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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Robert Olen Butler
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Robert Olen Butler\, author of the novel Perfume River\, which examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family. \n\nAbout the Book \nFrom one of America’s most important writers\, Perfume River is an exquisite novel that examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family. Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian\, teaching at Florida State University\, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage\, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-War protests\, now bears the fractures of time\, both personal and historical\, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla\, the cracks remain under the surface\, whereas the divisions in Robert’s own family are more apparent: he has almost no relationship with his brother Jimmy\, who became estranged from the family as the Vietnam War intensified. Robert and Jimmy’s father\, a veteran of WWII\, is coming to the end of his life\, and aftershocks of war ripple across their lives once again\, when Jimmy refuses to appear at his father’s bedside. And an unstable homeless man whom Robert at first takes to be a fellow Vietnam veteran turns out to have a deep impact not just on Robert\, but on his entire family. \nAbout the Author \nRobert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of sixteen novels\, including Hell\, A Small Hotel\, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process\, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-robert-olen-butler/
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SUMMARY:Hustle: Demystifying Public Art with the Urban Art Commission
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Lauren Kennedy\, Siphne Sylve and Allison Hennie of the UrbanArt Commission to learn more about UAC\, its resources and opportunities. Why is UAC involved in Hustle\, and what resources can it offer Memphis artists? Explore UAC’s public art process as well as the future of the organization. \nPresentation with Q&A to follow. \nProgram begins at 6 pm\nComplimentary food and drinks \nHustle: professional development for artists is a free program organized by ArtsMemphis\, UrbanArt Commission\, and Crosstown Arts. The series will provide visual artists with information\, resources\, and opportunities to support them in the development of their professional careers. Workshop topics will range from positive studio practices to pricing work and navigating gallery representation. Questions? Contact Mary Jo Karimnia at maryjo@crosstownarts.org
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/hustle-demystifying-public-art-with-the-urban-art-commission/
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Jacqueline Woodson
DESCRIPTION:THE FIRST OFFICIAL EVENT OF THE 2016 MID-SOUTH BOOK FESTIVAL! \n\nJoin us for an evening with the author of the best-selling memoir “Brown Girl Dreaming\,” Jacqueline Woodson\, as she shares with us her lyrical new novel\, “Another Brooklyn.” \nAbout the book:\nRunning into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August\, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything until it wasn’t. For August and her girls\, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets\, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful\, talented\, brilliant a part of a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful veneer\, there was another Brooklyn\, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways\, where ghosts haunted the night\, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. Like Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina\, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood\, the promise and peril of growing up\, and exquisitely renders a powerful\, indelible\, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives. \nAbout the author:\nJacqueline Woodson is the bestselling author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults\, middle graders\, and children\, including the New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming\, which won the 2014 National Book Award\, the Coretta Scott King Award\, a Newbery Honor Award\, an NAACP Image Award\, and the Sibert Honor Award. Woodson was recently named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She lives with her family in Brooklyn\, New York.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-jacqueline-woodson/
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SUMMARY:Working Writer's Cocktail Hour\, 5th ed.
