Remembering the life and legacy of Helen Wingard Hill
Posted in Announcements on Mar 12th, 2007
Joe’s Pub is hosting a show by First Fig, featuring ALVA ROGERS TAYLOR MAC MARITESS ZURBANO SUSAN BERNFIELD CHADWICK BOSEMAN and ALI ESKANDARIAN giving performances of new music, poems, theatre, performance art, and magic. The event is organized by Jenny Gibbs, Susan Bernfield, and Eisa Davis. All proceeds will go to the Francis Pop education […]
Posted in Announcements on Feb 22nd, 2007
This Saturday Feb 24 there will be a jazz funeral for Helen Hill starting at 12:30pm at 3438 Cleveland Street. There will be two brass bands, a vegan cupcake wagon parade and Ernie K-Doe’s hearse. The parade will follow Angela Davis Parkway, Orleans Avenue, Claiborne Avenue and end at the Mother-In-Law Lounge at 1500 N. […]
Posted in Announcements on Feb 12th, 2007
This from Rodrigo Caballero: Hello everyone, I look forward to seeing/meeting you all at Helen’s phowa next Saturday. The ceremony is still set for Saturday at 5pm. If you have any questions about finding the centre (especially for those coming from out of town), please let me know as it is a bit of a […]
Posted in Announcements on Feb 6th, 2007
Nik has put more information, including a rough sketch of the memorial tree on her blog. There is now information on where to send your leaves.
Posted in Announcements on Feb 2nd, 2007
Rodrigo Caballero is planning a phowa ceremony for Helen at the Tilopa Buddhist Centre on Saturday Feb. 17 at 5pm. Tilopa Centre is located at 1829 Victoria Diversion in Vancouver. A map can be found at: google maps link The ceremony is open to anyone, and you can contact Rodrigo at rodcaballero [at] yahoo [dot] […]
Posted in Announcements on Jan 31st, 2007
This weekend there are two events: A concert in Halifax on Saturday Feb 3 at The Seahorse and A tea party in New Orleans on Sunday Feb 4. at Zeitgeist More details if you follow the links.
Posted in Announcements on Jan 31st, 2007
Amy Bates, Paul’s sister, has started a letter and postcard writing campaign to try to urge New Orleans officials to keep up the investigation into Helen’s murder. click here for full details I highly urge everyone who can to write a postcard or letter each week to Mayor Nagin, Governor Blanco, and the President.
Posted in Announcements on Jan 29th, 2007
There will be a memorial concert for Helen this Saturday in Halifax at The Seahorse on Argyle St. The show starts at 10pm, Saturday Feb 3, with a suggested donation of $5-10, but pay what you can! All proceeds will go to a trust fund set up for Paul & Francis. the show features: -Windom […]
Posted in Announcements on Jan 24th, 2007
I have upgraded the main page of the site to be RSS compatible. If you click on the link in this article, you can subscribe to the news with your favorite aggregator. The link to the main page has changed, but there is an automatic redirect. None of your links should be broken by this […]
Posted in Announcements on Jan 19th, 2007
tonight, Jan 19th, I am upgrading our webserver. This should give us more flexibility and faster access to all the photos. Unfortunately, I couldn’t copy the photo database from the old server, so I took the opportunity to re-organize the photo gallery. This means that all permalinks to photos on the pages has changed, but […]