ArtSpot Productions

Our partners at Bar None are presenting several events for Black August. Don't miss!
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Susan Burton to sign copies of her groundbreaking book! Susan Burton is a visionary, inspirational leader of the criminal justice reform movement, author of award-winning memoir BECOMING MS. BURTON, and founder of A New Way of Life Reentry Project (ANWOL).  ANWOL's approach to reentry is internationally recognized as an innovative model that creates wel...

GND Part Four: The Road to Damascus Our newest original production is THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS.  The piece draws on our artistic director Kathy Randels’ experiences—growing up in her father's Southern Baptist church; and learning from and directing the stories of the dozens of incarcerated women who have been members of The LCIW Dram...

GND Part Three: ARCH Over the last two-plus years, we have been engaged in a deep partnership with BAR NONE by Design and the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office on the creation of a new organization entitled ARCH (Arts, Racial Justice, Culture and Healing), an Arts Department that will be manifested year round at the Orlea...

GND Part Two: Mama Glo Projects Today's GiveNOLA Day feature is the one and only Gloria "Mama Glo" Williams.  Gloria served the longest sentence of any woman in the history of Louisiana at 52 years.  She joined the LCIW Drama Club right after she was released from 12 years of solitary confinement (or "lockdown").  She became a ...

GND Part One: The LCIW Drama Club Over the next few days, as we prepare for GiveNOLA Day, we will be sharing some videos about the various projects, programs and partnerships your GiveNOLA Day donations could support this upcoming year.  We are focusing our efforts this year on "reimagin[ing] our criminal legal system” (in the wo...

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Choose your ⏰ to GIVENOLA on May 7! GiveNOLA Day 2024 is Tuesday, May 7, when nonprofit organizations throughout the Greater New Orleans region will make a collective effort to raise funds for their life-enriching programs.  As always, we encourage you to give what you can, and whether you have supported ArtSpot in the past or not, w...

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This week: Nita & Zita documentary, and Earth Day panel! This Wednesday evening, please join us at NOMA when we get our first chance to see a brand new, one of a kind documentary honoring two of our favorite 20th century NOLA muses.  Filmmaker Marci Darling tells the story through the lens of her own background as a burlesque dancer, so intrigued by the ...

Holy Warriors Concerts this Saturday; and Giving Opportunities ArtSpot Productions is happy to be serving as fiscal sponsor for Rob Florence's play HOLY WARS.  This weekend, the Holy Warriors will play the score composed for the play, along with some other classics, seasonal and otherwise, for two shows on Saturday, December 9 to benefit the André Cailloux Ce...

THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS is going on tour! ArtSpot Productions is excited to be taking our newest performance THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS (as told by Grandmother to Little Red) on tour in November.  We'll be starting with two performances in New Orleans, this time at our home church of St. Charles Ave Baptist, in partnership with The St. Charles C...

Thank you, and Ocean Filibuster! We are often reminded of our wealth in friendships and love.  The lovely water feature in the photo above is just one highlight of the beautiful grounds by which we are currently surrounded, thanks to the generous offering of some of those dear friends.  We feel similarly blessed by everyone who g...

Thank you ArtSpot Family! We made it to our Give NOLA Day Goal yesterday: $5026! And the entire day yielded almost $8million for almost 1000 organizations. We deeply appreciate all of you for sharing your precious resources with us and other non-profits around the city. Now, on to the work!

Today is GiveNOLA Day! Since 1996, we've co-directed the Drama Club at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, and since 2012 have co-directed The Graduates, an ensemble of formerly incarcerated women.  So we were happy to be asked to be involved in the development a new program for the Orleans Justice Center (fo...

Dear Friends: Tomorrow is Give NOLA Day! We're trying to beat our own personal best and raise over $5000 this year. Below are photos and descriptions of some of the special projects we're collaborating on this year. You can donate anytime between midnight tonight and 11:59pm tomorrow. If you can, please take a moment to sign up for a time to donate this evening here (https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSc6jPNRe6M.../viewform...); that way we can participate in Rock Around the Clock and other prizes that could quadruple your contribution! Thank y'all so much!

Counting down to GiveNOLA Day 2023.  3…2… Rodneka Shelbia first started working with ArtSpot when she was a student at Frederick Douglass High School in the early 00's.  She was a special star then and she still is today.  An amazing writer, performer, singer, songwriter and director, Rodneka has been a pleasure to work with for the past ...

