Up in Arms Collective was born out of the need for the dance community to respond to what is happening in America in an open and affirming environment. What originally began as a community of diverse Memphis dance artists has since grown to include local filmmakers, musicians, and artists.

Performing artists include Kimberly Baker, Sheri Bancroft, Orixa Bowers, Burton Bridges,
Rebecca Rose Cochran, Marie Dennan, Emily Hefley, J Tbj Jones, Jenn King, Louisa Koeppel, Sarah Ledbetter, Kristen Osborne Lucas, Wayne Smith, Lauren Stallings, Erin D. H. Williams and along with musicians Misti Rae Holton and Kyle Statham, filmmakers Joel Rose and Laura Jean Hocking, and photographer Stephanie Wexler.

A collection of artwork from the fall 2018 University of Memphis sculpture students
Through a wide variety of materials and conceptual approaches, these emerging artists illustrate their own development and interaction with the themes of contemporary sculpture.
Organized by the artists

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

This month: Festival Award Winners 2018
An encore screening of standout short film award winners from the 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival, curated by Shorts Programmer Brighid Wheeler.

Love Doesn’t Hurt presents “Sexual Healing: Reclaiming Your Sexuality After an Assault.”

Art exhibition and drag performance
Masks are welcome and encouraged

Crosstown Arts will run a kids’ craft corner inside the 430 Gallery during Memphis Grilled Cheese Fest.

The annual grilled cheese festival takes place in the street in front of the Hi Tone. Organized by the Hi Tone as a fundraiser for Alive Memphis.

New work by Megan Hurdle

Organized by the artist

New work by Megan Hurdle
Opening reception: Friday, Oct. 26, 5-8 pm
On view: Saturday, Oct. 27, 10 am-4 pm
Organized by the artist

An exhibition and performance by Jas Marie
Featuring Libya Freeman
Doors at 6 pm | Performance at 7 pm

El Goodo presents “Opossums, Owl’s Head Mountain, and Beauty School,” an art exhibition in the Pizza Maniac Series.
Organized by the artist

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.
This month: Human Rights & Environmental Shorts
Shorts from the 2018 Human Rights and Environmental Film US Tour. Mariano Pozzi is from Argentina and works for the Human Rights Film Festival of Buenos Aires (FICDH) and the Environmental Film Festival of Buenos Aires (FINCA).
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can.

Memphis artist ISpeakWithAGift presents the first annual .WAVFest featuring live performances from himself and friends from inside and outside the city. The line-up includes ISpeakWithAGift, Early, She’Chinah, ODDyssey, De Apollo, Ghost, Sumdude, and 2030M.
Food and refreshments will be served. Ages 18 and up.
Organized by the artist

Photo-a-day series by artist Valerie Sparks
Artist Statement:
In 2017, I challenged myself to a photo-a-day project which I first displayed on Instagram. Now I will present my year’s worth of all 365 photographs that I took, into one collection.

Organized by the artist

An exhibition of black-and-white photographs by S. Turner

Sculpture and paintings by Fulton Boggs, mixed media paintings by Melanie Pyron.
Organized by the artists

Open-call exhibition of artwork by individuals who have been touched by substance abuse. Themes includes empowerment, understanding, acceptance, and recovery.
Hosted by local addition recovery group, A Betor Way — named for Memphis-based artist Ronnie Bobal (otherwise known by his graffiti tag as Betor), who was tragically lost to a drug overdose on Christmas Day 2016.
A Betor Way shares information to make addicts and their support systems aware of the programs and initiatives available.

Art exhibition featuring work by Daniel Harris
Organized by the artist
Artist Statement:
As a man with cerebral palsy, I use my artistic abilities through illustration and imagination to enhance transformational conversation about our differently abled culture. I use a wide range of mediums, from acrylic abstracts to ink drawings and books and poetry.

Join us for the preview of the 21st Annual Outflix Film Festival. The event will reveal this year’s festival line-up and winners of their local short film competition. Special guest judges from Oxford Film Festival, Indie Memphis, and the local filmmaking community will also host a panel discussion following the competition. Light food and beer/wine provided (ID required). Free to the public. Donations accepted.

