Coming Up….
- Krewe social: Tuesday, March 3, 6 p.m. at Oak and Ale
- Fête Française: Saturday, March 21 — need volunteers
- Book Club: Saturday, March 28, 10 a.m
Details below, more events on our website calendar
Krewe social Tuesday March 3, 6-8 p.m.
We’ll hang out at Oak and Ale (8118 Oak St., map). Get to know other krewe members, swap ideas, and ask questions. These socials usually have no program or agenda and are simply a relaxed hang-out session. Prospective members welcome. Drop in when you can, stay as long as you like.
Fête Française Saturday March 21, 11:00 – 5:00 p.m.
The Fête Française street festival celebrates all things French in New Orleans, with a full music line-up, food from French restaurants, kids games and more. It’s a fundraiser for one of our French immersion school partners, Ecole Bilingue. We need volunteer krewe members to work our information table (in costume is best). Volunteers can work in shifts; you don’t have to cover the whole day. Sign up to volunteer!
Book Club March 28: Pelican Girls
The next book club meeting will be 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 28, location to be determined.
Pelican Girls:
Book description: Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France’s colony in the wilds of North America has space to spare and needs families to fill it. So the director of the hospital rounds up nearly a hundred female “volunteers” of childbearing age—orphans, prisoners, and mental patients—to be shipped to New Orleans.
Book Club:
- Free and open to all. (No requirement to be a krewe member!)
- Books available at Frenchmen Art and Books.
- Book Club coordinater: Krewe founder Amy Kirk Duvoisin
- We have planned an in-person discussion of each book, but we may add a second discussion session on Zoom if there’s enough interest. Let us know if you would be interested in a Zoom discussion.
- Members of the book club voted to select one book about New Orleans history and one book about Joan of Arc this year.
