of community \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-crosstown-arts-film-series-presents-paris-is-burning/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents: HAPPY TOGETHER
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Happy Together at Crosstown Theater. \nWong Kar Wai / 1997 / 96 minutes / Rated R\nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nOne of the most searing romances of the 1990s\, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw\, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung as a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they break up\, make up\, and fall apart again and again. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-crosstown-arts-film-series-presents-happy-together/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230617T153000
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SUMMARY:PRIZM Ensemble presents A Juneteenth Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Theater\nSaturday\, June 17\, 2023\nDoors open at 6:30 pm | Event begins at 7 pm\nTickets: Free \nRESERVE YOUR SEAT \nJoin PRIZM Ensemble for a free concert celebrating Juneteenth with wonderful choral\, chamber\, and orchestral music\, featuring the Sensational Barnes Brothers. \nCelebrating Black composers such as Valerie Coleman\, Jessie Montgomery\, and Ken Burton\, PRIZM musicians and students will be joined by the Celebration Chorus to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African Americans.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/prizm-ensemble-presents-a-juneteenth-celebration/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Halloween lll: Season of the Witch (1982)
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Halloween III: Season of the Witch with a live score by Robert Traxler\, Natalie Hoffmann\, and Revenge Body in collaboration with Memphis Concréte Festival at Crosstown Theater. \nTommy Lee Wallace / 1982 / 98 minutes / Rated R\nTickets: $10 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nHospital emergency room Dr. Daniel “Dan” Challis (Tom Atkins) and Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin)\, the daughter of a murder victim\, uncover a terrible plot by small-town mask maker Conal Cochran (Dan O’Herlihy)\, a madman who’s planning a Halloween mass murder utilizing an ancient Celtic ritual. The ritual involves a boulder stolen from Stonehenge\, the use of Silver Shamrock masks\, and a triggering device contained in a television commercial — all designed to kill millions of children. \nPerformance by Robert Traxler\, Natalie Hoffmann\, and Revenge Body.   \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/halloween-lll-season-of-the-witch-1982/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:MicroCinema: Tribute to Barbara Hammer
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present MicroCinema: Tribute to Barbara Hammer.  \nCrosstown Theater\nWednesday\, June 14\, 2023\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Screenings begin at 7:00 pm\nTickets: Pay-What-You-Can \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nIn honor of the incredible experimental lesbian filmmaker\, Barbara Hammer\, Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are excited to bring this Tribute to Barbara Hammer for this month’s MicroCinema. A prolific filmmaker\, installation artist\, and pioneer of feminist and queer cinema for over 50 years\, Hammer’s work consistently and relentlessly explored the intimate experiences of lesbian relationships\, the erasure and censorship of queer history\, and the relationship between sex\, age\, and the body.  \nNitrate Kisses (1992)\, her first feature-length work\, is a foundational queer classic that takes the shape of an experimental documentary exploring queer history and its erasure in the archives and the movies — something she would continue to explore in later work. Her short\, Audience (1982)\, provides us with an insight into her vibrant personality and poses questions about the relationship between the artist\, the art\, and the audience experience that we wonder about to this day.  \nWe’re ecstatic to screen her work and celebrate her impact on experimental and queer cinema. \nMany thanks to Electronic Arts Intermix for this program! \nContent Advisory: This program does include depictions of explicit nudity.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/microcinema-tribute-to-barbara-hammer/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Phantom of the Paradise
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Phantom of the Paradise at Crosstown Theater. \nBrian De Palma / 1974 / 91 minutes / Rated PG \nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nDirected by Brian De Palma\, Phantom of the Paradise satirizes both horror films and rock groups in the story of a composer of a rock cantata on the theme of Faust\, who sells his soul for rock ’n’ roll. Oscar-winner Paul Williams stars and composed the superb rock musical score. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/phantom-of-the-paradise/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: On Writing with Craig Brewer & Hennah Sekander
DESCRIPTION:Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts present Shoot & Splice: On Writing with Craig Brewer & Hannah Sekander in Crosstown Theater.  \nCrosstown Theater\nTuesday\, June 6\, 2023\nDoors open at 6:30 pm | Event begins at 7 pm\nTickets: Free \nIndie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a conversation on film & TV writing between filmmaker Craig Brewer and writer Hennah Sekander. This wide ranging conversation will include topics such as the WGA strike\, the current creative & business culture of the industry\, ins and outs of the writers room\, and much more. Prepare for a fun\, engaging evening with two of the top writers in the current film & TV industry! \nShoot & Splice is a FREE filmmaker forum presented by Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis\, featuring a wide variety of technical\, educational\, and unique topics of interest to the Memphis filmmaking community.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice-on-writing-with-craig-brewer-hennah-sekander/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Suture
