Walking in Memphis? Visit the Cotton Museum. Art Exhibits Too Sometimes

Walking in Memphis?  Visit the Memphis Cotton Museum

#Memphis  Here's part of the update from Playhouse on the Square about the closing, rescheduling, cancelling of plays at their theaters: 

Visit their websites for more details:  http://playhouseonthesquare.org/   

"Remember My Name" Music Video of Singer Songwriter Davy Ray Bennett

Music video featuring singer songwriter guitarist Davy Ray Bennett in #Memphis TN. Filmed a couple of years ago. Currently playing in midtown on Saturdays and Sundays at restaurant on Cooper. RT 2:52 https://youtu.be/rOV-V8oJBzw #music This is a video uploaded through YouTube film & animation entertainment channel: blessings427 Art Promotions. This channel features short videos about art, film, music, travel, and inspirational subjects created by Karen E. Francis, producer of the TV series "Heart of the Matter." Trailers about the family movie CHRISTMAS RIDE (PG) are spotlit here. It is Free to watch online and Subscribe to receive notifications of new uploads. Learn more about Art Promotions Productions at www.artprofilms.com

🎵Elvis Week 2019 ⚡︎and Discovering the Sound Stage 🎸

This video is about Elvis Week 2019 and finding The Sound Stage across from Graceland and The Guest House Hotel off of Elvis Presley Blvd (Rt 51). Only a mile from the Mississippi state line, many exciting acts are scheduled for this relatively new Memphis venue, The Sound Stage. RT 02:53 https://youtu.be/mRFJ3NrPW-o #Memphis #Tennessee

Based on signage, upcoming performances include: AUG 16 Gospel Homecoming AUG 21 Brian Setzer "Rockabilly" SEP 1 Hot Tuna SEP 5 The Oak Ridge Boys OCT 5 Little Steven OCT 18 Dream Theater OCT 26 Switchfoot NOV 2 Melissa Etheridge NOV 10 World of Dance Live Tour NOV 15 Elvis Costello This is a video uploaded through YouTube film & animation entertainment channel: blessings427 Art Promotions. This channel features short videos about art, film, music, travel, and inspirational subjects created by Karen E. Francis, producer of the TV series "Heart of the Matter." Trailers about the family movie CHRISTMAS RIDE (PG) are spotlit here. It is Free to watch online and Subscribe to receive notifications of new uploads. To receive notifications of new videos, subscribers may click the gear symbol or bell icon after subscribing. Subscriptions may be Private or Public. Thanks. Connect with Art Promotions and producer of blessings427 channel: Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/artist427 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChristmasRide https://www.facebook.com/ArtPromotions Watch our Most Popular Video Upload: https://goo.gl/uG6xja Visit our Channel Page with Subscription SHORTCUT Pop Up: https://goo.gl/ewDe1h Learn More about Academy Award Qualified Family Feature Christmas Ride (PG) Movie at http://www.artprofilms.com http://instagram.com/crpr21516 https://shoretoshiningshore.tumblr.com/ http://ChristmasRide.wordpress.com https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3042886/... -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "#Spotlight: CHRISTMAS RIDE Supernatural Trailer Movie Rated PG" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki572... -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-

Woodruff Fontaine Museum in Victorian Village Memphis TN 2019

French Victorian Home Museum called Woodruff Fontaine in the Victorian Village area of Memphis, TN,  features antiques of its period.  Video explores history, grounds and interior.  Includes a computer narration.  RT 03:52

Memphis Potter's Guild Spring Show 2019 with Agnes Stark

This video was filmed at St. Anne's Catholic Church on Highland where the Memphis Potter's Guild held their Spring Show in the fellowship hall.  The video includes an interview with Anges Stark and an indepth look at Nancy White's artworks as well as a brief description of the Memphis Potter's Guild organizational history. 

RT 04: 09 https://youtu.be/qQJBBsHKP0M #Memphis #TN #arts

This is a video uploaded through YouTube film & animation entertainment channel: blessings427 Art Promotions.  This channel  features short videos about art, film, music, travel, and inspirational  subjects created by Karen E. Francis, producer of the TV series "Heart of the Matter."  Trailers about the family movie CHRISTMAS RIDE (PG) are spotlit here.  It is Free to watch online and Subscribe to receive notifications of new uploads.

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PLAYLIST: Beale Street MUSIC FESTIVAL 2019 May 5 2019

Here's a #video Playlist with some of the lineup for the Beale Street #Music Festival starting today in #Memphis .   Now on my YouTube Channel, blessings427.  #news

Theatre Memphis in March for Musical 1776

#video #theater #Theatre #Memphis #art   Last week to view 1776 Musical and Art Exhibition in Memphis, TN at Theatre Memphis on Perkins.  Art may be purchased from the theatre manager.  

