NOMA FRIDAY NIGHTS

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Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by The Roamin’ Jasmine

July 29 from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

This Friday night at NOMA, check out a cooking demonstration in Cafe NOMA, live music by The Roamin’ Jasmine, and a film screening on designers Ray and Charles Eames, whose work is featured in the current exhibition The Essence of Things – Design and the Art of Reduction: An Exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum.

  • 5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot
  • 5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by The Roamin’ Jasmine
  • 6:30 pm: Artful Palate in Cafe NOMA: “Simplifying Sorbet” with Brett Gauthier, Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group corporate executive pastry chef
  • 7:30 pm: Film: Eames: The Architect and the Painter

About The Roamin’ Jasmine

Forged out of the lively street music scene in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the members of Rhe Roamin’ Jasmine found one another busking under the swampy Louisiana sun, along the banks of the Mississippi, or after hours in storefronts on Royal, Frenchmen and Decatur Streets. Inspired by the city’s history of ethnic and musical diversity, and fresh out of music school at University of Miami, bassist, vocalist, and bandleader Taylor Smith began to collect some of his favorite old blues, jazz, and country tunes, while also composing some of his own songs.  Arranging this collection for a six piece jazz ensemble and giving them a healthy dose of New Orleans flavor, he decided to share his work with some like-minded colleagues, and bring it to the streets of New Orleans. The Roamin’ Jasmine repertoire explores 1920’s era speakeasy blues, vintage calypso from Trinidad, seminal 1950’s New Orleans rhythm & blues, and original compositions, all set to traditional jazz instrumentation with original arrangements.

About Café NOMA’s 2016 Artful Palate Summer Cooking Series

Chefs of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group will soon demonstrate their own culinary masterpieces at Café NOMA’s Artful Palate, the fifth annual summer cooking series featuring nine artfully inspired demonstrations at the historic New Orleans Museum of Art. Friday evenings are FREE for all café guests and patrons to partake in the presentation, and savor samples as each artful dish is created.

In conjunction with the launch of NOMA’s exhibition The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction, the talented executive chefs, sous chefs and mixologists of Café NOMA, Ralph’s on the Park, Red Fish Grill, Brennan’s, and Napoleon House will share their culinary vision inspired by the exhibits focus on the art and practice of minimalism. The Artful Palate demonstrations will take a minimalist approach to cooking; featuring local seafood, meats, fruits and vegetables with simplistic recipes highlighting the core of their natural essence.

The Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group is proud to operate Café NOMA, one of the “Best Museum Restaurants in America” according to Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine magazines. Artful Palate is held every Friday night at 6:30 pm from July 15 to September 9. It is free of charge and open on a first come, first served basis. Come early for an evening of enlightening art appreciation — in the very best of taste!

About Eames: The Architect and the Painter

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film since their death dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.  (85 minutes)

 

Fish on Fridays During Lent

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Fish on Fridays During Lent

fishnfriesFriday, Feb 19 | Friday, Feb 26 |Friday, Mar 4
Bricolage school cafeteria at 3368 Esplanade
5:30 p.m. until 8 p.m.
Eat in or take out.
Fish plates $8.00 includes fried catfish, french fries, cole slaw and green beans
Water and soft drinks $1.00
Beer $2.00 | Abita Amber $3.00 | Wine $4.00
An eclectic mix of desserts at fair prices

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News from NOMA

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noma-fridayFRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA
5-9 p.m. June 19, 2015

5-8 p.m.: Art on the Spot
5:30 to 8:30pm: Music by Daniele Spadavecchia
6:30pm: Film: American Experience: New Orleans

About American Experience: New Orleans
“New Orleans” is a fascinating portrait of one of America’s most distinctive and beloved cities: a small French settlement surrounded by water that ultimately would become the home of America’s biggest party, Mardi Gras, and its most original art form, jazz; the site of explosive struggles with both integration and segregation, and a proving ground for national ideas about race, class and equality; a mirror that reflects both the best and the worst in America. This “American Experience” film tells the story of this remarkable city through revealing first-hand interviews with New Orleans natives and scholars, as well as through rich archival photographic material and footage that was miraculously spared from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

About Daniele Spadavecchia
Daniele Spadavecchia with his charming and joyful stage presence brings Gypsy Jazz to New Orleans through the musical journey of his life. He loves to play acoustic gypsy jazz guitar, mixing swing with Mediterranean Flamenco and European ethnic music. He sings a selection of Italian, Latin and classic jazz repertoire. He was born in Italy where he performed for many years, before moving to New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, he relocated to Scottsdale, AZ and eventually San Diego before returning to the Crescent City.

