METAIRIE, LOUISIANA – MAY 22: Attendees wait on their cars prior to a screening of the movie “Grease” at a pop-up drive-in theatre at Bucktown Marina Park on May 22, 2020 in Metairie, Louisiana. With indoor theaters in many places still closed due to coronavirus, drive-in theaters have seen a rise in attendance. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
METAIRIE, LOUISIANA – MAY 22: Attendees wait on their cars prior to a screening of the movie “Grease” at a pop-up drive-in theatre at Bucktown Marina Park on May 22, 2020 in Metairie, Louisiana. With indoor theaters in many places still closed due to coronavirus, drive-in theaters have seen a rise in attendance. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
METAIRIE, LOUISIANA – MAY 22: Attendees wait on their cars prior to a screening of the movie “Grease” at a pop-up drive-in theatre at Bucktown Marina Park on May 22, 2020 in Metairie, Louisiana. With indoor theaters in many places still closed due to coronavirus, drive-in theaters have seen a rise in attendance. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
METAIRIE, LOUISIANA – MAY 22: Attendees wait on their cars prior to a screening of the movie “Grease” at a pop-up drive-in theatre at Bucktown Marina Park on May 22, 2020 in Metairie, Louisiana. With indoor theaters in many places still closed due to coronavirus, drive-in theaters have seen a rise in attendance. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
METAIRIE, LOUISIANA – MAY 22: Attendees wait in their cars prior to the screening of the movie “Grease” at a pop-up drive-in theatre at Bucktown Marina Park on May 22, 2020 in Metairie, Louisiana. With indoor theaters in many places still closed due to coronavirus, drive-in theaters have seen a rise in attendance. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
METAIRIE, LOUISIANA – MAY 22: Guests attend a screening of the movie “Grease” at a pop-up drive-in theatre at Bucktown Marina Park on May 22, 2020 in Metairie, Louisiana. With indoor theaters in many places still closed due to coronavirus, drive-in theaters have seen a rise in attendance. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
Photo: Cory Morton
METAIRIE, LOUISIANA – MAY 22: A worker departs a portable bathroom after sanitizing it between attendees at a screening of the movie “Grease” at a pop-up drive-in theatre at Bucktown Marina Park on May 22, 2020 in Metairie, Louisiana. With indoor theaters in many places still closed due to coronavirus, drive-in theaters have seen a rise in attendance. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
METAIRIE, LOUISIANA – MAY 22: A worker enters a portable bathroom to sanitize it between attendees at a screening of the movie “Grease” at a pop-up drive-in theatre at Bucktown Marina Park on May 22, 2020 in Metairie, Louisiana. With indoor theaters in many places still closed due to coronavirus, drive-in theaters have seen a rise in attendance. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
METAIRIE, LOUISIANA – MAY 22: Attendees prior to a screening of the movie “Grease” at a pop-up drive-in theatre at Bucktown Marina Park on May 22, 2020 in Metairie, Louisiana. With indoor theaters in many places still closed due to coronavirus, drive-in theaters have seen a rise in attendance. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
METAIRIE, LOUISIANA – MAY 22: Attendees prior to a screening of the movie “Grease” at a pop-up drive-in theatre at Bucktown Marina Park on May 22, 2020 in Metairie, Louisiana. With indoor theaters in many places still closed due to coronavirus, drive-in theaters have seen a rise in attendance. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images)
Customers walk down Bourbon Street in the French Quarter with take-out pizza, passing a restaurant with a crowded bar on the first evening of Phase One of the re-opening of New Orleans during the pandemic. Photographed on Saturday, May 16, 2020. (Photo by Michael DeMocker)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 14: Professional modern dancer Kristi Ann Schopfer trains remotely via her laptop in her Brooklyn apartment on May 14, 2020 in New York City. Online education, particularly remote teaching and learning, has spiked considerably due to the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 14: Professional modern dancer Kristi Ann Schopfer trains remotely via her laptop in her Brooklyn apartment on May 14, 2020 in New York City. Online education, particularly remote teaching and learning, has spiked considerably due to the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Workout self- care and maintaining social distance during the coronavirus outbreak at home
Andrew Witchey, founder of Dancing Gnome. Photo: Cory Morton
Workout self- care and maintaining social distance during the coronavirus outbreak at home
Photo: Cory Morton
Photo: Cory Morton
This year’s White Linen Night easily trumped last year’s white-clad event simply because everyone stayed dry. (White Linen Night 2017 was also the evening of the disasterous Aug. 5 floods, which NOLA residents waded, kayaked and swam through to get to their homes.)
Not only was it rain-free, but it felt like the New Orleans humidity took the night off as well. You could glide through the evening, in and out of different galleries and restaurants, in your white dresses and white loose pants and tops without chopping through the sticky, thick heat of typical New Orleans August evenings.
But even if the bar to surpass last year’s WLN was set relatively low and largely depended on the weather, it still proved to be one of the best White Linen Night events of all time. Here’s why: This year’s massive Arts District block party was chock full of smaller, energetic parties which gave attendees something new with each one having its own vibe, its own kind of art and its own special feature. The staff of Very Local New Orleans enjoyed as many of them as we could, and even partnered with 504ward and the CAC for their parties.
We loved connecting with so many of you locals out in your beautiful white, and we look forward to seeing you all out again and again as we keep it Very Local.
Scroll our photos from the event and the Contemporary Arts Center’s White Linen Night Afterparty, and you may just see a familiar face!
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