2015 Events
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Monday, September 14th
MARK ONE? Bi-Weekly Discussions on Multiracial Identity ASHE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, NOLA 70113 | (504) 569-9070 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm MARK ONE? is a safe place for individuals to discuss topics and articles that pertain to race demographics in America. We will discuss fiction and non-fiction publications and films concerning the experiences of multiracial people, interracial unions and other related topics. Admission Free and open to the public. Participants to email topics and articles that they wish to discuss to the moderator a few days in advance of the meeting. |
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Hosted by Dustin Ruttenberg with support from the New Orleans Loving Festival and Ashé Cultural Arts Center. Dustin is a graduate student in the School of Social Work at Tulane University. He also serves as a community liaison for New Orleans Loving Festival Outreach and Education Programs. For more information contact [email protected]. #MarkOne #NOLF #LovingFestival #LoveYall #AsheCAC#AsheCulturalArtsCenter
Oakland based Multidisciplinary artist/activist ChE
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Saturday, August 22nd - Ancestral Ceremony, Healing & Live Performance!
#DignityInProcess CAFE ISTANBUL 2372 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117 | (504) 975-0286 Doors Open at 6:00pm and close at 6:30pm Multidisciplinary artist/ activist ChE brings ritual, dance, and Mixed Race storytelling to New Orleans through #DignityInProcess! #DignityInProcess is a platform for Black leadership development that utilizes embodied ritual practices, participatory art, and creative space-making to steward Black leaders as they create new pathways to sustainable living. Disrupting culturally dominant narratives of endurance and sustainability—particularly pertaining to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, this multidisciplinary performance series uses dance, spoken word, ritual, and storytelling for public intervention. MIX'd community workshops and performances examine alternative routes of identity formation, highlighting the multidimensional stories of Mixed Race people of the African Diaspora. Challenging historically held beliefs of what makes a committed activist—artist/ choreographer, ChE examines “burnout” from a Black/ Native American cultural lens. They draw upon the practices that have sourced the resilience of their ancestors for generations—movement, song, celebration, and spiritual ceremony to inspire and fortify a community that continues to evolve, resist, and regenerate beyond oppressive circumstances. |
North | South, #DignityInProcess - Part of #DignityInProcess, a series of interactive installations and performances utilizing ancestral ceremony, connection to the natural elements, and original choreography to examine how exhaustion and endurance shape Afro-diasporic activism. How does trauma manifest in the Black body as we struggle with an innate knowing that our liberation cannot be divorced from the earth? Black evolution emerges as we challenge structures that deplete natural resources even while being pressed against historical wounds that relate land with physical extortion. Recognizing a cultural reference of freedom being found in migration to the industrial North, we ask our collective body to remember it's roots in red ancestral soil. Movement shaped through the writings and storytelling passed down from elder/ wisdom keeper, Margaret Benson Thompson; bodies sweat, feet pound, and tongues pray in this Afro-futurist ritual of rhythm and soul. This performance piece travels to the North (New York) as well as the South (New Orleans) summer of 2015 and evolves through community participation.
About The Artist: ChE (gender pronoun- "they, them, their") uses the power of ancestral practices, arts-based community engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration to build collective resiliency and sustainable models of living. As a director/ choreographer, ChE’s work is robust with gospel soul sounds and dances of the Diaspora that leave feet stomping and hands clapping—fusing Contemporary Modern, Afro-house, Congolese, Haitian, and Brazilian movement. A recipient of the 2011 University of California Irwin Award for artistic excellence, ChE creates spaces where the cultural relevance of art practice are deepened. They have directed and performed original work as an Artist in Residence at Big Sur Spirit Garden and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Co-founder of Black Folks House and The MOVEMENT, they are passionate about integrating arts and healing as a practice of embodied activism. Currently, ChE introduces their platform #DignityInProcess as an opportunity for multi-generational, Black-identified change makers to develop a movement centered on empowerment, healing, and interdependence.
