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Enjoy the New Orleans African American Museum's lamp-lit gardens nestled in the heart of historic Tremé, and imbibe craft cocktails mixed, shaken, and stirred by New Orleans' favorite local celebrities-turned-bartenders. Save the date for our annual business casual, happy-hour fundraiser taking place Thursday, December 14.
This reawakening of fervor for New Orleans Black culture will feature; spades and dominos tournaments, artisans, vendor marketplace, outdoor lounges (VIP area included), cultural activities and live performances from 504 ICYGRL+ FRIENDS and ANTWIGADEE premiering an original dance party!
We’re highlighting remarkable NATIVE New Orleans acts on the NOAAM grounds in an intimately styled cabaret experience, hear the musings from the spoken word savant Yamali San
Join us for our second Hometown Activation with The Kennedy Center’s Cartography Project! We’re taking things down Bayou Road to the glorious Andre Cailloux Center to celebrate Black Futures with a dance party. This free event will have lounge areas, food by Addis NOLA and sounds from DJ Kuti.
The Kennedy Center’s Cartography Project is a multi-year commissioning project engaging artists from around the nation to map Black dignity. The 2023 iteration of the project will focus on Black Futures by commissioning community composers in cities around the nation. We’re excited to illuminate the work of Charles Lumar II, as our commissioned community composer. Join us to hear Charles in discussion amongst local musical luminaries, admission is free and light faire will be provided.
Join us every third Saturday for local Black Business vendors, farmers, artists and teaching artists. Museum entry is free! This is a great time to view the exhibitions we have on view and to sign up for museum membership! Saturdays @ NOAAM is fun for the whole family. This is an indoor and outdoor event, with ample space for social distancing. Spend your Saturday with us because Black Museums Matter.
The New Orleans African American Museum (NOAAM) is an exciting place to be, and we hope you’ll join us for Sips n Spirits on Thursday, October 20, 2022, from 5:00pm to 8:30pm for an evening of art, music, and craft cocktails in the Museum’s historic gardens. Enjoy NOAAM’s lamplit campus in the heart of Tremé and imbibe specialty cocktails that are mixed, shaken, and stirred by New Orleans' favorite local celebrities-turned-bartenders.
Advance tickets can be purchased here and include cocktails, entertainment, and hors d’oeuvres. Please contact funddevelopment@noaam.org with questions or for more information
Join us every third Saturday for local Black Business vendors, farmers, artists and teaching artists. Museum entry is free! This is a great time to view the exhibitions we have on view and to sign up for museum membership! Saturdays @ NOAAM is fun for the whole family. This is an indoor and outdoor event, with ample space for social distancing. Spend your Saturday with us because Black Museums Matter.
Join us for Conversation, Culture & Calas with Brandan Odums, Leon Waters and Chef Byron Bradley on Tuesday September 20th 6-8PM
Join us on Saturday 9/17!
Saturdays at NOAAM from 11AM-4PM
Come and enjoy Black business vendors, farmers, local artists and community. Gain free admission to the museum, as we are recognizing this moment of unity, freedom, education, and achievement.
Presented by Citizen SHE United on NOAAMS Campus
open to the public
A vision of a future centered in Black existence, join as we celebrate in sunny Treme!
June 18th 2022 | 1pm-4pm
NOAAM is excited to welcome you all back for another edition of Saturdays @ NOAAM! Black business vendors, farmers, and local artists will be in attendance. Our event feature teaching activities from New Orleans based mixed artist JESSCX. and self-taught quilter Cecelia “Cely” Tapplette Pedescleaux!
This month we will be partnering with Ethel & Herman L. Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at University of New Orleans and Black Boys Read.
The Black School presents their 4th annual
Black Love Fest
Saturday, May 21, 2022 at
NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
1418 Governor Nicholls St, New Orleans, LA 70116
1:00PM-6:00PM
Free and open to all who love Black people.
Join us every third Saturday for local Black Business vendors, farmers, artists and teaching artists. Museum entry is free! This is a great time to view the exhibitions we have on view and to sign up for museum membership! Saturdays @ NOAAM is fun for the whole family. This is an indoor and outdoor event, with ample space for social distancing. Spend your Saturday with us because Black Museums Matter.
We invite our neighbors in the Tremé to get to know the museum by joining us for our monthly conversation series, where we serve calas, an old New Orleans tradition, uniquely prepared by a local chef.
Calas is a breakfast fritter mixed with cooked rice, flour, sugar, and spices, and then deep-fried. The word Calas was first printed in 1880, and is derived from African languages, such as the Nupe word kárá, or “fried cake.” African American street vendors sold fresh hot calas in the city’s French Quarter, with the familiar cry, “Calas, belles, calas tout chauds!”
