(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.
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 Valle, Muchas Julias / Many Julias is a site-specific montage that features the participation of artists and scholars such as: Oscar Montero, Deymirie Hernández, Gabo Lugo, Caborca Theater,Right Minded Creations, JecaRodríguez, Veraalba Santa and Tres Tristes collective.
(Presentations will begin at 8:00pm)
Price: $10 suggested donation (Help Us Grow)
Sponsored in part by:
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
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THE LOISAIDA CENTER IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:
In partnership with Afro-Inspira and Proyecto Unión
(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.
at The Loisaida Center
With The Wonderful Musical Duo:
with: Jeca Rodríguez and Sandralis Ginés
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Screening of:
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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Headliner Concert by:
Come join us! Purchase tickets below. Only $5 for one ticket or $15 for 4 tickets!
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.
Long Island City, NY 11101
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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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
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.
Caborca is a New York based experimental theatre company working in two languages and multiple boroughs. Current 2014 Theater Co. Residency Recipients of The Loisaida Inc. Center. Caborca includes (in occasionally overlapping combinations) a playwright/director, designer, a handful of actors, and two stage managers. Over 15 years, they have amassed members from the University of Puerto Rico, Columbia University, and beyond, though were officially founded as a company in 2009.
Previous works include Barceloneta, de noche and FLORIDITA, my Love, both performed at IATI and LATEA Theatres, El correo de la noche, an international collaboration with Colombian director Eloisa Jaramillo, performed at IRT Theatre, and 2012’s immersive warehouse production of Open up, Hadrian, written by Artistic Director, Javier Antonio González, and directed by Meiyin Wang at Magic Futurebox, which Time Out gave four stars and called “opulent” and “delightful.” Since Hadrian, Caborca has been hard at work on various projects, including a reading series of our play THE FUTURE OF BOOKS, an original writers’ workshop, and most importantly, two fully produced showings as part of the Artist Space at Pregones residency of Zoetrope: Parts 1 and 2, their next original play written and directed by González. The two years since Hadrian have also brought Caborca five wonderful new members (except for Laura who’s ok). Caborca’s aesthetic influences and collaborators run the gamut between Latin American, Asian, European, and New York experimental traditions.
Caborca is: Michael Barringer, Brooke Bell, Laura Butler Rivera, Yaremis Félix, Javier Antonio González, Erin Koster, Jian Jung, Tania Molina, Pedro Leopoldo Sánchez-Tormes, Veraalba Santa, David Skeist, and Marcos Toledo.
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.