AC23 - Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge

Join host Pam Bordelon as she visits with Karen Soniat, the new executive director of the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, who is now back in Baton Rouge after several years in New Orleans working with the National World War II Museum. She's excited about her first LASM Gala -- Party in the Valley of the Kings, which takes place Oct. 4.

Join host Pam Bordelon as she talks with Baton Rouge native Louis Herthum about his upcoming role in the Netflix hit, The Night Agent, which is supposed to hit the screen in early 2025. They also talk about growing up in Red Stick and his 50-plus year career as an actor.

Join jazz aficionados, Arts Council CEO Jonathan Grimes and Mike Esneault, our director of arts education as well as an award-winning composer and jazz pianist, for an insider's glimpse and listen into the upcoming River City Jazz Masters Series! You don't want to miss this one!

For the September Alvin Batiste Jazz Society Listening Room, two Baton Rouge jazz greats are celebrating 40 years of making music together. Join host Pam Bordelon as she visits with pianist Willis Delony and bass player Bill Grimes as they take a stroll down memory lane and talk about this special anniversary collaboration.

In honor of Lafayette native and former LSU great Mondo Duplantis’ gold medal-winning pole vault in the just completed Olympics in Paris, we’re replaying host Pam Bordelon’s conversation with filmmaker Brennan Robideaux about his film, Born to Fly, the intimate story of Mondo and his rise to fame from child prodigy to the greatest pole vaulter of all time. His jump of 6.25m (that’s more than 20 feet!) was the ninth time he's broken the world record.

Host Pam Bordelon sits down with Callie Smith and Sarah Nansubuga on the project they're conducting in conjunction with the LSU Museum of Art's Clementine Hunter exhibition. They have been conducting oral history interview with members of Hunter's family, the results of which will eventually become part of LSU's T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History’s digital library.

In a very special iteration of the Alvin Batiste Jazz Society, local bass great George Bell, trumpet; Mike Esneault, piano; Bill Grimes, bass; and Jonathan Grimes, drums, serve as the house band for any musicians who want to join them for what promises to be an amazing gig.

The Little Girl at the Bottom of the Picture is the heart-warming, immersive story of college sweethearts Edie and Jeremy White’s transformational journey to meet her biological family after a submission to Ancestry.com drops a bomb in her lap. The two sit down with host Pam Bordelon and share more of this epic in this episode of AC23

Meet the two new co-artistic directors of Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre as host Pam Bordelon visits with Rebecca Acosta and Jonna Cox, both of whom started dancing at a very young age and have big plans to carry out the legacy they've inherited.

Original Air Date: 07/21/2024 - Arts for EveryBody project director Mike Weary and participating artists, dancer/choreographer Shamira Gatz and mandala artist Aruna Modgill visit with host Pam Bordelon about their respective Arts for Everybody projects. Arts for EveryBody is a day-long, national art-making campaign demonstrating how the Arts can lead to healthier people and communities.