To contact ChE for performance opportunities or to book art/ movement-based workshops that examine the intersections of race, gender and class- contact [email protected]. North | South, #DignityInProcess is presented with support from the New Orleans Loving Festival, Cafe Istanbul, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, Congo Square Preservation Society, Gulf Coast Rising, Press Street's Antenna Gallery, the New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation, www.myheartsleeves.com and Dancing Grounds.
About The Artist: ChE (gender pronoun- "they, them, their") uses the power of ancestral practices, arts-based community engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration to build collective resiliency and sustainable models of living. As a director/ choreographer, ChE’s work is robust with gospel soul sounds and dances of the Diaspora that leave feet stomping and hands clapping—fusing Contemporary Modern, Afro-house, Congolese, Haitian, and Brazilian movement. A recipient of the 2011 University of California Irwin Award for artistic excellence, ChE creates spaces where the cultural relevance of art practice are deepened. They have directed and performed original work as an Artist in Residence at Big Sur Spirit Garden and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Co-founder of Black Folks House and The MOVEMENT, they are passionate about integrating arts and healing as a practice of embodied activism. Currently, ChE introduces their platform #DignityInProcess as an opportunity for multi-generational, Black-identified change makers to develop a movement centered on empowerment, healing, and interdependence.
To contact ChE for performance opportunities or to book art/ movement-based workshops that examine the intersections of race, gender and class- contact [email protected]. North | South, #DignityInProcess is presented with support from the New Orleans Loving Festival, Cafe Istanbul, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, Congo Square Preservation Society, Gulf Coast Rising, Press Street's Antenna Gallery, the New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation, www.myheartsleeves.com and Dancing Grounds.
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Tuesday, August 17th and Monday the 24th - Workshop #DignityInProcess - MIXED IN THE MOVEMENT
ASHE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, NOLA 70113 | (504) 569-9070 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Food provided! Donations Welcomed. MIXED IN THE MOVEMENT is a 2-Part Workshop Series exploring Mixed Race, Creole, & Afro-Diasporic identity through movement, storytelling, and theatre! |
This multidisciplinary storytelling circle centers around the experiences of Mixed-lineage, Black community in the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Part of a workshop series exploring the DIGNITY of Black Life, this is an extension of an interactive performance project known as #DignityInProcess by artist, organizer Che Elisabeth. Join the circle and discover what shape DIVERSITY takes within UNITY as we bring the complex beauty of our multilayered ancestry into creative investigation! Share stories of movement, visual, and oral tradition -- exploring our wholeness in the evolution of Black identity!
Artist/ Activist ChE will lead two Community Workshops with "Sistahs Making a Change" on August 17th and 24th (recommended but not mandatory to attend both). For more information call 504-569-9070. To contact ChE for performance opportunities, or to book art/ movement-based workshops that examine the intersections of race, gender, and class contact: ChE at [email protected].
Artist/ Activist ChE will lead two Community Workshops with "Sistahs Making a Change" on August 17th and 24th (recommended but not mandatory to attend both). For more information call 504-569-9070. To contact ChE for performance opportunities, or to book art/ movement-based workshops that examine the intersections of race, gender, and class contact: ChE at [email protected].
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Tuesday, August 11th - Auditions
#DignityInProcess DANCING GROUNDS 3705 St. Claude Avenue, NOLA 70117 12:00pm to 2:00pm Wednesday, August 12th - Day 2 Auditions STALLINGS ST. CLAUDE RECREATION CENTER 4300 St. Claude Avenue, NOLA 70117 6:00pm to 9:00pm Join Activist/ Artist ChE for a 3-Week DANCE Intensive. Bringing ritual, Afro-Contemporary dance, and mixed race storytelling to the New Orleans Loving Festival. Performance opportunities with honorarium. |
Oakland, CA based Multidisciplinary artist/ activist ChE
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Audition Details: Seeking performing artists with a dance background in Contemporary, Afro-Modern, and traditional dance forms of the African Diaspora open to sharing their stories through movement, song, and spoken word. Please come prepared with your artist bio and headshot, water, an item to place on our collective altar, and a story to share about your family lineage.
