You’re invited to a morning of mini-float building, refreshments, and fair favorites with P.5 Artist EJ Hill at Joe Brown Park, where his multimedia installation, Rises in the East, is located. This is a family friendly and all ages event. 

To ensure the safety of P.5 visitors, face masks are required for admission.

About Rises in the East:

Focusing on Black leisure and community, EJ Hill’s Prospect.5 contribution centers New Orleans East’s Six Flags Jazzland, which opened in 2000 and shut its doors after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Viewing the park’s closure as the loss of space for Black joy, Hill researched what happened to the now defunct theme park and what plans are in store for its future. Particularly taken by the Big Easy Ferris Wheel, a massive and iconic structure, Hill used a gondola, or enclosed seat, from this ride as the centerpiece of his sculpture installed in New Orleans East.

He chose to place it in Joe W. Brown Park, because it is a space where Black residents continue to play, connect, and celebrate. This sculpture, Rises in the East, is a monument to the recent history of New Orleans and to the existence, persistence, and necessity of everyday pleasures. Presented by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Open Society Foundations.

Join us at Studio Be, the famed creative hub of Brandan "Bmike" Odums, to celebrate the closing of Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow. The P.5 Gala is our sole fundraising event during the three-year exhibition cycle. The evening will honor individuals and groups who have made important contributions to New Orleans’ contemporary art community and to Prospect, and will include an incredible live performance by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, and food from the city’s top chefs.

*Please note that this event is ticketed and will require proof of full vaccination for admission.

To close the presentation of her multichannel installation, Play Me Home, on view at Xavier University, P.5 Artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden will do a reading of her feature-length film script. This will be followed by a live performance in the exhibition gallery from the New Orleans-based Original Pinettes Brass Band, the city’s only all-female brass band. Advance RSVP required.

To ensure the safety of P.5 visitors, this event has limited capacity. Face masks and proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours are required for admission.

Tiona McClodden’s Play me home is presented by the VIA Art Fund.

For Prospect.5, Eric-Paul Riege has created a massive mixed-media installation, titled +, that celebrates his Diné, or Navajo, heritage. The installation will be activated by the artist at the close of the exhibition, when he will don the cloaks within the artwork for a four-hour performance. Guests are welcome to come in and out of the CAC galleries to experience the performance over its duration.

To ensure the safety of P.5 visitors, this event has limited capacity. Face masks and proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours are required for admission.

Join us for a Greek blessing of P.5 Artist Anastasia Pelias’ It was my pleasure, performed by Father George of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral. It was my pleasure is a site responsive installation sited at Capdevielle Place Park. The blessing will take place at 12pm; refreshments will be served.

Join us for the unveiling of Simone Leigh’s newest public artwork, Sentinel (Mami Wata), a monumental sculpture that is an homage to history and continued presence of traditions of the African diaspora in New Orleans.

Join us at the New Orleans Jazz Museum to experience the final performance of P.5 Artist Josh Kun’s project “Over and Over the Waves,” exploring the legacy of the 1884 visit of Encarnación Payen’s 8th Cavalry Mexican Military Band to New Orleans. This performance will feature performances by Mariachi Jalisco and the Over and Over the Waves Ensemble, a group of incredible local musicians led by Grammy-award winning musician Nicholas Payton. This project is sponsored by Pan-American Life Insurance Group.

Important Note: To ensure the safety of P.5 visitors, this event has extremely limited capacity and requires advance RSVP. Face masks and proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours are required for admission. For all P.5 visitors who do not have an advance RSVP, please tune into the event via: https://www.facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum/.

P.5 Artist Adriana Corral and P.5 Co-Artistic Director Diana Nawi will be in conversation with New Orleans cultural stakeholders and activists, including Andrea Andersson, Tori Bush, Patty Ferguson, and Dr. Laura Kelley, to discuss her project for Prospect.5, which evolved after Hurricane Ida as a means for responding to the city. 

Andrea Andersson serves as Founding Director and Chief Curator of Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, based in New Orleans. Her most recent publications include Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye (co-imprinted by Rivers, Siglio Press, and CAAM) and Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch (co-imprinted by Yale University Press and The Bronx Museum).

Tori Bush is a writer, teacher, and PhD candidate. She is co-editor of The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing from University of Florida Press.

Patty Ferguson-Bohnee is a member of the Point-Au-Chien tribe and a clinical professor of law, focusing on Indian law, election law and policy matters, voting rights, and status clarification of tribes. 

