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GSOS Community Table 5-7 PM Join us on Monday, March 23rd in Algiers as we welcome in Spring with a river ritual - honor...
03/18/2026

GSOS Community Table 5-7 PM 
Join us on Monday, March 23rd in Algiers as we welcome in Spring with a river ritual - honoring the life and power of the river. Use address 233 Newton St. New Orleans, LA 70114 to park in the parking lot beside the New Orleans Event and Film studio. Or this is a great opportunity to take the Algiers ferry! In the case of bad weather we will move to the Crown & Anchor English Pub.

The Gulf South Open School Community Table is a monthly gathering where we break bread and spend intentional time in conversation and creative response learning and sharing about specific issues we are facing in the Gulf South Region. This year, our programming will focus on taking a deeper dive into the section of the Mississippi River downriver from New Orleans. Stay tuned for more upcoming programming!

Join Civic Studio and the Gulf South Open School for a year end gathering and our last community table of the year!See y...
12/08/2025

Join Civic Studio and the Gulf South Open School for a year end gathering and our last community table of the year!

See you there! Toast at 5:30

Join us this Thursday!Karine Narahara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of N...
11/18/2025

Join us this Thursday!

Karine Narahara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Texas (UNT). She is an anthropologist with extensive experience in environmental public policy and in collaborating with Black, Afro-Indigenous, and Native American communities in Brazil and Argentina. Her research interests include Environmental Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, and Ethnographic Methods. In a recent book, she presents an ethnography about the Mapuche people and their conflicts with the oil industry in Patagonia. Dr. Narahara is also a member of the Ilê Axé Aganju Ixolá, a Candomblé community in Rio de Janeiro, with whom she has been collaborating on the book project she will present today. This research led to investigating alternative archival records created by Afro-Indigenous communities. From that, she is now working on the “Okra Archives,” a project that explores plants as devices of ancestral memory.

Join us Monday the 27th at Grow Dat Youth Farm for another community table hosted by & Neighborhood Story Project. See ...
10/21/2025

Join us Monday the 27th at Grow Dat Youth Farm for another community table hosted by & Neighborhood Story Project. See you there!

Join us October 13th at Civic Studio for another Community Table with Shana M. griffin
10/03/2025

Join us October 13th at Civic Studio for another Community Table with Shana M. griffin

Geographies of Black Displacement walking tour explores the history and impact of dislocation, displacement, and disposa...
10/01/2025

Geographies of Black Displacement walking tour explores the history and impact of dislocation, displacement, and disposability in land-use planning, housing policy, and post-disaster recovery on Black communities.

As a walking discourse, the tour will examine the violent formation of New Orleans as a carceral landscape and colonial enterprise marked by taking, extraction, enslavement, settlement, and conquest. The tour analyzes historical and contemporary practices of architectural violence; residential confinement; technologies of racial management, surveillance, and extraction; discriminatory housing patterns; and policies that make people disappear.

We will start in the French Quarter and then go through Bienville Basin (formerly the Iberville Public Housing Development and site of Storyville), where the tour will end. The walking tour includes printed materials (a 16-page timeline, maps, and related ephemera) and will last approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. Space is limited. RSVP at [email protected].

Join us for another community table on September 27, lead by Rebecca Snedeker.RSVP: rebsned@gmail.com
09/13/2025

Join us for another community table on September 27, lead by Rebecca Snedeker.

RSVP: [email protected]



Join us for another community table on September 27, lead by Rebecca Snedeker.
09/13/2025

Join us for another community table on September 27, lead by Rebecca Snedeker.

Join us to discuss a looming housing justice issue in Louisiana: home and flood insurance. Many of us are dealing with a...
06/17/2025

Join us to discuss a looming housing justice issue in Louisiana: home and flood insurance. Many of us are dealing with annual premiums that have doubled or tripled or worse. Some residents are being dropped by their insurance companies. Residents are worried about being able to afford to protect their homes, and recently some key legislation aimed at helping protect Louisiana residents was voted down by the Louisiana state legislature. Let’s chat about these issues and what some folks in our state are trying to do about it.

Today is the day! Come by the to view the Future of New Orleans Exhibition from 6-8 pm!
05/15/2025

Today is the day! Come by the to view the Future of New Orleans Exhibition from 6-8 pm!

Join us at Nanih Bvlbancha as we explore this season’s theme “Maintenance & Repair” lead by our guide, Monique Verdin!
05/13/2025

Join us at Nanih Bvlbancha as we explore this season’s theme “Maintenance & Repair” lead by our guide, Monique Verdin!

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