Cripple Creek Theatre Bailout Bash January 10th
January 10, 2008 9p.m. to 2a.m. for the Cripple Creek Theatre Bailout Bash. $10 gets you all the soup and libations you can consume.
Location: 2900 Grand Route St. John at N. White Street in Mid City. For more information please contact us at 504-891-6815 or info@cripplecreekplayers.org
Essays, links and visuals highlighting an alternative, resilient place at the strategic crescent of one mighty river.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Small is Beautiful is cancelled for tonight
due to holiday flu, tonight's meeting will be cancelled. January dates to be discussed via email. Do email me directly if anyone wants to be taken off
this list of event announcements, or if someone has ideas for Uptown locations for group to meet.
We will work to schedule for second Tuesday or Thursday of every month for 2009.
this list of event announcements, or if someone has ideas for Uptown locations for group to meet.
We will work to schedule for second Tuesday or Thursday of every month for 2009.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Small is Beautiful Tuesday at 5:45 pm
Small is Beautiful study/discussion group
Tuesday, December 30, 5:45 pm
Fair Grinds Coffeehouse
(Other alternating locations will be considerately considered)
E.F. Schumacher:
“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.”
Jane Jacobs:
... city areas with flourishing diversity sprout strange and unpredictable uses and peculiar scenes. But this is not a drawback of diversity. This is the point ... of it.
We discuss, read and dilly-dally about possibilities of the proper scale and use of resources in a regional economy.
All welcome, but argumentative participants ignored after hints.
Readings available on: www.smallisbeautiful.org
December: land trusts discussed
January: currency presentation of The Crescent, available at Crescent City Farmers Market
Information about group linked from and discussions tolerated at:
http://neworleanscanthrive.blogspot.com
Tuesday, December 30, 5:45 pm
Fair Grinds Coffeehouse
(Other alternating locations will be considerately considered)
E.F. Schumacher:
“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.”
Jane Jacobs:
... city areas with flourishing diversity sprout strange and unpredictable uses and peculiar scenes. But this is not a drawback of diversity. This is the point ... of it.
We discuss, read and dilly-dally about possibilities of the proper scale and use of resources in a regional economy.
All welcome, but argumentative participants ignored after hints.
Readings available on: www.smallisbeautiful.org
December: land trusts discussed
January: currency presentation of The Crescent, available at Crescent City Farmers Market
Information about group linked from and discussions tolerated at:
http://neworleanscanthrive.blogspot.com
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
ed of year update
hey all,
Don't forget to stop by Fair Grinds Coffeehouse on the morning of Christmas if you enjoy calm and free brewed coffee. I will be the unpaid help all morning, and will have a few treats on the table (as will other neighbors) for folks to nibble on.
As this is a non-familial invite, there are NO expectations as to your attendance or even RSVP need; just feel free to wander by in your PJs (that has happened often) and have a cup or a chat.
I am also sending the good news that the MidCity Hagan Avenue community is doing well, and you may notice some work on one lot; the pilings for the first house will be set before mid-January; concurrently my house design is coming along; in the meantime, I have found a pied-a-terre in the heart of the old city on Saint Ann right off Jackson Square; Maddie the dog and I walk along the river, chat with the morning and afternoon drunks, step into the street to sidestep tourists looking straight up at lace balconies and think to ourselves, "what a nice vacation!"
but, you will find me as often working on my lot, hanging with Musa and Veda in their little farm next to the (hopefully) soon-disappearing last FEMA trailer, working to find out what exactly is up with the old Mercy Hospital building, which rumor has, in in Sam's Club's sights.. Stay tuned...
so, slow down when in MidCity and look for me and say hello. If I say see you in the Quarter, you'll probably have to step in front of me and wave vigorously, as my old French Quarter walking style (head down, fast walk) has returned with a vengeance.
Hope all of you are well and that I see you soon.
Don't forget to stop by Fair Grinds Coffeehouse on the morning of Christmas if you enjoy calm and free brewed coffee. I will be the unpaid help all morning, and will have a few treats on the table (as will other neighbors) for folks to nibble on.
As this is a non-familial invite, there are NO expectations as to your attendance or even RSVP need; just feel free to wander by in your PJs (that has happened often) and have a cup or a chat.
