Friends of the Cabildo Calendar

COURTESY OF NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY

Founding of New Orleans History Class

September 23, 25, 26, 30 | 4-6pm | $30 Members / $40 GA | Zoom | Recorded

Historian Charles Chamberlain will present a series of four lectures covering the founding of New Orleans – providing the background of environmental context and initial French colonial settlement, and then Bienville’s founding of the city in 1718 and the subsequent physical and cultural development of Nouvelle Orleans in the 1720s and 1730s. Emphasis will be place on memoirs, illustrations, and maps from the period that document the experiences of the inhabitants and the development of the city’s distinct Creole culture.

All classes are recorded and distributed the next day.

Founding Class Link

2024 Ghostly Gallivant

Welcome to the 2024 Ghostly Gallivant Tours – Gallatin Street – A Perfect Hell on Earth Tours! Join us on Fri, Oct 18 at 5:30 PM for a spooky adventure at The Cabildo. Get ready to explore the haunted history of Gallatin Street and uncover chilling tales of the past. This in-person tour/event promises to be a night of thrills and scares. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to experience a perfect hell on earth! Get your tickets now and prepare for a Ghostly Gallivant like no other.

Ghostly Gallivant Tickets

Spring 2025 Series

All March Lectures by Greg Beaman – 6pm – Zoom | Beaman is a historian of Atlantic slavery writing about urban development, the built environment, and spatiality in eighteenth and nineteenth century New Orleans. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Georgetown University and a Research Fellow Smithsonian National Museum of American History

March 11 – Slavery in the Suburbs: Slavery and Real Estate in the Faubourgs of New Orleans

March 18 – Rival Soundscapes of Civil War New Orleans

March 25 – Rival Soundscapes of Claiborne Avenue: Music and Movements of the 1960s

April 1 – TBA

April 8 – TBA

April 15 – TBA

2024-2025 Member Lecture Series

Free to Members | $10 Non-Members/Lecture / All Fall or Spring Lectures Package $25 (Get a Membership for 12 Months of lectures) | All Lectures at 6pm & Tuesdays

September 10th – Robert Freeland – The Battle of Lake Pontchartrain (1779)

September 17th – Errol Laborde – When Rex Met Zulu

September 24th – Theresa McCulla – Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans

October 8th – Anthony Stanonis – New Orleans Pralines: Plantation Sugar, Louisiana Pecans and the Marketing of Southern Nostalgia

October 15th – Joseph Jewell – White Man’s Work: Race and Middle Class Mobility into the Progressive Era

November 5th – Francis Kolb Turnbell – Spanish Louisiana: Contest for Boderlands, 1763-1805

November 12th – Bruce Spizer – The Beatles at City Park at 60 (Don’t miss the Walrus doing the entire Beatles City Park Show at the Jazz Museum)

Member Lecture Series Signup Link

2024-2025 FOC Concert Series

All Concerts at 7pm at the NO Jazz Museum 3rd Floor | 100 tickets/Show

Individual Concert Ticket – $30 GA / $25 Members

$200 GA Season Front Row Guaranteed Seat / $180 Member Season

$150 GA Season Second Row Guaranteed Seat / $125 Member Season

$125 GA Season / $100 Season Member (Non Front Two Rows)

November 2nd (Saturday) – Sonny Landreth

November 22nd – The Walrus Presents: 60th Anniversary Beatles at City Park Concert

December 20th – 106th Professor Longhair Birthday Show with River Eckert

January 24th – Marcia Ball

March 14th – Sunpie and the Louisiana Sun Spots

April 4th -The Iguanas

Concert Tickets Link

Missed Any of our Classes? We Record All Lectures

Purchase a ticket by emailing jason@friendsofthecabildo.org and we can get you copies you can watch for up to 6 months.

5-Part Neighborhoods of New Orleans Class w/Dr. Karen Leathem, Joyce Miller and Dr. Charles Chamberlain | Zoom | Tickets: $40 | Members $30

Founding Neighborhoods- Downtown Faubourgs

Downtown Faubourgs- Treme, Marigny, Bywater, 7th Ward

Uptown Neighborhoods- Garden District, Uptown and Carrollton

Expansion of the City – Broadmoor, Mid City, Lakefront

Suburbs of the Metro Region – Jefferson Parish, St. Bernard and the Northshore

Symposium, Carnival and Lecture Series Tickets

Previously Recorded Classes that can be purchased for 6-month use (Educational Only)

Researching Your New Orleans Property Seminar and History of New Orleans Architecture Lecture (3 hour Class) ($25 Member – $35GA)

Founding of New Orleans Class (4 Classes) ($30 Member – $40 GA)

History of Carnival Class (4 Classes): ($30 Member – $40GA)

History of Louisiana and New Orleans Music

History of Rum (3 Classes): ($25 Member – $35GA)

We also have recorded all of our symposiums, over 75 lectures on Louisiana History and Culture!

Yoga at the Cabildo

Yoga at the Cabildo takes place at the Cabildo (701 Chartres Street) on beautiful Jackson Square. Layla Ross gives classes every Saturday morning for Friends of the Cabildo Members, locals and tourists. Member tickets are $10 and non-members are $20. If you have a mat you are welcome to bring one if not we have plenty available at no charge. Become a member HERE and you can access a $10 Yoga ticket and get access to the Cabildo, Presbytere, 1850 House, Jazz Museums and a free walking tour ticket (The 1850 House can give you temporary card, $69 Value, Memberships start at $25)

Link to Signup for Yoga at the Cabildo

Second Thursday Lecture Series

Thursday, September 12th, 6pm | Sponsored by Friends of the Cabildo

Join us for a virtual evening with Dr. Frances K. Turnbell discussing her new book Spanish Louisiana: Contest for Borderlands, 1763–1803. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Cabildo as part of the Second Thursday Lecture Series. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required. The program will take place on Zoom. Please register here and a link will be emailed to you on the day of the lecture

Sign Up Here for the FOC Free Lecture Series