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28 Апр 2011 |
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США - ЛУИЗИАНА - НОВЫЙ ОРЛЕАН новости май 2011 от фирмы |
| Greetings! Dear
Reader, April is always such an
intense month in New Orleans. While Jazz Fest rules, we are all
focused on moving forward with important
projects before the summer heat and vacations
take over. This year we are busy with new
initiatives spurred in part by a new
administration, and in part by progress made
towards the implementation of projects and
programs begun during the many planning phases
since Katrina. As the new season of "Tremé" takes us back to a
painful time, we are embarked on a major blight
initiative by Mayor Landrieu; the preparation of
a new Comprehensive Zoning
Ordinance getting readied for citizen review;
schools being renovated or built, and we pass
big gaping fields in the middle of our city,
wondering how Senator David Vitter and community
activists wound up on the same side, decrying
overly ambitious plans for a suburban style
hospital. I urge all to attend the
Mayor's State of the City Address tomorrow at
9:30 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater,
located at 1419 Basin Street. Last year at
this time he wisely gave us a heads up about the
looming budget deficit which has played a
central role in his first full year in office.
Now he can herald some achievements, while
setting the stage for coming initiatives. We
should all be there to hear his playbook for his
new season. The renaming of Congo
Square, on line for tomorrow at 2pm at City
Council, has been too long in
coming. History buffs know that the French
policy of allowing slaves to express their own
culture on Sundays in Congo Square, now a plaza
in front of the Municipal Auditorium, was a
factor in the development our city's unique
culture. Join the Congo Square Foundation for
the vote on an ordinance to officially change
the plaza's name from "General P.G.T. Beauregard
Square", (named for the confederate general who
led the firing on the federal Fort Sumter in
South Carolina that started the civil war,) to
Congo Square, its original name. After the vote
there will be a procession from City Hall to
Congo Square and a celebration there from
4-6PM. While we celebrate and
herald progress over the past year, we have to
remain vigilant about the plans and dreams we
conjured during the past five years are realized
without undue damage to the city's cultural
fabric. So as we proceed to finally demolish
abandoned, moldering homes, we need to look for
ways to better protect landmark buildings that
call out the names of our cultural forefathers,
and salvage those homes that are neither market
ready, nor safety hazards that should be
removed. The Mayor is right when he urges us not
to wait until the last minute, and to do our
share to address these blighted
properties. So I invite those of you
interested in exploring strategies to help
revitalize rather than lose homes that could
welcome new homeowners or tenants, to join a
working meeting of housing and cultural leaders
on Tuesday, May 3rd
at 6:30 pm at the Musicians' Union at 2401
Esplanade Avenue. We will hear from Carey
Shea, Executive Director of Project Home Again in New
Orleans, who was part of the early Urban
Homesteading efforts in New York City, and
discuss how homesteading and other initiatives
may apply to our changing landscape. Another area for citizen vigilance
should be the development of strategies and
infrastructure to encouraging citizen and
neighborhood engagement in city planning. Pay
attention to ongoing discussions of how a
citizen participation process will be set
up to make sure your neighborhood and
organization will have a seat at the table. Once
a plan is in place, we will all have to work
with it. Coming up soon, on
Tuesday, May 10th, at Dillard
University's Georges
Auditorium is a great
opportunity to learn of another technique for
working with developers to achieve community
objectives. The Urban Land
Institute is presenting a forum with visiting
experts in Community Benefit Agreements who
will give us yet another important tool for our
tool kit to achieve community objectives in
cooperation with developers whose plans can
either harm or help our neighborhoods.
Don't miss this opportunity
to understand how to get maximum value for your
neighborhood and our city from working with
developers. For more information, email ULI Customer
Service or dial 1-800-321-5011 and
mention event # 8119-1114. OK, so
despite all those heady citizen tasks, I do hope
you all enjoy our cultural feast over the coming
Jazz Fest days. Just don't park in my driveway
please. Sincerely, Jeanne
Nathan Publisher,
N.E.W.S. |
Congo
Square, It's Official! On Thursday, April
28, 2011 at 2pm the New Orleans City Council
will vote on
an Ordinance to officially change
the name of General P.T. Beauregard Square to
Congo Square. After the vote there will be a
procession from City Hall to Congo Square for a two hour
celebration from 4-6pm. This is a historic
achievement- made possible by the hard work of
Ms. Freddi Williams Evans, who has just
published her groundbreaking book, "Congo Square
- African Roots in New Orleans" published by the
University of Louisiana -
Lafayette Press.