I am also sending the good news that the MidCity Hagan Avenue community is doing well, and you may notice some work on one lot; the pilings for the first house will be set before mid-January; concurrently my house design is coming along; in the meantime, I have found a pied-a-terre in the heart of the old city on Saint Ann right off Jackson Square; Maddie the dog and I walk along the river, chat with the morning and afternoon drunks, step into the street to sidestep tourists looking straight up at lace balconies and think to ourselves, "what a nice vacation!"
but, you will find me as often working on my lot, hanging with Musa and Veda in their little farm next to the (hopefully) soon-disappearing last FEMA trailer, working to find out what exactly is up with the old Mercy Hospital building, which rumor has, in in Sam's Club's sights.. Stay tuned...
so, slow down when in MidCity and look for me and say hello. If I say see you in the Quarter, you'll probably have to step in front of me and wave vigorously, as my old French Quarter walking style (head down, fast walk) has returned with a vengeance.
Hope all of you are well and that I see you soon.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Small is Beautiful coffee and talk
I will be anchoring the Christmas Day coffee counter for Fair Grinds stalwarts (whereas owners Robert and Elizabeth graciously open the door and brew coffee to give away all day. As there is no staff, they welcome volunteers like me to help and then donate all of the offered tips to whatever non-profit the volunteers want. cool, huh? another example of local, owner-operated decision making).
The Small is Beautiful copy fund will be the recipient this year. I will be there all am and will have some info for people to read and pick up to take home and read about the issues we talk about in our study group monthly; come by if you like to say hello or talk, but let's try to schedule Tuesday 12/30 for the next study group at 5:45 pm at FG.
Dar
The Small is Beautiful copy fund will be the recipient this year. I will be there all am and will have some info for people to read and pick up to take home and read about the issues we talk about in our study group monthly; come by if you like to say hello or talk, but let's try to schedule Tuesday 12/30 for the next study group at 5:45 pm at FG.
Dar
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
See the labyrinth
Labyrinth
Opening Reception on the solstice: Sunday Dec. 21st, sunset
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by Christopher Scott Brumfield
Dauphine St. and Jourdan Ave., New Orleans, LA
Holy Cross Industrial Canal Levee
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Nick Spitzer signing new book tomorrow
Octavia Books - 5113 Octavia Street - New Orleans
Octavia Books Presents more on AMERICAN ROUTES: Songs from the Road
American Routes celebrates
10 years on the air
with a double CD collection
of great interviews and music
In his weekly radio program heard in New Orleans on WWNO and on public radio stations nationwide, and distributed by American Public Media, folklorist Nick Spitzer leads listeners on a lively journey through American music and the evolution of its many styles from A (avant-garde) to Z (zydeco).
Even in divisive times, there's one thing about America everyone loves: its music. Produced in New Orleans at Basin Street Sation, American Routes embraces and explores all kinds of American music: blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical.
Each week, program host and creator Nick Spitzer talks with well-known artists, lesser-known studio musicians, and little-known buskers. Songs, stories, interviews, and conversations reveal the origins of American music, musicians, and cultures (the roots) and the many directions they have taken over time (the routes). The show pays tribute to historic heroes, celebrates great musicians of today, and hits the road, traveling from street parades to juke joints, bayous to beltways.
Nick Spitzer
NICK SPITZER is an internationally recognized folklorist. He has served as a documentary, record, film, and festival producer for the Smithsonian Institution and PBS, and as an independent cultural producer for NPR's All Things Considered. He is on faculty at Tulane University.
To reserve a signed edition, please call us during business hours
at 504-899-READ (7323)
For more upcoming events at Octavia Books, visit
http://octaviabooks.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents
American Routes with Nick Spitzer
Songs and Stories
from the Road
Thursday, Dec. 11
6:00PM
Octavia Books
513 Octavia St. - New Orleans
Please join us for a special evening with folklorist Nick Spitzer, host of public radio's American Routes.
