About Local Lagniappe

Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home features themes that contain an introspective, reflective view on New Orleans and the Gulf South region. The origins of the word “Lagniappe” articulate the multi-lingual, multicultural and cosmopolitan nature of Prospect’s home Bvlbancha; Choctaw for “the place of many tongues. French-speaking Louisianians coined the term “lagniappe” to describe a small gift, an unexpected or direct benefit. The word is understood to have Quechua origins. La ñapa refers to something that is added.

This Prospect season, we encourage you to truly understand New Orleans as “harbor” and “home”. It is a place where people from all over the world see themselves. From the architecture to the multi-colored homes, to internationally, nationally, and regionally inspired cuisine to performative public art manifestations, New Orleanians find community. Despite challenges related to the fragile coastline and extractive petrochemical facilities, we inspire to innovate in creating oyster reefs to build land, we worship in various forms of sacred and secular rituals to transcend and revel in our earthly existence and each other, and we serve as a hub connecting the Global South and the Caribbean with the rest of the United States.

This season, Prospect invites you to enjoy the myriads of sites and venues where you will view P.6 artists and take in your surroundings more profoundly by visiting the following organizations and art galleries in the greater New Orleans area. The list contains information on art galleries, environmental activist institutions, and all other organizations related to art, dance, and theater. We are grateful to our visitors and to the city of New Orleans. The Local Lagniappe List will serve as your guide to experience New Orleans outside of P.6 and seek an intimacy and awareness of the place we call “home” and the people who make it a gift.

Local Lagniappe Organizations