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Old New Orleans Rum Distillery Tour
August 13, 2007 - December 31, 2008 |
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Times: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Old New Orleans Rum, 2815 Frenchmen Street
Phone: (504) 945-9400
Admission: $10.00
Celebration Distillation offers tours and tastings at the distillery. Our tours offer a intimate and detailed look at the distillation process from beginning to end. All of our tours conclude with a visit to our tasting room. Become a connoisseur as you experience the subtle flavors of our distinctive rums. On occasion the distillers will offer samples of rums we have yet to bring to market to get your thoughts on the directions they are going.
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The Contemporary Arts Center Presents - Tony Feher: Re:Place
April 18, 2008 - October 4, 2008 |
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Times: Thursday - Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Closed on holidays
Location: The Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St
Phone: (504) 528-3800
Admission: $5.00 General admission; $3.00 Students & Seniors; Free for CAC members
The CAC presents a new, site-specific work, Re:Place, by New York sculptor Tony Feher, made especially for the atrium of the building. The new work will remain on view for three months. Like much of Feher's art, the CAC project has been created using found materials, and it was developed in the form of a direct artistic response to the spaces, shapes, colors and materials of the building's entrance.
To create Re:Place, Feher acquired three dozen 2-liter bottles of Orange Crush and Sunkist orange-flavored soda, and had them positioned at midpoint along the atrium's main cross-beams on three levels. Although each beam holds only one bottle, the cumulative effect of the quantity of bottles across a large spatial volume is of a dappling of the color orange, which at various points during the day catches and/or reflects natural light. Tony Feher (b. 1956), one of the most respected American sculptors of his generation, began showing regularly at galleries in New York and Los Angeles during the early 1990s.
In recent years, he has had solo projects at, among others, the Hammer Museum at UCLA, Aspen Art Museum, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and one-person exhibitions at South Texas Art Museum in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Bard College Museum in Annandale-on-Hudson. He just recently held his first solo exhibition at Pace Wildenstein Gallery in New York. Feher's characteristic use of extremely humble materials, such as empty bottles, wire coat hangers, packing tape, and plastic bags, have made him one of the leading members of a group of mostly New York-based group of artists who have turned their backs on the highly materialistic art-making practices of the 1980s and 1990s.
In contrast to the abundance of sculpture made using expensive foundries and art fabricators, Feher's approach is heavily arrangement on arrangement, framing and context for its visual and conceptual impact. Tony Feher grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas and currently lives and works in New York City.
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Arts Market of New Orleans
June 28, 2008 - November 28, 2008 |
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Times: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Palmer Park, Carrollton and Claiborne Ave.
Presented by the Arts Council of New Orleans, the Arts Market is a monthly arts market held the LAST Saturday of every month. Located at Palmer Park in the lovely Carrollton Section of Uptown New Orleans (At the corner of two well trafficked streets, S. Claiborne Ave and S. Carrollton Ave,) the Arts Market is open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and has no admission charge. The Arts Market features handmade, affordable art from local and regional artists and artisans. Styles of art include Painting, Photography, Ceramics, Glass, Jewelry, Wood, and Printmaking, plus handmade clothing, soap, candles, and other delights. Between 50 and 100 artists display and sell their wares each month. The Arts Market also features live entertainment, food and beverage booths, and a children's activities area.