Counting down to GiveNOLA Day 2023.  4… 3… At age 77, after having served 52 years at LCIW, Gloria “Mama Glo” Williams has a great desire and a lot of energy to share her life story, a story that has already touched and encouraged so many lives.  This past January, we visited Mama Glo to work with her on the beginnings of a book about h...

The Road to Damascus

Counting down to GiveNOLA Day 2023.  5… THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS is a new solo performance piece written and performed by Kathy Randels that was built, in part, on decades of experience teaching theater and performance at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel, Louisiana

GiveNOLA Day is Tuesday, May 2

GiveNOLA Day 2023 Roll Out! Welcome to GiveNOLA Day 2023!  Tuesday, May 2 is the day that nonprofit organizations throughout the Greater New Orleans area will make a collective effort to raise funds for their life-enriching programs.  Over the next few days, we will be sharing some of our latest efforts as well as future pro...

Mama Glo, The Graduates and The Road… in New York this weekend! L-R: Consuela Gaines, Graduate and VOTE organizer; Mary Smith-Moore; Gloria “Mama Glo” Williams; Ausettua AmorAmenkum (co-director, The Graduates); and Kathy Randels in Detroit (MI) standing in front of the Gateway to Freedom: International Memorial to the Underground Railroad during the 2022 Fr...

Our performance in New Orleans this weekend! This weekend only, THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS returns to the New Marigny Theatre for three performances, March 3-5, 2023.  All shows are at 6pm. Tickets and more details are at our Ticketleap page.

We're taking THE ROAD on the road! ArtSpot Productions, in partnership with The St. Charles Center for Faith + Action, brings our newest performance piece back to New Orleans, March 3-5, 2023 at the New Marigny Theatre.  We invite local churches, faith communities and all folks interested in the intersection between church and priso...

DRONE this Saturday, UBW, Fox Rich and more! Art2Action's new work-in-progress, DRONE, is a transdisciplinary performance project written and directed by Andrea Assaf that integrates theatre, live music, emerging technologies and artistic containers for public dialogue.  The project explores the horrors of the mundane and the deceptive "secur...

Choice, Reconciliation and Drone this month
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My Body No Choice + The Heart of Reconciliation this month In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage commissioned eight leading female playwrights to respond to the threat to bodily choice.  The contributing writers agreed to make their work available to any theater company that could stage it b...

LIBERATION VIBRATIONS this Saturday night!
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TOMORROW NIGHT! The largest slave revolt in American history began on the Andry Plantation along Louisiana's "German Coast" in 1811.  Manuel Andry himself was injured during the revolt, and after participating in its brutal put-down, he moved his family to the New Orleans area onto land where the Music Box Village...

EASEL Sharing This Saturday Night! http://p0.vresp.com/OgS8qR

sURGE in the East: EASEL sharing on Saturday night! Over the last eight weeks, we've been working with some amazing residents, artists, scientists, teachers, innovators and thinkers in New Orleans East for the second year of the EASEL program.  Now we'd like to invite you to a public sharing of our work.  The piece takes place at a beautiful space ...

Hey y'all, please come out and see the Wait Room this weekend at the CAC! It's an amazing performance unlike anything we've seen in New Orleans in years! Incredible aerial choreography and conception by Jo Kreiter; incredible dance by her team with FlyAway Productions; and incredible message about the experience of incarceration from family members' perspective. We'll be speaking with several organizations who do work around bringing justice to the criminal legal system in New Orleans and Louisiana with each performance. Tonight, we'll speak with VOTE (Ivy Mathis, Bruce Reilly and Norris Henderson) ; tomorrow we'll speak with The Graduates (AusettuaAmorAmenkum, Michelle Allen, and Won'tBowDown) and BarNONE (Tuere Jones); and Sunday we'll speak with SisterHearts (Maryam Uloho). Please join us. The performance is free for all prison impacted patrons. We hope to see you there! http://p0.vresp.com/cyH1V0

Experience THE WAIT ROOM this weekend!
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The wait is over... After several Covid-related postponements, FlyAway Productions' THE WAIT ROOM finally makes its CAC appearance this weekend, May 27-29.  This multidisciplinary dance work exposes the physical, psychic, and emotional burdens imposed on women with incarcerated loved ones, and promises some pretty awe...

All right y'all, Mama Nola says don' t be daunted by the 11th hour; it's also the witching hour; the last hour to Give to Mama Nola ToDay! It's as easy as 1, 2, 3! We're thrilled to have crossed the $5000 mark! Won't you help us make it to $6k?! Love y'all!

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