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PACHA MAMA: earth realm

SLIDE SHOW / ARTIST TALK & BOOK SIGNING Friday, October 7th, 6:00pm at Antenna Artist Lynda Frese will give an artist talk followed by a book signing for her new publication Pacha Mama: earth realm. The artist will share recent images from the Peruvian Amazon and other off-the-grid experiences that helped shape the environmental themes of her work. PACHA MAMA: earth realm

Dank Mirth

Dank Mirth is a series of colorful cartoon panel style acrylic paintings on sheets of raw burlap and double-sided 3D wooden comic-strip thought balloons suspended from the gallery’s ceiling. The title of the show refers to a particular style of gallows humor familiar to those who make their home in New Orleans. The show is Dank Mirth

Cuba, Now!

Antenna is proud to present Cuba, Now!, images from writer/photographer Richard Fleming’s book Walking to Guantanamo, as well as a screening of an excerpt from the film in progress, Uprising– Drums, Voice of Resistance with filmmaker William Sabourin O’Reilly. Book signing: Thursday, January 14th, 7:00 – 9:00 Cuba, Now! is part of a major citywide Cuba, Now!

Between the Folds

a free screening of the documentary by Vanessa Gould Think origami is just paper planes and cranes? Meet a determined group of theoretical scientists and fine artists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at graduate degrees to forge new lives as modern-day paper folders. Together they reinterpret the world in paper, creating a wild mix Between the Folds

Draw-A-Thon 2009

Press Street’s Fourth Annual 24 Hour DRAW-A-THON @ the Green Room above the Green Project 2831 Marais Street Free and Open to the public.  All materials are provided. 6:30am-12:00pm THE DRAWING ROOM Kid-centered activities in a room covered with paper! Featuring: Optical Illusion Drawings, Creature Battle Draw with Luke, Making Recycled Sketchbooks with Laura Richens Draw-A-Thon 2009

Garden of Earthly Delights

Come and help raise money for our non-profit gallery Antenna by re-drawing sections of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights on Thursday the 12th. Beer and snacks provided. 6:00 – 10:00. The 8′ x 12′ drawing will be sold by the inch during Antenna’s drawing show/fundraiser on Saturday November 14th 6:00 – 9:00.

Stephen Elliott Reading

Author Stephen Elliott Will read from his brilliant and highly praised new memoir The Adderall Diaries at Antenna!  Free and open to the public.  Drinks will be served! ABOUT THE ADDERALL DIARIES: In the spring of 2007, a brilliant and well-known computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his beautiful, estranged wife, Nina. Stephen Elliott Reading