When: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 6pmWe're heading back downtown....Reginelli's was very popular the first time we went there the spring and we're trying it out again. Street parking is free beginning at 6pm.
Come by for a slice and a little conversation with your fellow heathens!
When: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 6pmIt wouldn't be spring if we didn't hit The Columns at least once before it gets too hot to enjoy their lovely outdoor ambience. You can listen to the clanking of the streetcars and enjoy the history of this favorite, elegant watering hole.
The next day will be National Day of Reason (our answer to the annual National Day of Prayer), so it's only reasonable that we might have some reasonable things to talk about. Like how important reason is to life....as opposed to magic and myth.
We'll try to commandeer several tables on the porch where we can pick up some cool evening breezes and keep adding chairs as needed.
Haven't been in a while? Stop by for a few minutes and say hello. As always, we will continue to encourage stimulating conversation and to provide a welcoming place for our freethinking friends to stop by and say hello!
The Columns Hotel, designed by one of New Orleans' great architects, Thomas Sully, is the only remaining example of a large group of Italianate houses that he designed in the late 1880's.
Built in 1883 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Columns Hotel is located in the beautiful upper Garden District in New Orleans, Louisiana. Conveniently overlooking the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line.
When: Saturday, April 21, 2012, 10:30 AMJoin us for our annual gathering to commemorate Charles Darwin!
IMPORTANT- Tell UNO Police that you're there for the UNO Darwin Day as they will be screening for another campus event. There's a “hidden” parking lot you may use; look for a right turn directly after the Engineering Building, the "big white" building up front.
Featured speakers include:
When: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 6pmWith ample parking in the back, and space to gather around tables. Food and drink, what more could one ask for?
Stop on by, pull up a chair and say hello, have a burger, enjoy stimulating conversation.
When: Friday, April 13, 2012, 7:00 PMThe main Greer-Heard session will feature Christian apologist Gary Habermas and outspoken skeptic Michael Shermer in dialog about the afterlife.
This event will be held in Leavell Chapel.
The conference brings together scholars from opposing views, sometimes a Christian and a non-Christian, and at other times an evangelical and a non-evangelical, to discuss an important issue in a civil manner.
NOSHA members can attend the Friday event for $10 if you check in at the door and tell them you are with NOSHA.
Habermas, distinguished research professor at Liberty University, will present the Christian perspective on life after death. He holds a doctor of philosophy degree in history and philosophy of religion from Michigan State University and a master of arts degree in philosophical theology from the University of Detroit. Habermas, author of more than 30 books, has taught at Liberty for 26 years. His main areas of research include the philosophical study of miracles, near-death experiences, the historical Jesus and the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus.
Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and the executive director of the Skeptics Society, will present the opposing view.
Shermer is monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif. A prolific author, Shermer has written books on a wide range of topics including evolutionary economics, how the mind works, evolutionary origins of morality and the origins of religion. He earned a doctor of philosophy degree in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University and a master of arts degree in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton.
When: Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 7:00 PMLet's face it....Joan had major problems with religion! (Note the burning at the stake.) So it should be easy to understand why this play written by longtime NOSHA member, William Gautreaux, "Je m'appelais Jeanne d'Arc (My Name Was Joan of Arc)" might be of interest to some of our crowd.
This is a one-act play that he wrote which will be performed in French by his French 2, 3, 4, and 5 students. The play won FIRST PLACE in the French Play competition at Southeastern Louisiana University's Foreign Language Festival on March 27!
Synopsis of Scenes
We'll pick a place to grab a bite on the Westbank afterwards for whomever is interested and can stay.
When: Sunday, April 8, 2012, 8:00 PMIt's Easter....let's have a proper heathen celebration!
Direct from the Reason Rally and American Atheist Convention in Washington, D.C., Brother Sam returns to New Orleans to perform REVIVAL!
A participatory event with music provided by Chris Saunders, a New Orleans fixture on the jazz scene, where every performance is unique, and you are part of the show! Serious ideas and wild humor, music and fun for everyone.
"Raise hell and put a chunk under it!"
Visit www.samsingleton.com for more info and to purchase advance tickets ($12) or pay at the door ($15). This show is rated PG-13 for language. Parents, please use discretion.
Click here to buy your ticket: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/227852
When: Saturday, March 17, 2012, 4:00 PMAs a variation from our customary guest speaker format for monthly meetings, we hold the occasional group participation event where those in the audience may discuss a specific topic of interest and concern to secularists. This month it will be...
“How do you manage your atheism/secularism in your various roles?”
Such topics to be discussed:
Please join us to share your thoughts, experiences, and strategies regarding this topic! It should be a stimulating and informative conversation especially for someone who has only recently "come out" as a non-religious person.
And if you've never been to a NOSHA event, this is a great opportunity to get to know your fellow NOSHA members better. Feel free to bring friends....even curious, religious ones.
NOSHA's monthly meetings take place on the 3rd Saturday of each month, at 4:00pm
To get to the meeting place at the zoo: Enter from Magazine Street at Zoo Avenue (between the two stone lions) and continue to the statue of Audubon. The entry way to our area (the Dominion Learning Center) is to the right of the main entrance through the metal gates.
If it's a pretty day, parking will be at a premium so give yourself plenty of time to find a spot.
For more information about this event, contact Harry Greenberger at (504) 282-5459. All NOSHA meetings are open to the general public.