Dr. Laura Kelley is an immigrant and ethnic historian at Tulane University and section editor for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities KNOWLA Project. Author of The Irish in New Orlean, Kelley has also published articles in Louisiana History as well as online collections.

Important Event Guidelines from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art:
Anyone 12 years of age and older must provide proof of at least two doses of an approved COVID vaccine or a negative PCR test within 72 hours to access. We will accept original vaccine cards, the LA Wallet app or high-resolution photos of both sides of your vaccine card as proof of vaccination. Physical copies or a photo of a negative PCR test will also be accepted. Masks are required.

Now in its fifth iteration, Prospect has been under the artistic direction of several trailblazers in the art world today. Join P.5 Co-Artistic Directors Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi in conversation with P.3 Artistic Director and Director of Pérez Art Museum Miami, Franklin Sirmans, as they discuss New Orleans, the history of this public triennial, and the key threads that tie their exhibitions together. This event is taking place in the Patrick F. Taylor Library at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Doors at 10:30am, discussion at 11am. Advance RSVP required.

Important Event Guidelines from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art:
Anyone 12 years of age and older must provide proof of at least two doses of an approved COVID vaccine or a negative PCR test within 72 hours to access. We will accept original vaccine cards, the LA Wallet app or high-resolution photos of both sides of your vaccine card as proof of vaccination. Physical copies or a photo of a negative PCR test will also be accepted. Masks are required.

Join Mastadonte, the general contractors of Kevin Beasley’s garden, in the Lower Ninth Ward for a tour. They will discuss the plants, site features, and process of working with Beasley to develop 1741 Forstall St. from a vacant lot to a blooming garden.

To ensure the safety of P.5 visitors, this event has limited capacity and face masks are required for admission.

As part of Prospect.5 Yesterday we said tomorrow, Prospect collaborated with writers and artists from across the country to create the catalog for the exhibition. Join some of the brilliant minds behind this beautiful publication, including: L. Kasimu Harris, Thomas J. Lax, and Kristina K. Robinson, as they discuss key themes presented in their written and visual contributions as well as the exhibition at large. Doors at 5:30 PM, panel at 6 PM. Advance RSVP required.

To ensure the safety of P.5 visitors, this event will be outdoors and has limited capacity. Face masks and proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours are required for admission.

Begin your new year with love and prosperity by joining Yeye Luisah Teish for an Oshun ritual in Congo Square on Sunday, January 9, 2022, 3–4pm.

An ordained priestess and author of many books, including the beloved New Orleans classic “Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Personal Charms and Practical Rituals.”

We are honored to host Yeye Luisah Teish in New Orleans in collaboration with P.5 artists, The Neighborhood Story Project, and their exhibit on view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art through January 23, 2022.

From The Neighborhood Story Project:

Oshun Mama Grande, the big Mother, has the power to share medicine from each stage of life. As the Maiden, Oshun inspires us to expand and embody the new vision, to make new choices, and to create new and more beautiful containers for ideas, thoughts, and concepts of the future. As the Mother, her nurturance encourages us to develop the skill we need to reclaim our power, sovereignty, creativity, and connection. And as an elder, she shares her wisdom.

During this ceremony, we will engage in practices to help release burdens and send them downriver, away from our present attention. The ritual will include a recommendation for creating a decorative box for Oshun that reflects your aspirations and desires.

This event is free and open to the public. The ceremony will start on time so please be on time and you are welcome to bring the following ritual supplies for the altar:

• A piece of white, gold, or green cloth for Oshun

• Spring water

• A jar of honey

• A piece of a sweet fruit such as orange, melon, strawberries, etc.

• A few seeds (pumpkin, squash, corn, sunflower that will be planted in Spring.)

• Fresh flowers

• Pen and paper

• Small musical instruments (Drum, rattle, bell are all good)

This event is co-sponsored by the Neighborhood Story Project, the Temple of Light Ilé de Coin Coin, and the Congo Square Preservation Society.

Please make sure you bring a mask and socially distance to keep our community safe.

Important: The rain plan location for this event is the New Orleans African American Museum, 1418 Governor Nicholls St, New Orleans, LA 70116. Any changes to the event location will be reflected on the prospect5.org website by midnight on Saturday, January 8, 2022.

