CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER NEW ORLEANS 2016–17 SEASON
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT CAC’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON In the fall of 1976, a passionate group of New Orleans visual and performing artists, and early patrons, championed the dream of an arts center focused on living artists. In the four decades that followed, the CAC has become a place that boldly presents works by our vibrant artistic community— and their peers from across the world—in an iconic American city that is rapidly transforming. We dedicate our 40th Anniversary Season of Visual and Performing Arts to the interdisciplinary spirit of these forward-thinking dreamers. Photograph: Sara Essex Bradley
I would be remiss if I did not thank our curators— Andrea Andersson, The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of Visual Art, and Raelle Myrick-Hodges, the CAC’s former Curator of Performing Arts. These visionaries have worked tirelessly with me to envision the Season of stunning new works that you will find in the following pages. It has been a great privilege to work with them both. In what will be the first of Andersson’s many curatorial explorations of the vibrant New Orleans visual arts scene, “A Building With A View”: Experiments in Anarchitecture opens our Season with an exhibition that features the diverse work of more than 40 of our finest regional artists, and echoes the interdisciplinary spirit of the founding years of the Center. Next on view is the world premiere of zoe | juniper’s Clear & Sweet, choreographed by Georgia native Zoe Scofield. This interdisciplinary work will be the first in a series of commissions supported by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the CAC’s new Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation (I3)—a program of commissions and public programs that feature artists born or living in the American South. The 2016–17 Season continues with New Orleans-based choreographer Meryl Merman’s playfully enigmatic dance work, The Lipstick. Following close behind is Theater Mitu’s JUÁREZ: A Documentary Mythology—a work which illuminates the devastation and rebirth of Juárez , Mexico, while drawing many parallels to our own New Orleans. Tony Award-nominees Stew & Heidi follow, with their genre-bending blues-rock piece, Notes of a Native Son, which celebrates the noted African American writer and activist, James Baldwin. The New Year welcomes our second I3 commission, Mélange. Created by New Orleans native Rashaad Newsome, this interdisciplinary piece features the artist’s world renowned films, works on paper, live music, and vogue dancers in a bold examination of sociallyconstructed identity, to be presented in the CAC’s newly-renovated The Helis Foundation First Floor Galleries. In the spring, our Season continues with Cecilia Vicuna: About to Happen, the first major U.S. solo exhibition of the distinguished Chilean-born artist. This multimedia collection scrutinizes the impact of humanity’s climatic influence on our world. Presented in tandem will be the exhibition Senga Nengudi: Improvisional Gestures, which includes a series of sculptures the artist began in 1975—a year before the CAC was founded. This exhibition will be the first museum presentation to examine her sculptures altogether and in such depth. One of the most anticipated performances of our Season mixes puppet theater, video and music in Nufonia Must Fall, a project of DJ and spoken word artist Kid Koala, best known for his musical work with Gorillaz. Our Season then closes with New Orleans’ own devised-theater ensemble Goat in the Road’s production of Foreign to Myself—a visually arresting performance that explores how trauma victims learn to navigate and adjust to new realities. Bon Anniversaire, CAC! May the years that follow be as captivating, provocative, and adventurous as the first forty. Neil A. Barclay Director and CEO
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CONTENTS 1 Director’s Statement 2 “A Building With A View”: Experiments in Anarchitecture August 6–October 1, 2016 4 Clear & Sweet zoe | juniper September 22–24, 2016 6 The Lipstick FLOCK September 30–October 1, 2016 8 JUÁREZ: A Documentary Mythology Theater Mitu November 18–19, 2016 10 Notes of a Native Song Stew & Heidi December 9–10, 2016 12 Rashaad Newsome: Mélange January 14–February 12, 2017 14 Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen March 16–June 18, 2017 16 Senga Nengudi: Improvisional Gestures March 16–June 18, 2017 18 Nufonia Must Fall Kid Koala April 14–15, 2017 20 Foreign to Myself Goat in the Road Productions May 18–21, 2017 22 The Cafe at the CAC The Stacks, art & design bookstore Education 23 Join the CAC! Gallery, Ticket, & General Info 24 CAC Staff & Board of Trustees 25 Rent the Center Front Cover Video still: Juniper Shuey and Zoe Scofield. Back Cover Performance still: FIVE, 2014.
