Please Join us for “THE GREEN SCREEN” a monthly environmental film series produced by the Charitable Film Network and The Green Project, with support from Press Street. PARADISE FADED: The Fight for Louisiana by Jared Arsement The Fight for Louisiana is an excellent film that analyzes the causes, effects, and solutions to wetland loss in … The Green Screen – PARADISE FADED
Please join us for NOLA JCS – a monthly Japanese film series hosted by the Japan Society of New Orleans, with support from NOLA Anime, Café Istanbul, Press Street and Charitable Film Network. ORIGIN: SPIRITS OF THE PAST by Keiichi Sugiyama Origin: Spirits of the Past, known in Japan as Gin-iro no kami no Agito, … NOLA Japanese Cinema Series – ORIGIN: Spirits of the Past
Cristobal Mendoza & Annica Cuppetelli Ashley John Pigford Greg Pond & Jesse Thompson Casey Reas Technology and new media is an ever-growing, expansive realm in contemporary art practice. void loop showcases six artists from around the country who merge art and technology in a myriad of ways, pushing the boundaries of computed visual and audible … void loop
Refugees granted asylum in the United States arrive through only a handful of cities. They often spend the first night in their new country at a hotel near the airport, where they rest and prepare for the next leg of their journey. Beginning in 2007, the first person some of these refugees would meet in … You might think sending Bhutanese people to Fargo doesn’t make sense, but it does: A Conversation About Refugees with Juliet Linderman and Susan Weishar
New Orleans novelist George Bishop, Jr. will celebrate the release of his most recent book, Night of the Comet, with two local upcoming events: at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, August 5, at the Garden District Book Shop, and at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, August 13, at Octavia Books. Night of the Comet is the story … Night of the Comet launch events Aug. 5 and 13
Please join us for the New Orleans Premiere of REWIND THIS! by Josh Johnson. Admission FREE – Seating is limited. Home video changed the way the world consumed films. The cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enormous. REWIND THIS! is a documentary that traces the ripples of that impact by examining the myriad … Rewind This!
Stray Leaves, a monthly(ish) column of New Orleans literary obscurities by Michael Allen Zell, is a lifting up of stones and crowing about that found underneath, led by the guiding notion that we are standing on the shoulders of writers and books that deserve their names and faces returned to the public. Eighty years ago, … STRAY LEAVES: The Raven At The Gate Of The Tropics
Among the most legitimate voices that weigh in on issues related to prisons and prisoners belongs to Wilbert Rideau. Rideau served 44 years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for manslaughter, during which time he edited The Angolite, a revolutionary prisoner-run magazine, for 25 years. He co-edited a collection of articles from that magazine, Life Sentences: … Wilbert Rideau on Prison Protests
By now I feel most literate adults have had some sort of discussion about the dynamic time in which we find ourselves in terms of reading—the way we read is changing, has changed, exponentially, magnificently. Not since the invention of the printing press has there been such an insane shove in accessibility of information. The … A Lament for Maple Street
SLOW LIGHT New Work by Annie Laurie Erickson In this series of photographs, AnnieLaurie Erickson addresses the phenomenon of afterimages – the latent imagery that remains on our retinas after we look at the sun or bright objects in the dark. Using handmade artificial retinas that absorb and release the remains of light, Erickson simulates … Slow Light- AnnieLaurie Erickson
