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The CAC galleries will be closed to the public February 13 - 17.

March 4, 2010
The New Orleans Film Society and the Contemporary Arts Center present: EASIER WITH PRACTICE

Nominated for Best First Feature and Someone to Watch Award at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards. In an attempt to promote his unpublished novel, Davy Mitchell sets out on a road trip with his younger, looser brother, Sean. However, the idealism of being on the road wears off quickly as the trip proves to be a lonely and unfulfilling experience for Davy whose discordant relationship with his brother seems impossible to reconcile.

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March 5, 2010
NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods' "The Children's Suite"
presented with NOCCA and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival & Foundation

Live orchestra and jazz vocals inspired by the verses of A.A. Milne, featuring a 15-piece band with Phil Woods (composer/conductor/alto sax), Vicki Doney & Bob Dorough (vocals).
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April 16 & 17, 2010
War Peace: The One Drop Rule

War Peace: The One Drop Rule, a youth driven hip hop theater piece that imagines the Bay Area as a potential war zone in a time of protracted drought.

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Friday, April 16, 8pm


Saturday, April 17, 8pm
June 11 & 12, 2010
olive Dance Theatre's Swift Solos

olive Dance Theatre's Swift Solos is an evening-length series of vignettes based on the choreographic legacy of seminal breakin' innovator Ken Swift.

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On View through June 6, 2010

Saints & Spirits: The Art of Haiti

While the world tries to comprehend the magnitude of loss and devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti, the arts community of New Orleans has responded with an intense identification that befits the close geographical, historical and cultural ties between Haiti and South Louisiana.

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On View: December 19, 2009 - May 2, 2010

Aïda Ruilova: The Singles 1999 - Now

Combining classical cinematic devices with a distinctively jarring, low-tech sensibility, New York-based artist Aïda Ruilova creates dark, narrative video work. Aïda Ruilova: The Singles 1999 - Now presents a survey of the artist's single-channel video work since 1999. Ruilova is one of a young generation of artists who employ media in innovative ways with a do-it-yourself aesthetic, often drawing upon contexts - like cinema, music, and popular culture - that exist outside the art world.

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On View: January 14 - April 11, 2010

Mario Petrirena installation at the CAC

Petrirena has developed a personal iconography of memory and fragmentation that permeates much of his work, but is particularly important to his approach to installation art.

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On View: January 23 - June 6, 2010

HARRY SHEARER: The Silent Echo Chamber

HARRY SHEARER: THE SILENT ECHO CHAMBER is a multi-screen video installation by the award-winning American comedic actor, writer, musician, and radio host best known for his regular Saturday Night Live appearances, for his role as Rob Tuffnal in This is Spinal Tap, and for providing many voices for the popular television series The Simpsons. The Silent Echo Chamber is the newest video work by Shearer, and is presented on nine plasma monitors.

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