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psychogeographic oral history project
Listen to New Orleans is a psychogeographic oral histories audio installation, book, and website about a changing city. Using physical signs embedded throughout New Orleans indicating phone numbers to call, listeners can dial in to hear oral histories from long-term residents of New Orleans about a place at which they stand that no longer exists, and what was lost as a result.
Listen to New Orleans showcases nine stories that explore how the deep history of New Orleans’ past is shaping its present. The first nine storytellers featured will be Jude Acers, Jeffery Darensbourg, Judge Edwin Lombard, Hasan "Ha Sizzle" Matthews, Cherice Harrison-Nelson, Frank Perez, Harold Short II, Akilah Toney, and Stacey Robinson Towns.-
The signs are installed on light posts that are visible and accessible to the public 24 hours a day. You will need a cellphone to access the audio of the individual stories.
Signs will be viewable at the following locations:
Hasan "HaSizzle" Matthews
Club Fusions
2004 A P Tureaud Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70119
Cherice Harrison-Nelson
Oretha Castle Haley Elementary School
1524 Franklin Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117
Jude Acers
YMCA
936 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70130
Frank Perez
Double Play
439 Dauphine Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
Stacey Robinson Towns
Turner’s Restaurant and Bar
701 Clouet Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
Harold Short II
1984 Louisiana World Exposition
728 Convention Center Blvd
New Orleans, LA 70130
Judge Edwin Lombard
Foot of Canal Street
Canal St & Convention Center Blvd
New Orleans, LA 70130
Jeffery Darensbourg
Bayou Choupic
Moss & Bell Street
New Orleans, LA 70119
Akilah Toney
Super 10
4321 St Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117
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Hours
Open for public viewing 24/7
Accessibility
All of the sites are outdoors, public and free to access 24 hours a day by foot, car, or bicycle, etc.
Copyright
All the stories belong to the storytellers and cannot be reproduced without their written permission.