2012 Events
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The Loving Project: E-RACE was created and performed by Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp, with Ilana Faye Silverstein, Mervin Primeaux, and installation artist Lorne Covington. For more information visit www.danceboxtheater.org.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 - Film Screening
THE LOVING PROJECT: E-RACE Antenna Gallery 3817 St. Claude Avenue NOLA 70117 4:30pm Free Admission Please join us for a dynamic dance/theater/music performance that explores interracial marriages and nontraditional partnerships through historical and present-day perspectives. This timely and relevant work offers reflections on racism, sexism, and gender bias, and highlights aspects of union that make partnership between “unlikely” couples viable (and desirable) despite an adverse status quo. The work weaves together a tapestry of stories that include: the case of Loving vs. Virginia, which in 1967 overturned the law against interracial marriage in Virginia; the marriage between Russian Inventor Leon Theremin and dancer with the American Negro Ballet, Lavinia Williams; and the case of Beth and Terence Humphrey-McKay, an interracial couple who in October 2009 were denied a marriage license from a Justice of the Peace in the State of Louisiana. The Loving Project: E-Race celebrates distinctive partnerships and the rare gifts they bring to the world. (53 minutes) |
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20
Please join the New Orleans Loving Festival for a special film screening: WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE? by Catherine Gund & Tanya Selvaratnam Café Istanbul - In the New Orleans Healing Center 2172 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117 7:00pm Free Admission What’s On Your Plate? is a witty and provocative documentary about kids and food politics. The film follows two eleven-year old multiracial city kids as they explore their place in the food chain. Sadie and Safiyah talk to food activists, farmers and store keepers as they address questions regarding the origin of the food they eat, how it’s cultivated, and how many miles it travels from farm to fork. |
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The girls visit supermarkets, fast food chains, and school lunchrooms. They also check out innovative sustainable food system practices by going to farms, green markets, and community supported agriculture (CSA) programs. They discover that these are good for the environment, help struggling farmers survive, and provided affordable, healthy, delicious, locally-grown food to communities, especially lower-income urban families. (76 minutes) For more information contact [email protected], and please visit www.nolafood.coop andwww.whatsonyourplateproject.org.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 12 - Loving Day! Film Screening & Discussion
THE LOVING STORY by Nancy Buirski Ashé Cultural Arts Center 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70113 6:30pm Reception / 7:00pm Film Screening Free Admission A racially-charged criminal trial and a heart-rending love story converge in this documentary about Richard and Mildred Loving, set during the turbulent Civil Rights era. Long Way Home: The Loving Story is a story of love and the struggle for dignity set against a backdrop of historic anti-miscegenation sentiments in the U.S. The Lovings, an interracial couple, fell in love and married at a critical time in American history, and, because of a confluence of social and political turmoil our reluctant heroes bring about change where previously no one else could. They are paired with two young and ambitious lawyers who are driven to pave the way for Civil Rights and social justice through an historic Supreme Court ruling, changing the country's story forever. (77 minutes) There will be a short discussion following the screening with a panel of speakers to be announced. *FESTIVAL BONUS – We will also screen of “I AM NOT AN OTHER“ by Lusher Charter School students Dylon Coggins & Sydney Walker. Young men and women of mixed racial heritage answer questions about what it means to be multiracial in this refreshingly candid documentary. (10 minutes, 2012) Co-presented by the New Orleans Loving Festival, The Fledgling Fund, HBO, National Endowment for the Humanities, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, New Orleans Film Society and the Charitable Film Network. For more information contact [email protected], and please visit The Loving Story. |
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SUNDAY, JUNE 10TH - Film Screenings & Discussions
Café Istanbul - In the New Orleans Healing Center 2172 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117 1:30pm – 6:30pm Free Admission HOW THE WORLD GOT MIXED UP by David Okuefuna 1:30pm Screening This film will re-access the meaning of the great historic force that first brought the races together - imperialism. The film examines the complex history of interracial relationships and chronicles the shifts in attitudes that for centuries have created controversy and anxiety all around the world. (2011, 90 minutes) New Orleans Writer & Historian Keith Weldon Medley will facilitate a short discussion following the screening. |
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YELLING TO THE SKY by Victoria Mahoney
3:30pm Reception and 4:00pm Screening 17-year-old Sweetness O’Hara has arrived at the first of several life changing forks in the road. Being the daughter of mixed race parents in a less than tolerant community, she lives with an alcoholic and intermittently abusive father, and a mother suffering from a mental illness, the exact nature of which Sweetness is unsure. Her protective older sister, Ola, is pregnant, with no support from the child’s father. Yet, with all this chaos enveloping her, Sweetness takes her life into her own hands in a neighborhood where to become an adult, you first must survive as a teenager. (2011, 95 minutes) There will be a short Q & A following the screening with Filmmaker VICTORIA MAHONEY. *FESTIVAL BONUS – We will also screen of “I AM NOT AN OTHER” by Lusher Charter School students Dylon Coggins & Sydney Walker. Young men and women of mixed racial heritage answer questions about what it means to be multiracial in this refreshingly candid documentary. (10 minutes, 2012) Co-presented by Charitable Film Network, and Café Istanbul. For more information contact [email protected], and please visityellingtotheskymovie.com and follow Yelling To The Sky onFacebook. |
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SATURDAY, JUNE 9th - Gallery Opening & Reception
MIXED MESSAGES.2 Multiracial Identity, Past & Present Second Story Gallery - In the New Orleans Healing Center 2372 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117 6:00pm to 9:00pm Free Admission The "MIXED MESSAGES.2" group art exhibition is a project of the New Orleans Loving Festival. Co-presented with Charitable Film Network, Press Street, and the New Orleans Healing Center. Featured Artists: Katrina Andry, Yvette Boteler, Keith Duncan, Horton Humble, E. Paul Julien, Elizabeth Kleinveld, Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy, Susan O’Connor, Aubrey Roemer, Paige Valente, and Christopher Porche West. Curated by Jerald L. White and Beryl Johns. New Orleans Healing Center Hours: Monday to Sunday from 10:00am to 11:00pm. On view June 9th to 30th. For more information contact [email protected]. |
Shade Ashani (L) and Kristina Robinson (R). Photos by Megane Claire and Aubrey Edwards, respectively.
