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El Mini Fest

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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)

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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

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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

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Master percussionist Tito Matos teaches a basic plena workshop suitable for all levels. The Puerto Rico native has traveled the world playing plena, an Afro Rican musical genre. Students will learn basic rithmic patterns from the traditional to the contemporary style of playing the hand held drum known as pandereta. 
 

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Bring your own Drum or Pandero.
 
All ages Welcomed!
 

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Screening of Plenazos Callejeros

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Documentary, followed by Q&A with producers and musicians

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

 
Events, Performance, Residencies, Theater

CABORCA GOES TO L.A.

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Thank You!

CABORCA

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.

 
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING CABORCA’S INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN!
 
Performance, Residencies, Visual Art

2014 Artist in Residence – Dey Hernández-Vázquez

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The Loisaida Center is proud to announce our current

2014 Visual Arts-Performance Residency Recipient:

Dey Hernández-Vázquez

Hernández will present the installation/performance piece:

Casita: for Julia de Burgos

About the piece:
 

In the danger of having the memory of Julia reduced to “the stereotype of the bohemian poet who lived a tragically short life…”The artist will use Julia’s poetic images to create a space that lifts off from the page allowing the spectator/participant to drift into the actual space where the artistic experience is taking place, la “Casita”. The architectural installation will mark out personal territory in the public realm.

 

About Dey:
 

Deymirie “Dey” Hernández-Vázquez is an Architect, Teaching Artist, and Puppeteer who works in a variety of media. She is a passionate advocate for the arts as an active educational tool. Issues of race, identity, language, and community are fundamental to her work as a cultural educator and artist. For the past 6+ years, she has designed and facilitated art workshops with AgitArte, a non-profit organization dedicated to initiate and support artistic and popular education projects in disadvantaged and marginalized communities to further the struggle for social justice. Dey is also an artist and puppeteer of the radical workers’ heater collective, Papel Machete. Their performances in community, theaters, streets and protests employ puppets, masks, objects and music to denounce exploitation, build solidarity, and agitate to action in the struggles of the working class. All of their cultural work is generated collectively through facilitated creative processes and construction workshops using papier mâché as their medium and exploring a wide range of forms and styles that include toy theater, cantastoria, shadow theater, table-top puppetry, humanettes, cut-outs, masks, and giants. Dey’s arts and architectural background are key to the design and construction of giant puppets, puppetry booths, shadow shows and toy theaters. Dey Hernández-Vázquez received a MA from the School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2010. She currently lives and works in Boston.