IN THIS ISSUE
@ ANTENNA: Everything All at Once
A Walk Into The Sea – Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
Sunday February 12
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Sunday March 11
The Green Screen – Food Inc.
Thursday March 15
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Sunday April 15
The Green Screen – 2012: Time For Change
Thursday April 19
The Green Screen – Gasland
Thursday May 17
The Green Screen – Forks Over Knives
Thursday June 21
The Green Screen – If A Tree Falls
Thursday July 19

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PRESS STREET is a New Orleans based 501(c)(3) non-profit literary and visual arts collective, which promotes art and literature in the community through events, publications and arts education.

In addition to publishing and operating the nonprofit gallery Antenna, Press Street produces readings, film screenings, workshops, and the annual 24 hour community arts extravaganza Draw-a-thon.

Come to Antenna and check out Press Street publications, DVDs and ephemera by local artists and art organizations.

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Member News

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Natalie McLaurin just launched a new Kickstarter campaign to benefit Parallel Play - the second annual exhibition presented by T-Lot, a studio and project space in the St. Claude arts district of New Orleans.


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Brad Benischek is featured in What The Modern Era Has Gained in Civility It Has Lost In Poetic Inspiration, opening on September 3 at 1646 in the Netherlands.

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Shawn Hall’s artwork was recently exhibited at Gallerie Urbane and is now traveling to the Houston Fine Art Fair.


Bob Snead and James W. Goedert are featured in “A Technological Terrarium at The Ogden Museum through September 12.

 


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Jerald L. White’s documentary KATRINA SISTERS Katrina Sisters airs on Channel 25 NYC Life on September 7, 9 and 10.

Jerald’s artwork will be featured in “I Sing Because I’m Happy, I Sing Because I’m Free” – a group art exhibit celebrating 100 Years of Mahalia Jackson at Stella Jones Gallery – October 1 to November 25.

“I Sing Mahalia” Pelican Bomb’s Pic(k) of the Week.


Press Street / Antenna is sponsoring a Free screening of DIRT the Movie at 6:30 pm on Thursday, September 15th at The Green Project. Look here for more information and please visit thegreenproject.org.


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Please join us at Antenna for a Free screening of NEO NED with the New Orleans Loving Festival – Thursday, September 22 at 7:00 pm.  Look here for additional details.


Just Around the Corner…

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Our Friends at 723 Louisia Street DIGEST are hosting a Gallery Opening on September 10, and MegaBrunch on September 11.  For more details look here.

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Bayou Writing Workshop

Charitable Film Network

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Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation

New Orleans Film Society

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Everything All at Once

Opening Reception: Saturday January 14, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
On View: Jan 14 - Feb 5, Gallery Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5pm
@ Press Street's Antenna Gallery - 3161 Burgundy Street, New Orleans, LA 70117

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Please join us for a Gallery Opening & Reception:
EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE – A salon style group show curated by the members of Antenna and organized by James Goedert.  On view January 14 to February 5, 2012.

Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 12:00pm to 5:00pm, and by appointment.  For more information contact info@press-street.com.

A Walk Into The Sea – Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory

Sunday February 12, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
@ Press Street's Antenna Gallery - 3161 Burgundy Street, New Orleans, LA 70117

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Please Join Us for a Film Screening:
A WALK INTO THE SEA – Danny Willams And The Warhol Factory

Director Esther Robinson’s personal inquiry into the truth behind her Uncle Danny Williams’ mysterious 1966 disappearance. Virtually unknown today, Williams was Andy Warhol’s lover and a promising young filmmaker. The discovery of 20 never-before-seen films Williams made during his time at the Factory– and whose many subjects include Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Paul Morrissey, Brigid Berlin, Billy Name and what may be the earliest known footage of the Velvet Underground– reveals a luminous talent and a stark gap in the historical record. Combined with Robinson’s intimate interviews of surviving Factory members, the film gets beyond the icons and quietly dismantles the Warhol myth-making machine, allowing a deeper examination of the human fragility on which Andy Warhol’s empire was built. (90 minutes)  Admission FREE. Refreshments provided.

Seating is limited. For more information or to rsvp contact info@press-street.com.

The Desert of Forbidden Art

Sunday March 11, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
@ Press Street's Antenna Gallery - 3161 Burgundy Street, New Orleans, LA 70117

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Please join us for a film screening:
THE DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART
By Amanda Pope & Tchavdar Georgiev

This incredible story of how a treasure trove of banned Soviet art worth millions of dollars was stashed in a far-off desert of Uzbekistan develops into a larger exploration of how art survives in times of oppression.

During the Soviet regime, a small group of artists remain true to their vision despite threats of torture, imprisonment, and death. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky, a frustrated painter of aristocratic extraction who’d landed in Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan’s autonomous northwestern republic) as an archaeologist. He became fascinated by the region’s folk art. Decades of Sovietization had devalued such distinctively ethnic artifacts to the point that collecting elaborate handmade garments, jewelry, carpets, and the like initially got Savitsky branded a “rubbish man.” Yet he eventually obtained funds to open a museum in 1966 for those objects. Its location far from Moscow censorship also allowed him to pursue what became his real passion: finding and acquiring modern art so out of sync with official taste that it was virtually banned.  (80 minutes)  Admission FREE. Refreshments provided.

