Join us Every third Saturday on our campus to support Black-Owned businesses and Black artists! SATURDAY’S @NOAAM provides a festival-like, family-friendly cultural experience. Including a diverse vendor market, live performances, a guest DJ, food, fellowship, and free museum admission.
This is a free event supported by Greater New Orleans Foundation and their Greater Together Equity Fund.
We invite our neighbors in the Tremé to get to know the museum by joining us for our unique quarterly speaker series that pairs next-generation leaders with seasoned leaders to share a public discussion. Each talk is catered by a local chef who introduces their version of the traditional Creole dessert calas.
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!”
This is a free event series supported by The Helis Foundation
Our quarterly ticketed event that highlights remarkable native New Orleans acts in an intimately styled cabaret experience. Includes full museum access for the evening, and a signature cocktail.
Join us Friday September 29, 2023 from 6-8PM to hear the musings from the spoken word savant Yamali San. Click here to purchase tickets!
6:00-6:30PM Happy Half Hour
6:30-7:30PM Performance
7:30-8:00PM Mix & Mingle
The REVIVAL serves as an annual music/dance festival-like experience. Taking place on Saturday October 14 from 7PM-12AM, the first-ever annual REVIVAL cultural festival calling on the greater New Orleans area to restore true Spirit-body-nature connection through a visceral and emotional experience of the Grand Black Aesthetic on NOAAM’s Bulbancha Lot and Historic Gardens.
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!