Join us every third Saturday for local Black Business vendors, farmers, artists and teaching artists. Museum entry is free! This is a great time to view the exhibitions we have on view and to sign up for museum membership! Saturdays @ NOAAM is fun for the whole family. This is an indoor and outdoor event, with ample space for social distancing. Spend your Saturday with us because Black Museums Matter.
Join us every third Saturday for local Black Business vendors, farmers, artists and teaching artists. Museum entry is free! This is a great time to view the exhibitions we have on view and to sign up for museum membership! Saturdays @ NOAAM is fun for the whole family. This is an indoor and outdoor event, with ample space for social distancing. Spend your Saturday with us because Black Museums Matter.
We invite our neighbors in the Tremé to get to know the museum by joining us for our monthly conversation series, where we serve calas, an old New Orleans tradition, uniquely prepared by a local chef.
Calas is a breakfast fritter mixed with cooked rice, flour, sugar, and spices, and then deep-fried. The word Calas was first printed in 1880, and is derived from African languages, such as the Nupe word kárá, or “fried cake.” African American street vendors sold fresh hot calas in the city’s French Quarter, with the familiar cry, “Calas, belles, calas tout chauds!”
P.5 Gala After-Party @ NOAAM
10 PM–2 AM
New Orleans African American Museum, 1418 Governor Nicholls St
P.5 Programming partner, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, hosts a closing weekend edition of Foggy Windows, his traveling slow jam party that seeks to answer a simple yet confounding question: “Why doesn’t anyone slow dance anymore?"
Safely spread out across the historic campus garden of the New Orleans African American Museum, the official P.5 Gala After-Party will be soundtracked by two of New Orleans finest, DJ Chinua and Legatron Prime, who will be spinning torrid quiet storm classics, 90s R&B, and seductive Afro-diasporic sounds. Whether lovestruck, lonely or in limbo, come join us as we find sanctuary in each other during these perilous times.
Doors at 10pm, $5 to party.
*To ensure the safety of P.5 visitors, this event has limited capacity. Face masks and proof of vaccination will be required for admission.
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Jason Fitzroy Jeffers
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers is a filmmaker from Barbados. He is the founding director of Third Horizon, an award-winning Caribbean filmmaking collective and film festival in Miami, and is also host of Foggy Windows, a traveling slow jam party and conversation series. Both projects inform Jeffers' programming for Prospect.5, a series of parties and film screenings that explore Black transatlantic rituals of intimacy, ecstasy and community care connecting the Caribbean, Africa and the United States with New Orleans as their nexus.
DJ Chinua
DJ Chinua is a New Orleans based artist and educator interested in facilitating community and connection primarily through the philosophy, politics, music, and culture of the African Diaspora. He’s the founder of and co-sound selector for Ascendance, a monthly zodiac themed dance party that aims to exalt and center the expansiveness of Black and Indigenous people and our identities. An occasional producer and composer of classical music, his other projects include a two year collaboration with Solange Knowles as resident DJ for Saint Heron’s Proclamation dance party series, a one year collaboration with The Arcade Fire as resident DJ for their Krewe du Kanaval celebrations, and a three-year collaboration as resident DJ for DOPEciety’s Couches event series.
Legatron Prime
Legatron Prime, the 7th Ward Sunflower, is a multi-genre DJ, Producer, Event, and Vibe curator. She is 1/3 of New Orleans only monthly women's party, Where My Girls At?, Saturday headliner at The Dragons Den with her weekly jam, PRIMETIME since 2017, resident DJ at Hi-Ho Lounge every 3rd Friday, along with serving as a host and DJ at numerous venues and festivals since getting her professional start in 2015. She emphasizes cultural influence and preservation in New Orleans while working with her colleagues, local brands, and artists to push the city’s music scene forward.
Join us for a special MLK Day Celebration! Featuring special guest Featuring Special Guest, Mr. Jerome “Big Duck” Smith
In celebration, recognition, and acknowledgment of MLK Day, join us with Prospect New Orleans for our free monthly market, supporting Black-owned businesses, farmers, and artists! Featuring sounds from Kuti .
This day also features a conversation between Prospect New Orleans P.5 Artist, Nari Ward and Shani Peters, Co-founder of The Black School, having a conversation about his current and past work, including "Battleground Beacon", currently on view on our Historic Gardens.
Join us for local Black Business vendors, farmers, artists and teaching artists. Museum entry is free! This is a great time to view the exhibitions we have on view and to sign up for museum membership! Saturdays @ NOAAM is fun for the whole family. This is an indoor and outdoor event, with ample space for social distancing. Spend your Saturday with us because Black Museums Matter.
Join us for our last Saturdays @ NOAAM of 2021!!
Tomorrow we are excited to host our monthly festival-like experience, Saturdays @ NOAAM! Join us as we provide a place to connect, learn, and support the cultural community!
This month’s event features an Imagining Workshop by our neighbors, partners, and teaching artists The Black School, sounds by Funke, and a performance by our artists-in-residence, The Maroons ( @3pm) to close out the year.
