Zeitgeist CALENDAR
The Following events will be in our new theater & lounge @ 6621 St. Claude Ave (in Arabi):
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Thursday, March 21:
6:30 pm - LORDS OF CHAOS, A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1980s results in a very violent outcome. Lords of Chaos tells the true story of True Norwegian Black Metal and its most notorious practitioners - a group of young men with a flair for publicity, church-burning and murder: MAYHEM. Starring Rory Culkin, Jack Kilmer, Emory Cohen, Sky Ferreira, Valter Skarsgard, etc. Held Over!
7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Lounge - DAVIS ROGAN will perform New Orleans Jazz and Funk on the piano.
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Friday, March 22:
Films:
3:00 pm daily - MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER, This Japanese animated film is based on Mary Stewart’s 1971 classic children’s book The Little Broomstick, Mary and The Witch’s Flower is an action-packed film full of jaw-dropping imaginative worlds, ingenious characters, and the simple, heartfelt story of a young girl trying to find a place in the world. Featuring the voices of Ruby Barnhill and Academy Award®-winners Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent. Screens as part of our new International Children’s Films series MOVIE DAYS.
5:00 pm daily - BIRDS OF PASSAGE, During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
7:15 pm nightly - OUT OF BLUE, Shot in New Orleans, Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer), a black hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. Also starring Toby Jones, Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Yolanda Ross, etc.
Music:
9:00 pm - OOGUM BOOGUM, George Felton, Chris Polacek, Donna Schlaudecker, Tom Woodin playing blues, New Orleans music, a little bit of country & music we really like since 1985 (a year longer than Zeitgeist). $10.
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Saturday, March 23:
Films:
3:00 pm daily - MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER, This Japanese animated film is based on Mary Stewart’s 1971 classic children’s book The Little Broomstick, Mary and The Witch’s Flower is an action-packed film full of jaw-dropping imaginative worlds, ingenious characters, and the simple, heartfelt story of a young girl trying to find a place in the world. Featuring the voices of Ruby Barnhill and Academy Award®-winners Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent. Screens as part of our new International Children’s Films series MOVIE DAYS.
5:00 pm daily - BIRDS OF PASSAGE, During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
7:15 pm nightly - OUT OF BLUE, Shot in New Orleans, Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer), a black hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. Also starring Toby Jones, Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Yolanda Ross, etc.
9:00 pm - ICEPICK TO THE MOON, presented by documentary filmmaker Skizz Cyzyk. a documentary about Fred Lane and the Raudelunas arts community of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In the early ‘70s, a group of misfit University of Alabama students gravitated together, forming RAUDELUNAS, an arts community heavily fueled by Surrealism, free jazz, and the general upsetting of the order in their conservative, football-loving Southern town.
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Sunday, March 24:
Films:
3:00 pm daily - MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER, This Japanese animated film is based on Mary Stewart’s 1971 classic children’s book The Little Broomstick, Mary and The Witch’s Flower is an action-packed film full of jaw-dropping imaginative worlds, ingenious characters, and the simple, heartfelt story of a young girl trying to find a place in the world. Featuring the voices of Ruby Barnhill and Academy Award®-winners Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent. Screens as part of our new International Children’s Films series MOVIE DAYS.
5:00 pm daily - BIRDS OF PASSAGE, During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
7:15 pm nightly - OUT OF BLUE, Shot in New Orleans, Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer), a black hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. Also starring Toby Jones, Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Yolanda Ross, etc.
Music:
7:00 pm - SONGS FROM EARTH, a weekly international concert series curated by DAVID C. SYMONS. Tonight features Panorama Trio (klezmer, Balkan, latin, creole) panoramalandnola.com/
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Monday, March 25:
Films:
3:00 pm daily - MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER, This Japanese animated film is based on Mary Stewart’s 1971 classic children’s book The Little Broomstick, Mary and The Witch’s Flower is an action-packed film full of jaw-dropping imaginative worlds, ingenious characters, and the simple, heartfelt story of a young girl trying to find a place in the world. Featuring the voices of Ruby Barnhill and Academy Award®-winners Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent. Screens as part of our new International Children’s Films series MOVIE DAYS.