DESCRIPTION:the back-to-school edition. for writers. \nin the interests of continuing to further cultivate and connect the writing community of Memphis\, story booth is hosting the 5th edition of Crosstown Arts‘ Working Writers’ Cocktail Hour\, on Wednesday\, August 24\, from 5:30 to 7 pm\, in conjunction with sponsor Memphis Daily News. \nall writers who live and work in Memphis—whether writers of poetry\, fiction\, creative nonfiction\, screenwriting\, playwriting\, journalism\, art writing\, music writing—are invited to visit story booth for an hour (or so) to do what it normally takes an expensive conference to make happen during the down-times: bring a group of writers together to mingle\, have a drink\, and make connections with other working writers they may or may not have known before. \nwhether your day-job is writing-related or not—if you work at writing\, this means you. \nThis event is free. story booth’s address is 438 N. Cleveland Ave. \nFor more information on story booth or Crosstown Arts\, call Nat Akin at 901.573.8444\, or visit crosstownarts.org.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/working-writers-cocktail-hour-5th-ed/
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SUMMARY:Tommy Kha: A Real Imitation Booksigning
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading\, signing\, and sale of “A Real Imitation” (Ain’t Bad) with New York/Memphis-based artist Tommy Kha. \n\n\n\nGrowing up in Memphis\, Tennessee\, Tommy Kha felt a pervasive alienation from his surroundings and was often mistaken for a tourist or ‘foreigner.’ Gesturing to his eyes\, strangers would inquire about his ethnicity. As he approached adolescence\, these inquiries evolved into questions concerning his sexuality\, adding a new layer to his perceived outsider status. These experiences followed him even to graduate school at Yale University\, where declining to give a stranger a cigarette outside a bar was met with the impertinent invitation for Kha\, a native Memphian of Chinese descent\, to “go back to Japan.” Though these hurtful experiences had become commonplace\, Kha remained unscathed; he’d been hearing these types of things his whole life. Discussing his recent series A Real Imitation and how he remains unable to broach the subject of his sexuality with his mother\, grandmother\, and most of his family\, Kha says\, “I think subconsciously\, I made these pictures as a response to feeling forced to hide. So I’m trading guises and trying to reflect that. I think this is how the project will end—when they find out.” \nThrough A Real Imitation\, Kha uses a discordant mix of performance\, self- portraiture\, and iconic pictures of the Memphis landscape to understand and underscore his uncanny and complex experience of feeling like an outsider at home and in his own skin. Obsessed with photography’s ability to reveal and conceal\, Kha’s work pushes its function (as Diane Arbus once described it) as a purveyor of secrets. Straying from loud or heavy-handed depictions of cultural identity\, he illustrates his alienation with a constellation of visual poems that quietly capture a disruption between his projected likenesses and how he sees himself. \n-Jon Feinstein
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/tommy-kha-a-real-imitation-booksigning/
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SUMMARY:Memphis ZineFest 2016
DESCRIPTION:Join us to see and purchase new zines created by community workshop participants\, story booth workshop participants\, and professional “zinesters” from Memphis and beyond! \nFeatured vendors (as of July 10)\nRickie & Aimee\nGrrl Punch Magazine\nPorceline Teeth Zines\nWWW (Courtney & Adele)\nStuffed Animal\nEric C\nWALLS DIVIDE PRESS \nVENDORS WANTED!\nWe have about 10-15 table spaces for local vendors\, please email Erica Qualy (ericaqualy@yahoo.com) to reserve your spot!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/2nd-annual-zinefest/
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SUMMARY:Zine Workshop
DESCRIPTION:this workshop gives participants the chance to write(design/draw/collage\, etc.) and self-publish an original “zine\,” and then to display their work at our second-annual ZineFest on Friday\, July 29\, alongside the work of professional “zinesters” from Memphis and beyond. participants will develop and display their creative writing and art and design skills\, and they’ll leave with a better understanding of the elements and power of DIY publishing. participants will also design a collaborative zine during the week\, so that each participant leaves with at least two original zines in hand. ZineFest was a big event its first year\, and this year should be even better. led by professional zinester and artist Erica S. Qualy. \n20 participants / for entering and current middle and high school students \nContact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org to sign up!  \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/zine-workshop-festival/
