[MarignyBywater] NoLA Rising in New York!

[ReX - NoLA Rising]

ReX of NoLA Rising arrives in New York this week for the NoLA Rising
Festival. We don't have any trapeze artists lined up that I know of, but we
have a full line-up of art lunacy. So, if you have any friends in NYC or
happen to be passing through, send them this line-up of events intended to
spread the word that despite all the b.s. down here, NoLA is indeed still
Rising!

Hoping to see you or your friends up yonder this weekend,

Michael "Rex" Dingler

www.nolarisingnyc.com

November 21 8pm Opening Event
This is the opening of the exhibit A Tag of Two Cities. Solo musicians James
Subudhi, Lauren Pritchard (Spring Awakening) and the fabulous funk reggae
band Suspicious Brown will share the stage with world renowned spoken word
poets Eboni Hogan and Caitlin Meissner. Meet the artists, drink, view
Michael Almereyda's new film, and make a shirt with fashion designer David
Withrow and graphic artist Maranda Barskey.

November 22nd – 24 Hours of ART!

9-10:30am FREE! Yoga with Elizabeth Barnett. Come salute the opening of 24
hours of ART! with this free yoga class.

12 – 1:30pm Java Jazz. FREE! An event for all ages, come enjoy jazz, coffee,
bakery, and explore the exhibit. Mike "Rex" Dingler of NoLA Rising will have
wood, paint and supplies set up for you to make a piece of art for the
people and students in New Orleans who are still trying to return to their
homes after Katrina.

3pm – 5pm Screening of Wade in the Water. This documentary was made by
students in the first school to open in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Produced and directed by Elizabeth Wood and Gabriel Nussbaum, the children
of New Orleans' violent Central City neighborhood create riveting and
remarkably honest portraits of a New Orleans that was a disaster long before
Katrina, a New Orleans that adults are slow to discuss and that the media
could never penetrate, and that the flood has exacerbated. In addition there
will be four award winning short stories and poems written by students in
the Recovery School District Public Schools in New Orleans performed by NY
artists and viewed by live webcam by the students in New Orleans. This
project was commissioned by the Ogden Museum of Southern Folk Art in New
Orleans, LA. $5 proceeds from this event go towards a literary publication
of the student's work.

7:30 – 9pm Comedorleans Hosted by Lucas Kavner this event will be a fun mix
of the best sketch comedy groups in the city. $10 admission also gets you
into the WET! party

9pm – 3am WET! all night dance party Dress to get wet… whether that means
your best galoshes and slickers, yellow polka dot bikini, goggles or the
color BLUE we hope you'll join us for an all night bash featuring Pat
O'Brian's famous Hurricane Cocktails, drink specials, N'awlins Burlesque
dancers and a great mix of DJS including ITP's cassettenova, Black and
White's DJ Theo "Action" Lorraine, Eyebeam's Dj "dubs", and bringin the
house down with Eddie Mars and the Vietcong Disco. $10 plus one free drink

November 23rd 8am FREE Yoga with Elizabeth Barnett for those of you at the
after party Liz will offer a great Restorative Yoga session…yeah….see you at
the finish line.

November 23rd 5pm and 8pm Dramatic Double Feature. You have two chances to
see this double feature. Part one is the four top short plays written by New
Orleans high school students in the Recovery Public School District
commissioned by the Ogden Museum of Southern Folkart and performed by NYC
theater companies The Talking Band, NY-Neo Classical Ensemble, The Movement
Theater Company, and IRT. The students will view the staged readings via
live webcam down in New Orleans. The second feature is performance artist
Jennifer Pagan's Shoebox Lounge an admired performance artist and activist
in New Orleans, Pagan is bringing her catchy show which last appeared in NYC
at UCB to IRT. Pagan is a teacher and administrator with Young Audiences.
$10

November 24th Michael "Rex" Dingler will do a workshop with Crown Heights
First Achievement school second grade class. A class made up primarily of
Afro-Caribbean students, many of whose families have been effected by recent
hurricanes, they will partner with the NHP foundations Tanglewood Youth
Center in New Orleans on a "Drawing" pal exchange.

November 25th NoLA Rising and SLIGHLTYaskew go to Southstreet Youth Center
in Jamaica Plains Boston, MA. NoLA Rising will join members of SLIGHTLYaskew
who have been working with the youth community in JP for the past two years
in an art therapy workshop surrounding a recent shooting and killing of
several children in the community. The students will get to share their
thoughts and feelings through art and make work both in response and for
their community.


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