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Marybeth Lima – Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 6:00pm to 7:30pm Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130   This candid and humorous chronicle shows how one woman goes from casual observer to obsessive bird nerd as she traverses Louisiana’s avian paradise. In Adventures of a Louisiana Birder, readers follow Marybeth Lima across her adopted state in search of Marybeth Lima – Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species

Lacy M. Johnson – The Reckonings: Essays

This extraordinary, timely new collection of essays by the award-winning writer ofThe Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions of justice, sexual violence, and retribution. In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her “instant classic” memoir of kidnapping and rape, when a woman asked her what she would Lacy M. Johnson – The Reckonings: Essays

Poetry Buffet

Poets Deb Jannerson, Elle Magnuson and Paris Tate read at the Poetry Buffet Saturday, June 01 2:00pm – 3:00pm 5120 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70115

2019 Symphony Book Fair

Friday, May 31st through Sunday June 2, 2019 at the University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena 6801 Franklin Ave New Orleans, LA 70122 Free parking – enter from Franklin Avenue Enter the sale under Ramp 1 (which faces Franklin Ave) Hours: Friday 9am-8pm Admission for best selection on first day only – $15 from 9am-3pm only, free admission after 3pm Saturday 9am-8pm, 2019 Symphony Book Fair

Locked at the End of the World

NOTE: Antenna will host a screening of Locked on Thursday, June 13th, 7PM including a Q&A with directors, Daneeta Loretta Jackson and Patrick Jackson (ElekTrikZoo.com). People call a lot of places around here the “end of the world.” First time I heard the term it was on a Grand Isle beach with some friends after Locked at the End of the World

Together Nonlinear

On view: June 8-July 7 Opening Reception: Saturday June 8, 6-10pm Daily hours: Tuesday through Sunday 12-5 About the show: “Together Nonlinear” is a showcase of print ephemera, drawings, and painted skateboard decks celebrating queer identities in art and skateboarding. Works shown will be from some of Unity Skateboarding’s zine workshops and queer skateboarding sessions. Unity Together Nonlinear

Queer Skate

Sunday, June 2, 5-8 At Parisite Skate Park, 1606 Pleasure Street Siq Flicks screening after 8 pm! Unity Skateboarding is a queer, trans, femme, and person of color centered skateboard project that originally started in Oakland, CA. The co-founders of Unity Skateboarding are artist Jeffrey Cheung and Gabriel Ramirez, who runs Unity Press out of Queer Skate

Meet the Author: Alex Kershaw

May 16th, 5:00pm-7:00pm Louisiana Memorial Pavilion 945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130 The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy with generous support from the Strake Foundation is delighted to again host best-selling author Alex Kershaw. Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried out Meet the Author: Alex Kershaw