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SUMMARY:Community Zine-Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Don’t know what a “zine” is? Never made one before? Do you want to but just don’t have the means? \nLearn a little about the history of zine making and zine culture. Meet other zine-sters in the Memphis area and get inspired! \nBasic zine-making supplies will be provided\, but if you can\, please BYOScissors. \nFree admission\, all ages\nLed by artist Erica S. Qualy \n\n\nWould you like to volunteer your time or donate some of your old zine-making supplies? We need people to help with set-up and take-down!\nPlease contact Erica Qualy (ericaqualy@yahoo.com) if you’d like to get involved. \nFOLLOWING ITEMS ARE BEING ACCEPTED (and may be dropped off at Storybooth anytime during working hours):\n-old books & magazines-\n-standard computer paper-\n-construction paper and/or interesting scrap paper-\n-gluesticks-\n-scotch tape-\n-sharpies\, pencils\, pens-\n-staples-\n-hole punchers (decorative or plain)-\n-stickers-\n-scissors-\n-markers-
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/community-zine-making-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Write Lab
DESCRIPTION:WRITE LAB is an opportunity for those who want to begin writing creatively\, or for those who already are\, who would like feedback on their work from peers and from a professional fiction writer\, in a workshop setting. participants will learn how to give and receive constructive criticism on their written work\, an essential and invaluable skill for any serious writer. participants must commit to at least one two-week block of time to participate. a book of all the critiqued and edited stories will be released at the end of the summer. \nMEETS WEDNESDAYS IN JUNE (8\, 15\, 29) AND JULY (6\, 20)\, 1-3 PM \nfor entering and current high school students | open enrollment 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/write-lab-2/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Donald Ray Pollock
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and the Booksellers at Laurelwood present Visiting Writer Donald Ray Pollock upon the release of his newest  novel\, The Heavenly Table. \n\nFrom Donald Ray Pollock\, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff\, comes a dark\, gritty\, electrifying (and\, disturbingly\, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. \nIt is 1917\, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio\, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son\, Eddie\, and his wife\, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family’s entire fortune\, his life is put on a surprising\, unforgettable\, and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it? \nIn the gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah\, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers\, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways\, placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genre’s literary masters. \n“In 1917\, just as another hellish August was starting to come to an end along the border that divides Georgia and Alabama\, Pearl Jewett awakened his sons before dawn one morning with a guttural bark that sounded more animal than man. The three young men arose silently from their particular corners of the one room shack and pulled on their filthy clothes\, still damp with the sweat of yesterday’s labors. A mangy rat covered with scabs scuttled up the rock chimney\, knocking bits of mortar into the cold grate. Moonlight funneled through gaps in the chinked log walls and lay in thin milky ribbons across the red dirt floor. With their heads nearly touching the low ceiling\, they gathered around the center of the room for breakfast\, and Pearl handed them each a bland wad of flour and water fried last night in a dollop of leftover fat. There would be no more to eat until evening\, when they would all get a share of the sick hog they had butchered in the spring\, along with a mass of boiled spuds in wild greens scooped onto dented plates with a hand that was never clean from a pot that was never washed. Except for the occasional rain\, every day was the same.”\n— from The Heavenly Table \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\n\nDonald Ray Pollock\, recipient of the 2009 PEN/Bingham Fellowship\, made his literary debut in 2008 with the critically acclaimed story collection\,Knockemstiff.  He worked as a laborer at the Mead Paper Mill in Chillicothe\, Ohio\, from 1973 to 2005.  He holds an MFA from Ohio State University. His work has appeared in\, among other publications\, Epoch\, Granta\, and theNew York Times. \n\nADVANCE PRAISE\n\nAdvance praise for The Heavenly Table: \n“With furious prose and a Faulknerian eye for character\, Pollock (The Devil All the Time) populates his second novel with dozens of memorable people who embody America’s headlong leap toward the future in the early 20th century. \nIn 1917\, everything changes for the Jewett brothers—Cane\, the capable one; Cob\, the “slow” one; and Chimney\, the hothead—upon their father’s sudden ascension to the “heavenly table.” With the exploits of their pulp fiction hero Bloody Bill Bucket fresh in their minds\, the brothers embark on a violent journey north\, escaping the backbreaking\, fetid swamps on the Georgia-Alabama border and their lives under the thumb of sadistic landowner Maj. Thaddeus Tardweller. In southern Ohio\, aging farmer Ellsworth Fiddler and his wife wait for their prodigal son to return home after a brief absence\, during which he may or may not have enlisted in the United States Army to fight in Europe. Facing inexorable change—automobiles\, airplanes\, the machinery of war and agriculture—Ellsworth and others who frequent the local mercantile are “in agreement that the world now seemed head over heels in love with what tycoons and politicians kept referring to as ‘progress.’ ” But the Fiddlers cannot fathom how their lives will be transformed when the Jewetts ride into town on a crime spree that has made them the most wanted men in the country. \nSet against the backdrop of America’s involvement in WWI and the rise of motorized and electrical technology\, Pollock’s gothic\, relentless imagination seduces readers into a fertile time in America’s history\, exploring the chaos\, wonder\, violence\, sexuality\, and ambition of a nation on the cusp of modernity—and the outmoded notion of redemption in a world gone to hell.”\n—Publishers Weekly (starred) \n“Donald Ray Pollock is a master-worker.  This great novel flows like buttermilk\, so smooth and entertaining that you won’t be ready for the left hook it delivers to your heart or its sophisticated moral analysis of human life.  Pollock has an omniscient eye like Gogol\, taking in a vast scene while spinning tales within tales.  Readers will love him\, writers will study him.”\n—Atticus Lish\, author of Preparation for the Next Life \n“The Heavenly Table is brilliant and unforgettable.  In his trademark blend of humor and pathos\, Donald Ray Pollock gives us a view into life’s darkest corners\, without ever forgetting there is a lighter side as well.”\n—Philipp Meyer\, author of American Rust and The Son \n“Think of The Heavenly Table as an antic\, shambolic\, guilty pleasure. Pollock’s prose is compulsively readable and often very funny.”\n—Booklist \n“A darkly comic gorefest by a gifted writer.”\n—Kirkus \n“In a crowded room full of voices\, Don Pollock’s voice is so distinct you’ll hear first and won’t ever\, ever forget it. Nor will you want to. And the kicker is this: He somehow keeps getting better.”\n—Tom Franklin\, author of Poachers and Crooked Letter\, Crooked Letter \n“The Heavenly Table is the latest and strongest evidence that Donald Ray Pollock is one of the most talented and original writers at work today. With uniquely vivid and graceful prose he renders a tale destined to linger in the reader’s mind\, a story by turns violent and darkly amusing\, and always powerful. The novel is sure to be ranked among the year’s best.”\n—Michael Koryta\, New York Times-bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead \n“The Heavenly Table is a ferociously gothic ballad about desperate folks with improbable dreams and scant means. It is potent and chimeric\, dank\, violent\, swamped in tragedy—and funny as hell.”\n—Daniel Woodrell\, author of The Maid’s Version and Winter’s Bone
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SUMMARY:Film Workshop + Festival
DESCRIPTION:this workshop gives participants the chance to script\, shoot\, edit\, and screen their own independent\, original films—all in one week. we’ll make use of Crosstown Arts’ brand-new digital lab to edit\, and then we’ll premiere all films at a mini-film festival on the last Friday of the workshop. led by Crosstown Arts’ professional videographer\, Justin Thompson\, each participant will receive a DVD with all the participants’ films. \n10 participants | for entering and current middle-school students \nContact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org to sign up!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/film-workshop-film-festival/
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SUMMARY:Write Lab
DESCRIPTION:WRITE LAB is an opportunity for those who want to begin writing creatively\, or for those who already are\, who would like feedback on their work from peers and from a professional fiction writer\, in a workshop setting. participants will learn how to give and receive constructive criticism on their written work\, an essential and invaluable skill for any serious writer. participants must commit to at least one two-week block of time to participate. a book of all the critiqued and edited stories will be released at the end of the summer. \nMEETS WEDNESDAYS IN JUNE (8\, 15\, 29) AND JULY (6\, 20)\, 1-3 PM \nfor entering and current high school students | open enrollment 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/write-lab/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spoken Word-Shop & Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:if you are interested in learning how to better put verses together for poetry or music (or just to express yourself)\, and then how to effectively perform these original pieces onstage\, join us for our first-ever spoken-word workshop. taught by professional actress\, playwright\, and spoken-word artist Jazmin Miller\, the “word-shop” will begin with a workshop in crafting and revising verse/prose poetry\, and then on Friday of this week\, we’ll have a poetry slam event and chapbook signing\, open to the public. each participant will receive a chapbook with the original poems of all the participants. \n15 participants capacity  | for entering and current high-school students \nContact nat@crosstownarts.org to sign up!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/spoken-word-shop-poetry-slam/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160608T140000
