The St. Charles Center for Faith + Action
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At The Center we create spaces for people of all faiths to learn, unlearn and act; building a community grounded in equity and empathy.
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Taking it to the Stage: The Black Arts Movement in New Orleans
Taking it to the Stage: The Black Arts Movement in New Orleans
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was the cultural chapter of the Black Power movement. It was a movement focused on politically informed art including literature, music, visual arts and drama. Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal are widely considered to have laid the foundational work for the Black Arts Movement in New York City but many hubs of the BAM flourished outside of the Northeast, including New Orleans. Taking It to The Stage explores the Black Arts Movement in New Orleans, focusing on collectives like Free Southern Theatre, BLKARTSOUTH and Dashiki Project Theatre.
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Date: February 19, 2026
Time: 6:30 P.M.
Ticket Cost: $30
Location: Webinar
Documentary Screening: Healing from Hate
& Life After Hate Panel
Documentary Screening: Healing from Hate
& Life After Hate Panel
In partnership with Life After Hate, The Center will host a documentary screening. “Healing From Hate: Battle For The Soul Of A Nation” takes us inside the minds of individuals who are drawn to hate-fueled violence and extremism. Free to attend. Register here.
Date: February 25, 2026
Time: 5:30 P.M.
Location: 7100 St. Charles Avenue
Anti-Death Penalty Summit
Anti-Death Penalty Summit
In partnership with St. Charles Baptist Church, The Louisiana Interchurch Conference, Promise of Justice Initiative and local clergy, The Center will host an anti-death penalty event open to the public.
Date: March 10, 2026
Time: 6:00 P.M.
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying
In partnership with The NOLA Project, The Center will host a staged reading of A Lesson Before Dying. The celebrated story about an innocent young man condemned to death in 1940s Louisiana makes for a powerful piece of theatre addressing important topics such as education, identity and community.
Free to attend.
Date: March 13th
Doors Open: 7:00 P.M.
Start Time: 7:00 P.M.
Location: 7100 St. Charles Ave
In Deed and Truth
In Deed and Truth
In Deed and Truth (IDAT) is a program of the St. Charles Center for Faith + Action in partnership with E Pluribus Unum. IDAT invites predominantly historically white congregations to tell the whole truth about their histories and enter an intentional, guided discernment process to determine how each local church will act upon the full knowledge of their origins.
This program is brought in part due to support from The Henry Luce Foundation.
Solitary Gardens
Solitary Gardens Program
What is a Solitary Garden? Solitary Gardens both directly and metaphorically ask us to imagine a landscape without prisons. We both directly and metaphorically ask us to imagine a landscape without prisons. Solitary Gardens transforms solitary confinement cells into living garden beds. The beds are designed and remotely gardened by incarcerated collaborators, known as Solitary Gardeners and are tended by community members on the outside.
“The movement of the Spirit of God in human hearts often calls them...to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.”
Donate to the Center
As you consider your gifts throughout the year, we hope you will include the St. Charles Center for Faith + Action. Each donation helps create a community that includes less incarceration and more healing.
Our Commitment to Justice
The Center embraces movements for justice and liberation, partnering with leaders from BIPOC communities. We also affirm the following Land Acknowledgment: We acknowledge that we are on Bulbancha, now called New Orleans. Bulbancha, which means place of many tongues, unceded land of the Chitimacha, the Houma, the Chahta, Yakni (Choctaw), the Atakapa Ishak Chawasha, and all Indigenous peoples of this region.