Darlings,
I hope you are all staying dry and safe after the passing of Hurricane Harvey. I am thankful and feeling blessed that New Orleans was spared the fury and destruction of this monster storm. Our memories are still very fresh from what we went through 12 years ago today and so my prayers are for the people of Houston and its long recovery process.
As you know, I just returned from a very much-needed vacation where I toured and visited friends in Dallas, Nacogdoches and Tyler, Texas. Lack of time prevented us from stopping in Houston and we feel very lucky we didn’t but we are very concerned about its residents and those of other places that were also hard-hit.
Upon my return on Friday, I was devastated when I learned that one of my dearest darling friends, author Dianne De Las Casas, died at age 47 in a house fire in Harvey, La. I admired and loved the talented Dianne and had featured her, along with her partner, author John Crouere, her equally talented daughter, Chef Eliana, in several of my literary Round Table Luncheons. An award-winning author, Dianne published more than two dozen books. She founded Picture Book Month, celebrated in November and recognized by the American Association of School Librarians. She also worked as manager for her daughter Eliana, 17, whose culinary abilities have resulted in cookbooks, a radio show and national television appearances. I attended a lovely Celebration of Life for her at Jefferson Orleans and got to see her family. I will always treasure the memories of the time we spent together. May her soul RIP.
I returned to my beloved New Orleans in time to attend a lovely celebration at King Fish of the 5th Annual Huey P. Long Look-a-Like and Best-Dressed Contest. I had plenty of opportunities to toast to the Kingfish with a Ramos Gin Fizz, made famous by Long who employed his own personal mixologist.
That night I also stopped briefly at the beautiful concert at Scandia House formerly known as the New Orleans Norwegian Seamen's Church, 1772 Prytania Street. The concert featured England-born acclaimed musician, Glyn Bailey, and talented vocalist, Ariel Assaf, performing Irish, English and Scottish music and dance. I am excited about the renovation of the church. Read this article about Scandia House
http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/communities/crescent_city/article_488e110a-82ed-11e7-9c4a-a38c415d6001.html
On Saturday, besides attending the Life Celebration for Dianne, I also went to the Latin- themed Jefferson Council on Aging's Sixth Annual Senior Moments Gala at the Chateau Golf and Country Club in Kenner. Guests enjoyed the Latin sounds of Julio and Cesar and their band. There were also Salsa dancers and great items in the silent auction. The mission of the Jefferson Council on Aging is to assist the senior citizens of Jefferson Parish to age with dignity and independence in the place and manner of their choice.
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Immediately after this fun soiree, I went to the Ace Hotel to meet Tito Puente Jr., son of my late, darling friend, the legendary Latin percussionist, Tito Puente. He was performing in Muevelo Concert. I could not stay for the concert but loved meeting him after many years of trying to do it.
Darlings, this upcoming week is going to be another busy one since it includes the Labor Day Weekend and, most important, the always-fun Southern Decadence Weekend. I hope the rains will stay away so we can enjoy it.
Today, Monday, August 28, is the 12th Annual Katrina Artistically Revisited special commemorative multi-media event at The Theatres at Canal Place, 333 Canal Street. It is FREE to the community (except $5.00 for the award-winning film, Big Charity, The Death of the Oldest Hospital in America.) 18 and over admitted. (see calendar for complete schedule)
Save the date:
Culture Collision 9
August 30 | 5:30-8 p.m.
Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp Street
Admission is free.
Mark your calendars for this free annual event that serves as a cultural happy hour with displays from more than 70 arts organizations, including The Historic New Orleans Collection. Guests will have the opportunity to learn about the featured organizations, enjoy live performances, and survey the city's upcoming cultural season. There is also a free raffle and a cash bar.
Be sure to visit THNOC's table! They just might have a few goodies for you. Come put your historical knowledge to the test at THNOC's table, and they will have prizes for you.
Culture Collision is hosted by New Orleans Public Radio, 89.9 FM, WWNO, and is sponsored by DEVENEY. The annual event is organized by WWNO, DEVENEY, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the New Orleans Ballet Association, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Southern Rep Theatre. More information is available at culturenola.com.
