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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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Surrounded by Water: New Orleans, the Mississippi River, and Lake Pontchartrain
January 26, 2008 - July 12, 2008 |
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Times: Tuesday - Saturday 9:30 am – 4:30 pm; Sunday 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
www.hnoc.org
Location: Williams Gallery, 533 Royal Street
Phone: (504) 523-4662
Admission: free
Surrounded by Water: New Orleans, the Mississippi River, and Lake Pontchartrain positions natural history alongside human history—examining the roles the river and lake played in New Orleans’s economic, social, and cultural growth, while reflecting upon the effects that the city’s expansion had upon the bodies of water themselves. Surrounded by Water traces the ways in which Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River have formed the physical presence of New Orleans created its commerce, wealth, and recreation; and shaped New Orleans impression around the world.
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Chalmette Battlefield Raises Old Glory During National Journey
February 18, 2008 - May 26, 2008 |
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Times: Mondays through Thursdays 7:00 am-3:00 pm; Fridays through Sundays 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
http://www.nps.gov/jela.
Location: Chalmette Battlefield, 8606 West St. Bernard Highway, in Chalmette
Phone: (504) 281-0511
Admission: Free
Chalmette Battlefield Raises Old Glory During National Journey A special flag-raising ceremony as part of “Old Glory’s Journey of Remembrance” will take place at Chalmette Battlefield, in Chalmette. The ceremony is part of a national program to honor the service and sacrifice of Americafallen heroes. The public and especially members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, representatives from the military services, and all veterans and their families are invited to this free program. The flag which will be raised at the battlefield flew over the USS Arizona Memorial and the USS Oklahoma Memorial on December 7, 2007, in honor of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. It has been traveling across the and will fly over 25 national cemeteries and historic sites including Independence Hall, Appomattox Courthouse, the Gettysburg battlefield, and McHenry.
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Palm Court Jazz Band with Topsy Chapman and Lars Edegran
February 20, 2008 - December 31, 2008 |
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Times: Wednesdays 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
http://www.palmcourtjazzcafe.com
Location: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1204 Decatur St.
Phone: (504) 525-0200
Join us for a Creole cuisine and live Traditional Jazz entertainment featuring Topsy Chapman and Lars Edegran.
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The Museum of Arts Presents - George Rodrigue's Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs and Beyond Katrina
March 1, 2008 - June 8, 2008 |
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Times: Wednesday Noon until 8:00 p.m; Thursday-Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm
http://www.noma.org
Location: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle
Phone: (504) 658-4100
Come and join us for George Rodrigue's Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs and Beyond Katrina.
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The Bachelor in New Orleans
March 12, 2008 - May 28, 2008 |
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Times: Wednesdays 7:00 pm
Location: Pirate's Alley Cafe, 622 Pirate's Alley, behind the Cabildo
Phone: (504) 948-4167
"Few Bachelors in New Orleans really know whether New Orleans is an alcoholic mirage or whether New Orleans drinks are part of a general illusion, including wrought-iron grillwork, impossibly beautiful women, magnolia blossoms, race horses, carnival parades and Mardi Gras, moonlight, and the suggestive music seeping out into the streets from a hundred courtyards. So begins the Bachelor his idiosyncratic guide for the playboy, or playgirl, who visits our city. Having thoroughly enjoyed its first foray into New Orleans-centric material with its production of one-acts by local luminary Brian Sands, Four Humours continues to explore the home turf with The Bachelor in New Orleans, an adaptation of a WWII-era gentleman's guide written by Robert Kinney and adapted and performed by Michael Martin. As the Bachelor continues, smart...albeit besotted and strange...advice is offered on the visitor's proper relations to local landmarks, loneliness, artists and galleries, musicians, food, and romance. More than any American city and now more than ever, we here live in a neverland of what was. Kinney's 1946 guidebook evokes all of what New Orleans is and was and is that holds us all in place. There's little more to say. A compelling yarn, told in an amusing voice, by an actor wearing a snazzy suit, The Bachelor in New Orleans is as simple as theatre gets.
