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Happy Fourth!
Get ready to celebrate America’s birthday! There are lots of celebrations on tap in and around the Capital City. Things kick off Sunday, July 3, at 6:30 p.m. with the Kenilworth Independence Day Parade, rolling through the south Baton Rouge neighborhood off Perkins Road. On the actual Fourth, downtown will be buzzing with WBRZ’s Fireworks on the Mississippi, which start at 9 p.m. If you want to kick it up a notch, there’s the USS Kidd’s Patriots & Pirates: A Revolutionary Celebration from 5-10 p.m. and the LSU Museum of Art’s Rockin’ on the Rooftop of the Shaw Center for the Arts beginning at 7 p.m.
At the East Baton Rouge Parish Main Library, the Baton Rouge Concert Band plays a free concert in the plaza beginning at 7:30 p.m. And, across the river, the Plaquemine Hometown Celebration takes place along the Bayou Plaquemine Waterfront for an afternoon of food, crafts, a boat parade and more fireworks.
For tickets, click USS Kidd or LSU Museum of Art.
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Closing Reception: Proud Families
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Proud Families: Blood, Found or Made
July 14, 5:30 p.m.
Cary Saurage Community Arts Center
Join us for the closing reception of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge's Pride Month exhibit featuring works from six Louisiana-based artists. Curator Beth Welch stated, “These works have been produced by both LGBTQI+ artists and their family members and address the feelings of love, surrender, fear, trepidation, acceptance and understanding that they have felt in their own family units … Their narratives communicate how they are creating new family bonds, rekindling biological relationships and connecting with a fierce longing to see a better and brighter future for all of the people in the LGBTQI+ community.”
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Baton Rouge Arts Market
July 2, 8 a.m. – noon
5th & Main Street
Looking for some unique, original works of art? The Baton Rouge Arts Market is your ticket! Come check out the offerings of pottery, jewelry, woodwork, textiles, photographs, glass, paintings, sculptures, hand-made soaps, etc. BRAM is held the first Saturday of each month from 8 a.m. to noon in conjunction with the Red Stick Farmers Market at 5th and Main Streets in downtown Baton Rouge.
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Shrek, The Musical
Final Weekend
Theatre Baton Rouge
This is your last chance to catch Theatre Baton Rouge's production of Shrek, The Musical. Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks animated film, this Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure follows a little ogre named Shrek who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. Shrek is directed by Marion Mayfield, music directed by Jamie Leonard-Brubaker, choreographed by Kristi-Anne Lyons, and stage-managed by Caty Steward.
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DRIVIN’ N’ CRYIN
July 8, 7:30 p.m.
Manship Theatre, Hartley/Vey Studio
It may not fit the template of a “Southern rock” band, but in a very real way this group wears the many facets of their Georgia heritage on their sleeve. Their sound is a passionate blend encompassing the big guitars and booming drums of hard rock, the jangle of alternative rock, the acoustic sound and timeless mood of acoustic country and folk and the literate but unpretentious lyrics of frontman and key songwriter Kevin Kinney. Indie Roots Rock band Katy Guillen & The Drive opens the night. *STANDING ROOM ONLY
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Sunday With Sondheim
July 17, 5 p.m.
Old Governor’s Mansion
Join Theatre Baton Rouge for its 76th Season Gala SUNDAY WITH SONDHEIM, as artists perform pieces from one of Broadways greatest composers. In addition to some of his best-known tunes and lyrics, the evening includes a few surprises that will leave you wondering anew at Sondheim’s masterful lyrical and melodic abilities. Food provided by some of Baton Rouge's favorite local restaurants and chefs.
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Teachers’ Institute
July 11-13
West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen
Registration is now open for West Baton Rouge Museum’s three-day summer professional development series based on the life and work of New Orleans native Angela Gregory, a world-renowned sculptor and art professor primarily noted throughout Louisiana for her work on the façade of the New State Capitol and murals in the old Louisiana National Bank (now The Watermark) in Baton Rouge and the bronze monument to Bienville in New Orleans. Her work has also been exhibited in prominent places such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Salon des Tuileries in Paris and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
The 2022 Teachers’ Institute focuses on how Gregory’s art can be used in the classroom to connect a wide range of subjects and culminates with lab time for the creation of classroom lesson plans. It is open to in-service K-12 teachers across all subject areas. For more information, please call André St. Romain at 225-336-2422.
