Art & Events: Ken's Picks - August in Memphis

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The Art  of Caring  On Saturday, August 27, from 5:30 - 7:30 pm enjoy the annual Art of Caring, an auction and party which benefits Baptist home and residential hospice programs and the Kemmons Wilson Family Center for Good Grief. The event will be held in the new Zambezi exhibit pavilion at the zoo and will feature several dozen artworks curated by Catherine Erb and Ken Hall. For more information see this link. Intersections by Tom Gettelfinger Ongoing The Mind’s Eye,photography by Tom Gettelfinger, Fred Toma, and  Willy Bearden, Trezevant Terrace Gallery, 3437 Waynoka,  extended through Labor Day An Attitude You Can Wear, sculpture by Haynes Riley, Tops Gallery, 400 S. Front,  through August 31 Fish, 422 N. Cleveland, experiential installation collaborative by Chris Reyes, Laura Jean Hocking, and Sarah Fleming, through August 13 Art Beat on KWAM Ken Hall joins Earle Farrell each Wednesday at  4 pm for an overview of upcoming art openings & other events on KWAM 990 AM. Tune in or listen live on the web site!  Around Town, Out & About 8/2 Color Between the Wines, Booksellers, 6pm 8/4 Whet Thursday, Metal Museum, 5-8 pm    8/5  One in a Million, L Ross Gallery, 6-8 pm 8/5  Cru film,  Baobab Filmhouse,  652 Marshall 8/5  Choose 901 Back to School Pop Up Shop, 477 S. Main 8/5&6  Fame Soulsville, Black Arts Alliance, LeMoyne-Owen, 7 pm, $20 8/5 FISH Gallery Talk, 422. N. Cleveland, 5:30-6:30 8/6  FOMOfest, Levitt Shell, 2-10 pm, $15 8/10  Wondrous Boccaccio,  3030 Poplar, 5:45 pm, free 8/11 Drum Corps Internationalsemi-finals, simulcast, Paradisio, 5:30–10:30 pm 8/11-13  Ultimate Elvis Tribute, Hard Rock Cafe 8/11-14 On Location FilmFest, Malco Studio 8/12  Cory Dugan and Paul Clark,  Ross Gallery at CBU, 5:30-7:30 pm 8/12  Angi Cooper & Janet Weed Beaver art opening, Buckman Arts Center, 5:30-7:30 8/13  Salsa Festival, Water Tower Pavillion, noon – 10 pm, A Wider Angle film series Wondrous Boccaccio Part of the A Wider Anglemonthly film series at the main library, Wondrous Boccaccio is set in 14th century Florence where 10  young men and women set out to escape the black plague .They go to a country estate and spend the time telling stories.  This is based on Giovanni Boccaccio ‘s 1358 book The Decameron. The film screens on August 10  at 5:45 pm at 3030 Poplar  and is free. In Italian with English subtitles. Where Have you Seen This? Thorne Edward's twin mosaics Tragedy & Comedy are currently housed in the atrium off the courtyard at Overton Square, but you might have seem them around 1960 at the old Front Street Theater or subsequently at the Memphis Academy of Art! Thank you Loeb Properties for bringing these back to public view. Links RIP Bill Cunningham. Artsy on William Eggleston A Road Less Travelled Save The Date Rock for Love 10 -- coming Sept. 2-4, great music for a great cause, the Church Health Center. Got news about arts events? Send an email with details by the 25th of the month prior to the event and we'll try to include in the listing. 8/13-14 English Premier League Kickoff, Celtic Crossing, 6:30 -11:30 am 8/15 Candlelight Vigil, Graceland, 8:30 pm  8/17  Narrative Shorts, Indie Memphis, Crosstown, 430 N. Cleveland, 7-9:30 pm, pay-what-you-can 8/18  Dixon After Dark; Mary Jo Karimnia, 6-8 pm, 8/19  Finding Vivian Maierfilm, Brooks, 1 – 2:25 pm, $5 8/19  Art & Craft Beers, Memphis Botanic Garden, 6-9 pm, $15/18 8/19  Science of Wine, Pink Palace, 6:30-9:30, $50/55 8/19 Anthology Somewhere Not Here, Crosstown Arts, 422 N. Cleveland , 6-9 pm 8/20 Germantown International Fest, 1900 S. Germantown Rd, 11am – 5pm, free 8/26  Horn Island 32,Memphis College of Art, 1930 Poplar , 6-8 pm, 8/26  Raymond Mirelesclosing reception, Circuitous Succession Gallery, 500 S Second, 6-9 pm 8/26  S. Main Trolley Tour 8/27 Shangri-La Sweatfest,1916 Madison, 2-8 pm 8/27  Art of Caring,  Zambezi River exhibit , 5:30 - 7:30 FISH at Crosstown Arts

