June 27th, 2008: UPDATE!
Welcome! We have just posted pictures from two past LakeviewS related events! Click here to go to our related projects page and view the Whispering Bones and the Hero’s Journey Puppet Theatre photos!

May 24th, 2008: Whispering Bones Update
Hello All! To view the most recent flyer and information about the upcoming Whispering Bones reading and story sharing please go to our “Events and Related Projects” page and click on the Whispering Bones link.

LakeviewS Excerpts
The new video LakeviewS Excerpts will be included in Curator Annette DiMeo Carlozzi’s Workspace: In the Wake of Katrina February 16th - May 25th at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Drama Review
Check out the Spring 2008 issue of The Drama Review in CRITICAL ACTS for LakeviewS: a Bus Tour as Vehicle for Regrowth in New Orleans by Will Bowling and Rachel Carrico. To access the article via the TDR website click here, a subscription is required. To access the PDF version, go to the PRESS page on this website.

Workshop Dialogues
Do bones whisper? They do in Lakeview. Resting on the fringe of the mostly-Caucasian community is the mostly-African-American Holt Cemetery. There lie housekeepers, cooks, baby-sitters, and butlers who served white families all over New Orleans. Who were they, really?

Jan Villarrubia and Adella Gautier will delve into those questions and provide opportunities for honest discussions in a series of reading workshops directed by Ashley Sparks and Kaia Livers. These sessions will be designed to explore the issue of racism in our post federal flood city. Villarrubia’s play-in-progress Turning of the Bones and Gautier’s monologues Five Dollars a Day and Car Fare and Daughters of the Ocean feature African American domestics. The mortal remains of the people who inspired those characters are buried in Holt Cemetery. Actors will read scenes and fragments of scenes from plays, and audience discussions will follow.

Please email vestigesproject@yahoo.com if you wish to be a part of these dynamic forums.

Heroes’ Journeys Puppet Theater
Metairie Park Country Day School Honors Art students again join the Lakeviews team for the presentation of exciting puppet theater pieces, puppet making demos, and a take home hand puppet workshop at the April 9th (5-8pm) Harrison Avenue Market Place.

Metairie Park Country Day Honors Art Students (From Left to Right: Marcella Paraza, Trey DiLeo, Andy Tyler, Charlie Lanier) with Teacher Pam Eveline (Center) practicing their play Lama Soup with handmade puppets

Please check back soon for updates!

Please take a look at the pictures and newspaper articles from the LakeviewS event posted on this website!