Wednesday, August 30
Louisiana Grass Fed Beef Indoor Picnic
Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse will transform into an indoor picnic for the fifth annual Louisiana Grass Fed Beef Event.
The chefs from Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse, Palace Café, Bourbon House and Tableau will expertly prepare various cuts of beef to showcase their creativity. In true Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse style, they will be using local ingredients, adding depth of flavor to each slice of beef. A Louisiana picnic would not be complete without libations. They will also offer cocktails featuring Glenfiddich Whisky and Hendrick's Gin, Stella Artois Belgium Beer, and wine fit for a fancy downtown picnic.
Tickets include food, specialty cocktails, wine, beer, as well as non-alcoholic options. Additional beverages will be available for purchase. A portion of each ticket will benefit Edible Schoolyard a program of FirstLine Schools
August 30- September 4- Southern Decadence Weekend
What began as a simple going-away party in 1972 has evolved into one of New Orleans’ premier annual events: Southern Decadence. Held annually over Labor Day weekend, this celebration of LGBT culture now attracts over 160,000 participants from all over the world. http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/festivals/gaylesbianfestivals/southerndecadence.html
Enjoy your week. Please put this date on your cALENDAR AND MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW:
I hope you are all staying dry and safe after the passing of Hurricane Harvey. I am thankful and feeling blessed that New Orleans was spared the fury and destruction of this monster storm. Our memories are still very fresh from what we went through 12 years ago today and so my prayers are for the people of Houston and its long recovery process.
As you know, I just returned from a very much-needed vacation where I toured and visited friends in Dallas, Nacogdoches and Tyler, Texas. Lack of time prevented us from stopping in Houston and we feel very lucky we didn’t but we are very concerned about its residents and those of other places that were also hard-hit.
Upon my return on Friday, I was devastated when I learned that one of my dearest darling friends, author Dianne De Las Casas, died at age 47 in a house fire in Harvey, La. I admired and loved the talented Dianne and had featured her, along with her partner, author John Crouere, her equally talented daughter, Chef Eliana, in several of my literary Round Table Luncheons. An award-winning author, Dianne published more than two dozen books. She founded Picture Book Month, celebrated in November and recognized by the American Association of School Librarians. She also worked as manager for her daughter Eliana, 17, whose culinary abilities have resulted in cookbooks, a radio show and national television appearances. I attended a lovely Celebration of Life for her at Jefferson Orleans and got to see her family. I will always treasure the memories of the time we spent together. May her soul RIP.
I returned to my beloved New Orleans in time to attend a lovely celebration at King Fish of the 5th Annual Huey P. Long Look-a-Like and Best-Dressed Contest. I had plenty of opportunities to toast to the Kingfish with a Ramos Gin Fizz, made famous by Long who employed his own personal mixologist.
That night I also stopped briefly at the beautiful concert at Scandia House formerly known as the New Orleans Norwegian Seamen's Church, 1772 Prytania Street. The concert featured England-born acclaimed musician, Glyn Bailey, and talented vocalist, Ariel Assaf, performing Irish, English and Scottish music and dance. I am excited about the renovation of the church. Read this article about Scandia House
http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/communities/crescent_city/article_488e110a-82ed-11e7-9c4a-a38c415d6001.html
On Saturday, besides attending the Life Celebration for Dianne, I also went to the Latin- themed Jefferson Council on Aging's Sixth Annual Senior Moments Gala at the Chateau Golf and Country Club in Kenner. Guests enjoyed the Latin sounds of Julio and Cesar and their band. There were also Salsa dancers and great items in the silent auction. The mission of the Jefferson Council on Aging is to assist the senior citizens of Jefferson Parish to age with dignity and independence in the place and manner of their choice.
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Immediately after this fun soiree, I went to the Ace Hotel to meet Tito Puente Jr., son of my late, darling friend, the legendary Latin percussionist, Tito Puente. He was performing in Muevelo Concert. I could not stay for the concert but loved meeting him after many years of trying to do it.
Darlings, this upcoming week is going to be another busy one since it includes the Labor Day Weekend and, most important, the always-fun Southern Decadence Weekend. I hope the rains will stay away so we can enjoy it.