5:00 pm daily - BIRDS OF PASSAGE, During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
7:15 pm nightly - OUT OF BLUE, Shot in New Orleans, Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer), a black hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. Also starring Toby Jones, Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Yolanda Ross, etc.
Music / Performance:
7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Lounge - SPOKEN WORD / POETRY - JOSEPH BUCKLEY, SEAN F. MUNRO & CLAIRE LOUISE HARMON.
9:00 pm - HELEN GILLET PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY - The acclaimed Belgian cellist, singer, composer will perform her beautiful looping chansons and original compositions at Zeitgeist every Monday night. $10
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Tuesday, March 26:
Films:
3:00 pm daily - MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER, This Japanese animated film is based on Mary Stewart’s 1971 classic children’s book The Little Broomstick, Mary and The Witch’s Flower is an action-packed film full of jaw-dropping imaginative worlds, ingenious characters, and the simple, heartfelt story of a young girl trying to find a place in the world. Featuring the voices of Ruby Barnhill and Academy Award®-winners Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent. Screens as part of our new International Children’s Films series MOVIE DAYS.
5:00 pm daily - BIRDS OF PASSAGE, During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
7:15 pm nightly - OUT OF BLUE, Shot in New Orleans, Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer), a black hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. Also starring Toby Jones, Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Yolanda Ross, etc.
Music:
7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Lounge: NO FRETS, Moroccan musician AMINE BOUCETTA and Palestinian American musician SIMON MOUSHABECK and guests will perform a weekly program of Arabic and Turkish music. Oud, Ney Flute, Arabic Accordion, Riq, Tabla, Darbuka, piano, etc. $10.
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Wednesday, March 27:
Films:
3:00 pm daily - MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER, This Japanese animated film is based on Mary Stewart’s 1971 classic children’s book The Little Broomstick, Mary and The Witch’s Flower is an action-packed film full of jaw-dropping imaginative worlds, ingenious characters, and the simple, heartfelt story of a young girl trying to find a place in the world. Featuring the voices of Ruby Barnhill and Academy Award®-winners Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent. Screens as part of our new International Children’s Films series MOVIE DAYS.
5:00 pm daily - BIRDS OF PASSAGE, During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
7:15 pm nightly - OUT OF BLUE, Shot in New Orleans, Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer), a black hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. Also starring Toby Jones, Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Yolanda Ross, etc.
Music:
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm in the Lounge - MARTIN MASAKOWSKI will preform solo and with special guests. He uses double-bass to explore various folk traditions from around the world, specializing in Eastern European and Middle Eastern music and most recently has started taking these sounds into the electronic realm. Tonight’s special guest is his COSMIC STRING DUO partner, violinist Ira Echo
9:00 pm - MELOMANA, Melomana collects and pours forth a love of folk tradition - singing polyphony from Corsica, Bulgaria, the Republic of Georgia, South Africa, and the Americas. Melomana is a new vocal trio comprised of Maisie Dolan, Hannah Levy and Linnea Sablosky. $10.
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Thursday, March 28:
Films:
3:00 pm daily - MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER, This Japanese animated film is based on Mary Stewart’s 1971 classic children’s book The Little Broomstick, Mary and The Witch’s Flower is an action-packed film full of jaw-dropping imaginative worlds, ingenious characters, and the simple, heartfelt story of a young girl trying to find a place in the world. Featuring the voices of Ruby Barnhill and Academy Award®-winners Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent. Screens as part of our new International Children’s Films series MOVIE DAYS.
5:00 pm daily - BIRDS OF PASSAGE, During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
7:15 pm nightly - OUT OF BLUE, Shot in New Orleans, Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer), a black hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. Also starring Toby Jones, Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Yolanda Ross, etc.