“A BUILDING WITH A VIEW”: EXPERIMENTS IN ANARCHITECTURE August 6–October 1, 2016 The CAC’s 40th Anniversary Season kicks off with the expansive exhibition, “A BUILDING WITH A VIEW”: EXPERIMENTS IN ANARCHITECTURE, a presentation of diverse works by more than 40 local and regional artists. “Anarchitecture,” an elision of the words anarchy and architecture, celebrates the reinvention and retooling of historic forms and structures.
EXHIBITION
A BUILDING WITH A VIEW EXPERIMENTS IN ANARCHITECTURE
Examining the relationships between social and spatial conditions, “A BUILDING WITH A VIEW” showcases the current works of some of the CAC’s founding artists alongside those of emerging contemporary artists. Sited for our historic Katz & Besthoff building, the works in this exhibition demonstrate creative reuse and the power of space to articulate an image of the future—in this case, the future of the CAC as it embarks on its next 40 years.
Support for this exhibition is provided by the Welch Family Fund in memory of Walter Wade Welch, and by the Sydney & Walda Besthoff Foundation.
The CAC is supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans as administered by the Arts Council New Orleans.
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CONVERSATION August 25, 7pm
ON VIEW AUGUST 6–OCTOBER 1
Artists and founders Dawn DeDeaux, Jeanne Nathan, and Robert Tannen join artists Jebney Lewis, Marianne Desmarais, and Sally Heller for an intergenerational conversation about the ever-changing structure of the New Orleans arts ecosystem. GALLERY PERFORMANCE October 1
Mary Jane Parker, Collection, 2015. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist
As part of the CAC’s Art for Arts’ Sake, exhibition artists Jebney Lewis, Rick Snow, Chris Staudinger, Kyle Eyre Clyd, Manon Bellet, and Avery Lawrence activate their works in the CAC Galleries.
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CLEAR & SWEET zoe | juniper September 22–24, 2016 7:30pm Concept Design & Direction Zoe Scofield & Juniper Shuey Collaborators Ana Maria Lucaciu, Navarra Novy-Williams, Troy Ogilvie, Dominic Santia, Amiya Brown, Julian Martlew, Evan Anderson, Kim Lusk
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE
CLEAR & SWEET
“...like a crazy dream you just can’t shake. At the center of it all, there’s a furious little heart that pumps equal parts vitriol and grace.” — The Boston Globe A haunting performance that fuses dance and live vocals, CLEAR & SWEET integrates Sacred Harp Singing—a living form of spiritual a capella choral singing that is passed down over many generations. Voices meld textured layers of a single melody to form a unified song. Interspersed throughout the audience, singers collectively breathe their song amongst viewers, and bring sound to life in an immersive physical and visual convergence, blurring the line between “performer” and “observer.” TICKETS $25–$40
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The presentation of zoe | juniper Clear and Sweet is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Production residency is funded by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Clear and Sweet is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center in partnership with Bates Dance Festival, Carolina Performing Arts (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), New York Live Arts, On the Boards, and NPN.
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE
MASTER CLASS
ZOE | JUNIPER
September 17, 10am Alongside zoe | juniper, participants explore musicality, and the visual and physical metaphors in both improvisational and structured forms. POST-SHOW CONVERSATION
SEPTEMBER 22–24, 2016
September 23
Photographs: Juniper Shuey and Zoe Scofield
Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey discuss the inspiration behind CLEAR & SWEET, and their unique approach to dance.
This project is made possible in part by support from the National Performance Network (NPN) Performance Residency Program. For more information: www.npnweb.org.
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation (I3) is a three year pilot project of the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC), supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, designed to provide both the context and content for the expanding aesthetic landscape of interdisciplinary performance
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as practiced by artists whose projects are drawn from or inspired by the rich cultural traditions of the American South.
The CAC’s I3 Southern Partners include Duke Performances, Fusebox, The Nasher Museum of Art, Oz Nashville, and Speed Art Museum.