#DignityInProcess is a platform for Black leadership development that utilizes embodied ritual practices, participatory art, and creative space-making to steward Black leaders as they create new pathways to sustainable living. For more information contact ChE at [email protected]. Rehearsal Schedule: August 12th - 27th, Tuesday -Thursday from 6:00pm - 9:00pm. Performances: Saturday, August 22nd and Sunday, August 30th.
About the Artist: ChE (gender pronoun - "they, them, their") uses the power of ancestral practices, arts-based community engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration to build collective resiliency and sustainable models of living. As a director/ choreographer, ChE’s work is robust with gospel soul sounds and dances of the Diaspora that leave feet stomping and hands clapping—fusing Contemporary Modern, Afro-house, Congolese, Haitian, and Brazilian movement. A recipient of the 2011 University of California Irwin Award for artistic excellence, ChE creates spaces where the cultural relevance of art practice are deepened. They have directed and performed original work as an Artist in Residence at Big Sur Spirit Garden and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Co-founder of Black Folks House and The MOVEMENT, they are passionate about integrating arts and healing as a practice of embodied activism. Currently, ChE introduces their platform #DignityInProcess as an opportunity for multi-generational, Black-identified change makers to develop a movement centered on empowerment, healing, and interdependence.
#DignityInProcess is made possible with support from the New Orleans Loving Festival, Cafe Istanbul, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, Congo Square Preservation Society, Press Street's Antenna Gallery, Gulf Coast Rising, the New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation,www.myheartsleeve.com and Dancing Grounds. #ChE #NOLF #LovingFestival #LoveYall #CafeIstanbulNOLA #multiracial#biracial #mixedrace
#DignityInProcess is a platform for Black leadership development that utilizes embodied ritual practices, participatory art, and creative space-making to steward Black leaders as they create new pathways to sustainable living. For more information contact ChE at [email protected]. Rehearsal Schedule: August 12th - 27th, Tuesday -Thursday from 6:00pm - 9:00pm. Performances: Saturday, August 22nd and Sunday, August 30th.
About the Artist: ChE (gender pronoun - "they, them, their") uses the power of ancestral practices, arts-based community engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration to build collective resiliency and sustainable models of living. As a director/ choreographer, ChE’s work is robust with gospel soul sounds and dances of the Diaspora that leave feet stomping and hands clapping—fusing Contemporary Modern, Afro-house, Congolese, Haitian, and Brazilian movement. A recipient of the 2011 University of California Irwin Award for artistic excellence, ChE creates spaces where the cultural relevance of art practice are deepened. They have directed and performed original work as an Artist in Residence at Big Sur Spirit Garden and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Co-founder of Black Folks House and The MOVEMENT, they are passionate about integrating arts and healing as a practice of embodied activism. Currently, ChE introduces their platform #DignityInProcess as an opportunity for multi-generational, Black-identified change makers to develop a movement centered on empowerment, healing, and interdependence.
