You’re invited to a morning of mini-float building, refreshments, and fair favorites with P.5 Artist EJ Hill at Joe Brown Park, where his multimedia installation, Rises in the East, is located. This is a family friendly and all ages event. 

To ensure the safety of P.5 visitors, face masks are required for admission.

About Rises in the East:

Focusing on Black leisure and community, EJ Hill’s Prospect.5 contribution centers New Orleans East’s Six Flags Jazzland, which opened in 2000 and shut its doors after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Viewing the park’s closure as the loss of space for Black joy, Hill researched what happened to the now defunct theme park and what plans are in store for its future. Particularly taken by the Big Easy Ferris Wheel, a massive and iconic structure, Hill used a gondola, or enclosed seat, from this ride as the centerpiece of his sculpture installed in New Orleans East.

He chose to place it in Joe W. Brown Park, because it is a space where Black residents continue to play, connect, and celebrate. This sculpture, Rises in the East, is a monument to the recent history of New Orleans and to the existence, persistence, and necessity of everyday pleasures. Presented by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Open Society Foundations.