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ARTFUL MINDS AT NOMA

noma1The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will partner with Poydras Home to launch an art exploration pilot program specially designed to benefit people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

For the first time in New Orleans, this type of program, which has been successfully implemented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will train NOMA staff to optimally serve those with memory support needs and their caregivers through exposure to positive art experiences.

Ten residents of Poydras Home, along with key Poydras Home staff and family caregivers, will experience NOMA’s collections with specially trained museum docents and staff for a series of 6 visits over a period of 3 months beginning June 1 and lasting through August 18, 2015, in the Artful Minds Pilot Program.

Arts & Minds is the consulting organization for Artful Minds at NOMA and will provide the training to museum docents and staff. Arts & Minds is a non-profit organization committed to improving quality of life for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia through meaningful art-centered activities that create positive cognitive experiences, enhance communication, and reduce isolation. Participants and their caregivers are empowered to strengthen social, emotional and spiritual bonds by engaging with art. This growing international movement of arts in health seeks to increase stimulation of cognitive function to support retained capabilities including visual and spatial perception, verbal and non-verbal expression, attention, humor, social connections and self-esteem.

At the point of completion, the pilot program will be evaluated by all partners with hopes of extending it to qualifying members of the public.

“We wanted to bring this program to New Orleans as part of fulfilling NOMA’s mission of providing innovative experiences for all of our audiences,” said Deputy Director for Interpretation and Audience Engagement, Allison Reid. “We are grateful to our partners at Poydras Home for piloting this program with us, so we can create a program that fosters communication and connections through visual art for those living with Alzheimer’s and dementia.”

“Poydras Home’s long history of mission-driven dedication to provide expert level memory support to all residents affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementias make us ideal candidates to populate this innovative pilot program with NOMA. We are proud participants in this art enrichment effort that can broaden the depth of positive life experience for our residents,” says Poydras Home CEO Jay Rive.

“Combining the concept of art and the mind is a pioneering initiative taking place in this part of the country, and is far-reaching in its implications because art is a commanding medium for stimulating connections and function within the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Nicholas Bazan, Professor and Director, Neuroscience Center of Excellence, LSU Health New Orleans. “This disease is one of our society’s foremost contemporary challenges, particularly in regards to the specifics of disease development, which still remain elusive. Art, in all its forms, is an important element for activating circuitry in the brain and ultimately can be a helpful instrument for restoring function and slowing down the progression of this disease.”

The inspiration for Artful Minds grew out of the childhood friendship of New Orleans natives Tripp Friedler and Sassy Kohlmeyer, both firsthand witnesses to the effects of Alzheimer’s and dementia in their own family members. Sassy Kohlmeyer, art educator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, collaborated with Carolyn Halpin-Healy, co-founder with Dr. James M. Nobel of Arts & Minds, to extend the expertise of this impactful program to her hometown with the help of Tripp Friedler. It is their hope that the program takes root at NOMA and will bring the joy of art to the visiting community of Poydras Home in this initial effort.

“Having lived with the devastating effects of dementia on both our parents and their caregivers we wanted to create a program that would help both parties,” explains Tripp Friedler. “Artful Minds is a small step in bettering the lives of participants and their caregivers. We believe in the power of art as a non-pharmacological intervention that includes cognitively and emotionally stimulating activities. Art programs such as this can forge positive emotional connections with art and one another.”

Artful Minds at NOMA is sponsored by Tripp Friedler, Boysie Bollinger, Hermie Kohlmeyer, Merritt Lane and other donors. More at http://poydrashome.com

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June 26th, join us for the opening of A Louisiana Parlor: Antebellum Taste and Context. Curator Mel Buchanan will lead us in a lecture along with Anne Butler, the owner of the Butler-Greenwood Plantation.

noma1“>NOMAlogo5-8 p.m.: Art on the Spot
5:30-8:30 p.m.: Music by Shotgun Jazz
6 p.m.: Lecture with Mel Buchanan and Anne Butler: “The History of Harriet Flower Mathews’ Greenwood Plantation Parlor and its Move to New Orleans”
After the lecture: Anne Butler will sign copies of her newest book Images of America: St. Francisville and West Feliciana Parish in the Museum Shop
About A Louisiana Parlor: Antebellum Taste and Context
In celebration of the acquisition of a superb Rococo Revival parlor from the Butler-Greenwood Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, this exhibition will feature the parlor in its entirety and component parts, and illuminates its setting, and the taste for revival styles in furniture and the decorative arts prevalent in the mid-19th century South.

