Hello members,<\/p>\n
Some chapters of the Women\u2019s National Book Association send out monthly newsletters, but that\u2019s never been our style in New Orleans.<\/p>\n
Instead, I want to send you a more personal message and invite you to join us as often as you can in this coming year of chapter activities. I want to invite you to become more involved too. So, this message is also about soliciting volunteers\u2026especially for the cocktail party event in May.<\/p>\n
Books? Cocktails? Parties? Some of the most interesting women in New Orleans? There is no excuse for holding back!<\/p>\n
As we learn about other book and literary\/literacy events, we will send out emails for\u00a0other pop-up events<\/strong>. Send in suggestions for these. Last year\u2019s Emily Dickinson movie pop-up was particularly successful. Also, our\u00a0board meetings are open to all members<\/strong>. Come when you can. If you cannot make a board meeting, email or call any of our board members. We want to hear from you. You are New Orleans women, so I know you can\u2019t be shy. If you were shy, you would have to move to someplace else.<\/p>\n We also have generous offers from members to organize\u00a0workshops<\/strong>\u00a0on meditation and writing and manuscript review. We\u2019ll be sending out further details later this fall. We want to\u00a0call for other volunteers<\/strong>\u00a0on a project that will take our chapter some time to organize: A NOLA version of the New York City Chapter\u2019s\u00a0Pitch-a-Palooza<\/strong>. The idea would be to organize an event where authors pitch their works to agents. NYC already has a solid group of agents, including chapter members, who make this easier to organize. In New Orleans, agents are scarcer. I don\u2019t want to call them unicorns, but \u2026\u2026\u2026 Some of the fundraising that we\u2019re doing is to go towards the expense of putting this type of event together. To make this happen we need a committee to work on organizing this. Email us if you can help. All assistance on this is deeply appreciated! Last, we always appreciate people who\u00a0volunteer to spread the word about WNBA events via social media.<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, liking, sharing, and re-tweeting are ways to contribute to the success of WNBA-NOLA.<\/p>\n It is the culture of our city for people to participate. We don\u2019t sit down for music. We dance. We wave handkerchiefs. We shake assorted body parts. We parade. We make costumes out of anything, everything — even loud, flowered tablecloths (I\u2019ve seen it with my own eyes, and they survived to tell the story!). We throw parties, and, as someone once observed, we are the only place where people barbeque in the\u00a0front<\/em>\u00a0yard. Our careless city knows only one sin: not sharing a good time. There is something for every member this year. I hope to see you at a lot of our WNBA-NOLA events.<\/p>\n Celebrating books with the best women I know, I am<\/p>\n Very truly yours,<\/p>\n Marie<\/p>\n Marie Breaux, WNBA-New Orleans Chapter President 2017-18<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello members, Some chapters of the Women\u2019s National Book Association send out monthly newsletters, but that\u2019s never been our style in New Orleans. Instead, I want to send you a more personal message and invite you to join us as often as you can in this coming year of chapter activities. I want to invite … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-editor","4":"post-1288","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}