WEDNESDAY  11/7

6–9p MUSIC & ART
New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude
1st floor art gallery

Bedonna Wakeman, Isabelle Jacobin, Kat Walker and Sula Spirit in YeMaYa Beaded Apron; Photographers: Josephine Sacabo & Kichea Burt; Sculptors: Aimee Farnet Siegel & Gina Laguna.

Refreshments served.

MUSIC BY
6p Nattie
7p Maggie Havens
8p Kat Walker

7–10p POETRY & PIANO
Open House Poetry Salon & Art Exposition

1501 St. Roch

Poets: Heather Tammany, R. K. Powers, Lee Meitzen-Grue, Alexandra Reisner, Emily Ewings-Tramble, Megan Burns and Samantha McFitt e, Sandra Grace Johnson, Laura McKnight, and Roselyn Lionhart. Music by Stella Lithe. Art & Food & Drinks.

THURSDAY 11/8

9a–9p ART GALLERY
New Orleans Healing Center

7–11p MUSIC AT MAISON
Maison, 508 Frenchman

7p Alexandra Scott & the Grapefruits
8p MaryFlynn Prohibiti on Jazz and Blues
9p Irene Sage
10p Gypsy Elise and Royal Blues

FRIDAY 11/9

9a–9p ART GALLERY
New Orleans Healing Center

7p–Midnight WOMEN IN JAZZ
Melvin’s, 2112 St. Claude

7p David and Roselyn
8p Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Band
9p Big Fine Ellen Smith
10p Kim Carson
11p Ruby Moon

8p–Midnight POETRY & PIANO
Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant, 1001 Esplanade

Music by Lady Baby Miss. Poets: Jessica Ruby Radcliffe, Chyana Bwyse Bradley, Gerryl Robinson, Cate Root, Kim Vodicka, Gina Ferrara, Lauren Marie, Melanie Leavitt, Ayanna Molina-Mills, Kate Smash, Beverly Rainbolt, Kelly Jones, Sunday Shae Parker, Trisha Rezende and Elizabeth Garcia.

SATURDAY 11/10

9a–9p ART GALLERY
New Orleans Healing Center

11a–2p POET BOOK SIGNING
Maple Street Book Store – New Orleans Healing Ctr.

Josephine Secabo & Dalt Wonk. Lee Meitzen-Grue.

10a–3p COMMUNITY SEMINARS
New Orleans Healing Center (Room 254)

10a Building Credit in an Uncertain Economy (Ashley M. Aubrey)
Sponsored by ASI Federal Credit Union

11a Civil Rights & Civil Liberti es (Att n. Mary Howell)

Noon Music Royalti es & Copyright Law (Att n. Ashlye M. Keaton)
Sponsored by Sweet Home New Orleans

1p Musician’s Protecti on (Cindy Mayes). Sponsored by American Federati on of Musicians, New Orleans Local 174/496

2p Race Relati ons (Dodie Smith-Simmons)

11a–3p HEALTH FAIR
New Orleans Healing Ctr.

Big Blue Bus – Parking Lot:
Diana Meyers, RN Sponsored by Uptown Lions Club. Diabetes & Heart Exams, Dr. Mary Frances Gardner sponsored by Zonta Internati onal.

Rm # 256: Dental Hygiene sponsored by Smile Gallery. Podiatry Exams & Diabetic Foot Care, Dr. Sheila Washington and Felice Guimont, RN.

4p YEMAYA PARADE
Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant, 1001 Esplanade
to Michalopoulos Studio, 527 Elysian Fields

Starting at Buffa’s and rolling around the Treme, the French Quarter, and the Marigny, ending at Michalopoulos Studio.

7p–MIDNIGHT YEMAYA PARADE AFTER PARTY
Michalopoulos Studio, 527 Elysian Fields

7p Brass Band Jam
8p 30×90
9:30p Lips and the Trips

SUNDAY 11/11

9a–6p ART GALLERY
New Orleans Healing Center

2-4p NIA DANCE
Atria – New Orleans Healing Center

Kate Finlayson presents Nia Dance: a body-mind-spirit fitness & lifestyle practice combining dance, martial arts, yoga and self healing through expressive movement empowering physical, mental, emoti onal & spiritual well-being.

2p–6p LADYFEST FILM FEST
Café Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center

2:00p-2:40p Transcendent Dreams (Amelie Prescott )
2:40-3:00p Discussion after the film with Amelie Prescott

3:00-4:00p Short Films
4:00p-4:20p Discussion with the filmmakers
4:30-5:30p My Louisiana Love – Sharon Linezo Hong

6p–Midnight LADIES SING BLUES
Café Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center

6p Beth Trepagnier
7p Patrice Fisher
8p Judy Spellman
9p Leslie Smith
10p CaryB
11p Felice Guimont