Author Josh Funk brings The Stinky Stench to New Orleans on Friday, May 5, at 4:30 p.m. at Octavia Books (513 Octavia Street). He’ll read his newest book, The Case of the Stinky Stench, sequel to Octavia Books’ favorite Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast. There will be crafts, books, and, of course, treats. Josh … Josh Funk Storytime and Signing
New Orleans Youth Open Mic hosts the New Orleans Youth Poetry Festival Youth Slam on Thursday, April 20, at 6 p.m. at Ashé Cac (1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd). As part of the New Orleans Youth Poetry Festival, Youth from all over the city have been preparing all year to compete in this 2-round slam … NOYPF Youth Slam & Mixer
Dr. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro and Dr. Kim Vaz-Deville will be in conversation about Island People: The Global Impact of the Caribbean & Gulf South on Tuesday, April 18, at 6pm-8pm, Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane’s Uptown campus. Featuring talk and book signing. A reception to follow at 8:30pm at Three Keys in the Ace Hotel (600 Carondelet) … Island People: The Global Impact of the Caribbean & Gulf South
Friday Nights at NOMA presents “Hidden Musicians of Venice” on Friday, April 28, at 5 p.m. at the New Orleans Museum of Art (1 Collins Diboll Circle). The schedule for the evening is as follows: 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Art on the Spot 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Music by Loyola Department of Music 6:00 p.m. … Friday Nights at NOMA: Hidden Musicians of Venice
ROOM 220 hosts local book launches for Spree MacDonald’s Milksop Codicil and Tom Lowenstein’s The Trials of Walter Ogrod, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18, at the Antenna Gallery (3718 St. Claude Avenue). Spree MacDonald lives in South Louisiana with his wife and three daughters. His first chapbook, Milksop Codicil, won the Slapering Hol Chapbook Competition and was published in … ROOM 220 presents Spree MacDonald and Tom Lowenstein
As part of Propeller’s Water Challenge Week: Exploring New Ways to Manage Water, Antenna will host a workshop exploring how artists engage with questions around water, sea level rise, environmental degradation, and how new mediums can expand perspectives on our interaction with the natural world. Panelists will include: Michel Varisco, Turning Point Christina Gruber, Deltaworkers … Art + Water Panel
This issue explores the loss of the wetlands and those things that we come to find or (re)discover about community, ecology and history as we face unimaginable environmental changes.
Letters Read: Lafcadio Hern 6:00pm, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 Crescent City Books, 124 Baronne Street Letters Read is a new series of live events produced in collaboration with stationer Nancy Sharon Collins in which performers interpret personal letters written by individuals vital to the history and culture of New Orleans. For the inaugural event, we are excited to … Letters Read: Lafcadio Hearn
The Platforms Fund, developed by Antenna, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and Pelican Bomb, with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, is excited to announce the third round of grant awards! This year we received 106 applications and we were extremely impressed by the strength, breadth, and creativity of the projects … Platforms Fund awards $60,000 in direct artist support
I met Peyton Burgess at an uptown coffee shop on the first day of spring. Under a blue cloudlessness, we discussed parenting (“earlier mornings,” reports Burgess), the immediate power of our iced coffees, and his debut story collection, The Fry Pans Aren’t Sufficing. Burgess’ collection, published by Lavender Ink, is as much about what Elizabeth … Making the everyday feel important: An interview with Peyton Burgess