Today, Monday, August 28, is the 12th Annual Katrina Artistically Revisited special commemorative multi-media event at The Theatres at Canal Place, 333 Canal Street. It is FREE to the community (except $5.00 for the award-winning film, Big Charity, The Death of the Oldest Hospital in America.) 18 and over admitted. (see calendar for complete schedule)
Save the date:
The annual Round Table Luncheon Saluting the Cultural Arts will be held on Wednesday, September 13 at noon at the historic ballroom of the Bourbon Orleans Hotel, 717 Orleans Street between Royal and Bourbon streets in the heart of the French Quarter. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. for a 12 noon start.
The luncheon will be co-hosted by Scott Hutcheson, Senior Adviser to the Mayor for Cultural Economy and Society columnist and blogger Margarita Bergen.
Among the speakers who have been invited are Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser; Jenny Hamilton, Executive Director of New Orleans Ballet Association; Maestro Robert Lyall, General Director and Conductor of the New Orleans Opera Association; Maestro Dennis Assaf, Artistic Director of the Jefferson Performing Arts Society; James William Boyd, CEO of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra; Neil A. Barclay, Director and CEO of the Contemporary Arts Center; Maxwell Williams, Artist Director of Le Petit Theatre; Dr. Maxim Samarov, Conductor of the New Orleans Chamber Orchestra; and Nick Stillman, President & CEO of the Arts Council of New Orleans.
Also speaking will be Ylva Rouse, Executive Director of Prospect 4 art project; William Pittman Andrews, Executive Director of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art; Dave Hurlbert, Executive Director of the Marigny Opera House; and Aimee Hayes, Artistic Director of Southern Rep Theatre.
Live entertainment will be by talented Soprano Kathleen Halm Simmons, accompanied on the piano by Timothy Todd Simmons, Executive Director at New Orleans Opera Association and, as lagniappe, Dr. Maxim Samarov will play one song on his cello. Pianist Jim Walpole will play the piano before and after the Round Table Luncheon.
The gourmet menu will feature:
Wedge Salad
iceberg wedge with blue cheese crumbles, red onions, cherry tomatoes, drizzled with ranch dressing
Gulf Fish
grilled gulf fish topped with crawfish tails and a lemon butter sauce
Dessert
praline cheese cake
So please make your reservation now before it gets sold out like it did last month. The $55 all-inclusive price includes a 3-course gourmet luncheon, champagne/wines and valet parking. You can make reservations by calling Judy LeBlanc at (504) 571-4672 or email her at Judy.LeBlanc@BourbonOrleans.com.
RESERVATIONS AND PREPAYMENT ARE REQUIRED. Walk-ins will not be accepted, as the hotel will only prepare meals for the number of guests who have made reservations.
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Culture Collision 9
August 30 | 5:30-8 p.m.
Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp Street
Admission is free.
Mark your calendars for this free annual event that serves as a cultural happy hour with displays from more than 70 arts organizations, including The Historic New Orleans Collection. Guests will have the opportunity to learn about the featured organizations, enjoy live performances, and survey the city's upcoming cultural season. There is also a free raffle and a cash bar.
Be sure to visit THNOC's table! They just might have a few goodies for you. Come put your historical knowledge to the test at THNOC's table, and they will have prizes for you.
Culture Collision is hosted by New Orleans Public Radio, 89.9 FM, WWNO, and is sponsored by DEVENEY. The annual event is organized by WWNO, DEVENEY, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the New Orleans Ballet Association, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Southern Rep Theatre. More information is available at culturenola.com.
Wednesday, August 30
Louisiana Grass Fed Beef Indoor Picnic
Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse will transform into an indoor picnic for the fifth annual Louisiana Grass Fed Beef Event.
The chefs from Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse, Palace Café, Bourbon House and Tableau will expertly prepare various cuts of beef to showcase their creativity. In true Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse style, they will be using local ingredients, adding depth of flavor to each slice of beef. A Louisiana picnic would not be complete without libations. They will also offer cocktails featuring Glenfiddich Whisky and Hendrick's Gin, Stella Artois Belgium Beer, and wine fit for a fancy downtown picnic.
