The Broad Side Reading Series presents a reading by Andy Young, Jessica Kinnison, and Candice Wuehle at 7 pm on Thursday, Dec. 3, at Baskerville (3000 Royal St.). The Broad Side, spearheaded by Elizabeth Gross and Amelia Bird, pairs up writers (mostly women) and letterpress artists to create new letterpress broadsides, then brings everybody together for a … The Broad Side Reading Series at Baskerville on Dec. 3
Editor John Freeman and author Garnette Cadogan will present the inaugural issue of Freeman’s, a new journal featuring writing by some of today’s most notable authors, with an event from 6 – 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at Garden District Book Shop (2727 Prytania St.). Freeman is best known as the former editor of Granta and former president … John Freeman and Garnette Cadogan present the inaugural issue of FREEMAN’S at Garden District Books
@ 3330 Saint Claude Ave. Press Street’s 24 hour Draw-a-thon is the only event of its kind in the city of New Orleans. It is an art experience in which people are active participants– not spectators; where the entire premise is to encourage creating for the sake of creating. It is an all-ages, free … 10th Annual DRAW-A-THON!
Jam-packed with raw weirdness barreling over hills and through valleys, wobbling and pulsing with pure titillating starforce, it’s the Indie Grits Roadshow! The Indie Grits Festival is a film, art, music, and tech festival in Columbia, SC, and They’ve had nine nervously beautiful and strangely grandiose years of experimental art, film, and performance–and now they bringing the best of the best … Indie Grits Road Show
GET A SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE WORK AND BID RIGHT NOW UNTIL THE START OF THE LIVE AUCTION: http://www.biddingowl.com/antenna Saturday, December 5 Preview 6pm, Live Auction 7pm Free to Attend! $10 Paddle Fee / Cash Bar @ 3330 Saint Claude Ave Come out to this raucous event with Santa as live auctioneer and get affordable art by some of your … Santa’s Cheap Art Auction
Alex Mar’s new book, Witches of America, is a search for meaning, esoteric and otherwise. She takes her reader on a spiritual cross-country road trip from the Bay Area of California to New Orleans, from the prairies of the Midwest to woodsy little towns in the Northeast. She introduces us to some of the different … Okay, someone’s making a blood offering: An interview with Alex Mar
Birmingham, Alabama, native Margaret Eby returned South from her adopted home in New York City to write a travelogue about the towns where the stories of the Southern canon take place, as well as the authors who lived and worked in them. The result of her visits to Jackson, Mississippi, Monroeville, Alabama, Oxford, Mississippi, New … I would like to leave just a little bit of messiness: Margaret Eby on exploring towns and homes of the Southern literary canon
Author Tanwi Nandini Islam will present her new novel, Bright Lines, at an event featuring conversation with J.R. Ramakrishnan at 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 19, at the Garden District Book Shop (2727 Prytania St.). The Denver Post called Islam’s debut novel “A Brooklyn-by-way-of-Bangladesh Royal Tenenbaums. A pot-tinged, PTSD Muslim Sesame Street. With sex. Hallucinations, … Bright Lines author Tanwi Nandini Islam in conversation with TWF lit director J.R. Ramakrishnan Nov. 19
New Orleans-born T. Geronimo Johnson recently won the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for his novel Welcome to Braggsville. The award will be presented during a public ceremony at the Manship Theatre in downtown Baton Rouge on Jan. 21 at 6:30 p.m. Welcome to Braggsville is a socially provocative, dark comedy that explores political identity, racial … T. Geronimo Johnson wins Ernest Gaines Award for Welcome to Braggsville
Antenna / Press Street is excited to announce its next cycle of funding with the Platforms Fund! For 2016-17 we will give away $40,000 in funding with a minimum of 8 projects funded! You can apply now by visiting https://pressstreet.submittable.com/submit/49529. January 29, 2016: Application Deadline March 1, 2016: Selections Announced Funded projects must commence between … Platforms Fund 2016-17: Public Info Session
