What is Galentine’s Day?

According to the founder of Galentine’s Day, Leslie Knope of Parks and Recreation, “Oh, it’s only the best day of the year. Every February 13th, my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home, and we just come and kick it, breakfast-style. Ladies celebrating ladies. It’s like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus frittatas.”

Well, we’re kicking it a little early at our Third Annual Bubbles & Bonbons: A Galentine’s Day Affair on Friday, February 7th, 2020. Get your gal pals together and get your tickets now, because this is one event that WILL sell out! Presented by the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art and Gulf Coast Woman Magazine, Tickets are $25 and include Champagne sponsored by Fort Bayou Wine & Spirits, culinary delicacies from the best chefs on the Coast – such as Chef Austin Sumrall of White Pillars Restaurant and Lounge, entertainment by Symone French, red carpet photos with photographer William Colgin, and a Best Fun Dress Contest.

Coastal Fashion Week

Exalte’ Magazine has one mission, to bring together Fashion + Philanthropy.

Join us on January 20th as we continue to break the barriers of the typical fashion weeks with Coastal Fashion Week 2020, the only multi-state fashion week in the world. CFW’s 2020 will bring together the styles of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida in one week of fashion.

Coastal Fashion Week will showcase the most cutting-edge designers and high-style boutiques across the coast so get ready for a show you won’t forget!

Doors will open to the public at 6:00 PM, and the show will begin at 7:00 PM in the Mississippi Sound Welcome Center on the campus of the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art. Coastal Fashion Week will bring to you multiple runway shows and closing with a charity presentation Coats for a Cause, in which each model will walk the runway in a fashionable coat he/she will donate to a local organization. Tickets can be purchased via Facebook or Eventbrite.

OOMA After Hours

Charles Smith Ceramics

OOMA After Hours is The Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art‘s evening centered around opening receptions and artist talks. It’s your chance to enjoy a glass of wine with our current exhibiting artists and see their art for free! Our current exhibiting artists are ceramicist Charles Smith, whose work is on display in the Beau Rivage Casino Gallery of African American Art, and mixed media visual artist Carmen Lugo, whose work is on view in the IP Casino Resort Spa Exhibitions Gallery. Also on view is the Mississippi Art Colony‘s annual group show on the second floor of our City of Biloxi Center for Ceramics. More info here.

OOMA After Hours will also host the opening of the second run of our World Through My Eyes program‘s exhibition featuring local students who worked with Carmen Lugo to create the works that will be on view in the Mississippi Sound Welcome Center. This will also be the first look at our second “pod” gallery. The Great Families of the Gulf Coast Gallery is part of the John S. and James L. Knight Pod Pavillion and will host the museum’s collection of Toshiko Takaezu ceramics. Funding for this gallery was provided by our Great Families of the Gulf Coast Campaign.

Carmen Lugo will also be giving an artist talk relating to her exhibition entitled “Animal.”

The Third Annual Bubbles & Bonbons: What is Galentine’s Day?