Octavia Books Presents more on AMERICAN ROUTES: Songs from the Road
American Routes celebrates
10 years on the air
with a double CD collection
of great interviews and music
In his weekly radio program heard in New Orleans on WWNO and on public radio stations nationwide, and distributed by American Public Media, folklorist Nick Spitzer leads listeners on a lively journey through American music and the evolution of its many styles from A (avant-garde) to Z (zydeco).
Even in divisive times, there's one thing about America everyone loves: its music. Produced in New Orleans at Basin Street Sation, American Routes embraces and explores all kinds of American music: blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical.
Each week, program host and creator Nick Spitzer talks with well-known artists, lesser-known studio musicians, and little-known buskers. Songs, stories, interviews, and conversations reveal the origins of American music, musicians, and cultures (the roots) and the many directions they have taken over time (the routes). The show pays tribute to historic heroes, celebrates great musicians of today, and hits the road, traveling from street parades to juke joints, bayous to beltways.
Nick Spitzer
NICK SPITZER is an internationally recognized folklorist. He has served as a documentary, record, film, and festival producer for the Smithsonian Institution and PBS, and as an independent cultural producer for NPR's All Things Considered. He is on faculty at Tulane University.
To reserve a signed edition, please call us during business hours
at 504-899-READ (7323)
For more upcoming events at Octavia Books, visit
http://octaviabooks.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents
American Routes with Nick Spitzer
Songs and Stories
from the Road
Thursday, Dec. 11
6:00PM
Octavia Books
513 Octavia St. - New Orleans
Please join us for a special evening with folklorist Nick Spitzer, host of public radio's American Routes.
Monday, December 08, 2008
Grants for groups for farming
2009 Project Orange Thumb Grant
Gardening projects geared toward community involvement, neighborhood beautification, sustainable agriculture and/or horticultural education are eligible to apply for a Project Orange Thumb grant for gardening tools and other related materials. Community garden groups, as well as schools, youth groups, community centers, camps, clubs, and treatment facilities are all encouraged to apply. Only group applications will be considered; single individuals are not eligible for a grant. The deadline for the 2009 grants is February 19, 2009. Visit the Orange Thumb website for application information, and take a look at the blog to see what past recipients are doing.
application
Gardening projects geared toward community involvement, neighborhood beautification, sustainable agriculture and/or horticultural education are eligible to apply for a Project Orange Thumb grant for gardening tools and other related materials. Community garden groups, as well as schools, youth groups, community centers, camps, clubs, and treatment facilities are all encouraged to apply. Only group applications will be considered; single individuals are not eligible for a grant. The deadline for the 2009 grants is February 19, 2009. Visit the Orange Thumb website for application information, and take a look at the blog to see what past recipients are doing.
application
Haitian help
This is a friend from the Crescent City, who is currently living in California. See her ask for this excellent work which is about to start:
Dear friends,
Recently, I read a short article in National Geographic about Haiti that stuck with me, and that has lead me to write this letter to you. The article was called, "Dirt Poor" and spoke of the heavy deforestation and erosion that has left the impoverished island nation without a way to feed its people. A modern staple in the typical Haitian diet consists of a cake made from clay, salt and shortening. The 2008 hurricane season left an already infrastructure-poor country utterly devastated; footage from Haiti in September left me speechless, unsettled, angry.
I am writing to ask for your help. I will be traveling to Haiti for eleven days in January 2009. I will be working as a volunteer with the organization S.O.I.L. (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods). SOIL is a non-profit run entirely by volunteers dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming waste into resources in Haiti. SOIL was co-founded by Sasha Kramer, ecologist and human rights advocate. Sasha received her Ph.D. in Ecology from Stanford University and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Miami, though she spends most of her time in Haiti.
I will be traveling with a group of students from the University of Miami while in Haiti. The trip's focus is Sustainability Science and we will work on a number of projects including the construction of an ecological sanitation system. We will visit the rural town of Minot, Shada, an overcrowded slum in the city of Cap-Haitien and the Village of Labadi, where Royal Caribbean Cruiselines has a private beach but the people live, out of the view of tourists, in abject poverty.
Because of my particular skills and interests, Sasha has asked me to help with an urban tomato cultivation project in Shada and to work with individual families to construct household gardens. I am passionate about gardening and have been gardening for more than 12 years. To be able to use my knowledge to help families gain some small bit of independence through local food production is extraordinary and I am thankful that I have the skills and experience to do so.