Tickets include food, specialty cocktails, wine, beer, as well as non-alcoholic options. Additional beverages will be available for purchase. A portion of each ticket will benefit Edible Schoolyard a program of FirstLine Schools
August 30- September 4- Southern Decadence Weekend
What began as a simple going-away party in 1972 has evolved into one of New Orleans’ premier annual events: Southern Decadence. Held annually over Labor Day weekend, this celebration of LGBT culture now attracts over 160,000 participants from all over the world. http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/festivals/gaylesbianfestivals/southerndecadence.html
Southern Decadence Festival - New Orleans Online www.neworleansonline.com New Orleans Southern Decadence information including dates about this LGBT festival |
Enjoy your week. Please put this date on your cALENDAR AND MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW:
12th ANNUAL KATRINA ARTISTICALLY REVISITED
The 12th Annual Katrina Artistically Revisited special commemorative multi-media event on Monday, August 28, 2017 at The Theatres at Canal Place, 333 Canal Street, at The Shops at Canal Place in the French Quarter, is FREE to the community (except $5.00 for the award-winning Big Charity, The Death of the Oldest Hospital in America.) 18 and over admitted.
In the Theatre Lobby, 5 pm - 11 pm, Octavia Books' owner Tom Lowenburg offers an illustrious host of best-selling Katrina publications for browsing and for sale, along with a book signing by businessman and philanthropist, and author/editor John E. Wade II for his publication How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth for which he is the editor of 101 essays on this subject. Also slated is a book signing by author John Batty, RN, MSN, titled Voices of Angels, Disaster Lessons from Katrina Nurses. "After Hurricane Katrina, stories were about the patients or lack of resources, but we did not hear the stories of the nurses who cared for the vulnerable while their own homes, families, and friends were affected by this disaster," states Linda Bell, RN, MSN who wrote a book review about Batty's publication. (Both these authors will speak in the Theater #8 program listed below.) The Advocate staff writer, as well as a book author, Dean Shapiro is set to share on his lap-top, Katrina Aftermath: A Slide Presentation of the Hardest Hit Areas of New Orleans. "A Theatre Lobby 'Meet and Greet' also encourages guests and participants to mingle and talk about their Katrina journeys while enjoying Gusto Cafe and Bar for food and beverages for sale," suggest the producers, "so come early and stay late. You don't want to miss anything."
In Theatre #8, 6 pm - 11 pm, the guests are engaged from beginning to the end of this unique home-grown yet professional program. As in each year's program, this year's 16 participants share their brilliant documentation from different areas around New Orleans by applying their personal individual artistic responses to the Katrina tragedy.
Each participant's artistic approach to his or her own experience is extremely important," adds Armand St. Martin, a BMI songwriter and popular piano-playing entertainer. "We try to vary our program each year so there is always something new for everybody."
At 6 pm, Katrina Artistically Revisited opens with a warm Welcome, followed by Armand St. Martin's music performance of Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans. Next on the program, Richard Cahn's Day After Katrina at Bayou St. John is a short photo DVD set to peaceful original music by St. Martin. Cahn survived Katrina at home by himself, thinking like thousands of other locals and guests to the city that after he "rode out Katrina", he would assess the damages and have his family return soon-after from evacuating. What nobody anticipated were the levee breaches. Compiled into a short DVD, Cahn's handful of photographs were taken after Katrina struck. He trekked alone on foot to escape the rising waters from the encroaching levee breaches, taking a route from his home in Bayou St. John to downtown New Orleans where his car was parked in a high-rise.
At 6:08 pm, visionary and author John E. Wade II delivers his well-designed presentation with Q&A, Ecological Harmony in Heaven and Earth. Wade's book signing at the Octavia Books exhibit in the Theatre Lobby is for Wade's previously published tome, How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth, which he started writing while being evacuated from his home in the Garden District during Katrina. The Catholic Digest reviews this 320 page hardcover by concluding, "Some of the world's modern thinkers, leaders, and writers offer insights on the world and what they believe can be done to find peace, security, freedom, moral purpose, meaning, and more."