According
to the University of Louisiana - Lafayette
Press, Congo
Square presents
accounts and descriptions of the songs, dances,
musical instruments, religious beliefs, and
marketing traditions that typified those
gatherings. Also included are examples of
similar practices that existed in Haiti, Cuba,
and other parts of the West Indies, reflecting
New Orleans' relationship with Caribbean
countries and shedding light on Congo Square's
role in extending and perpetuating African music
and dance in North America. The amalgamation of
those practices influenced indigenous New
Orleans performance styles as well as
performance forms on the national
level. |
Crosstown
Conversations
City-Wide Festival Surrounds
Jazz Fest
Join host Jeanne Nathan
for Crosstown Conversations tomorrow on WBOK
1230AM at 10AM. Music promoters, Tony Ciacio and
Donna Santiago from the Backbeat Foundation talk
about the long list of great music performances
that can be found outside of the Jazz Festival
gates, playing across the city. Luther Gray and Freddi
Williams Evans join the conversation and call
you out to the important renaming of Congo
Square. Gerard Cox and Malcolm Schwarzenbach,
the producers of the Second Line
Conference will also join us in the
studio to talk to us about the innovation
and entrepreneurship that is happening
in New Orleans. And to wrap up the show,
Zoe Belden will give us an update on the latest
festival fashion trends, and Aretha Frison from
Neighborhoods Partnership
Network will give us an update on what's
going on in our neighborhoods with her Trumpet
Tidbits. No radio? No problem!
Listen online at wbok1230am.com. You
can also listen to archived shows at crosstownconversations.com.
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Urban
Homesteading Meeting Please join an
informal group of housing, preservation
and cultural leaders to explore the idea of
urban homesteading as another tool in the city's
toolbox to address blight, the redevelopment of
neighborhoods, repopulation and development
of the city. Carey Shea, Executive
Director of Project Home Again in New Orleans
will start the public conversation about
homesteading for salvageable, abandoned homes in
the city of New
Orleans. She will give a short
address on related initiatives that she worked
on in New York City, and relate them to how
such a program could be done in New Orleans and
how you could become involved. - When: Tuesday, May
3rd
- Time: 6:30
PM
- Where: Musicians'
Union, 2401 Esplanade Ave
To RSVP, please
email Carey at CShea@projecthomeagain.net by
Saturday, April 30th. Enjoy dinner from
McHardy's Chicken &
Fixin'. |
May 2011 Entrepreneurial
Training Class
For
more information about this event, please
click here.
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| State of the City
Address | Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu will give the 2011 State of the
City Address on: *Thursday, April 28, 2011 *Doors open at 9:30AM *Starts at 10:00 AM *Mahalia Jackson Theater 1419 Basin Street New
Orleans, LA 70116 RSVP is
required To RSVP, please send an email
to: mayor@nola.gov or
contact Michael Billups at:
504.658-4905. |
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Love Letters to New Orleans Local Jazz icon and trumpeter, Irvan
Mayfield will be autographing copies of his
book, Love Letters to New
Orleans, a coffee-table book and
CD set that provides an intimate glimpse into
the people, places and ideas that have shaped
Mayfield's musical evolution.
The autographing will take place
on: *Friday, April
29th *From 2:30-3:30
PM *Community Book
Center *2523 Bayou Road For more information about the event,
please click here, or contact Vera
at 948.READ (7323) |
| Painting Performances by Jamar
Pierre, along with Jazz Greats Jamar Pierre will
exhibit his works with "live" painting
performances for this select jazz
audience on: *Thursday, May 5th with
Delfeayo Marsalis and Jason
Marsalis AND *Saturday, May 7th with
Nicholas Payton The event will take place at the
Prime Example, located on 1909
N. Broad St. and will be from 8PM - 12PM,
each night. For more information about this event,
please contact Adele Tennyson at 504-701-9007 ______________________
Coming soon: Strategic Planning for the
Creative Alliance of New Orleans. For info,
see cano-la.org. ______________________ |
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| Looking for a Spring/
Summer Internship? Creative Industry is a public
relations, marketing, cultural and economic
development agency seeking interns for the
spring and summer semesters to help work on our
monthly newsletter along with other
administrative tasks. Ideal candidates will be highly
organized, possessing a working knowledge of all
Microsoft Office programs, along with strong
creative writing skills and a willingness to
complete tasks in a timely fashion. Interns will be responsible for
editing contributions to the newsletter, selling
advertising, and writing coverage of "Crosstown
Conversations," a radio show hosted by Jeanne
Nathan on
WBOK 1230 AM. We are open to working with
students' schedules as needed. All interested applicants
should email their resumes to: Lpage.ci@gmail.com |
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