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ReX of NoLA Rising arrives in New York next 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. CHECK IT OUT HERE!

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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Fringe Fest - November 13-16th - XO Studios

The New Orleans Fringe Festival, November 13-16, will be an extraordinary convergence of theater, performance art and spectacle. Forty groups from around the country and New Orleans will be presenting over 120 shows in venues across the city, primarily in the Marigny, Bywater and French Quarter. The shows include the exotic, the dramatic and the insane: drama, dance, one-person shows, cabaret, comedy, puppetry, clowning, improvisational, aerialist and many other creative works.

This is just a taste: for the complete lineup of all shows visit www.nofringe.org/shows.html. Show descriptions and high-resolution versions of images are available by clicking on the show titles and images. Visit the press kit for high resolution images of the festival logo and our signature image of the shotgun porch aerialists: www.nofringe.org/news_presskit.html.

Venues include traditional theaters as well as unusual spaces: Marigny Theatre, the Sidearm Gallery, the Hi-Ho Lounge, the North Rampart Community Center, Nola Candle Factory, the Skull Club, Le Chat Noir, On Piety, Maw-Maw the Chicken Memorial Theatre, Voodoo Mystere Lounge, and others. All performances are $7 each and run between 30 and 60 minutes.

Tickets are available online at www.nofringe.org, at the door before each show, or at the Fringe Circus Tent during the festival. The Fringe Circus Tent is the heart of the Festival; it is an antique big-top where audience members and performers can mingle over refreshments, read audience reviews, and enjoy free entertainment; it will be located at the corner of Press and Dauphine Streets in the Marigny.

Other free Fringe activities during the Festival include the Goodchildren Social Aid and Pleasure Club Fringe Parade down St. Claude at 10 am on November 15th, and later that day an outdoor children’s stage with free performances of puppetry, slack rope walkers and aerialists, hosted by the St. Claude Main Street Project from 2-5 pm on Saturday, November 15th.

DJ Soul Sister Jams at One Eyed Jacks In Celebration of President Barack Obama

We were given the honor of providing some entertainment at the election party for Barack Obama thrown by our beloved friend DJ Soul Sister. Our sister threw one helluva party with many sponsors (Defend New Orleans among them) and like-minded friends. From Dirty Coast taking pictures of people with Barack cut-out to face-painting by Rex, a good time was had by all.

Enjoy the pictures from the DJ Soulsister's Victory Party:

Oh, we're good looking people

First Face of the Night

A Winning Smile!

Rex Paints a Shephard Fairey

Andrew Ward sports a post-modern Shephard Fairey

When people ask why I'm an artist, it's easy to say because I get to look into eyes like these

Avi and DJ Soul Sister

NoLA Rising NYC Launched

NoLA Rising NYC, the website detailing the NoLA Rising Festival at IRT in New York was launched this past week:

The main exhibit, A Tag of Two Cities, will include Dingler's original work, collaborations between Dingler and New York street artists, and art painted in New York City parks during the NoLA Rising paint parties. The festival includes a 24-hour art happening - with DJ's, live music and arts exhibitions - and a benefit on Saturday, November 22nd, featuring special appearances, performances and donations from New York artists. Proceeds from the benfefit will go to NoLA Rising and Young Audiences, an organization that provides art supplies and funds teacher salaries in public schools that have gone without art classes since Katrina. All participants in the festival hope to promote public art as a vital aspect of healthy communities, to encourage support for art therapy programs and to challenge traditional perspectives on street art.

See NoLA Rising NYC HERE

NoLA Rising at Prospect Everyone

Prospect EveryOne - The New Orleans Opening for Prospect 1

On Thursday, October 30th, NoLA Rising joined the team of New Orleans all stars on Julia Street for the locals opening of Prospect One. NoLA Rising opted to provide the entertainment of an art jail where you could have your friends thrown in jail for a small fee. Once inside the jail you had to work hard labor making artwork until you could convince someone to come and bail you out. A good time was had by all...enjoy the pictures of our madness:

Jess and Jen Patrol the streets

Immunity for no one

NoLA Rising

I eat a lot of donuts to look this good

The first prisoner of the evening

---And a very special thanks to everyone who helped make this night happen: Avi, Angela, Max, Mags, Travis, Jess, Denise, Varg, Jenn, Romy, & Alicia---

NoLA Rising at Voodoo Fest - October 2008

Last weekend, the city was alive with music once again with Voodoo Festival in full swing. While we could have been out partying with Stone Temple Pilots, we stayed in The Land of Nod under the sanction of our brothers and sisters from NooMoon. We set up a full paint party and even set up temporary headquarters in City Park for those who like to paint and listen to music. Below are some of the photos from Voodoo weekend:

















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