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The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University (NOCGS) is an interdisciplinary, place-based institute that promotes the understanding of New Orleans and the Gulf South region. We offer research fellowships, curate educational experiences, and create new publications that relate the local to the global.

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Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought and the Amistad Research Center proudly invite you to join for an evening of conversation in New Orleans with our 4th Amistad-Rivers Research Resident Alia Farid and the curator and writer Amal Khalaf. On Tuesday, August 29th, Farid and Khalaf will discuss the reverberations between Farid's work in the marshlands of Iraq and her recent discovery of the wetlands of southeastern Louisiana. Join to learn more about Farid and Khalaf's practices, River’s partnership with Amistad Research Center, and the art that collaboration makes possible. Location: The Albert & Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design 1725 Baronne Street, New Orleans, LA 70117 Doors open at 6pm, the conversation will begin promptly at 6:15pm. A short reception will follow. Seating is first-come first-serve. Attendance is free and open to the public, but due to limited seating, RSVP on our Eventbrite link and arrive early to secure your seats. Alia Farid (b. 1985, Kuwait City; lives and works in Kuwait City and San Juan, Puerto Rico) received a BFA from la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (San Juan), an MS in Visual Studies from MIT (Cambridge, MA), and an MA in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Program d'Estudis Independents, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona, Spain). She has presented solo exhibition at Portikus (Frankfurt) and Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam). Recent group shows include participation in the 32rd Bienal de Sao Paulo, the 12th Gwangju Biennale, Sharjah Biennial 14, the 2nd Lahore Biennale, Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2001 at MoMA PS1, and the 2022 Whitney Biennial: Quiet as It's Kept. She is the 2023 recipient of the Hene Onstad Kunstsenter's Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award. Amal Khalaf is a curator, artist, and is currently Director of Programs at Cubitt, London, and Projects Curator-at-Large at the Serpentine Galleries, London. She has commissioned and developed residencies, exhibitions, workshops, and collaborative research projects that address the role of art operating within pedagogy and social urgencies. @followriversinstitute
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ART CALL - Bvlbancha Public Access is seeking content for the Indigenous Gulf Stream media biennial The Indigenous Gulf Stream by Bvlbancha Public Access is a 24-hour streamed media art biennial which celebrates a realistic representation on (and by) contemporary Indigenous communities in the Gulf South through interviews, photography and media art. See info on the 2021 Stream Thanks to the National Performance Network Lagniappe Fund, Bvlbancha Public Access has funding for a multitude of $400 artist commissions for members Gulf South Indigenous communities, or Indigenous people with lived experience in the Gulf South to create new or license existing art for the 2023 Indigenous Gulf Stream. Contributors must be either 1) members US Gulf South Indigenous communities, or 2) Indigenous people with lived experience in the US Gulf South. More Info: bvlbanchapublicaccess.com
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NOCGS and the Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange Day#3: Concluding at Macalester College and Journeying Through the Mississippi Headwaters Participants of Confluence #2, Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange met to discuss best practices and new ideas on how to continue the work together. Confluence #2 ended with a boat trip along the headwaters, and the birthday celebration of Indigenous environmental activist Fern Cloud. We are incredibly grateful to John Kim, Roopali Phadke, Jeremy Meckler of Macalester College. Special thanks to all of the university staff and faculty that supported our journey upriver and all of the environmental activists who continue to inspire us upriver and downriver. @tulaneu @tulaneliberalarts @anthrocommons #gulfsouthopenschool #kinship #riverfamily #summer2023 #headwaters
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NOCGS and the Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange Day#3: Concluding at Macalester College and Journeying Through the Mississippi Headwaters Participants of Confluence #2, Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange met to discuss best practices and new ideas on how to continue the work together. Confluence #2 ended with a boat trip along the headwaters, and the birthday celebration of Indigenous environmental activist Fern Cloud. We are incredibly grateful to John Kim, Roopali Phadke, Jeremy Meckler of Macalester College. Special thanks to all of the university staff and faculty that supported our journey upriver and all of the environmental activists who continue to inspire us upriver and downriver. @tulaneu @tulaneliberalarts @anthrocommons #gulfsouthopenschool #kinship #riverfamily #summer2023 #headwaters
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NOCGS and the Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange Day#2 and #3: Communing Along the Headwaters of the Mississippi River This past May, participants from the Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange made medicine kits and shared plants, herbs, balms, and tinctures from up and down the Mississippi River. We journeyed to Minneapolis' Indian Mounds Regional Park and met with Dr. James Rock, Indigenous Archaeoastronomer and Ethnoastronomer from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Dr. Rock took us on a tour of the park and described Indigenous Cosmology, rights of women, water, and nature. We also had the pleasure of meeting Indigenous activist Fern Cloud, member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Tribe on the Lake Traverse Reservation located in northeastern South Dakota. For more information on the Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange, Fern Cloud, and Dr. James Rock, please check out the link in our bio. #gulfsouthopenschool #plantmedicine #headwaters #mississippiriver #burialgrounds #IndigenousCosmology #asabovesobelow #cheesecurds @tulaneu @tulaneliberalarts @anthrocommons @nolagulf