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We are always interested in teaming up with like-minded organizations to on a local, national, and international scale. We have collaborations with great institutions like the Tulane City Center on the ReInhabiting NOLA workshop, helped to launch an organization called Cornerstones, and been a partner in art projects like Paul Chan's Waiting for Godot in New Orleans and Aubrey Edward's Way Down in New Orleans exhibition. |
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SINGING OUT
Singing Out: Aboriginal Ladies’ Stories from the Northwest Kimberley, is a collaboration between the Neighborhood Story Project and two Australian organizations, Side by Side Community Projects and the Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation. Based on a three-week workshop with Aboriginal women in the Kimberley, it features writings by Freda Sing Poo, Maria Sebastian, Annette Riley, Carla Wise, Rosita Stumpagee, Michelle Ejai, and Lizzie Skeen Morton, as well as interviews with Biddy Morris, June Pederson, Lucy Marshall, Pat Latham, Susan Bangmorra, Jasmine Francis, and Bessie Ejai. Interwoven through the text are beautiful black and white portraits and maps that provide other ways to get to know the writers and the women they interviewed. Rachel’s involvement in the project was supported by a June Scholar research grant from University of New Orleans’ College of Liberal Arts. Listen to some of the some of the writers reading their stories at the Derby Media Aboriginal Corporations’s 6DBY. For more information about the book, please contact Rachel at the NSP. |
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THE ESSENCE OF GRACE
As they were finishing rebuilding their sanctuary, Grace Lutheran asked how they could work with us. They began our partnership by becoming one of our biggest supporters, with their congregation buying more than 100 books to give to the volunteers they hosted—one of the largest NSP purchases to date. In 2008, Grace Lutheran approached the NSP about helping to write a book about their stories of coming home after Katrina. Abram worked with parishioners in a series of three writing workshops, and the pieces were edited by Caitlin Moen. The resulting book, The Essence of Grace was published in time for the third anniversary of Katrina. It is a testament to the strengths found in times of crisis. |
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CORNERSTONES
In partnership with the Tulane City Center, the NSP has been working with Cornerstones, a new project dedicated to documenting important everyday monuments and meeting places around New Orleans. We invite you to join the beginning of Cornerstones—a movement to document the places that hold our history. Nominate the places that you have called home, that tell the story of your community, or that serve as neighborhood landmarks. The places where you danced all night, were led to by a parade or Mardi Gras Indian tribe, were taken to by your grandparents or next door neighbor, or were claimed through a story all your own. Listen to the story on All Things Considered here: Part I Part II |
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NEW ORLEANS FOOD AND FARM NETWORK'S "FOOD TALK PROJECT" In the fall of 2007, the NSP worked with the Food and Farm Network to develop the “Food Talk Project” at O. Perry Walker High School. With the help of NOFFN educator and community organizer Johanna Gilligan, students in Ms. Sheryl Eaglin’s health class conducted interviews with community members who shared traditions in New Orleans related to food, such as gardening and cooking. The students then worked to turn the interviews into posters that will be distributed throughout the community. Listen to a story about the project on WWOZ's Street Talk radio documentary program. |
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PAUL CHAN'S WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS The Neighborhood Story Project was one of the local partners involved in Paul Chan’s Waiting for Godot production in New Orleans in the fall of 2007. Co-produced by Creative Time and the Classical Theatre of Harlem, in addition to free public performances of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in the Lower Ninth Ward and Gentilly, there were a series of theater workshops and educational seminars, and community conversations and dinners throughout the fall of 2007. The project also created a "shadow" fund to support local organizations, and plans a publication and a short film. We hosted a dinner party with the Porch 7th Ward Cultural Organization and an educational seminar at John McDonogh Senior High with Paul and the Classical Theatre of Harlem. |
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EXCHANGE WITH THE MOWANJUM YOUTH PROJECT IN DERBY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA Since 2005, the NSP has run an exchange program with the Mowanjum Youth Project in the Kimberley, Western Australia. In 2007, we hosted digital photographer and social ecologist Maya Haviland for a monthlong residency in New Orleans. During that month, we launched an exhibition of portraiture taken by Aboriginal youth from the Kimberley at Xavier University and did a series of photography workshops at John McDonogh Senior High, which culminated in a fieldtrip to see the exhibition. From this work, we also published two photography books based out of New Orleans and the Kimberley. |
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NEIGHBORHOOD STORY PROJECT IN NEW YORK After the storm, many people volunteered to help keep the NSP running. Some were longtime friends; others were colleagues whose work we admired but had never had a chance to collaborate with. The New York Writers Coalition was the latter. The director, Aaron Zimmerman, helped us run our online store for more than two years. He also asked if we would help New York Writers Coalition start a high school writing project with the Urban Academy—a public high school in Manhattan that draws students from all five boroughs. Since 2006, we have been working with these two amazing institutions to create a bookmaking program. The first book will be completed in June 2008. |
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