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
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
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
ANTENNA::SIGNALS ISSUE.005 Open Call for writings in conjunction with the Antenna::Signals issue No.5 live event themed around coastal erosion and wetlands restoration Antenna invites writers to submit short works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and prose that explore or connect in some way to the themes anchoring the fifth issue of Antenna::Signals, a publication released in conjunction with … Call for Writings about Coastal Erosion or Wetlands Restoration
The Platforms Fund is excited to host an evening with three incredible organizers, Roya Amirsoleymani, Tanya D Garcia, and Imani Jacqueline Brown. Roya and Tanya will give brief presentations about their community focused practices in Portland, OR and Baltimore, MD and then will have a discussion around community engagement and it’s role within their … In Dialog: Roya Amirsoleymani, Tanya D Garcia, & Imani J Brown
**Please Note Change of Date!** Tuesday, April 4, 6:30-9pm Antenna, 3718 St. Claude THEME #1 of Antenna’s Antifascist Reading Group is State Surveillance and Community Security, featuring a discussion of the tools, tactics, reach and implications of broad-sweeping surveillance through the lens of fiction and non-fiction. Antenna is pleased to announce that Professor Bill Quigley, … Antifascist Reading Group:<br />SURVEILLANCE