By 6:18 pm, a film trailer of the award-winning Home is a precursor to this Best Documentary Short Film by filmmaker, director and animator Matt Faust. Home is featured later in this program, documenting how the Faust family home that Matt Faust's grandfather built in 1960 was destroyed inChalmette in Katrina. (See Home in the program below.)
At 6:20 pm, John Batty, RN, MSN, shares his author-presentation accompanied by Q&A for the informative book he co-wrote with the late Gail Tumulty titled, Voices of Angels, Disaster Lessons from Katrina Nurses. Some of the nurses in Batty's book are also interviewed in the Big Charity film. Batty has his book signing also in the Theatre Lobby exhibit of Octavia Books. (When he first released information about his book on his FaceBook page, in four days he received over 68,000 hits.) There are unsung heroes of Katrina, and the Katrina Nurses are among these. Batty was a featured participant in the Louisiana Book Festival 2015 in Baton Rouge. With an illustrious list of professional credits, Batty has served as an Adjunct Instructor at the Loyola Graduate School of Nursing since 2006.
At 6:40 pm, a wonderful slide film by the New Orleans Kids Camera Project is accompanied by Armand St. Martin's live performance of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. The compiled photographs were snapped by Katrina children which remind us that every age was affected by Katrina. A brainstorm idea by Joanna Rosenthal and Ariya Martin, the two women gave disposable cameras to Katrina kids and then developed their photos for this project. Life as seen through the innocent eyes of Katrina kids offers a powerful simplicity, as does this slide show with live music.
At 6:48 pm, following this response by Katrina kids, Libba McEnery's Transformations, a DVD short she made on her home computer, and is set to music, documents in photos how volunteer out-of-town Christian teenaged "Teams" and team leaders immediately began arriving to help the McEnery's Lamb Ministries continue their decades-long ministry to New Orleans inner-city children. This is a moving three-minute DVD that helps the audience recognize how important these wholesome teams have been in the outreach of Lamb Ministries and with the recovery of the city in general. These teams still return yearly since Katrina to help Lamb Ministries with recovery efforts. Q&A.
By 6:58 pm, acclaimed local photographer Dennis Couvillion's Stillness. . .the Aftermath of Katrina is scheduled. This artistic offering is spellbinding and awe-inspiring. Couvillion's b&w short film is set to an original music score by Dean Dupuy, with the music produced/mixed/recorded by Armand St. Martin. The film shares unforgettable photos of the devastation of Lakeview and the Lower Ninth Ward.
At 7:12 pm, the filmmaker, director, and animator of Home, Matt Faust is introduced. Faust offers About Home first, a one-minute written account on screen to give a quick insight into Faust's background. About Home is followed by Faust's gripping, moving, and unforgettable short film, Home, which was awarded the Tribeca Film Festival First Place Winner Award for Best Documentary Short.
At 7:30 pm, Armand St. Martin performs his sentimental original song, Orleans Lullaby, about not being able to sleep after Katrina. "One night like many other nights after we returned home 'to camp out indoors in our ruined house,' I just couldn't sleep. In the pitch dark and eerie quiet, I quietly slipped out of bed with the lyrics and music going around in my head. I sat at the kitchen table under a little lamp and wrote the entire Orleans Lullaby that night in one sitting, something that has never happened to me before as a songwriter and a composer," St. Martin shares. Orleans Lullaby is featured on St. Martin's CD, Katrina Anthem on Patty Lee Records and produced by Patty Lee. His CD is offered at Octavia Books in the Theatre Lobby.
At 7:35 pm, the Keynote Speaker is Brobson Lutz, M.D. Dr. Lutz is a well-recognized, distinguished practicing physician in uptown New Orleans with his office by the former Baptist Hospital which was Tenant-owned during Katrina. He resides in the French Quarter and was the a remarkable medical first responder in the French Quarter during Katrina and its aftermath. Dr. Lutz quickly became a familiar face on local, national and international media as the vital resource for important and personalized first-hand information, a true voice of Katrina and the aftermath. He wore many hats during Katrina and single-handedly accomplished enormous feats beyond measure, with courage and a good heart. Dr. Lutz's colorful Keynote Speech, French Quarter Health Department in Exile, covers just about any kind of experience a person can imagine during the Katrina tragedy. This title was inspired by the handmade sign Dr. Lutz strung across his own home, the Tennessee Williams Compound, during the devastating Katrina experience. Dr. Lutz is in Big Charity, the Death of America's Oldest Hospital. A not-to-be-missed enlightening lecture by this remarkable man. Q&A after his speech.
