Michael Karnjanaprakorn

Yeahhhhh, we’re back! And we’ve added another city to the mix. AUSTIN! Come join us at our second monthly Cause for Drinks happy hour. This month, proceeds will go to the New Orleans Kid Camera Project.

The New Orleans Kid Camera Project was created to address the psychological and emotional impacts of Hurricane Katrina on children returning home to New Orleans. Through the use of photography, creative writing and mixed media, children from flooded neighborhoods explore their environment and express themselves, their stories and feelings with their friends. This project provides a venue for growth and recovery. By teaching the children tangible skills and exposing them to new means of expression, we hope to empower them to impact their lives and environment.

NOLA:
Bridge Lounge
1201 Magazine St

NYC:
Max Fish
178 Ludlow St
maxfish.com

AUSTIN:
Mohawks
912 Red River
mohawkaustin.com

We drink because nourishing creativity in New Orleans is awesome. $2 from every drink will supply young aspiring photographers. Who said that drinking only produces a hangover the next day?

The New Orleans Kid Camera Project is a grassroots community endeavor created to address the psychological and emotional impacts of Hurricane Katrina on children returning home to New Orleans. Working with professionals in mental health, journalism, photography, and emerging Internet technologies, participants develop the creative, cognitive and technical skills to represent their own experience and perspective without external mediation. The primary goal of the project is to furnish young New Orleans’ residents with the skills, equipment, motivation and expectation of success that will empower them throughout their lives to advocate on their own behalf, influence policy to create social change, find a creative outlet to process the changes they have undergone, and expose a broad, global constituency to their community’s ongoing struggle.

In addition to valuable creative and technical training, participants also find opportunities to have their voices heard directly and to be taken seriously as creative and documentary talents. The children of Post-Katrina New Orleans are our young artists, documentary photographers, historians and educators. The streets in their photographs depict historically neglected communities, which prior to Katrina had been underrepresented and overlooked. They capture images of this unique time in United States history, from the heart of their city, as only residents of New Orleans.