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Thursdays at Twilight Garden Concert Series
March 13, 2008 - August 28, 2008 |
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Times: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Performance at 6pm
Location: City Park, Botanical Garden- Pavillion of the Two Sisters
Phone: (504)483-9386
Admission: $6.00 for adults, $2.00 for children age 5-12
Series continues through August. Outside food and drink not permitted. Sorry, admission is included in Friends of City Park membership. Series sponsored by Phelps Dunbar and The Azby Fund. Support provided by Republic Beverage Company, New Orleans Musica da Camera, WWNO 89.9fm, and the New Orleans Botanical Garden.
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The Old U. S. Mint Presents - Let Your Motto Be Resistance
March 15, 2008 - June 1, 2008 |
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Times: Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 am- 5:00 pm
Location: Old U. S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave.
Phone: (504)568- 6968 or (800)568-6968
Admission: $6.00 Adults; $5.00 Students , Seniors, and Active Military; Children 12 and under are free
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits explores the history of African American achievement from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the changing roles of photographic portraits. Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits explores the history of African American achievement from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the changing roles of photographic portraiture. The photographs, many by noted photographers and portraying distinguished subjects, establish a sense of place and identity and explore both aesthetic and vernacular styles. Among the subjects are such luminaries as actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson; trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis; legendary singer Nat “King” Cole; performing artist Eartha Kitt; opera legend Marian Anderson; jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong; vocalist Sarah Vaughn; choreographer and dancer Judith Jamison; and Harlem Renaissance poet and writer Langston HughesThe exhibition includes portraits produced by both well-known photographers such as Berenice Abbott, James VanDerZee, Edward Weston, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Carl Van Vechten, and lesser-known or anonymous photographers. The exhibition inaugurates the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture, and features works drawn exclusively from the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. The exhibition opens to the public this month at the Old U.S. Mint. The museum encourages the entire family to visit this extraordinary exhibition and to participate in the associated adult and family programs.
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The U. S. Mint Presents - Treasures of Napoleon
April 1, 2008 - August 3, 2008 |
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Times: Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm; Thursdays until 8:00 pm
Location: The Old U.S. Mint, located at 400 Esplanade Avenue
Phone: (504) 568- 6968 or 1-800-568-6968
Admission: $6.00 Adults; $5.00 Students , Seniors, and Active Military; Children 12 and under are free
Napoleon Marches into New Orleans 'Empereur commande "Laissez les bons temps rouler!"(The Emperor commands "Let the Good Times Roll!) Louisiana will at last welcome Bonaparte when Treasures of NAPOLEON comes to the Louisiana State Museum's OLD U.S. MINT in the New Orleans French Quarter from April 6th to August 3rd, 2008. The spectacular traveling exhibition Treasures of NAPOLEON, tells the fascinating story of Napoléon and showcases the world-class art and design of his time. It has already been seen by 125,000 visitors and universally praised. Created from the extraordinary collection of 1st Empire authority and author, Pierre-Jean Chalençon, the exhibit showcases rare, personal belongings of Napoléon I, as well as some of the most famous depictions of him by the greatest artists of the time. While elements of the exhibition have been loaned for major exhibitions around the world, this is the first time these irreplaceable artifacts are being seen in North America. Treasures of NAPOLEON offers visitors an opportunity to see beyond the “legend” of Napoléon Bonaparte to gain an understanding of this complex figure as a man. User-friendly interpretive text and more than 250 objects, framed paintings, prints and documents, as well as furniture from the Imperial palaces, shine a light on the extraordinary life of one of history's pivotal figures.
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JazzFest 1970 and 1971 Beauregard Square
April 7, 2008 - June 6, 2008 |
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Times: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: 1205 N. Rampart Street
Phone: (504) 558-6100
Admission: Free
"Jazzfest 1970 & 1971: Beauregard Square” will feature the first-ever showing of memorabilia from the Jazz & Heritage Archive, commemorating the first two years of Jazz Fest. The show conveys the rich history of the event then known as the New Orleans Jazz Festival & Louisiana Heritage Fair. It features various pieces of memorabilia and documentation that illustrate the challenges of staging what would eventually become one of the top music festivals in the world: photos, posters, ticket stubs, correspondence between the producers and city officials, production invoices and more. The exhibit also features a collection of Noel Rockmore watercolors that illustrate the early days of the festival.