About Anne Butler
Author of several dozen books on Louisiana history and culture, crime, children’s books and cookbooks, Anne Butler has had hundreds of articles published in magazines and newspapers. She has a BA from Sweet Briar College, Virginia, and an MA from Humboldt State in California. A former editor of Country Roads Magazine, she has also worked as assistant editor for AAA publications and a California magazine on the Monterey Peninsula. A resident of St. Francisville since 1970, she operates a Bed & Breakfast at her historic family home, 1790s Butler Greenwood Plantation, where she also conducted house tours for 23 years. She is active in historic preservation and has recently helped compile a digital archive of some 1,000 19th and early 20th century images for the parish historical society. She also writes all of the promotional features for parish non-profit special events like the Audubon Pilgrimage.

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Learn more about free admission for teens and active duty military in the link below:

http://noma.org/emails/detail/124/

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Register your child for summer camp at NOMA or encourage your teen to be a summer camp counselor…

http://noma.org/emails/detail/124/

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Friday Nights at NOMA

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noma-fridayFRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA: LECTURE WITH GREY GUNDAKER, POETRY SLAM, AND MORE
5-9 p.m. April 17, 2015

Tonight, Grey Gundaker gives a lecture in the Stern Auditorium: “Ancestors, Remembrance, and Moral Force: Flashes of Spirit in Burial and Residential Settings.” Enjoy live performances by N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Company, plus NOMA has free art activities, a cash bar, and of course, great art!

*5-8 p.m.: Art on the Spot
*5-6, 7-8 p.m.: Music by N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Company
*6 p.m.: Lecture by Grey Gundaker, Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at William and Mary College
*6 p.m.: Youth Poetry Slam Open Mic
*7 p.m.: Poetry Slam hosted by Slam New Orleans

About N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Company
N’Kafu Traditional African Dance Company was founded by Mariama Curry out of the pure love and passion of African traditions. N’Kafu is dedicated to the research, historical documentation, preservation, presentation, and promotion of African folklore. Mariama has taught and performed in New Orleans area schools for over 20 years. Her company performs annually for events throughout the state.

About Slam New Orleans
Slam New Orleans is a spoken word grass root initiative whose goal is to promote spoken word and slam poetry competitions to all ages, genders and races. Founded in 2008 by a group of local poets that believed that this medium of expression could save lives, and wanted New Orleans to be represented nationally, because they were not since hurricane Katrina in 2005. Each year Slam New Orleans organizes a team of adult poets, named Team S.N.O. to go to regional and national poetry competitions to represent the New Orleans poetry scene. Since its inception, Team S.N.O. has won three national poetry slam titles, placed second at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam in 2010 and 2012, and third place at Southwest Shoot Out Poetry Slam and 3rd at the National Poetry Slam 2014.

About Grey Gundaker
Grey Gundaker is Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and professor of Anthropology at the College of William & Mary. She began studying and writing about African American religious and philosophical knowledge that informs designed landscapes, burial and ancestral tributes, and the arts 25 years ago, while a graduate student at Yale, where she worked with the anthropologist John Szwed and art historian Robbert Farris Thompson. Her publications include numerous articles and the books Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization and Vernacular Practice in African America, Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground, and with co-author Judith McWillie, No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work.

Ancestors, Remembrance, and Moral Force: Flashes of Spirit in Burial and Residential Settings
In the African Diaspora legacies of Kongo join the traditions of other peoples and American Christianity in a rich repertoire of commemorative symbols and practices that show respect for those who have transitioned recently and in the more distant past. For many African peoples rights in land were demonstrated by material signs showing ancestral connections to the landscape. When groups migrated they planted these signs in new terrain. For African Americans enslaved in the United States, it remained essential to show respect for the dead, but it was especially important to transcend the rupture of the Middle Passage by asserting rights in a new and hostile surroundings. This talk follows a transatlantic thread which links flashing and white substances with transition across water and continuing spiritual presence in the world of the living, showing how these signs move back and forth between burial and home landscapes of commemoration.