Music:
7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Lounge - DAVIS ROGAN performs New Orleans R&B and Funk on the piano.
9:00 pm - JONATHAN FREILICH PRESENTS - The acclaimed guitarist and composer from The Naked Orchestra, Naked On The Floor and The New Orleans Klezmer All-stars will perform and curate a weekly creative music concert series featuring local as well as internationally renown musicians. Tonight features JAMES SINGLETON, BRAD WALKER, MIKE JENNER. $10.
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Opens March 29:
NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL TOUR: KID FLICKS ONE, gives a warm welcome to all budding cinephiles with this lively international lineup of fun. Kick off the festivities with good hygiene and great dubstep in Party Mouth (USA), then let your hair—or, er fur—down and hang loose in I Want to Live in the Zoo (Russia). And, even if you get into a tangle, there will be someone to catch and cheer you on with the charming If You Fall (Canada). Recommended ages 3 to 7, in English. Screens as part of our new International Children’s Films series MOVIE DAYS.
Opens March 29:
SCREWBALL, Billy Corben's true-crime documentary hilariously investigates the MLB's infamous doping scandal involving a nefarious clinician and his most famous client: the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez. Corben recreates all of the transcripts and interviews using kids wearing bad wigs and costumes to portray the endless cast of characters. “Easily the funniest, most entertaining documentary I have ever seen.” Rene Broussard, Zeitgeist Founder/Director.
Opens March 29:
THE WEDDING GUEST, a breathless tour through the shadowy underworlds and hidden realms of Pakistan and India. Jay (Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel) is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be (Radhika Apte). Despite his cool efficiency, the plot quickly spirals out of control, sending Jay and his hostage on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi.
Friday, March 29 @ 9:00 pm - MANIFESTO IMPROV COMEDY TROUPE
Saturday, March 30 @ 9:00 pm - ROCKET BABE BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. $10
Sundays in March @ 7:00 pm - SONGS FROM EARTH, a weekly international concert series curated by DAVID C. SYMONS. 3/31 - Klezervation Hall (klezmer) klezevationhall.com
Mondays @ 9:00 pm - HELEN GILLET PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY - The acclaimed Belgian cellist, singer, composer will perform her beautiful looping chansons and original compositions at Zeitgeist every Monday night. $10
Tuesdays from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Lounge: NO FRETS, Moroccan musician AMINE BOUCETTA and SIMON MOUSHABECK and guests will perform a weekly program of Arabic music and jazz. Oud, New Flute, Arabic Accordion, Riq, Tabla, Darbuka, etc. $10.
Wednesdays from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm - MARTIN MASAKOWSKI will preform solo and with special guests. He uses double-bass to explore various folk traditions from around the world, specializing in Eastern European and Middle Eastern music and most recently has started taking these sounds into the electronic realm.
Thursdays in March from 7:00 to 9:00 pm (in the Lounge) - DJ DAVIS ROGAN performs New Orleans jazz, junk and Mardi Gras music.
Thursdays in March @ 9:00 pm - JONATHAN FREILICH PRESENTS - The acclaimed guitarist and composer from The Naked Orchestra, Naked On The Floor and The New Orleans Klezmer All-stars will perform and curate a weekly creative music concert series featuring local as well as internationally renown musicians.
Opens April 5:
NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL TOUR: KID FLICKS TWO, clever, thought-provoking films sure to inspire audiences ages 8+ to expand their horizons. In the Grand Prize award-winner Game (USA), AJ has the drive to excel but must push through obstacles to get there. Meanwhile, teamwork takes on different stripes when an odd couple of bears are forced to work together in the hilarious stop-motion short Poles Apart (UK). Plus, the CG-animated wonder Gokurōsama (France) bridges cultures and generations by showing us that even in an automated age, a little human touch can still work wonders. English with some subtitles. Screens as part of our new International Children’s Films series MOVIE DAYS.