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The Contemporary Arts Center Presents - City Stage
July 12, 2008 - October 5, 2008 |
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Times: Thursday - Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St
Phone: (504) 528-3805
Admission: $5.00; $3.00 for students, seniors. FREE for CAC members and children under 15 every day
Theaters are no longer the ideal stages for the display of contemporary life, nor are actors the ultimate vehicles of the contemporary character. This is more true in New Orleans than anywhere else, where streets are stages and anyone is an actor on Mardi Gras Day. Inspired by recent staged events in New Orleans, from seasonal festivals to street theatre or experimental opera to movie shoots, City Stage gives an update to the Shakespearean idea of the world as a stage through the works of emerging artists from New Orleans and beyond infused by the spirit of the stage. City Stage is a reflection on scenic spaces or stages, be they a concert stage, a movie set, a photographer's studio or the streets during carnival and the way in which they impact on current visual arts production. City Stage looks at the way in which artistic fields outside of the visual arts, and for which the visual is only but one element, influence contemporary art which is itself less and less dominated by the preeminence of the purely visual and material, but instead becoming increasingly aural and performative. Although the exhibition is not solely centered on New Orleans, it recognizes the city's many theatrical, musical and carnival stages as a major source of inspiration for such artistic productions. Works in City Stage run the gamut of elements in a staged production from theatrical sets to costumes to studio photography. With Debris Man, originally created for 7 days in Paradise, a multimedia opera he co-wrote and played in, Jeffrey Cook brings the idea of the fetish explored in previous work to life, with a costume that is also a kinetic sculpture. Taking Paul Chan's Waiting for Godot as a starting point, Cauleen Smith invents a sci-fi narrative in which she uses the streets of New Orleans as a backdrop and stages its people as characters of the future in The Fullness of Time. In Bruce Davenport's drawing series, the protagonists are High-School marching bands whose regimented use of space brings to the fore the acquired stage qualities of New Orleans streets. Inspired by 1960's set design, theatrical props and fashion, Adrian Price blends the boundaries between stage and catwalk in an installation in which she revisits the images of women in mass media. The human figure is absent from Adia Millett staged environment in which props are given life through lighting and become leading characters. Finally Colin Miller and Michalene Thomas bring a different twist to studio portraiture, the former by subverting the televised image of the news anchor and the latter by using retro imagery in very contemporary depictions of African-American subjects elevated to the status of icons. By presenting staged and fictional representations from or in the spirit of New Orleans, City Stage questions the supposed truthful images and reports given by the media, suggesting instead that the City might be best experienced in the realm of the imagination. Artists in the exhibition include Jeffrey Cook (New Orleans), Bruce Davenport Jr. (New Orleans), Adrian Price (New Orleans), Colin Miller (Lafayette), Adia Millett (Los Angeles), Cauleen Smith (Boston), Mickalene Thomas (New York). Exhibition curated by Claire Tancons, Associate Curator, Contemporary Arts Center.
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The Contemporary Arts Center Presents - Vestiges: Think Tanks
July 12, 2008 - November 2, 2008 |
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Times: Thursday - Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Closed on holidays
Location: The Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St
Phone: (504) 528-3800
Admission: $5.00 General admission; $3.00 Students & Seniors; Free for CAC members
VESTIGES: THINK TANKS, in the St. Joseph Street side windows of the Contemporary Arts Center, features FLOOD LINES lightwork installation with photos by Debra Howell, Krista Jurisich and Jan Gilbert and text by Michele White. These large-scale photos generously are sponsored by Ridgway's. This project is another in a series of works produced by the New Orleans-based arts collaborative The VESTIGES Project while in residence at the CAC. Additionally this collective is a founding partner of the large neighborhood-based HOME, New Orleans' arts network. Its performance and installation-based collaborations, including the recent and ongoing WHISPERING BONES project, continue to crop up in churches, cemeteries, and gutted houses around town and to infuse the energy of art and audience as a neighborhood recovery tool.
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The New Orleans Museum of Art Presents - Coping With Katrina
August 27, 2008 - November 2, 2008 |
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Times: Wednesday Noon until 8:00 p.m; Thursday-Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: The New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins Diboll Cir. in City Park
Phone: (504) 488-2631
The New Orleans Museum of Art will present Coping with Katrina: Artwork from the Hyogo-NOMA Children's Art Therapy Initiative, an exhibition of artworks by children who lived through the 2005 hurricane and subsequent flooding. All of the pieces were produced by participants in the Hyogo-NOMA Children's Art Therapy Initiative, which has offered art therapy sessions at schools throughout the New Orleans area and at free day camps at the Museum. "The works express sincere emotions about the children's experiences with Hurricane Katrina," said Holly Wherry, the professional art therapist who has been on staff at NOMA since 2007 and who coordinated the sessions that led to this exhibition. "You see how they are coping three years after the storm, and you see their immense pride in New Orleans. All of the participating children have given permission for their art to be exhibited publicly in order to communicate their experiences and educate the public about art therapy.
