Shrine and Sound is a series of interactive artist talks and events exploring the depictions of the sacred in popular culture. The second installment will feature the a seminal classic in African cine…
RM220
“Now that the Times-Picayune and the weekly newspapers have cut all but the most perfunctory book coverage, Room 220 is the only place to find serious (and also irreverent) discussion of literature in New Orleans.” — New York Review of Books
We Cast A Shadow: Book Launch At Ace Hotel
A couple Tennessee Williams Literary Festivals ago, I sat in the audience of a panel made up of notable UNO Creative Writing Workshop graduates. Talk quickly turned to the fact that panelist, Maurice …
BOW’T – NEW ORLEANS by Rhodnie Désir & Spirit McIntyre
Tonight, 8PM, Cafe Istanbul, $15 2732 St. Claude Ave The international project BOW’T TRAIL (UNESCO Slave Route Label) is an innovative choreographic, documentary and interactive experience that …
This Is a Journey Into Sound: DJ Legatron Prime talks scratches, practice and primetime!
Offbeat magazine’s Best of the Beat awards are in just a couple weeks (January 31). And while I would like to see them expand their categories a bit (i.e., giving bounce artists and rappers thei…
CRAZY ‘BOUT THEM ANIMALS: Documentary Director, Benjamin Simmons talks culture, commodification, and preservation.
“I was thinking about stories that weren’t being told. I saw how excited people were talking about the shoes and I was like, wow, this is really important to people.” (Animals director, Be…
RM 220 : NEW YEAR’S WRITERS REUNION AND COMMUNITY GATHERING
The New Year is approaching and we’re looking forward to a new year of writing and programming. We’re hoping in the upcoming year to expand RM 220’s focus and cover as much of New Or…
SHRINE AND SOUND 00001: “OTHERSIDE” (MUSIC VIDEO & SHORT FILM)
“I think everyone is living their own Myth and must become the Hero, the Archetype, the Prodigal Son. I think we also Co-Write this Myth we live and we can allow it to be a Tragedy or a Triumph.…
Spirit Desire: Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodoun ( Sokari Ekine, 2018)
Sokari Ekine’s Spirit Desire, Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Voudoun is not meant to be just another coffee table specimen. The series of photographs “made” beginning in 2013,…
New Orleans’s own Jon Padgett is an apostle of Dark Fiction.
My first exposure to Jon Padgett’s work was through the horror fiction podcast, Pseudopod. Padgett narrated his own short story, “20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism.” The sound design, as well as Jon’s …
Business Bootcamp for Writers
Antenna and the New Orleans Writers Workshop are excited to host the Business Bootcamp for Writers! Join the Authors Guild Foundation and publishing professionals from Penguin Random House and local p…