Bar Redux and Picolla Tushy Presents The Bluestockings bring you B.Y.O.P. – Bring Your Own Poems at 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 20, at Bar Redux (801 Poland Avenue). There is a $5 cover. The Bluestockings have always loved using different artforms to inspire and inform our shows. On Saturday, May 20th,Persé Fanny, Chatty TheMime, … Bring Your Own Poems at Bar Redux
ROOM 220 hosts the book launch for Cassie Pruyn’s Lena at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, at Saturn Bar (3067 St. Claude Avenue). Lena is the winner of the 2017 Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry. Cassie Pruyn is a New Orleans-based poet born and raised in Portland, Maine. Her poems have appeared in AGNI Online, The Normal School, The Los … ROOM 220 presents Cassie Pruyn and Benjamin Aleshire
Every year, Antenna hosts this special event to support the year’s printing of FEAST yer eyes, an anthology featuring some of the most talented comic artists and illustrators in New Orleans. By silently bidding on original works of art, your support helps fund the printing costs of this important project for the local comic community. … Feast Yer Eyes: Patron Picture Silent Auction
Lena Cassie Pruyn Texas Tech University Press, 2017 [Editor’s note: Cassie Pruyn will read with Ben Aleshire at Saturn Bar (3067 St. Claude Avenue) at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, 2017.] It is inarguably a good thing—and in no way detracts from Cassie Pruyn’s debut collection—that Lena does not quite live up to its title. Secrecy, death, … Let me into your grief: A review of Cassie Pruyn’s LENA
A selection from Antenna’s first Comic Book open call, Rift Valley : Special Edition by New Orleans based illustrator Sam Jackson, is a story about superpowers developing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and by extension how super heroes can directly reflect an ethos of a society. For the second Saturday art opening, we will … Rift Vallery: Special Edition Book Release
Sign up for the Summer Fiction Intensive, course with instructor Tom Andes, which at 7 p.m. on July 18 at The NOCCA Institute (2832 Royal Street). The course will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from July 18 through August 10, 7 – 9 p.m., at The NOCCA Institute. Tuition is $325. No previous experience is … Summer Studio: Summer Fiction Intensive
Join the book club for a discussion of The Great New Orleans Kidnapping by Michael Ross at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 8, at The Columns Hotel (3811 St. Charles). The Great New Orleans Kidnapping investigates the 1870 newspaper article about the “voodoo abduction” or a white toddler by two mysterious black women. Michael Ross retells the real story of … Nolalit Book Club
Philip Gould presents an exhibition of photographs from his new book Ghosts of Good Times at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 6, at LeMieux Galleries (332 Julia Street). The exhibition will run April 19 through May 27, 2017, with reception and book signing during New Orleans Arts District’s yearly fundraiser Jammin on Julia, Saturday, May … Ghosts of Good Times with Philip Gould
Support your local independent bookstores all day long, beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 13. Octavia Books, Garden District Book Shop, Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop and Maple Street Book Shop are celebrating Independent Bookstore Day in New Orleans. Each store is planning special activities; and together, they are offering the chance to … New Orleans Independent Bookstore Day
On view: May 13- June 4, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday May 13, 6-10pm Daily hours: Tuesday through Sunday 12-5 For “The Earth is Round?” Antenna invited Louisiana artists, scientists, and conservationists to contribute imagery and objects in support of science, facts, direct observation, and the Louisiana coast and wetlands. This exhibition is held in conjunction … The Earth is Round?
