Salon 2023: How you can help

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Salon de Jeanne d’Arc free full-day conference Saturday Sept. 16 @ Tulane

The Joan of Arc Project will present its 13th annual conference, the Salon de Jeanne d’Arc, on Saturday September 16th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Rogers Memorial Chapel at Tulane University.  (full schedule) The free lectures and presentations by local scholars, authors and artists are open to the public. Drop in for a particular session or stay all day! This year’s talks focus on the theme “Journeys with Joan: Spiritual, Historical and Cultural Journeys with Joan of Arc.” Topics cover Joan of Arc, her medieval French context, and the French heritage of New Orleans, presented by the Joan of Arc Project, producers of the annual Joan of Arc parade in partnership with the Medieval & Early Modern Studies Department at Tulane University.

Pre-order your lunch

We can’t get the crepes food truck this year, but Crêpes à la Cart is still going to provide our lunch. Pre-order your crêpes here.

New Venue: Rogers Memorial Chapel

We’re looking forward to a new venue this year, the Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel at 1229 Broadway (map), with a larger and more open lecture room, with room for our sale and information tables right at the lecture hall entrance. It’s also got a lovely shaded outdoor green space where we’ll enjoy lunch. We’re really excited about this space, but be warned that street parking on Broadway is the only convenient parking. Ride-sharing encouraged! There should be sufficient street parking, but you might have to walk a bit. 

Livestream

It’s more fun in person, but we WILL live stream the event!  You can view the live stream on YouTube here, or search in your smart TV’s YouTube channel for “Salon de Jeanne d’Arc 2023: Journeys with Joan.” 

Help spread the word

The Salon is a great event for prospective members, so invite your friends to the whole day or to a particular session that would interest them.  Here’s the links to share:

Please help us get some social media buzz by posting to your networks, marking that you’ll attend, sharing on your page, etc.

Volunteers needed!

We need help with:

  • Bringing some coolers of non-alcoholic beverages for our picnic lunch
  • Picking up our pre-ordered lunches and delivering them fresh at lunch time (walking two doors down the street)
  • Set up and pack up
  • Greeting and staffing the krewe info table (right next to the lecture room in our new venue)
  • Videographers to help us make a video of the process of getting our giant dragon puppet up on his feet (during the lunch break)

Sign up here to volunteer.

Workshop this Sunday Sept. 10 1-4 p.m.

We plan to launch throw sales at the Salon as usual, and we could use some help getting throws ready to sell and with other crafty things to get ready for the Salon. 1-4 p.m. Sunday Sept. 10 at the home of Captain Amanda (7330 Sycamore St., map)