ANBA D’LO 2010: APOLOGY TO THE WATERS

HALLOWEEN WEEKEND CELEBRATION!

The New Orleans Hope and Heritage Project and The New Orleans Healing Center are pleased to announce the date for The Third Annual Anba Dlo Festival.

This year’s event, Apology to the Waters, will be held on Halloween Eve, Saturday, October 30 from 7:00 pm to 1:30 am at 2372 St Claude Avenue in the Bywater. Apology to the Waters, 2010 is a 21+ costume event, featuring free drinks, a costume parade and contest, outdoor live music stage, DJs, a Trance/Spiritual music room presented by Wild Lotus Yoga, fire dancers and acrobats, live artists, psychic readers, face painters, interactive experiences, and the Terrence Sanders Private Collection Art exhibit, a live auction, along with many other activities.

An interactive community festival, Anba Dlo celebrates the multicultural and artistic heritage of New Orleans through such mediums as sculpture, visual art, body painting, crafts, music, dance, acrobatics and costume. Anba Dlo's main event will also provide a sneak peek at the renovations currently taking place in the 55,000 sq. ft. historic building which is home to The New Orleans Healing Center, a multidisciplinary community revitalization project located in the heart of the burgeoning St Claude Ave. Arts District. All activities of Anba Dlo are centered on an onsite water sculpture created from debris and assembled by local artists. This interactive artwork will be unveiled at midnight during the Anba Dlo event as a personal community mandala combining sculpture, craft, tribal dance, fire, sound and light. The completed sculpture will then be displayed for one year in the central lobby of the Healing Center, once it is opened in Feb., 2011. Admission for the event is $20. Advance tickets will be available September 20, 2009, at www.neworleanshealingcenter.org, along with commemorative t-shirts, posters and catalog of auction items.

This year’s festival will boast performances from nine of the most beloved bands in New Orleans, including Cyril Neville and his Allstars, Phillip Manuel, John Mooney, Coco Robichaux, Felice Guimont, and 101 Runners on the Main Stage. Sean Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band, Michael Skinkus and Moyuba,and Kora Konnection will perform on the Sacred Music Stage The extensive music line-up this year also features Karmic Foundation DJ, Tom Harvey.

In addition to the costume party, Anba Dlo will also feature a costume parade, which starts at 6:30 pm at Markey Park. Everyone is invited to join the parade, led by The Radical Faeries, as it makes its way through the festive streets of New Orleans to the New Orleans Healing Center. Make sure you dress for the party (water-themed costumes such as mermaids and other ocean creatures are suggested) and prepare to celebrate Halloween “Nawlins” style!

"We can create from these polarized neighborhoods, one cohesive and balanced community,” says Sallie Ann Glassman, a founder of the New Orleans Healing Center, "Diversity is strength wherever it is encountered."

The 3rd Annual Anba Dlo is presented by the New Orleans Hope and Heritage Project and is a collaboration of the Departments of The New Orleans Healing Center, including Wild Lotus Yoga, The New Orleans Food Coop, Nola Solar, The Arts and Crafts Bazaar, The Retail Boutiques, The Performance Hall/Community Space/Theater in the Round, The New Orleans Healing Arts Project, The Full Circle Women's Collective, the Street University, The 5th District Police Sub-Station, health food restaurant, Organic Gardens, The Interfaith/Spiritual Center, with the local Radical Faeries, the artists of The Terrence Sanders Art Collection,100 local musicians, acrobats, dancers, 100 volunteers, local chefs, local crafts persons, local business people, writers, and La Source Ancienne Ounfo, Inc, a 501(c)3 public charity

For more information, visit www.neworleanshealingcenter.org. ;

Sallie Ann Glassman,

The Island Of Salvation Botanica and Magical Pharmacie,

La Source Ancienne Ounfo

Present the 29th Annual*

DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATION

Sunday, November 1^st

3319 Rosalie Alley

New Orleans, LA.

Ceremony for Gede: 7 p.m., in Rosalie Alley, off of Rampart, between Piety and Desire.

Followed by: Pot Luck supper & procession to the cemetery to feed the Dead.

Please wear white with a purple headscarf, or black and purple for Gede. Bring a dish (not a blond) for the people, and an offering for the Dead or Gede.

Gede’s tastes tend towards peppers, flat breads, rum, cigars, goat stew, crosses, grave-digger’s tools, black cock feathers, skeletons, sunglasses with one lens, hot Creole foods, money, the colors black, mauve, and white. He is syncretized with St. Gerard.

Or you can bring something that your ancestors or loved ones enjoyed in life.

More info. and R.S.V.P.: (504) 948-9961

Island of Salvation

We offer a wide assortment of materials for people interested in reaching the Spirit. Many of the items are handmade by Manbo Sallie Ann Glassman.

SALLIE ANN GLASSMAN

Sallie Ann Glassman is an initiated Vodou priestess who calls up and mediates the power of the Spirit. Sallie is internationally recognized for her lectures, art, readings and healing ceremonies.

She is one of a handful of Americans ordained into Vodou in the traditional Haitian initiation. Sallie is passionate about sharing the rich spiritual and cultural heritage of Vodou. Often maligned and misunderstood, Vodou is actually a healing and life-affirming religion. This ancient religion, currently practiced by 50 million people, speaks directly to our troubled world today. She believes that to discover Vodou is to embark on an encounter with divine mystery. Sallie owns the Island of Salvation Botanica, a store and gallery specializing in Vodou religious supply, medicinal herbs, and Haitian and local artwork. The shop was awarded the “Best of City” award by National Geographic Traveler in 2004. www.feyvodou.com

alyne pustanio cemetery photo