Crosstown Conversations

Leah Oby invites us to party with the LPO, Violinist Jenna Sherry from the Birdfoot Festival, and Steven Maklansky of Louisiana State Museum

Legendary musician Leo Nocentelli, and from Historic New Orleans Collection, VP Daniel Hammer and inventive artist Xiao Xiao

Queen of New Orleans Soul Irma Thomas and Navigating the City on Two Wheels with Kevin Larmann of the Law Tigers

Bayou Road Merchants: Mark Lawes of Half Shell Oyster Bar, Shana Sassoon from Pagoda Cafe, Alvin Reese of Club Carribbean, Vera Warren Williams of Community Book Store, and Melissa Woods and Michele Burton-Oatis, Owners of CupCake Fairies.

Renewal, Louisiana Churches and the Art of Place

Pastor Mason T. Jack of Mount Bethel Baptist Church, Lafayette-based writer Megan Romer on the importance of giving to churches closer to home, and Architect and Author Lee Ledbetter on his new book, a collection of space, The Art of Space

Mississippi River Breaches, Ooh Pa Pah Do: Losing wetlands and culture in Louisiana

John M. Barry, Professor Gerald Galloway & US Army Corps Colonel Michael Clancy on the state of the city + Judy Hill of What You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire film screening at NOCCA April 9.

70 artists at Historic New Orleans Collection; artist/author Carol Pulitzer, whose Little Theater and Most Likely to Succeed are collections of super-short illustrated stories, Artist Jan Gilbert, and Amanda McFillen Associate Director of Museum Programs at The Historic New Orleans Collection on the new series, Art of the City: Postmodern to Post-Katrina, at THNOC Presented by The Helis Foundation

April 6, 2019 to October 6, 2019

Haley Burns of of Fund 17, Kristyn Tramel, Junior League & Woman Entrepreneur Fellowship Committee, and Artist Keith Sonnier

DDD President Kurt Weigel, Jon Atkinson, CEO of the Idea Village, and Robert Lalka of Tulane's School of Business & Lepage Center; filmmaker Jonathan Isaac Jackson

he Downtown Development District, (DDD) and Creative Alliance of New Orleans, (CANO) present a forum during Idea Village's New Orleans Entrepreneur Week to explore the most effective strategies for combining real estate resources and

creative industries production and programming for revitalizing urban neighborhoods and promoting economic development.

Sharing the road with bicyclists with Urban Planner Robert C. Tannen and this year's Art in Bloom co-chair, Sweet Dupuy, on their upcoming NOMA fundraiser