CARY SAURAGE
COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER
Ballet for Guys class will be taught by dancer, teacher, choreographer, and Atigymnastique certified practitioner, Giulia Fedeli. Designed specifically for male dancers ages 13 and up.
Saturday
11:00-12:30
Theatre Baton Rouge performs scenes from their upcoming performance of Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Also catch TBR’s musical theatre performances outside on the Community Stage at 1:15.
Saturday
12:30-1:00
Vagabondance presents MOVE LAB, an immersive class offering individuals of all ages and experience levels an opportunity to create, explore, and play with the development of their movement language. Dancers Scarlett Wynne and Erik Sampson will also perform a contemporary modern dance.
Saturday
1:00-2:00, Move Lab
3:45-4:00, Dance Performance
Sunday,
3:15-3:30, Dance Performance
*Don’t miss their family friendly “Movement for All”, interactive, family friendly fitness dance on Sunday at 12:30 outside on the Community Stage.
Baton Rouge Film Commission works to grow the local film and television industry to create a sustainable economic impact for our community and to keep our area as a top global film friendly location. View a series of shorts by local film makers.
Saturday
5:00-6:30
Sunday
12:30-2:30
Africans on the Mississippi – Cuttin' Cane is a short film episode of a five-part docuseries, exploring the African American connection to water –extending from the Senegal and Gambia Rivers to the Atlantic crossing, to the Mississippi River. Produced by Spencer Howard of Learning Tree Productions.
Sunday
11:30-12:00
Leela Yoga Lifestyle will provide a gentle yoga practice for adults in the Shell Gallery, as well as a kid friendly, interactive session outside on the Community Stage. Get your Ebb & FLOW on!
Sunday
11:00-11:45, Gentle Yoga Practice (Shell Gallery)
2:30-3:00, Kids Yoga (Community Stage)
Lead Out Louisiana is a video series documenting songwriting and performance workshops with inmates at Hunts Correctional Center. Mary McBride and Charles DeGravelles will be joined by formerly incarcerated Ardic Fields, to screen Ardic’s workshop episode and talk about the process of turning his life story into song lyrics, and turning those lyrics into a recorded song. The screening includes Mary McBride’s band recording Ardic's song at the legendary Dockside Studio. The presentation culminates in a discussion about the healing power of music, and the future of music and songwriting as a life-affirming rehabilitative tool in the transformation of incarcerated men and women.
Saturday
2:30-3:30
Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre presents excerpts from their spring ballet, Rapunzel.
Saturday
4:30-5:00
and also outside on the Community Stage from 3:00-3:30
Baton Rouge Improv Festival is a five-day festival April 20-24, filled with shows, workshops, and fun. We bring people together to celebrate improv comedy. All tickets sales support teaching artists and our mission to bring joy and build community. Ebb & Flow Festival goers receive a sneak peek into BRIF happenings.
Sunday
2:30-3:00
Witness to Change: Conversations on Coastal Impacts” is a new adult reading and discussion series taking place at Louisiana public libraries and community partners through the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ Coastal Impacts initiative, funded by BHP. The series incorporates history, memoir, fiction, and engages members of the general public in conversations on the beauty of our costal communities and the challenges they face. Click here for the full listing of books, topics, and sessions
Saturday
11:00-12:00, Session 1
Line 4 Line is a community-based literacy program that provides free haircuts to boys age 2-13 in exchange for reading books. Line 4 Line works through Barbershops to support literacy, closes the achievement gap, and provides positive learning opportunities for urban youth through mentor led out-of-school reading and creative programs. Their mobile outreach allows them to bring their programs to various community spaces, including the Ebb & Flow Festival. Look for their trailer to be parked outside the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center.
Sunday,
11:00-6:00
Enjoy Baton Rouge Walking Tours connect visitors to Downtown Baton Rouge's past, present and future through tours that are fun, informative, and entertaining.
Saturday
11:00, departing from the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center
Sunday
1:00, departing from the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center
Louisiana Poet Laureate Mona Lisa Saloy, Ph.D., is an award-winning author & folklorist, educator, and scholar of Creole culture in articles, documentaries, and poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina. Currently, Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor and of English at Dillard University, Dr. Saloy documents Creole culture in sidewalk songs, jump-rope rhymes, and clap-hand games to discuss the importance of play. She writes on the significance of the Black Beat poets--especially Bob Kaufman, on the African American Toasting Tradition, Black talk, and on keeping Creole to today. Her first book, Red Beans & Ricely Yours, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Her collection of poems, Second Line Home, captures New Orleans speech, family dynamics, celebrates New Orleans, the unique culture the world loves. Saloy’s screenplay for the documentary Easter Rock premiered in Paris, the Ethnograph Film Festival & at the national Black museum. She's lectured on Black Creole Culture at Poets House-NYC; the Smithsonian; Purdue University; the University of Washington; and Woodland Patterns Book Center. Her documentary, Bleu Orleans, is on Black Creole Culture. She is an editorial reviewer for Meridians: Feminism, race, transnationalism.
Sunday
1:00-2:30 (Shell Gallery)