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¡CASA ABIERTA!

November 14, 2015 @ 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Loisaida Inc. Center

OPEN HOUSE
November 14th, 2015 – 2:00pm – 9:00pm

 

2:00 pm

Guided tour of ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York  with Wilson Valentín-Escobar and Pepe Flores. Featuring rare footage of Eddie Figueroa and The New Rican Village assembled by Henry Medina and Henry Medina’s Archives.

 

3:30 pm

Artist talk with Adrian ‘Viajero’ Román.

 

5:00 pm

Screening of documentary “A Cuban Legend: The Story of Salvador Gonzalez” followed by Q&A with director, producer and editor Bette Wanderman. Music by Tata Guines, Steve Turre, Clave Y Guaguanco. Theatrical release 2002. (80 mins.)

This documentary has been featured in the following:Sofia International Film Festival – International House Philadelphia – Latin American Film Festival London – Raindance—London, Aijjic Mexico – Mill Valley International – Havana International Festival of Latin American Cinema – San Diego Latino Film Festival – Chicago Latino Film Festival – San Francisco Latino Film Festival – Trieste, Italy Latino

 

7:00 pm

Performance of ISLA NO ISLA: Cuba-New-Ricua featuring: Edwin Torres, Casa Cruz de La Luna and Plenatorium Project.

Edwin Torres, The Plenatorium Project and Casa Cruz de la Luna will celebrate the newly charged complexity of our two islands with multi disciplinary performances that cross-pollinate Cuba and Puerto Rico.

Featuring:

Edwin Torres has represented New York in the 1992 National Poetry Slam, celebrated in Boston, and he has won the Nuyorican Poets Cafe First Annual Prize for Poetry with his poem “Po-Mo Griot“. He has also appeared on MTV’s Spoken Word Unplugged and the Charlie Rose Show and been featured on Newsweek, in Rolling Stone Magazine and in New York Magazine. His poem, “I Saw Your Empire State Building” was included in the book, Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam[1] in the chapter which dealt with the poetry slam community’s response to 9/11, and his work has appeared in numerous anthologies such as Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe,[2] Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry,[3] and Heights of the Marvelous: A New York Anthology,[4] among many others.

Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya (born 1965) is a Puerto Rican writer, performer, and theater director. He is the founding artistic director of Casa Cruz de la Luna, an experimental theater company and cultural center based in an old house in the historical district of San Germán, Puerto Rico.[1][2] He holds a PhD in theatre historiography from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and an MD from the Mayo Medical School. Adyanthaya has been awarded a Jerome Playwriting Fellowship and a McKnight Advancement Grant, both from the Playwrights’ Center; a Jerome Performance Art Fellowship by Intermedia Arts and an Artist of Color Directing Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop. For his play The Faculties, he received the Pregones Theater’s Asunción Prize and First Prize in Theatre at Casa de Teatro in the Dominican Republic.

Details

Date:
November 14, 2015
Time:
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Organizer

The Loisaida Inc. Center
Phone
(646) 726-4715
Email
info@loisaida.org
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Venue

The Loisaida Inc. Center
710 East 9th Street
New York, NY 10009 United States + Google Map
Phone
(646) 726-4715
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