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SUMMARY:Working Writer's Cocktail Hour\, 4th edition
DESCRIPTION:In the interests of further cultivating and connecting the writing community of Memphis\, story booth is hosting the fourth edition of Crosstown Arts‘ Working Writers’ Cocktail Hour\, on Wednesday\, June 8\, from 5:30 to 7 pm\, in conjunction with sponsor Memphis Daily News. \nAll writers who live and work in Memphis–whether writers of poetry\, fiction\, creative nonfiction\, screenwriting\, playwriting\, journalism\, art writing\, music writing—are invited to visit story booth for an hour (or so) to do what it normally takes an expensive conference to make happen during the down-times: bring a group of writers together to mingle\, have a drink\, and make connections with other working writers they may or may not have known before. The founding idea of San Francisco Writers’ Grotto serves as some inspiration here: “Our original hypothesis–that community nurtures productivity–has proven abundantly true.” \nWhether your day-job is writing-related or not–if you work at writing\, this means you. \nThis event is free. story booth’s address is 438 N. Cleveland Ave. \nFor more information on story booth or Crosstown Arts\, call Nat Akin at 901.573.8444\, or visit crosstownarts.org.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/working-writers-cocktail-hour-4th-edition/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160512T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160512T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T032211
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160502T164012Z
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SUMMARY:Woodworking Show
DESCRIPTION:Peruse fine woodworking designed and handcrafted by Caleb Sweazy right here in Memphis\, Tennessee. \nOrganized by Caleb Sweazy 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/woodworking-show/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160505T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160505T111500
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SUMMARY:Northwest Prep Residency Book Release: Stereotyped from the Jump
DESCRIPTION:story booth would like to thank the administration and faculty of Northwest Preparatory Academy for working with us to to create our first-ever class residency. \nFor four weeks in March on Tuesday and Thursday mornings\, young writers from Northwest Prep met in story booth for workshop sessions as part of their English class to produce the writing (and the cover art) for each of these original\, limited-edition books. \nSpecific thanks go to Ms. Crystal Johnson-Evans\, teaching artist and Northwest Prep’s English Language Arts Department Chair; and to  Northwest Prep Principal\, Mr. Roger Jones\, for embracing the idea and allowing Northwest Prep students to participate in this literary-arts experience.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/northwest-prep-residency-book-release-stereotyped-from-the-jump/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160421T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160421T163000
DTSTAMP:20260424T032211
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SUMMARY:Party with the Pinch
DESCRIPTION:Join the staff of The Pinch Literary Journal in celebration of the official release of their stunning Spring 2016 issue! \nThere will be food and drink\, of course – Pinch Punch! \nYou will be regaled with readings from featured contributors\, including those of award-winning poet\, Madison McCartha and melty-cheese West Coast loving fiction writer\, Kerry Donoghue. \nBack by popular demand is the silent auction with more fabulous literary and wholesome goodies so don’t miss your chance to bid and help raise funds that keep our journal in print. \nWe could be persuaded to dance again… \nJoin us! \nThe Pinch Literary Journal facebook page
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/party-with-the-pinch/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160412T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T032211
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SUMMARY:Hustle: Fine Tuning your Studio Practice
DESCRIPTION:Your studio practice is the front line of your art career. Making your work needs to be the highest item on your priority list\, but how do you get it there and keep it there with all of the other pressures and obligations in your life? Learn some secrets to success for skyrocketing your career while keeping your lifestyle in balance. \nSession hosted by Terry Lynn\, Susan Maakestad\, Lawrence Matthews & Nick Pena \nComplimentary food and drinks\nProgram begins at 6 pm \nHustle: professional development for artists is a free program organized by ArtsMemphis\, UrbanArt Commission\, and Crosstown Arts. The series will provide visual artists with information\, resources\, and opportunities to support them in the development of their professional careers. Workshop topics will range from positive studio practices to pricing work and navigating gallery representation. Questions? Contact Mary Jo Karimnia at maryjo@crosstownarts.org
