August 6th Week Events
Date: Tue, Aug. 07, 2007
This week's plans for SilenceIsViolence:
SPEND A "NIGHT OUT AGAINST CRIME"This Tuesday, August 7, is National Night Out Against Crime. We will
be participating in two main events and trying to stop by a number of
additional neighborhood parties:
1. Speak Up II: A Showcase of Words, Music, Art, and Action
Sound Cafe, 2700 Chartres St., 6-8pm
This second installment of our showcase for anti-violence art by local
high school students will also introduce three of these students as
ongoing partners with SilenceIsViolence. Makita Webb is a poet whom
we met at Douglass High School this past spring; her work is
passionate and provocative and champions the theme of Strong Black
Women. Rayannecia Brown, a classmate of Makita's, is a beautiful
singer with a desire to use her gift in any way to help heal and
strengthen New Orleans and New Orleanians. Finally, Ryan Brumfield is
a young romantic poet from Rabouin High School who has insights to
share into the nature of love and how it can guide us toward a more
civil society. As Nakita Shavers leaves New Orleans to return to her
studies at Florida A&M University, these young citizens will help to
carry on the important work she has been doing in the schools and the
streets of our city. 2. New Orleans Social Aid and Pleasure Club Task Force
New Edition Lounge, A.P. Tureaud at N. Galvez, 6-9pm
Following the Speak Up event, we will be joining our friends in the
Social Aid and Pleasure Club community as they express their
commitment to rebuilding a more peaceful New Orleans. The New Edition
is home base for the Dumaine Street Gang, with whom our fiscal
sponsor, the New Orleans Bayou Steppers, have a long-standing
friendship. WALK THROUGH UPTOWN
Thursday, August 9 brings our next City Walk, through the
Tchoupitoulas corridor of Uptown. (We will walk to the Carrollton
neighborhood during our next City Walk).
Here is the full route (also available on our website,
www.silenceisviolence.org):
START: King Pin Lounge, 1319 Lyons St. at Prytania. Walk toward the
river on Lyons; turn RIGHT on Laurel Street, LEFT on Upperline, and
RIGHT onto Annunciation. Follow Annunciation to Arabella St; turn
LEFT onto Arabella. STOP: Franky and Johnnie's Restaurant, 321
Arabella St. We'll be hanging out for root beer and dinner afterward,
for anyone who wants to stay! Transportation will be provided back to
the King Pin until 9pm. For more information on these and our other ongoing programs, feel
free to email us or check our website: www.silenceisviolence.org
Ken and Baty