Join us at the Marigny Opera House on Saturday, December 18th for “Temple of Color and Sound: Viva la Republica”, a contemplative conversation and installation by P.5 Programming Partner Kristina Kay Robinson.

”Temple of Color and Sound” is an itinerant gathering, ritual, and contemplative performance space. A place for spiritual and intellectual refuge and recreation; its proprietor, Maryam de Capita is an artist, mystic, and entertainer from Republica, a mythological free Black republic on the Gulf Coast of North America. With its capital located at the mouth of the Mississippi River, Republica has played an important role in the struggle for Black autonomy in the Western Hemisphere by using sound as its primary organizing principle and revolutionary strategy. Amid ever present natural and man-made threats to the security and autonomy of all the people of the Gulf Coast, Maryam presents her philosophy about the use of objects, text, and the chops and loops of popular and sacred music as self actualizing modalities and vehicles toward collective liberation. 

Doors open at 6pm, conversation begins at 7pm.

To ensure the safety of all guests, this event has limited capacity and Covid-19 protocols have been implemented. Please arrive on time to secure your seat with proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative PCR test from within 72 hours.

Prospect.5 Satellite Program Artist, Sarrah Danziger, has been documenting New Orleans community members for over a decade. In “Listen to New Orleans'' (@listentoneworleans) Danzinger features nine stories from residents that explore how the deep history of New Orleans’s past is shaping its present.

Danziger has embedded weatherproof signs throughout New Orleans at each story location. Listeners can dial the phone numbers on the signs to hear oral histories from long-term residents of New Orleans about the place at which they stand that no longer exists, and what was lost as a result. 

Join us on Saturday December 11th, at The Tigermen Den (@the_tigermen_den), 3113 Royal St, from 7–9:30pm, to celebrate the launch of “Listen to New Orleans” with a ONE NIGHT ONLY pop-up exhibit and reception. The photo exhibit will feature portraits of each “Listen to New Orleans” storyteller. Please bring headphones for a more immersive experience!

To ensure the safety of visitors, this event has limited capacity and proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours are required for admission.

Learn more about “Listen to New Orleans” at listentoneworleans.com.

*Please note the adjusted event time is 7–9:30pm.

For the past decade Dawoud Bey has been making photographs and video works that re-envision aspects of the African American past and bring that history into a contemporary conversation. The artist will share his recent Prospect.5 project, In This Here Place, which is currently on exhibit in the Scovern Gallery at The Historic New Orleans Collection, and join Brian Piper, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator of Photographs at the New Orleans Museum of Art, in a conversation about his ongoing history-based work. The program will open with a premier screening of Bron Moyi’s short film, “Dawoud Bey: The Landscape of Slavery.”

The Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC) is hosting a reception immediately following the lecture in the Tricentennial Wing at 520 Royal Street in the French Quarter. Bey’s exhibition, In This Here Place, will be open for viewing. In the exhibit, Bey visits Louisiana plantation landscapes that were witness to slavery-era violence. The work includes large-format black-and- white photographs and Evergreen, a multimedia installation accompanied by music performed by Imani Uzari. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served.

Lecture at Toulouse Theater: 2–2:30 PM

Reception at the HNOC: 3:30–5 PM

Advance RSVP is required.

College and university students in New Orleans are invited to join P.5 Artist, former Chairman of the Art Department, and current Professor at Xavier University of Louisiana, Ron Bechet, for a Q & A conversation. Following an open house viewing of the Newcomb Art Museum, students are invited to participate in a Q & A moderated by Gabrielle Tolliver (XULA '20).

Students are encouraged to submit their questions to Ron Bechet regarding his life and career as a New Orleans-born visual artist, longtime educator, and Prospect.5 exhibitor at: bit.ly/qandaronbechet.

The talk will take place from 6 – 7:30 PM on Wednesday, December 1st, at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University. To ensure the safety of P.5 visitors, this event has limited capacity and proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours are required for admission.

It was my pleasure is a multimedia site-specific installation by Prospect.5 artist Anastasia Pelias. Sited at Capdevielle Place Park at Esplanade Avenue and Crete Street (once the center of a thriving Greek community in New Orleans), the work was inspired by the Oracle of Delphi, a woman who reigned for a thousand years as the key advisor to the Greek empire. It was my pleasure evokes the spiritual and divine feminine through a multi-sensory experience, creating a meditative space in the middle of urbania.

