Upcoming Events
May 2022
CreativeMornings New Orleans with Hannah Chalew
CreativeMornings New Orleans returns to NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts with a program featuring artist Hannah Chalew. Read More
Find out more »June 2022
Akhnaten
In conjunction with the current exhibition Queen Nefertari’s Egypt, NOMA and the New Orleans Opera present a screening of Akhnaten from the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning Live in HD series. Read More
Find out more »Lecture with Kara Cooney: Women and Power in Ancient Egypt
In this lecture, Dr. Kara Cooney, author of When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, addresses questions of ancient social inequalities and how women negotiated their limited leadership roles. How was their power expressed when regularly cloaked by a man’s dominance? Were they able to rule “behind the throne”? How much of this ancient reality still touches us today? Read More
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