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  • Ecological Arts Costume Workshops

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Costumes Workshop with artist: Michele Brody

  • The Native Caribbean Heritage Preservation Project – Exhibition

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    The Testourmonials Project will host an exhibition at Loisaida Inc. Center opening Monday, March 26 - 30, 2018. The exhibition will be relaying information, sources, reflections, visual art, commissioned photography, and an installation to share the research.

  • Restoring the heart of Ni’Tiñao – Exhibition Closing

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Please join us for the closing reception of Restoring the Heart of Ni'Tiñao!
    Ní'Tiñao means "relative; friend; progenitor" in Kalinago, and is eponymous with the Taíno peoples of the Caribbean. Loisaida Inc.'s artist-in-residence, Anthony Rosado's, work focuses on historical, indigenous Caribbean definitions of identity and the influence of their values, spirituality, horticulture, and language today, as well as our relation to these definitions right here in Loisaida. His exhibition aims to refute eurocolonial claims that the Ní'Tiñao were a divided peoples who went extinct. Via art and storytelling, We Exist, he tells us.

  • Taller de Soles (Sol Lace Workshop)

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Learn how to make beautiful and intricate lace pieces through a simple and meditative
    technique with Puerto Rican fiber artist, Zaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda, who will
    introduce us to the technique as it is worked in her native country of Puerto Rico.
    Understanding the essence of the technique gives us a vocabulary that we can apply in
    both traditional and experimental/contemporary contexts.

  • Dome Building Workshop

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Learn how to build a dome, using Build With Hubs, Kit for Geodesic Dome Building. This kit uses pre-fabricated connection hubs that allow for the sides of the dome to easily snap together. Come together and build a dome! . The history of dome building on the LES goes back to when CHARAS built domes in collaboration with Buckminster Fuller in 1972/73. Syeus Mottel documented this effort in his photo-journalism book CHARAS THE IMPROBABLE DOME BUILDERS , first published in 1974 and now re published in 2017 by Song Cave Press & Pioneer Works.

  • CHARAS IS ALIVE ON SPACESHIP EARTH

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    CHARAS IS ALIVE ON SPACESHIP EARTH A project by: Matthew Mottel in collaboration with Loisaida Inc., La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez and DIAP (Digital Intermedia MFA program at City College Overview: The history of dome building on the LES goes back to when CHARAS built domes in collaboration with Buckminster Fuller in 1972/73. Syeus Mottel [...]

  • Ecological City

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Earth Celebrations’ ECOLOGICAL CITY, a climate action, ecological urban pilgrimage and performance art event - features a spectacular 6 hour procession featuring visual art, giant puppets and costumes with 20 site performances of dance, music, theater and poetry celebrating sustainability solutions throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and East River Park waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City.

  • Performances: CHARAS is Alive on Spaceship Earth

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Films Charas, an independent cinema program, was an ongoing series during Charas' operation of El Bohio on 9th street between Avenues B and C. Bradley Eros, Lary7, Kit Fitzgerald and many others, known as the Optipus collective, were integral members of the East Village projection/film/video community. This performance in and around the dome in the Loisaida Center courtyard is a homage to the character and experimentation that was nurtured at El Bohio.

  • Exhibition Closing: CHARAS is Alive on Spaceship Earth

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Please join us for the closing reception of the exhibition: CHARAS is Alive on Spaceship Earth with special performances from Art Jones, Krisia Ayala and Yuko Otomo. Art Jones will create live audio/video mix featuring the animated sights and sounds of NYC’s utopian future-past, projected onto artist Krisia Ayala’s installation. Both artists will use the [...]