When Bonerama struts onstage with its four-trombone frontline, you can guess it's not quite like any rock 'n' roll band you've seen. When they tear into some vintage New Orleans funk, there's no questioning from which city these guys hail. And when those 'bones start ripping into Hendrix and Led Zeppelin licks, all stylistic bets are off.
Make your end-of-the-year tax-deductible donation of $40 or more to the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, and get our limited-edition "Live the Dream" t-shirt free!
Your donation will help us reach our goal of raising $40,000 in honor of the 40th anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act. Your contribution will help us maintain our enforcement, outreach, and homeownership protection programs.
SOUL REBELS & BONERAMA IN CONCERT @ THE HOWLIN WOLF!
Friday, January 16 2009 • 10:00 PM
Don't miss the Soul Rebels and Bonerama at the Howlin Wolf! Tickets are $15, and proceeds benefit fair housing and civil rights work in New Orleans. Buy tickets at the door or get them online now.
Come celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy at our community event at Dillard University's Cook Center. We'll screen 4 films about how neighborhoods across the nation are reclaiming control over their communities, followed by conversations about community power in New Orleans.
Fit for a King Community Power Day is free and open to the public.
10:30-11:30 AM- Concurrent screenings
1. Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street retells the story of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Boston, a neighborhood group that organized effectively to provide a community based approach to urban renewal.
2. Homes and Hands: Community Land Trusts in Action features three community land trusts that have addressed needs for affordable housing, maintaining housing affordability, and who have worked with the concept of co-operative housing.
3. Third Ward TX spotlights Project Rowhouses in Houston's Third Ward, where artists and organizers have worked to connect art, culture, and history to community needs like affordable housing.
4. Some Place Like Home, a documentary recently produced by the Brooklyn group Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE), is "about a community's fight to save its neighborhood and have a voice in planning its future" and addresses gentrification in downtown Brooklyn.
11:30-12:30 PM- Lunch from Stewart's Diner (cash only)
12:45-1:45 PM- Facilitated conversations about the films and community power in New Orleans
2-3:30 PM-Special presentation of Broderick Webb and Edward Holub's film, Cut Off: It's not about the buildings. It's about the people, which explores the issue of public housing demolition in New Orleans and ties the recent demolitions to global trends. A panel will follow the screening.
The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) is a private, non-profit civil rights organization established in the summer of 1995 to eradicate housing discrimination throughout the greater New Orleans area. Through education, investigation, and enforcement activities, GNOFHAC promotes fair competition throughout the housing marketplace, including rental, sales, lending, and insurance practices. GNOFHAC is dedicated to fighting housing discrimination not only because it is illegal, but also because it is a divisive force that perpetuates poverty, segregation, ignorance, fear, and hatred.
