Seeding The Future
Xavier University of Louisiana Art Gallery, 1 Drexel Dr New Orleans, LA 70125

Open to the Public | Registration required

Seeding The Future expands on P.6 artist Tuan Mami’s Vietnamese Immigrating Garden project and research about Vietnamese immigrant communities across the globe, from Europe and Asia to America. During this community centered activation, Tuan Mami invites the public to gather with elders from New Orleans’ Vietnamese community to share stories and create seed pods as a symbol of hope for people who have been disconnected from their land and culture.

This event is sponsored by the Office of International Education, Xavier University of Louisiana.

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P.6 Catalogue Mixer
Art Conscious, 6601 St Claude Ave, Arabi, LA 70032

Open to the Public | Registration required

Preview the catalogue for Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, the sixth iteration of the city-wide art exhibition Prospect. Attendees will get a sneak peek into the P.6 catalogue alongside contributing writers and have the opportunity to pre-order the publication that will be released in April 2025.

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Reverence to the Refugee featuring Christian Việt Ðinh
Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St, New Orleans, LA 70130

Limited Capacity | Registration required 

An intimate afternoon of Vietnamese music, poetry, and a panel featuring local leaders Christian Việt Ðinh, Cyndi Nguyen, Tap Bui, Khai Nguyen, and Thuy Pham that will share about their work within the Vietnamese community. Desserts and appetizers will be served following the panel.

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Deborah Jack and the Diaphanous Ensemble
UNO St. Claude Gallery, 2429 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117

Open to the Public | Registration required

P.6 Artist Deborah Jack, in partnership with UNO St. Claude Gallery and the Diaphanous Ensemble, invites audiences to contemplate how sound and poetry meld to create our collective memories of home. Jack will lead visitors through an immersive, aural experience of her six-channel video installation accompanied by the experimental, string-forward collective, Diaphanous Ensemble.

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P.6 Artist Brooke Pickett In Conversation with P.6 Co-Artistic Director Miranda Lash
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130

Open to the Public | Registration required

P.6 Artist Brooke Pickett will be in conversation with P.6 Co-Artistic Director Miranda Lash about her series of paintings What To Eat, What to Drink, What To Leave for Poison, showing on the 4th floor of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The seven paintings included in the exhibition center the performance of female domesticity in the face of ecological disaster. Pulling from traditional on womanhood, domesticity, and the concept that a woman’s work is to make hard things beautiful, tolerable, and digestible, the new work addresses themes of climate change, homemaking, materiality, mourning, and rebuilding.

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P.6 Artistic Directors Talk
Georges Auditorium, Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70122

Open to the Public | Registration required

Susan Brennan Co-Artistic Directors Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson discuss and reflect on Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home.

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On Flashing Lights | Sound, Light, and Dance Performance by Brendan Fernandes
Poor Boys Bar, 1328 Saint Bernard Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70116

Free and Open to the Public | Registration encouraged

P.6 Artist Brendan Fernandes will present the US debut of his light and sound installation, On Flashing Lights, originally presented in 2018 as part of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. DJ Bouffant Bouffant, host of Gimme a Reason, will provide a special set as partygoers dance in the uneasy glow of police lights, signaling the historical tensions between law enforcement and queer, immigrant, and racialized communities.

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Memory and Mythmaking: Filipinx American Histories of St. Malo organized by Stephanie Syjuco

Music Box Village, 4557 North Rampart Street, New Orleans, LA 70117
St. Malo Site, St. Malo Indian Mound St. Bernard, LA 70085

Limited Capacity | Registration required

P.6 Artist Stephanie Syjuco, in partnership with Bayou Barkada and Dr. Randy Gonzales, invites you to a panel and excursion examining Syjuco’s project for P.6 and Filipinx and African descended histories.

Syjuco and multimedia artist Alex Abalos will lead a panel at the Music Box Village. This will be followed by an ancestral walk and Filipinx healing ritual led by members of Bayou Barkada in St. Bernard Parish. The program will culminate in a journey to the St. Malo area.

Boat Trip to St. Malo
The program will culminate in a journey to the St. Malo area. Charter boats will be provided by Captain Jimmy Corley and The Waterfowl Specialist. There is limited capacity for the boat trip to St. Malo and 16 spaces will be provided for participants. There is a $65 fee to participate and lunch/drinks will be provided for $15.

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Chimerical Futures | Book Release + Garden Tour + Musical Activation organized by Hannah Chalew

Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Open to the Public | Registration required

This program celebrates the release of P.6 Artist Hannah Chalew’s new artist book Chimerical Futures, which includes Chalew’s recent research, process, and artwork that informed her P.6 installation, Orphan Well Gamma Garden. Books will be available for purchase and pre-ordered books can be picked up at the reception.

As part of the closing reception, art historian Allison Young and Chalew will lead a “garden tour” of the installation; a walking conversation about the work. To close out the reception, harpist and interdisciplinary artist Cassie Watson Francillon will activate Orphan Well Gamma Garden with an immersive sound piece entitled Resonance: Gamma.

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