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SUMMARY:HOMENAJE: The Traveling Exhibit Honoring Our Puerto Rican and Nuyorican Heroes
DESCRIPTION:  \nHOMENAJE: The Traveling Exhibit Honoring Our Puerto Rican and Nuyorican Heroes\nThis traveling exhibit\, consisting of 17 by 11 horizontal posters\, pays tribute and homage to those Puerto Ricans and Nuyoricans who have paved the way for others over the past twenty to sixty years and who are still in the forefront of the fight for recognition\, parity\, and equity for all Puerto Ricans. The heroes featured in HOMENAJE are our Puerto Rican heroes\, and they are and have been our voices. The exhibit introduces our heroes to a new generation of Puerto Ricans throughout New York City. To that end\, each portrait is accompanied by a loosely biographical story that reveals each hero’s unique personality and idiosyncrasies. The posters are strung together in different configurations using clotheslines and clothespins—reminiscent of how clothes were dried in the old days from tenement windows and how clothes are still dried in many places in Puerto Rico. Some of the cultural icons who are featured in HOMENAJE include writers/poets Nicholasa Mohr\, Miguel Algarín\, Dr. Nancy Mercado\, Dr. Myrna Nieves and Jesús Papoleto Meléndez; opera singer Eva de la O; musicians Johnny Colón\, Bobby Sanabria and Orlando Marín; artists Marcos Dimas and Nitza Tufiño; activists Terésa Santiago\, Sery Colón and Jaime Estades; choreographers Merián Sóto and Arthur Áviles; and boxer Carlos Ortiz. \n  \nHOMENAJE is a traveling exhibit\, a modern take on the original groundwork laid by the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater. It will tour different Puerto Rican neighborhoods in New York City—from community centers to bodegas to galleries to senior centers to museums to local colleges and schools to local teen hangouts. Instead of asking Puerto Ricans to go to a gallery or museum to see the work\, the exhibition visits the typical  Puerto Rican in his/her own Puerto Rican neighborhood. \n  \nFor more information on the exhibit\, go to Homenaje: A Traveling Homage to Our Puerto Rican Heroes and Facebook. \nViewing hours by appointment only\, for more info email: alejandro@loisaida.org
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/homenaje-the-traveling-exhibit-honoring-our-puerto-rican-and-nuyorican-heroes/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pa' la calle!! - Theatre Workshops for the Community
DESCRIPTION:Theatre workshop for community members: Pa’ la calle!!\n– 16 +\, open to public in general \n5 hours\, English and/or Spanish\, maximum capacity: 10-15 people\n– site specific work\n– street theatre techniques\n– object manipulation\n– corporal mime training techniques\nThis is an introductory workshop and it’s open for people without any experience. Artists will work with basic concepts of each technique. On the other hand\, if you have previous experience\, the artists will guide\, council and help you apply these tools to facilitate your creative process. \nBring \n-An object (that you can perform with) \n-comfortable clothes \n-Water and snacks \n-Yoga mat and/or towel \n  \nBoiler plate\n About Vueltabajo:\nThe transdisciplinary art collective now working in Puerto Rico adopts the name Vueltabajo Teatro in Barcelona\, Catalunya in 2012. It was born with the initiative of re-habilitating and activating a space: Magatzem Voltaire in Poble Sec\, dedicated to art investigation and production. Its creative collaborators have been working together for more than 10 years now. The collective has developed methods of creating repertoire based on “practice as research” (presentations\, residencies and laboratories). Each artist creates a seed (concept) and together research the use of diverse tools: physical theatre\, movement\, performance\, street theatre\, visual arts\, media experimentation\, music\, site-specific.\nAbout Narices Negras: \nConcept:\nA duet of characters that stumble upon everyday situations use their imagination to create worlds that help them cope with their routines. Common household chores are taken to the street\, making the personal habits public\, as something very natural. Narices Negras are nomads\, floating on the frontier.\nThe performers use street theatre techniques\, clown and corporal mime to shape their training. Improvisation and site-specific work is essential during the creation and investigation process for further developing the characters\, thus the piece itself. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/pa-la-calle-theatre-workshops-for-the-community-3/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reconstructing Queer Latin@ Loisaida in Cinema Literature and Art
DESCRIPTION:Reconstructing Queer Latin@ Loisaida in Cinema\nLiterature and Art (1:00-5:30 pm)\nSponsored by: Loisaida Inc. \nLoisaida has long been recognized as an international cutting-edge center of creativity and experimentation in the arts and activism. However the contribution of Latin@ lgbtq artists and activists in creating this culture\, which has inspired the rest of the nation and the world\, has only recently been the object of scholarly study. The Loisaida Center pays homage to two of the founding figures of Queer Latin@ Loisaida art and activism\, drag performer Mario Montez (1935-2013) and performance artist Alina Troyano (a.k.a Carmelita Tropicana)\, divas of queer Latin@ Loisaida cinema and stage\, by showing two of their most famous and representative films\, José Rodríguez-Soltero’s The Life\, Death\, and Assumption of Lupe Velez (1966) and Ela Troyano’s Your Kunst Is Your Waffen (1996). The viewing of Lupe will be introduced by Yale University film historian and curator Ron Gregg. The viewings ofLupe and Your Kunst will be followed by Q & A with curator Ron Gregg\, the artist Alina Troyano\, and the director Ela Troyano. A panel of distinguished scholars discussing the state of the research on the contribution of Latin@ lgbtq artists and activists to Loisaida’s cultural and social life will follow the viewings. Curated by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé. \nDivas of Queer Latin@ Loisaida Cinema and Stage:\nMario Montez and Carmelita Troyano\n1:00-2:00 pm José Rodríguez-Soltero’s The Life\, Death\, and Assumption of Lupe Velez (1966) (50 mins). Starring Mario Montez. Introduced by Ron Gregg (Yale University) \n2:00-2:30 pm Ela Troyano’s Your Kunst Is Your Waffen (1996) (27 mins). Starring Carmelita Tropicana. \n2:30-3:30 pm Q and A with Ron Gregg\, Ela Troyano\, and Alina Troyano (a.k.a Carmelita Tropicana). \nThe State of Research on Queer Latin@ Loisaida: A Round Table Discussion.