Party at 430 N Cleveland and the Hitone, featuring Al Town. Presented by Mad Air Decks.
Hand-designed Mad Air skate deck art by 27 local artists and local vendors at the 430 Gallery. Live music at the Hitone from 7 pm to 2 am. And an outdoor skate ramp presented by Al Town.
$10 wristband to attend both venues
 

Bridging Souls Productions will celebrate eight years of dance throughout Memphis and the Mid-South with a final performance.
Admission: $10

Join the Southern Foodways Alliance for a film screening and discussion of Tennessee barbecue. The group will screen segments from Whole Hog about pitmaster Ricky Parker, followed by Like Father, a film about his son Zach Parker. Zach, now owner of B.E. Scott’s Barbeque, will sit on the panel and offer a taste of whole hog barbecue for attendees. Tickets are $12.

Join local singer/songwriter Josh Waddell as he celebrates three years of making music in Memphis. 

You will hear the stories behind his original music as well as experience his soothing Americana style in an intimate, inviting space. This will be a unique event, as Waddell will share future plans and introduce a new collaboration effort: MT & VALLEY. 

Opening performance by Arkansas native Katie Ferron.

Art show and music video release
Organized by the artist

An exhibition and performance by Nubia Yasin, Jas Marie, and Osarugue Otebele

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.
This month: FilmFatales Shorts
Join us for a selection of short films presented by Indie Memphis and Film Fatales, highlighting underrepresented voices including content by and about women of color and the LGBTQ community.
Full film line-up here.
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm.
Admission is pay-what-you-can.

Join us for the official launch of the International Memphis website. Admission is free and we will be celebrating the diverse array of international culture and art in Memphis. There will be performances throughout the evening as well as visual art on display.
Sponsored by the Kresge Foundation and Salzberg Global Seminar

Performances by Jazz, Poetic Flow, Queen Diamond, Ken Ken, Woman Ish, Ashley Banx, Lia Bei, Quiet Storm, Poyatree, Madame Fraankie, Teety Blue, Ashley Ave, Azizah Bashirah, Trina Machelle, Mydes, and DJ Siphne Aaye & the Ladies Edition Band.
$10 admission | Percentage of proceeds will be donated to Memphis Artists for Change.
Presented by CLE Events

Indie Memphis and Temple Israel present a screening of Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405, the Academy Award winner for 2018 Documentary Short Subject.

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

This month: Sundance Shorts
A selection of shorts from the Sundance Film Festival. There will be two screenings of this program — one beginning at 6 pm and another at 8 pm.
Admission is pay-what-you-can. Limited seating (arrive early to make sure you get a seat).

Mala Leche presents Por Vida, a pop-up shop and graphic design showcase with live music.

Live music, art, poetry, & food
Featuring work by Antonio Yates, Andrew Heredia, Pachone Jackson, Nardo Franklin, Art Woody, Rachel, and Toshay the Artist
Performances by Raven Cawthon, Damon Drew, Exotic Li, Alexia, and more
Organized by the artist

Indie Memphis presents a screening of The Departure.

Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist-priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own family and health, as he refuses to draw lines between his patients and himself. THE DEPARTURE captures Nemoto at a crossroads, when his growing self-destructive tendencies lead him to confront the same question his patients ask him: what makes life worth living?

Featuring Q&A with Mike LaBonte (Memphis Crisis Center) and Joann Self Selvidge (Memphis Women in Film).

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

This month: Rural Route Tour
Screening Plaid “Do Matter,” The Poacher, Volcano Island, UFO Days, The Tale of Hellbilly, Kalb, Hairat, dragons & seraphim, and The Rabbit Hunt.

Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can.

Presented by Kina del Mar
With special guests Major and Mane Called Hawk
Free admission
Organized by the artist

Protest art by Nick Canterucci.
Opening reception: Thursday, May 31, 6-9 pm
On view through June 2
Free exhibit booklet while supplies last

Back from a hiatus due to a heart attack , outsider artist Nick Canterucci returns with his 15th exhibit “The Battle for Cooper-Young.”
The exhibit deals with the artist’s opposition on how the camera program, as set up by the Cooper-Young Neighborhood Watch, has been unfolding over the past two years. A coffee table booklet of ….

