As part of Press Street’s Impending Apocalypse series we are proud to present these two workshops for your eschatonic preparations. Fashions for a Post Apocalypse Era with Natalie McLaurin and Ryn Wilson Worried about the decline of your closet after the end of days? Look no further, we’ll show you how to turn your old scraps … PREPARATIONS FOR THE END OF DAYS
By jewel bush When friend and fellow MelaNated Writers Collective member Kelly Harris suggested we bring poet, photographer, and word provocateur Thomas Sayers Ellis—cofounder of the Dark Room Collective—to New Orleans, I said: “Fuck yeah!” I jumped at the chance to hear TSE, the co-founder of the Dark Room Collective, read his work live: … … Of Folk and Form: An interview with Thomas Sayers Ellis
Press Street’s Antenna Gallery is proud to present End of Days (as seen on TV) an exhibition curated by Natalie McLaurin and Bob Snead, focusing on the aesthetics of radical change and the materials of a post-apocalyptic world, including work by Amanda Cassingham-Bardwell, Adam Pernell Deal, Ben Fox-McCord, Pablo Genovés, Laura Gibson, James Goedert, Alexander … End of Days (as seen on TV)
Press Street is excited to present this week long series of events in our new home at 3718 St Claude Ave, December 8 – December 15 in anticipation of the end of the world! See below for event details. Antenna Presents END OF DAYS (as seen on TV) Press Street’s Antenna Gallery, 3718 St Claude Ave Opening … Impending Apocalypse
As those of us in the know are all too acutely aware, the end of the world is going to take place on December 21, 2012. We are not sure what will happen–will the universe simply implode in God’s hands? will a terrible virus spread like lightning, driving man and beast alike mad?–but we at … Room 220 anticipates the END OF DAYS — Dec. 10 and 13
This interview is accompanied by images that show adult content. At one point toward the middle of American Ecstasy, a new memoir in words in pictures by Barbara Nitke about the 12 years she spent working as a set photographer on pornography shoots in New York in the 80s and 90s, she recounts a telling … The Porn Romantic: An Interview with Barbara Nitke
By Christopher Schaberg and Timothy Welsh Ian Bogost is among a group of contemporary posthumanist philosophers working in the realm of “object-oriented ontology” (OOO), which seeks to remove humans from the center of philosophical thought and value interactions between all objects—humans, as objects, included—equally. His recent book, Alien Phenomenology, Or What It’s Like to Be … Binders Full of Ideas: An interview with Ian Bogost
Dillard University will present author, attorney, and advocate Michelle Alexander for this year’s Ortique Lecture on Law and Society at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Georges Auditorium on the university’s main campus (2601 Gentilly Blvd.). Alexander’s recent book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, challenges the conventional wisdom that, with the … New Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander at Dillard Nov. 28
Please join us for “Musically Speaking” with DJ Soul Sister – A weekly series of music-themed movies and documentaries, curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister, and co-presented by Charitable Film Network, Press Street, New Orleans African American Museum, Whole Foods Market, and WWOZ. FREE Admission and Refreshments! Cash bar. For more information, contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org. … Musically Speaking – Wheedle’s Groove
Please join us for “Musically Speaking” with DJ Soul Sister – A weekly series of music-themed movies and documentaries, curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister, and co-presented by Charitable Film Network, Press Street, New Orleans African American Museum, Whole Foods Market, and WWOZ. FREE Admission and Refreshments! Cash bar. For more information, contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org. … Musically Speaking – Our Latin Thing
