Event: The Art of Chestee Harrington
Date: Saturday, November 9, 2024
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Location: Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum
800 Front Street
Natchitoches, LA 71457
Contact: (318) 357-2492
Please join us at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum as Chestee Harrington talks about her career as an artist and her upcoming exhibition, “Tranquility Above the Circus: A Journey from December 5th, 1941.”
In a career that spans six decades, Chestee Harrington has created an extraordinary body of work that captures Louisiana’s landscapes and cultures, its people and their stories. She describes her genre as “spiritual expressionism.” Chestee has lived in many places, including New York City and a houseboat in the salt marsh, way down below New Orleans near Lake Borgne. She lives and works in her native Louisiana, where she is still capturing light and telling stories.
Free and open to the public.
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Event: Museum Open for LHSAA Visitors
Date: Sunday, November 17, 2024
Time: 4:00-7:00pm
Location: Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum
800 Front Street
Natchitoches, LA 71457
Contact: (318) 357-2492
The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum will be open special hours on Sunday, November 17, 2024 from 4:00-7:00pm to give the LHSAA Cross Country State Championship participants and their families time to visit while in town. The museum recognizes nearly 500 Louisiana sports icons and ambassadors as well as providing a broad overview about the origin of our region’s distinctive regional culture.
Tours will also be presented by Sports Hall of Fame Chairman Doug Ireland.
Admission is FREE and complimentary cocoa and cookies will be served.
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Event: “Creole Origins: Cane River Diasporas, 1770-1830” exhibit opening reception
Date: Friday, November 22, 2024
Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm
Location: Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum
800 Front Street
Natchitoches, LA 71457
Contact: (318) 357-2492
The Cane River National Heritage Area and University College London (UCL) is proud to announce the upcoming opening of the highly anticipated exhibition “Creole Origins: Cane River Diasporas, 1770–1830” presented for the first time at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum. The exhibition offers an in-depth exploration of the Cane River Creole culture, chronicling key decades of migration, cultural development, and the lasting legacy of this vibrant community. Through this exceptional partnership, artifacts and historical records never before assembled together will help uncover the origins and evolution of Creole identity in Louisiana while delving into the broader cultural interactions between French, Spanish, African, and Native American groups, including the Caddo people, who inhabited the region long before European colonization. By examining the experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants, such as Marie-Thérèse Coincoin, the exhibit sheds light on the evolution of landownership and cultural identity in the Cane River area.
The exhibition will be on display from November 22, 2024, through March 15, 2026, with a grand opening celebration on Friday, November 22, 2024, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. The community is invited to join for an evening of history, culture, and celebration as the exhibit is unveiled. The event will feature local artists and musicians demonstrating the cultural traditions of the region, and it is free and open to the public.
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