Weekly film screenings hosted by Indie Memphis. Films will screen at Crosstown Arts, Malco’s Studio on the Square, and Ridgeway Theatre on a rotating basis.
This week: Valerie & Her Week of Wonders (1970) — A 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 ….

Exhibition of handmade items by Kathryn James | Curated by Jenna Fergus
Donations accepted for Alzheimers and Dementia Services.
Donna James Regel’s Mom, Kathryn James, has been practicing the craft of crochet since she was six years old. This exhibit of tablecloths, bedspreads, clothing, doilies, and other beautiful items of her life are a celebration of all she has made. Her intricate art works will be displayed as a labyrinth of comfort to exemplify the love Kathryn James showed to ….

Opening reception for selected work by James Benning | Curated by Terri Phillips and Brian Pera

Reception, filmmaker Q&A, and screening of measuring change (60 min), 2016

Weekly film screenings hosted by Indie Memphis. Films will screen at Crosstown Arts, Malco’s Studio on the Square, and Ridgeway Theatre on a rotating basis.
This week: Are We Not Cats — New Yorker Eli (Michael Patrick Nicholson) loses his girlfriend, home, and job in less than 24 hours. After landing a job transporting car parts upstate to make some quick cash, he meets Anya (Chelsea Lopez), a young woman who shares his fetish for eating hair. In this gorgeously lensed oddball ….

A collaborative exhibition of painters from the University of Memphis.
Featuring work by Trudy Blackwell Goff, Megan Chen, Ivy-Jade Edwards, Robert Fairchild, Cameron Mallory, Travis Washington, Ras Rossetti, Stephanie Curry, and Jeff Carter.

A Friendship Commanders Tour 
Rock + Voter Registration
Featuring performances by Negro Terror, Friendship Commanders, and Blood Like Wine.

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.
This month: Live From Memphis Retrospective
An homage of over 10+ years of films, projects, and events from Live From Memphis — a volunteer organization in support of music, film, and art from local creatives. This is a pay-what-you-can event, with proceeds going to Sarah Fleming and Chris Reyes’ legal fund during their fight to save their home from the Aparium Hotel Group.
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm.

Authors El and Zina Henry sign and share intimate stories from their new book, After the Dust Clears, a memoir on the pain of infidelity.
Books will be available for sale.
Organized by the authors

New work by Crosstown Arts resident artist Josh Short

Inspired by 1980s era arcade games, Josh Short has created a series of interactive driving simulators based on popular American mythologies about the road and our love/hate relationship with cars. Josh uses cast-off exercise equipment, hand-made banners, remote-controlled cars, surveillance cameras, and detritus found from the road to create a mechanical “Bricolage.”

Screening of a short film highlighting the 20th anniversary of the Outflix Film Festival (the Mid-South’s LGBTQ film fest), plus a preview of new festival events for 2018 and information on sponsorship opportunities.

Join Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts for monthly screenings of independent films.
This legendary, low-budget, entirely African-American produced and conceived meta-soap opera from Bill Gunn, writer of the The Landlord and author of Rhinestone Sharecropping, was recently rediscovered and restored.
Introduction by Indie Memphis Senior Programmer Miriam Bale.
Pay-what-you-can
Presented by Orion FCU.

Hosted by the Junior League of Memphis.

Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts
April topic: Hair & Makeup for Film with Alicia George

In Alice Bolin’s upcoming book, Dead Girls, she writes about moving to L.A. and seeing the city through a white male literary lens, and needing to trust her own eyes rather than what she’s read. Miriam Bale’s path through the male-dominated world of film criticism at New York newspapers was similarly one of learning to trust her own eyes. The two writers will have a dialogue about different ways to engage with writing about film, a misogynistic industry, as women. Dead Girls (which covers Twin Peaks to True Detective) is an essay collection out in June 2018 from William Morrow/ HarperCollins. Alice Bolin teaches nonfiction at the University of Memphis.

