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2018

Babies
WhatHaving (and not having) one, being one, & everything in between
When 5/16/2018
Where New Orleans African American Museum (Outdoors!), 1418 Governor Nicholls
2017
Pleasure & Pain
WHAT: 5 stories back2back on the theme. Special guest co-host Jason Jeffers!
WHEN: 11/17/2017
WHERE: Court 13 Arts HQ. 2801 Franklin Avenue
The Thing Is
WHAT: #byoOBJECT (in partnership with PROJECT:OBJECT & The Stacks!)
Theme: “The Thing Is…”
WHEN: 9/28/2017
WHERE: The CAC (900 Camp Street)
Where I’m From
WHAT:
#BYOSCORED
Stories & Music on the theme ‘Where I’m From’
Produced by Jordan Bridges
WHEN: Thursday, June 29
WHERE: The Music Box Village, 4557 N Rampart St.
*Feat. Big Chief Honey, Sultan, Mr. Brocato, Blato Zlato, & more!
After party Spinz by DJ Dad Salad.
Sugar in your Tank: Stories of Queer Resistance
What: “Flamboyant baby, for life”
– Big L
Yup. That’s why we’re linking up with Last Call’s latest: Queer Histories//Queer Futures. It’s only natural that BYO+QHQF deliver:
‘Sugar In Your Tank: Stories of Queer Resistance’
That Lavender Menace/Light in the Loafers Life
When: 5/11/2017
Where: LGBT Community Center
Where Does It Hurt?
What ‘Where Does it Hurt?’ | The NOHD is launching a health equity initiative, and is ready to expand its definition of what ‘health’ means for a city and its residents. This means looking beyond physical illnesses like diabetes, obesity, and heart disease, and broadening horizons to include mental health, trauma, food access, access to healthcare, regular incomes, affordable housing, and education. So together, the NOHD and Bring Your Own (with help from NOCCJ) join forces to ask: What’s chipping away at our health? And what can we do to heal?
When January 12th, 2017
Where Circle Food Store (1522 St Bernard Ave) *in the produce aisle
2016
Moved
What BYO is proud to work w/ The Workers Center For Racial Justice & Propeller for a night of stories and celebration to honor the struggle before and ahead of us all.
When December 15, 2016
Where Propeller (4035 Washington Ave)
Uninhabitable
What deplorable conditions | slimy slumlords | pushed out | pushing back. The struggle and success stories of renters’ rights, told by tenants, lawyers, friends, #neighbors.
When October 20, 2016
Where The Radical Arts & Healing Collective
Plus in partnership with the Fair Housing Action Center
HEARD Why The Young Feel Old
What Eight people (mostly young people!) tell true stories about why they’re tired.
When July 28th, 2016
Where The Homer Plessy Community School at 2021 Pauger Street
Plus with Unprisoned
Freaky Friday Fundraiser
What DON’T BYO- A Freaky Friday Fundraiser
When Friday, May 13th, 2016
Where Beauregard-Keyes House (1113 Chartres Street)
(Not) For The Money
What ….things you did just for the money, or what you did knowing there was no paper at all; rent parties, Japanese commercials, egg selling? You tell us.
When April 21st, 2016
Where The Jazz & Heritage Center (1205 N Rampart Street) *outside
Plus In partnership with NOVAC and the Sync Up Cinema Conference!
Born on Parole
What The reality of living in/in fear of incarceration. This theme was in collaboration w/ WWNO & AIR.
When 3/3/2016
Where Michalopoulos Studio (527 Elysian Fields Avenue)
Pizza
What We’re chewing with our mouths open to announce, in partnership with Pizza Delicious, a night of your greasiest | cheesiest | sauciest | post-game victorious | 3am blurriness | on-the-go folded-ness | pie to the face tales of everyone’s favorite fresh-from-the-oven lovin’.
When 1/21/2016
Where The Old Ironworks (on Piety btwn Royal+Chartres, across from Pizza D)
2015
Senseless
What batty|flaky|hasty|blind|reckless|asinine|unconscious|without-rhyme-or-reason
When 11/28/2015
Where The Beauregard-Keyes House as part of Court 13‘s 2nd Annual Always for Pleasure Festival.
Point of No Return
What no turning back | irreversible | hasta la vista, baby
When 10/1/2015
Where Saratoga Street Fruit Tree Orchard
Too Good to be True
What believing the unbelievable | gimmicky | perfect…a little too perfect…
When 8/15/2015
Where Nims Theatre at UNO
Eyewitness
What bystander | beholder | first-hand | straight from the horse’s mouth | JUSTICE
When 6/18/2015
Where Wonderland Studios (3233 St. Bernard Ave) ;where your dreams become reality’
Secret Weapon
What Ace in the hole | trick up one’s sleeve | upper hand | leg up…
When 4/2/2015
Where 218 S. Jefferson Davis Avenue
Winners Circle: Can of Worms
What Past BYO champs go head 2 head with their attempts to discover something that creates a litany of other findings/mishaps that weren’t there to begin with….
When 2/26/2015
Where The Broad Theater (636 N. Broad)
Saved
What by the bell | by Jesus | the best for last (inspired by this month’s partnership with Southern Rep’s ‘BOUDIN’- a local storytelling project that asks the question: How has New Orleans Music Saved Your Soul?)
When 1/22/2015
Where The Myrtle Banks Building
2014
You Are What You Eat
What What food says about where you come from, & where you stand (or take a less-food-oriented approach…life choices, healthy intentions, self-sabotage…)
When 11/20/2014
Where 725 Howard Avenue
Labyrinths
What losing your way | dead ends | untangling+ David Bowie.
When 10-26-2014
Where 3308 Magazine St.
Worth The Wait
What patience that paid off | wasted time| plain old purgatory
When 9/17/2014
Where 915 N. Dupre

Diamond in the Rough
What hard to find | rare but unrefined| full of hidden potential | buried treasure
When 7/31/2014
Where 623 N. Rendon St.

Family Matters
What Generations, degenerates, people sharing stories and genes that are sometimes too close for comfort.
When 6/3/2014
Where 915 N. Dupre
On The Verge
What getting THIS close, toe-ing the line, finding yourself at the threshold or about to blow.
When 4/3/2014
Where 913 Alvar St.

Heroes
What Role models, anti-heroes, sandwiches
When 2/20/2014
Where Bywater Boxing Club – 617 Piety
The Passion
What Stories of fervent love, lust, crimes of passion, and uncontrollable urges. Or, you know, stories about Jesus’s crucifixion.
When 1/5/2014
Where 3020 Royal St
2013

Thrown
What What …to the wolves | …under the bus | …off guard | …for a loop or that time you threw a football over that mountain—you decide.
When 10/17/2013
Where Fortier Park
Distortion
What stretched truths, alternate realities, manipulations
When 9/19/2013
Where Fortier Park
2012

Leftovers
When 11/15/2012

Are You Afraid of the Dark?
When 10/21/2012

Undercover
When 10/1/2012

Oops I Did It Again
When 9/18/2012

Ceremony
When 8/7/2012

Wild Animals
When 7/10/2012