Check out the NOYMAP‘s (New Orleans Youth Music Arts Program) open house to kick off a new after school program exposing youth to music production and recording through hands-on learning techniques.  The New Orleans Youth Music Arts Program  comes at no cost to students and caters to both at-risk and creative youth between the ages of 13 and 17 years old....

  Check out this release from the Office of the Mayor: News and Information: By Leslie Jacobs Educate Now! With the recent release by the U.S. Department of Education of national high school completion rates, New Orleans has cause to celebrate.  In terms of graduating students on time, we have closed the performance gap. New Orleans outperformed the state...

Sep 28, 2012

Over the next 16 days (9/22 – 10/7) on www.IndieGoGo.com/WRITEneworleans you can donate money to help 2nd graders at Sci Tech become published authors. This fall, nearly eighty 2nd graders will make their seven-year-old marks on the publishing world as they participate in a new youth publishing initiative called W.R.I.T.E (Write, Read, and Illustrate To...

Sep 8, 2012

The NORDC/NOBA Center For Dance, a cultural community partnership between the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (NORDC) and the New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA), and other community partners, are holding ongoing registrations through September for fall semester after-school dance classes on the dates listed below, or until classes are filled. ...

After a brief hiatus, New Orleans public and private school students will once again have the opportunity to study jazz under the direction of renowned jazz master, Donald Harrison, Jr. thanks to an incredible partnership between Isidore Newman School, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc., Iberia Bank, and the Surdna Foundation. New...