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Suture at Crosstown Theater. \nScott McGehee & David Siegel / 1993 / 96 minutes / Not Rated  \nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nInspired by the paranoid visions of John Frankenheimer’s Seconds\, the desert noir of Detour\, and the widescreen beauty of Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman of the Dunes\, Suture is one of the most outstanding neo-noirs of the 1990s. The wealthy and self-assured Vincent (Michael Harris) meets his blue-collar half-brother Clay (Dennis Haysbert) at their father’s funeral\, and is struck by their similarity. He decides to murder Clay and take his identity — only Clay survives the assassination attempt with no memory and is mistaken for Vincent. The fact that Harris is white and Haysbert is Black adds even more layers to a complex film that probes the very nature of identity. Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and winner of Sundance’s Best Cinematography award\, Suture has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/suture/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Seven Samurai
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Seven Samurai at Crosstown Theater. \nAkira Kurosawa / 1954 / 207 minutes / Not Rated \nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nOne of the most thrilling movie epics of all time\, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a 16th-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This three-hour ride from Akira Kurosawa — featuring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura — seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment\, delicate human emotions\, and relentless action\, into a rich\, evocative\, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/seven-samurai/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230518T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230518T160000
DTSTAMP:20260513T000859
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SUMMARY:Serial Mom
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Serial Mom at Crosstown Theater. \nJohn Waters / 1994 / 95 minutes / Rated R\nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nSerial Mom is a 1994 American black comedy written and directed by John Waters. Happy housewife Beverly Sutphin has a charmed life — a beautiful suburban home\, a successful dentist husband\, and two normal teenagers. However\, when one of her son’s teachers speaks disparagingly of the boy at a parent-teacher conference\, Bev runs the instructor over in the school parking lot. Suddenly she has an insatiable taste for murder. Six homicides later\, the cops get wise to her crimes.  \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/serial-mom/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230510T160000
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SUMMARY:MicroCinema: Shifting Lines - New Queer Animation
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present MicroCinema: Shifting Lines: New Queer Animation in Crosstown Theater.  \nCrosstown Theater\nWednesday\, May 10\, 2023\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Screenings begin at 7:00 pm\nTickets: Pay-What-You-Can \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nIndie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are honored to present Shifting Lines: New Queer Animation from Frameline Distribution. These six shorts traverse various styles of distinctive animation and live-action to explore relationships\, family\, and the development of identity in ways that are as thoughtful as they are stunning to watch. \nFrom the tenderness and awkwardness of first crushes in high school\, the warmth of chosen family\, to the honor and power in intergenerational Indigenous knowledge\, these expansive films remind us how much of our lives are formed by the intimate bonds we form with each other\, how they bend and fray\, and most importantly\, how we maintain them. \nMany thanks to Frameline Distribution for this program! \nContent Advisory: While these films are animated\, some films contain references and depictions of drugs and alcohol that make this program best suitable for those who are 16 and up.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/microcinema-shifting-lines-new-queer-animation/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230504T160000
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SUMMARY:Valerie And Her Week of Wonders
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Valerie And Her Week of Wonders at Crosstown Theater. \nJaromil Jireš / 1970 / 76 minutes / Not Rated \nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nA girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires\, witchcraft\, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping\, nonlinear fairy tale\, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot\, enchantingly scored\, and spilling over with surreal fancies\, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/valerie-and-her-week-of-wonders/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230502T160000
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Filmmaker Speed Meetings
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present the fourth annual Filmmaker Speed Meetings at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater at Crosstown Arts\nTuesday\, May 2\, 2023\n7 pm \nEVENT UPDATE: All spots for the Speed Meetings have been filled and the wait list is at capacity. However\, Indie Memphis staff will be in attendance and happy to speak with you about our artist development opportunities and offer advice on other ways to get involved in the film community. Thank you! \nThink of it like Speed Dating\, but for filmmaking guidance and mentorship. This is a great opportunity for new/rising/new-to-Memphis filmmakers to connect with other Memphis-based industry professionals. \nHOW IT WORKS \nFor one hour every 15 minutes\, filmmakers will rotate to different tables to meet and talk shop with other Memphis film professionals. These professionals will be writers\, directors\, actors\, editors\, technicians\, producers\, etc. Everyone is matched up — as best as possible — with people that share common interests or goals. \nThis is intended for filmmakers with either little experience and/or are new to Memphis and have not had many networking opportunities. \n\nNot all that apply may be selected to participate. Selection will depend on volume and how best the applicants can be matched with the attending professionals.\nIf you are not selected and just want to attend Shoot & Splice as usual\, fear not! Indie Memphis staff members will be on hand in the “lobby” to chat with you and answer any questions you may have about our filmmaker development opportunities.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/15927/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230430T143000