Miriam Bale is new Senior Programmer of the Indie Memphis Film Festival.

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

This month: Narrative Spotlight Shorts
Films include I Live Here, Mrs. Drake, Last Call Lenny, Fry Day, Gema, and New Neighbors.

Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can

Exhibition of ho scale graffiti, freight photography, track displays, and graffiti photography by multiple artists. Hosted by BoradExplorer.

Live music | dance performances | art gallery | fashion show
Fundraiser for the A.R.T.S. Initiative Inc. 

Art show presented by Tova Odelia
Tickets are $8 advance/$10 door entry.
Contact tovaodelia@gmail.com for advance tickets. Space is limited.

Screening of Marvin Booker Was Murdered — a film chronicling the search for justice in the case of Marvin Booker, a homeless street preacher originally from Memphis, who was beaten to death by five jail guards for simply wanting to retrieve his shoes in a Denver Detention Center. Award Winner at the 2017 Indie Memphis Film Festival.

Charcoal portraits by Lucien Scott Croy.
On view:
Friday, March 16, 6-9 pm
Saturday, March 17, noon-6 pm

Rough Feathers Clothing, by designer Antonio Jones, is launching its urban collection at this spring launch party.

Art exhibition with live soul and hip-hop performances.
$10 cover
 

Hosted by Memphis Art Collective.
 

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.
This month: 2018 Slamdance Anarchy Shorts
Short film selections from this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. Slamdance is held every January in Park City, Utah, at the same time as the Sundance Film Festival to provide a more authentic representation of independent filmmaking.
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can.

Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts.

Join us as stunt coordinator and fight choreographer Jyo “Six” Carolino discusses how to achieve realistic (and safe!) movie action sequences. He’ll show clips from his films while sharing insights into how he achieved each exciting set piece. Six will also have a live fight demonstration to showcase the proper techniques, as well as camera angles, needed to achieve the most exciting and realistic movie action.

New work by Joy Murray and Timothy Allen.

Tim’s father, Mark Allen, will play classical guitar during the show.

Organized by the artists.

Exhibition of new work by Nahid Aziz and Chuck Johnson
Organized by the artists

Group art exhibition presented by artist Kelvin Woods in honor of Black History Month. Featured artists include Kelvin Woods, Eso Tolson, and Carl Hess.

Presented by MaNostalgia Gallery X Choice Club.

Screening of The Road Movie — A mosaic of asphalt adventures, landscape photography, and some of the craziest sh*t you’ve ever seen, through a compilation of video footage shot exclusively via dashboard cameras that populate Russian roads.
Presented by Indie Memphis. Pay what you can.

The Art of Design is an art and fashion exhibition highlighting the inspiration and process of creating original works from concept to creation. The exhibition focuses on growing influential factors, such as culture, technology, and social media, and their effect on fashion, music, and art. Come experience the arts as you never have before. 

Selection of International Shorts submitted to the 2017 Indie Memphis Film Festival, curated by shorts programmer Brighid Wheeler.  Featuring films from Norway, Canada, India, South Korea, China, and Mexico.
Presented by Indie Memphis. Pay what you can.

Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts.

Rashna Richards will discuss what it means to teach Film and Media Studies in the twenty-first century. The first part of her talk will be based on her recent co-edited collection, For the Love of Cinema: Teaching Our Passion in and Outside the Classroom, which offers multiple ways to think about the relationship between the love of cinema and teaching. In the second half, she will expand this discussion by offering examples of her own teaching at Rhodes College and speaking more broadly about the role of film education.

Artist Yvonne Bobo will construct a 28-foot-by-16-foot sculpture inside the 430 N. Cleveland gallery space. A series of pulleys will create a floating twist.
The public is invited to watch from 4-5:30 pm. Free.

An evening of ambient improvisation with Jimmy Crosthwait and Greg Faiers.

Anti-Twilight Dark Band: The intersection of ambient music, jazz and improvisation.
The Anti-Twilight Dark Band features Jimmy Crosthwait on zen chimes and Greg Faiers playing heavily processed guitar. The chimes are a byproduct of Crosthwait’s metal art work. He uses sticks (various metal and wooden implements) to create a musical percussive effect. Jimmy’s zen chimes have a sound all their own but do suggest southeast Asian and African influences.

