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LadyFest Lit 2016: Wednesday Night

LadyFest Lit will host a reading with a variety of local authors at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 2, at the Dogfish Reading Series Headquarters (2448 N. Villere Street). The reading, which will be hosted by Megan Burns, will feature Chin Sun Lee, Amanda Emily Smith, Maddy Levy, Deb Jannerson, MaeDea Lady La Rose, Diana Shortez, Gina Ferrara, Andrea Young, Jessica Kinneson, Roxy Seay, Nancy Dixon, Whitney Mackman, Monica Mankin, Phyllis Parun, Stacey Balkun,and Valentine Pierce. … LadyFest Lit 2016: Wednesday Night

LadyFest Lit presents: Rain Prud’homme-Cranford

LadyFest Lit will host Rain Prud’homme-Cranford at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1, at Material Life (6038 St. Claude). This is the first event in the annual Lady Fest Literary Reading Series. LadyFest Lit is partnering with Miz Carla Williams, proprietor of Material Life boutique and gallery, for an intimate evening with Miz Rain Prud’homme-Cranford. Refreshments & drinks will be served. Miz … LadyFest Lit presents: Rain Prud’homme-Cranford

Daniel José Older: Bone Street Booktalk

The Norman Mayer Branch Library will host Daniel José Older at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1, at the Mayer library (3001 Gentilly Boulevard). The Mayer library welcomes Daniel José Older for a Q&A with Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy of the local group Wildseeds: The New Orleans Octavia Butler Emergent Strategy Collective, a network of feminists of color who use speculative fiction and … Daniel José Older: Bone Street Booktalk

Gift from the Bywater CDC helps expand Draw-A-Thon

Antenna is thrilled to announce that at our recent board meeting, representatives from the Bywater Community Development Corporation, Skip Henderson and John Guarnieri, delivered a check to establish an educational partnership between Antenna’s 24 hour Draw-a-thon and the Homer A. Plessy Community School. Draw-a-thon, one of New Orleans’ most successful community art events is developed and … Gift from the Bywater CDC helps expand Draw-A-Thon

Dread Scott: Conversation & Flag Raising

On Saturday November 5th, 2pm, The Contemporary Art Center (900 Camp Street) will host Antenna::Spillway‘s Resident artist, Dread Scott, in conversation with activist and community organizer Angela Kinlaw, on race, police brutality, and art. The event will be followed by a flag raising of Dread Scott’s A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday. Following presentations at Jack Shainman … Dread Scott: Conversation & Flag Raising

The Conversation Literary Festival

The Conversation Literary Festival will take place in New Orleans from October 20th – October 22nd for a series of conversations all geared to answer the question: Can a Black Mecca exist in the American South? The festival’s aim is to place literary conversations in the living room, to remove the conference hall and give back to … The Conversation Literary Festival