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THE LIPSTICK FLOCK September 30–October 1. 2016 7:30pm Company FLOCK Choreography Meryl Murman Musical Composition and Performance Rebecca Crenshaw Lighting Design Chu-hsuan Chang Performed by Calvin Rowe, Eric Namaky, Phillip Rush, Jake Harkey, Alan Perez Sound Design Trey Chandler Arabic Translations and Oratory Ramzi Hibri
U.S. PREMIERE PERFORMANCE
THE LIPSTICK
Premiering at the CAC, THE LIPSTICK is a provocative dance performance accompanied by solo violin and a tube of lipstick. Daring, discomfiting, and darkly hilarious, THE LIPSTICK treads the fine line between what is sacred and what is profane, as choreographer Meryl Murman reflects on her Arab ancestry and the complexities of a diasporic culture. Armed with only a bullet of red lipstick on a minimalist set, the performers weave through shifting landscapes as they illustrate the relationship between identity and geography with rigorous athleticism and aggressive sensuality. TICKETS $25–$40
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U.S. PREMIERE PERFORMANCE
FLOCK SEPTEMBER 30–OCTOBER 1, 2016
CONVERSATION September 27, 7pm Prompted by the Syrian refugee crisis, artist Meryl Murman, scholar Shereen Naser, community organizer Lugine Gray, scholar Fernando Lopez, and medical doctor Anjali Niyogi come together to discuss displacement, trauma and the body, and how art can be used as a tool for social change. POST-SHOW CONVERSATION September 30
Film stills: The Lipstick
Meryl Murman and CAC Senior Curator of Performing Arts Laurie Uprichard discuss Murman’s artistic process.
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JUÁREZ: A DOCUMENTARY MYTHOLOGY Theater Mitu November 18–19, 2016 7:30pm Conceived and Directed by Rubén Polendo Created by Theater Mitu from a series of interviews in and around Juárez, Mexico
PERFORMANCE
JUÁREZ A DOCUMENTARY MYTHOLOGY
“The play is all about taking a city that’s become synonymous with death, and reasserting its connection to life.” —The Guardian A gritty performance that delves into economy-driven politics, government corruption, religious fervor, and the familial honor of the city’s past, JUÁREZ: A DOCUMENTARY MYTHOLOGY embodies the possibility of transformation for a once harried region into a bustling laboratory of the future. Drawn by the contradictions, history, and myth of Juárez, Mexico—once called the “Murder Capital of the World”— Theater Mitu uses interview transcripts of the region’s residents to create an emotional map that frames the actors as witnesses to memory. TICKETS $25–$40
JUÁREZ: A Documentary Mythology was made possible with funding by The MAP Fund and New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with touring support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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This project is made possible in part by support from the National Performance Network (NPN) Performance Residency Program. For more information: www.npnweb.org.
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PERFORMANCE
THEATER MITU
Photograph: Theater Mitu
NOVEMBER 18–19, 2016
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WORKSHOP November 16, 9am–12pm While working as a performance company, students will learn the fundamentals of collaborative theater-making and artistic training. This workshop engages students in a detailed approach to Theater Mitu’s training methodology of Whole Theater. Whole Theater is defined as a theatrical experience that is rigorously visual, aural, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual—both in creation and in performance.
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NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG Stew & Heidi December 9–10, 2016 7:30pm A Collaboration of Stew and Heidi Rodewald “The words, the music, the personality—it all just flows as naturally and easily and powerfully as waves breaking upon an inviting shore.” —Talkin’ Broadway
A genre-melding, blues-rock song cycle, NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG celebrates James Baldwin, a leading African American writer and activist of the mid-20th century, whose work explored the inherent complexities of Western racial, sexual, and class distinctions. Rather than an exploration of Baldwin himself, the show is conceived as Stew’s reaction to Baldwin’s work—a demonstration of the impact the writer continues to have on black artists today. Backed by a full band with longtime collaborator Heidi Rodewald, multimedia projections, video and commentary, a driving rock rhythm with jazz elements, along with thought-provoking and sometimes humorous lyrics, the work demonstrates the often unspoken bond between contemporary artists and those who have gone before, and speaks to the evolution of art shared over time.
PERFORMANCE
NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG STEW & HEIDI DECEMBER 9–10, 2016
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Photograph: Courtesy of the artists
TICKETS $25–$40
CONVERSATION December 1, 7pm Poet Nikki Giovanni recounts her friendship with the late James Baldwin. FILM-SCREENING The Price of the Ticket December 4, 2pm In this film, James Baldwin tells his story in an emotional portrait, comprised of rarely-seen archival footage, that explores what it is to be born in a world that has yet to understand that “all men are brothers.�
AFTERPARTY December 10 After the performance, local jazz musicians and poets evoke the spirit and sounds of the Harlem Renaissance.