I am paying for all of my own expenses relating to traveling to, from and within Haiti, with the generous support of my husband, Michael, and my family. However, SOIL operates entirely from individual donations and the organization's needs are many. I am hoping to raise $2,500 for materials for the urban tomato and household garden projects. I leave for Haiti on January 5th- less than a month away. A donation to S.O.I.L. in support of these projects would be appreciated more than words can express. Would you please consider making a gift of $50 to $100, if that is within your budget, or any amount that you are able to contribute? 80% of Haitians live on less than $1 a day.
Below are links to information about Haiti, SOIL and the University of Miami's Sustainable Science in Haiti Program.
Donations should be sent to me at the address below, but, please, make your check payable to SOIL.
Corinne Law
1360 17th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
I thank you and wish you and yours a peaceful and joyous holiday season!
Sincerely,
Corinne Law
True joy comes from knowing what you are doing, why you are doing it, and doing it wholeheartedly. -Sakyong Mipham
S.O.I.L. website:
http://www.oursoil.org
Inside a Failed State - Haiti, 23 minute video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbM8OM9Dqw&feature=rec-HM-r2
Short National Geographic article:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/soil/bourne-text
U. of Miami, Sustainable Science in Haiti Program:
http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,6371-1;56929-3,00.html
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti
Haiti Food Crisis, 8 minute video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSWJmq4XC2s
Strange Things, 3 minute video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQVe4PDf_Cg
Dear friends,
Recently, I read a short article in National Geographic about Haiti that stuck with me, and that has lead me to write this letter to you. The article was called, "Dirt Poor" and spoke of the heavy deforestation and erosion that has left the impoverished island nation without a way to feed its people. A modern staple in the typical Haitian diet consists of a cake made from clay, salt and shortening. The 2008 hurricane season left an already infrastructure-poor country utterly devastated; footage from Haiti in September left me speechless, unsettled, angry.
I am writing to ask for your help. I will be traveling to Haiti for eleven days in January 2009. I will be working as a volunteer with the organization S.O.I.L. (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods). SOIL is a non-profit run entirely by volunteers dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming waste into resources in Haiti. SOIL was co-founded by Sasha Kramer, ecologist and human rights advocate. Sasha received her Ph.D. in Ecology from Stanford University and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Miami, though she spends most of her time in Haiti.
I will be traveling with a group of students from the University of Miami while in Haiti. The trip's focus is Sustainability Science and we will work on a number of projects including the construction of an ecological sanitation system. We will visit the rural town of Minot, Shada, an overcrowded slum in the city of Cap-Haitien and the Village of Labadi, where Royal Caribbean Cruiselines has a private beach but the people live, out of the view of tourists, in abject poverty.
Because of my particular skills and interests, Sasha has asked me to help with an urban tomato cultivation project in Shada and to work with individual families to construct household gardens. I am passionate about gardening and have been gardening for more than 12 years. To be able to use my knowledge to help families gain some small bit of independence through local food production is extraordinary and I am thankful that I have the skills and experience to do so.
I am paying for all of my own expenses relating to traveling to, from and within Haiti, with the generous support of my husband, Michael, and my family. However, SOIL operates entirely from individual donations and the organization's needs are many. I am hoping to raise $2,500 for materials for the urban tomato and household garden projects. I leave for Haiti on January 5th- less than a month away. A donation to S.O.I.L. in support of these projects would be appreciated more than words can express. Would you please consider making a gift of $50 to $100, if that is within your budget, or any amount that you are able to contribute? 80% of Haitians live on less than $1 a day.
Below are links to information about Haiti, SOIL and the University of Miami's Sustainable Science in Haiti Program.
Donations should be sent to me at the address below, but, please, make your check payable to SOIL.
Corinne Law
1360 17th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
I thank you and wish you and yours a peaceful and joyous holiday season!