#DignityInProcess is made possible with support from the New Orleans Loving Festival, Cafe Istanbul, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, Congo Square Preservation Society, Press Street's Antenna Gallery, Gulf Coast Rising, the New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation,www.myheartsleeve.com and Dancing Grounds. #ChE #NOLF #LovingFestival #LoveYall #CafeIstanbulNOLA #multiracial#biracial #mixedrace
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Tuesday, August 11th & Monday 24th
Bi-Weekly Discussions on Multiracial Identity MARK ONE? ASHE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, NOLA 70113 | (504) 569-9070 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm MARK ONE? is a safe place for multiracial individuals and interracial families, ages 18 and up, to connect, share experiences, learn from each other and build community. We will discuss fiction and non-fiction publications and films concerning the experiences of multiracial people, interracial unions and other related topics. MARK ONE? bi-weekly gatherings at Ashé Cultural Arts Center. Admission free Hosted by Dustin Ruttenberg with support from the New Orleans Loving Festival and Ashé Cultural Arts Center. Dustin is a graduate student in the School of Social Work at Tulane University. Dustin also serves as a community liaison for New Orleans Loving Festival Outreach and Education Programs. For more information contact [email protected] or visitwww.lovingfestival.org. #MarkOne #NOLF #LovingFestival #LoveYall #AsheCAC#AsheCulturalArtsCenter |
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Monday, JULY 27th - Round Table Discussion on Multiracial Identity
MARK ONE? ASHE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, NOLA 70113 | (504) 569-9070 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Please join us for MARK ONE? - a safe place for multiracial individuals and interracial families, ages 18 and up, to connect, share experiences, learn from each other and build community. We will discuss fiction and non-fiction publications and films concerning the experiences of multiracial people, interracial unions and other related topics. Hosted by DUSTIN RUTTENBERG with support from the New Orleans Loving Festival and Ashé Cultural Arts Center. Dustin is a graduate student in the School of Social Work at Tulane University. He also serves as a community liaison for New Orleans Loving Festival Outreach and Education Programs |
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MARK ONE? gatherings are held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month at Ashé Cultural Arts Center. Admission Free and open to the public. For more information contact [email protected]. #MarkOne #NOLF #LovingFestival #LoveYall #AsheCAC #AsheCulturalArtsCenter
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Monday, JUNE 22nd - Mixed Messages.5 Photography Exhibit
MARTIN M. ELISSETCHE: BLACK & WHITE NEW ORLEANS ANTENNA GALLERY 3718 St. Claude Avenue, NOLA 70117 | (504) 298-3161 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm Martin M Elissetche is a New Orleans-based photographer. Born and raised in DC, Elissetche grew up holding five passports, speaking three languages, and straddling several identity fences throughout most of his life. Interested at an early age with self-identification, social conventions and the oft arbitrary social norms that dictate human behavior, Martin dove into the social sciences and is currently completing a PhD in Political Science at the University of Maryland. Martin's art reflects his interest in understanding how |
individuals relate to their environments, and other people. His work expresses his own struggle with identity and is flavored by its mulch-cultural synthesis.
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Sunday from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Free Admission. Hosted in collaboration with Press Street's Antenna Gallery.
On view through July 6th. For more information visit Tha Faatha Photography at www.thafaatha.com or contact [email protected].
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Sunday from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Free Admission. Hosted in collaboration with Press Street's Antenna Gallery.
On view through July 6th. For more information visit Tha Faatha Photography at www.thafaatha.com or contact [email protected].
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Saturday, JUNE 13th - Reading & Book Signing
SONIA SANCHEZ & MIXED COMPANY LE MUSEE DE F.P.C. | (504) 914-5401 2336 Esplanade Avenue, NOLA, LA 70119 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm SONIA SANCHEZ is an African-American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as plays and children's books. At 80, this brilliant writer is still fighting racism, sexism, violence, poverty, and oppression, while she continues to mesmerize audiences around the world. Ms. Sanchez will discuss her new book SOS: Calling All Black People - A Black Arts Movement Reader. Hosted by the Loving Festival, Stella Jones Gallery and *MIXED COMPANY Co-Editors Jeri Hilt and Kristina K. Robinson. Limited Seating. Free Admission. For more information contact [email protected] and visit http://soniasanchez.net and http://themixedcompanyproject.tumblr.com. *Written and edited by New Orleans based women of color, MIXED COMPANY is a collection of fiction and visual art offered as an expression of contemporary Black thought. |