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The Contemporary Arts Center Presents - Luis Cruz Azaceta
April 11, 2008 - June 28, 2008 |
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Times: Thursday - Sunday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: The Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp Street
Phone: (504)528-3805
Admission: 5. $3 for students, seniors. FREE for CAC members and children under 15 every day.
1999 is an exhibition of works produced by Luis Cruz Azaceta (Havana, 1942), during the twelve months preceding the turn of the millennium. The exhibition contains thirty-two works, including paintings, sculpture, assemblage, drawings, and photographs. It is Azaceta's second one-person exhibition at CAC, the first having taken place in 1993. Azaceta has made New Orleans his home since the early 1990s, and could be the city's most internationally renowned contemporary visual artist. However, despite gallery and museum shows throughout Europe as well as North and South America, not to mention five one-person exhibitions at Arthur Roger Gallery in the past decade, Azaceta's work is not widely known in his adopted city.
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The National WWII Museum Presents - Real to Reel: Hollywood and World War II
April 12, 2008 - October 31, 2008 |
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Times: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone: 504-527-6012
The National World War II Museum presents Real to Reel: Hollywood and World War II, with a showcase exhibit of select artifacts. Check back for more details.
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Teatro Wego! Dinner Theatre presents Joey and Mary's Irish Italian Wedding
May 2, 2008 - May 18, 2008 |
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Times: Fridays and Saturdays 7:30 pm; Sun. 2:00 pm
Location: Teatro Wego! Dinner Theater, 177 Sala Ave. Westwego, LA
Phone: (504)885-2000
Admission: $26.00
For over a decade Joey & Maria's Comedy Wedding has been thrilling audiences throughout the country. First, you'll witness the most hilarious wedding ceremony you've ever seen. Then throughout the reception, Joey and Maria and their families will come to your table to greet and gossip with their new friends! Watch out for Momma Nona, she might squeeze your cheek, then talk about everyone in the old neighborhood. The audience is encouraged to participate while the cast mingles at the tables and dances with the guests, making the evening a night to remember. You can dance the tarantella, catch the bouquet, waltz with the bride or groom, or just relax and watch the fun as the grooms X-girlfriend crashes the wedding and "Don Ziti," the Godfather, finds out that his gift was stolen by one of the guests, and much, much more: The Mother of all comedy weddings, Joey & Maria's Comedy Italian Wedding is a nationally-acclaimed interactive dinner theater experience now coming to you!
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Dillard University Benefit Concert featuring The Four Tops
May 9, 2008 |
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Location: The Sugar Mill, 1021 Convention Center Boulevard
Phone: (504) 816-4504 or (504) 816-4182
Admission: $50.00 - $200.00
This signature scholarship fundraiser will feature the legendary Motown entertainers, the Four Tops, who will perform a variety of hit songs that reflect their rich musical repertoire. This benefit is a community-wide event involving a cross-section of key business and education leaders, alumni, students and friends as well as local and regional officials who understand the impact of an investment in education not just for an individual student but ultimately on the larger community. It will also serve as the kick-off of the University's first ever campaign.
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Harrah's New Orleans Presents - World Series of Poker Tournament
May 9, 2008 - May 21, 2008 |
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Location: Harrah's New Orleans
Phone: (504) 533-6074
The high-stakes action of the World Series of Poker, the richest sporting event on the planet, is returning once again to the Crescent City. The WSOP Circuit will wrap up its fourth successful year with a stop at Harrah’s New Orleans Casino & Hotel. This year’s tournament schedule includes 15 events. Buy-ins range from $175 up to $5,000 for the No-Limit Hold ‘em championship event. This year’s schedule also includes events in Seven-Card Stud, Pot-Limit Omaha, Limit Hold’em, as well as No-Limit Hold’em and a Ladies Championship event.
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New Orleans Ballet Association Presents - Absolute Ballet
May 9, 2008 - May 10, 2008 |
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Times: 8:00 pm
Location: Tulane University’s Dixon Hall
Phone: (504) 522-0996
Admission: $30.00 - $80.00; Students and seniors (65 and older) receive a $7 discount off the regular ticket prices. Group discounts also are available.
