NoLA RISING
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ReX of NoLA Rising arrives in New York next week for the NoLA Rising Festival. November 21 8pm Opening Event This is the opening of the exhibit A Tag of Two Cities. Meet the artists, drink, view Michael Almereyda's new film, November 22nd – 24 Hours of ART!
9-10:30am
12 – 2:00pm 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
3pm – 5pm Screening of Wade in the Water. 7:30 – 9pm Comedorleans Hosted by Lucas Kavner this event will be a fun mix of the best sketch comedy groups in the city. 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. November 24th Michael "Rex" Dingler will create a mural in Queens
November 25th NoLA Rising and SLIGHLTYaskew go to Southstreet Youth Center in Jamaica Plains Boston, MA. 
We don't have any trapeze artists lined up that I know of, but we have a full line-up of art lunacy.
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.
and make a shirt with fashion designer David Withrow and graphic artist Maranda Barskey.
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.
$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
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
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.