Awesome Athletes Ride Dragons On Mississippi River Racing for Life

Artists Link 2018 Exhibition at MJCC Shainberg Gallery

Lantern Light Festival in Memphis TN

The Lantern Light Festival in Memphis, TN 
continues running now through May 22, 2017 on the Agricultural Center grounds off Germantown Parkway.  This Chinese spring tradition is visually stunning and includes acrobatic performances.
The festival has a virtual reality booth, face painting, rides and a gift shop.
It's an outdoor experience the entire family can enjoy.  

Elijah Poston Singing "Golden Hearted Boy" in Memphis TN

Here is Elijah Poston singing his popular original love song "Golden Hearted Boy" in 2012 at a Memphis, TN venue.   This video has captions now.  

Video produced by Karen Francis, Art Promotions. Uploaded through YouTube channel blessings427. If you enjoyed this video, please subscribe FREE to this YouTube channel today.  You Tube TIP: Once subscribed you may select Receive Notifications of new video uploads, by clicking the bell symbol next to the channel name in your subscriptions list. [Or Not, and you probably won't hear from the channel again.]   There are over 100 shsort public videos on blessings427 Art Promotions channel, on art, music, film, travel and other inspirational subjects. 

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You may contact Elijah at elijahposton@gmail.com

Concert May 3 2015 in Bartlett, TN

News about CHRISTMAS RIDE Awards

Good News about CHRISTMAS RIDE.   This new movie is listed in The WRAP among the eligible films for the 2015
Academy Awards.  Here is the link:   http://www.thewrap.com/oscars-announce-323-films-eligible-for-best-picture/       Christmas Ride also recently was awarded the Dove Seal of Family Approved for Ages 12+.  More about the movie at www.artprofilms.com  and www.facebook.com/ChristmasRide.  This film was produced in Tennessee by Art Promotions in cooperation with Yarbrough Media Productions with a cast of 68, 45% female.  


from Karen Francis, Memphis, TN  (Art Promotions)  kfrancis427@gmail.com

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ART PROMOTIONS is all about prints, paintings, and productions. On the Production side:

I participated in  the 48 Hour film project  in a group named By Faith Films and we created "Blind Date" in the category we drew  by chance, Dark Comedy.  In this team effort of mostly strangers, with no pay, we produced a short  film limited to 8 mins or less within the 48 hours.  The logline for Blind Date is--  A man widowed for a year goes on a blind date.   We filmed at the Memphis landmarks of Elmwood Cemetery and The Edge coffee house at its S. Cooper location which is going to have a drive through available soon.   There will be a screening of all the films (around 9 teams participated) which successfully met the criteria of the competition at the Malco Studio on the Square on Tuesday night, July 17.  Tickets are $10.  

Also, we are in the last 15 hours of the www. indiegogo.com/ChristmasRide campaign for funding a feature film.  There are seven videos in the Gallery section of the website plus the teaser at  http://igg.me/p/100795?a=462433

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY FOR ALL

    Wishing you all a Happy Fourth of July from Memphis on the big muddy Mississippi River, the city where music plays day and night and barbeque flows like waves on the ocean.

     Fireworks started on Sunday here at a big Baptist Church campus nearby.  Families gathered for picnics on the lawn, and shared their bread and the Word of God.  Last night a suburb shot off its fireworks.  Families gathered around the performing arts center and at homes eating hot dogs, and it's "pass the mustard, please, and have some more of this here sweet tea."

    Then dragging lawn chairs outside, they sat in front yards, in driveways, and even in the street watching as the fireworks burst forth in the sky, reminiscing over Fourth’s gone by and as the little ones saw their first, wondered if this one would be their last.

    I enjoy the patriotic music wafting through the broken window.  I hear Cohen, Sousa, Berlin, Howe, and wonder if I’m related to Samuel Francis Smith or Francis Scott Key.  I am reminded of all the sacrifices made by those before us and around us to bring freedom to this country and keep it.  Today I think of the great debate about Health Care in America.  When our country started out so long ago, there weren’t many people here, compared to today.  Science had not advanced so far in its healing measures.    Though our forefathers wrote words of unity, people were more self- reliant.  They grew their own food, made their own clothes.  Think about it.  Today most of us are more dependent on others for everything, electricity, water, food.  Our jobs (if we have one at all) are more specialized.    Our country was established by struggling immigrants to this new land.  We were poor in riches, but rich in spirit.  Today, we have a very wealthy nation, despite all the troubles we face. 

    Our government has the means to deliver health care to everyone.   And what greater service can a government provide to its people, than providing for the Health of its people?   Insurance for all, is NOT the same thing as health care for all.   If a man cannot afford health insurance now, making a law requiring   that man to buy it, does not make it possible.   Such a law is a guarantee that insurance companies are profitable and an assurance that the Health Care PACs, lobbies, are alive and well in DC.   On the web recently, one thoughtful person wrote, “the entire health care debate could be resolved by taking out two words from the Medicare Act.”  Those two words were “over sixty-five.”  