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Southern Rep presents Speech and Debate
September 6, 2008 - September 28, 2008 |
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Times: Thursday - Saturday 8:00 pm; Sunday 3:00 pm
Location: Southern Repertory Theatre, 365 Canal St., 3rd Floor
Phone: (504) 522-6545
Admission: $20.00- $27.00
SPEECH & DEBATE is the Off-Broadway sensation of last season, where it was extended twice at The Roundabout in NYC. In this fiercely funny play with music, three high school misfits find each other over the internet and decide to combat local corruption, sex scandals and bad casting when they sign up for the newly formed Speech & Debate team to take their grievances public, big time. Their hard-won exposé culminates in a time-traveling George Michael-inspired musical version of Miller’s The Crucible. Alternately zany, hilarious, and heartbreaking, playwright Karam explores identity, the appropriate boundaries for sexuality, and what it’s like to be without a voice in this less than brave new world.
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Jefferson Performing Arts Society Presents - All Shook Up
September 13, 2008 - November 2, 2008 |
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Times: 7:00 pm
http://www.jpas.org
Location: Westwego Performing Arts Theatre, 177 Sala Ave Westwego
Phone: (504)855-2000 ext. 205
A rock-n-roll retelling of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, “All Shook Up” weaves the music of Elvis Presley into this musical comedy of mistaken identities, misguided lovers and playful mayhem set in 1950’s small-town America. Don’t miss this jukebox of a musical featuring classic Elvis Presley tunes including “Jailhouse Rock,” “Love Me Tender,” and “Hound Dog.”
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Harrah's New Orleans Presents - Thrillusions
September 25, 2008 - September 28, 2008 |
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Times: 7:00 pm
Location: Harrah's Theatre
Phone: (504) 533-6600
Admission: $25.00 - $35.00
Harrah’s New Orleans welcomes Thrillusions back to Harrah’s Theatre for four nights. This new production will feature international award-winning magician James Brandon. He will join the cast of legendary rock star impersonators including Tina Turner, Rod Stewart and Prince. The new Thrillusions will also include exciting opening and finale dance numbers with electrifying dancers.
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World War II Museum Presents - Special Exhibition - Lives Remembered: Photographs of a Small Town
September 25, 2008 - January 11, 2009 |
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Location: The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone: 877-813-3329 x 270
Lives Remembered: Photographs of a Town in Poland 1897-1939 illustrates Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust through reproductions of more than 100 photographs of the small town of Szczuczyn, Poland. This special exhibition is on loan from the Holocaust Museum Houston. These photographs capture the ordinary lives of the residents during the years leading up to the Nazi invasion. These photographs were taken by Zalman Kaplan in Szczuczyn, where he established a business as the local photographer.Kaplan’s grandson, Michael Marvins, spent years collecting photographs by his grandfather from the descendants of the families that lived in Szczuczyn. The photographs reveal another side of the small Polish town contrary to the often associated images of Orthodox Jews. They show a rich and diverse way of life that was not so different from our own today. This exhibit puts faces on the millions of men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust. The photographs are of ordinary people leading common lives. The exhibit shows what can happen to everyday people when hate and intolerance are allowed to flourish. This glimpse into life before the war shows the people of Szczuczyn as similar to many around the world - enjoying life, advancements in technology and living free of labels or hate. Upon close examination, one must wonder, were their lives so different from our own? The exhibit contains over 100 prints of photographs taken by Zalman Kaplan who was a professional photographer in Szczuczyn, Poland. The Jewish community of Szczuczyn was wiped out by the Holocaust. The images were collected from survivors by Kaplan’s grandson Michael Marvins.
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Natchez Fall Pilgrimage
September 27, 2008 - October 11, 2008 |
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Times: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
http://www.natchezpilgrimage.com
Location: Natchez, Mississippi
Phone: (800) 647-6742
Come join us for the Natchez Fall Pilgrimage. Hostesses in period costume welcome visitors to three mansions each morning and three each afternoon, eighteen historic mansions in all. After your day's touring, relax and enjoy the town. Entertainment is available every night during the two week period of Fall Pilgrimage. Amos Polk's voices of Hope Spiritual Singers features dinner and stirring Gospel music. "Big River" A Musical Adventure about Huckleberry Finn on the Mighty Mississippi based on the writing of Mark Twain. The music keeps emotions on edge, from songs that tug at the heart to songs that are pure fun.
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New Orleans Saints vs San Francisco 49ers
September 28, 2008 |
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Times: 12:00 pm
Location: Louisiana Superdome
Phone: (504)587-3663
The New Orleans Saints and the San Francisco 49ers kick off at 12:00 pm.
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