Opens April 5:
MAZE, After the highly-publicized hunger strike of Irish Republican Army (IRA) members in 1983, the remaining political prisoners were placed in the HMZ Maze, considered the most secure jail in Europe. Among these former hunger strikers, Larry Marley (played by top Irish actor Tom Vaughan Lawlor, Avengers: Infinity War, The Cured) devises a plan to break out of this seemingly-impenetrable fortress, but must succeed while being incarcerated among Irish loyalists (his enemies), skeptical IRA members, and a prison warden keeping a close eye on him. Based on a true story.
Friday, April 5 @ 9:00 pm - I AM GOING TO KILL SOMEONE THIS FRIDAY presented by visiting filmmaker Durden Godfrey & writer/producer Jared Rush. Meet Robert Partridge. A middle-aged, well-off man, living in a gated community with his beautiful wife and picture-perfect son. On the surface, Robert Partridge lives a very normal life; But Robert Partridge is not normal. $10
Saturday, April 6 @ 9:00 pm - CRESCENT CITY ARIAL ARTISTS will perform an adult program of nursery-rhymes and fairy tales using arial artistry and video-mapping.
Sunday, April 7 @ noon - CRESCENT CITY ARIAL ARTISTS will perform a children’s program of ALICE IN WONDERLAND using arial artistry and video-mapping.
Sundays @ 7:00 pm - SONGS FROM EARTH, a weekly international concert series curated by DAVID C. SYMONS.
Mondays @ 9:00 pm - HELEN GILLET PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY - The acclaimed Belgian cellist, singer, composer will perform her beautiful looping chansons and original compositions at Zeitgeist every Monday night. $10
Tuesdays from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Lounge: NO FRETS, Moroccan musician AMINE BOUCETTA and SIMON MOUSHABECK and guests will perform a weekly program of Arabic music and jazz. Oud, New Flute, Arabic Accordion, Riq, Tabla, Darbuka, etc. $10.
Wednesdays from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm - MARTIN MASAKOWSKI will preform solo and with special guests. He uses double-bass to explore various folk traditions from around the world, specializing in Eastern European and Middle Eastern music and most recently has started taking these sounds into the electronic realm.
Thursdays in March from 7:00 to 9:00 pm (in the Lounge) - DJ DAVIS ROGAN performs New Orleans jazz, junk and Mardi Gras music.
Thursdays in March @ 9:00 pm - JONATHAN FREILICH PRESENTS - The acclaimed guitarist and composer from The Naked Orchestra, Naked On The Floor and The New Orleans Klezmer All-stars will perform and curate a weekly creative music concert series featuring local as well as internationally renown musicians.
Opens April 12:
NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL TOUR: VIVA KID FLICKS, a Spanish-language program of animated, documentary, and live action films full of warmth, wit, and the cultural richness of our friends and neighbors to the south: Mexico. Co-curated with Mexico’s Morelia International Film Festival. All films are in Spanish with English subtitles or no dialogue, perfect for Spanish learners, speakers, and all seekers of fun, artistic, and enriching cultural experiences, ages 7+. Screens as part of our new International Children’s Films series MOVIE DAYS.
Opens April 12:
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS by Zeitgeist’s own Adam Sekuler, a profoundly sensitive look into the life and death of Shar Jones, a transgender person living with early onset Alzheimer's Disease, and the choice he and his wife Cynthia faced. At its core it is a love story, but one that confronts the fears and prejudices surrounding two very different cultural taboos – the right to choose who you are, and right to live or die.
Opens April 12:
MARY MAGDALENE, Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejifor star in Garth Davis’ (Lion) drama about one of the most transformative yet misunderstood women in history, alternately vilified as a sinner and canonized as a saint. For the first time, the incredible story of Mary Magdalene is told through her own eyes.
Friday, April 12 from 5:00 to 9:00 pm
QUEEN OF DISCOMFORT by visiting artist Sofia Caetano. Touring Interactive Multimedia Installation.
