Tuesday, June 11, 2019 – 6:30pm to 8:30pm What: 2hr workshop for writers Instructor: Michelle Embree When: June 11th, 6:30pm-8:30pm Cost $25 To REGISTER, send the full course cost to Megan Burns via: PAYPAL 3921noladragonfly@gmail.com OR VENMO Megan-Burns-79 PERFORMANCE FOR WRITERS Reading your work is a performance and performance is a skill and skills are made of techniques. We … Performance For Writers
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 – 7:30pm to 11:30pm Join us in the Living Room as we welcome visiting poets: Kim Vodicka and Lizzie Wan followed by the open mic Sign up: 7:30 Show: 8:00 By donation BYOB Kim Vodicka is the spokesbitch of a degeneration and heart-reactionary at the rearguard of the rose arts. She is the author … Blood Jet Reading Series
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 – 6:00pm Octavia Books – 513 Octavia Street, New Orleans, LA 70115 When Jane Trowbridge Bertrand turned 60, she was itching for a challenge. Come meet her when she presents her book, YOU STARTED WHAT AFTER 60? Highpointing Across America. ? ?The three Trowbridge sisters had a tradition of doing something noteworthy … Jane T. Bertrand – YOU STARTED WHAT AFTER 60? Highpointing Across America
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 6:00pm to 7:30pm Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130 This candid and humorous chronicle shows how one woman goes from casual observer to obsessive bird nerd as she traverses Louisiana’s avian paradise. In Adventures of a Louisiana Birder, readers follow Marybeth Lima across her adopted state in search of … Marybeth Lima – Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species
This extraordinary, timely new collection of essays by the award-winning writer ofThe Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions of justice, sexual violence, and retribution. In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her “instant classic” memoir of kidnapping and rape, when a woman asked her what she would … Lacy M. Johnson – The Reckonings: Essays
Poets Deb Jannerson, Elle Magnuson and Paris Tate read at the Poetry Buffet Saturday, June 01 2:00pm – 3:00pm 5120 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70115
Friday, May 31st through Sunday June 2, 2019 at the University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena 6801 Franklin Ave New Orleans, LA 70122 Free parking – enter from Franklin Avenue Enter the sale under Ramp 1 (which faces Franklin Ave) Hours: Friday 9am-8pm Admission for best selection on first day only – $15 from 9am-3pm only, free admission after 3pm Saturday 9am-8pm, … 2019 Symphony Book Fair
May 16th, 5:00pm-7:00pm Louisiana Memorial Pavilion 945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130 The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy with generous support from the Strake Foundation is delighted to again host best-selling author Alex Kershaw. Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out … Meet the Author: Alex Kershaw
Thursday May 16th 6:00pm-7:30pm 2727 Prytania St, New Orleans, LA 70130 This book tells the remarkable story of Palazzo Rucellai from behind its celebrated façade. The house, beginning with its piecemeal assemblage by one of the richest men in Florence in the fifteenth century, has witnessed endless drama, from the butchering of its interior to … Allison Levy: House of Secrets: Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo
May 15, 2019 6:00PM 520 Royal Street Susan Larson hosts a monthly conversation with authors, artists, and audience members, in conjunction with Art of the City: Postmodern to Post-Katrina, presented by The Helis Foundation. This month’s book club will feature author Maurice Carlos Ruffin and artist Rontherin Ratliff: We Cast a Shadow Free, but register … Art of the City Book Club—We Cast a Shadow
