Begin your evening at the North Rampart Community Center from 5-6pm as they host an Upstairs Memorial Service with several guest speakers. Then head over to the site of the fire for New Orleans Pride's Memorial Service sponsored by Delaney and Robb Attorneys at Law.
New Orleans Pride is Proud to be hosting the City of New Orleans Official Memorial Event for the Upstairs Lounge Fire on June 24, 2013. The event will take place from 6:30-7:30PM at the site of the fire (Chartres Street @ Iberville...
Begin your evening at the North Rampart Community Center from 5-6pm as they host an Upstairs Memorial Service with several guest speakers. Then head over to the site of the fire for New Orleans Pride's Memorial Service sponsored by Delaney and Robb Attorneys at Law.
New Orleans Pride is Proud to be hosting the City of New Orleans Official Memorial Event for the Upstairs Lounge Fire on June 24, 2013. The event will take place from 6:30-7:30PM at the site of the fire (Chartres Street @ Iberville). The NOPD will close Iberville at 4:30pm between Chartres and Royal so tents and seating can be set up.
Join us as witnesses, city officials, and others remember the victims of the fire with speeches and musical tributes. After the memorial, we will relocate to Cafe Istanbul for the special premier of Upstairs the Musical.
The remembrance of past tragedy is essential to the progress of any population. We might not be able to draw any direct lines to the Upstairs Lounge fire and ourselves today, but it would be silly to suggest that it had no impact on our movement. It might have led to revival of Southern activism or just been an essential part of the anger that would lead others to fight for change. Whatever the ultimate impact, June 24, 1973, and the people that perished, should not be forgotten. -Cole Wakefield