Chloë Over 5th Avenue September 1-7, 2024
A Play by Alex Anthony Vazquez
Manhattan, 1980: After a damaging article has been published in the newspaper, Chloë, a troubled, self-obsessed fashion model on the verge of a nervous breakdown deals with an emotional affair on the night of her birthday party. Presented by Blue Theatre Company. This event is running nightly from Sept 1-7, 2024 at 8pm (doors at 7).
International Dance Festival
Ignacio Diaz, BODYART, Sara Silkin, Tariq Mitri | 7:30pm at New Marigny Theatre
INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL NEW ORLEANS RETURNS FOR ITS SECOND YEAR, CONNECTING ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES IN THE GULF SOUTH WITH CONTEMPORARY DANCE FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
From the stage to the screen to the studio, this year’s festival celebrates cross-cultural creative exchange from September 12-15 at partner venues throughout the Crescent City.
Season Social: Opening Celebration
Join us for an evening of FREE food, drinks, and fun as we celebrate The launch Of our first full season. We’ll have music and more throughout the night. Come check out this new creative space, Meet the performers, organizers, and volunteers involved.
Out Of The Boil: A Climate Change Musical
October 6, 2024 7:00pm–10:00pm
If you like the beloved 1980s band Electric Light Orchestra, you’ll love this musical set in New Orleans featuring an ensemble cast and the most threatening crawfish boil.
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra: Haydn “The Clock”
This program beings with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels’ soulful Delights and Dances, followed by a work from Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos that was inspired by his love for both Bach and Brazilian culture. The performance concludes with Haydn’s charming and thematic “Clock” Symphony.
Matthew Kraemer, conductor
Nakatani Gong Orchestra
Another exciting concert is coming our way Oct. 20. The NAKATANI GONG ORCHESTRA – NGO – is a large ensemble touring contemporary sound art project. Local musicians are trained in Nakatani’s technique for playing his adapted bowed Gong, and he conducts them in a performance of his original composition. In the last decade, the NGO has performed hundreds of concerts involving thousands of participants around the world in the creation of these transformative sound works.
For each unique performance, participating NGO players (musicians) are selected by a local presenter. Nakatani gives a specialized rehearsal to the players in preparation for the performance. There is no expectation of previous experience playing a gong. Nakatani instructs the players in his unique techniques for bowing the gong and following his method of conducting. It is important to note that this project is not a traditional music program or traditional Japanese music, it is a contemporary sound art project.
Nakatani’s adaption of the Chinese wind gong to respond to his percussive bowing technique in his solo work (c. 1995) led to the inclusion of other players trained in his methods to realize his compositions. The Kobo bows, mallets, and surrounding instrumentation equipment have all been developed and are hand crafted by Tatsuya Nakatani. After ten years of planning and preparation, the NGO began touring in 2011 with four adapted gongs and has grown to 17 gongs today (January 2019). It is the only bowed gong orchestra in the world. Join is for this exciting event!
Ukrainian Cultural Forces Concert
We are honored to host this wonderful FREE concert and talk coming up on October 23rd. Join us for some incredible music and conversation with the Ukrainian Cultural Forces
Multicultural Sounds of Louisiana: Exploring Afro-Latin American, Spanish and Creole Influences of Our Region
Join us in the beautiful New Marigny Theatre for an evening of Latin American music collaboratively envisioned, commissioned and presented by Lyrica Baroque and Palacios House of Arts. The evening will feature Latin American artists and composers performing newly commissioned works, student compositions and side-by-side performing of students and professional musicians.
Multicultural Sounds promotes the cultural values and traditional sound of the region while facilitating the creation of new music, embodying the true essence of collaborative arts presenting and education, showcasing our passionate teachers, dedicated families and students, and the power of authentic partnership and collaboration to inspire more creativity, inclusivity, and broader reach.
Free and open to the public.
P.6 Magic Maids
Nov. 1 & 2nd – 2pm – 3:30pm
Magic Maids
Performance by P.6 Artists Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera
New Marigny Theatre, 2301 Marais Street, New Orleans, LA 70117
Open to the Public
Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera present the US-debut of their performance piece Magic Maids, a multi-disciplinary critique of the modern exploitation of women as domestic workers interpreted through the historical context of European witch-hunts. The weekend culminates in a performance intensive workshop for female identifying participants.
Magic Maids is a production of Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in co-production with Frascati Producties supported by Ammodo (NL), HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Spring Performing Arts Festival and Tanzquartier Wien. Funded as part of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Hessian Ministry of Science and Arts. This project is part of the Colomboscope Contemporary Arts Festival 2024.
All Saints Community Altar And Concert
Please join us for our annual All Saints community altar and candlelight concert. Bring photographs to remember your loved ones who have passed on, as well as any other offerings of flowers, candles, or momentos, and stay for a night of music and a communal feast.
Our concert features ancestral blessings by Sula Evans, Sunni Patterson, the Spirit of Fi Yi Yi, and Big Chief Sunpie and the Northside Skull and Bone Gang, with music by Bruce Sunpie Barnes and Matt Hampsey of the Louisiana Sunspots, Herlin Riley (with Erica Falls on vocals), and our special guests, Alune Wade’s band with musicians from Senegal, Benin, and French Guiana.
As a gift to the evenign, we will be giving out copies of Oshun’s Fan and Mirror, Sunni Patterson’s meditation book with the Neighborhood Story Project.
Light catering will be provided by the most delicious Honduran restaurant, Alma’s, but please bring a dish to share that your ancestors loved to cook.
Flowers and Plant Installations by Subtle Fields and Speak Easy Farm. Satsumas from Grow Dat Youth Farm!
This event is co-sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, Peoples of the World, a course in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of New Orleans, Collaborative Public Humanities in Action funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange, the Temple of Light Ilé de Coin Coin, the House of Dance & Feathers, the New Marigny Theatre, the Northside Skull and Bone Gang, Fi Yi Yi and the Mandingo Warriors, and Bayou Barkada.
Open Up the Kingdom Mama: Nov. 7-16th 8pm
By Anita Vatshell
Doors open at 7pm , Show starts at 8 pm.
A pregnancy causes controversy in this absurdist modern tragedy. A fifty-six-year-old widow must determine if a miracle conception is fate or the result of a voodoo hex on her lover. Set in a post-Roe New Orleans where access to reproductive care is severely restricted, regardless of choice.