A Community Photo Project Asks “Why Save Coastal Louisiana?”
(Cross-posted from Leah’s blog on Bridge the Gulf) Searching for a way to mark the one-year anniversary of the BP oil disaster, I thought about a series of photographs I saw recently from Lower Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. They weren’t images of coastal destruction, they were the faces of people young and old holding up a […]
Bridge the Gulf Project will launch soon
We’ve been working toward the launch of bridgethegulfproject.org for many months and the BP oil disaster has added new urgency to the project. It’s a new media storytelling initiative promoting cultural survival, environmental justice, and sustainable development in Gulf Coast Communities. The project is the result of a collaboration between the Turkey Creek Film Project and the Gulf Coast Fund for […]
Natural Resources Defense Council President interviews Derrick Evans
NRDC President Frances Beinecke spent time last week on the Gulf Coast with Turkey Creek’s Derrick Evans and other advisors and grantees of the Gulf Coast Fund to learn about how the BP disaster is impacting coastal communities. She wrote about her observations in an article titled “Voice Off the Bayou” on her blog: “… […]
The Bridge Project hears from fishermen in Biloxi, MS
On May 7 a team of media artists from New Orleans Video Voices and 2-Cent Entertainment attended a community meeting in Biloxi, Miss. to hear about the impact of the oil disaster on fishermen, particularly the Vietnamese community there. They were invited by Thao Vu, advisor to the Gulf Coast Fund and a counselor at […]
