Zeitgeist Theatre + Lounge +
ST CLAUDE ARTS PARK
6621 ST. Claude ave. arabi, la 70032
(504) 352-1150 rene@zeitgeistnola.o rg
"Something for and against everybody"
Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments inc is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization classified as a 509 (a) (2) public charity. We are an art house cinema and multi-disciplinary arts center that was founded in New Orleans, LA in November 1986.
We currently have 75 seats in our theatre and 50 seats in our lounge. Yes, we are available for private screenings and events.
We installed 3 UV air-scrubbers in our ventilation system for your safety. Check out our new Dolby sound system.
Our theatre is located just one block East of New Orleans past Jackson Barracks in Arabi, LA
(currently the 6th fastest growing neighborhood in America)
Memberships and donations may be made at the Zeitgeist Box Office, through the "Support Us" Page at the top of this website or through PayPal to rene@zeitgeistnola.org or Zelle to (504) 352-1150 or our venmo
Introducing the
ST Claude Arts Park
An initiative of the Meraux Foundation, the St. Claude Arts Park is its latest addition to St. Claude Arts, a campus for creativity, culture, and community teeming with artists, arthouse films, creative music, literary events, galleries, photographers, sculptors, and more — all just minutes from downtown New Orleans.
For private rentals or the Arts Market in the St Claude Arts Park please contact ART CONSCIOUS at either (504) 289-1056 or (504) 388-8325. For non-profit, charitable, community events, concerts or public performances please contact Rene, ZEITGEIST THEATRE at (504) 352-1150.
Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments inc is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization classified as a 509 (a) (2) public charity. We are an art house cinema and multi-disciplinary arts center that was founded in New Orleans, LA in November 1986.
We currently have 75 seats in our theatre and 50 seats in our lounge. Yes, we are available for private screenings and events.
We installed 3 UV air-scrubbers in our ventilation system for your safety. Check out our new Dolby sound system.
Our theatre is located just one block East of New Orleans past Jackson Barracks in Arabi, LA
(currently the 6th fastest growing neighborhood in America)
Memberships and donations may be made at the Zeitgeist Box Office, through the "Support Us" Page at the top of this website or through PayPal to rene@zeitgeistnola.org or Zelle to (504) 352-1150 or our venmo
Introducing the
ST Claude Arts Park
An initiative of the Meraux Foundation, the St. Claude Arts Park is its latest addition to St. Claude Arts, a campus for creativity, culture, and community teeming with artists, arthouse films, creative music, literary events, galleries, photographers, sculptors, and more — all just minutes from downtown New Orleans.
For private rentals or the Arts Market in the St Claude Arts Park please contact ART CONSCIOUS at either (504) 289-1056 or (504) 388-8325. For non-profit, charitable, community events, concerts or public performances please contact Rene, ZEITGEIST THEATRE at (504) 352-1150.
ZEITGEIST – NOUN, GERMAN. THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES; GENERAL TREND, MOOD OR FEELING CHARACTERISTIC OF A PARTICULAR PERIOD OF TIME, ESPECIALLY AS IT IS REFLECTED IN THE ARTS, LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, ETC. \ˈtsīt-ˌgīst, ˈzīt-\
tuesday, MARCH 19th7:00 pm nightly
IO CAPITANO by Matteo Garrone Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor at the 80th Venice International Film Festival — for newcomer Seydou Sarr, making his feature-film debut — Io Capitano is nominated for the best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. Capturing the contemporary immigrant experience from the perspective of people making the crossing through Africa into Europe, Io Capitano was cast largely with non-professional actors, including Sarr and Moustapha Fall, building on the great tradition of Italian neorealism. Io Capitano was filmed on location in Senegal, Morocco, and the waters off Marsala, Italy. [TRAILER] And in the
Zeitgeist Lounge: Thursday, March 21 @ 7:30 pm
SOME OF THE OTHER PLANETS featuring ANTHONY CUCCIA, Dr. JAMES PATON WALSH, REX GREGORY, QUINLAN KIRSCHNER & there special guests TBA. Saturday, March 23 @ 7:30 pm JUCO St Bernard garage band making their Zeitgeist debut. Tuesday, March 26 @ 7:30 pm CHRIS ALFORD PRESENTS TOM CARTER (houston) - solo guitar + CALEB BRAINWEIGHT / CYRUS NABIPOOR / NICK BENOIT / CHRIS ALFORD Saturday, March 30 @ 7:00 pm DAT’S FUNNY - $20 Friday, April 12 @ 8:00 pm GOLD ROOM READING SERIES Sunday, April 14 @ 8:30 pm CHRIS ALFORD PRESENTS - Creative Improvised Music CHRIS ALFORD / REX GREGORY / JAKE NOBLE / DOUG GARRISON Tuesday, April 23 @ 7:30 pm DEVIN GREY (NY drummer/composer) with TBA Saturday, April 27 @ 5:30 pm ZANE HELBERG - LIVE FROM REHAB the Los Angeles stand-up comic returns to Zeitgeist with a new show based on his life in recovery Saturday, April 27 @ 7:00 pm DAT’S FUNNY - $20 Tuesday, April 30 @ 7:30 pm CHRIS ALFORD PRESENTS - Creative Improvised Music Friday, May 3 @ 8:00 pm GOLD ROOM READING SERIES Saturday, May 25 @ 7:00 pm DAT’S FUNNY - $20 |
Friday & Saturday, March 22 & 23:
