NOSACONN helps Launch Community Festival going strong for 2 years (Thursday’s in Armstrong Park)

 Damon Batiste Performs – Morocco The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music is one of the signature events of the Spirit of Fes Foundation. The aim of this Festival is to harness the arts and spirituality in the service of human and social development, and the relationship between peoples and cultures. The 19th Festival takes […]

NEW ORLEANS – Twenty local students from Batiste Cultural Arts Academy (BCAA) headed out this past Monday to the nation’s capital in preparation for a February 13, 2013 meeting with First Lady Michelle Obama.  These twenty students from BCAA were chosen as part of the “Turnaround Arts Commission,” a grant received from President Barack Obama’s […]

The Batiste Cultural Arts Academy in New Orleans, an ExpandED School in partnership with NOSACONN, recently became one of just eight schools in the nation to receive a competitive two-year Turnaround Arts Grant from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. The committee says the grants are intended to “test the hypothesis that high-quality and integrated arts education […]