Category Archives: Past

2018, Caribbean Heritage, Education, Events, Family Activities, Lower East Side, Neighborhood, Partners, Partnerships, Past, Textiles, Visual Art, Workshops, Youth

Taller de Soles (Sol Lace Workshop)

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12
Apr

Learn how to make beautiful and intricate lace pieces through a simple and meditative
technique with Puerto Rican fiber artist, Zaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda, who will
introduce us to the technique as it is worked in her native country of Puerto Rico.
Understanding the essence of the technique gives us a vocabulary that we can apply in
both traditional and experimental/contemporary contexts.

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2018, Events, Family Activities, Festival, Lower East Side, Neighborhood, Partners, Partnerships, Past, Performance, Puppetry, Residencies, Storytelling, Textiles, Theater, Visual Art, Workshops, Youth

Ecological City

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12
Apr

ECOLOGICAL CITY, a climate action, ecological urban pilgrimage and performance art event – features a spectacular 6 hour procession featuring visual art, giant puppets and costumes with 20 site performances of dance, music, theater and poetry celebrating sustainability solutions throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City.

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2018, Children Friendly, Education, Events, Family Activities, Neighborhood, Partners, Partnerships, Past, Puerto Rico, Textiles, Visual Art, Workshops, Youth

Textiles Yarn Workshop

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12
Apr

Learn how to recycle fabrics and clothing into a fun material that can be used for knitting, weaving, crocheting and many other crafts.

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2018, Caribbean, Caribbean Heritage, Education, Family Activities, Lower East Side, Neighborhood, Partnerships, Past, Performance, Residencies, Storytelling, Visual Art

The Native Caribbean Heritage Preservation Project – Exhibition

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23
Mar

2018 Loisaida Artistic Residency Recipient, Anthony Rosado presents: The Native Caribbean Heritage Preservation Project – Exhibition Friday, March 23 from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm through Friday March 30, 2018 […]

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2018, Caribbean, Caribbean Heritage, Events, Lower East Side, Neighborhood, Past, Performance, Photography, Puerto Rico, Style, Theater, Visual Art

Thank You for Supporting Latinx Innovation in the LES – El Semillero Benefit Recap

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03
Mar

On behalf of the Loisaida team, thank you for attending the El Semillero Benefit event on February 27th. More than 100 of you gathered with us in support of our forthcoming makerspace and hub for ideas and innovation. As one neighborhood––an entire community, we celebrated our distinguished honorees, admired the talented artists whose work graced our auction wall, and shared in the excitement of the opportunities blooming soon at our Semillero/Seedbed.

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2018, Caribbean, Events, Music, Past, Performance, Puerto Rico, Visual Art

Noche de Bohemia with Joe Louis

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01
Mar

Joe Louis returns with his experimental bohemia to NYC from PR. Come and enjoy a night full of stories to wait for the end of the world and face it. Come to love and be loved with music and vocal improvisation. Swimming in the “Río Piedras” had never been so far away.

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2018, Children Friendly, Education, Festival, Lower East Side, Neighborhood, Partners, Partnerships, Past, Performance, Puppetry, Residencies, Storytelling, Style, Textiles, Theater, Uncategorized, Visual Art, Workshops, Youth

Ecological Arts/Puppet and Costume Workshops

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29
Jan

Sign up for Puppet Workshops below: Sign up for Costume Workshops below:

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2018, Bilingual, Caribbean, Caribbean Heritage, Central America, Education, Events, Family Activities, Latin America, Lower East Side, Mexico, Neighborhood, Partners, Partnerships, Past, Youth

ReconstruirMX@Loisaida

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09
Jan

Please join us on January 13th, 2018 for a night of music, dance, tamales and the celebration of the artistic spirit in the rebuilding efforts of communities impacted by the 2017 earthquakes in Mexico. Performances by Sandra Soto Silva, The Josh Craig and more.

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2018, Book Readings, Books, Education, Lower East Side, Neighborhood, New York History, Partners, Past, Style, Youth

Book Talk: Street Gangs of the Lower East Side

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09
Jan

With “The Street Gangs of the Lower East Side,” Jose Cochise
Quiles and Clayton Patterson provide a brutally honest, self-reflective and moving account of one person’s struggle to break the cycle of violence and poverty since birth through creativity and compassion for others in the East Village / Lower East Side. Quiles pulls no punches about the experiences that took him from gang leader to an historian of gangs, artist, and author who creates with a joyous yet desperate edge, for the sake of sheer survival.

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