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/hustle-fine-tuning-your-studio-practice/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160408T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160408T160000
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SUMMARY:Impossible Language
DESCRIPTION:Ongoing contemporary poetry series organized by Ashley Roach-Freiman. This installment features readings by Michal Robins\, Adam Clay\, and Ada Limon. \nLearn more \nFacebook event  \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/impossible-language-5/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160406T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160406T103000
DTSTAMP:20260424T032211
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SUMMARY:Page to Stage Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm\, begins Feb. 3—lasts 8 weeks \nfree program for middle school students at Humes Preparatory Academy; registration is now closed \nled by professional actress and playwright Jazzy Miller\, and Rhodes College’s theatre class \nThis theatre workshop is a reprise of our very popular “Page to Stage” workshop from the fall\, where young playwrights and actors from Humes Preparatory Academy write their own collaborative script and stage a final performance at Rhodes McCoy Theatre. This spring\, in addition to the original “Page to Stage” workshop\, we’re also doubling in size and adding another session at the same time that will focus on the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616\, celebrated with several events at Rhodes in April. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/page-to-stage-workshop/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160404T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160404T113000
DTSTAMP:20260424T032211
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160302T162913Z
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SUMMARY:Film Production Workshop
DESCRIPTION:free program for high school students—max 10 participants \nled by professional videographer Justin Thompson \nto sign up\, please contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org or 901-573-8444 \nThe 2016 Spring Film Production workshop at story booth will offer students an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of documentary film production.  In this hands-on workshop\, the students will be introduced to the history\, aesthetics\, and concepts of documentary film production\, the basics of digital-cinema camera operation\, lighting\, sound recording\, and editing. The students will use the documentary form to tell their own stories and stories about the people and things that shape their world. The workshop will culminate in a special screening of the student films\, as well as an opportunity to submit their work to potentially be shown as part of a youth programming block during the 2016 Indie Memphis Film Festival. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/film-production-workshop/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160324T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160324T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T032211
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Chris Offutt
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and the Booksellers at Laurelwood present critically-acclaimed fiction\, nonfiction\, and screen writer Chris Offutt\, as he reads from and signs his new memoir\, My Father\, the Pornographer (Atria Books). \nMemphis writer and publisher Eric Barnes joins in the conversation. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nChris Offutt’s books include the story collections Kentucky Straight and Out of the Woods\, the novel The Good Brother\, and the memoirs The Same River Twice and No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home. His work has also appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays. In addition\, he has written extensively for television\, most notably for HBO’s True Blood and Treme and the Showtime series Weeds. His work has received awards from the Lannan Foundation\, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters\,National Endowment for the Arts\, and Whiting Awards for both fiction and nonfiction. He lives near Oxford\, MS\, where he teaches in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nWhen Andrew Offutt died\, his son\, Chris\, inherited a desk\, a rifle\, and eighteen hundred pounds of pornographic fiction. Andrew had been considered the “king of twentieth-century smut\,” with a writing career that began as a strategy to pay for his son’s orthodontic needs and soon took on a life of its own\, peaking during the 1970s when the commercial popularity of the erotic novel reached its height. \nOver the long summer of 2013\, Chris returned to his hometown to help his widowed mother move out of his childhood home. As he began to examine his father’s manuscripts and memorabilia\, journals\, and letters\, he realized he finally had an opportunity to gain insight into the difficult\, mercurial\, sometimes cruel man he’d loved and feared in equal measure. Only in his father’s absence could he truly make sense of the man and his legacy. \nWith his dutiful wife serving as typist\, Andrew wrote from their home in the Kentucky hills\, locked