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SUMMARY:Mahogany Chamber Music Series: “Mahogany Magic”
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents the Mahogany Chamber Music Series: “Mahogany Magic” at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nSunday\, April 30\, 2023\nDoors at 5:30 pm | Concert at 6 pm\nTickets: $20 | $5 students \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThe Mahogany Chamber Music Series is a series of three chamber music concerts curated by Dr. Artina McCain\, spotlighting Black and other underrepresented composers and performers. \nFeaturing: \nTitus Underwood\, oboe \nCremaine Booker\, cello \nCaitlin Edwards\, violin \nArtina McCain\, piano \nTitus Underwood\, oboe  \nTitus Underwood is Principal Oboe of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra\, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music associate professor\, Emmy Award winner\, and 2021 recipient of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence award. He received his Master of Music from The Juilliard School and bachelors from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Also\, he has played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra\, Miami Symphony Orchestra\, Florida Orchestra\, Atlanta Symphony\, Puerto Rico Symphony\, and San Diego Symphony. Mr. Underwood has also played principal in Chineke!\, Gateways Music Festival\, and Bellingham Festival of Music. Underwood serves as teaching artist for Aspen Music Festival and the National Youth Orchestras program at Carnegie Hall. He also teaches and mentors for the National Alliance for Audition Support program maintained by the League of American Orchestras\, The Sphinx Organization\, and New World Symphony. His latest project was a short film he directed entitled “A Tale of Two Tails”. \nCaitlin Edwards\, violin \nViolinist Caitlin Edwards began her musical journey at the age of eight within a non-profit organization in her hometown of Birmingham\, Alabama. She later attended the University of Louisville (BM) and DePaul University (MM). Caitlin is a 2022 Esteemed Artist Award recipient from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events\, a 2021 3Arts/Walder Foundation awardee\, 2018 Gateways Music Festival Rising Star\, a co-curator with the Fulcrum Point New Music Project\, and a former fellow with the Chicago Sinfonietta. In addition\, she has received Grammy certificates for recordings on Disney’s “The Lion King” and for albums by John Legend and PJ Morton. She released her debut album\, “Exhale\,” in 2021. Caitlin is a classically trained violinist\, but she’s inspired by gospel\, jazz\, hip-hop\, and neo-soul. She composes original music and intentionally performs the works of Black composers to help ensure that these composers and their compositions are remembered and spotlighted for aspiring young BIPOC musicians and the world as a whole. Caitlin is a proud member of D-Composed and Ensemble Dal Niente. \nCremaine Booker\, cello \nNashville based cellist\, Cremaine Booker (also known as ThatCelloGuy)\, has performed extensively in the United States in addition to being a highly accomplished studio cellist. He currently serves as a cellist in the Iris Orchestra and is former principal cellist for the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra and The Jackson Symphony. He has also made appearances with the Trevecca Symphony\, the Sewanee Symphony\, Roy “Futureman” Wooten’s Black Mozart Ensemble\, and the Nashville Concerto Orchestra. He has performed with the likes of Hans Zimmer\, Carrie Underwood\, India.Arie\, Mickey Guyton\, Martina McBride\, Jewel\, Lindsey Stirling\, Michael W. Smith\, LeAnn Rhimes\, Mike Hicks\, and many others. In addition to his live performances he has recorded cello on projects such as Geostorm (2017)\, The Lion King (2019)\, and The Ruined King (2021). \nCremaine has performed masterclasses with teachers such as Natalia Koma\, YeonJin Kim\, Julia Tanner\, Eric Kutz\, Peter Sheppard\, and Yo-Yo Ma. Cremaine holds degrees from Middle Tennessee State University. \nCremaine plays on a modern cello gifted to him by William H. and Judith Scheide. \nArtina McCain\, piano \nHailed by the New York Times as a “virtuoso pianist” Artina McCain\, has built a formidable career as a performer\, educator and speaker. As a recitalist\, her credits include performances at Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre in London\, Weill Hall at Carnegie and Merkin Hall in New York City and more. Other highlights include guest appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra\, Memphis Symphony Orchestra and Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra. In 2022\, she was the mistress of ceremony for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. \n Dedicated to promoting the works of Black and other underrepresented composers\, McCain curates Underrepresented Composers Concerts for multiple arts organizations. She is an American Prize winner for her solo piano recordings of these works and won a Gold Global Music Award for her recent album project Heritage. In 2021\, Hal Leonard published her transcriptions of Twenty-Four Traditional African American Folk Songs.  \n McCain was a featured inspirational leader in the award-winning PBS documentary series Roadtrip Nation: Degree of Impact in an episode exploring the real-world impact of professionals with doctoral degrees in and outside of academia.  \n McCain’s performances have been heard on the Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK)\, Germany’s WDR and television appearances including features on CSPAN for the MLK 50 Commemoration. McCain is a three-time Global Music Awards winner including collaborative projects I\, Too (Naxos)\, with soprano Icy Monroe\, focused on African American Spirituals and Art Songs and Shades\, a collaboration with her husband and duo partner Martin McCain.  \n After not performing for 6 years while battling a performance injury\, she now enjoys a prolific concert career with more than 10 years of full injury recovery. She uses her recovery to serve as an advocate of musicians’ wellness–curating articles\, lectures\, and forums to educate teachers and students. Most recently the BBC featured her on the podcast Sideways telling her miraculous story of injury to recovery. McCain has written and presented on wellness and other topics in the Piano Magazine and at multiple universities\, Music Teachers National Association Conference and the National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy.  \n McCain graduated cum laude from Southern Methodist University. She received her Master of Music from Cleveland Institute of Music and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently\, she is Associate Professor of Piano and Coordinator of the Keyboard Area at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis and Co-Founder/Director of the Memphis International Piano Festival and Competition.  \nIn her spare time\, Artina enjoys boutique shopping\, traveling internationally and is an avid tea aficionado.  \nArtina McCain is a Yamaha Artist.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/mahogany-chamber-music-series-mahogany-magic/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230427T160000