Join us on Sunday, November 14, in commemoration of the installation and for a femme-produced night of art, music, dance, literature, and tarot featuring: Sultana Isham, paris cyan cian, Syrita Steib, Prophestace, Amanda Davis, and Anastasia Pelias.

Refreshments courtesy of the Cocktail Goddesses of Turning Tables. This event will take place at Capdevielle Place Park, Esplanade Ave. & Crete St., New Orleans, LA 70119. No RSVP required.

Looking to the enduring cultural connections between New Orleans, the Caribbean and Africa, "We Outside" explores transatlantic masquerade and processional traditions as pathways to collective love and liberation in the face of state, sexual and racial oppression. The people we come to know through these films take their churning emotions and histories and externalize them—loudly, proudly—by taking to the streets en masse, adorning themselves in elaborate costumes, or both.

Curated by P.5 Programming Partner Jason Fitzroy Jeffers of Third Horizon Film Festival and presented in partnership with Prospect.5 and the 32nd annual New Orleans Film Festival, this screening will be followed by a Q&A with Vashni Korin, director of "You Can't Stop Spirit", Shannon Paxton of the Wild Tchoupitoulas Baby Doll Gang, and Cinnamon Black of the Million Dollar Baby Dolls.

Featuring the short films:

Peau De Chagrin / Bleu De Nuit, Director: Baloji

This video by acclaimed Belgian-Congolese rapper and musician Baloji is based on an old Congolese wedding ceremony, in which a couple stands in front of a vegetal installation, a Pygmy tradition.

Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical, Director: Rhea Storr

Junkanoo—a carnival-like form of celebration in the Bahamas is a culture with innovative costume designs. Aesthetic and political intertwine as we follow the Shell Saxon Superstars in the year-long production of costumes. Here is Black radical imagination, a resistance, a uniquely Bahamian identity. Who is archiving Junkanoo for future generations?

Aquí, Director: Carlos Mario

Using recent events in Puerto Rico as its point of departure, Aquí is an intimate and rigorous exploration of political protest as an affective space.

You Can't Stop Spirit, Director: Vashni Korin

Dating back to the 19th Century, the emergence of the Baby Dolls is deeply controversial. Some women associate the tradition with prostitution and the need to create networks of protection and community. For others, the Baby Dolls grew from a tradition of distinguished and highly respected women. In a broad sense, masking culture is an alternative social space where people can express themselves through activities that are normally considered socially unacceptable. On Mardi Gras, Black women experience a new freedom; one in which they are able to reclaim culture, tradition and freedom while challenging society's perception on how Black women are to act and exist in the world.

This event will take place at The Broadside, 600 N Broad St, New Orleans, LA 70119. Advance RSVP is required for admission.

Join us for the Opening Reception of the Prospect.5 Satellite Program at the Beaubourg Theatre followed by an after party. Advance RSVP and proof of vaccination or negative COVID test are required for admission to the Beaubourg Theatre.

The Prospect.5 Satellite Program illuminates the New Orleans–based individuals, collectives, galleries, and other arts producers that contribute to the city’s rich cultural ecosystem. The Satellite initiative for Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow features seven projects—exhibitions, installations, encounters, and provocations—in different venues across the city. Selected from a call for proposals for local individuals and groups, these projects creatively examine and present issues both contemporary and historical that resonate in New Orleans, and universally.

Join us in celebrating our P.5 Satellite Artists!

SCHEDULE

6:30 PM – 8 PM: Reception at Beaubourg Theatre

8 PM – 10 PM: After Party at Beaubourg Theatre

Join us as we celebrate the P.5 presentation at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art with an evening of song, dance, and remembrance, curated by P.5 Artists The Neighborhood Story Project and Ilé de Coin-Coin. The Museum’s galleries will be open throughout the evening. Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours are required for admission.

Reception begins at 7 PM. Performance at 8 PM.

Join us for an Open House celebration of Prospect.5 at UNO Gallery, Crescent Park, 3162 Dauphine Street and the Happyland Theater. Visitors can explore the various exhibitions on their own and order lunch from nearby resturants, including Alma, or on-site food trucks at the UNO Gallery. Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test are required for admission to all venues.

Celebrate the opening of the P.5 presentation at the New Orleans African American American Museum (NOAAM), followed by a conversation with P.5 Artistic Directors, Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi, and NOAAM's Executive Director, Gia Hamilton. Visitors can explore the exhibition on their own and order lunch from on-site food trucks. This event will take place at the New Orleans African American Museum. Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test is required for admission.

