DecadesOut News

Still Accepting Submissions for 2009 and
Looking Forward to 2010!!

The Launch Pad is a FREE arts development program focusing on theatre. Submissions are open globally, and we encourage writers, directors and actors to submit both new plays and new visions of established plays. The only thing we ask (in keeping with our mission) is that the play invoke science.

Check Out Our Submission Guidelines

The teaser is up!! Go to the New Land, New Life Project Page to watch it.

DecadesOut will be filming their documentary entitled New Land, New Life in Houston, Galveston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Jackson from July 27-August 9, 2009. A film about the mass migration of New Orleans residents displaced during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, New Land, New Life will share stories of the new lives created in these new cities and the impact that the largest migration since the Civil War has had on the surrounding towns and cities.

We will be meeting and interviewing evacuees from New Orleans to learn about their unfiltered accounts of what really happened to them and their families during and since Katrina forced them to flee. Interviews will also be conducted with residents of Houston, Galveston, Baton Rouge and Jackson to fully comprehend both the social and economic ripple effects this migration has created in their personal lives and their communities. We will interview residents ranging from political and community leaders, influencers, media, business owners, artists, and residents who have been involved directly with organizations that have assisted with the ”clean up” of Katrina.

We will be updating the blog while on the road during production, so stay tuned for the latest on who we’ve met, and what we’ve learned!