This issue revolves around the themes of Displacement, Migration, and Dissociation, including explorations in voodoo, water, birds, ventriloquism, and the effects of extraction industries on southern Louisiana.
Mixed Company will host the New Orleans premiere of ASMARINA: Voices & Images of a Postcolonial Heritage, a documentary by Alan Maglio and Medhin Paolos from 4 – 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 18, at Cafe Istanbul (2372 St. Claude). Admission to the event is free. Based within the habesha community of Milan, ASMARINA explores the Eritrean/Ethiopian … Mixed Company to Host New Orleans Premiere of Eritrean/Ethiopian Documentary ASMARINA
New Orleans will celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses with a Bloomsday get-together featuring some of the city’s most exciting writers. Jasmine Araujo, George Bishop, Chris Champagne, Addie Citchens, Susan Larson, Louis Maistros, and Chris Waddington will be among those who conduct a marathon reading of the towering Irish novel from 6 – 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 16, at the Irish … Local writers celebrate Joyce’s Ulysses with Bloomsday on June 16 at the Irish House
Gilded Black Gold: Framing Art Through Fossil Fuel Funding Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 6-8pm @ Ace Hotel, 600 Carondelet Street Antenna Director of Programs, Imani Jacqueline Brown, speaks about her work with Occupy Museums and the Museum Liberation Movement/#FossilFreeCulture, an international coalition of artist/activist groups who execute action-oriented interventions and projects with the aim to free institutions of art, culture and … Ace x Antenna Presents :: Imani Jacqueline Brown
Poets Bill Lavender and Addie Citchens headline the Blood Jet Poetry Series’ final reading of their spring season this Wednesday, June 8, at BJ’s in the Bywater (4301 Burgundy). Bill Lavender is the founder and proprietor of Lavender Ink / Diálogos and co-founder, with Megan Burns, of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. His most recent … Final Blood Jet Poetry Series reading of spring to be held June 8 at BJ’s
Carolyn Hembree will guest host Banks Street Bar’s weekly Open Mic Night for poets from 7 – 9 p.m. on Thursday, June 9, at 4401 Banks Street. Sign up for reading begins at 6:30 p.m., and readers are encouraged to keep it under five minutes. This weekly series began in mid-May, and the event featured guest … Banks Street Bar hosts Open Mic Night for poets on Thursdays
Blights Out is a collaborative and creative initiative to unite natives of and newcomers to New Orleans in the design of a new model for development that shares the tools for locals to build the destinies of their own neighborhoods.Our strategy of “performing architecture” combines artistic and activist strategies of acting within the civic environment … Blights Out: Controls and Counter Reactions
On view: June 11- July 31, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday June 11, 6-9pm Daily hours: Tuesday- Friday 12-5 by appt, Saturday and Sunday 12-5 Admission cost: none Exhibition Description: James Joyce’s daunting, experimental novel Finnegans Wake is the basis for the Midden Heap Project. In order to create Finnegans Wake Joyce mined a personal and … The Midden Heap
Dread Scott, an inaugural Antenna::Spillways Artist-in-Residence, will speak at the New Orleans Museum of Art’s Friday Nights at NOMA at 6:30 pm on May 27. Scott will discuss the development of his current magnum opus in progress: Slave Rebellion Reenactment. Admission is $10.50, but the event is free for NOMA Members and $5 for Antenna::Signals Subscribers. CPInprint will publish Scott’s Fragments of the Peculiar … Dread Scott to speak at NOMA on May 27
Governors Island, NYC Noland Park, Building 15 Opening reception Sunday, June 5, 2-5pm On View May 28- Sept 25 12-5pm Saturdays, Sundays, and Holiday Mondays The historic Sculptors Guild of New York, http://www.sculptorsguild.org/ , has invited the members of the Antenna Gallery Collective to exhibit work together this Summer on Governors Island in NYC. The exhibition will also … Antenna at Governors Island, NYC