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SUMMARY:Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Opening Night at Crosstown Theater. \nJohn Cassavetes / 1977 / 144 minutes / Rated PG-13\nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nIn a role equally as fragile and mercurial as A Woman Under the Influence’s “Mabel”\, Gena Rowlands is Opening Night’s “Myrtle”: a successful actress going kind of crazy in a play about aging crazily. John Cassavetes’ hymn to that berserk business of performing\, Opening Night is enhanced by its intense “old Hollywood” pedigree as Ben Gazzara\, John Blondell\, Paul Stewart and Cassavetes himself are the backing band for Rowlands’ knife-edged soloing. From the first scene\, the narrative is peppered with turn-on-a-dime ambiguity. Whole swathes of action take place “onstage” in front of a real-life audience watching the in-character cast — with a permeable membrane between stage and “reality” so tangible it hurts. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/opening-night/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230423T150000
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SUMMARY:Kafé Kirk with Kirk Whalum & Jazzmeia Horn (SOLD OUT)
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Kafé Kirk with Kirk Whalum and special guest Jazzmeia Horn in Crosstown Theater. \nSunday\, April 23\, 2023\nCrosstown Theater\nBox office opens at 5PM | Doors open at 5:30PM\nShow begins at 6PM\nTickets: General Admission $45 (plus fees) \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nJoin Grammy-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum for Kafé Kirk\, an ongoing jazz series in Crosstown Theater featuring musical and spiritual collaborations with special guest artists. This iteration’s performance will feature jazz singer Jazzmeia Horn. \nJAZZMEIA HORN\nJazzmeia Horn is an American jazz singer and songwriter. She won the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition in 2015. Horn’s repertoire includes jazz standards and covers of songs from other genres\, including by artists such as Stevie Wonder. She has been compared to jazz vocalists such as Betty Carter\, Sarah Vaughan\, and Nancy Wilson. \n“Horn is among the most exciting young vocalists in jazz\, with a proud traditionalism that keeps her tightly linked to the sound of classic figures like Nancy Wilson and Betty Carter\, but a vivacity of spirit and conviction that places her firmly in the present.” — The New York Times \nKIRK WHALUM\nSoulful\, passionate\, stirring…these are the words most often used to describe Kirk’s music. Forged from his Memphis\, Tennessee\, gospel roots and his 1980s initiation into the thriving Houston\, TX nightclub scene\, Kirk’s big\, rich tenor sound is unmistakably his. The ’80s were highlighted by Kirk’s stepping out of his blossoming sideman role and forming his own band. It was there that Kirk ultimately developed both his “voice” and songwriting in the crucible of the local club scene—especially at a rooftop club called Cody’s. It was also in Houston where jazz pianist Bob James “discovered” him and brought him on tour\, which led to five successful albums with Columbia Records\, including Cache\, Kirk’s first #1 album. As well\, Kirk and Bob received a Grammy nomination for their collaboration album\, Joined at the Hip. After moving to Los Angeles\, Kirk became an in demand session player for top artists like\, Barbara Streisand\, Al Jarreau\, Luther Vandross\, Larry Carlton\, Quincy Jones and most notably\, Whitney Houston\, amongst many others. It’s his sax heard on the mega-hit\, “I Will Always Love You.” Kirk soon followed that career high point with his phenomenal hit album released on Warner Bros. Records\, For You\, perhaps the most successful of over 25 solo recordings to date; others include his eclectic\, and much lauded\, Gospel According to Jazz series\, (Chapters 1\, 2\, 3 and 4). In addition to his many solo projects\, Kirk was also a member of the popular soul/jazz group\, BWB\, which features Kirk as the “W” of the group with Rick Braun (trumpet) and Norman Brown (guitar). \nKirk is the recipient of numerous awards and acknowledgements for his musical excellence including three Dove Award nominations\, an NAACP Image Award nomination and has won two Stellar Awards- Gospel music’s highest honor. A twelve time Grammy nominee\, Kirk won his first Grammy award (2011)for Best Gospel Song (“It’s What I Do”—featuring Lalah Hathaway) alongside life-long friend and gifted songwriter\, Jerry Peters.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/kafe-kirk-with-kirk-whalum-jazzmeia-horn/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230420T160000
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SUMMARY:Little Richard: I Am Everything
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Little Richard: I Am Everything at Crosstown Theater. \nLisa Cortés / 2023 / 98 minutes / Not Rated\nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nLike a quasar burning past the gaslight\, director Lisa Cortés’ eye-opening documentary explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music. Little Richard: I Am Everything shines a clarifying light on the Black\, queer origins of rock ’n’ roll\, and establishes the genre’s big bang: Richard Wayne Penniman. Testimonials from legendary musicians and cultural figures\, Black and queer scholars\, and interviews with the artist himself all exuberantly reclaim a history that was willfully appropriated by white artists and institutions. Cortés updates the canon with a treasure trove of rarely seen archival footage of Penniman. Among the gems are scenes with his Black and queer predecessors and contemporaries\, like Sister Rosetta Tharpe\, the mother of rock ’n’ roll who gave 14-year-old Penniman his first break. Cortés depicts Penniman’s complex journey as a conflicted revolutionary who careened between religion\, sex\, and rock ’n’ roll\, navigating the extreme tensions of race and sexuality of his time. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/little-richard-i-am-everything/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230419T160000
