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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:Loisaida Festival 2015
DESCRIPTION:The largest community pride event in Manhattan’s most historic neighborhood. \nThe Lower East Side. \n \nBackground \nSince 1987 the Loisaida Festival has been celebrated the Sunday before Memorial Day weekend in the Manhattan neighborhood known as the Lower East Side\, the East Village\, or Loisaida. This event is the largest community pride festival in the neighborhood and grows annually in size\, excitement\, and impact. It is presented in the Avenue C commercial corridor-renamed Loisaida Avenue since 1989. \nThe Loisaida Festival includes diverse manifestations of the Puerto Rican and Latino cultures expressed through music\, cuisine and arts. Although it began as a community event to celebrate the culture\, heritage and accomplishments of Loisaida’s Puerto Rican/Hispanic community\, the event has created a multi-cultural spirit where people from all races and backgrounds descend from all parts on the city into this historic and eclectic neighborhood. \nThe Loisaida Festival has also created a platform for Loisaida’s Latino and\, now growing\, non-Latino neighborhood residents and families that come together on the day of the event to share and celebrate the Memorial Day Holiday as well as their social and cultural differences. The program includes musical concerts\, dance performances\, folkloric musical presentations\, and arts and crafts exhibitions that showcase the work of artisans that represent diverse ethnic groups and nationalities. It also serves as a vehicle to disseminate critical community information distributed by employees and volunteers of many local and city-wide health and human services organizations. \nThe Loisaida Festival is sponsored by Loisaida Inc.\, the oldest Puerto Rican non-for-profit organization in the neighborhood. Loisaida\, Inc. was founded in 1979 to address the problem of social and economic disenfranchisement of poor\, low income and working class residents of the Lower East Side. Over the years\, Loisaida has provided comprehensive education\, training and employment opportunities that have targeted young adults. It has also worked with local businesses in neighborhood economic development activities as a means to promote entrepreneurship and help create jobs for local residents. \nThe festival weekend attracts over 15\,000 participants every year. This year\, Loisaida\, Inc. is poised to generate even more excitement and traffic to Avenue C with the opening of its new Community Center on 9th Street\, which will happen this spring. The festival will become an even more significant Loisaida community event and venue as a signature citywide and tourist destination.\nEvent Objectives \n\nContribute to the preservation and promotion of the Latin American culture of the Lower East Side neighborhood.\nEnhance\, promote and support the artistic-cultural expressions of the Latino and other artists that reside in this community and/or working in the Lower East Side.\nProvide culturally-relevant\, first-class entertainment and educational opportunities for the entire family\, neighborhood residents and visitors.\nIn the tradition of this historic New York City neighborhood\, known as the “America’s Gateway”\, expose non-Latino community residents and visitors to the rich and diverse Latin culture as expressed thorough its music\, arts\, cuisine and folklore\, and promote multi-ethnic understanding and harmony.\nProvide a platform to disseminate educational\, health-specific information and public interest information to community residents\, and special needs populations.\nRemember and recognize Puerto Ricans/Latinos who\, through their advocacy and leadership\, helped establish and strengthen local institutions\, and worked to help improve the economic\, educational and social conditions of the Latino community of the Lower East Side.\n\nLocation \n\nThe Festival is held on Avenue C (Loisaida Avenue) from East 12th to East 6th Streets. Parking around the neighborhood is extremely limited\, so the best way to get to the festival is Subway.\n\nThe closest stations are: \n\nL train to First Avenue and 14th Streets\nLexington (green line) to Union Square; at Union Station you can transfer to the Eastbound L train to First Avenue\nF Train to Delancey Street. (free shuttle bus service from this location to festival)\n\nTransportation \n\nThe First Avenue and 14th Street stop of the L Train is at walking distance from the festival site–Avenue C and 12th Street. Commuters on the Lexington Line [4\, 5\, and 6] at Union Square can transfer to L\, to reach the East Side\, or transfer to the Avenue A or D 14th Street cross-town buses and get off on Avenue B and 14th Street.\n\nVisitor’s Tips List \n\nThis event is free to the public and family-oriented\, therefore\, no sale or promotion of alcohol and tobacco will be allowed.\nPick up a Festival Program and Guide at the Official Loisaida Festival information booth to be stationed on the Southeast corner of Avenue C and 9thh Street.\nKeep your children engaged and excited with hands-on activities offered at the Children’s Pavilion.\nReunite with old friends and relatives at The Placita-Under the Willow Trees\, located on the Southwest corner of 9th Street.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/4409/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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