Certificados de Capacitación indicando horas de taller completadas serán otorgados a todos los participantes.
Certificates of Completion will be provided to all participants indicating the hours completed.
2014, Bilingual, Book Readings, Events, Partners, Partnerships, Performance, Poetry
From The Bronx hasta Loisaida
Saturday, November 1st, 2014
Visiones Culturales presents From The Bronx hasta Loisaida: A Word Exchange
A word exchange through poetry, film, music an a lively discussion on poetry as personal or collective activism.
@ The Loisaida Center (710 East 9th Street, Lower East Side, NY 10009)
Presenting: Machete Movement and poets from the Full Circle Ensemble
Special Feature Presentation by Not4Prophet author of Last of the Po’ Ricans
We will also be screening the most recent version of the short documentary film: Wordmade
Directed by Fabian Caballero and produced by Yolanda L. Rodriguez for Visiones Culturales
Also RSVP on the Visiones Culturales Facebook Event Page
Suggested donation $8.00
2014, Afro Puertorrican Bomba, Dance/Movement, Events, Music, Partners, Partnerships, Performance
Introduction to Primo Drum
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THE LOISAIDA CENTER IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:
In partnership with Afro-Inspira and Proyecto Unión
INTRODUCTION TO PRIMO DRUM
With Master Bomba drum percussionist Rafael Maya
(Dance interpretation and Improvisational language)
Workshop description:
This workshop will be about dance interpretation using the language and drum of Puerto Rico’s Bomba. We will be discussing what is needed in preparing for your quest into primo drum playing and will be going over basic variations and language used during improvisation. We will also be diving in hands on with examples of different forms of looking at interpreting dance. Finalizing with ways of adding your own individuality and energy to the equation. Join the Bomba community through movement and song!!!
Bring your own drum/conga/djembe
Requirements: Basic knowledge of Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba rhythms a plus! No one will be turn away for lack of skills.
Saturday October 25th, 2014 3:30pm to 5pm
Cost: $15
Residents of the Lower East Side $10
Djembes for rent $ 5.00 (first come first serve)
Bio:
Rafael Maya Alvarez was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He is the founder and director of Desde Cero and founder and director of Proyecto Union. Rafael also has participated in Bomba groups such as Majestad Negra(Member and Coreographer), Compania Folklorica De Loiza, Restauracion Cultural(VP, Co-Director), Tambuye, Tendencias(Co-Director), Carabali, Sabor a Bomba, Fiesta Bombera, Son de Plena, y Bomba Tour. Rafael is currently teaching with the project Gigantes de la Bomba who offers classes twice a week in the Plaza de Recreo of Carolina and to schools in the Municipality of Carolina. Rafael has participated as an instructor in programs such as “Vida Plena”, “Head Start,” “Upward Bound”, “Taller Fotoperiodismo”, “Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena”, “Program of continued education”, “Early Start” and “Bomba de Oro”. Rafael also gives bilingual Bomba workshops for the Univeristy of Puerto Rico’s(Rio Piedras campus) exchange student program and is currently giving class in The U.N.E. University(Carolina). He was invited and gave his latest Master Class in Berkeley College of Music in Valencia, Spain. For several years he was one of the dance and percussion instructors for the Corporacion Pinones se Integra in Loiza an also for Arthur Murray Dance Studio is Santurce. Rafael has travelled to numerous countries providing lectures and performing, because for Rafael, the most important element in his work is cultural education.
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2014, Bilingual, Book Readings, Books, Children Friendly, Dance/Movement, Events, Family Activities, Festival, Film, Music, Partners, Performance, Plena, Puppetry, Screenings, Storytelling, Theater, Visual Art
El Mini Fest
Un Pasadía Familiar
El Mini Fest – Family Day
at The Loisaida Center
With The Wonderful Musical Duo:
¡ACOPLADITOS!
Day long activities for the entire family!
Beginning Saturday October 18th 2014 from 12 to 5 pm
El Mini Fest Schedule of Activities:
12:00pm – 1:35pm
Open Yoga for the Family & Creative Movement for the Family
with: Jeca Rodríguez and Sandralis Ginés
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1:00pm – 3:00pm
Screening of:
Pura Belpré:Storyteller
Documentary on loan by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College
Creative Stations will open at 1:00pm
1. Paper Puppet Creations with Rojo Coquí Robles (El Kibutz del deseo) (2hrs)
2. Upcycling Arts with Visiones Culturales
3. Bilingual Storytelling with Maestra Coral Nogueras Ortiz
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2:00pm – 3:00pm
Interactive Bomba Performance: with María Eugenia Rodriguez & TheLegendary Mic
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3:00pm – 4:00pm
Headliner Concert by:
¡Acopladitos!
Come join us! Purchase tickets below. Only $5 for one ticket or $15 for 4 tickets!