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AKOBEN: Got My Brother's Back by Christine "CFreedom" Brown
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Friday, JUNE 12th - Ice Cream Social / Gallery Opening / Screening
5TH ANNUAL NEW ORLEANS LOVING DAY CELEBRATION ANTENNA GALLERY 3718 St. Claude Avenue, NOLA 70117 | (504) 298-3161 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm LOVING DAY is when we come together as a community to celebrate the legacy of RICHARD & 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. Please join us on Loving Day for family fun and the opening of MIXED MESSAGES.5, our annual group art exhibition about race, racism and the multiracial experience. Featured artists include: Bottletree, Charles Anderson, Christine "CFreedom" Brown, Sean Clark, Martin M. Elissetche, Juan Logan, Abigail Lucien, Daniela Ortiz, Christopher Porche West, Rosalie Smith and Taryn Wells. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm we'll have ice cream and non-dairy frozen treats (while they last), kids activities, family photos and more! Admission is Free and open to the public. Please spread the word! Hosted in collaboration with Press Street's Antenna Gallery. GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Sunday from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. MIXED MESSAGES will be on view June 12th through July 6th. For more information visit www.press-street.org and www.lovingday.org. #NOLF #LovingFestival #LovingDay |
Richard & Mildred Loving (c) Grey Villet – www.greyvillet.com
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At 8:30pm we will have a free film screening of
THE LOVING STORY by Nancy Buirsky. 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. 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 whoare driven to pave the way for Civil Rights and social justice through an historic Supreme Court ruling, changing the country's story forever. (2011, 77 minutes) Limited Seating. 50% by O.K. Keyes & Elizabeth Rosa Houck Zozaya This quirky, campy autobiographical short explores intersectionality and identity with the lighthearted confidence of being true to oneself. (2015) Hosted by Charitable Film Network and Press Street’s MiniPlex. For more information contact [email protected] or visit www.lovingfilm.com, www.lovingfestial.org and www.lovingday.org. #NOLF #LovingFestival #cfnNOLA #charitablefilmnetwork #cineNOLA #LovingDay |
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Also At Press Street
ROOM 220 & THE STACKS BOOK ART EXHIBIT Each month Émilie Lamy, founder and proprietor of THE STACKS, curates a selection of books that relate in tandem to the ideas represented in current art shows at Press Street's Antenna Gallery. The books are featured throughout the month and then added to the growing permanent collection of books located in Press Street's Reading ROOM 220. Come check out the collection of books for MIXED MESSAGES.5, the Loving Festival's annual group art exhibition on race, racism and the multiracial experience. READING ROOM HOURS: Tuesday - Sunday from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. On view June 12th through July 6th. For more information visit www.thestacks-books.org or www.press-street.org. |
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Thursday, June 11th - Reading & Book Signing
WINE & WORDS WITH SONIA SANCHEZ STELLA JONES GALLERY 201 St. Charles Avenue, Suite #132, NOLA 70170 | (504) 568-9050 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Poet, activist and scholar, SONIA SANCHEZ will read from her new book “SOS – Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader” - a volume that brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history. Sanchez is one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, and the author of sixteen books. Her awards include both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award. She will be one of 12 writers inducted into the inaugural class of the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. “Wine and Words” with Sonia Sanchez is one of several events being held during Elizabeth Catlett's centennial exhibition at Stella Jones Gallery. Both Catlett and Sanchez are great role models in the continuing effort to build community and acceptance. |
Hosted by Stella Jones Gallery in partnership with the New Orleans Loving Festival. #StellaJonesGallery #SoniaSanchez #NOLF #LovingFestival
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Sunday, JUNE 7th
CREATE COMMUNITY - MAKE ART TOGETHER! SHADES OF PRAISE GOSPEL CHOIR CAFE ISTANBUL 2372 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117 | (504) 975-0286 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm Paint and paste, use feathers and beads... choose words and colors to inspire others! Come to a FREE community event to create one-of-a-kind art made by two or more people. *A collaborative art event for everyone (all ages and abilities). Hosted by local artists SALLIE KNOX HALL and LISA KAICHEN in partnership with the New Orleans Loving Festival. For more information contact [email protected] and please visit www.sallieknoxhall.com and www.resourceworks.us. Also at Cafe Istanbul:
