La TRIFECTA – Loisaida Trimester Benefit Party

La T R I F E C T A

6:00pm

(M)others’ Politics Performances: A documentation of Jeca Rodríguez-Colón’s maternal characters captured by Ricardo Alcaraz, Ben Lundberg, Marlène Ramirez- Cancio, Linda Duvall, Mariángel Gonzales and Deborah Dudley. Curated by Alejandro Epifanio.

8:00pm

ZOETROPE: Excerpts of Part 1 and 2 by: Caborca Theatre Co. A glimpse of Caborca’s most recent work -developed here at Loisaida Center during our Theater Company. residency program.

9:00pm

Buscabulla (Spanish slang for troublemaker) is the music project of Puerto Rican designer and Brooklyn resident, Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle.Heavily influenced by vintage Latin music like salsa gorda, Cuban psych and ’80s Argentinian rock, the project combines both electronic and live instrumentation.

DJ sets by: Gabo Lugo


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Exhibition will open at 5:30pm. Entrance is FREE before 7:30pm. 

Admission is $12 after 9:00pm. Keep your receipt for the after-party…

Ferguson/Ayotzinapa: CantoMundo Poets Read and Respond

The Loisaida Center

Monday, December 15, 6-8pm


Ferguson/Ayotzinapa: CantoMundo Poets Read and Respond

featuring: Yesenia Montilla, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Urayoán Noel

This event brings together New York-based current and former fellows of the national Latina/o poets workshop CantoMundo (cantomundo.org/) to read from their work in solidarity with ongoing protests and mobilizations in and around Ferguson, Missouri, and the College of Ayotzinapa in Iguala, Mexico.Many of the poets reading are also participating in #CantoMundoLongestNight, a social-media offering of poems in honor of the countless black and brown bodies slain by state-sanctioned violence.

Darrel Alejandro Holnes is from Panama City and the former Canal Zone of Panamá. His poetry has been published in Poetry Magazine, The Best American Experimental Writing, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, The Potomac, MEADE, Lambda Literary, Assaracus, Weave Magazine, The Feminist Wire, The Paris American, Kweli, featured on The Best American Poetry blog, and elsewhere in print and online. He is the co-author of PRIME: Poetry & Conversations (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014). He is a proud CantoMundo and Cave Canem fellow. darrelholnes.com

Yesenia Montilla is a New York City poet with Afro-Caribbean roots & CantoMundo Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in the literary journals: 5 AM, Adanna, Wideshore and others. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. Her first collection of poetry The Pink Box is forthcoming from Willow Books in Fall 2015.

Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is a CantoMundo Fellow and the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013). Her work is forthcoming or appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Bayou, Puerto del Sol, among others. Rosebud is an Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (vidaweb.org). Find out more at 7TrainLove.org

CantoMundo fellow Urayoán Noel is the author of the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa, 2014) and several books of poetry in English and Spanish, including EnUncIAdOr (Editora Emergente, 2014) and the forthcoming Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (University of Arizona). Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he lives in the Bronx and teaches at NYU.

 


*The views and opinions expressed on this event are soley those of the participating poets, scholars and other contributors. These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of Loisaida Inc., Acacia Network and staff, and/or any/all contributors to this event.

 

City & Media in the work, life and afterlives of Julia de Burgos

Medios & Ciudad en el trabajo, vida y post-vidas de Julia de Burgos

Thursday, December 11th from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
FREE!

The Loisaida Center -710 E 9th Street and Avenue C


With the participation of : Lena Burgos Lafuente, Monxo López, Oscar Montero, Urayoán Noel and Vanessa Perez Rosario
Proud to present an all-star panel of specialists on De Burgos and diasporic poetry, part of the public programming for La Casita de Julia – a commissioned multimedia installation by Dey Hernández Vázquez now on view.

 

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My Body My World

My Body, My World

with actress and dancer, Veraalba Santa

Saturday, November 22nd
1:30 – 3:00pm

In “My body, My world” we will explore how our bodies move and react to our immediate and imaginary surroundings using fun and energetic movement exercises and music.

Ages 8-12

Veraalba Santa is currently an artist in residence at the Loisaida Center and part of Caborca Theatre Company.


Making Music with Everyday Objects

Making Music with Everyday Objects

Saturday, November 22nd at 3:00pm

Join the amazing and dynamic musical duo Acopladitos for an interactive musical experience as you create your own musical instruments using recycled materials during an exiting music/art making session. This 90-minute workshop will be structured in the format of Loisaida Center’s one-time specialized workshop or talk program the X-Change Express.

Acopladitos will demonstrate how to make a variety of musical instruments using everyday objects, especially those found at home. They will share with the audience their playful approach to the idea of “sound explorations.” More than making your own instruments, Acopladitos will share some musical ideas to guide the audience through a creative composition process that the entire family can practice at home. The last portion of the talk consists of a “hands on” approach to music making where the audience will have the opportunity of playing the instruments.

Acopladitos is dedicated to teaching Spanish language through music and movement to young learners.

This events is open to a general audience, but will specifically benefit early childhood teachers and parents.

We hope you can join us and help us spread the word!

