Open to anyone who wants to make wearable-danceable- carry able art and help create. Join our team of guest artists and local luminaries in a highly collaborative and experimental open studio where we spin straw into gold!
All levels of experience- from the curious to fluent!
Loisaida inc. is proud to present as part of The 30th Annual Loisaida Festival, Daniela Fabrizi will be complementing with textiles and fabric; the collaborative atelier created by the 3 invited street theater artists: Daniel Polnau, Pablo Varona and Adam Ende. This collaborative atelier will be open to visitors and the community at large, all FREE.
Let’s start a musical street band from scratch! Bring out all of your inner musical joy in a band of wonders and learn how to make your own costume, design your own mask, help build a float, build your own musical instruments (with materials sourced from any local hardware store) and collaboratively come up with a choreography. Open to all artists, specially musicians and dancers.
(Recommended for ages 18 - Adults)
The Loisaida Festival Parade & Pageant counts with workshop space to build anything related to the parade. Any individual or group that would like to use our space, can come in on the Open Community Workshops. If you reach us beforehand, we could also reserve a space in the workshop and help with your designs and craft.
(Recommended for ages 18 - Adults)
Every year the Loisaida Festival hits the ground running with the yearly Loisaida Festival Carnival Parade. Where our #diverse global #community blends with #puppeteers, marching bands and performance #artists, young and old to create a one of a kind #spectacle of color and fun.
May 28th at 11:00am on the Avenue C corridor, Loisaida Avenue in Alphabet City, Manhattan
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 [...]