Celebrate the opening of the P.5 presentation at the New Orleans African American American Museum (NOAAM), followed by a conversation with P.5 Artistic Directors, Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi, and NOAAM's Executive Director, Gia Hamilton. Visitors can explore the exhibition on their own and order lunch from on-site food trucks. This event will take place at the New Orleans African American Museum. Advance RSVP and proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test are required for admission.

Miami-based Barbadian filmmaker and writer Jason Fitzroy Jeffers will emcee and host music provided by New Orleans DJs, Innerversions and Legatron Prime, during a special presentation of Foggy Windows. Foggy Windows is a slow dance party and conversation series that seeks to answer a simple question: “Why doesn’t anybody slow dance anymore?" Come dance the night away as we re-embrace each other in these strange times and celebrate New Orleans' long history of making the most spirited of transatlantic connections. This event will take place at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.

Jason Fitzroy Jeffers is a Miami-based filmmaker and writer from Barbados whose work focuses on giving voice to the often-marginalized stories of the Caribbean and the wider tropics. As a journalist, his work has appeared in The Miami Herald and American Way and on The Intercept. As a filmmaker, he has produced award-winning shorts such as Papa Machete and Swimming in Your Skin Again that have screened at film festivals such as Sundance, BlackStar, TIFF, Sheffield and more. The most recent, T, was the 2020 winner of the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at Berlinale. He is also co-founder and co-executive director of the Miami-based filmmaking and creative collective Third Horizon, which stages the annual Third Horizon Film Festival, a showcase of cinema from the Caribbean, its diaspora, and other underrepresented spaces in the Global South. It was named one of the “25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” in 2019 and 2021 by MovieMaker Magazine.

Innerversions (fka DJ Chinua) is a New Orleans based DJ and event curator interested in facilitating community and connection through live events and global sounds. His projects include a two year collaboration with Solange Knowles as resident DJ for Saint Heron’s Proclamation dance party series, a two-year collaboration with Arcade Fire as resident DJ for their Krewe du Karnaval celebrations, and ongoing collaborations with DOPEciety as resident DJ for Couches. He is also the founder and co-sound selector for Ascendance, a monthly zodiac themed dance party.

Sage Edgerson or DJ Legatron Prime's slogan is “Spinning Black Girl Magic,” and she indeed spins a "For Us, By Us" inspiring vibe. One of five 2018 OffBeat Magazine Best Of The Beat “Best DJ” Nominees, she has held numerous residencies, including her weekly Saturday night groove at The Dragons Den coined "Primetime" (est. 2017). You've probably have seen her at The Saint, Ace Hotel, or Hi-Ho Lounge. DJ Legatron Prime has played at festivals such as Atlanta's A3C, Austin's SXSW, and Essence Music Festival for corporate brands like Pandora Radio, Sirius XM, Google, and local brands including Abstract NOLA and Raire Label. The style of Legatron Prime is all about curating a wide variety of sounds for the culture and community that impacts, uplifts, and pushes forward!

To ensure the safety of Prospect.5 visitors, this event has limited capacity and Covid-19 protocols have been implemented. Free advance RSVP and Covid-19 vaccination or a negative PCR test from within 72 hours are required for admission.

Join us for the opening reception of the Prospect.5 presentation at the CAC New Orleans followed by a dance party. This event will take place at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.

To ensure the safety of P.5 visitors, this event has limited capacity and Covid-19 protocols have been implemented. Free advance RSVP and Covid-19 vaccination or a negative PCR test from within 72 hours are required for admission.

Join us for a walkthrough and commentary of the Prospect.5 installations led by the Artistic Directors, Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi. This event will take place at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.

To ensure the safety of P.5 visitors, this event has limited capacity and Covid-19 protocols have been implemented. Free advance RSVP and Covid-19 vaccination or a negative PCR test from within 72 hours are required for admission.

Join us for a toast and the unveiling of P.5 artist, Anastasia Pelias' site-specific installation. It was my pleasure is a sculpture that responds to feminist histories of spirituality and power, through a meditation on ancient Greek history that centers the Oracle of Delphi, a woman who, for over a thousand years, foretold the future for individuals and heads of state who travelled to seek her counsel. This event will take place at Capdevielle Place Park, which is located at the intersection of Esplanade Avenue and Crete Street.