Friday, April 12 @ 9:00 pm
ELLIOT SHEEDY (Pittsburgh) preforms COWBOY MICROWAVE MUSIC, a solo-record created by the artist, this is a live musical performance featuring octave-fuzz guitar solos from Arcadia, cluster-chord synth panorama to convert the Philistine, lyrical distillation of the Zeitgeist via electric shaman incantation. Including a threshing floor stage made out of trinitite -- created by Sofia Caetano.
Saturday, April 13 @ 9:00 pm
GERRY HEMMINGWAY (percussionist from Lucern, Switzerland) & SAMUEL BLASER (trombonist from Berlin). $15.
Sundays @ 7:00 pm - SONGS FROM EARTH, a weekly international concert series curated by DAVID C. SYMONS.
Sunday, April 14 @ 9:00 pm - NEXT 2 RISE TALENT COMPETITION. $10.
Mondays @ 9:00 pm - HELEN GILLET PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY - The acclaimed Belgian cellist, singer, composer will perform her beautiful looping chansons and original compositions at Zeitgeist every Monday night. $10
Tuesdays from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Lounge: NO FRETS, Moroccan musician AMINE BOUCETTA and SIMON MOUSHABECK and guests will perform a weekly program of Arabic music and jazz. Oud, New Flute, Arabic Accordion, Riq, Tabla, Darbuka, etc. $10.
Wednesdays from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm - MARTIN MASAKOWSKI will preform solo and with special guests. He uses double-bass to explore various folk traditions from around the world, specializing in Eastern European and Middle Eastern music and most recently has started taking these sounds into the electronic realm.
Wednesday, April 17 @ 9:00 pm - AND WHEN I DIE, I WO’T STAY DEAD by Billy Woodbury. Documentary about the late-great, legendary beat poet Bob Kaufman, who was born in New Orleans.
Thursdays in March from 7:00 to 9:00 pm (in the Lounge) - DJ DAVIS ROGAN performs New Orleans jazz, junk and Mardi Gras music.
Thursdays in March @ 9:00 pm - JONATHAN FREILICH PRESENTS - The acclaimed guitarist and composer from The Naked Orchestra, Naked On The Floor and The New Orleans Klezmer All-stars will perform and curate a weekly creative music concert series featuring local as well as internationally renown musicians.
OPENS APRIL 19:
WRESTLE. Coming-of-age documentary about four members of a high-school wrestling team at Huntsville’s J.O. Johnson High School on their pursuit of a State Championship against a host of domestic problems. Screens as part of our new International Children’s Films series MOVIE DAYS.
Opens April 19:
3 FACES, Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s fourth completed feature since he was officially banned from filmmaking is one of his very best. Panahi begins with a smartphone video shot by a young woman (Marziyeh Rezaei) who announces to the camera that her parents have forbidden her from realizing her dream of acting and then, by all appearances, takes her own life. The recipient of the video, Behnaz Jafari, as herself, asks Panahi, as himself, to drive her to the woman’s tiny home village near the Turkish border to investigate. From there, 3 Faces builds in narrative, thematic, and visual intricacy to put forth a grand expression of community and solidarity under the eye of oppression.
Friday & Saturday, April 19 & 20 @ 9:00 pm - THE BACHELORS OF BROKEN HILL FARM presented by visiting filmmaker Erika Yeomans. The true soap opera of actors, writers and gentleman farmers - Frank Provo and John Pickard. In the early 1930s, they fell in love while working on a radio program and went to become a successful writing team for television soap operas.
Sundays @ 7:00 pm - SONGS FROM EARTH, a weekly international concert series curated by DAVID C. SYMONS.
Monday, April 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm - BOB KAUFMAN’S BIRTHDAY BASH, This event is a celebration of legendary poet Bob Kaufman's 94th birthday. Come listen to poets read selections from Kaufman's work as well as original work inspired by Kaufman. Born in New Orleans in 1925, Bob Kaufman (who died in 1986) is considered one of the greatest American poets. By donation.
