The ReUse District

This year’s Fringe Fest was a blast! The ReUse District hosted an arts & crafts booth at the Kids’ Tent where children could make their very own Holiday ornaments from reused clay. Check out what some of our participants created!

October’s Member of the Month, ShadowBox Theatre, collected pumpkins that were donated to St. Roch Community Church for kids to carve for the Halloween Festivities! With your contributions, this event was a wonderful success!Thank you for all your donations!

Donate a pumpkin to Shadow Box Theatre as The ReUse District’s Member of the Month, and get $5 off  their big Halloween fundraiser event. All pumpkins given to Shadow Box Theatre will be donated to the  St. Roch Community Church for their annual pumpkin carving parties where kids in the neighborhood can celebrate Halloween!

The Shadow Box Theatre, located at 2400 St Claude Ave, is The ReUse District’s Member of the Month for October! Donate a pumpkin to be given to children within The ReUse District to paint and carve for Halloween!

It all started with Christmas in October, an event that brought together local volunteers to help add value to their own communities by rebuilding houses and revitalizing neighborhoods. Since 1988, Rebuilding Together New Orleans has existed to organize this event, which relies on locals to dedicate two weekends of time, sweat and positivity to the task of revitalizing their city.

October Build continues each year because of the need to engage local volunteers. This year, Rebuilding Together New Orleans will work with 25 teams and 375 local volunteers on 17 houses throughout the city. In only four days, these volunteers will make noticeable changes in seven New Orleans neighborhoods. Though each house has specific needs, these volunteers will generally be working on everything from painting and landscaping to hammering and drilling.

Click on image above to listen and learn more about RTNO’s October Build Event!

The ShadowBox Theatre is the only independent black box theatre in New Orleans.  Conveniently located on St. Claude Ave, in the heart of the ReUse District, The ShadowBox hosts a full variety of shows from original pieces to classics, and from comedy to serious works.  As an avid supporter of the New Orleans Fringe Festival, The ShadowBox is always a great venue for refreshing shows.

The theater is also fundamentally a ReUse location.  Everything that makes The ShadowBox unique- classic red velvet curtains, retro wood auditorium chairs, right up to the paint on the walls- has been reclaimed from other locations in the neighborhood.  The ShadowBox supports re-use in every way.

Saturday, Sept. 17 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the PRC (923 Tchoupitoulas St.)

Event Details:

This annual homebuyer fair promotes homeownership in historic New Orleans neighborhoods by providing prospective homebuyers with the tools they need to find, purchase, and renovate a historic home.

This year’s Great Neighborhood Sellabration will feature exhibitions about historic New Orleans neighborhoods, along with workshops on how to buy, finance, and renovate a historic home. Also featuring hundreds of properties for sale throughout New Orleans!

Realtors, lenders and contractors will be available to answer questions and provide information.