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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
Map content here..
Thank You!
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!
The Loisaida Center is proud to announce our current
2014 Dance-Theater Residency Recipient:
Jeca Rodríguez Colón
Rodriguez is currently in the development stages of a piece with the working title:
(M)others.
About the piece:The piece has four female characters, all women, 2 of which are ghosts or memories from the family of the main character, one character who is the mother of the main character and the main character. Through their movements and their occasional dialog the audience will be able to witness how the invasion of the United States of America influenced and affected each of this mothers. Some were affected directly by the lack of education, others by the alcoholism and abuse of her veteran husband and the others by the unspoken past of their mothers.
About Jeca:Jessica “Jeca” Rodríguez-Colón is a Puerto Rican performer with over 12 years of experience as a dancer and choreographer. She began her contemporary dance training with Petra Bravo and Viveca Vázquez. She holds a B.A. from Hunter College with a double major in Dance and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She was the recipient of Hunter College’s 2005 Choreography Departmental Award. Jeca is an MFA candidate at Transart Institute with Plymouth University. After participating in the EMERGENYC 2013 program at the Hemispheric Institute she began to explore performance arts and public interventions. Her work is connected to different aspects of the maternal kinesthetic language in space and the politics that surrounds it. She is currently part of inaugural cohort of The EmergeLab@BAX, a laboratory initiative with the support of the Hemispheric Institute and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Her latest work includes a street intervention in collaboration with Mette Loulou von Kohl “Manifest Collective Movement”, a future installation “Sneak into My Maternal Chaos” and future performance “Desde Adentro” to be presented August 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
The Loisaida Center is proud to announce:
2014 Theater Co. Residency Recipients:
Led by playwright/director Javier González, CABORCA is an experimental theatre company making plays that move seamlessly between the irreverent and poetic, the personal and political, and the highly entertaining and intellectually challenging – inspired by Brecht’s view that to be challenged is also to be entertained. Based in New York City and working in both English and Spanish, our work includes new plays, classical adaptations and devised creations.
CABORCA started working together in 2002 at the University of Puerto Rico, continued collecting at Columbia’s MFA Theatre Program, and officially became a company in 2009.
CABORCA steals its name from the novel The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, in which a magazine of the same name is the official organ of visceral realism.