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Friends of the Cabildo Calendar of Events Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID New Orleans, LA Permit No. 198 Mailing 701 Chartres Street New Orleans, LA 70116 p 504.523.3939 f 504.524.9130 friendsofthecabildo.org Physical 400 North Peters Street Suite 210 New Orelans, LA 70130 The 1850 House 523 St. Ann Street New Orleans, LA 70116 p 504.524.9118 1850museumstore.com Friends of the Cabildo Calendar of Events FEBRUARY MARCH 3 Hidden Treasures: Carnival Edition 3 Bywater Tour 4 Esplanade Ridge Tour 9 WTG Meeting 5 Hidden Treasures: Carnival Edition 12 South Market District Tour 10 WTG Meeting 12 2nd Thursday Lecture Series – Kim Vaz-Deville: 11 Treme Tour Walking Raddy 13 2nd Thursday Lecture Series – Sybil Morial: 16 Treme Tour Witness to Change 17 FOC Film Series: Buckjumping 15 Garden District Tour 23 Bywater Tour 17 Lower Garden District Tour 27 FOC Concert Series: Sonny Landreth 22 Garden District Tour 27 Esplanade Ridge Tour APRIL 29 Garden District Tour 17 FOC Concert Series: Cedric Watson 22 FOC Film Series: 1970 Jazz Fest Films For more information on these events, visit friendsofthecabildo.org or call the FOC office at 504.523.3939 Follow us on social media at facebook.com/friendsofthecabildo | twitter.com/cabildofriends | instagram.com/friendsofthecabildo Volume 197 February | March 2020 Friends of the Cabildo News Supporting the Louisiana State Museum since 1956 FOC Concert Series Spring 2020 March 27 | Sonny Landreth ($25/$35 tickets) April 17 | Cedric Watson Located at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint’s 3rd Floor Performance Space, the 150-person venue hosts some of the most intimate concerts in the City of New Orleans and with some of the best musicians around. Don’t miss the last two concerts of the season highlighting the blues and creole roots of Louisiana music. Tickets are always limited for these shows so don’t miss out on these exciting concerts. Buckjumping Tuesday, March 17, 5:30 & 7:00 pm (discussion to follow 7:00 pm showing) Buckjumping is a 2018 documentary that takes the pulse of present day New Orleans by turning to its dancers, the men and women who embody the rhythm of the city and prove it on the streets every chance they get. Sonny Landreth March 27 FOC FILM SERIES 2019–2020 Tickets $10 Members | $15 General admission Cedric Watson New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint April 17 Film Schedule March 17 | Buckjumping April 22 | 1970 Jazz Fest Films The 2019–2020 Friends of the Cabildo Film Series highlights the rich cultural history of New Orleans and southern Louisiana. The series has 5:30 and 7 p.m. screenings and always has an educational talk after the 7 p.m. showing. Friends of the LSM Exhibit News Cabildo Board of Directors Ruth Burke, Beading with the Big Chief Celebration & Change in LGBT+ President Exhibit Opening New Orleans Ella Camburnbeck, Wednesday, February 12, 6:00–8:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, 6:00–8:00 p.m. Administration Cabildo, Arsenal 2 Presbytere Dr. Charles Chamberlain, Join us for the opening of Beading with the Big Join us for a discussion of LGBT+ celebrations Education Chief, showcasing the work of students in our and their part in shaping experiences, activism, Robert Freeland, inaugural adult beading course taught by Big and visibility in New Orleans. Today, city hall Membership Chief Darryl Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas flies the Pride flag, but the LGBT+ community Larry Schmidt, Hunters. Over the course of eight weeks, students was not always officially recognized or Fundraising explored the history, traditions, and techniques of accepted. Hosted in conjunction with the Mardi Gras Indians and created their own hand- current exhibition Grand Illusions: The History Robi Robichaux, sewn beaded designs. Their creations will be and Artistry of Gay Carnival in New Orleans, Secretary displayed alongside pieces from Chief Montana’s this panel will explore if and how celebrated Gary Dressler, past suits. traditions such as gay carnival and Southern Treasurer This program is generously funded through Decadence changed policies and attitudes in Robert Applebaum M.D. Aroha Philanthropies’ Seeding Vitality Arts in the city. Leaders and scholars of the LGBT+ Sandy Baptie Museums Grant. Light refreshments provided community will address whether an act of revelry Aimée Bell by Friends of the Cabildo. This event is free and can be an act of protest—one that effectively Lauren Brower open to the public. shocks the system and brings about change. Dionne Butler Robert Cangelosi, Jr. Bill Capo History of African Drumming & New New Orleans Folklore Tamra Carboni Orleans Music Tuesday, March 11, 2:00 p.m. Richard Crawford Wednesday, February 19, 2:00 p.m. New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint Gaynell Cunningham New Orleans Jazz Museum Wayne Curtis at the Old U.S. Mint Peter Boutte, Reuben