At 8:05 pm, the multi-award winning Big Charity, the Death of America's Oldest Hospital is featured, $5. A full-length documentary by filmmaker, co-producer, editor and director Alexander John Glustrom, Big Charity, the Death of America's Oldest Hospital is a life-changing film everybody should see. It factually exposes what really happened to this charitable hospital, and to its staff, patients, and first responders during and after Katrina. Co-produced by Ben Johnson and Catherine Rierson. "Charity Hospital was the oldest continually running hospital in the nation. . . until. . . .," say most New Orleanians as their voices drift.
By 9:35 pm, Armand St. Martin is back aboard the program to lighten up the evening with his original parody about his family's FEMA experience, titled Waitin' For My Trailer. His lyrics cover everything ridiculous ranging from FEMA providing trailers to survivors but not giving them the keys, to FEMA not willing to pick up the St. Martin's FEMA trailer because FEMA claimed they never received a trailer, yet there it was still sitting in the St. Martin's front yard.
At 9:40 pm, Chaplain Hy McEnery speaks about First Responding by Boat in Uptown New Orleans and Daily Feeding Policemen as a first responder in uptown New Orleans where he and his wife live "on the sliver on the river." Part of McEnery's first responding was accomplished in the boat that is featured at the permanent Katrina exhibit at the Louisiana State Museum's Presbytere in the French Quarter. This boat remains at the outdoor entrance to this museum exhibit to this day with a write-up about McEnery.
At 9:50 pm, Matt Faust's Tribeca Film Festival's First Place Winner for Best Short Film, Home, is featured again, with the last frame of his film frozen on the screen to help Robert Lynn Green, Sr. illustrate his own personal story of peril, loss, and survival in the Lower Ninth Ward during the catastrophic breach in the wall of the Industrial Canal, just a few blocks from his home. Robert Lynn Green, Sr. is The Original Katrina Rooftop Rider in the Lower Ninth Ward. He and his large family of all ages dangerously rode on the rooftop of his home as it swirled down Tennessee Street, driven by the sudden surge of rapid running high river water flooding as far as the eye could see in all directions and more. Sadly Robert Green's mother and 4 year old granddaughter slipped from the twirling house and drowned.
At 10:10 pm, Rick Lavine, M.D.'s hopeful documentary Second Line, Second Life, A Journey of Healing is offered. Dr. Lavine first met Robert Lynn Green, Sr. when Dr. Lavine and his family came to New Orleans from Mill Valley, California to help with recovery and the rebuilding of the city. (
By 10:50 pm, Chris Madden and Patrick Madden's Project Katrina, a mother-son project, is featured with the soundtrack by Armand St. Martin of his original Katrina-related songs, St. Expedite and Orleans Lullaby. This short DVD features Chris Madden, Inc., her company that provided brand new furnishings throughout the South after Katrina to various families who lost all their possessions. ion host, and businesswoman and truly is the epitome of the word "kind."
At 10:55 pm, Armand St. Martin performs his original upbeat song and composition, Potholes and Politicians, written after the St. Martin's had three flat tires all in one day shortly after Katrina while trying to negotiate potholes everywhere.
At 11:00 pm, Armand St. Martin performs When the Saints Go Marching In to bid adieu until next year's 13th Annual Katrina Artistically Revisited on August 28, 2018 at The Theatres at Canal Place, followed by Thank Yous for this 12th Annual Katrina Artistically Revisited to our Sponsors, Participants, the Theatre GM, Manager and Staff, and Audience. Still Photographs by Mark Sindler, Donn Young, Patty Lee, and supplied by Robert Lynn Green, Sr.