Photograph: Earl Dax
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RASHAAD NEWSOME: MÉLANGE Performances January 20, 2017 7:30pm & 9:30pm On view January 14–February 12, 2017 New Orleans-born artist Rashaad Newsome returns for this interdisciplinary presentation, MÉLANGE. Including films and recent works on paper, as well as the artist’s vogue performance, this assembly of genre-bending works frames both Newsome’s live performance and studio practice through the history of collage.
PERFORMANCE & EXHIBITION
RASHAAD NEWSOME
Using layered constructions of formal material to investigate layered constructions of social identity, MÉLANGE borrows from dance, technology, gaming, and hand-crafted collage for a transformative presentation of art in motion. In the MÉLANGE performances, five dancers represent the five elements of vogue femme—hands, cat walk, floor performance, spin dips, and duck walking. As each dancer takes the floor, a hip-hop M.C., an operatic vocalist, and local musicians improvise an interactive soundtrack, building to a beautifully-structured crescendo of sound and movement. TICKETS $25–$40
Support for this exhibition is provided by the Sydney & Walda Besthoff Foundation.
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation (I3) is a three year pilot project of the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC), supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, designed to provide both the context and content for the expanding aesthetic landscape of interdisciplinary
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performance as practiced by artists whose projects are drawn from or inspired by the rich cultural traditions of the American South.
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The CAC’s I3 Southern Partners include Duke Performances, Fusebox, The Nasher Museum of Art, Oz Nashville, and Speed Art Museum.
PERFORMANCE & EXHIBITION
MÉLANGE
AFTERPARTY January 20 Following Rashaad Newsome’s MÉLANGE performance, legendary DJ Jubilee and the undisputed King of Vogue tracks, DJ MikeQ, have a spinoff of bounce and vogue anthems. Cash bar and food truck onsite.
CONVERSATION January 21, 7pm
Performance stills: FIVE, 2014.
Rashaad Newsome discusses his multidisciplinary artistic practice.
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CECILIA VICUÑA: ABOUT TO HAPPEN March 16–June 18, 2017 CECILIA VICUÑA: ABOUT TO HAPPEN traces the artist’s long career to stage a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change. The first major U.S. solo exhibition of the influential Chileanborn artist is comprised of Vicuña’s multidisciplinary work in performance, sculpture, drawing, video, text, and sitespecific installations over the course of the past 40 years. Reframing dematerialization as both a formal consequence of 1960s conceptualism and radical climate change—the exhibition examines a process that shapes public memory and responsibility. Operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile, Vicuña’s practice weaves together disparate disciplines as well as communities—with shared relationships to land and sea, and to the economic and environmental disparities of the 21st century.
EXHIBITION
CECILIA VICUNA
CECILIA VICUÑA: ABOUT TO HAPPEN is co-organized by Andrea Andersson, The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of the CAC and Julia BrianWilson, Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Support for this exhibition is provided by the Sydney & Walda Besthoff Foundation.
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Cecilia Vicuña, Cloud-net.
Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, a full-color publication co-imprinted by Siglio Press and the CAC, will be released in March 2017.
EXHIBITION
ABOUT TO HAPPEN ON VIEW MARCH 16–JUNE 18, 2017
PERFORMANCE & CONVERSATION As part of her exhibition, Cecilia Vicuña presents this site-specific performance that will be followed by a communal conversation with the artist. Weaving together art and poetry, text and textile, Vicuña’s ritual performance calls forth our tempestuous relationship with the environment in an era of climate change. WORKSHOP
Cecilia Vicuña, A Net of Holes.
Inspired by Vicuña’s work, the CAC hosts a workshop inviting local teachers and students to develop site-specific installations using refuse and debris.
FILM-SCREENING Can’t Stop the Water March 26, 2pm
Cecilia Vicuña, Austral Morning.
Can’t Stop the Water is a story of Isle de Jean Charles, L.A. and the Native American community’s fight to save their culture as the land washes away. A conversation about how climate change impacts a community—and, by extension, a global community—will follow the film.
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SENGA NENGUDI: IMPROVISIONAL GESTURES March 16–June 18, 2017 In 1975, artist Senga Nengudi began a series of sculptures, entitled R.S.V. P., which evoke the elasticity and durability of the human body. Made of everyday materials, such as pantyhose and sand, the works invite viewers to not only respond but to engage with them physically. Stretched and twisted, knotted and looped, the works occupy their space in the gallery much as a figure does—by projecting outward and reaching into the space of the viewer in unexpected ways. IMPROVISIONAL GESTURES includes works from the 1970s to the present, and is the first museum presentation to examine these sculptures together and in such depth.
