July 17, 2019 6–7:30 p.m. 520 Royal Street Susan Larson hosts a monthly conversation with authors, artists, and audience members, in conjunction with Art of the City: Postmodern to Post-Katrina, presented by The Helis Foundation. This month’s event will feature Rebecca Snedeker’s Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas and Guest Curator Jan Gilbert. Admission is free, and registration is required.
07/17/2019 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am Clearview Center – Metairie 4436 Veterans Memorial Blvd Metairie LA 70006 Authors appearing include Cecilia Casrill Dartez, author of the Jenny Giraffe Series: Alex McConduit, author of “Snoballs for All”: Mike Strecker, author of “Jokes for Crescent City Kids”; Gary Alipio, author of “Craziest Fishing Tale on the … Pelican Publishing Company presents: meet Pelican Authors!
JULY 17 AT 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Q&A with Room 220 editor, Kristina Kay Robinson Artist Wafaa Bilal will visit NOMA to interpret his interactive installation 168:01 in the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. The work comprises a large bookshelf filled with blank, white books which symbolizes the burning and looting of libraries in Baghdad during … NOMA: Gallery Activation for 168:01 with artist Wafaa Bilal
Carmin Wong is a Guyanese-born poet, playwright, and second-year MFA student at the University of New Orleans. She is currently the Associate Poetry Editor of Bayou Magazine. In 2018, Wong was featured in the Women’s Voice Theater Festival held at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. She has performed in poetry slams … BROKEN ENGLISH
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”21357″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]August 1st, from 6-9PM The oil and gas industry is funding the arts, but does the money come from endangering our coast and climate? Come hang out with Healthy Gulf and learn how to research oil companies’ impact to our environment. We’ll be working on a project mapping sites of fossil fuel extraction … Laptop Party! Mapping Impacts of Fossil Fuel Funding
Antenna will host 2019 Platforms Fund national jurors Tonika Johnson and Robin Gallite for a night of conversation in the gallery on the evening of July 18th. Tonika is a visual artist from Chicago and Robin Gallite is the Deputy Director of RedLine, a new Warhol Foundation re-granting organization in Denver. Each will present about … Meet the Platforms Jurors
It’s Midnight and I am laying awake in my bed. Staring at the ceiling, my mind is racing with thoughts so quickly that I can’t focus on any individual idea. My heart begins throbbing, and I can feel the tears welling up in my eyes. I hold them shut tightly and try to control my … Jellyfish! Cibo Matto! Paramore! Dance Gavin Dance! Living The Color! Pavement! (A look back at “Together Nonlinear”)
I used to say that if Back to the Future starred a black man, it would have been a horror movie. See You Yesterday isn’t the first black time travel story, but the way it addresses growing up black in an urban neighborhood, the horrors of police brutality, and how difficult it can be to … Tomorrow Hits Today: See You Yesterday is a Worthy Entry into the Afrofuturist Canon
Saturday, July 20th 6PM Crescent City Book, 124 Baronne St. ABC@PM, Crescent City Books, and LETTERS READ present a second open mic night for book nerds. CODEX is a conversation about the physicality and context of interacting with and using books. Attendees are encouraged to bring any book they’d like sharing! Loads of conversations about … CODEX II
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us Friday July 5th for a free film screening and closing gathering for Together Nonlinear. Doors open at 7pm, screening starts at 8pm. Voguing: the Message (1989) Anthem – Marlon T. Riggs (1981) Tiny and Ruby Hell Divin Women (1989) Sea of Bones – Tourmaline (2017)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][thb_image image=”21310″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
