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| Neighbors
United |
Neighbors
United was founded in 1974 by Shirley Barra and Dr. Olympia
Boucree. It started as a club and expanded over
the years. Their mission is to help people in the
community get things done. Thirty years later Neighbors
United remains an active and vital neighborhood association
that represents the real diversity of the Freret neighborhood.
Its founders, Ms. Barra and Dr. Boucree, remain very active,
but newer residents have also have become involved.
Anyone interested in becoming involved in Neighbors United
may contact Ms. Barra at 891-3456.
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Night
Out Against Crime
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Neighbors
United always has a big neighborhood party for Night Out
Against Crime. It is a time for neighbors to get
together, eat good food and have fun. Click here
to see 2004 pictures.
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| Student
Talent Art Revival (STAR) After School Program |
 NHS
has had an after school art program for young people
in the Freret neighborhood for the past nine years.
It provides our youngest neighbors with not only a "safe
place" after school but art instruction that too
often they do not obtain in the classroom. The
program was begun by local artist Joy Ebel as a Saturday
"art and pizza." It has been expanded
to a five day a week after school program that is now
run by Vidho
Lorville. Classes are held at Our Lady
of Lourdes School at the corner of Freret & Napoleon.
The students have done many murals throughout the Freret
neighborhood as well as smaller projects that are depicted
below. For the past two years students from Tulane
University's Service Learning program have also volunteered
with the program.
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Community
Enhancement Project
Original painting by Joy Ebel
One of the objectives of the STAR is to do public art murals
throughout the neighborhood to both brighten the neighborhood
as well as give the kids a sense of pride at seeing their
art in the community. |
Some
of the Community Projects
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Click here
to see more pictures. |
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| Art
Show & Sale |
Every year, the students from STAR enjoy having a show
that provides the chance to not only display, but also
sell the works of art. Click
here
to see pictures.
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| Academy
of the Sacred Heart & Our Lady of Lourdes Ceramic Relief
Project |
This
was a wonderful collaboration between the young students
of Our Lady of Lourdes and high school students at Sacred
Heart Academy. The students at Our Lady of Lourdes, which
does not have an art program, went to Sacred Heart to
create individual pieces of ceramic that were then installed
as a mosaic around the doorway to Our Lady of Lourdes
at the corner of Freret and Napoleon. Click
here
to see pictures.
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| Field
Trips |
In
2003, children from the Freret Street neighborhood went
to the Back
Street Cultural Museum in the Treme, and this
year went on a trip to the New Orleans Museum of Art
with Dooky Chase. (Click
here
to see pictures.) Other trips will be planned
that will help them understand and appreciate the cultural
diversity of New Orleans.
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