Evenings with Enrique

A free event in the Botanical Garden at City Park

New Orleans Botanical Garden Announces "Evenings with Enrique" in The Helis Foundation Enrique Alférez Sculpture Garden

The New Orleans Botanical Garden will extend its hours to 8pm every Wednesday during the month of April beginning Wednesday, April 4 to celebrate "Evenings with Enrique." Throughout the year, each Wednesday is free to Louisiana residents, courtesy of The Helis Foundation.

Located inside New Orleans City Park, the New Orleans Botanical Garden is one of the few remaining examples of public garden design from the Works Progress Administration and showcases the Art Deco influences of three renowned talents of the era: architect Richard Koch, landscape architect William Wiedorn, and Enrique Alférez. In October 2015, the New Orleans Botanical Garden unveiled The Helis Foundation Enrique Alférez Sculpture Garden, an 8,000sq. ft. park featuring 15 sculptures by the famed Mexican-American artist set within sweeping footpaths surrounded by lush tropical flowers and shrubs.

Each week, "Evenings with Enrique" will feature local musicians playing among the collection of 15 sculptures by the famed Mexican-American artist. Visitors to the garden will be able to view the work of Enrique Alférez under enhanced lighting and fire baskets suspended from the branches of the Live Oak tree. Guests are invited to purchase mojitos and Latin food provided by La Cocinita food truck.

The New Orleans Botanical Garden will extend its hours every Wednesday during the month of April (April 5, 12, 19 and 26) until 8pm.

               
Free Hours: 10am to 8pm                     Special Programing: 5pm to 8pm

Scheduled Performers:

• April 4: Julio and Cesar: Guitarists from Guatemala
• April 11: Raphael Bas: French guitarist, harmonica player, vocalist from France
• April 18: Paky Saavedra: Composer, singer and guitarist from Honduras
• April 25 : Manny Arteaga: Guitarist, vocalist from Venezuela

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It dawned on me that even when I am going though horrible chemo, I feel better when I can be outside in the summer. I enjoy sitting in a lawn chair out in front and chatting with the neighbors.

BY Jane Biehl, Ph.D.

PUBLISHED April 01, 2018

Jane has earned three advanced degrees and had several fulfilling careers as a librarian, rehabilitation counselor and college teacher. Presently she does freelance writing. Her articles include the subjects of hearing loss and deafness, service dogs and struggling with cancer. She has been a cancer survivor since 2010.

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A Mandate for Male Breast Cancer

If we find ourselves coasting through cancer, it may be time to kick it up a notch.

BY Khevin Barnes

PUBLISHED March 28, 2018

Khevin Barnes is a Male Breast Cancer survivor, magician and speaker. He is currently writing, composing and producing a comedy stage musical about Male Breast Cancer Awareness. He travels wherever he is invited to speak to (and do a little magic for) men and women about breast cancer. www.BreastCancerSpeaker.com        ww.MaleBreastCancerSurvivor.com

I've just returned from a visit with my oncologist. Male breast cancer has been my constant companion since May of 2014. My visit today included a few laughs and some minor concerns. She scheduled my next ultrasound and mammogram and expressed some uneasiness over two lymph nodes she can feel deep under my left armpit, but for the most part, there is nothing new to report. I can continue coasting through my cancer.

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