New Orleans Loving Festival

The New Orleans Loving Festival presents poet Sonia Sanchez and contributors to Mixed Company

The New Orleans Loving Festival presents an evening with Sonia Sanchez along with contributors to Mixed Company from 6 – 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 13, at Le Musée de f.p.c. (2336 Esplanade Ave.). Sonia Sanchez is an African-American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has written more than a dozen … The New Orleans Loving Festival presents poet Sonia Sanchez and contributors to Mixed Company

New Orleans Loving Festival – WAITED FOR

Please join us for the New Orleans premiere of WAITED FOR by Nerina Penzhorn. WAITED FOR interweaves three stories of South African lesbians who adopt across racial lines. The documentary explores the ways in which these queer families challenge and are challenged by the traditional hierarchies of race and heterosexism that are still deeply entrenched … New Orleans Loving Festival – WAITED FOR

New Orleans Loving Festival – Multiracial Perspectives

Please join us for a dialog on the Multiracial Experience with a lecture by local academic – DR. MORA BEAUCHAMP-BYRD, Asst. Professor of Art History/Curator of Univ. Art Collections at Xavier University will give a lecture on a local historic figure, Arthur Bedou (1882-1966) a Creole photographer. Admission Free. Seating is limited. For more information … New Orleans Loving Festival – Multiracial Perspectives

MIXED MESSAGES.3 & POP!

MIXED MESSAGES.3 – Multiracial Identity, Past & Present GALLERY OPENING & RECEPTION FEATURED ARTISTS: Beatriz “Soco” OCampo, Beryl Johns, Bottletree, Brian Cirmo, Carl Joe Williams, Donte K. Hayes, Ernest Littles, Haylee Anne, Heather Muntzer, J Knoblach, Muffin Bernstein, Joseph Anthony Pearson, Marlena Smith, Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy, and Tasleem Khan. GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday through Friday 1:00pm … MIXED MESSAGES.3 & POP!

New Orleans Loving Festival – LOVING DAY POETRY CIRCLE

Please join us for a Poetic Gathering to Celebrate Mixedness and the 46th anniversary of LOVING DAY. We will have readings by local poets Travis Duc Tran, Rosana Cruz, Geryll Robinson and Delia Tomino Nakayama; and music performances by Miguel Alvarado, Kiyoko McCrae, Zuri McCormick, Abbey Justo, Peter Nu, Delia Tomino Nakayama, Rosana Cruz, Jamal … New Orleans Loving Festival – LOVING DAY POETRY CIRCLE

New Orleans Loving Festival – COMMUNITY CELEBRATION

Please join the New Orleans Loving Festival for a Community Celebration. Ice Cream Social, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Family fun, free ice cream and other treats! We’ll have activities for kids – including face painting, storytelling, art projects, and more! The ice cream social will be held in the common area of The New Orleans Healing … New Orleans Loving Festival – COMMUNITY CELEBRATION

New Orleans Loving Festival – LOVING FAMILY PORTRAITS

Please join the 3rd Annual New Orleans Loving Festival for a Gallery Opening & Reception. GREY VILLET: Loving Family Portraits Featuring photographs of Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple who fought marriage discrimination in the American south. The exhibit includes photographs featured at New York’s International Center of Photography, and photos that have never … New Orleans Loving Festival – LOVING FAMILY PORTRAITS

New Orleans Loving Festival – HAFU

Please join us for a New Orleans Premiere Screening! HAFU: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan by Megumi Nishikura & Lara Perez Takagi The film follows the lives of five “hafus”–the Japanese term for people who are half-Japanese–as they explore what it means to be multiracial and multicultural in a nation that once proudly proclaimed itself … New Orleans Loving Festival – HAFU

New Orleans Loving Festival – The Loving Project: E-RACE

Please join the New Orleans Loving Festival for a free film screening of “THE LOVING PROJECT: E-RACE” a dynamic dance/theater/music performance that explores interracial marriages and nontraditional partnerships through historical and present-day perspectives. This timely and relevant work offers reflections on racism, sexism, and gender bias, and highlights aspects of union that make partnership between … New Orleans Loving Festival – The Loving Project: E-RACE

Mixed Messages.2

Please join Press Street for a Gallery Opening & Reception for “MIXED MESSAGES.2 – Multiracial Identity Past and Present.” Featured Artists: Katrina Andry, Yvette Boteler, Keith Duncan, Horton Humble, E. Paul Julien, Elizabeth Kleinveld, Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy, Susan O’Connor, Aubrey Roemer, Paige Valente, and Christopher Porche West. Curated by Jerald L. White and Beryl Johns. Admission … Mixed Messages.2