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Old New Orleans Rum Distillery Tour
August 13, 2007 - December 31, 2008
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Times: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location:  Old New Orleans Rum, 2815 Frenchmen Street
Phone:  (504) 945-9400
Admission:  $10.00
Celebration Distillation offers tours and tastings at the distillery. Our tours offer a intimate and detailed look at the distillation process from beginning to end. All of our tours conclude with a visit to our tasting room. Become a connoisseur as you experience the subtle flavors of our distinctive rums. On occasion the distillers will offer samples of rums we have yet to bring to market to get your thoughts on the directions they are going.
Surrounded by Water: New Orleans, the Mississippi River, and Lake Pontchartrain
January 26, 2008 - July 12, 2008
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Times: Tuesday - Saturday 9:30 am – 4:30 pm; Sunday 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
www.hnoc.org
Location:  Williams Gallery, 533 Royal Street
Phone:  (504) 523-4662
Admission:  free
Surrounded by Water: New Orleans, the Mississippi River, and Lake Pontchartrain positions natural history alongside human history—examining the roles the river and lake played in New Orleans’s economic, social, and cultural growth, while reflecting upon the effects that the city’s expansion had upon the bodies of water themselves. Surrounded by Water traces the ways in which Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River have formed the physical presence of New Orleans created its commerce, wealth, and recreation; and shaped New Orleans impression around the world.
Palm Court Jazz Band with Topsy Chapman and Lars Edegran
February 20, 2008 - December 31, 2008
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Times: Wednesdays 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
http://www.palmcourtjazzcafe.com
Location:  Palm Court Jazz Cafe, 1204 Decatur St.
Phone:  (504) 525-0200
Join us for a Creole cuisine and live Traditional Jazz entertainment featuring Topsy Chapman and Lars Edegran.
The Museum of Arts Presents - George Rodrigue's Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs and Beyond Katrina
March 1, 2008 - June 8, 2008
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Times: Wednesday Noon until 8:00 p.m; Thursday-Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm
http://www.noma.org
Location:  New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle
Phone:  (504) 658-4100
Come and join us for George Rodrigue's Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs and Beyond Katrina.
The Bachelor in New Orleans
March 12, 2008 - May 28, 2008
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Times: Wednesdays 7:00 pm
Location:  Pirate's Alley Cafe, 622 Pirate's Alley, behind the Cabildo
Phone:  (504) 948-4167
"Few Bachelors in New Orleans really know whether New Orleans is an alcoholic mirage or whether New Orleans drinks are part of a general illusion, including wrought-iron grillwork, impossibly beautiful women, magnolia blossoms, race horses, carnival parades and Mardi Gras, moonlight, and the suggestive music seeping out into the streets from a hundred courtyards. So begins the Bachelor his idiosyncratic guide for the playboy, or playgirl, who visits our city. Having thoroughly enjoyed its first foray into New Orleans-centric material with its production of one-acts by local luminary Brian Sands, Four Humours continues to explore the home turf with The Bachelor in New Orleans, an adaptation of a WWII-era gentleman's guide written by Robert Kinney and adapted and performed by Michael Martin. As the Bachelor continues, smart...albeit besotted and strange...advice is offered on the visitor's proper relations to local landmarks, loneliness, artists and galleries, musicians, food, and romance. More than any American city and now more than ever, we here live in a neverland of what was. Kinney's 1946 guidebook evokes all of what New Orleans is and was and is that holds us all in place. There's little more to say. A compelling yarn, told in an amusing voice, by an actor wearing a snazzy suit, The Bachelor in New Orleans is as simple as theatre gets.
The Old U. S. Mint Presents - Let Your Motto Be Resistance
March 15, 2008 - June 1, 2008
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Times: Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 am- 5:00 pm
Location:  Old U. S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave.
Phone:  (504)568- 6968 or (800)568-6968
Admission:  $6.00 Adults; $5.00 Students , Seniors, and Active Military; Children 12 and under are free
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits explores the history of African American achievement from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the changing roles of photographic portraits. Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits explores the history of African American achievement from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the changing roles of photographic portraiture. The photographs, many by noted photographers and portraying distinguished subjects, establish a sense of place and identity and explore both aesthetic and vernacular styles. Among the subjects are such luminaries as actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson; trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis; legendary singer Nat “King” Cole; performing artist Eartha Kitt; opera legend Marian Anderson; jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong; vocalist Sarah Vaughn; choreographer and dancer Judith Jamison; and Harlem Renaissance poet and writer Langston HughesThe exhibition includes portraits produced by both well-known photographers such as Berenice Abbott, James VanDerZee, Edward Weston, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Carl Van Vechten, and lesser-known or anonymous photographers. The exhibition inaugurates the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture, and features works drawn exclusively from the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.  The exhibition opens to the public this month at the Old U.S. Mint.  The museum encourages the entire family to visit this extraordinary exhibition and to participate in the associated adult and family programs.