Mondays @ 9:00 pm - HELEN GILLET PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY - The acclaimed Belgian cellist, singer, composer will perform her beautiful looping chansons and original compositions at Zeitgeist every Monday night. $10
Tuesdays from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Lounge: NO FRETS, Moroccan musician AMINE BOUCETTA and SIMON MOUSHABECK and guests will perform a weekly program of Arabic music and jazz. Oud, New Flute, Arabic Accordion, Riq, Tabla, Darbuka, etc. $10.
Wednesdays from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm - MARTIN MASAKOWSKI will preform solo and with special guests. He uses double-bass to explore various folk traditions from around the world, specializing in Eastern European and Middle Eastern music and most recently has started taking these sounds into the electronic realm.
Thursdays in March from 7:00 to 9:00 pm (in the Lounge) - DJ DAVIS ROGAN performs New Orleans jazz, junk and Mardi Gras music.
Thursdays in March @ 9:00 pm - JONATHAN FREILICH PRESENTS - The acclaimed guitarist and composer from The Naked Orchestra, Naked On The Floor and The New Orleans Klezmer All-stars will perform and curate a weekly creative music concert series featuring local as well as internationally renown musicians.
Opens April 26:
MINE 9, presented by visiting director Eddie Mentor & actor Clint James. Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.
Saturday, April 27 @ 9:00 pm - JONATHAN FREILICH & JAMES SINGLETON
Sundays @ 7:00 pm - SONGS FROM EARTH, a weekly international concert series curated by DAVID C. SYMONS.
Mondays @ 9:00 pm - HELEN GILLET PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY - The acclaimed Belgian cellist, singer, composer will perform her beautiful looping chansons and original compositions at Zeitgeist every Monday night. $10
Tuesdays from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Lounge: NO FRETS, Moroccan musician AMINE BOUCETTA and SIMON MOUSHABECK and guests will perform a weekly program of Arabic music and jazz. Oud, New Flute, Arabic Accordion, Riq, Tabla, Darbuka, etc. $10.
Wednesdays from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm - MARTIN MASAKOWSKI will preform solo and with special guests. He uses double-bass to explore various folk traditions from around the world, specializing in Eastern European and Middle Eastern music and most recently has started taking these sounds into the electronic realm.
Thursdays in March from 7:00 to 9:00 pm (in the Lounge) - DJ DAVIS ROGAN performs New Orleans jazz, junk and Mardi Gras music.
Thursdays in March @ 9:00 pm - JONATHAN FREILICH PRESENTS - The acclaimed guitarist and composer from The Naked Orchestra, Naked On The Floor and The New Orleans Klezmer All-stars will perform and curate a weekly creative music concert series featuring local as well as internationally renown musicians.
Friday, May 18 @ 9:00 pm - FIORE - IN LOVE WITH CLAY by visiting filmmaker Richard Whymark. Internationally-renowned artist Fiore De Henriquez flew in the face of 20th Century gender norms, blazing her own trail and shaping her own identity in the art world across Europe and the United States. But there was more to Fiore than sculpture. While battling with - and eventually accepting - her intersexuality, duality became prominent in her art, her life and her explosive love affairs.Screens as part of our ongoing series BEUYS AND BEYOND: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS ON FILM.
Opens May 24:
MEETING GORBACHEV by Werner Herzog. The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
Saturday, June 1 @ 9:00 pm - Electronica from Shreveport featuring: CHRIS ALEXANDER and QUIET, ETC (8bit Hip-Pop Punk from Ian Quiet and Chris Meshell (Das Pretzels)
Sunday, June 2 @ 9:00 pm - BITE ME presented by visiting filmmaker Calaine Schafer. a subversive romantic comedy about a real-life vampire and the IRS agent who audits her. There will be an after party with Capes, Cocktails and filming of the film tour podcast.
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Schedule is subject to change as films are held over – please check the website for updates nightly.
Zeitgeist is a non-profit, artist run media arts center that celebrates its 31st anniversary this November.
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