Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: a Field Guide Edited
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Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: Edited by A Field Guide Paul Chan 4 ORGANIZE Organizing notes . 89 Teachings . 107 Schedules . 117 PRODUCING WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS . 138 Gavin Kroeber - - KEYWORDS: Punk Planet, incompleteness, Lynne (Stewart), evacuee cities, disarm race, “Waiting for God to do…,” casting notice, University of New Orleans (UNO), Contemporary art seminar, Xavier University, “Practicum, ” NOCCA, Lusher High School, Frederick Douglass High School, John McDonogh High School, The Porch, a dare, silence, Jennifer Day, Lake Pontchartrain, Dan Krall, rumor, Rebecca Solnit All photos in this chapter by Tuyen Nguyen ORGANIZING NotES Wendell Pierce, T. Ryder Smith, Christopher McElroen, and Paul Chan at John McDonogh High School, 2007 WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE 4 [93] April note, 2007, pen on paper (Top and bottom) June notes, 2007, pen on paper 4 [94] WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE 4 [95] Note by Gavin Kroeber, 2007, pen on paper July note, 2007, pen and pencil and coffee on paper Application by Gavin Kroeber, 2007 4 [96] WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE 4 [97] Organizing map, 2007, pen on photocopy paper 4 [98] WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE 4 [99] (Above and facing page) Program notes from the New Israel Baptist Church, 2007 4 [100] WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE 4 [101] COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE HEALTH MEDS WISHLIST 2007 HEALTH CLINIC PROJECT AED-automatic external defibrillator Computers-desktops and laptops. Must be relatively quick. Also, hard drives> 2 gigs, memory, wireless cards, routers, laser printers, LED monitors. Working car Van or bus to be used for Mobile Clinics Sharps Boxx for needles Toshiba Photocopier Toner T-3560 Portable small home 02 tanks LOTS and LOTS of BD, Accencia and OneTouch glucometer test strips lancets and lancet ‘pen-pokers- (for BD & One Touh Ultras) Disposable Earpieces for Otoscopes (Lots) LOTS of probe covers for Genius Tympanic & regular small electronic thermomerters Pregnancy tests “Emergen-C” New glumeters (BD and OneTouch)* lancets and lancet ‘pen-pokers- (for BD & One Touh Ultras) Ear Specula Adult & Child size Tympanic termometers with LOTS OF PROBE COVERS* Oral/ rectal electronic thermometers with LOTS of probe covers* Child, Regular, Large Adult, Ex-Large & Thigh BP cuffs* 02 Peak Flow Meters* 02 Saturation moniters (portable) Nebulizers (small, we will give to patients)* 02 Nebulizer chamber with masks or mouth pieces Non-rebreather Face Masks Penlights or head lamps Automatic BP & Vital Sign monitors (if small-we give thime away to patients) Stethoscopes Occult Blood testers* 12 Lead EKG with printer & electrodes* Small centrifuge for hematocrit* Quick Strep Tests* Urine Dip Sticks Urine Sample Bottles Common Ground Collective spreadsheet, 2007 UNO note, 2007, pen on stationery paper 4 [102] WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE 4 [103] NEW ORLEANS CONTACT SHEET NAME ORGANIZATION PHONE WARD OR NEIGHBORHOOD CATEGORY Bart, Father Pastor at St. Mary’s 504-945-3186 church Upper Ninth Ward church, community, education 504-912-6743 cell Baum, Dan The New Yorker 303-917-5024 Moved already press Bebelle, Carol Ashe Cultural Arts Center 504 569 9070 Don’t know what to call that area… community, education Bechet, Ron Xavier U of Louisiana 504-520-7552 (at Xavier), Gentilly education cell 832 309 9409 Bickham, Clarence Councilwoman Lewis (9th ward) assistant office 504-658-1050 City hall political Birch, Willie artist, member of the Porch 504-312-2701 7th art, community Boles, Shelley Newcomb art gallery at Tulane University office 504-865-5361, Garden District community, education cell 504-237-4862 Bradberry, Steve ACORN director 9th ward community Breunlin, Rachel Neighborhood Story Project 713 504 6267 7th community, education Brown, Charlie filmmaker, friend of Kirah ? film, art Butler, Joe Concordia Architects 504 289 0588 ? ? Chan, Paul Grease and Glue 504-388-5112 Esplanade = Mason Dixon? art Clay, Tatiana Gabriellen Ya Ya member 504-722-9470 French Quarter ? Cole, Teresa Tulane Art Dept 504 314 2200 Garden District education Coleman, Tommy collecor in NOLA 504-586-8300 Near Tulane? political Common Ground office lower 9th HQ 504-312-1737, 504-579-4100 lower 9th political Common ground office (St. Marys) main building where volunteers and offices are 504-528-3805 9th political, community Crier, Rondell YAYA Former Director of Programs 504-259-2428 Upper Ninth Ward production Cutbert, David Theater critic for the