away in an office no one dared intrude upon. In this fashion he wrote more than four hundred novels\, including pirate porn\, ghost porn\, zombie porn\, and secret agent porn. The more he wrote\, the more intense his ambition became and the more difficult it was for his children to be part of his world. \nIn My Father\, the Pornographer\, Offutt takes us on the journey with him\, reading his father’s prodigious literary output as both a critic and as a son seeking answers. This is a book about the life of a working writer who supports his family solely by the output of his typewriter; it’s about the awful psychic burdens one generation unthinkingly passes along to the next; and it’s about growing up in the Appalachian hills with a pack of fearless boys riding bicycles through the woods\, happy and free. \nCRITICAL ACCLAIM:\n“My Father\, the Pornographer is contemporary memoir at its best. It achieves the rare miracle of re-creating the human heart on the page.” The Rumpus \n“One of the most sensitive\, nuanced examinations of father and son relationships I’ve read.” The Boston Globe \n“Chris Offutt owns one of the finest\, surest prose styles around\, ready and able to convey the hardest truth without flinching. Now Offutt enters the darkest and most mysterious of places—the cave of a monstrous enigma named Andrew J. Offutt—armed with nothing but his own restless curiosity. Spoiler alert: He makes it out alive\, walking into the daylight to bring us a deeper\, funnier\, more tender and more heartbroken truth—and his masterpiece.” Michael Chabon \n“Everything Chris Offutt writes is beautiful and brilliant\, but My Father\, the Pornographer is an astonishing house of mysteries\, and his most moving book yet. It’s about family and secrets and a literal ton of pornography\, but also\, fascinatingly\, what it means to make a writing life\, whether high art or pulp.” Elizabeth McCracken
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-chris-offutt/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160324T114500
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SUMMARY:Maps & Legends Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays from 3:45 to 4:45 pm\, begins Feb. 18—lasts 6 weeks \nfree program for middle school students—max 15 participants \nled by critically-acclaimed writer Barry Wolverton\, author of Neversink and The Vanishing Island (Walden Pond Press/Harper Collins) \nto sign up\, please contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org or 901-573-8444 \nOur creative-writing workshop for spring will take its inspiration from The Vanishing Island\, Barry’s first book in the series The Chronicles of the Black Tulip. We’ll discuss the importance of maps and mapmaking to imaginative storytelling\, and how maps shaped The Vanishing Island as well as other popular works of fantasy such as Harry Potter\, The Lord of the Rings\, and The Chronicles of Narnia. Participants will create maps to chart their own fantastical worlds and then write the legends to accompany them. This workshop will culminate in a book-release party of all the participants’ stories. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/maps-legends-workshop/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160322T114500
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SUMMARY:Screenprinting Workshop
DESCRIPTION:tuesdays from 3 to 4:45 pm\, begins Feb. 16—lasts 6 weeks \nfree program for high school students—max 15 participants \nled by Memphis College of Arts graduate students Lindsey Mashburn and Kayla Selby \nto sign up\, please contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org or 901-573-8444 \nThis workshop will be a once-a-week introduction to screen printing\, open to all levels of students. Screen printing has been used over the decades to create vibrant advertisements\, pop-culture art\, underground propaganda\, and so much more.  We will focus primarily on learning the basic techniques involved; focusing on a more traditional\, hands-on\, reduction approach. The class will show students how to create vibrant\, creative works of art\, and we will draw inspiration from our favorite books\, movies\, and plays.  Screen printing is an incredibly versatile artistic practice\, and over the course of this workshop students will gain the confidence and skills they need to create a wide range of new work.  If our schedule allows us the time\, we will also show the students how to create some fairly simple\, handmade paper books to show off their new prints. Materials will be provided\, come with a can-do attitude and be willing to get a little messy! This workshop will culminate in a public gallery show. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/screenprinting-workshop/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160319T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160319T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T032211
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160229T191144Z
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SUMMARY:Impossible Language
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/impossible-language-4/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160315T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160315T150000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160315T193052Z
