TOUR OF NEW ORLEANS
Through the Prisms of Storytelling,
Bookmaking, Educational History, and Katrina
Abram Himelstein, co-founder of the Neighborhood Story Project will
conduct a tour of New Orleans. The tour will discuss the educational
history of the city, the failure of the Levees during Hurricane Katrina,
and highlight two grassroots organizations.
Our first stop will be the Writers’ Room at Sylvanie Williams College
Prep Elementary to talk with Doug Keller about Big Class’s work with
students toward publication. Our second stop will be at John McDonogh
Senior High, the now closed school on historic Esplanade Avenue, whose
namesake kick-started the public schools of the city with his controversial
will in 1850. Our last stop will be the House of Dance and Feathers, Ronald
Lewis’s backyard museum in the Lower Ninth Ward, home to his collection
of Mardi Gras Indian suits, Second Line costumes, and Parade and Street
Culture ephemera.
Since 2004 the Neighborhood Story Project has turned collaborative
ethnography into the finest books and posters. Royalties to the authors.
Stories to the city.
Friday, April 17th.
More info and registration at www.gnowp.org.