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White Linen Night
New Orleans, LA · Arts & Culture
- When
- August 7, 2027
- Where
- Julia Street, Warehouse Arts District · New Orleans · LA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
White Linen Night opens the Warehouse Arts District's galleries and museums for a single first-Saturday-of-August evening, with visitors traditionally dressed head to toe in white linen. It has run since the mid 1990s and is organized by the Arts District New Orleans association. Live music and food vendors line Julia Street for the event.
The history within reach
- White Linen Nightsame spot
White Linen Night opens the Warehouse Arts District's galleries and museums for a single first-Saturday-of-August evening, with visitors traditionally dressed head to toe in white linen.
Andrew Higgins built shallow-draft landing craft designed for Louisiana swamps in integrated yards employing 20,000 people at equal pay.
San Fermin in Nueva Orleans spoofs Pamplona's Running of the Bulls, with roller derby skaters wielding foam bats standing in for bulls as runners flee through the Warehouse District.
- Cochon Butcher0.1 mi
Donald Link's whole-hog shop behind his Cajun restaurant, doing charcuterie in a city that had mostly stopped making its own.
- Truman Capote0.4 mi
Born Truman Streckfus Persons in New Orleans and farmed out to relatives in Monroeville, Alabama, where his best friend was the girl next door, Harper Lee, she put him in Mockingbird as Dill, and he helped her research nothing at all, whatever the rumours say..