SHADES OF PRAISE GOSPEL CHOIR 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm SHADES OF PRAISE: New Orleans Interracial Gospel Choir performs contemporary gospel music in the African-American style, works to introduce gospel to wider audiences across racial and denominational boundaries, and forges relationships that dispel stereotypes and create racial harmony. Admission Free! Hosted by the New Orleans Loving Festival with support from Cafe Istanbul. For more information contact [email protected] or visit www.shadesofpraise.org |
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WHAT IS LOVE AT ST. ROCH PARK
Canadian multidisciplinary artist, ANGELA FAMA is bringing her traveling photo studio to the New Orleans Loving Festival to question WHAT IS LOVE. Fama will be inviting interested locals into her pop up studio space to converse on the word "love" and photographically capture the micro expressions shared in the process. You can find the WHAT IS LOVE pop-up studio next to St. Roch Community Church from noon to 4:00pm. The Loving Festival will be hosting a bone marrow donor registration drive inside the church during the same hours. Free and open to the public. For more information visit www.wabisabibutterfly.com/whatislove.html or contact [email protected]. |
Saturday JUNE 6th - Community Outreach
BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRATION DRIVE WHAT IS LOVE POP-UP PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO ST. ROCH COMMUNITY CHURCH 1738 Saint Roch Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117 | (504) 940-5771 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm SIGN UP FOR THE BE THE MATCH MARROW REGISTRY! The New Orleans Loving Festival is collaborating with BE THE MATCH and MIXED MARROW to connect blood cancer patients with life-saving bone marrow donors. Help us reach our goal of registering 100 new donors from the Greater New Orleans Area. People of color and multiethnic individuals are encouraged to participate. Please support BE THE MATCH and spread the word to others! *You must be 18 - 44 year old to register. Adults over 45 must pay a small registration fee. RSVP AT: www.bethematchfoundation.org/LovingFestival The New Orleans Loving Festival is a Multiracial Community Celebration and Film Festival that fights racism through outreach and education. For more information contact [email protected]. Our Partners: Ashé Cultural Arts Center, Be The Match, Charitable Film Network, Japan Society of New Orleans, The Joan Mitchell Center, Meditating Bunny Studio Inc., Mixed Marrow, New Orleans Community Cinema, and the New Orleans CupCake Fairies. 
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Friday, JUNE 5th - Film Preview / Community Outreach
MIXED MATCH by Jeff Chiba Stearns ASHE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, NOLA 70113 | (504) 569-9070 6:00 pm Reception 6:30 pm Film Preview & Discussion MIXED MATCH is an inspirational, emotional, and evocative feature length documentary directed by JEFF CHIBA STEARNS that explores the need to find mixed ethnicity bone marrow and cord blood donors to donate to multiethnic patients suffering from life threatening blood diseases. With the help of Jeff Chiba Stearns and first-hand stories from patients and their supporters, we hope to spread awareness about the need for multiethnic donors worldwide. There will be a short discussion with filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns and MIXED MARROW Founder & Director, Athena Mari Asklipiadis. Admission Free. Co-coordinated with Ashé Cultural Arts Center and New Orleans Community Cinema. For more information contact [email protected]. LOVING FESTIVAL Bone Marrow Donor Registration Drive CALL FOR BONE MARROW DONORS! The Loving Festival is collaborating with BE THE MATCH and MIXED MARROW to connect blood cancer patients with life-saving bone marrow donors. Community members can support this effort by registering as bone marrow donors after the film preview, or RSVP NOW to register on June 6th at www.bethematchfoundation.org/LovingFestival. *You must be 18 - 45 year old to register. Adults over 45 must pay a small registration fee. |
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Friday, MAY 15th - Film Screening & Discussion
BETTY Y PANCHO by Juan Mora Catlett CONSULATE OF MEXICO IN NEW ORLEANS | (504) 528-3722 901 Convention Center Boulevard, Suite 118, NOLA 70130 6:00 pm Mexican filmmaker Juan Mora Catlett's documentary Betty y Pancho is a video portrait of his artistic family that centers on the half-century marriage and collaboration of his parents - Mexican painter, print-maker and muralist Francisco Mora and African American sculptor, print-maker and painter, Elizabeth Catlett. Spanish language with English subtitles. (1998, 50 minutes) A short talk will follow the film by Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Ph.D., a Visiting Assistant Professor in Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. Admission Free! For more information contact [email protected]. |