New Orleans Ballet Association closes its highly successful 2007-08 season with the world premiere of ABSOLUTE BALLET, which will feature principals and soloists from the Seattle-based Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB). This brand new ballet company conceived and directed by PNB’s leading principal dancer, Stanko Milov. Stanko Milov, founder and artistic director of ABSOLUTE BALLET!, is a highly acclaimed principal dancer, active choreographer, composer, and teacher. Milov brings a hand-picked ensemble of PNB principals and soloists including New Orleans native, Laura Gilbreath. Since joining PNB as a principal dancer in 1999, Milov has performed many leading roles in numerous ballets including Apollo. These performances are a very unique opportunity to see some of the country’s finest dancers from PNB, which rarely tours. This elite ensemble of eight dancers brings a superb program of classical repertoire that is deeply rooted in the company’s strong ties with New York City Ballet, which was founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Two Balanchine masterpieces will be performed, including the brilliant neo-classical style ballet Apollo (1928) and the glittering Diamonds pas de deux from the full-evening masterwork Jewels (1967). The program also includes the powerful Red Angels, the last work created by the talented choreographer and former Alvin Ailey dancer, Ulysses Dove. Red Angels was first performed by the New York City Ballet in 1994. This visually dramatic abstract ballet that incorporates intense color and sound is performed to an electric violin score by Richard Einhorn.
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Playin at the Polo featuring The Sasha Masakowski Trio
May 9, 2008 |
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Times: 9:00 pm – 12:00 midnight
Location: The Polo Club in The Windsor Court
Phone: (504) 523-6000
Join us as The Polo Club Lounge, named by Zagat as New Orleans’ best place to drink, is jazzin’ it up with the hot entertainment series, “Playin’ At The Polo,” featuring vocalist Sasha Masakowski.
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Thais Clark with the Palm Court Jazz Band
May 9, 2008 |
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Times: 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Location: The Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1204 Decatur St
Phone: (504) 525-0200
Come join us at the Palm Court for Thais Clark with the Palm Court Jazz Band.
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The National WWII Museum Presents - How the United States Won World War II
May 9, 2008 |
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Times: 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: The World War II Museum, 945 Magazine Street.
Phone: (504) 527-6012 ext. 331
Admission: Free and open to the public
A Tale of Three Cities: How the United States Won World War II. The WWII Museum is proud to welcome historian and Pulitzer Prize winner David M. Kennedy as the speaker for the second George P. Shultz Annual Forum on World Affairs. Dr. Kennedy is an historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. Dr. Kennedy’s scholarship is notable for its integration of economic analysis and cultural analysis with social and political history.
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The National WWII Museum Presents - Theodore Dutch VanKirk- Navigator on the Enola Gay
May 9, 2008 - May 11, 2008 |
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Times: Friday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm; Saturday 10:00 am – 12:00 pm and 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm and Sunday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St
Phone: (504) 527-6012 ext 239
Admission: Free
Theodore “Dutch” VanKirk, the last surviving crewmember of the Enola Gay, will visit The National World War II Museum to sign copies of the book The Return of the Enola Gay.
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The World War II Museum Presents - The George P. Shultz Forum on World Affairs
May 9, 2008 |
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Times: 5:30 pm -7:30 pm
Location: The World War II Museum, 945 Magazine Street.
Phone: (877) 813-3329 ext 331
Admission: Free and open to the public
Join The National World War II Museum as historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author Dr. David M. Kennedy presents “A Tale of Three Cities: How the United States Won World War II”. Dr. Kennedy will reveal the three cities in 1942 and 1943 which, together, tell the story of the U.S grand strategy ultimately responsible for the Allied victory. This lecture marks the Second Annual George P. Shultz Forum on World Affairs.
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Voodoo Lounge Presents - Out Comes Butch
May 9, 2008 - May 10, 2008 |
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Times: 9:00 pm
Location: Voodoo Lounge, corner of North Rampart at Orleans
Phone: (504)948-4167
FOUR HUMOURS announces our newest offbeat show in another offbeat space: Out Comes Butch at the Voodoo Lounge on the edge of the French Quarter. A comedic tour de force, Out Comes Butch is a one-man-show that explores the outer limits of self-awareness and self-(re)creation. Out Comes Butch is a simple story about a redneck launched on a hilarious journey of self-discovery after his neglected girlfriend leaves him. Determined to become the man he wants to be...sensitive, caring, healthy...Butch moves by inevitable stages through one identity after another: first as a with-it New Age swinger, then as a newly gay man, then a transvestite, then transsexual...and beyond. Butch is certain that each stage is his ultimate destination, his "real self."
