Please join us for Musically Speaking with DJ Soul Sister – A series of music-themed movies and documentaries, curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister, and co-presented by Press Street, WWOZ and Charitable Film Network. Free Admission – SEATING IS LIMITED. For more information, contact soulsister@post.com. Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell Wild Combination … Musically Speaking – Wild Combination
Join Room 220 for a Happy Hour Salon featuring readings by three exciting and celebrated novelists—Rachel Kushner, Nathaniel Rich, and Zachary Lazar—from 6 – 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, at the Press Street HQ (3718 St. Claude Ave.). Kushner, who will be visiting from Los Angeles, and New Orleans-based Rich both have new novels … HAPPY HOUR SALON: Rachel Kushner, Nathaniel Rich, and Zachary Lazar Live at the Press Street HQ
Pick up the new issue of The Baffler—the quasi-legendary journal of contrarian politics and art co-founded in 1988 by Thomas Frank—to check out a new poem by Room 220 friend and contributor Kristina Robinson. “Diaspora: Breakfast with Mahmoud Darwish,” which Robinson read last summer at a MelaNated Writer’s Literary Jook Joint that featured Baffler poetry … Contributor Hype: Kristina Robinson in THE BAFFLER
“Do you see what I’m hearing?” An Evening of Film & Music with Gerry Fialka, Suzy Williams & Brad Kay 7pm- 10pm, free admission, donations appreciated 7:00pm – Pixelvision: Electronic Folk Art As McLuhan – GERRY FIALKA, director of the 22 year old film festival PXL THIS, presents a fun interactive films screening and workshop … “Do you see what I’m hearing?” An Evening of Film & Music with Gerry Fialka, Suzy Williams & Brad Kay
Please join us for Cultural Film Night, hosted by Delia Tomino Nakayama, with support from Press Street’s Antenna Gallery, Charitable Film Network, and the Japanese American Citizens League. TRANSCENDING: The Wat Misaka Story by Bruce Alan Johnson & Christine Toy Johnson Transcending is a documentary film about Wat Misaka, the first person to break the … Cultural Film Night – Transcending: The Wat Misaka Story
Inside Orleans Parish Prison—one of the worst jails in the country—an English class takes place, not to help inmates fulfill GED requirements, but simply to facilitate their study of literature and books. In this three-part series, Room 220‘s Ari Braverman explores the parts of the program that make it work—and make it worthwhile—from the founder … OPP ENGLISH, Part I: The Instigator
VIDEOROVER: Season 5 – Curated by Rachel Steinberg Videorover is NURTUREart’s ever-expanding forum for local and international video artists, aiming to present a wide range of videos which are willing to extend the perceptual and conceptual limitations of their medium. NURTUREart is excited to announce a one-night screening event of Videorover: Season 5, and continued … Videorover: Season 5
By John Sebastian Athanasius Kircher, a seventeenth-century German Jesuit and self-styled “master of a hundred arts,” is credited with inventing the megaphone, a pre-cursor to the computer, and (perhaps) a cat piano. His intense curiosity about the world around him motivated him to pursue studies in fields as disparate as magnetism and magic, optics and acoustics, … Confounding or Stimulating a Lot of Great Minds: John Glassie on Athanasius Kircher at Loyola April 22
New Orleans’ resident airport scholar Christopher Schaberg, author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight and co-editor of Airplane Reading, will present his book at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, at the Bayou St. John branch of Maple Street Books (3122 Ponce de Leon St.). By Nathan C. Martin Thanks in … Christopher Schaberg: Making Meaning at the A=I=R=P=O=R=T
Please join us for Musically Speaking with DJ Soul Sister – A series of music-themed movies and documentaries, curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister, and co-presented by Press Street, WWOZ and Charitable Film Network. Free Admission – SEATING IS LIMITED. For more information, contact soulsister@post.com. CHOPS by Bruce Broder Each year, Jazz at Lincoln … Musically Speaking – Chops
