arts, books and music

Loyola to host free performance of Czech opera

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Loyola University New Orleans will host a free performance of “The Diary of One Who Vanished,” 60 years after the last production of this play in New Orleans. This will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, in the Roussel Performance Hall on Loyola’s campus. It is open to the public. This opera will be performed in Czech by Loyola voice faculty and alumni and the Loyola Chamber Singers. During the performance, photographs by Steven Blackmon will be projected.

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WWNO to host discussion of Gulf seafood five years after BP spill

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WWNO, the local public-radio affiliate, and the Southern Food and Beverage Museum in Central City will host and moderate a discussion next week of the impact of the BP oil spill on Louisiana seafood that still remains five years later. 

It will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, at the museum at 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. It is free and open to the public. Laine Kaplan-Levenson, WWNO coastal desk producer, and Eve Troeh, news director, will moderate the discussion about the state of Gulf seafood with people from different aspects of the industry. The panelists will include: Twyla Harrington Cheatwood, fisheries agent for the National Wildlife Federation; Tony Goutierrez, commercial fisherman; Sal Sunseri, co-owner of P+J Oyster Company and member of the Louisiana Seafood and Marketing Board; and Michael Ketchum, director for national retail sales at the New Orleans Fish House, a restaurant supplier.

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Record stores across South to collaborate for Record Raid

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Music enthusiasts will have another opportunity to shop for cassettes, 45s, LPs and CDs this weekend when more than 20 record stores across the South participate in a one-day Record Raid event at Zeitgeist. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 4, at the Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center at 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. Record Raid is open to the public. This is the first Record Raid to be held at the Zeitgeist, but the partnership is a natural as both share a mission of exposing New Orleanians to music and art they may not otherwise discover. For more information, visit www.recordraid.com or email recordraid@recordraid.com.

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Opera association to hold roundtable discussion of ‘The Marriage of Figaro’

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The New Orleans Opera Association will hold a round table discussion this weekend about the upcoming performance of the Marriage of Figaro. 

The discussion will be held at the Women’s Guild Home, 2504 Prytania Street, from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, March 29. The event will include guests from the play as well as Scottish-themed foods. Tickets are $25 for Women’s Guild and Junior Committee members, $30 for non-members and $40 for couples. To RSVP for this event, contact Gina Klein at (504) 267-9527.

events

Neighborhood Development Foundation to hold fundraiser

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The Neighborhood Development Foundation, which seeks to increase home ownership among moderate-income families in New Orleans, is hosting its 20th anniversary “House Party” fundraiser this weekend. 

The event will begin at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 28 with a patron party. It will be held at the First NBC Bank at 210 Baronne Street, and state Rep. Walt Leger and Rosalind Peychaud will co-chair the event. The Neighborhood Development Foundation, which is based on South Rampart Street in Central City, works to teach low and moderate income families about home ownership. This organization has worked to improve people’s lives through knowledge and the ability to own their own homes for over 25 years. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit ndf-neworleans.org.

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Learn about French classes for children and adults at Alliance Francaise open house

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The Alliance Française de La Nouvelle-Orléans will open its facilities this weekend and give the public the opportunity to try out French classes, register for the Spring session and meet current teachers and students. 

The free event will begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 28, with an open house for children. Children and parents will learn about the learning opportunities for ages 18 months to 5 years. At the event, children will play French games, draw and have a free French lesson. The adult open house will follow at 12:30 p.m. Adults will have the chance to take free trial classes and take a tour of the classrooms. Those who attend will receive a one-day discount on tuition for the Spring session. For more information, visit the Alliance Française website at af-neworleans.org.

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Preservation Resource Center tour to celebrate shotgun houses of the Irish Channel

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The Preservation Resource Center is hosting a shotgun house tour through the Irish Channel and Garden District neighborhoods this weekend. 

The weekend-long event will begin at 10 a.m. both Saturday, March 28, and Sunday, March 29. There are seven homes on the tour. The walking tour will begin at the tour headquarters, Nadeau at 2728 Magazine St. Tickets are $20 for Preservation Resource Center members and $25 for non-members. On the day of the tour, tickets will be $30 and available for purchase at the tour headquarters.

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Ashe Cultural Arts Center to celebrate Redd Linen Night

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The Ashe Cultural Arts Center will host the fourth annual Redd Linen Night this weekend to celebrate the legacy of its co-founder, visual artist Douglas Redd. 

The event will be at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center at 1724 Oretha Castle-Haley Blvd. The event will showcase Redd’s work along side that of other artists in the city, including Myesha Francis Agwe, Alma Bryan Powell, Ed Brown and many more. Some of the artwork at the event will be available for purchase. “In the Big Easy, ‘linen night’ has become synonymous with art showings, particularly in the French Quarter and the Arts/Warehouse District,” according to the Ashe Center. “The Oretha Castle Haley corridor and Redd Linen Night have joined them, showcasing home-grown visual artists, but with a twist.

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Poet to read new work at Loyola

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Award-winning poet R. Flowers Rivera will visit Loyola University this week to read from her most recent work of poetry, “Heathen.” 

The event will be on at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in Thomas Hall’s Whitney Presentation Room. It is free and open to the public. After Rivera reads her poetry, she will sign copies of her books. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Rivera’s “Heathen” was released in February and received the 2015 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.

colleges

Loyola to host lecture on excavations of Fort San Juan

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Loyola University will host Tulane University anthropology professor Christopher Rodning for a lecture called “Fort San Juan: (1568) and Found (2013).” 

The event will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in the Whitney Bank Presentation Room of Loyola’s Thomas Hall. It is free and open to the public and parking is free on campus. Christopher Rodning is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University. To read more about the lecture, see the news release from Loyola University below:

Spanish conquistadores and colonists explored and settled parts of the southern Appalachians during the mid-sixteenth century, and they encountered diverse Native American groups in the northern borderlands of the Spanish colonial province of La Florida. Hernando de Soto and his expedition traversed the southern Appalachians in 1540, and Captain Juan Pardo marched inland from Santa Elena, the first colonial capital of La Florida, to the edge of the mountains in 1566.