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BRBT Summer Dance Intensive
July 25-29, 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Dancers Workshop, 10745 Linkwood Ct.
Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre’s week-long summer intensive program provides intermediate and advanced dancers age 12 and up the opportunity to train under the direction of internationally acclaimed instructors during rigorous workshops designed to improve technique. Daily classes offered in ballet and pointe technique along with a combination of pre-pointe, variations, contemporary and conditioning classes. Instructors include Penny Askew, Helen Daigle and Marlon Grigsby. Cost is $425 for the week, with daily or per class options.
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Dance For All
The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge is providing a wonderful opportunity for dance practitioners and studio owners. Dance for All is a curated workshop that seeks to equip dance teachers and studio owners to create a diverse, inclusive atmosphere for dancers of all abilities. Dance for All is a 3-day, small-group workshop with ongoing support. Please see the link below for more information and to register. Generously funded by the Irene and C.B. Pennington Foundation.
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Running for Office
Through July 3
Old State Capitol
“Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns & the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman,” created by the National Archives with the support of the Foundation for the National Archives, continues on exhibit at the Old State Capitol. This display of creative, insightful and satirical political cartoons by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post and the Washington Evening Star is organized for travel by Humanities Texas, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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BLOOM!
July 9, 6 p.m.
Glassell Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts
The LSU College of Art & Design’s 21st annual Summer International Art Exhibit’s reception to announce the winner of the Michael Crespo Prize for Excellence. Jurors for this year’s show, which is dedicated to Belinda V. Meek, are Leslie Charleville and Jonathan “radvwa faroush” Mayers. The exhibit, which is currently up, runs through Aug. 14.
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Iridescence: Juried Competition Universe Gallery
Through July 31
Louisiana Art & Science Museum
LASM has partnered with LSU Assistant Professor Nathan Lord, his students and colleagues to explore natural and man-made iridescence, the different structures that must occur for the phenomenon to exist via works of art inspired by or created using iridescent materials. Seen here is first-place-winner Benjamin Timpson’s Sielah Saric Auger, 2019, made from safe-sourced butterfly wings.
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Courting Styles: Women’s Tennis Fashion
Through Aug. 14
West Baton Rouge Museum
One of tennis great Serena Williams’ outfits is featured in this exhibit of tennis fashions worn by some of the most iconic women’s tennis players in history, including Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Martina Navroatilova, Tracy Austin, Maria Sharapova and the Williams sisters.
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Farm to Forest
The Alexandria Museum of Art is looking for artists to participate in its upcoming Farm to Forest Plein Air Festival, Oct. 13-16, a five-day festival bringing artists to paint outdoors and capture the beauty of the city and its surrounding farms, nurseries and Kisatchie National Forest. Suzie Baker is juror for the show. The application deadline is Aug. 24. Click below for more information.
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Arts in Medicine
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Arts in Medicine program, Baton Rouge General is issuing a call for art for its juried Celebrating a Decade of Excellence exhibit in the Café Gallery, located on the Bluebonnet campus. Entries will be accepted through July 15 with notifications by July 29. The exhibit goes up Aug. 15 for the 10-year celebration party. All works must be 2D in mediums of original or giclée in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastels, charcoal, collage, ink or photography. Sizes may range from 5-inches by 5-inches to 48-inches x 60-inches. Arts in Medicine will retain 30% of all sales with proceeds going directly back into the program.
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Grant Workshop & Applications
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Grants deadline is July 1
The deadline for applications for Louisiana Project Grants (LPG) and Get Ready Grants (GRG) administered through the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge is this Friday at 5 p.m.
LPG’s solely fund project assistance for innovative, community-based arts projects that will have a lasting community impact. The funded activities must occur between Oct. 1, 2022 and Sept. 30, 2023.
The GRG program supports individual artists in conducting activities that will help safeguard their students, protect their careers and prepare for emergencies. The Arts Council administers Get Ready Grants throughout the state of Louisiana on behalf of CERF+, with funding provided by the Mellon Foundation.
For more information on any of these grants visit the website or email Chief Programs Officer Leea Reese Russell at LRussell@artsbr.orgg
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Everyone seems to be on vacation, so catch a rewind from our AC23 podcast archives. Host Pam Bordelon chats with author and community scholar-activist Leslie Glover about her book, The Benefit of Eating White Folks. The podcast airs Sunday mornings at 6:30 on 96.1 The River and 102.5 WFMF and at 7:30 on WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM/98.7 FM.
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