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Hello Crescent City Shapers,

The Lunch & Learn Series will be beginning this month. Here are the time, date, and place details.

Time-12:30pm

Date-Weekdays (once a month, but two in November)

Place-351 Milneburg Hall

The idea is to come relax during your lunch hour (brown bag it) and learn about an aspect of Urban Planning from someone who is already working in the field.

Here are my ideas of topics for the year…If you would like to hear about a particular topic or from a particular speaker, feel free to email me.

Tuesday, November 17–David Fields

Tuesday, November 24–Angela Parsons

Wednesday, December 2–Bob Brecker

Jan-Smart Growth (think of the future)

Feb- Architecture (fall in love with the look of New Orleans)

March-Gardening/Slow Food (spring into action with fresh new ideas)

April-Environmental Awareness (new options for energy are everywhere)

May-Politics

As each event gets closer, you will be receiving emails from me with all  the details.

Bridget Tydor

Education Officer

btydor@uno.edu

Hello Crescent City Shapers,

Lunch & Learns will be beginning this month! Just so you know what to expect for the year we will follow some basic time, place, and date guidelines:

Time-12:30pm

Place-351 Milneburg Hall

Date-Wednesdays (once a month, but 2 for November)

The idea is to give you a break from class and a chance to hear about current work in an area related to Urban Planning from those already involved in the field.

Bring your own lunch. Relax for an hour. Get to know something new!

Here are my general ideas of topics for the year

Oct/early Nov-Housing Blight (a spooky issue)

Nov-Transit (bicycles, buses, trolleys)

Dec-Parks & Recreation (a great time of year for parks)

Jan-Smart Growth (time to think about the future)

Feb-Architecture (fall in love with the look of New Orleans)

March-Gardening/Slow food (spring into action with fresh produce)

April-Environmental Awareness (solar, wind, water, power, etc)

May-politics

Please be sure to email me if you have any other topics or speakers you are interested in hearing about and from. I will be emailing everyone with the specifics as each Lunch & Learn gets closer…so look forward to hearing from me soon!

Bridget Tydor

Education Officer

btydor@uno.edu

Ready your quarters….Transit Oriented Drinks is next week:  Friday, November 13, 2009.  Ask a 2nd year MURP and they’ll tell you:  taking transit was never so fun!  This event, deeply rooted in planning theory and modern transportation planning ideals, is a great opportunity to socialize with your colleagues, familiarize with yourself with the various modes of public transit as well as some of the city’s finest drinking establishments.  Don’t miss out and make sure you’re at the first stop.  All the details can be found below.  We look forward to seeing you there.

Start:  *5:30 pm, Balcony Bar, 3201 Magazine Street.

First mode of transit:  Magazine street bus, Magazine St. and 7^th St., to leave at 6:26, 6:56, 7:26, or 7:56 (just in case we leave someone in the bathroom).  Ride this all the way to canal. 

Second mode of transit: Yo’ Feet!  Walk four blocks up Canal Street.  Make a left onto Baronne Street.  The next stop will be on your left barely a block up. 

Next Stop:  *7:30 pm, The Sazerac Bar at the Roosevelt Hotel, 123 Baronne Street, www.therooseveltneworleans.com

Third mode of transit:  Canal Streetcar, Canal and Rampart Street, to leave at 8:12, 8:48, 8:58, 9:08, 9:20, or 10:08 (in case you get caught talking politics).   Ride this all the way to the Canal Cemeteries.

Final Stop: *9:30pm, Mid City Bulldog, 51355 Canal Street, www.bulldog-midcityt.draftfreak.com

Getting Home:  Call a cab or take the streetcar from whence you came—it leaves from the Canal Cemeteries at 10:49, 11:09, 12:09, 12:29, 1:49, and 2:49.

The AMA is hosting guest speaker John Hopper Chief Development Officer of Fund raising and PR for City Park next Tuesday. Lunch will be provided for students as we learn how City Park surveyed the New Orleans community and translated that information to create their City Park Master Plan 2018. Please join us on Tuesday, November 10, at 12:30 to 1:15 in KH 325.

Below you will find the game days volunteers are need to work concessions in support of the Lower 9th Ward Homeowner’s Association and their efforts to help residents of the Lower 9th Ward return home and rebuild their community.  Show some love for our Lower 9th Ward community and put a game or two (or more) down in your schedule.  Questions?  Reach out to LaVita Tuff:  lavita.tuff@gmail.com

New month, new neighborhood, new happy hour location.

Get ready District 4….the Crescent City Shapers are coming to Mid-City for November’s Happy Hour.  We will be gathering at Finn McCool’s Irish Pub, check them out at:  http://www.finnmccools.com/

The Happy Hour festivities will begin Friday, November 6, from 8-the planners go home.  8 pm!?!?!?  That’s right…the Dr. Lance Hill event is that same evening and we wouldn’t want you to put you in a pickle.  So come to the Action Coalition’s hosting of Dr. Hill (details are on the website), then hop…skip…and a jump to Finn McCool’s.  

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

The Action Coalition will be hosting Dr. Lance Hill on Friday evening, November 6^th from 6-8pm in Milneburg Hall 351 and all Crescent City Shapers are welcome to attend.   That’s next Friday!!  Food and beverages will be provided, but potluck donations are kindly appreciated.

Dr. Lance Hill is a history professor at Tulane University, a lifelong activist, and the executive director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research (SIER).  The SIER is a highly esteemed non-profit “race relations center dedicated to improving ethnic relations in the Deep South through tolerance education and communications training”.  Dr. Hill will begin the evening with an overview of events since Hurricane Katrina that created racial antagonisms and the “exclusionist movement” in the recovery of New Orleans.  After this, he will guide us in understanding some of the various theoretical strategies for antiracist organizing and communication.  Building both the theoretical and historical perspectives on how to effectively engage in interethnic dialogue will be invaluable for any work that the Action Coalition does in the greater New Orleans metropolitan area.

If you are interested in joining this amazing evening, please RSVP with me so that we can effectively plan the logistics.

Please RSVP to Joel Devalcourt at jadevalcourt@gmail.com

  Come check us out at UNO’s annual Fall Fest this Thursday, October 29, from 11-2 on the green outside of the Earl K. Long Library.  We’ll have lots of good information about upcoming events, some treats, and no tricks.  A win-win-win.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

The Saints definitely are marching all over the competition. The Hornets  are preparing for some stinging victories.  Want to join in the action while helping to improve the lives of families in the 9th ward?  Crescent City Shapers and the Lower Ninth Ward Homeowner’s Association are teaming up to help families still devastated by the storm.

You will join your classmates in working a concessions stand at Saint’s and Hornet’s home games and a percentage of the revenue is collected by the Lower Ninth Ward Homeowner’s Association and distributed to 9th ward residents to help them return to their homes and stay in their homes.

The next home game that we need volunteers for is Sunday, November 8th. If you are interested in volunteering please email our community outreach officer at lavita.tuff@gmail.com. There will be many more opportunities to catch a game while helping members of our community–the schedule will be up soon–so plan on making it out to a few games.

We look forward to seeing you in the endzone!!!