ACD/ADPSR Conference Agenda

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 (in New Orleans)


7:00 PM Conference opening with Planners Network Anniversary Celebration and Mumford Awards with ADPSR, music by the Soul Rebels, dance party at 9:00

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

10:00 Bus tours, site visits (times and locations to be announced)

2:30 Buses will be available leaving New Orleans for Baton Rouge (details to be announced)

Music, politics, history and culture of New Orleans, and has addressed many rebuilding issues post-Katrina. He is music graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and onetime road manager for the Wynton Marsalis band. Elie is also the author of books and television documentaries on New Orleans food and culture, and producer for the Smithsonian Institute's Jazz Oral History Proaton Rouge

5:30   Hors d'oeuvre reception followed by Welcoming Address from Lolis Eric Elie, metro columnist for The Times-Picayune. Lolis Elie's writing focuses on the muject. As a 2006 Poynter Fellow at Yale University, Elie spoke on "Bricks, Mortar and Music: The Architecture of Second Line Parades."

7:00  Dinner on your own

Monday, June 4th, 2007

9:00-10:00 Petite Dejeuner Keynote with Carol Bebelle, Director and co- founder of The Ashe Center for the Arts, in New Orleans 

Recently, Elin Solaro of the Seattle Post Intelligencer wrote about Ms. Bebelle: “Two things struck me about Bebelle: the great beauty of her speaking voice and the unadorned elegance of her message. She spoke--as near as I could tell without notes--more coherently than anyone else I have ever heard or read, of the connection between literacy and democracy, work and peaceable citizens, art and the life of a community. 

10:00  Break

10:15-11:45 First Café sessions 

12:00-1:30 Lunch followed by  stir of the pot: a taste from the region, remarks from Bill Stallworth, Biloxi City Council.  Bill Stallworth is a Biloxi, Mississippi councilman who is leading the Katrina disaster relief efforts in East Biloxi.

1:45-3:15 Second round of Café sessions 

3:15  Break

3:30-5:00 Third round of Café sessions 

5:30  Picnic Dinner (LSU Campus)

7:00  Town Hall Meeting (LSU Campus)

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

8:30-9:15 Café reviews, notes from the field

9:30-10:15 Go-cups: observations from Clifton James.

Mr. James is an architect, founder and director of the Urban Design Research Center in New Orleans. The UDRC is an interdisciplinary, university associated, community based design center, specializing in community revitalization and development.  He was the first African-American to graduate from LSU’s School of Architecture, and went on to receive his Masters degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where he currently serves on the Alumni Council.

10:15  Break

10:30-12:00 Fourth round of Café sessions

12:00  Closing remarks from Raphael and Connie 

(Check out the schedule for the Planners' Network conference)