Weekly film screenings hosted by Indie Memphis. Films will screen at Crosstown Arts, Malco’s Studio on the Square, and Ridgeway Theatre on a rotating basis.

This week: Saturday Church — A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process. 2017 Jury and Audience Winner at Outflix Film Festival.

Local artist Hillary Butler will lead guests in an art project.

Light refreshments will be served.
Hosted by Pat, Matt, and Stephanie of Edward Jones.

A benefit performance by and for the Central High School theatre program.
Doors open at 6:30 pm
Suggested donation: $10

Join us for the first annual Memphis Music Gives Fest — a benefit concert showcasing Memphis music talent. Seventy-five percent of all proceeds will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis.

Featuring music by Austin Blue, the PRVLG, Sky King, Good Bueno, and Houstn.
Vendors: Gypsy Apparel, Contact Skateshop (Fluxus), and Odd Collar Magazine.

Weekly film screenings hosted by Indie Memphis. Films will screen at Crosstown Arts, Malco’s Studio on the Square, and Ridgeway Theatre on a rotating basis.

This week: Wilderness — John, a jazz musician, and Alice, his new girlfriend, flee to the coast and discover the vulnerabilities, flaws, and manipulations that were previously masked by the blissful waves of new love. 

Intergalactic sounds of the African disapora featuring J. Mack, Spekulate the Philosopher, Lady Celest, Jayvee the Prince, and DJ Space Age.

Studio clearance sale featuring work by Allison Lawyer, Lewis Feibelman, Jennifer Balink, and Paul Miller and get ready for some great art at even greater prices. The show is organized by Nikii Richey.  Cash, check, or charge.

Studio clearance sale featuring work by Allison Lawyer, Lewis Feibelman, Jennifer Balink, and Paul Miller and get ready for some great art at even greater prices. The show is organized by Nikii Richey.  Cash, check, or charge.

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

This month: The Eyeslicer Q&A
An episode of the mind-melting new “secret TV show” — directed by over 50 of the most daring American filmmakers working — that will mince your retinas into a delicious ceviche. (Tribeca premiere)

Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts. This month: Filmmaker Feedback — an open discussion about what you would like to see from Indie Memphis, as well as the rest of the filmmaking community at large, over the next year.

Live painting | poetry | artwork | food and wine
Hosted by Tosha the Artist

Weekly film screenings hosted by Indie Memphis. Films will screen at Crosstown Arts, Malco’s Studio on the Square, and Ridgeway Theatre on a rotating basis.

This week: Furry Lewis & the Bottleneck Guitar Story — The story of how the slide guitar got to the Memphis/Delta region from Hawaii and the role Furry Lewis played in the evolution from the Hawaiian style to the bottleneck sound.

Big BIZ da MC presents I’m Bob Grey with music by Great DJ X

Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.

This month: Documentary Shorts Festival Encore
Encore presentation of the documentary shorts program from the 2017 Indie Memphis Film Festival.

Throughout the year, Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts brings cinematographers, directors, editors, writers, and technicians to Shoot & Splice, our monthly filmmaking forum. Come help us celebrate the end of another year with the Shoot & Splice FOURTH Annual Cinema Trivia blowout with trivia master John Beifuss! Test your filmmaker mettle! Win prizes! Did we say, FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC?

Doors open at 6:30pm | Trivia starts at 7:00pm

Twenty-five artists converge at Crosstown Arts to create original works that explore today’s America. Up in Arms Collective was born out of the need for the dance community to respond to what is happening in America in an open and affirming environment. What originally began as a community of diverse Memphis dance artists has since grown to include local filmmakers, musicians, and artists.

Twenty-five artists converge at Crosstown Arts to create original works that explore today’s America. Up in Arms Collective was born out of the need for the dance community to respond to what is happening in America in an open and affirming environment. What originally began as a community of diverse Memphis dance artists has since grown to include local filmmakers, musicians, and artists.