Visiting Filmmakers THE BUTLER BROTHERS (Toronto) Brett M. Butler and Jason G. Butler, known together professionally as the Butler Brothers, are Canadian film directors, writers and producers from Toronto. They are known for darkly funny, character driven movies, including First Round Down, Mourning Has Broken and Confusions of an Unmarried Couple. Screens as part of our ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S. 7:00 pm nightly MOURNING HAS BROKEN (2014) The film stars Robert Nolan as a man who wakes up to find that his ailing wife, laying beside him in bed, has died in the middle of night. After finally getting out of bed the husband proceeds to go about the day as if nothing has happened, systematically going through his 'to-do' list that was left on the fridge for him by his wife. As the husband attempts to complete the tasks, his interactions with various people and things along the way become increasingly aggressive, often in a darkly funny manner. As he completes his list it becomes very clear that he is not coping with the loss of his wife very well at all, becoming emotionally unhinged, resulting in him taking his own life at the end. [TRAILER] 8:30 pm nightly UNFRIENDING (2023) Blake and his girlfriend, Simone, host a dinner party at Blake’s parents home for their closest friends, including Blake’s oldest friend, Isaac. The dinner party is actually a set up for a life intervention for Isaac, where the friend group tells him all the reasons he has become a burden to them and society in general, and that he should really just kill himself already. [TRAILER] Opens March 29:
UPROAR by Paul Middleditch & Hamish Bennett A 17 year-old student ( Julian Dennison, Hunt For The Wilderpeople & Deadpool 2) is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future in this heartwarming story of identity from New Zealand also starring Rhys Darby & Minnie Driver. [TRAILER] Friday & Saturday, May 10 & 11 @ 7:30 pm;
Sunday, May 12 @ 2:00 pm THE FELT MENAGERIE presented by the Tennessee Williams Theater Company A zany, floppy, live puppet theatre send-up of Tennessee Williams’ most desperate characters! Come see the outrageous antics in a small southern town’s rec hall as Blanche Dubious stumbles in on a meeting of arch Southern ladies that is categorically not what she planned for. Inner and outer struggles come to hilarious new light as we turn Williams’ iconic themes on their heads. Not recommended for children. Adult Themed. Not appropriate for anyone under 16. |
V I S U A L A R T E X H I B I T I O N S
JOSEPH BEUYS: POSTERS AND PRINTS
on permanent loan and exhibition in the BEUYS + BEYOND Gallery (which connects Zeitgeist Theatre and the Lounge) Joseph Beuys (12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening and performance artist as well as a painter, sculptor, medallist, installation artist, graphic artist,art theorist and pedagogue. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, anthroposophy and the “zeitgeist”. It culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century. |
Schedule is subject to change as films are held over – please check the website for updates nightly.
BEUYS AND BEYOND
Contemporary Artists On Film
In 1989, Zeitgeist curated a city-wide film series BEUYS AND BEYOND: CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ARTISTS ON FILM which also featured artist talks and performances by area artists.
For the premiere of Zeitgeist's great new Theatre & Lounge, we have decided to resurrect the series monthly, but this time expand it to include artists beyond just Germany...
Contemporary Artists On Film
In 1989, Zeitgeist curated a city-wide film series BEUYS AND BEYOND: CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ARTISTS ON FILM which also featured artist talks and performances by area artists.
For the premiere of Zeitgeist's great new Theatre & Lounge, we have decided to resurrect the series monthly, but this time expand it to include artists beyond just Germany...
Zeitgeist is ALL- AGES & SMOKE-FREE
CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S. Since 1993, Zeitgeist's ongoing SERIES OF FILMS, MUSIC, PERFORMANCES AND VISUAL ART celebrating the innovative, utterly bizarre and extremely vast body of work from our neighbors to the north. Their films may be smaller, but at least their country is bigger! Size does matter. |
Memberships and donations may be made at the Zeitgeist Box Office, through the "Support Us" Page at the top of our website; through PayPal to rene@zeitgeistnola.org; Zelle to (504) 352-1150 or our new venmo @zeitgeistnola
Special thanks to the Meraux Foundation, The Old Arabi Neighborhood Association, Councilman Gillis McCloskey, The St. Bernard Chamber Of Commerce, Shotgun Cinema, Ellis Fortinberry & Chalmette Movies, the people of St. Bernard Parish and those who have followed us from New Orleans for all of their support. We couldn't have dreamed of a better venue or neighbors.
Zeitgeist would also like to acknowledge the indigenous history of New Orleans, and more broadly, Louisiana, and recognize the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana. We would also like to acknowledge the state-recognized tribes of Louisiana, which include the Addai Caddo Tribe, the Biloxi-Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogee, Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb, Clifton Choctaw, Four Winds Tribe Louisiana Cherokee Confederacy, Grand Caillou/Dulac Band, Isle de Jean Charles Band, Louisiana Choctaw Tribe, Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe, and the United Houma Nation.
Zeitgeist celebrated it's 37th Anniversary in November!
We want to thank all of the artists, volunteers, organizations, members, donors and patrons who have kept us going.
We've come a long way. Let's keep it going!
We've come a long way. Let's keep it going!