Sunday, October 21 at 2:00 PM
free and open to the public
French Market Fare Demonstration Stage (located between Ursulines and Governor Nicholls Streets)
Join the French Market’s 4th annual Boo Carre Halloween and Harvest Festival! A pie eating contest, featuring Loretta’s Pralines’ sweet potato pies, will take place at 2PM with SoFAB director Liz Williams presiding. We’ll take the time between bites to discuss Southern pie culture.
Dust off your blue suede shoes and head down to the Quarter, as the New Orleans Film Society, the Louisiana State Museum, and the Louisiana Museum Foundation present an outdoor screening of the classic Elvis film King Creole. The film, which takes place in and around the Vieux Carre, will be shown on our new inflatable screen set up on the grounds of the Old US Mint.
About the film: Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau star in this 1958 film that tells the story of a nineteen-year-old who gets mixed up with crooks and involved with two women. The film was critically and commercially successful and included the song “Hard-Headed Woman,” which became a number one hit for Elvis. He later said that King Creole was his favorite acting role.
Old U.S. Mint
(400 Esplanade Avenue)
Thursday, June 28
Screening starts at 8:15 p.m./sundown
Tickets: Admission is $3 for NOFS members, members of the Louisiana Museum Foundation, and members of the Friends of the Cabildo. General admission tickets are $6.
The Walker Percy documentary was show at the HNOC during the Tennessee Williams Festival this year. Percy’s work represented the alienation of the modern man and especially those living in the modern South. Interestingly, he is also remembered for his championing of John Kennedy Toole’s Confederacy of Dunces, which won the Pulitzer in the early 1980s.
National Book Award winner (The Moviegoer)Walker Percy has said his concerns as a writer were with “a theory of man, man as more than organism, more than consumer — man the wayfarer, man the pilgrim, man in transit, on a journey.”
Through archival film, excerpts of Percy’s work, and interviews with family, friends and scholars, Walker Percy: A Documentary, examined Percy’s own journey.
“Not to be on to something, is to be in despair”
A 21st century Tennessee Williams. Performer, artist, pedicab driver Lee Kyle. He will be selling his linoleum cut postcards of Tennessee and other characters at the merchandise table of the festival (lobby of the Monteleone Hotel)
This one will probably like a mint julep-sweet, intoxicating and drippingly Southern in taste.
1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Talking Tennessee with Piper Laurie, Bryan Batt, and Christian LeBlanc
Join these talented actors as they recount their experiences with Tennessee Williams’ words and works. They’ll discuss our namesake’s imprint on American theater, as well as his inspiration to them as actors. A highlight of the discussion will be Ms. Laurie reminiscing about her time playing the role of Laura Wingfield in the acclaimed 1965 revival of The Glass Menagerie on Broadway opposite Maureen Stapleton’s Amanda, Pat Hingle’s Gentleman Caller, and George Grizzard’s Tom. Facilitated by Foster Hirsch.
Sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin.
Location: Hotel Monteleone, Royal Ballroom
Ticket Code(s): AllAccessPass, LitPanelPass, StudentPanPass, Sr/TeachPanPass, DayPanelPassSun
Ticket Type(s): All Access Pass, Literary Panel Pass, Student Panel Pass, Teacher/Senior Citizen Literary Panel Pass, One Day Festival Panel Pass, Single Panel Ticket (only available on site)
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