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In this time of great oppression, we are returning to old and ancient spiritual traditions: An interview with Janet “Sula Spirit” Evans

Sula Janet Evans is a singer-songwriter with the world beat/reggae band Zion Trinity and the lead singer of Mojuba, a band that focuses on sacred orisha music. She is also founding director of the Na’Zyia Doula Collective, a member and medicine queen of the Mardi Gras Indian Queens of the Nation, and an Akan/ancestor priest … In this time of great oppression, we are returning to old and ancient spiritual traditions: An interview with Janet “Sula Spirit” Evans

ROOM 220 Presents: A Happy Hour Salon with Sula Spirit and the Neighborhood Story Project

Room 220 is pleased to present a Happy Hour Salon celebrating two excellent New Orleans music books: Spirit of the Orisha by Janet “Sula Spirit” Evans and Talk that Music Talk edited by Rachel Breunlin and Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes. The event, featuring readings, discussion, translation, and live music, will take place from 6 – 9 … ROOM 220 Presents: A Happy Hour Salon with Sula Spirit and the Neighborhood Story Project

The Waves Reading Series presents Michael Jeffrey Lee, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Sara Slaughter, Julia Carey, and David Schneider May 14

Press Street is pleased to host The Waves, New Orleans’ premiere LGBT reading series, as it presents a star-studded showcase of local queer literary talent at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, at the Press Street HQ (3718 St. Claude Ave.). The Waves has become in its short lifetime one of the most popular queer … The Waves Reading Series presents Michael Jeffrey Lee, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Sara Slaughter, Julia Carey, and David Schneider May 14

Press Street Prom

PURCHASE TICKETS NOW $20 stag / $35 couple (cash bar) Free for Press Street Supporting Members! $75 VIP / $125 VIP couple (open bar) This year’s Press Street Prom will include musical performances by Tank and the Bangas, My Graveyard Jaw, & DJ Brice Nice, prom photos by Jonathan Traviesa, art installations by Jacob Reptile Martin & Jane Cassidy, spiked punch, … Press Street Prom

String Along

“Cloth is the body’s first architecture; it protects, conceals, and reveals; it carries our weight, swaddles us at birth and covers us in sleep and in death.” -Ann Hamilton Fabric and thread are inextricably bound to our everyday lives. String Along has gathered together artists who are using fibers in their artistic practice. Curated by … String Along

The Stacks & Reading Room 220

We are very excited to announce our new partnership with The Stacks! Each month Émilie Lamy, founder and proprietor of The Stacks, will curate a selection of books that relate in tandem to the ideas represented in the current Antenna Gallery exhibition. These books will be featured throughout the month and then added to the … The Stacks & Reading Room 220

Millennial Tragedy

Curated by Local Honey, Xavier Juárez, and Ashley Teamer, this collaborative installation is a monument to the out of context, passive rejection, and suspension of disbelief in this LOL DGAF society. We indulge and question our digital truth. Whatevs.  

Celebrate April Toole’s Day at the Irish House with a mass public reading of Confederacy of Dunces

As Americans read fewer and fewer books and feel generally more isolated in the technological age, there has emerged a response among lovers of literature that seems to address both issues—mass public book readings that engage attendees both literarily and socially. One such event, April Toole’s Day: A Celebration of John Kennedy Toole’s Confederacy of … Celebrate April Toole’s Day at the Irish House with a mass public reading of Confederacy of Dunces

Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the rise, winning contests, constantly publishing

New Orleans author and native Maurice Carlos Ruffin, who will present tonight at the Room 220 Happy Hour Salon honoring the 2015 Tennessee Williams Festival Fiction and Poetry Contest Winners, has had a string of publishing and contest successes lately, including new stories in Callaloo, Massachusetts Review, and Cicada, and forthcoming in Kenyon Review, The Pinch, and The New Delta … Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the rise, winning contests, constantly publishing

Stacks and Reading Room 220

The Stacks & Reading Room 220  We are very excited to announce our new partnership with The Stacks! Each month Émilie Lamy, founder and proprietor of The Stacks, located on OC Haley, will curate a selection of books that relate in tandem to the ideas represented in the current Antenna Gallery exhibition. These books will be featured throughout the month … Stacks and Reading Room 220