                           

                             
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The Impact of Globalization on Fashion, Music and Culture

Young Arts Patrons presents a panel discussion on June 22 at the Brooks from 7-8:30 pm.  Join moderator Eileen Townsend and panelists for a public conversation presented in conjunction with the exhibition Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars, organized by the Newark Museum and on view through September 4.  Young Arts Patrons is  a leading-edge Memphis-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel a creative and innovative arts community.


            
         
               

Jeniffer Church

New works at Playhouse on the Square 6/10/16

       

           
         
           

The Series of Series

Let the entertainment begin! And take your pick of genres and locations.

6/3-8/26 Orpheum Summer Movies
Old favorites,here's the list.

6/2 - 7/31 Levitt Shell Summer Music
We'e excited about the Big Ass Truck reunion, Steep Canyon Rangers, Sharon Jones & the Daptones, and, well, all of it really. Here's the lineup.

6/10 - 9/23 Live at the Garden
The performers will include.

       

           

           

Links you need

Bless Your Heart
From the Delta to Memphis College of Art an on to San Francisco, New York, and DC, Grant Ellis is building a reputation and a portfolio. His new book of photographs is entitled Bless Your Heart and is filled with Delta images. See the Oxford American for more.

Jazz on A Summer's Day
Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this is a feature length time capsule. Enjoy.


Got new about arts events?

We want to know! Send an email with details by the 25th of the month prior to the event and we'll try to get it in if possible. And we love to come out and take photos!

                                   
                                               
            
   

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Around Town, Out & About

6/3 The Man Show, L Ross Gallery, 6-8 pm  
6/3  The Moonie Project: Lauren Asta, mural creation is Crosstown Arts alley, 7-10 pm
6/3 George Clinton & P-Funk, New Daisy, 9 pm
6/4  WLOK 40^th Anniversary with Rev Al Green, Orpheum, 7 pm, $20-50
6/4 AIA Memphis Design Auction,  Jackson Robinson Gallery, 7-9:30 pm , $35-45
6/7  Shoot & Slice, Indie Memphis , Crosstown Arts, 6:30 pm
6/8 The Life Aquatic film Brooks,  6 pm, $14-16
6/10  Cotton Boll Brunch, Cotton Museum, 11:30-1, $40-50
6/10 New works by Jeniffer Church, Playhouse on the Square, 6-7:30 pm
6/10 Say Hello to America art, Crosstown, 6-9 pm
6/10 Litertini, Literacy Mid-South,  Booksellers, 7-10 pm $50
6/10-12 Potter’s Guild Show, Memphis Botanic Garden
 6/11 Brewville at DeNeuville, 190 S. Cooper, 5-8 pm, $30
6/14  Vanilla Extract Vol Two art by Lester Merriweather, Crosstown, 6-9 pm
6/15  VolunCheers Minute Match,  Volunteer Odyssey,  Emerge Memphis, 5:30-7:30 pm, $5
6/16 Art After Dark, Dixon Gallery, 6-8 pm
6/16 Beale St Caravan 20th Anniv,Memphis Made Brewing, 6-9 pm, $75
6/17  The Power of Nature works by John Torina, James Lee House,  690 Adams,  5-7:30 pm
6/18  Outdoors Inc Canoe & Kayak Race,  Miss River, 10 am
6/18 Margarita Festival, Overton Park, 3-6 pm, $25
6/19  Veda Reed opening & conversation, Brooks, 1:30 pm
6/24& 25 Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Memphis  Black Arts Alliance, 879 E. McLemore, 7 pm, $15
6/25 Art by Design Finale, ArtsMemphis, location TBA,  6:30 pm, $150



       
   






           
       
   

                                                   
                                               
                                           
                                       
                                   
                                   
                               
                           
                           
                               
                                   
                                   

                                       
                                           

   
       
           
             
               

                   
                     
                       
                     
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