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SUMMARY:MicroCinema: IF/Then Southern Shorts
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present MicroCinema: IF/Then Southern Shorts.  \nCrosstown Theater\nWednesday\, April 19\, 2023\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Screenings begin at 7:00 pm\nTickets: Pay-What-You-Can \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nFor this month’s MicroCinema\, Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are ecstatic to have partnered with IF/Then Shorts to present an array of incredible\, often touching documentary shorts from filmmakers throughout the South. We’re glad to be able to include in this program a preview screening of Zaire Love’s SLICE\, which was a part of the 2021 IF/Then + Hulu Short Documentary Lab and the recipient of the 2020 Black Creators Forum Short Film Grant! \nThese IF/Then-supported films cover a vast swath of the region\, from Memphis to western rural Texas\, to New Orleans and Central Florida. They intimately and thoughtfully foreground workers who are reeling from the effects of the oil industry (WHEN IT’S GOOD\, IT’S GOOD)\, the deep impact the work of Haitian immigrants in the U.S. have on their families back home (MADAME PIPI)\, and those who’ve beautifully mastered the art of slicing right here in Memphis (SLICE). \nThank you to IF/Then Shorts for their work and support in making this program possible!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/microcinema-if-then-southern-shorts/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230413T160000
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SUMMARY:Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
DESCRIPTION:The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV at Crosstown Theater. \nAmanda Kim / 2023 / 109 minutes / Not Rated \nTickets: $5 at the door\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Films begin at 7:00 p.m. (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater \nThe father of video art and coiner of the term “electronic superhighway\,” Nam June Paik was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Director Amanda Kim tells the remarkable story of Paik as a citizen of the world and trailblazing artist\, who both saw the present and predicted the future with astonishing clairvoyance. With Steven Yeun reading Paik’s own written words — showcasing the artist’s strategic playfulness and immense creativity — Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV is a celebration of perhaps the most modern artist of all time. \nThe Crosstown Arts Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent\, international\, historically significant\, artistic\, experimental\, cult\, underground\, and documentary features.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/nam-june-paik-moon-is-the-oldest-tv/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230411T160000
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Intimacy on Set
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present Shoot & Splice: Intimacy On Set at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nTickets: Free\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | Event begins at 7:00 p.m. \nIndie Memphis & Crosstown Arts are excited to present a panel and conversation on Intimacy Coordinating. While not a new position\, intimacy coordination has recently become an on-set film industry expectation whenever actors are needed to perform vulnerable scenes that require high levels of trust and communication. \nOur panel of local coordinators have worked closely with many directors\, actors\, and crew\, while also furthering their knowledge through organizations such as Intimacy Choreographers of Color (ICOC) and the Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE). \nIntimacy Coordination covers a much broader range of cinematic scenes than one might realize – including stunt choreography – while assisting to create a safe\, trusting\, and creative set experience for all. To learn more about our panelists\, see their bios below. \nShoot & Splice is a FREE filmmaker forum presented by Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis\, featuring a wide variety of technical\, educational\, and unique topics of interest to the Memphis filmmaking community.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice-intimacy-on-set/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:The Bad Plus & Marc Ribot and the Jazz Bins
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents The Bad Plus & Marc Ribot and the Jazz Bins at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\nDoors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $35-45 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nThe Bad Plus \nReid Anderson (bass)\, Dave King (drums)\, Ben Monder (guitar)\, Chris Speed (saxophone) \nThe Bad Plus are the ultimate originals. A democratic unit with a clear vision and a refusal to conform to convention. For the past two decades they have played with spirit and adventure\, made their own rules and done so with a bold sense of creativity and intent. Avoiding easy categorization\, The Bad Plus has won critical acclaim and a legion of fans worldwide with their unique sound and flair for live performance. \nNow in their 21st year\, The Bad Plus continues to push boundaries as founding members Reid Anderson (bass) and Dave King (drums) embark on a new piano-less incarnation of the band with Ben Monder (guitar) and Chris Speed (tenor saxophone) – instigating a new wave of excitement and anticipation within the band that is re-energizing their sound and inspiration. The Bad Plus have constantly searched to bridge genres and techniques while exploring the infinite possibilities of exceptional musicians working in perfect sync. \nThe Bad Plus is set to release their 15th studio recording and debut self-titled