The U. S. Mint Presents - Treasures of Napoleon
April 1, 2008 - August 3, 2008
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Times: Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm; Thursdays until 8:00 pm
Location:  The Old U.S. Mint, located at 400 Esplanade Avenue
Phone:  (504) 568- 6968 or 1-800-568-6968
Admission:  $6.00 Adults; $5.00 Students , Seniors, and Active Military; Children 12 and under are free
Napoleon Marches into New Orleans 'Empereur commande "Laissez les bons temps rouler!"(The Emperor commands "Let the Good Times Roll!) Louisiana will at last welcome Bonaparte when Treasures of NAPOLEON comes to the Louisiana State Museum's OLD U.S. MINT in the New Orleans French Quarter from April 6th to August 3rd, 2008. The spectacular traveling exhibition Treasures of NAPOLEON, tells the fascinating story of Napoléon and showcases the world-class art and design of his time. It has already been seen by 125,000 visitors and universally praised. Created from the extraordinary collection of 1st Empire authority and author, Pierre-Jean Chalençon, the exhibit showcases rare, personal belongings of Napoléon I, as well as some of the most famous depictions of him by the greatest artists of the time. While elements of the exhibition have been loaned for major exhibitions around the world, this is the first time these irreplaceable artifacts are being seen in North America. Treasures of NAPOLEON offers visitors an opportunity to see beyond the “legend” of Napoléon Bonaparte to gain an understanding of this complex figure as a man. User-friendly interpretive text and more than 250 objects, framed paintings, prints and documents, as well as furniture from the Imperial palaces, shine a light on the extraordinary life of one of history's pivotal figures.
JazzFest 1970 and 1971 Beauregard Square
April 7, 2008 - June 6, 2008
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Times: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location:  1205 N. Rampart Street
Phone:  (504) 558-6100
Admission:  Free
"Jazzfest 1970 & 1971: Beauregard Square” will feature the first-ever showing of memorabilia from the Jazz & Heritage Archive, commemorating the first two years of Jazz Fest. The show conveys the rich history of the event then known as the New Orleans Jazz Festival & Louisiana Heritage Fair. It features various pieces of memorabilia and documentation that illustrate the challenges of staging what would eventually become one of the top music festivals in the world: photos, posters, ticket stubs, correspondence between the producers and city officials, production invoices and more. The exhibit also features a collection of Noel Rockmore watercolors that illustrate the early days of the festival.
The National WWII Museum Presents - Real to Reel: Hollywood and World War II
April 12, 2008 - October 31, 2008
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Times: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location:  The National WWII Museum, 945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone:  504-527-6012
The National World War II Museum presents Real to Reel: Hollywood and World War II, with a showcase exhibit of select artifacts. Check back for more details.
Longue Vue House and Gardens Presents - Kinder-Garden: “Creep, Crawl and Fly” Drop-In Program
May 27, 2008 - May 28, 2008
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Times: 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Location:  Longue Vue, 7 Bamboo Road
Phone:  (504) 488-5488 ext. 333
Admission:  $10 FLV; $12 Non-members; Siblings discounted; $5.00 for additional adult
Kinder-Garden: “Creep, Crawl and Fly” Drop-In Program Discovery Garden, Shine Only! Children ages 18 mos. – 3 yrs and their accompanying adult are invited to explore the world of insects through age-appropriate activities such as “insect exploration”, sand play, singing, crafts and digging for worms in this hands-on class for young, curious learners.  Pre-registration is NOT required in this drop-in program. Program fee covers one child and one adult.
YLC Wednesday at the Square featuring Montana Skies and Eric Lindell
May 28, 2008
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Times: 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location:  Layfayette Square on St Charles Ave in the CBD accross from Gallier Hall
Phone:  (504) 427-5429
Join us for an outdoor concert series featuring Montana Skies and Eric Lindell.
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