Friday Fun in the Faubourg

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FRIDAY FUN IN THE FAUBOURG

Enjoy glasses of wine as you watch the sunset over Bayou St. John.
It’s Vino on the Bayou at The Pitot House (1440 Moss St.) tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

Come enjoy the wine tasting event of the Fall season. Enjoy a glass of wine and the live music of the Jesse Morrow Trio while watching the sunset on Bayou St. John.

$5 admission for Louisiana Landmarks Society members and $10 general admission.
No reservations. Tickets sold at gate only. (1440 Moss on beautiful Bayou St. John)

New Orleans native Poppy Tooker will be signing: Mme. Bégué’s Recipes of Old New Orleans Creole Cookery.Wine selections are donated by Cork & Bottle Fine Wines, located in the American Can Company on Orleans Ave.

From bestofneworleans.com…
“Slow food advocate and author Poppy Tooker revives the work of one of New Orleans’ first famous chefs in Mme. Begue’s Recipes of Old New Orleans Creole Cookery (Pelican). The cookbook was first published in 1900 and has been out of print since 1937. Tooker’s new edition sheds light on the legendary Madame Begue and makes her recipes more accessible to contemporary home cooks.

Madame Begue came to New Orleans in 1853 as Elizabeth Kettenring. She opened Dutrey’s coffee shop in 1863 with her first husband Louis Dutreuil, a French Market butcher. When Dutreuil died, she married bartender Hippolyte Begue, and they renamed the French Quarter restaurant Begue’s. The restaurant’s popularity and her fame rose dramatically during the 1884 Cotton Exhibition, which brought an influx of tourists to New Orleans.

“At that time she became the No. 1 tourist attraction in this city,” Tooker says. “[Visitors] could actually see her in her kitchen at her coal-burning stove surrounded by her copper pots.”

Begue’s served an elaborate “second breakfast,” which evolved into New Orleans’ brunch tradition. The menu included classic dishes such as shrimp jambalaya, crawfish bisque and Creole gumbo. In the book, Tooker’s updated recipes appear alongside Begue’s original recipes.

Tooker says Begue’s recipes are “some of the purest records of the original Creole cuisine that put New Orleans on the map.” — BRAD RHINES”

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Friday Free For All, November 9, 6-8pm
Peggy Hymel is joining Swirl Wine Bar & Market this evening for a Latin wine themed evening with wines from Chile, Argentina and Spain! Walter is out this week, but Swirl Wine Bar & Market is working on a guest appearance from one of their favorite chefs…Check out their Facebook page for the lineup, chef and menu!

Swirl Wine Bar & Market | 3143 Ponce de Leon Street | New Orleans | 504.304.0635

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FAUBOURG ST. JOHN

“Where Big Dreams Grow!”

Plan to Party at the Pitot House Friday

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photos by Charlie London

Join the Louisiana Landmarks Society for a unique Vino on the Bayou experience!

Friday, March 16, 2011
5:30 – 7:30 PM


1440 Moss Street | New Orleans

March 31
PRC Shotgun House Tour
Headquarters: The Pitot House10 AM – 4 PM

April 20
Vino on the Bayou, 5:30 – 7:30 PM

May 18
Vino on the Bayou, 5:30 – 7:30 PM

June 8
Vino on the Bayou, 5:30 – 7:30 PM

EAT FISH | GIVE BLOOD

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This Friday, Mar 9th, a blood drive will be held at The Esplanade at City Park, 3443 Esplanade Ave. EAT FIRST ! See details on the FISH FRY below.

Our Lady of the Rosary Church will be hosting their famous fish fry on Friday, March 9th from 5 pm to 8 pm. *Look for the big dome on the bayou at 3368 Moss Street on beautiful Bayou St. John.*

FISHday FRY

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Feb 24 | Mar 2 | Mar 9

Our Lady of the Rosary Church will be hosting
their famous fish fry for 3 Fridays this year.
Tonight from 5 pm to 8 pm. and the next two Fridays.

*Look for the big dome on
the bayou at 3368 Moss Street on beautiful Bayou
St. John. Fish, Shrimp and FUN too!*