Listen to the last show featuring Leslie-Claire Spillman / Amanda McFillen / Satchmo Fest. |
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Dear Crosstowners, A short 25-minute trip crosstown to Poydras, in St. Bernard will bring you to an oasis of nature and art just to the other side of the levee on the Mississippi River that was the scene of a natural crevasse in 1922 that flooded most of St. Bernard Parish, followed a misguided attempt to save Orleans Parish with an explosion at the same spot that again flooded St. Bernard. A check with science would have averted the explosion. Relief from rising water comes from above a place, not below. Since 2014 the Creative Alliance of New Orleans has been the artful guest of the Torres Burns Trust which invited CANO to “do something at the site with art.” That something became a sculpture garden and an art center, presenting the work of regional artists ever since. Summer Sundays developed from Sunday events produced during the site's first year of Sunday events in concert with Prospect 3. With art to view outdoors and indoors, art activities for families in the adjacent woods, the sculpture garden, and the center, the Sunday programs have been a welcome refuge from city life ever since. This summer, with rainy days so prevalent, CANO thought about all of the films being made right here in the 4th largest filmmaking center in the nation and decided to show some that have special resonance with St. Bernard. The True Don Quixote, My Louisiana Love, and MRGOing, Going, Gone? are all cued up for folks to experience the humor, pathos, and challenges to the natural environment contained in these exceptional films. See the release in the newsletter for more on them, as well as notice of the landscape painting led by Sabrina Schmidt on site, called Plein Air painting, and the giveaway of back-to-school art supplies that will also be taking place this Sunday from 11 until 5. To underscore the movie theater experience, hot dogs, popcorn, lemonade, and the River House regular doughnut holes from Barker's Dozen will be on hand. With help from our host the Torres- Burns Trust and St. Bernard-based Ranch film studio, one of the top film production studios in the region, we are showcasing one of the underlying reasons film people from around the country crave working here...our creative talent, and remarkable settings. At a news conference on Wednesday for Mayor Cantrell's Office of Cultural Economy, the Mayor celebrated more than $1 billion in film production last year in the region with expectations of breaking that record by the end of 2022. (More on the support that office is giving our creative economy next week.) The people who shaped the films to be shown will be on our Crosstown Conversations show this Friday at noon on WBOK 1230 AM, including Jason Waggenspack for The True Don Quixote, Monique Verdin for My Louisiana Love, and Kevin McCaffrey for MRGOing, Going, Gone? So rain or shine, cruise down Sunday on St. Claude Avenue that becomes St. Bernard Highway; don't turn off until you come to Guillory's Green Store at the light, turn right, almost in a U-turn, cross the tracks onto Saro Ln, continue almost to the levee, enter at the open gate on the left. I'll be there. Can't wait to view my first films of the summer. Let us know what you thought of the films at in...@cano-la.org. |
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Jeanne Nathan Host and Executive Producer |
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Friday's Guests - In Other News - Artworks - Coming Attractions - Crosstown Scenes - What is Jeanne Reading? |
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Jason Waggenspack Head of Possibilities at The Ranch Film Studios Founder + CEO Jason A. Waggenspack is the founder of The Ranch Film Studios and Neutral Ground Films. He has played an integral part in landing some of Louisiana's biggest movies (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Terminator Genisys) and gone on to produced iPhone Apps (So You're Dating A Vampire), web series (Below Sea Level, Arceneaux: Melpomene's Song) and feature films (The Lookalike, Maggie, The True Don Quixote, Abby's Joy). |
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Monique Verdin Interdisciplinary Storyteller Monique Verdin is an interdisciplinary storyteller who documents the complex relationship between environment, culture, and climate in southeast Louisiana. She is a citizen of the Houma Nation, director of The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange and a member of the Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative, working to envision just economies, vibrant communities, and sustainable ecologies. Monique is supporting the Okla Hina Ikhish Hola (People of the Sacred Medicine Trail), a network of indigenous gardeners, as the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network Gulf South food and medicine sovereignty program manager. She is co-producer of the documentary My Louisiana Love and her work has been included in a variety of environmentally inspired projects, including the multi-platform performance Cry You One and the collaborative book Return to Yakni Chitto: Houma Migrations. |
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Kevin McCaffrey Documentary Filmmaker Kevin McCaffrey is an award winning documentary filmmaker, writer and oral historian based in New Orleans. He has created a body of work exploring cultures, environmental issues, history, especially culinary history, music ethnology, humanities and the ways people communicate across human, geographic and economic boundaries. He has produced such diverse works as documentaries for television, client funded content and videos, articles, a book and web app. |
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Coming Attractions For more information, click on the images. |
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White Linen Night at the Contemporary Arts Center |
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Get weekly updates about culture, politics, entertainment, environment, events and highlights of local shops and creatives on Crosstown Conversations by Jeanne Nathan on the air Fridays at noon on wbok1230 AM. |
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