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SUMMARY:Hustle: Tax Issues for the Creative Type
DESCRIPTION:Confused about how tax laws apply to your artistic process?  Not sure what to save or how to organize your paperwork as it relates to sales\, expenses\, and income? Let Debbie Dye\, CPA\, guide you through the unique rules and regulations that apply to artists. \nDoors open at 6 pm; program begins at 6:30 pm\nComplimentary food and drinks  \nHustle: professional development for artists is a free program organized by ArtsMemphis\, UrbanArt Commission\, and Crosstown Arts. The series will provide visual artists with information\, resources\, and opportunities to support them in the development of their professional careers. Workshop topics will range from positive studio practices to pricing work and navigating gallery representation. Questions? Contact Mary Jo Karimnia at maryjo@crosstownarts.org \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/hustle-tax-issues-for-the-creative-type/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160301T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160301T140000
DTSTAMP:20260424T032211
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160323T173608Z
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SUMMARY:Hustle: Writing about your Art Practice
DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM SUMMARY\nMost artists want their artwork to speak for itself but fans\, patrons\, grant and residency panels\, advanced degree programs\, gallery directors\, museums\, and the press often ask for words to go along with the work. Joel Parsons will guide us through the pitfalls and pleasures of writing about our work. Come prepared to do a writing exercise or two and to help others explore their writing process. \n\nRESOURCES\nHandout \n\nHustle: professional development for artists is a free program organized by ArtsMemphis\, UrbanArt Commission\, and Crosstown Arts. The series will provide visual artists with information\, resources and opportunities to support them in the development of their professional careers. Workshop topics will range from positive studio practices to pricing work and navigating gallery representation. Questions? Contact Mary Jo Karimnia at maryjo@crosstownarts.org
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/hustle-writing-about-your-art-practice/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Impossible Language
DESCRIPTION:New from the Impossible Language reading series\, this feature will allow Memphis-based poets to share writing that they have recently finished or\, even more frightening\, are currently working on. For the kick off of the spring season and this feature\, IL welcomes Aaron Brame\, Matthew Hellams\, Kat Moore\, and Tara Mae Mulroy.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/impossible-language-3/
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SUMMARY:Working Writer's Cocktail Hour
DESCRIPTION:In the interests of further cultivating and connecting the literary community of Memphis\, story booth is hosting the third edition of Crosstown Arts‘ Working Writers’ Cocktail Hour. \nCollege and MFA students to early/mid-career/accomplished (meaning published and not-yet-published) writers who live and work in Memphis are welcome. Whether writers of poetry\, fiction\, creative nonfiction\, screenwriting\, playwriting\, journalism\, art writing\, music writing—all are invited to visit story booth for an hour (or so) to do what it normally takes an expensive retreat to make happen: bring a group of writers together to stand around\, have a drink\, and make connections with other working writers they may or may not have known before. \nWhether the day-job is writing-related or not–if you’re a working writer\, this means you. \nFor more info contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/working-writers-cocktail-hour-2/
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SUMMARY:Memphis: Art & Place - Art & Community Place-based Session
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Memphis Center at Rhodes College\nFebruary 18\, 19\, and 20\, 2016  \nRegistration Page \nFull conference information \nThe arts are central to Memphis’ identity—innovations in music\, dance\, performance\, and the visual arts continue to define and shape our sense of this place. Increasingly\, the arts are understood as having a key role in social change\, community building\, and urban development. Mel Chin will be the conference’s keynote speaker as part of the Communities in Conversation series. The Memphis Center at Rhodes College will partner with local leaders\, artists\, and stakeholders to host conversations about the role of the arts in Memphis\, with sessions held at Rhodes College and in three Memphis neighborhoods: Crosstown\, the Edge District\, and Orange Mound. The conference is free to attend ($5 ballet performance optional) with registration. \nPlease sign up at our Registration Page and keep updated via our Facebook event page. \n  \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/memphis-art-place-art-community-session/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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