Click on flyer below to RSVP for this event:


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About Acopladitos:

Acopladitos is a Spanish immersion music program for young children. The word “acopladitos” in
Spanish can be translated to mean “being together in complete harmony” and refers to much more than
just music. The program is designed to cultivate the child’s first musical encounters through singing,
creative movement, music-making, games and dramatic play. A presentation by
Acopladitos incorporates charming original songs with a repertoire of popular Latin American children’s
songs. Designed and led by composer Angelica Negrón and ethno-musicologist Noraliz Ruiz, the
program was created to fill a void in early childhood Spanish-language music education in NYC. This
team of Brooklyn-based experienced educators and creative artists will engage the children in a
collaborative and exciting musical experience that will nurture their artistic, intellectual, physical and
social-emotional development. We are interested in collaborating with Loisaida Center in order to bring
fun and interactive programming to the children of Loisaida and reach out to the community at large.

“La Casita de Julia” Installation by Dey Hernández Vázquez

La Casita de Julia

A commissioned multimedia installation in homage of Julia de Burgos centenary.

by Dey Hernández Vázquez in collaboration with Gabo Lugo and Yaraní del Valle-Piñero.

Photographs by: Romina Hendlin

Currently on view at the Loisaida Center, part of the event Muchas Julias which opened November 15th 2014.
By appointment only, to schedule a viewing please call (347)296-5016 (Monday-Friday 9:00am-3:00pm) 


About the piece:

To experience both the inner poetry of Julia de Burgos’ words and the poetics of the house, the artist created a “casita” for Julia. The paper architectural installation explores the way in which the intimate space of home relates to the intimate space of poetry. It is a rhetorical object that both convinces and engages the public to respond. In “La casita de Julia”, Julia’s poetic image creates a space that lifts off from the page allowing ourselves to drift into her poetry.


Dey Hernández Vázquez

Architect, teaching artist and puppeteer, who works in a variety of media. Issues of race, identity, language, and community are fundamental to her work. She designs and facilitates art workshops wit AgitArte, a non-profit organization dedicated to artistic and popular education projects. Dey is also an artist of the radical workers’ theater collective, Papel Machete. Dey has been an artist in residence here at the Loisaida Center and she is currently based in Boston, MA.

Gabriel “Gabo” Lugo

Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Old San Juan, he is always humble doing magic behind the scenes. Gabo received a Grammy nomination for his work on Tego Calderón’s 2008 album “El Abayarde Contra-Ataca”. Still in his early 20’s Lugo’s talent, paired with a hunger to learn new things and to innovate, has him poised to fulfill the promise of his musical upbringing. Gabo’s thirst for knowledge led him to Berklee College of Music, where he continues work towards a degree in Sound Design

Yaraní del Valle Piñero

An actress and educator product of the University of Puerto Rico Drama Department, Yarani has dedicated her life to performing and developing community based art projects. She is a laboratory actor-singer-dancer who trains and works in Latin America, New York, Miami and LA. La Yara is an ensemble member of Pregones Theater/PRTT and the Education & Art Residency Manager at the Loisaida Center.

Zoetrope: Part 1 (Excerpts)

The Loisaida Center presents:

Excerpts of CABORCA Theatre Co.’s play

ZOETROPE: Part 1

CABORCA Theatre Co.

Friday, November 21st, 2014

(POSTPONED) NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

Zoetrope follows a Puerto Rican family over four decades between Lares, Puerto Rico and Harlem, New York. Divided into two plays, excerpts of part 1, the bilingual version will be presented. This bilingual version was developed during the company’s artists in residence program at the new Loisaida Center.

 

 

 

International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival

Loisaida Inc. and IPRHFF

proudly presents four films that celebrate our culture, diversity and creativity.


Sunday, November 16, 2014

from 12:30-6pm

 


“Mi Loisaida”

12:30 – 1:00pm

 


“The Other Side” & “Red Noise”

1:00 -3:00pm

 


“The Hardest Love”

3:00 – 5:00pm

 


“Papi’s Promise”

5:00 – 6:00 pm


 

Purchase tickets at the door on Sunday, November 16th

710 E9th Street Lower East Side, NY 10009

The Loisaida Center: (347) 296-5016

For more information or to purchase tickets in advance, please contact us: info@loisaida.org

Thank you for keeping Puerto Rican Heritage alive in our hearts and minds!

Muchas Julias

Muchas Julias / Many Julias

 The first multimedia production by the new Loisaida Center!

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The new Loisaida Inc Center, in association with the Society of the Educational Arts, inc. (SEA), proudly presents: 
Muchas Julias / Many Julias as part of the Borimix: Puerto Rico Fest.  

In this multi-disciplinary event, art enlivens a space long known to harvest projects and services of great importance for the Latino community, the original Loisaida, Inc. building at 710 9th Street & Ave C, in the Lower East Side.

This time is the poetry of the great Julia de Burgos, whose centenary we celebrate this year, presented in five (5) distinct pieces representing different disciplinary approaches; in Muchas Julias / Many Julias visitors will stroll through the extensive premises of the new Loisaida Center to stop only at determined points and intimately experience the aesthetic pieces (from dance to theater, from film to installation), all inspired by the work of Julia de Burgos, one of Latin America’s greatest poets

Conceived by Yaraní del ValleMuchas Julias / Many Julias is a site-specific montage that features the participation of artists and scholars such as: Oscar Montero, Deymirie Hernández, Gabo LugoCaborca Theater,Right Minded CreationsJecaRodríguez, Veraalba Santa and Tres Tristes collective.

 Venue: 710 E 9th Street and Avenue C

Date: Saturday November 15, 2014

Time: 7:30 pm

(Presentations will begin at 8:00pm)

Price: $10 suggested donation (Help Us Grow) 


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