album as a dynamic new quartet via Edition Records on Friday\, September 30th. “Evolution is necessary for life and creativity\,” say Dave King and Reid Anderson. “We’ve evolved\, but we’re still The Bad Plus.” \nMarc Ribot & The Jazz Bins \nMarc Ribot (guitar)\, Greg Lewis (organ)\, Joe Dyson (drums) \nMarc Ribot’s four months with jazz organ legend Brother Jack McDuff were his first ever with an internationally touring artist. Their 1979 itinerary included Ribot’s first concerts in Europe\, and his only to date in Gary\, Indiana and Rochester\, NY. Although the two never recorded together (due to artistic differences that became apparent in Ribot’s later work…Brother Jack reportedly spent much of their stage time fixing Ribot with what side musicians referred to as his “death ray”)\, Ribot never lost his affection for McDuff’s music and the Hammond organ dominated Soul Jazz scene from which it emerged. Says Ribot: “McDuff’s US audiences—the so-called ‘Chitlin Circuit— were just the hippest in the world: sophisticated about the music\, definitely…but also demanding the deepest soul while rewarding restraint in its expression. What this brought out in the musicians was every bit as intense as the music taking shape at CBGBs at the time. In fact\, I always felt the two scenes had something in common\, and I’ve been trying to express exactly what ever since.” \nFellow Jazz-Bin\, Greg Lewis\, is not only one of the greatest virtuosos of the Hammond b3 organ alive\, but perhaps the only one willing and able to haul a real Hammond b3 and Leslie speaker cabinet to live gigs in NYC! Says Ribot: “Greg is NYC’s best kept secret. He can tell a story on the Hammond like nobody else.” Rounded out with a TBA guest drummer\, The Jazz-Bins use deep grooves and over the top improvisation to channel the spirits of Newark’s Key Club Sparky J’s Lounge\, and NYC’s CBGB’s c/a 1977 into a quest for punk/soul salvation. The Jazz-Bins go— not exactly ‘ancient’\, but ‘back’— to the future\, to tap into a scene that never really existed (but should have\, will\, and does whenever people drop their preconceptions about ‘genre’ long enough to feel the groove)\, and a vibe that never really stopped. Dig it! \nNew Orleans native Joe Dyson has certainly been one to watch. He started playing music in his family’s church at just two years old. After being noticed for his peculiar talent\, Joe was placed in the Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp where he was shadowed by the late\, great clarinetist Alvin Batiste\, and his longtime band leader and mentor\, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison. He went on to graduate from the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA)\, and earned a Presidential Scholarship to his alma mater Berklee College of Music. \nJoe has shared the stage with Dr. Lonnie Smith\, Ellis Marsalis\, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah\, Jon Batiste\, Leo Nocentelli\, Sullivan Fortner\, Dirty Dozen Brass Band\, Pedrito Martinez\, Grammy Award winners Nicholas Payton and Pat Metheny among others.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-bad-plus-marc-ribot-and-the-jazz-bins/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Makaya McCraven
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Makaya McCraven at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\nDoors open at 6:30 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm\nTickets: $25 advance | $30 day of the show \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nMakaya McCraven is a prolific drummer\, compuser\, and producer. \nHis newest album\, In These Times\, is the triumphant finale of a project seven-plus years in the making. It’s a preeminent addition to his already-acclaimed and extensive discography\, and it’s the album he’s been trying to make since he started making records. \nMcCraven believes that the word “jazz” is “insufficient\, at best\, to describe the phenomenon we’re dealing with.” The artist\, who has been aptly called a “cultural synthesizer”\, has a unique gift for collapsing space\, destroying borders and blending past\, present\, and future into poly-textural arrangements of post-genre\, jazz-rooted 21st century folk music. Profiled in Vice\, Rolling Stone\, the Guardian\, and NPR\, among other publications\, he and the music he makes today are at the very vanguard of that phenomenon. According to the New York Times\, “McCraven has quietly become one of the best arguments for jazz’s vitality.” The artist explained to NPR in 2019\, “I don’t think what I’m doing is necessarily that far off of the legacy of jazz that I grew up in … I think one of the things that gives it strength is that people want to argue over it. That’s a good sign. That means there’s life here.” \nBorn in Paris in the Autumn of 1983 to Hungarian singer and flutist Ágnes Zsigmondi and African-American expat jazz drummer Stephen McCraven\, Makaya was raised in a vibrant\, creative community in the Northampton\, Massachusetts area\, where his father often played with artists like saxophonist and ethnomusicologist Marion Brown\, multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef\, and saxophonist Archie Shepp\, as well as a cadre of African Gnawa musicians. That scene\, with its enticing blend of cultures\, helped establish his philosophy around jazz as folk music. Meanwhile\, his mother’s music blended Eastern European folk traditions\, concurrently shaping his conceptions about the role of music in building and reflecting communities. \n“I’m really drawn to folk music. Music of aural tradition\, music that is of the people where it’s more of a collective experience of music and dance and culture that we all participate in and know as part of our being or as part of who we are.” He sees his work as a continuation of those traditions\, noting\, “I like to teach the music to musicians by ear\, and hope even when I bring in more challenging rhythms\, or difficult time signatures\, I am able to do it in a way that is of the body and of the people of the earth in a way that’s not necessarily some intellectual experiment\, but more something that’s dealing with people.” \nWhile immersed as a youth in global folk traditions\, he was also a child of the nineties\, deeply influenced by sample-based hip-hop. He observed that jazz was sometimes perceived by his peers as “something that was old\, corny\, white… going to get you beat up.” This directly countered his own experience with the music: “That was such a