Seating is limited. For more information or to rsvp contact info@press-street.com.

The Green Screen – Food Inc.

Thursday March 15, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
@ The Green Project Warehouse, 2831 Marais Street, New Orleans, LA 70117

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Please join us for a free screening of FOOD INC., by Robert Kinner (2009)

Food, Inc. lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing how our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it’s produced and who we have become as a nation. (91 minutes) Doors open at 6:30pm – Screening starts at 7:00pm.

“THE GREEN SCREEN” is a monthly environmental film series produced by the Charitable Film Network and The Green Project, and held monthly at The Green Project Warehouse. All films are free and open to the public – so invite your friends!

Seating is limited. For more information or to rsvp contact info@press-street.com.

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Sunday April 15, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
@ Press Street's Antenna Gallery - 3161 Burgundy Street, New Orleans, LA 70117

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Please join us for a film screening:
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP

By Banksy

This is the inside story of Street Art – a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world’s most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results.  (87 minutes)  Admission FREE.  Refreshments provided.

Seating is limited. For more information or to rsvp contact info@press-street.com.

The Green Screen – 2012: Time For Change

Thursday April 19, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
@ The Green Project Warehouse, 2831 Marais Street, New Orleans, LA 70117

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Please join us for a free screening of 2012, by João Amorim (2010)

“2012: Time for Change” presents an optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nominee João Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. As conscious agents of evolution, we can redesign post-industrial society on ecological principles to make a world that works for all. Rather than breakdown and barbarism, 2012 heralds the birth of a regenerative planetary culture where collaboration replaces competition, where exploration of psyche and spirit becomes the new cutting edge, replacing the sterile materialism that has pushed our world to the brink. (85 minutes)  Doors open at 6:30pm – Screening starts at 7:00pm.

“THE GREEN SCREEN” is a monthly environmental film series produced by the Charitable Film Network and The Green Project, and held monthly at The Green Project Warehouse. All films are free and open to the public – so invite your friends!

Seating is limited.   For more information or to rsvp contact info@press-street.com.

The Green Screen – Gasland

Thursday May 17, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
@ The Green Project Warehouse - 2831 Marais Street, New Orleans, LA 70117

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Please join us for a free screening of GASLAND, by Josh Fox (2010)

In 2009, filmmaker Josh Fox learned his home in the Delaware River Basin was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation containing natural gas that stretches across New York, Pennsylvania and huge stretches of the Northeast. He was offered $100,000 to lease his land for a new method of drilling developed by Halliburton and soon discovered this was only a part of a 34-state drilling campaign, the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history. Part mystery, part travelogue, and part banjo showdown, Gasland documents Josh’s cross-country odyssey to find out if the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – is actually safe. As he interviews people who live on or around current fracking sites, Josh learns of things gone horribly wrong, from illness to hair loss to flammable water, and his inquiries lead him ever deeper into a web of secrets, lies, conspiracy, and contamination – a web that potentially stretches to threaten the New York Watershed. Unearthing a shocking story about a practice that is understudied and inadequately regulated, Gasland races to find answer about fracking before it’s far too late. (107 minutes)

“THE GREEN SCREEN” is a monthly environmental film series produced by the Charitable Film Network and The Green Project, and held monthly at The Green Project Warehouse. All films are free and open to the public – so invite your friends!

For more information contact info@press-street.com.

The Green Screen – Forks Over Knives

Thursday June 21, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
@ The Green Project Warehouse - 2831 Marais Street, New Orleans, LA 70117

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Please join us for a free screening of FORKS OVER KNIVES, by Lee Fulkerson (2011)

Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the so-called “diseases of affluence” that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. (90 minutes)

“THE GREEN SCREEN” is a monthly environmental film series produced by the Charitable Film Network and The Green Project, and held monthly at The Green Project Warehouse. All films are free and open to the public – so invite your friends!

For more information contact info@press-street.com.

The Green Screen – If A Tree Falls

Thursday July 19, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
@ The Green Project Warehouse - 2831 Marais Street, New Orleans, LA 70117

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Please join us for a free screening of IF A TREE FALLS, by Marshall Curry (2011)

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front looks behind-the-curtain at the ELF and explores two pressing issues in America today — environmentalism and terrorism. Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller, the film interweaves a verite chronicle of Daniel McGowan on house arrest as he faces life in prison, with a dramatic recounting of the events that led to his involvement with the group. And along the way it asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way we define terrorism. (85 minutes)  Doors open at 6:30pm – Screening starts at 7:00pm.

“THE GREEN SCREEN” is a monthly environmental film series produced by the Charitable Film Network and The Green Project, and held monthly at The Green Project Warehouse. All films are free and open to the public – so invite your friends!

Seating is limited.   For more information or to rsvp contact info@press-street.com.