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I Will Survive: A Drag Show
Where:
The Mardi Gras Museum of Costume and Culture | 1010 Conti Street
When:
Tues. August 29th | 5:30-7:30p
What:
A drag show to raise awareness for the health care provided at the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic
free and open to the public
Wednesday, Cultural Collision
Culture Collision Partners with Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans to Relocate Annual Event at CAC
Culture Collision, a one-of-a-kind Big Easy celebration, is partnering with WWNO and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (CAC) to relocate the ninth-annual event, which will allow
its directors to accommodate an ever-growing roster of nonprofit visual and performing arts organizations. Slated for Wednesday, August 30, from 5:30 – 8 p.m., Culture Collision 9 (CC9) has already confirmed more than 80 participating nonprofits and will take
place in the first-floor warehouse space of the CAC. The event is free, open to the public, and guests can access the event from the Camp Street entrance.
In its annual kickoff of the cultural season, Culture Collision will introduce potential audience members, volunteers, patrons and artists to the diverse mix of arts groups that call New Orleans
home. The event arose in 2008 due to the city’s need for a collective voice among local arts organizations, and today, remains steadfast in its mission to foster collaboration among those nonprofits.http://www.culturenola.com/2017/07/27/culture-collision-partners-with-contemporary-arts-center-new-orleans-to-relocate-annual-event/
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TOUCHDOWN CLUB OF NEW ORLEANS, INC.
Presents the
48 thAnnual "MEET THE SAINTS"Luncheon
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
500 Canal Street
Open to all Saints fans 14 yrs and older
Dress Code: Business Casual/Coats Preferred
ABSOLUTELY NO Jeans, T-Shirts, Jerseys or Shorts
$75.00 per person (includes tax)
Doors open at 11:45a.m.
Lunch served at 1:00p.m./Cash Bar Available
Auction Items AND Saints Merchandise for Sale
Southern Decadence
August 30-September 4, 2017
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When: August 30-September 4, 2017
As Travel + Leisure’s 2nd most Gay-Friendly City for Travel in America, New Orleans draws in people from all over the world to join the parades, parties and contests, for the 46th annual Southern Decadence event! New Orleans celebrates the fact that it is ALWAYS open.
Background
What began as a simple going-away party in 1972 has evolved into one of New Orleans’ premier annual events: Southern Decadence. Held annually over Labor Day weekend, this celebration of LGBT culture now attracts over 160,000 participants from all over the world.
Southern Decadence is one of those quintessential New Orleans occasions in which participants get to strut their stuff in elaborate costumes and high fashion – or barely anything at all!
Everyone gets in on the action and all the bars will have their own drag shows, contests, DJs, music and events. Southern Decadence welcomes you to grab a costume, wander around the French Quarter, take a Gay Walking Tour and visit one of the city's world-famous gay bars.
The Event
Starting on Wednesday, August 30th, the festivities will kick off with block parties, walking tours, Café Karaoke and, of course, parades.
This year’s celebration will be bigger and better than ever, as the Grand Marshals lead marchers and their floats through the streets of the French Quarter. This year’s Grand Marshall’s include: Princess Stephaney, Coca J Mesa and Persana Shoulders.
Parades
The first parade of the weekend typically starts at 7 p.m. on Friday, rolling through the streets of the French Quarter.
The 42nd Annual Official Southern Decadence Parade kicks off the afternoon of Sunday, September 3rd. Starting from the Official Home of Southern Decadence, Golden Lantern on Royal St., this parade is considered the main event of the celebration that brings in visitors and participants from all over the world.
SEPTEMBER 3
MUSICAL LINE UP ANNOUNCED FOR AMTRAK PRESENTS PAZFEST IV
New Orleans Tribute to Joni Mitchell to benefit the Ruth Paz Hospital for
Pediatric Surgery and Burn Care in San Pedro Sula, Honduras
PAZFEST IV, an all-star musical tribute to Joni Mitchell, taking place Sunday, Sept. 3,
2017, 7-11 p.m. at the beautiful Civic Theatre New Orleans. Tickets are $25 and are available in...
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