Sincerely,
Corinne Law
True joy comes from knowing what you are doing, why you are doing it, and doing it wholeheartedly. -Sakyong Mipham
S.O.I.L. website:
http://www.oursoil.org
Inside a Failed State - Haiti, 23 minute video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbM8OM9Dqw&feature=rec-HM-r2
Short National Geographic article:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/soil/bourne-text
U. of Miami, Sustainable Science in Haiti Program:
http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,6371-1;56929-3,00.html
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti
Haiti Food Crisis, 8 minute video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSWJmq4XC2s
Strange Things, 3 minute video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQVe4PDf_Cg
Save Mid City School
Parents and Other Concerned Citizens:
Neighbors for Morris Jeff School has spent the last year fighting to get an excellent public elementary school opened in our neighborhood that reflects our diversity and has universal access. We have succeeded in getting the support of the School District. Mr. Paul Vallas, the Schools Superintendant, has committed to:
* Open an "incubator" school with early elementary grades, on a temporary location in the community, in the Fall of 2009 or 2010.
* Granting a community board full authority over the school, including selecting a principal, budget, and curriculum
* Building a $19 million facility for a new Morris Jeff School at a location approved by the community.
We need your input and support in order to make it happen. Please attend!
Community Meeting
for the
New Morris Jeff
Elementary School
Thursday, December 11th, 6:30-8:00pm
Bibleway Baptist Church Activity Center
3308 Orleans (Orleans & N. Hagan)
Childcare is available. RSVP with number and ages of children needing childcare. RSVP to Karin Barbee at 482-3393, or email morrisjeffschool@gmail.com.
Refreshments and food will be served.
Neighbors for Morris Jeff School is a grassroots group of parents and community members from Bayou St. John and Mid City.
Neighbors for Morris Jeff School has spent the last year fighting to get an excellent public elementary school opened in our neighborhood that reflects our diversity and has universal access. We have succeeded in getting the support of the School District. Mr. Paul Vallas, the Schools Superintendant, has committed to:
* Open an "incubator" school with early elementary grades, on a temporary location in the community, in the Fall of 2009 or 2010.
* Granting a community board full authority over the school, including selecting a principal, budget, and curriculum
* Building a $19 million facility for a new Morris Jeff School at a location approved by the community.
We need your input and support in order to make it happen. Please attend!
Community Meeting
for the
New Morris Jeff
Elementary School
Thursday, December 11th, 6:30-8:00pm
Bibleway Baptist Church Activity Center
3308 Orleans (Orleans & N. Hagan)
Childcare is available. RSVP with number and ages of children needing childcare. RSVP to Karin Barbee at 482-3393, or email morrisjeffschool@gmail.com.
Refreshments and food will be served.
Neighbors for Morris Jeff School is a grassroots group of parents and community members from Bayou St. John and Mid City.
Monday, December 01, 2008
"Marketeers" launches!
Saturday Market, December 6, 2008 | 8 am - 12 pm
Downtown New Orleans | Corner of Magazine and Girod Street
Building on the beliefs that farmers markets are for everyone - including kids, and that markets grow healthy kids, marketumbrella.org announces the Marketeers Club, for CCFM shoppers under age 14. This weekend we'll have healthy pizza dough making demonstrations, the first of our first Saturday of the month Marketeer activities. Kids who sign up for the Marketeers Club will receive a shopping list/recipe card, along with a packet of pizza dough ingredients. Marketeers are encouraged to shop for seasonal local toppings, then go home and cook together, and eat together with their families. Marketeers will also receive a $5 Crescent token (good at all CCFM vendors' booths - including "the popcorn guy") during their birthday month.
Downtown New Orleans | Corner of Magazine and Girod Street
Building on the beliefs that farmers markets are for everyone - including kids, and that markets grow healthy kids, marketumbrella.org announces the Marketeers Club, for CCFM shoppers under age 14. This weekend we'll have healthy pizza dough making demonstrations, the first of our first Saturday of the month Marketeer activities. Kids who sign up for the Marketeers Club will receive a shopping list/recipe card, along with a packet of pizza dough ingredients. Marketeers are encouraged to shop for seasonal local toppings, then go home and cook together, and eat together with their families. Marketeers will also receive a $5 Crescent token (good at all CCFM vendors' booths - including "the popcorn guy") during their birthday month.
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