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LIVE PROSE: Shade Ashani & Kristina Robinson
6:00pm - Reading The New Orleans Loving Festival an Room 220 are pleased to present writers Kristina Robinson and Shade Ashani for an evening of live prose as part of the New Orleans Loving Festival at 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 9, at the New Orleans Healing Center (2372 St. Claude Ave.). The reading will coincide with the opening of Mixed Messages.2, a showcase of visual art presented by the Antenna Gallery collective as part of the Loving Fest. The New Orleans Loving Festival is modeled after “Loving Day,” a series of multicultural celebrations across the country that organize people to fight racial prejudice through education and build multicultural communities. Loving Day also honors the legacy of Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple whose 1967 landmark civil rights lawsuit, Loving v. Virginia, ended all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States. The evening’s readers will read original pieces on themes related to the spirit of the Loving Festival.As usual, this Room 220 event is free and complimentary libations will be on hand. |
Kristina Robinson is a New Orleans native, MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans, and a member of the MelaNated Writers group. You can find examples of her soulful prose on her blog, Life in High Times, as well as One Drop, Racialicious, Room 220, and elsewhere.
Shade Ashani is the author of In Search of My Father, a memoir. She is a graduate of Columbia University and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Public Health at Tulane. She has worked in HIV/AIDS prevention, is a Goodwill Ambassador to Gambia, and founded the nonprofit foundation Kids International.
Shade Ashani is the author of In Search of My Father, a memoir. She is a graduate of Columbia University and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Public Health at Tulane. She has worked in HIV/AIDS prevention, is a Goodwill Ambassador to Gambia, and founded the nonprofit foundation Kids International.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 8th - Film Screening, Music Performance & Comedy Show
Café Istanbul - Inside the New Orleans Healing Center 2372 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117 6:00pm to 9:00pm Free Admission CROSSING THE LINE: Multiracial Comedians by Teja Arboleda & Darby Li Po Price 6:00pm Reception / 6:30pm Film Screening This full-length documentary analyzes how mixed race comedians mediate multiracial identities and humor. Crossing lines of racial, ethnic, and cultural acceptability by their very existence, multiracial comedians reveal that meanings of race vary across ethnic combination, gender, place, and time. The film features the experiences, perspectives, and performances of 14 American comedians of more than one racial ancestry. (2008, 56 minutes) For more information contact: [email protected], and please visit entertainingdiversity.com. |
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DJ YAMIN Music Performance
7:30pm at Café Istanbul BEN EPSTEIN - a.k.a. DJ YAMIN, is know for his wide-ranging musical styles including: Hip-Hop, Funk, Raggae, Afro-Beat, Latin and more. He is the Founder of BEATS NOT BOMBS a grassroots organization of musicians, artists and activists that advocate for all humanity, and the earth we live on. FREE Admission! |
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ALEX BARNETT Comedy Performance
8:00pm at Café Istanbul "I was born in Brooklyn and was quickly deported to Long Island where I was raised by my parents in an overprotective shell. After peaking academically in high school, I meandered through an Ivy League college, law school and a legal career only to realize that my true gift was in making fun of the law, my own neuroses, my raging hypochondria, my height (or lack thereof), marriage, and my relationship issues, particularly how people react to my wife's and my interracial relationship. In my off hours, I can be found at home, driving my wife insane with my myriad control issues and my determination to sleep on the diagonal." FREE Admission! Co-hosted by CFN's New Orleans Loving Festival, Press Street & Café Istanbul. For more information contact: [email protected]. Please visit alexbarnettcomic.com, and follow Alex on YouTube and Facebook. *After the comedy show, please stay and enjoy Live Music Performances by NOLA Art House Music at 10:00pm! For information about featured artists, visit nola-ahm.com, and please follow NOLA Art House Music on Facebook and Twitter. |
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THURSDAY, JUNE 7th - Opening Reception, Film Screening & Discussion
MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY by Brian Chinhema Ashé Cultural Arts Center 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70113 6:00pm Opening Reception / 6:30pm Screening Free Admission Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in America, yet there is no official political recognition for mixed-race people. Multiracial Identity explores the social, political, and religious impact of the multiracial movement. (82 minutes) There will be a short discussion immediately following the screening with filmmaker BRIAN CHINHEMA and TED QUANT - the Director of the Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice (Loyola University New Orleans). For more information contact: [email protected], and please visit multiracialidentity.com, and follow Multiracial Identity - The Movie on Facebook and Twitter. Co-hosted by The New Orleans Loving Festival, Charitable Film Network, Press Street, Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice, New Orleans Video Voices, Cupcake Fairies, and Ashé Cultural Arts Center. |