When: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 6pmThere's lots going on in the "non-belief" world the next six weeks, so we need to come together and chat. And don't forget the eating!
With ample parking in the back, and space to gather around tables. Food and drink, what more could one ask for?
Stop on by, pull up a chair and say hello, have a burger, enjoy stimulating conversation.
When: Wednesday, March 7 at 6pmWe hope everyone had a fun time at parades with friends and family. There will be lots to talk about especially now that the political year is heating up and religion seems to be at the forefront of the national discourse.
With ample parking in the back, and space to gather around tables. Food and drink, what more could one ask for?
Stop on by, pull up a chair and say hello, have a burger, enjoy stimulating conversation.
When: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 4:00 PM John M. Barry is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author whose books have won more than twenty awards. In 2005 the National Academy of Sciences named "The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history - a study of the 1918 pandemic", the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine. The title of his talk will be "The Birth of Liberty and the Making of the First Amendment"
In 2006 the National Academy also invited him to give its annual Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture; he is the only non-scientist ever to give that lecture. In 1998 "Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America", won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians for the year’s best book of American history.
Barry's next book is "Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty". Two fault lines have divided America throughout our history: how we define the relationship between church and state and between the individual and the state.
This book explores the genesis of those fault lines. It is an intellectual history, but that history is not of abstruse theory. It is a story of power, revolution, the beheading of a king, and the emergence of the ideas of separation of church and state and of individual liberty. And its characters include not only Roger Williams and John Winthrop but Francis Bacon, Edward Coke, the greatest jurist in English history and the man who said, "The house of every man is as his castle," John Milton, and Oliver Cromwell.
NOSHA's monthly meetings take place on the 3rd Saturday of each month, at 4:00pm
To get to the meeting place at the zoo: Enter from Magazine Street at Zoo Avenue (between the two stone lions) and continue to the statue of Audubon. The entry way to our area (the Dominion Learning Center) is to the right of the main entrance through the metal gates.
If it's a pretty day, parking will be at a premium so give yourself plenty of time to find a spot.
For more information about this event, contact Harry Greenberger at (504) 282-5459. All NOSHA meetings are open to the general public.
When: Wednesday, February 1 at 6pmWith ample parking in the back, and space to gather around tables. Food and drink, what more could one ask for?
Stop on by, pull up a chair and say hello, have a burger, enjoy stimulating conversation.
When: Tuesday, January 17 at 6pmWe're trying the downtown location of Reginelli's to give us something new for the new year.
Street parking is free beginning at 6pm and there is usually more in the CBD as people start to leave work.
They have a Tuesday $2.00 pitcher of beer special, so a pretty good deal for beer drinkers. (We expect you to share a little bit.)
If you haven't been down to their new joint on Poydras yet, it's a good way to take a little tour and see what's new.
As always, we will continue to encourage stimulating conversation and to provide a welcoming place for our freethinking friends to stop by and say hello!
When: Saturday, January 21, 2012, 4:00 PM Our guest speaker will be Sean Faircloth, the Director of Strategy and Policy for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
Sean Faircloth served five terms in the Maine Legislature. Faircloth served on the Judiciary and Appropriations Committees. In his last term Faircloth was elected Majority Whip by his colleagues.
An accomplished legislator, Faircloth successfully spearheaded over thirty laws, including the so-called Deadbeat Dad child support law which saved Maine taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and was later incorporated into federal law. Faircloth had numerous legislative successes in children's issues and justice system reform.
In two years as Executive Director of Secular Coalition for America, Faircloth conceived and led the Secular Decade plan, a specific strategic vision for resecularizing American government. Faircloth writes about his ten point vision of a Secular American government in his upcoming book "Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All and What to Do About It."
Faircloth earned a reputation for strategic thinking, innovative ideas, and speaking to groups in a way that energized them to support the secular cause.
As Director of Strategy and Policy for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason, Faircloth will expand his strategic efforts on behalf of the entire secular movement, speak regarding policy issues, discuss the ideas in his book, and seek innovative ways to improve the secular movement. Faircloth has spoken around the United States about separation of church and state, the Constitution, children's policy, obesity policy, and sex crime law. Faircloth chaired a Commission on sex crime law reform which led to substantive improvement in that area of law. Faircloth chaired an early childhood commission, as well as a Commission regarding the citizen initiative process.
NOSHA's monthly meetings take place on the 3rd Saturday of each month, at 4:00pm
To get to the meeting place at the zoo: Enter from Magazine Street at Zoo Avenue (between the two stone lions) and continue to the statue of Audubon. The entry way to our area (the Dominion Learning Center) is to the right of the main entrance through the metal gates.
If it's a pretty day, parking will be at a premium so give yourself plenty of time to find a spot.
For more information about this event, contact Harry Greenberger at (504) 282-5459. All NOSHA meetings are open to the general public.
When: Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 6:00 PMWe figured we'd give everyone a much needed break this month, especially after coming off our annual Winter Solstice party and the final push to Christmas weekend. (Even non-believers can enjoy a little of merriment during these holiest of days, don't you think?)
So, we'll head back to the lovely Irish House for some wonderful cold weather food and good cheer.
I'm including an Irish New Year's toast that is certainly very humanist and sums up nicely the goal for our monthly socials:
An Irish Toast;"In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want."
As always, we will continue to encourage stimulating conversation and to provide a welcoming place for our freethinking friends to stop by and say hello!