    Is that correct?   I don’t know.  But when I think about the purpose of government, I see it as working to achieve greater good for the people it governs.  Sometimes that comes in the form of checking on the quality of the food we buy, or building highways and dams to produce electricity.  But the sine qua non  of a strong, free country, with the exception of its spiritual focus, is the health and education of its people.  And from these its wealth derives.   Perhaps America can afford a Healthcare now for its people which it couldn’t when it began its great experiment in 1776 “of the people, FOR the people.” 

Installed Art at Germantown Community Theatre Today

Fourteen works are on exhibit now at Germantown Community Theatre. I took the art over this morning, opened the wrappings from around the paintings, found the wires and tools and ladder and hung them on the lobby walls. A short five hours later it was time to add the labels and photograph the installation. Everyone there had nice things to say about the artworks. Sales will benefit the theatre by ten percent of the price. And to help make this benefit successful, I rolled the prices way back for the duration of this show through April 29. The paintings may be purchased through the staff at GCT. The stage is set for the opening of Spitfire Grill, the musical this theatre has prepared.

Germantown Community Theatre is located at 3037 Forest Hill Irene Road, (between Poplar and Poplar Pike [which is what Park Ave is called in G.town]), Germantown, TN 38138. The show dates are April 13-29, 2012. The show begins at 7:30 Thursday, 8 pm Friday-Saturday and 2:30 on Sunday. Tickets are $25. for adults, $15. for Seniors and Students, and $10. for kids 12 and under. You can call the Box Office at 901 937-3023 or order tickets online at www.germantowncommunitytheatre.org



This theatre has a big line up for the 2012-2013 season. They will be presenting Steel Magnolias, Twilight of the Gods, Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Quilters, the Musical, A Murder is Announced, and Ruthless the Musical. And, they have a Membership Special now until April 15th for a $25.00 discount off the regular membership rate. Wow! An Adult 7–ticket Package is now only $80.00!!!

And, remember the Art Reception is April 21 from 5 to 7 pm. Please R.S.V.P. if you plan to attend this event at kfrancis427@gmail.com Thanks.

Holiday Fine Art Bazaar Continues Tues - Sunday in Germantown, TN

It is such a joy to be in a show with so many fine artists.  These painters, potters, photographers, print makers and more are all showing a few of their wares at the Holiday Fine Art Bazaar organized by FredAsbury and Patty Simon through Artists' Link and Memphis/Germantown Art League in the Carrefour Shopping Center, Suite 100 at Poplar and Kirby in Germantown/Memphis, TN:  Dorothy Allen, Mary Lawrence Allen,Libby Anderson,Helen Christie Argo,Fred Asbury, Bill Bailey,

Judith Barrie,Lauren Beyer,Chipsey Butler,Phyllis Boger,Marilyn Califf,Kay Coop, Miriam Crotwell,Priscilla Cunningham, Christine Dozier,Anne Enochs,Ann Fitzgerald,Sue Foell,Karen Francis,Bernard Freiden,Tim Hacker,S. Kaye Harrison,Barbara Hicks,Lou Hoover,Janice Kennedy,Terry Kenney,Nancy Kurtz,Ron Lace,Sarah Long,Debbie Lovett,Sandra Marion,Maxine Mason,Sue S. Miller,Barbara Montgomery,Carolyn Moss,K. Gopal Murti,Gail Ray,Dottie Sachritz,Patty Simon,Rose Sitton,Norman Soskel,Barbara Olive Taube,David Taylor,Pat Traylor,Peggy Whiddon,Elizabeth Williams,Art Wilson.

The public is invited to vote on their Favorite Artist in the show.   Open Tuesday through Sunday until eight weekdays.  This show closes on December 23 with a closeout party from six to eight.  See the video on you tube Blessings427 channel. 

Art Bazaar Continues, plus new blog

(Memphis)  Just thought I would note that I maintain another blog also located on my fineartamerica website:  http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/karen-francis.html  Click on the BLOG TAB.  The Holiday Fine Art Bazaar is underway since Friday.  It continues in Memphis at 6685 Poplar Ave at Kirby, suite 100 Germantown, TN 38138. Fifty artists have gathered over 800 artworks including cermanics, fused glass, fiber art, prints and original oils in a huge variety of styles in the Carrefour Shopping Center next to JosABanks. The works are priced for any budget and credit cards are accepted. Admission is free and parking plentiful. The Holiday Fine Art Bazaar is open Tues through Sunday. The hours are 11-8, Tues - Fri., 10-6 Sat, and 1-5 Sunday. There will be a closing party on December 23rd, Friday, from 6 -8 PM so if you havenn't finished your Christmas shopping yet, come on by.   The works at the Bazaar are from artists members of Artists' Link and Memphis Germantown Art League. 

I have three works in this show plus a book of photography.