Art gallery hosts ‘Guns in the Hands of Artists’

Guns in the Hands of Artists is a national art project, exhibited at galleries across the country. The social activist artistic project distributed decommissioned guns that have been taken off the streets of New Orleans to 30 internationally known artists to use as raw materials in their works. The exhibition is part of Prospect 3.

‘Guns in the Hands of Artists’ will be held at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, located at 400 Julia St., and will run until the end of January.

Renaissance Festival comes to Louisiana

The Louisiana Renaissance Festival will be taking place Saturday, Nov. 15. The festival is on 46468 River Rd. in Hammond, Louisiana. The event holds a cast of 300 costumed actors, live stage shows, jousts, craft, demos, food, music, falconry, games and much more. The times of the festival are 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Literary Festival heads to New Orleans

The Faulkner Society is hosting the Word and Music: A Literary Festival in New Orleans on Thursday, Nov. 20 at Hotel Monteleone. The festival includes a Sunday night gala, masterclasses, book sales, panel discussions with noted authors, literary luncheons and more. The event takes place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

From Cameo to Close-Up: Louisiana lives in Film

On Friday Nov. 21 the Williams Research Center for The Historic New Orleans Collection is hosting the From Cameo to Close-Up: Louisiana in Film exhibit. The exhibit shows posters, lobby cards, photographs, press books and other items from the silent film era in the mid-1990s. The event is from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The ‘World Goes Round’ for two more nights

The Department of Theatre Arts and Dance production, “The World Goes ‘Round,” will have two more showings on Nov. 14 and 15.

“An audience takes the show to a whole new level,” Emily Rose Gyan, theater senior and performer in the revue, said. “Their energy and responses fuel our performance.”

The musical revue features songs from Kander and Ebb’s more famous works like “Chicago”, “Cabaret” and “Funny Lady,” but also musical numbers from their more obscure shows like “The Happy Time,” “The Rink” and “Flora And The Red Menace.”

“I thought it was throughly enjoyable,” Oliver Blackstone, music education freshman, said. “I enjoyed every moment of it.”

The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Marquette Theatre.