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Junior committee of opera association to hold spring party

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The Junior Committee of the Women’s Guild for the New Orleans Opera Association will host a spring party for children. 

The party will be at the Guild Home at 2504 Prytania St. and will take place on March 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

This event will offer an egg hunt, a performance by the MetroPelican Opera, food and pictures with the Easter Bunny. Tickets bought in advance will be $15 for adults and $10 for children. At the door, the prices will be $12 for children and $18 for adults. Children under the age of 2 are free.

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Loyola Law School to host ‘hackathon’ competition to expand access to legal aid

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Loyola University New Orleans’ College of Law will partner this weekend with the ABA Journal and the Louisiana State Bar Association to host “Hackcess to Justice Louisiana 2015: A Social Justice Hackathon.” The two-day event will begin on Saturday, March 21, and last from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. The hackathon will resume on Sunday at 8 a.m. and continue until 6 p.m. It will be held at Loyola’s College of Law, 526 Pine Street. The event aims to partner developers, coders and entrepreneurs with lawyers and others in the legal community to help create new technology that would allow those who cannot afford lawyers have easier and expanded access to social justice in Louisiana. This is a part of New Orleans Entrepreneur Week and seeks to allow those who do offer legal services to find a better way to communicate with those who are in need of it. This is event is open to the public.

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Loyola to host lecture on “Environment’s challenge to religion”

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As a part of its Biever Lecture Series, Loyola University is hosting a talk Thursday called “The Environment’s Challenge to Religion” given by philosophy professor Robert McKim. 

The lecture, sponsored by the Environmental Program and the Department of Religious Studies, will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in the St. Charles Room in Loyola’s Danna Center. Robert McKim is a professor of religion and philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Much of his research has focused on the philosophical and theological impact of religious diversity as well as how religion and the environment affect each other. This event is free and open to the public and there will be free parking provided in the West Road Garage.

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Award-winning novelist to discuss oral traditions in literature at Tulane

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Tulane professor Jesmyn Ward, a National Book Award-winning novelist, will give the Fourth Annual Distinguished Frey Lecture on storytelling and Southern oral traditions Thursday at the university. 

This lecture, which is sponsored by Tulane’s New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in the Freeman auditorium, room 205 in the Woldenberg Art Center on Tulane’s uptown campus. This event is free and open to the public. After Ward speaks, there will be a reception and a book signing. Ward is a Mississippi native whose work is heavily influenced by oral tradition and her time growing up in the South. The different themes of race, sex and poverty also play a role in her novels.

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Social scientist to speak at Tulane about e-waste

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Toby Miller, a social scientist and author, will speak at Tulane tonight about uses for electronic waste. 

Miller’s talk will center around electronic waste, the idea of electronic waste art and how it reflects concern for the environment and a need to restructure our traditional forms of work. “From fine art to reality TV, our culture hinges upon diminished job security and unsustainable energy use,” according to an announcement for the the lecture. “Electronic-waste artists operate in a sector that relies on cheap, casual labor, and exemplifies wider work trends; at the same time, their art incarnates a vanguard ecological awareness. Their struggle to be carbonneutral and economically robust can encourage us to rethink work, from universities to newspapers, from internships to telecommunications.” The lecture will be held at 6 p.m. tonight (Monday, March 16) in the Qatar Ballroom in the Lavin Bernick Center on Tulane’s Uptown campus.

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New York Times editor to speak at Loyola

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New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet will speak Monday night as a part of Loyola University’s Ed Renwick Lecture Series. 

His lecture, “From the Big Easy to the Big Apple: An Evening with Dean Baquet,” will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, in Nunemaker Auditorium on the third floor of Monroe Hall at Loyola University at 6363 St. Charles Ave. The lecture is free and open to the public. It will be moderated by Lee Zurik, news anchor for WVUE Fox 8. The Ed Renwick Lecture series is sponsored by Loyola’s Institute of Politics.

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Loyola theatre season closes with “Crimes of the Heart”

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Loyola University New Orleans’ Theatre Arts and Dance Department will perform Beth Henley’s classic Southern gothic play “Crimes of the Heart” starting Friday to end its main stage season. Loyola’s “Crimes of the Heart” is directed by Artemis Preeshl, associate professor of theatre arts at Loyola. The play is an adaptation of Chekhov’s “The Three Sisters,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981. This tragicomedy follows three sisters in Mississippi as the ghosts of their pasts haunt them after one of the sisters kills her abusive husband. Each sister committed a crime of the heart and, throughout the play, reveal secrets as they become closer to each other.

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Pioneering AIDS researcher to speak at Tulane

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Robert Gallo, a biomedical researcher who helped discover the cause of AIDS, will give a presentation called “Journey with Blood Cells and Viruses” this week at Tulane University. The talk will be held in the Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center on Tulane’s uptown campus at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12.  This event is free and open to the public, and a reception will be held after the talk. Dr. Gallo is the director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine.

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Mercy Endeavors Senior Center breaks ground on new Jackson Avenue location

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The Mercy Endeavors Senior Center is one step closer to moving out of the old St. Alphonsus convent and into a new home, after recently breaking ground on the new facility on Jackson Avenue. 

The groundbreaking celebration for the future location of the center, 457 Jackson Ave, was held Feb. 27 and was attended by Archbishop Gregory Aymond, Judge Chris Bruno, Councilwomen Stacey Head and LaToya Cantrell, former state Sen. Diana Bajoie and Executive Director of the New Orleans Council on Aging, Howard Rodgers, according to a news release from the center. The old center was located at 1017 St. Andrew St.

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New Orleans Ballet Association to hold auditions for free summer intensive program

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The New Orleans Ballet Association will host auditions for dancers ages 9 to 18 this weekend for its free Summer Intensive Program scheduled for June and July. 

Auditions will be held Saturday, March 7, and Sunday, March 8, at the Chevron Studio in the NORDC Lyons Center, 624 Louisiana Ave. On Saturday, dancers ages 9-11 register at 1 p.m. and begin auditioning at 1:45. Those age 12-18 register at 10:30 a.m. Sunday and then audition from 11:15 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The summer program is free and will feature instruction from a faculty of some of the most renowned artists. Past performers have included Joffrey Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Hispanico and Paul Taylor Dance Company. All participants will perform a professionally choreographed routine at the end of the session.