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Green Up New Orleans

November 13, 2010
Community Conference & Concert

Dillard University
2601 Gentilly Boulevard,
New Orleans, LA 70122

Green For All is teaming up with the City of New Orleans, the Gulf Coast Fellowship for Community Transformation, Louisiana Green Corps, the Gulf Coast Fund, The Good Work Network, BLUES to GREEN, Limitless Vistas, Madison Media Group, Sierra Club – Delta Chapter and Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing to create Green UP New Orleans, a celebration of New Orleans culture and local green innovation.

The celebration will feature a concert with national and local artists, and an educational forum highlighting local programs and community heroes that are building innovative, green economic solutions in the region.

Listen to a message from Charmaine Neville, one of the many exciting performers at Green UP New Orleans:

RSVP for the Event

Volunteers needed! Free dinner voucher provided for volunteers.
RSVP above, and then email alli@greenforall.org for more information.

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Tonight from 7-10pm

Schedule

  • 12 pm:
    Open Mic and Community Food Market: The Renaissance Project, NOLA Green Roots, Our School at Blair Grocery, Hollygrove Market and Farm
  • 1 pm:
    Opening plenary featuring local heros and performance
  • 2 - 6 pm:
    Panel presentations and interactive workshops
  • 7 - 10 pm:
    Concert featuring Dead Prez, Charmaine Neville & Band, Hot 8 Brass Band, Lil Dee, Truth Universal, iCon and Green For All Fellows Seasunz, Doo Dat, and Tem Blessed

Open Mic Host
Keshia "Peaches" Caldwell is an International Poet, Event Planner, Educator, Mentor of her own grass roots organization, The Sankofa Speaks Project as well as PR Agent/CEO of DivaStating A&E. She has been performing spoken word since the age of 5.

Workshop Program: November 13, 2010

2:30

Organizing Ecological Transformation in the Gulf Coast: Session 1

The Triple Win Solution: Energy Efficiency & Weatherization - How to save money, create jobs and stop cooking the planet

Role of Culture and Arts to Build A Green Economy: Hip Hop and the Green Jobs Movement

New Opportunities in the Green Economy: Water, Renewables and Waste

4:30

Organizing Ecological Transformation in the Gulf Coast: Session 2

Solar Doesn't Spill: Louisiana's Pot of Gold

The Green Show: An Interactive Green Trivia Game Show

Local Food, Resilient Communities

Dinner

6 - 7 pm


Come break bread, share your insights from the conference, and cultivate community over dinner, featuring locally-grown and traditional foods! Hosted by Sunni Patterson with Nana Anoa Nantambu. Cost: $7

Complimentary dinner vouchers for volunteers – space limited! RSVP for the event, then email: alli@greenforall.org to volunteer.

Sunni Patterson is more than a poet, more than a singer, more than an emcee&emdash;it's not just what she says, it's how she says it. Emerging from the musical womb that is New Orleans, artist and visionary Sunni Patterson combines the heritage and tradition of her native town with an enlightened modern worldview to create music and poetry that is timeless in its groove.

Queen Mother Nana Anoa, Ph.D. is an artist, educator, environmentalist and urban gardener who serves her global community through song embodying truth, love, and compassion. She is an organizer committed to spiritual, physical and economic empowerment, and though her social enterprise, Wholely Living/Simply Living Inc., works with African American women to promote personal well-being in the living of our lives.

Concert

7 - 10 pm

Kabakoff Plaza/Kearny Terrace, Dillard University

Emcees: Julian Mocine-McQueen, Green For All & Sha'Condria "iCon" Sibley, New Orleans Slam Champion

Remarks by Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO Green For All

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