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House of Blues Presents - Billy Currington plus the Dirt Drifters
May 10, 2008 |
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Times: 7:00 pm Door opens; 8:00 pm Show
http://www.hob.com
Location: House of Blues, 225 Decatur St.
Phone: (504) 310-4999
Admission: $35.00
Come join us at the House of Blues for some country music with Billy Currington plus the Dirt Drifters.
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Lionel Ferbos with Palm Court Jazz Band
May 10, 2008 |
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Times: 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Location: Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1204 Decatur St.
Phone: (504) 525-0200
Join us for Creole cuisine and live Traditional Jazz entertainment featuring Lionel Ferbos with Palm Court Jazz Band.
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Local Take: African American Portraiture in Louisiana
May 10, 2008 |
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Times: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Louisiana State Museum's Arsenal Building (entrance through the Cabildo at Jackson Square)
Phone: (504)452-0976
Admission: Free and open to the public
The New Orleans Photo Alliance, in collaboration with the Louisiana State Museum, is pleased to present LOCAL TAKE: AFRICAN AMERICAN PORTRAITURE IN LOUISIANA. In this four-part speakers' series, eight of our state's finest photographers will show and discuss their work. Eric Waters and Donn Young will present. Each of these photographers has worked intensively to document select aspects of African American life and culture in Louisiana, and collectively, their projects encompass Creoles of Color, Mardi Gras Indians, social aid and pleasure clubs, rural agricultural workers, jazzmen, Zydeco musicians, residents of urban housing projects, and churchgoers in their Sunday best. The Local Take speakers' series has been developed as a complement to the exhibition Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits, which is currently on display at the Louisiana State Museum's Old U. S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Avenue. This traveling show – organized by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery – opened at the Old U. S. Mint on March 13 and will continue there through June 1, 2008. Members of the public who attend the Local Take presentations will receive a voucher for free admission to the Mint.
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Longue Vue House and Gardens Presents - Dig, Do, Discover: Gifts from the Garden!
May 10, 2008 |
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Times: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Longue Vue, 7 Bamboo Road
Phone: (504) 488-5488 ext. 333
Admission: FLV free, non-members: $5.00 per person
Come play in the garden and make a nature inspired gift for Mom!Recommended for ages 4 and up but all ages welcome.
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Pontchartrain Vineyards' Jazz'n the Vines presents Ann Savoy and Her Sleepless Knights
May 10, 2008 |
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Times: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
http://www.pontchartrainvineyards.com
Location: 81250 Hwy 1082, Bush, LA
Phone: (985)892-9742
Admission: $10.00
Bring flashlights and umbrellas! Your lawn chair, picnic dinner and thirst for our wine while listening to our outdoor concert. Concert performance features ANN SAVOY & HER SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS for Acoustic jazz. A chanteuse with her acoustic jazz ensemble present an evening of music from the world of cabaret. Sorry no other wine, beer, other alcoholic beverages, or pets.
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The National WWII Museum Presents - Theodore Dutch VanKirk Booksigning
May 10, 2008 |
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Times: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm and 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone: (504) 527-6012 x 239
Theodore "Dutch" VanKirk, the last surviving crewmember of the Enola Gay, will visit The National World War II Museum to sign copies of his book The Return of the Enola Gay.
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The National WWII Museum Presents- Lagniappe Lecture- Stacie Shain, Entertainers of WWII
May 10, 2008 |
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Times: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone: (877) 813-3329 x 229
This lecture in conjunction with the exhibit Real to Reel: Hollywood and WWII.
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The NOLA Project Presents - A Kingdom of Statues
May 10, 2008 - June 1, 2008 |
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Times: 2:00 pm
Location: Le Petit Theatre on the corner of Jackson Square and St
Phone: (504) 522-2081
Admission: $12.00
"Big Easy Award winning theatre company, The NOLA Project, presents an exciting new play for the whole family! A Kingdom of Statues is a brand-new show playing in the historic Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre located in the heart of the French Quarter. Kids and adults alike will be whisked away into an upside down fairy tale world where our heroes must break a witch’s spell that turns kings into stone, jesters into mutes, and knights into chimpanzees!
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