strange idea to me\, because the guys I grew up around were cool\, and [weren’t] buttoned up like that.” \nEventually he discovered bridges between jazz and hip-hop\, including classic jazz records being sampled by hip-hop producers such as Pete Rock\, and began to devote energy to “reappropriate this music to be what it is\, what it means to me\, and what it means for my people.” \nAfter cutting his teeth in the Western Massachusetts music scene\, co-founding a jazz-hip hop band called Cold Duck Complex that ultimately opened for The Pharcyde\, Digable Planets\, and the Wu-Tang Clan\, he and his partner (now wife\, comparative race studies scholar Nitasha Tamar Sharma) moved to Chicago in 2006. McCraven soon found himself immersed in both the creative and straight-ahead jazz scenes\, proving his versatility\, and along the way finding a community that mirrored the pulsating scene that birthed him artistically. Within five years’ time\, he’d established a name for himself\, gigging alongside scene stalwarts like Willie Pickens\, Marquis Hill and Jeff Parker. \nHe first connected with the founders of Chicago’s International Anthem label in late 2011\, and across 2012-2013 they hosted and recorded a series of improvised jazz nights featuring his combo at The Bedford\, a club situated in what was once an old basement bank vault. McCraven took 48 hours of recordings and sculpted beguiling hip-hop beats\, not unlike how Teo Macero looped and assembled Miles Davis’ On the Corner from improvised magic. At the time\, McCraven thought of the project\, which became the 2015 double LP release In The Moment\, as an opportunity to connect and to “find a young audience in this music. It just felt like the right time and a place where I could really connect with people.” That notion proved prophetic: JazzTimes called the album “one of the year’s most mesmerizing releases\,” the record was an “Album of the Week” pick by taste-making DJ Gilles Peterson on BBC 6 Music\, and it was chosen for “Best of 2015” lists by PopMatters\, NPR\, and the Los Angeles Times. \nMcCraven continued to hone his process of live improvisation and sampling with Highly Rare in 2017 (crafted from a live set recorded at Danny’s Tavern in Chicago)\, 2018’s Where We Come From(CHICAGOxLONDON Mixtape)\, which was built from recordings of a showcase at London’s Total Refreshment Centre\, and Universal Beings (also released in 2018). Universal Beings\, consisting of augmented live sessions in Chicago and New York\, in addition to pop-up studio sessions in London and Los Angeles\, concretely reflects his borderless multi-national ethos. The work featured varying configurations of international players\, including Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings from London\, Junius Paul and Tomeka Reid of Chicago\, Anna Butterss and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson from Los Angeles\, and Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas from New York. \nThe title of the album was culled from a sampled passage on the track “Brighter Days Beginning\,” in which percussionist Carlos Niño offers\, “We’re universal beings\,” a theme of borderlessness that resonated deeply with McCraven\, who grew up in a multicultural household and community. “I’m not beholden to this border or this city\,” McCraven told Vice in 2018\, “What is a place? Other than the people. It’s just dirt\, you know?” The resulting album was called “radiant” and “hypnotic” by Pitchfork. \nIn 2019\, McCraven both delivered a triumphant Jazz Night in America performance at South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago\, and mounted a multimedia performance of an early iteration of what became his new album In These Times\, at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis. \nIn the meantime\, he remixed Gil Scott-Heron’s final album (2010’s I’m New Here) for 2020’s We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven\, issued Universal Beings E+F Sides(also in 2020)\, and delved into the venerable Blue Note Records catalog in 2021 for Deciphering the Message\, each project also employing new improvisations and sampling\, helping to further cement his “beat scientist” moniker. Concurrently\, the seeds for 2022’sIn These Times were budding\, and their nurseries were stages around the globe. McCraven explains\, “As I’ve been touring\, I’ve been performing music off of the record In These Times… When In the Moment took off and I started touring a lot\, we would go on the road and 50% of the music was just my concept and my compositions.” \nIn These Times\, a collection of polytemporal compositions inspired as much by broader cultural struggles as McCraven’s personal experience as a product of a multinational\, working class musician community\, is the recording that McCraven has been trying to create for 7+ years\, as it’s been slowly cooking in the background while his other works were released. He began recording In These Times seven years ago\, but “for whatever reason\, Universal Beings just came to fruition much quicker. It just took more time for this to mature into everything it’s become. With the success of Universal Beings and the Universal Beings concerts that we did (with Red Bull) in Chicago at South Shore Cultural Center and le poisson rouge in New York\, I had an opportunity to realize the record not as a collection of four sides of trios and quartets\, but I turned that record as a performance into a 10 to 12-person concert\, and that experience ended up evolving my approach to In These Times.” \nIn These Times encompasses all he’s lived through\, as well as his lineage\, while also pushing the music forward. Music critic Passion of the Weiss suggested that “McCraven’s work\, both with younger players and the sounds of older recordings\, is part of a necessary conversation about the next evolution of the Black improvised music known colloquially as ‘jazz.’ He’s found the threads connecting the past with the present\, and is either wrapping them with new colors and textures\, or he’s plucking them gleefully like the strings of a grand instrument.” McCraven concurs: “To me\, that is the tradition that I want to try to take part in. Being well-rooted\, but walking into the future\, is really what all of the leaders in this music have done that I admire. And I think that resonates with people. Something that’s like how we know it\, but is evolving… It’s just where I am at\, where we’re at\, and the evolution of that\, and that’s what I’m trying to be.”