Times Picayune 504-826-3468 ? press Drummer, Marina Common Ground Collective 707-486-6806 Not in Nola political, community Early, Brandon community coordinator 504.920.9877 Lower Ninth Ward political, community Ehrlich, Melanie Citizens’ Road Home Action Team (Gentilly) 504 309 0328 Gentilly political Etheridge, Dan Porch member, environmental architect, 504-218-7237, 713-504-5619 7th community, production married to Rachel B. Fagley, Bill Curator at the New Orleans Museum of art, 504-458-1867, French Quarter art, political friend of Dan Cameron museum 504-658-4108 Finger, Davida Loyola Law Clinic under Bill Quigley cell 206-250-5852 Uptown political office 504-861-5596 Fitzmorris, Jim Tulane Director 504-638-6326 ? production Flaherty, Jordan NOLA human rights film festival director, 917-346-3623 7th ward? community, art, political activist (This spread and the following two spreads) Franco, Pamela Tulane University art historian (504) 523-5420 Garden District? community Work-in-progress contact spreadsheet from September, 2007 Gandolfo, Brian landlord cell 323-428-1418 ? na 4 [104] WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE 4 [105] NAME ORGANIZATION PHONE WARD OR NEIGHBORHOOD CATEGORY Gibson, Sara NOCCA Manager special projects 504-940-2858, 504-940-2857 ? education, art Gilbert, Jan artist, associate of Jana Napoli and 504-251-4968 ? community, art Kathy Randels Giselon, Ann Teaches at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for 504-940-2900 ? education the Creative arts high school Gladney, Greta Rennaisance project 504 482 5722, lower 9th community, political cell 504-390-2139 Green, Robert Resident of the Lower Ninth Ward 504-201-8860 Lower Ninth Ward church, community, education Hammell, Brian NOCCA Director of campus activities 504-940-2854 Bywater education Harris, Julie Mayor’s office, communication’s director Direct: 504-658-4961, ? political Cell: 504-915-9602 Haubrich, Kirah Big Top Productions, runs a café/ ? community performance space called 3-ring circus Heldman, Caroline Common Ground Collective 504-421-1205, lower 9th community, political cell 562-587-4229 Himmelstein, Abram Neighborhood Story Project founder, 504 908 9383 7th community, art teacher at John Mack high school Horisaki, Takashi Artist working with Sculpture Center in Queens 347-813-9393 lower 9th art Hot iron press (Jenny and Kyle) press and poster makers in NOLA 504-920-3980 Upper Ninth Ward art Karnell, Phil Drama Professor (head?) of UNO 504-280-6813 ? education drama Department Kaufman, Ann NPN 504 914 6187 ? community Kerney, Alice-Craft Director of the Lower 9th ward health clinic 504-259-8279 cell Lower Ninth Ward community, education 504-309-0918 office LaFrance, Ciona New Orleans Public Schools external affairs 504-214-7994 or City hall area? education 504-373-6200 ext 20084 Levy, Robin artist, mother, friend of Teresa Cole 504-451-5150 Central City? community Lewis, Cynthia Willard city council rep 504-658-1050 9th political Lewis, Ronald House of the Dance and Feathers, 504 957 2678 lower 9th community lower 9th ward leader Liz Rubarb for bikes, activist 504-943-0216 Lower Ninth Ward political, community Louis, Ross Communications dept at Xavier 504-520-5103 ? education MacCash, Doug art critic for the Times Picayune 504-826-3481 ? press Madonie YAYA ? art, community Marchand, Charmaigne 9th ward State Representative ? political McCormick, Shandra Local photographer from the Ninth Ward 832-368-1679 Lower Ninth Ward art, community Montana, Sabrina Mays Councilwoman Morrell (gentilly) assistant office 504-658-1040 ? political cell 504-342-5403 Montesinos, Claudia Architect, edcuator, works with Greta 404.229.2147 ? art, community Napoli, Jana artist of “Floodwalls” project, founded Ya Ya 504-782-5107 Metairie community NENA Neighborhood empowerment 504-451-9871 lower 9th political network association NENA (Linda) NENA higher up 229-269-9078 lower 9th political Nguyen, Tuyen Possible assistant in NOLA 985-358-9691 ? art Okazaki, Arthur Tulane University photographer professor 504-813-5302 Near Tulane? education 4 [106] WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE WAITING FOR GODOT IN NEW ORLEANS: A FIELD GUIDE 4 [107] NAME ORGANIZATION PHONE WARD OR NEIGHBORHOOD CATEGORY Orr, Benardette OXFAM, manager of the Gulf Coast 857-222-5703 Not in Nola political Recovery Program Patricia Jones NENA director 504-948-4544 lower 9th political Pinettes World’s only female brass band Christie 504-915-0434 ? art Janine 504-270-7741 Quigley, Bill Lawyer for Paul and Housing activist 504 861 5591 Near Loyola? political, community Rahim, Malik Common Ground Collective 908-448-8162 Lower Ninth Ward community, political Randels, Kathy ArtSpotProduction 504 822 7387, ? production cell 504-906-0182 Rene Broussard