Team SNO will hold their December Slam and Final Qualification for the 2018 Team at 7 p.m. on Sunday, December 3, at the Ashe’ Powerhouse Theater (1731 Baronne Street). Doors open at 6:30; show begins at 7 p.m. $5 entry.
The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South welcomes Fox Rich to Tulane University at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 12, at Rogers Memorial Chapel. Rich is a Shreveport native, speaker, business owner, and author of The One that Got Away: A True Story of Personal Transformation. Facing 297 years in prison for her part … Author and Abolitionist: A Conversation with Fox Rich
Big Class will host a special reading and panel to reflect on the History Between These Folds at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 12, at G.W. Carver High School. The young authors of History Between These Folds will join acclaimed writer Kiese Laymon for a special reading and panel discussion, reflecting on the project and the … History Between These Folds: A Reading and Conversation
The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities will host their annual year-end celebration as they unveil the new issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas and hear from NEH Interim Chairman Jon Parish Peede at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, December 12, at the New Orleans Jazz Museum (400 Esplanade). The event is free and open to the public. … Winter Louisiana Cultural Vistas Party
The New Orleans Book Fair will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, December 9, at Clouet Gardens.
The CAC will host a wine-and-cheese reception and special after-hours viewing of Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, followed by a one-night-only poetry reading by Russ M. Herman from his new book of poetry, “The Topography of Life, Love and Travel” from 6 – 9 p.m. on Wednesday, December 6, at 900 Camp … An Evening of Prospect.4 and Poetry
The Paper Monuments Team invites you to a draw-in and write-in from 2 – 4 p.m. on Saturday, December 2, at the New Orleans Public Library (219 Loyola Avenue). We’re seeking your artistic ideas in response to the question, “What is an appropriate monument to the city of New Orleans today?” We’ll be collecting Paper … Paper Monuments’ History Unbound at New Orleans Public Library
Tom Andes hosts Blood Jet Reading Series’ monthly fiction night at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, December 6. This month, for the final fiction night of the season, two contributors to the Akashic Books Mississippi Noir anthology, edited by Tom Franklin will read: William Boyle and RaShall R. Smith Spears. William Boyle is from Brooklyn, NY. … Mississippi Noir with William Boyle and RaShell R. Smith-Spears
Tim Wise, one of the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators, will speak on the “Great White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer and the Politics of Trumpism” at Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) on Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 6:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.
A panel and book signing on New Orleans & the World will take place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 29, at Garden District Book Shop (2727 Prytania Street). Published by the LEH in partnership the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau, the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation, and the 2018 NOLA Foundation, New Orleans and the … New Orleans & the World Panel Discussion and Book Signing
What should Antenna carry forward? What can evolve? What does our creative ecology need from Antenna now & what pathways can we build together to get there?
This October, Antenna invites artists, writers, culture bearers, cultural workers, neighbors, partners, and audiences to join a series of Critical Response Process (CRP) sessions around our emerging Values + Pathways Framework.