Watts and Tanya Boutte Michael M. Davis Join us at the New Orleans Jazz Museum for a lead the program that delves into New Orleans Marie Delaune lecture and performance exploring the history Folklore that use street rhythms with free Harry Hardin African drumming and its lasting impact on the improvisational melodies. This program is free Lary Hesdorffer music and culture of New Orleans. Performers and open to the public, presented by the New Jeffrey Howard include Peter Boutte and Reuben Watts.This Orleans Jazz Museum and the New Orleans Jazz Ann Irwin program is free and open to the public, presented National Historical Park. Beverly Lamb by the New Orleans Jazz Museum and the New Beth Landry Orleans Jazz National Historical Park. Wendy Lodrig Conor Lutkewitte Barry Mabry If you’re interested in a Alexis Marianne docent-led tour of the Cabildo for Mick McIlwain individuals or groups, please contact Grey Perkins our office at 504.523.3939 Leslie Perrin or Melissa Stein Debbye Vosbein contact Barbara Holdsworth at Tee Zimmerman [email protected]. 2 friendsofthecabildo.org FOC Events 2nd Thursday Lecture Series Free and open to the public New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint 3rd Floor Performance Space Witness to Change: Walking Raddy: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment The Baby Dolls of New Orleans Thursday, February 13 | 6:00 p.m. Thursday, March 12 | 6:00 p.m. Sybil Haydel Morial Kim Vaz-Deville While exiled from her beloved hometown of New Orleans Since 2004, the Baby Doll Mardi Gras tradition in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Sybil Haydel Morial began to has gone from an obscure, almost forgotten practice to a document her remarkable life. In this memoir, she focuses on flourishing cultural force. The original Baby Dolls were groups the sweeping changes—desegregation, the end of Jim Crow, of black women, and some men, in the early Jim Crow era who the fight for voting rights and political empowerment—that adopted New Orleans street masking tradition as a unique transformed the country during her lifetime. form of fun and self-expression against a backdrop of racial discrimination. Today’s Baby Dolls continue the tradition of one of the first street women’s masking and marching groups in the United States. They joyfully and unabashedly defy gender roles, claiming public space and proclaiming through their performance their right to social citizenship. friendsofthecabildo.org 3 Tours & Events Esplanade Ridge Tour Treme Tour Garden District Tour Tuesday, February 4, 10:00am Tuesday, February 11, 10:00 am Saturday, February 15, 22, 29, 10:00 am Thursday, February 27, 10:00 am Monday, March 16, 10:00 am Tickets Tickets Tickets $20 Members $20 Members $20 Members $25 General Admission $25 General Admission $25 General Admission Departure Point Departure Point Departure Point 1452 Jackson Avenue Pagoda Cafe Treme Coffeehouse (riverside corner at Prytania Street) 1430 N. Dorgenois Street 1501 St. Philip Street Most residents and visitors alike know A unique tour of geographic history and This walking tour of Treme provides a rich, of the Garden District as a stunning architectural highlights. Esplanade Avenue detailed perspective on one of the city’s neighborhood full of Greek Revival was designed in the French style of grand oldest and most storied neighborhoods. and Italianate architecture, bounded boulevards as a garden suburb for wealthy Originally known as “back of town,” the by Jackson, St. Charles, and Louisiana Creoles escaping the ‘old city’. old Creole feel of Treme makes it easy Avenues, and Magazine Street. But do you to imagine the early 1800s multicultural know who established the Garden District? Extended block by block from Fort St community formed by immigrants, What part did the NO & Carrollton Charles at the Mississippi River to the free people of color, and refugees from Railroad play? Why do we always hear future City Park, the street was built Saint-Domingue. An important center of tour guides reference “Lafayette” and despite objections of the Bayou Road the city’s African-American and Creole “Livaudais?” Discover the answers to those landowners whose houses were often in culture, Treme is the cherished home of questions and more when exploring the the way. Esplanade would intersect with fourth and fifth generation residents who Garden District with the Friends of the colonial and pre-colonial Native American strive to maintain the area’s cultural and Cabildo. As we unveil the Garden District’s pathways that are still present in the social traditions. We will trace the origin incredible architecture, and the influence tangled street grids. and development of Treme through the of culture, climate, political events, and This new tour will explore by foot a truly amazing nineteenth century architecture famous figures on the area, you will see unique area of the city.
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