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  • The Loss of Cultural Facilities and Sanctuaries in the LES

    The issue of how vacant or underused community facilities have played a role on the dismantling and “de-culturalizing” economic dynamic of historical Latino Core Neighborhoods comes to the foreground as neighbors and community partners discuss the future of PS.64/ CHARAS El Bohio and the strategies to convert them into cultural resources that strengthen and fully represent the historical and diverse fabric of the Lower East Side.

  • Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City

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

    Ours to Lose tells the oral history of that movement through a close look at a diverse group of
    Lower East Side squatters who occupied abandoned city-owned buildings in the 1980s, fought to
    keep them for decades, and eventually began a long, complicated process to turn their illegal
    occupancy into legal cooperative ownership.

  • Nativa Remedies

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

    FREE Community workshop on how to use traditional herbs in modern daily life and creating at home remedies influenced by elder and ancestral healing methods and the passing down of stories. Participants will make a salve to take home.

  • Cultural Equity Town Hall

    The Clemente 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY, United States

    Loisaida Inc. leads the local cultural planning project, in partnership with the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center and Teatro SEA that will ensure that Latino arts organizations, cultural workers, and residents in Lower Manhattan are heard and their recommendations included in the City's 10 year cultural plan. Loisaida Inc. was chosen from a competitive pool of applicants as one of the winning proposals to conduct community engagement and feed-back activities around the City's cultural planning process, which will wrap up in the late spring of 2017.

  • Nativa Remedies

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

    Join us Sunday, March 12th 3-5PM at Loisaida Center for our second workshop with Celeste Casillas of Nativa Remedies and other women seeking to connect with their feminine wisdom, honor their mother energy, and share sacred space.

  • Book Talk: Street Gangs of the Lower East Side

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

    With “The Street Gangs of the Lower East Side,” Jose Cochise
    Quiles and Clayton Patterson provide a brutally honest, self-reflective and moving account of one person’s struggle to break the cycle of violence and poverty since birth through creativity and compassion for others in the East Village / Lower East Side. Quiles pulls no punches about the experiences that took him from gang leader to an historian of gangs, artist, and author who creates with a joyous yet desperate edge, for the sake of sheer survival.

  • ECOLOGICAL CITY – CREATIVE CLIMATE ACTION PUBLIC PLANNING MEETING

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

    Loisaida Inc. Center's 2018 Artists in Residence; Earth Celebrations engages the Lower East Side community through: ECOLOGICAL CITIES, a theatrical pageant and environmental action project to co-develop and bring together climate resiliency and ecological sustainability plans within the gardens, neighborhood and waterfront of the Lower East Side of New York City, and highlight its contribution to the city and address global climate challenges.

  • Cocinando Justicia

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

    Direct from Puerto Rico, Giovani Roberto, an organizer with Centro de Apoyo Mutuo - CAM (Center of Mutual Support), Caguas, will be discussing how its projects and others, are creating alternative solutions to meet the basic sustenance needs of the Puerto Rican people after Hurricane Maria. Other speakers include Melissa Fuster, Professor of Public Health Nutrition at Brooklyn College, and Huascar Robles, author/journalist/producer of Catatonia podcast.