The Antenna Gallery Outdoor Auxiliary (AOA) is a multi-purpose reclaimed urban cultural space that functions at the intersection of blight and art, offering an ideal collaborative event venue for the burgeoning St. Claude Arts District… Aw, who am I kidding? It’s a fucking concrete slab with some crumbling brick walls around it. This is what … The Antenna Gallery Outdoor Auxiliary (AOA)
BYOBS is a New Orleans-based live storytelling event with a theme. No notes. Just a good old fashioned yarn spun in front of a crowd. 7 minute limit. Story volunteers will be taken at the beginning of the show, and if there are enough, names will be drawn out of a hat. There will be … BYOBS: No Trespassing
By Erik Vande Stouwe Andy Stallings is a poet of the New Poetry. He writes in and out of the vertiginous accumulation of the Modernist influence. Consistent across the work I have read is an aggressive interrogation of language. This necessitates also a confrontation with sound, nation, and self. Stallings hails from Washington state and … The poem is my own experience: An interview with Andy Stallings
The Historic New Orleans Collection will celebrate the launch of Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans by Ben Sandmel this Wednesday, April 11, from 6 – 8 p.m. at the HNOC HQ, 533 Royal Street. Sandmel will sit for an interview with Karen Celestan—co-author of the Harold Battiste Jr. biography the HNOC put out … FOOL SHUT YOUR MOUTH UP: Ernie K-Doe book launch this Wednesday!!!
“Our primary mission at Antenna is to send and receive transmissions from within the city, state, the world and now the universe.” We earthlings are creatures with an uncertain future. Where will we get fuel and food in the coming decades? What will the next smart phone do? Where will we throw it away when … Spaceward-Ho! (Our Disposable Life)
Please join us for a film screening: THE SONS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS by Tim Wolff Mardi Gras, drag royalty and a glittering civil rights revolution – where else could these elements come together but in New Orleans? Interweaving archival footage with contemporary interviews, The Sons of Tennessee Williams tells the story of New Orleans’ gay … The Sons of Tennessee Williams
Please join us at Antenna for THE TROUBLE WITH LUCK – Featuring TARR Walking the line between heavy and soothing, Philip Kruse has performed under various monikers for the last ten years in the underground noise scene. Kruse is the owner of industrial label THIRDSEX and co-owner of experimental label OMS-B. TARR – http://soundcloud.com/tarrtarr THIRD … TARR – The Trouble With Luck
Andy Young and Jessica Henricksen celebrate the release of new books along with poet and THERMOS co-editor Andy Stallings! 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 17, at the Antenna Gallery (3161 Burgundy St.) Andy Young, author of The People is Singular (Press Street, 2012), will give an intimate presentation of poems to follow-up the multimedia performance extravaganza … Room 220 Presents: Live Poetry at the Antenna Gallery
SIFT and the New Orleans Public Library will host an Edible Book contest on Saturday, April 14, at 1 p.m. at the Alvar Library in the Bywater (913 Alvar St.). An edible book is anything “bookish” composed of entirely edible materials. Entries can achieve their bookishness by incorporating text, referencing a literary work, or simply … More than a sandwich? Edible books at NOPL
Please join us for a film screening of SCRAPPERS by Brian Ashby, Ben Kolak, Courtney Prokopas, Aaron Wickenden & Frank Rosaly Set in Chicago’s labyrinth of alleys, SCRAPPERS is a revealing portrait of Oscar and Otis, two metal scavengers searching for a living with brains, brawn, and battered pickup trucks. Shot in vérité style, the … The Green Screen – SCRAPPERS