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Friday, APRIL 24 - Reading & Book Signing
MIXED COMPANY COMMUNITY BOOK CENTER | (504) 948-7323 2523 Bayour Road, NOLA 70119 7:00pm to 9:00pm Please join us for a reading and book signing for our new publication MIXED COMPANY - featuring visual art and short stories by Addie Citchens, Jeri Hilt, Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy, Ambata Kazi-Nance, J.R. Ramakrishnan and Kristina K. Robinson. Guests will have a chance to win a $25 gift certificate from Community Book Center. Admission is free and open to the public. Please spread the word! |
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Sunday, APRIL 12th - Drumming
CONGO SQUARE at Louis Armstrong Park 701 N. Rampart Street, NOLA 70116 | (504) 658-3200 11:00 am Meet in front of the Louis Armstrong sculpture by Elizabeth Catlett. Admission free and open to the Public. The Catlett family will be in attendance. For more information contact [email protected]. |
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Saturday, APRIL 11th - Gallery Opening
EVOLUTION OF A WARRIOR: ELIZABETH CATLETT IN NEW ORLEANS STELLA JONES GALLERY 201 St. Charles Avenue, #132, NOLA 70170 | (504) 568-9050 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Please join us in celebrating the life and art of Elizabeth Catlett on the occasion of her 100th birthday, with a gallery opening for EVOLUTION OF A WARRIOR: ELIZABETH CATLETT IN NEW ORLEANS. Ms. Catlett’s connection to our city is an important one. She loved New Orleans and was named an honorary citizen and presented the keys to the city before her death. Catlett was committed, both personally and professionally to social justice for Mexicans and Black Americans, so the celebration will showcase her work in Mexico as well as her deep connections to New Orleans. The exhibition also includes works by her late husband, Francisco Mora and son, David Mora Catlett. Curated by Dr. Stella Jones. Admission is free and open to the public. The Catlett family will be in attendance. GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00am to 6:00pm. On view April 11th through July 30th, 2015. Presented in partnership with Stella Jones Gallery. For more information contact [email protected]. |
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Elizabeth Catlett, 1915 - 2012
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Friday APRIL 10th - Reception
ART IN SERVICE OF HER PEOPLE: CELEBRATING ELIZABETH CATLETT AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER at Tulane University 6823 Saint Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118 | (504) 862-3222 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm To celebrate the centenary of the birth of printmaker and sculptor Elizabeth Catlett, the Amistad Research Center highlights the personal papers of the artist, as well as many of her works of art from Amistad's fine arts collection. This exhibition includes numerous photographs of Catlett at work, letters with fellow artists, sketchbooks, exhibition catalogs, and more -- all of which document Catlett's career and influence in twentieth century American art. Admission Free. The Catlett family will be in attendance. Look here for the Exhibition Checklist. GALLERY HOURS: Monday - Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm | On view January 6th - April 24th, 2015 For more information call (504) 862-3222 or visit www.amistadresearchcenter.org. |
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Saturday, MARCH 28th - Book Launch Party
LITERARY LATE NIGHT: MIXED COMPANY TASSEOLOGY 1228 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, NOLA 70117 | (866) 989-3626 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm Please join the New Orleans Loving Festival in celebrating the release of our first publication MIXED COMPANY, featuring artwork and short stories by local women of color Addie Citchens, Jeri Hilt, Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy, Ambata Kazi-Nance, J.R. Ramakrishnan and Kristina K. Robinson. The 21st century moment is an exciting and uncharted time in literature and publishing with new and traditional media forms both co-existing and duking it out to create new avenues for artists to get their work to the public. This literary late night offering will highlight the interplay between tradition and innovation and the syncretic results of a culture of diaspora. Our book launch party will include a multi-media presentation of literature, art, film and music that will expand our notions of reading and seeing into the present, past and future. Presented in collaboration with the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival and generous support from Southern Eagle Sales & Service, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Foundation and Charitable Film Network. For more information visit the Mixed Company Project. #lovingfestival #mixedcompany |
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