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/makaya-mccraven/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:Memphis Symphony Orchestra: MOZART AND ELECTRIC GUITAR CONCERTO
DESCRIPTION:Paul and Linnea Bert Classic Accents Series · 3\nMOZART AND ELECTRIC GUITAR CONCERTO\nFriday\, March 24\, 2023 · 6:30pm\nCrosstown Theater \nPurchase tickets here \nFriday\, March 24\, 2023 | 6:30pm | Crosstown Theater \nKalena Bovell\, conductor\nD.J. Sparr\, composer and electric guitar \nHAHN  Overture to Mozart\nSPARR Violet Bond: Electric Guitar Concerto\nVILLA-LOBOS  Sinfonietta No. 1\nMOZART  Symphony No. 31 “Paris” \nA concert of musical dedications: Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony headlines this concert\, paired with works dedicated to him by two South American composers\, Reynaldo Hahn and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Young composer and performer\, D.J. Sparr brings his breathtaking electric guitar concerto\, also dedicated to his musical inspiration: his grandmother\, Violet Bond.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/memphis-symphony-orchestra-mozart-and-villa-lobos/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:(SOLD OUT) Iron & Wine: Back to Basics – Part Three With Anna Mieke
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts presents Iron & Wine: Back to Basics — Part Three at Crosstown Theater. \nCrosstown Theater\nThursday\, March 23\, 2023\nDoors at 6 pm | Show at 7 pm\nTicketing: $40-70 \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nIron & Wine is the musical project of singer-songwriter Sam Beam. Born and raised in South Carolina\, Beam was teaching film when his home recorded debut\, The Creek Drank the Cradle\, was released on Sub Pop records in 2002. Garnering both critical and popular acclaim\, Beam was vaulted into the spotlight of the burgeoning indie-folk and Americana scenes. Now entering its 20th year\, Iron & Wine have released seven full length recordings\, numerous EPs / singles\, and collaborations with Calexico\, Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses) and Jesca Hoop all on their way to becoming a four-time GRAMMY nominee. Iron & Wine’s music has captured the emotion and imagination of listeners with their distinctly cinematic songs; in particular they’ve become synonymous with the movies Twilight and Garden State and continue to find a home in your favorite film\, TV show or streaming playlist. As the world continues to spin — so do Iron & Wine continue on their path of releasing new music and touring. \nAnna Mieke’s world radiates with an intense heat that lies closer to the desert or the jungle than her hometown of Wicklow\, Ireland. On her second album Theatre\, she invites listeners into this warmth\, enveloping us in a vivid dreamscape that mirrors her lush and adventurous upbringing. Her music is the⁠ surreal soundtrack of a vast personal plain steeped in nostalgia\, family\, memory\, death and dreaming—where gritty reality and romanticism meet. This duality is the thematic core of Theatre\, which focuses on the conflict between permanence and temporality\, the immaterial and material\, and how memories of places and people fade\, warp\, and reinvent themselves over time.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/iron-wine-back-to-basics-part-three/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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SUMMARY:MicroCinema: A String of Pearls - The Films of Camille Billops and James Hatch
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis present MicroCinema: A String of Pearls – The Films of Camille Billops and James Hatch.  \nCrosstown Theater\nWednesday\, March 15\, 2023\nDoors at 6:30 pm | Screenings begin at 7:00 pm\nTickets: Pay-What-You-Can \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE \nIndie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are proud to present three films from A String of Pearls: The Films of Camille Billops and James Hatch. Newly restored\, these three shorts\, Take Your Bags\, Older Women and Love\, and Suzanne\, Suzanne\, highlight the longtime creative partnership of artists\, writers\, and filmmakers Camille Billops and James Hatch. \nMany of the six films they made together pull from and explore Billops’ specific point of view\, her life\, and the lives of her family. These films are singular\, deeply creative\, and incisive in their examination of the stripping of culture and identity because of slavery (Take Your Bags)\, the experiences of love and dating later in life (Older Women and Love)\, and the deep ripple effects that abuse has on a relationship between mother and daughter (Suzanne\, Suzanne). \nWe’re grateful to Malkah Manouel and Third World Newsreel for making this MicroCinema possible!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/microcinema-a-string-of-pearls-the-films-of-camille-billops-and-james-hatch/
LOCATION:Crosstown Theater\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crosstown Theater
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