2017's theme is Immigration where we'll be recognizing and celebrating the Im/migrant experience in the Lower East Side – The Gateway to America, and celebrating the Latin American Immigrant and their contributions to this community, city and country.
This year the 4th Annual Theater Lab at the Loisaida Festival will feature performances and works from the performance troupe Mezcolanza · NYC
Including works by: Poncili Creacion: Efrain del Hierro & Pablo Del Hierro, Mickey Negrón, Kairiana Núñez Santaliz, Juana de Arco, Awilda Rodriguez Lora, Teresa Hernández, Camila Sánchez, YänTzé Khrïstián
Music: Yaraní Del Valle Piñero's Puras Lágrimas, Lizbeth Román & Los duendes invisibles (Enrique "Peru" Chavez y Andrés Kino Cruz)
Installation: Jandro Antonio Aldarondo Figueroa
Artistic Director: Helen Ceballos
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.
Reception + Performances
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 [...]
music performance by William Parker & Jackson Krall "Sitting In the parking lot”
Bridging Resurgence
Bridging Resurgence
Organized by Loisaida Inc. with the support of Tom Brasuell and, with the help of many of you, the first Loisaida Basketball Tournament is open to boys and girls ages 12 to 16. Register today!
Strong Roots, Healthy Branches: Harvesting Connections
