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Happening New Year! I hope it is happy also, but good gracious, it is definitely off to a happening start from the look of our January calendar. Barring snow days there just won’t be time for a Netflix binge. Preston Lauterbach has a new book out; the former Memphis Magazine writer is making a national name with his string of engaging histories. Fashion model Savannah White steps off the runway to show her skills with paint in a duo show with Olga King at 430 N. Cleveland. The Memphis Symphony presents the music of Robert Johnson, and Tennessee
Shakespeare gives us F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is quite a varied and solid list. The best kept secret of all is the international pilgrimage to Beale Street from the four corners of the world for the annual International Blues Challenge. Blues from Finland? Sure! And a dozen other countries who competed and won the right to come represent their nation or city in Memphis. That would be about 260 of the world’s best musical acts. They came thousands of miles and all you have to do is drive downtown. Don’t miss it! - Ken Hall
JANUARY ART EVENTS 4
Veda Reed art opening
David Lusk Gallery, 5-8pm New works by Veda Reed marking her 85th birthday; the show will close with an artist talk at 11am on January 26. Through the 26th.
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Eclectic Eye, 6pm
In the Shadows art by Chelsea Fly
Levy Gallery at Buckman Performing Arts Center, 5-7pm, through February 25th
Germantown Community Theatre, through February 3rd
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Memphis College of Art. Reception for the group show will be January 25, 6-8pm. Through January 27th
And Then They Came for Us film screening Facing History and Ourselves, Brooks Museum, 7pm
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Evergreen Theater A one-man show about the life of Truman Capote featuring Mark Chambers. Through January 20th
2234 Lamar, 6:30pm Formerly the Orange Mound Gallery, the CMPLX will host a variety of art, musical, cultural, and educational events organized by The Collective
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Bluff City book signing by Preston Lauterbach
Novel, 6pm Lauterbach, a superbly engaging writer of history, will present his latest work Bluff City: The Secret Life of Ernest Withers
The Third Murder film screening
Main Library, 6pm The Wider Angle Film series presents this 2017 Japanese thriller.
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JANUARY 2019
Rhodes College, 7pm Participants will have 12 hours to write a play and then 11 hours to stage and rehearse before performing the new productions
Dixon Gallery & Gardens, through April 14th
International Blues Challenge
Blues Foundation, numerous locations on Beale Street Some 260 blues acts from over a dozen countries – Croatia to Korea, Australia to Switzerland, France to Finland – and many US cities all converge on Memphis to see who is the best. Through January 26th
Olga King and Savannah White art opening
430 N. Cleveland, 6-8pm; 1/26 10am-1pm, through January 26th Art Village Gallery There will be a good deal of programming around this art show by Nigerian artist Chima – talks, dinner, and a documentary screening. Check website for details
Sweat
U of M Harris Concert Hall, 10am
GPAC, 8pm
24 Hour Play Fest
Inhabitants of the Earth! art by Uchay Joel Chima
Metropolitan Opera National Council regional auditions
Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra
Racquet Club, 7:30pm
Eye to Eye: A New Look at the Dixon Collection
Orpheum Theatre, 7pm
GPAC, 5:30pm A show of student works from Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological, and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO of Memphis)
Memphis Symphony Orchestra, U of M Harris Concert Hall/GPAC, 7:30 pm; 1/20 2:30 pm, through January 20th
Metal Museum, through April 7th
“Singin’ in the Rain” Movie
Art Out Loud! group show
Music of Igor Stravinsky and Robert Johnson
Tributaries art by Tanya Crane
A Song for Coretta
Hattiloo Theatre, through February 3rd
Theatre Memphis, through February 3rd
Annual Sherlock Holmes birthday dinner, Giant Rats of Sumatra
Enough: A Me Too Exhibition group show
Grand opening of the CMPLX
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Playhouse on the Square, through February 9th
Kristi Duckworth and Nancy Morrow art opening
Ross Gallery at CBU. Opening reception January 18, 5:30-7:30pm, through February 13th
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Tuck Everlasting
4 Weddings and an Elvis
Katie Maish and Metal Museum
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Orpheum Theatre, through January 20th
Back When Mike Was Kate
TheatreWorks, through January 27th
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WAITRESS
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Circuit Playhouse, through February 17th
An Uncommon Journey book signing by Dr. Shirley Raines Novel, 2pm
Boats Against The Current: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald scenes and jazz Tennessee Shakespeare Company, Hunt and Polo Club, noon
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Concerts International, U of M Harris Concert Hall, 7:30pm
Locking Up Our Own author lecture by James Forman, Jr.
Hooks Institute, U of M UC Theater, 6pm. Forman is the winner of the 2017 National Book Award