Café Istanbul is a 3,800 square feet performance hall with a mission of fostering, encouraging and promoting performance art in New Orleans. The line up of events will include live music, dance, theatre, poetry, comedy, film and visual arts. Located at 2372 St Claude Ave, in the New Orleans Healing Center, a 55,000 square feet building formerly Universal Furniture, Cafe Istanbul joins the St Claude arts district as it latest partner providing coveted and needed space for the ever burgeoning NOLA theatre and performance community.
From its inception, Café Istanbul has been designed to be a top notch platform for local artist. It will provide a high quality sound system with great sound proofing. Around the perimeter of the balcony’s ceiling there is a two inch wide bass trap built to prevent bass sound from bouncing all over the room. Additionally the ceiling is packed with 5 inches of Quiet Batt insulation and 10 inches of regular home insulation. The aluminum paneling that wrapped around Universal Furniture for the last 50 years has been used to create a beautiful Wains Cot around the first floor of Café Istanbul. The panels have been turned backwards to allow sound boards wrapped in fabric to be placed in each of them. The higher walls on both floors will have over 50 wooden sound panels, two feet by four feet down stairs and four feet by four feet upstairs. With a cost of more than $100 each, these panels will encase 4 inch fiberglass hull board (a material used to insulate ships). This hull board will also wrapped in fabric.
The balcony will be dedicated as gallery space displaying the work of local painters and photographers on a monthly rotating basis. Café Istanbul plans to be a part of the St Claude Arts District Gallery Openings that happens the second Saturday of every month. Meryt Harding is a local artist who has been hired to develop a roster of visual artist and facilitate the gallery space.
French Ciné Club Film Screening, Reception, Discussion "Toi & Moi" (You and Me) French with English subtitles Comedy by Julie Lopes-Curval. 2006 France, 90 minutes featuring Marion Cotillard, Julie Depardieu, Jonathan Zaccai, Eric Berger and Chantal Lauby. Lena (Marion Cotillard) and her sister Ariane (Julie Depardieu) are both single girls… More
Upstairs New Orleans Premiere UPSTAIRS is a new dramatic musical about the deadliest crime against gays in U.S. History, the 1973 Arson fire at the Up Stairs Lounge in New Orleans, Louisiana, a tragedy that languishes in obscurity, its victims seldom remembered, its perpetrator unknown. UPSTAIRS will have its World… More
Mario Abney landed in New Orleans via Chicago and has heated up the scene with a taste of the Windy City. The band, which will play mostly original material, includes his talented, jazz-wise music friends from here and around the country. Every Wednesday night @ Cafe Istanbul. More
Cafe Istanbul
2372 St. Claude Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70117
phone:
web: http://cafeistanbulnola.com
Arts Council Of New Orleans
935 Gravier Street, Suite 850
New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 523-1465