2014, Events, Partnerships, Performance, Residencies, Screenings, Theater, Visual Art
Zoetrope: Part 1 (bilingual version)
Zoetrope: Part 1
Caborca has been selected to present the new bilingual version of their play as part of Encuentro 2014, the largest national festival of Latino theatre in more than two decades in Los Angeles, CA. Caborca Theatre developed their bilingual version of ZOETROPE as part of the Art Residency Program @ Loisaida Center.
They will present both the bilingual and English version of Zoetrope: Part 1 completely FREE!
Join us for a delightful evening of drama and theater.
11:30am-
Bilingual version
1:30pm-
English version
Saturday, October 11th
LaGuardia Community College
31-10 Thomson Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
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2014, Dance/Movement, Events, Film, Music, Performance, Screenings, Visual Art
Plena Workshop with Tito Matos in amity of Bomplenazo
The Loisaida Center presents:
Tito Matos
founder of: Viento de Agua
2014 Latin Grammy Awards Nominee.Tito Matos is one of the most impressive requinto players of the plena tradition. He plays other percussion instruments: bomba barrels, congas, among others. He is the founder and director of Viento de Agua. He has previously recorded, played and toured with: Eddie Palmieri, David Sánchez, Miguel Zenón and Ricky Martin among many others. He is still a member of New York’s iconic bomba and plena ensemble Los Pleneros de la 21. Tito is the founder of Plenazos Callejeros a movement that takes plena to street corners in different Puerto Rican towns.
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1:00pm – 3:00pm
Taller de Plena
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Screening of Plenazos Callejeros
Plenazos Callejeros is a documentary about a movement that revolutionized Afro Puerto Rican musical genre: plena. Every month a bunch of pleneros would gather at a street corner to play and talk about music. The video takes viewers on a journey through the last 30 years of the plena tradition.
Director: Mariana Reyes Angleró
Producers: Mariana Reyes and Tito Matos for Viento de Agua Inc.
Editor: Juan C. Álvarez Lara
InVisible Movement:
Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam
¡Gracias to all who joined us for the book release!
September 17th, 2014 @ 7 PM
Poet and scholar Urayoán “Ura” Noel, an Assistant Professor of English and Spanish at NYU, presented his new book InVisible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press, 2014), the first book-length critical study of Nuyorican poetry.
Discounted copies of the book are still available for sale.
“A crucial contribution to our literary history, In Visible Movement charts the evolution of an increasingly visible movement in the literary arts, shedding light on many related poetries of the past six decades in the process. Noel proposes ‘an understanding of poetry performance as revisionism: operating across and along page and stage,’ an understanding that proceeds from the poets themselves.”
—Aldon Lynn Nielsen, author, Integral Music: Languages of African American InnovationAbout the author:
Urayoán Noel is a poet, performer, scholar, and translator who is currently an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Albany and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at NYU. His books include the poetry collections Kool Logic/La lógica kool (Bilingual Press, 2005), Boringkén (Ediciones Callejón/La Tertulia, Puerto Rico, 2008), Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVOX, 2010), and Los días porosos (Catafixia Editorial, Guatemala, 2012), and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam(University of Iowa Press, forthcoming). His other works include the performance DVD Kool Logic Sessions(Bilingual Press, 2005, with Monxo López), the multimedia project The Edgemere Letters (2011, with Martha Clippinger), and, as translator, the chapbooks ILUSOS by Edwin Torres (Atarraya Cartonera, Puerto Rico, 2010) and Belleza y Felicidad (Belladonna, 2005). He has been a fellow of CantoMundo, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and the Ford Foundation, and his creative and critical writings have appeared in Latino Studies, Contemporary Literature, Small Axe, Bomb, Fence, and in numerous national and international anthologies. Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Urayoán Noel earned his B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, his M.A. from Stanford, and his Ph.D. from NYU. He lives in the Bronx.
Third Annual
LUNGS Harvest Festival
The Third Annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival is taking place in more than 30 community gardens on the Lower East Side on Saturday, September 20 & Sunday, September 21.
The gardens will host performances and workshops in music, dance, theater, spoken word, the arts, and more. One of the highlights of this year’s Festival is a performance by Bread And Puppet Theater of their new piece, “Anti Tar Sands Manifesto Pageant”
Help is needed to publicize the Festival, design and distribute posters and flyers, copy editing for the Festival program, coordinating events and scheduling.
This year the Festival coincides with the People’s Climate March, In support of the People’s Climate March, many gardens will host workshops and teach-ins on a wide range of environmental issues.
On Sunday, the Festival gets on its feet as gardeners and friends join the People’s Climate March en masse. To prepare for the march we need artists to design costumes and banners and visuals that can be carried that will represent our love of Mother Earth and all things natural.
This is going to be a historic event we need to step up as New Yorkers, if you can help in any way, contact us.
Programming Schedule & Info
Events in each Lower East Side Garden
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