Category Archives: 2016

The Sustainable Artist Toolkit

Before we all break for the holidays, let’s refocus our energies towards realizing our self-determined liberated life. Engage in a strategic dialogue around needs and resources and learn to work together to define boundaries, affirm goals, and stand in our power.

Bronx Latin American Art Biennial @ Loisaida Center

Loisaida Inc. presents a selection of photos by Ignacio Soltero, Carlos Manuel Rivera, Yelaine Rodriguez, Luis Carle, Ignacio Soltero and many more as part of the 2016 Bronx Latin American Art Biennial NYC.

War in the Neighborhood: Gentrification and Graphic Art

With nuance and candor, Tobocman tells the tales of courageous communities built from rubble while exploring the moral complexities inherent in any movement, and the struggles against displacement that continue in varied forms today.

Loisaida’s Mini Fest

Storytelling, lights-show, activities for kids; including drawing, painting, creating you own puppet for the older ones. Creative and fun station for toddlers too. Open air activities and games.

San Juan Noir

San Juan Noir is an unprecedented volume of contemporary Puerto Rican fiction edited by renowned author Mayra Santos-Febres, creator of Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra which its New York edition will be celebrated at Loisaida Inc. Center this same weekend.

Folclor de Puerto Rico: memoria e identidad

Profesor universitario de Historia retirado. En 1976 fundó el Centro de Investigaciones Folclóricas de Puerto Rico, Inc. con sede en la Casa Paoli en Ponce, Puerto Rico. Investigador y estudioso de nuestra cultura durante más de 50 años.

The Word Festival at Loisaida Inc.

The top literary event in Puerto Rico, and the only literary festival in the world based on one single community -the Puerto Rican community- which is held in two very distinct cities: San Juan and New York, and for the first time celebrated at Loisaida Inc. in the heart of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.