• kei slaughter at 11:30am
• The Soul Rebels at 1pm
• African Diaspora Music Panel at 3pm –  Monique Moss will moderate a not-to-be-missed panel and artistic demonstration with internationally renowned musicians Dr. Michael White of New Orleans; Sidiki Conde of Guinea, Africa; and Titos Sompa of the Republic of Congo, Africa. Audiences will learn about and experience the powerful rhythms and connections of these three unique regions of the world. Bill Summers and Seguenon Kone will join the group for a drum circle at 4:15pm

Art & Activities!

• Listen to the Land with ChE at 11am- Led by former Adaptations Resident ChE, an opening circle will create space to Listen to the Land. We will connect to the complex histories of oppression, resistance, and adaptation this land has witnessed. This Afro-Indigenous land acknowledgement and affirmation invites participatory presence through an offering of libation, song, and breath.
• Book Reading by Andy Horowitz at 12:30pm – Former Scholarly Retreat Resident Andy Horowitz will read on the levee from his book, Katrina: A History, 1915-2015, which explores how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors Black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink under the weight of their competing ambitions.
• Gulf Fish Drawing with Brandon Ballengée 11am – 2pm – Current Special Collaboration Resident Brandon Ballengée will lead a fish drawing workshop. Participants will learn about how environmental disasters have affected gulf fish species while creating art about these fish. Brandon Ballengée is a visual artist, biologist and environmental educator based in Arnaudville.
• Indigenous Poetry with Jeffery Darensbourg 12pm – 4pm – Former Adaptations Resident Jeffery U. Darensbourg will lead a found-poetry workshop in Ishakkoy. Jeffery U. Darensbourg is an enrolled member and tribal councilperson of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of mixed Native and Louisiana Creole ancestry. His work explores the intersections of cultural studies, mixed ethnicity, and Indigeneity.
• Crud Buddies with MILAGROS 2pm – 4pm – Recent Rising Residents MILAGROS will bring Crud Buddies made from plastics fished out of the river for folks to find, decorate and adopt as their own. MILAGROS co-founders Felici Asteinza and Joey Fillastre, along with their ever-changing cast of collaborators, create site-specific works that explore the history of place through striking arrangements of color and mark.
• Stream Table Printmaking with Ripple Effect 2pm – 5pm – Ripple Effect, a nonprofit environmental education organization that fosters water literacy, will use stream tables to simulate river modeling and lead participants in making monoprints inspired by Howard Fisk’s 1944 maps of the Mississippi River.
• Build a Clay Forest all day – The FORESTival favorite is back! Former Restoration Resident Jane Hill will lead participants in creating a collaborative forest out of clay, sticks, and imagination.
• Walks in the Woods at 11:30am, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm.– Learn more about the land – from the trees to the bugs to the fungi to the environmental threats it faces – on Walks in the Woods with Environmental Curator David Baker, Tulane Ecologist Elizabeth MacDougal, and Tulane Entomologists Sam Jameson and Jane de Verges.

More!

• Silent auction of one-of-a-kind art objects and experiences. Auction closes at 4pm.
• Food by 12 Seasons Catering, Big O’s Original Pops, Chicken’s Kitchen, Dirty Dishes, and Faubourg Farms.
• Beer provided by Faubourg Brewing and Zony Mash Beer Project.