This is a family event so all ages are welcomed!
We invite our neighbors back in the Tremé to get to know the museum by joining us for our monthly conversation series, where we serve calas, an old New Orleans tradition, uniquely prepared by a local chef.
This month series we’ll be hosting a conversation between Al Jackson of Treme’s Jazz Petit Museum and KnowNolaTour’s Malik Bartholomew. Food and calas will be served by the Chef-in-Residence Indigo Martin of Indigo Soul Cuisine.
Calas is a breakfast fritter mixed with cooked rice, flour, sugar, and spices, and then deep-fried. The word Calas was first printed in 1880, and is derived from African languages, such as the Nupe word kárá, or “fried cake.” African American street vendors sold fresh hot calas in the city’s French Quarter, with the familiar cry, “Calas, belles, calas tout chauds!”
Al Jackson grew up in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, and has made it his life's work to study New Orleans' musical history. After working on many other projects all over the world (six years in the U.S. Air Force, data analysis to help create the Saturn IB rocket, and time in the New Orleans city government), Al turned his attention to achieving his long-time dream: opening a museum dedicated to the history of 4,000 years of People, Culture, Conflicts, Music and Musical Instruments that created the sound of Jazz in New Orleans. As America's oldest integrated neighborhood, Treme has always been an important center of African-American and Creole culture; New Orleans’ beating heart for brass bands, Mardi Gras Indians, and of course, the jazz that is the life blood pulsing through the city.
Malik Bartholomew
Malik Bartholomew is a native African Orleanian who serves his hometown as a historian, photographer, researcher, tour guide, master story teller, radio co-host, community griot & cultural curator. He has studied history his entire life and is a proud graduate of Dillard University where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Post-graduation he has since spent countless of hours in the various archives in the city exploring and learning more about the unique traditions and history of the city of New Orleans. Malik has an undying passion for all things “New Orleans” and remains committed to exploring, researching, learning and most importantly sharing the unique history, rich culture and distinctive qualities of the city of New Orleans.
Indigo Soul Cuisine
The Soul Cuisine offers plant based pleasures cultivated and created to feed the soul. Inspired by Indian, Asian, African, Latin American, & Middle Eastern cuisines. Being delivered with a modern day and Creole touch to be completed with nourishment within the mind and full vitality within the body. Combining art & science bringing euphoria to every dish and letting food be thy medicine.
Conversations, Culture and Callas is presented in part by The Helis Foundation
Join us and our partners and neighbors Sprouts Organic Cafe next Saturday for a relaxing and fun day of supporting local Black-owned businesses. Featuring a DJ set by Felice Gee, performance by The Maroons, and activities for families, taught by artist Soraya Jean-Louis.
All visitors, regardless of vaccination status, are required to wear masks while visiting The New Orleans African American Museum. NOAAM reserves the right to limit the number of visitors based on social distancing practices.
New Orleans African American Museum + Fùnké in association with
Welcome to the Afrofuture: The Matrix of Creativity: Where the River Meets the Sea presents…
Dance is a form of prayer; a means of release. It is our way and always has been our vehicle for spiritual transformation. On this night, we celebrate life and fellowship all while being fully present in our bodies yet transcending the woes of the day to day routine. Let the vibe seduce your senses. Come lose yourself and find your soul. Come and IDAPO.
Featuring:
Salah Ananse [Atlanta] Auraluxe Music
with local support by
Live Performance by Charm Taylor
Cuisine by Chef Aiji
Hosted by
Tiffani Sheriff [Firm Musings]
The next Saturdays @ NOAAM is on October 16th, 11-4 pm. Visit our campus in Treme and support Black-Owned businesses and institutions! Local Black vendors, farmers, and artists will be in attendance. This is a free event so, we are encouraging our patrons to become a New Orleans African American Museum member or renew your membership because you know that Black Museums Matter, especially now.
Join us for a dynamic dialogue with Brenda Marie Osbey & Kristina Kay Robinson, movers and shakers of our creative community, and a cooking demo by Chef Indigo. To keep our community safe during Covid, this will be a livestream event visible on our instagram page @noaamtreme.
Saturdays @ NOAAM
The next Saturdays @ NOAAM is August 21st. Visit our campus in Treme and support Black-owned businesses and institutions! Enjoy a day outdoors with live music, art, community, and teaching workshops by this month’s partners The Black School.
This is a FREE event so, we are encouraging our patrons to join the New Orleans African American Museum or renew your membership because as always, Black Museums Matter.
Since our re-opening in April 2019 we’ve hosted over 75 events. See photos and learn more in our Exhibitions and Events Archive
New Orleans African American Museum
1417-1418 Governor Nicholls
New Orleans, Louisiana 70116
504-218-8254 info@noaam.org