EXHIBITION
SENGA NENGUDI
SENGA NENGUDI: IMPROVISIONAL GESTURES is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Gallery of Contemporary Art.
Support for this exhibition is provided by the Sydney & Walda Besthoff Foundation and the John T. Scott Guild.
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EXHIBITION
IMPROVISIONAL GESTURES
CONVERSATION Artists Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger join Joan Mitchell Center Director Gia Hamilton for a conversation centered on the female body, performance, and a collaborative friendship that spans four decades.
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Senga Nengudi, Untitled (R.S.V.P.), 2013. Nylon, sand, and mixed media. © Senga Nengudi. Photograph © MCA Denver (Ron Pollard).
ON VIEW MARCH 16–JUNE 18, 2017
NUFONIA MUST FALL Kid Koala April 14–15, 2017 7:30pm Music by Kid Koala Directed by K.K. Barrett Produced by Ryhna Thompson Set Designer Benjamin Gerlis Puppet Designers Clea Minaker, Patrick Martet, Félix Boisvert, Karina Bleau Director of Photography AJ Korkidakis String Arrangements and Musical Director Vid Cousins
PERFORMANCE
NUFONIA MUST FALL
“This live stageshow adaptation of Kid Koala’s first graphic novel proves that watching a miniature robot puppet navigate the perils of love can be much more emotional than you’d expect.” — CityMag Known primarily from his work with Gorillaz, DJ, musician, and graphic novelist Kid Koala captures the sounds of affection, loneliness, and hope in this tender love story about a tone-deaf robot, whose very human emotions surface in the midst of an existential quandary. A bold adaptation of Kid Koala’s graphic novel, NUFONIA MUST FALL, this performance mixes puppet theater, video, electronic instrumentation, and a string quartet as footage is edited in real time to create a live silent film. The DJ casts a spell over his audience evoking the collective experience of feeling, in which emotion is both personal and universal. TICKETS $25–$40
This performance is funded, in part, by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Louisiana State Arts Council.
This project is supported by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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PERFORMANCE
KID KOALA
PERFORMANCE April 13 Kid Koala of Gorillaz hosts a special DJ set at the Ace Hotel.
APRIL 14–15, 2017
AFTERPARTY April 15 After the performance, Kid Koala scratches soul, funk, trip-hip, and electronica on four turntables.
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Photograph: AJ Korkidakis, Envision Management + Production
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FOREIGN TO MYSELF Goat in the Road Productions May 18–20, 2017 7:30pm May 21, 2017 2:30pm & 7:30pm “Vaudevillians of the first rank.” — NOLA Defender
Performers and Creators Dylan Hunter, Ian Hoch, Leslie Boles Kraus, Jeremy Guyton, Chris Kaminstein, William Bowling Sound Designer Peter J. Bowling Musician and Composer Denise Frazier
PERFORMANCE
FOREIGN TO MYSELF
FOREIGN TO MYSELF is the latest work from the criticallyacclaimed New Orleans theater company, Goat in the Road Productions. Following research into the history and science of trauma, the company has created this richly-tapestried performance that explores the many ways victims remember how to navigate the world, and the inherent difficulties of recovery. In this visually stunning production, performers utilize historical accounts, personal interviews, scientific research, dark humor, immersive sound design, and precise physicality to explore an unsettlingly common occurrence. TICKETS $25–$40
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PERFORMANCE
GOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS MAY 18–21, 2017
CONVERSATION & ARTMAKING The CAC and Goat in the Road Productions host a day of arts workshops and activities for veterans, military family members, and community leaders. Through creative writing and art-making, participants explore the much-needed conversation between veterans and civilians regarding our collective responsibilities, and shared understanding, of war and its implications.
POST-SHOW CONVERSATION May 19
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Photographs: Josh Brasted
Following Friday’s performance, members of Goat in the Road Productions delve into a discussion with veterans and scholars about the challenges veterans face post-deployment.
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AT THE CENTER In addition to our regular Season, the CAC is proud to house and support a variety of presentations by our partner organizations. UPCOMING NEW ORLEANS FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS 2016 New Orleans Film Festival October 12–19, 2016 D’PROJECT PRESENTS Southern Voices 9: Dance Out Loud March 2017 BIRDFOOT FESTIVAL & RESIDENCY May 2017 Sophia Swidler, Going to Get Burned, 2016. CAC Teen Exhibition selection.
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