\n3:30-5:30 pm A panel of distinguished scholars discusses the state of the research on the contribution of Latin@ lgbtq artists and activists to Loisaida’s cultural and social life: What have Latin@ lgbtq artists and activists contributed to the culture of experimentation and innovation\, social and individual expression that is associated with Loisaida? What have the interactions been between Latin@ lgbtq artists and activists and other queer Loisaida artists and activists? What have the interactions been between Latin@ queer artists and activists and Loisaida artists and activists from other racial and ethnic groups? What have the interactions been between Latin@ queer artists and other Loisaida Latin@ artists and activists? What are the “hidden” or unexplored histories of queer Latin@ Loisaida? Where should we look to recover these “hidden” or unexplored histories? What role or roles have queer Latin@ Loisaida artists and activists played in the cultural\, social\, and economic transformations of Loisaida from 1970s to the present? \nWith the participation of:\nFrances Negrón-Muntaner (Columbia University)is an award-winning filmmaker\, writer\, and scholar. She is an associate professor of English and Latino Studies at Columbia University\, the director of the Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race\, and founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activist archive at Butler Library. Among her books and publications are Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (winner\, 2004 CHOICE Award)\, The Latino Media Gap\, and Sovereign Acts. Her films include AIDS in the Barrio\, Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican\, and Small City\, Big Change. In 2005\, she was named one of the “100 Most Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Business magazine\, and the United Nations’ Rapid Response Media Mechanism recognized her in 2008 as a “global expert.” She is also the recipient of El Diario/La Prensa’s annual “Distinguished Women Award” (2010) and Columbia University’s “Most Distinguished Faculty Award” (2012). \nRoy Pérez (Willamette University)is an accomplished scholar and poet and an assistant professor of English\, American Ethnic Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies at Willamette University in Salem\, Oregon. He received his PhD in English at New York University with concentrations in Latina/o literary and performance studies and is a past fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has published poems and essays in Glitter Tongue\, the Best of Panic! poetry anthology\, TheThePoetry\, bully bloggers\, and FENCE Magazine\, and recently adapted one of his poems to film with director Finn Paul. His current scholarly book project\, Proximity: Queer Configurations of Race and Sex\, examines the function of interracial closeness in the articulation of sexual identity by queer artists from the late-nineteenth century into the twenty-first. \nKaren Jaime (Cornell University)is an acclaimed spoken word/performance artist and poet\, an accomplished scholar\, and a postdoctoral research associate (2014-2015)/ Assistant Professor (2015-) in the Department of Performance and Media Arts and the Latina/o Studies Program at Cornell University. As a performer\, she has served as the host/curator for the Friday Night Slam at the world-renowned Nuyorican Poets Cafe\, participated in the spoken word documentary Spit!\, and was featured in the Emmy-award winning CUNY-TV program Nueva York. As a poet\, Jaime’s work is included in The Best of Panic! En Vivo From the East Village\, Flicker and Spark: A Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry\, and in a special issue of Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal\, “Out Latina Lesbians.” Her critical writing has been published in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory\, in the online journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics\, e-Misférica\, and in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. Karen is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Queering Poetry in Loisaida: Language\, History\, and Performance at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. \nLarry LaFountain-Stokes (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)is a distinguished creative writer\, scholar\, and performer. He is an associate professor of Spanish and American Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and author of the bilingual book of short stories and personal essays Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails\, the performance piece Abolición del pato\, and the scholarly study Queer Ricans: Puerto Rican Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. He is well-known for his performance persona Lola von Miramar. \nModerated by: Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé (Fordham University)is professor of Spanish and comparative literature\, and director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham University in New York. He is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio\, Keith Haring\, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails\, a book about art and queer Latino popular culture in the gentrifying New York of the 1980s\, and coeditor\, with Martin Manalansan\, of Queer Globalization: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism. He has been a recipient of the Ford Foundation and the NEH fellowships. \nSponsored by: \n \n  \nFOR MORE INFO VISIT: http://www.loisaidafest.org
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/reconstructing-queer-latin-loisaida-in-cinema-literature-and-art/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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