Do you like supporting your local food bank? Do you like the opportunity to win prizes? Do you like rubber ducks? And do you have $5 to spare? NOSHA is hosting a team of rubber duckies for Second Harvest’s annual Rubber Duck Derby. You can donate to our team, the NOSHA Duck Dodgers, online here: www.no-hunger.org/NOSHA Adopt your $5 ducks for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, a $1,000 gift certificate to Rouses, a stay at the Ritz-Carlton [...]

Join us as NOSHA celebrates with the LGBTQ community at the annual Pridefest Block Party. We'll have a table set up for everyone to learn more about secular humanism and our organization, so please encourage your friends who would like to know more to stop by and meet us. We hope to see many of you there!

In June, NOSHA likes to take a break from our usual monthly activities to enjoy good food with good friends and celebrate the Summer Solstice! Please plan to bring a favorite entree, appetizer, salad, side dish or dessert to share. Please RSVP here: http://www.luckypotluck.com/potluck/NOSHASummerSolsticeSocial2019 **Be sure to include all the members in your party for our count. There is a parking lot and, when that is full, you'll find ample neighborhood street parking. A small jungle gym is located out [...]

If you have ever wondered how we create the monthly television program "The Humanist Perspective" (which was a beloved creation of our President Emeritus Harry Greenberger to showcase secular humanism, local culture and issues of importance to our community), here's your chance to learn more! You will be up close and personal and will find out about the production steps that go in to making it. The only main requirements are that you can remain quiet and turn off your [...]

We are due for some easy, shareable muchies and pizza is about as easy as it gets. And we haven't done pizza in a while. You can check out the menu here https://mellowmushroom.com/location/la-new-orleans-8227-oak-street-70118/ *** As a courtesy to the restaurant and the other attendees, please update your status if something changes and you or your guest cannot attend (so we don't look like fools to the restaurant staff for asking them to set up for 20 when only 12 show [...]

Our monthly Freethinkers Fika is a small, friendly social gathering for humanists, atheists, agnostics, and freethinkers to engage in free discussion with like-minded others in a coffee-shop atmosphere. Secular Humanism is a philosophy that seeks to make sense of the world using science, reason, and shared values; we reject attempts to explain the world in supernatural terms. This philosophy forms the basis for our affiliation in NOSHA, and thus will necessarily inform the perspective from which topics are discussed. The [...]

We're heading back to one of our most successful venues... Porter & Luke's is known for Creole classics & Italian fare. Check out the menu here: http://www.porterandlukes.com/menu.html *** As a courtesy to the restaurant and the other attendees, please update your status if something changes and you or your guest cannot attend (so we don't look like fools to the restaurant staff for asking them to set up for 20 when only 12 show up!) We send out a reminder [...]

*** Due to the high chance for storms over the next few days, this event is being postponed for one week.*** “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” ~Anne Frank Daniel Lev Shkolnik’s next Humanist dinner gathering is going to be a candle-lit affair by the Peristyle in City Park. (the Roman-looking building in the picture). There will be candles, good people, good wine, and some Story Time. Please bring friends and some food [...]

The presentation will be an exploration of forms of spirituality that use art, imagination, and emotional connection instead of belief in energy crystals, faith healers, or deities. Daniel Lev Shkolnik is a humanist speaker and community organizer interested in creating a powerful spiritual alternative to traditional religions based on humanistic principles rather than supernatural assumptions. He's managed "Another Breed of Faith", a column in the nonreligious section of Patheos.com. He's worked under Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Harvard both [...]

"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before." ~Albert Einstein As an extension of the "Spirituality Without Superstition", Daniel Lev Shkolnik is inviting the NOSHA community to be part of his humanist ceremony celebrating women. You will receive a candle lantern that you will carry through the night as you visit the altars set up at [...]