Details Loisaida Inc. Center presents: November 12th, 2015 – 6:30pm The six photojournalists from the Seis del Sur photo collective will participate in a special Town Hall gathering to discuss the imagery and perception of the various Latino diasporas from within and without the Americas. Featuring: Joe Conzo, Ángel Franco, Ricky Flores, David González, Edwin [...]
La SoPA NYC presents
How To Self Publish Your First Book
A workshop talking about the process of publishing, editing and promoting your first book using low cost digital tools.
Speakers: Elisabet Velasquez & George Torres
3/30 - 6pm -8pm
A documentary about the political, economic and social situation of Puerto Rico. It exposes part of the contemporary history of the island and explores several solutions that can force a change in the moral and intellectual psyche of Puerto Ricans.
Architect CBJ Snyder was a prolific designer of New York public school buildings, completing more than 350 schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A graduate of Cooper Union, Snyder had big ideas about design, too - he believed that public school buildings should be civic monuments to a better, brighter future. Snyder’s [...]
Festival de la Palabra (The Word Festival) is the top literary event in Puerto Rico, and the only literary festival in the world based on one single community -the Puerto Rican community- which is held in two very distinct cities: San Juan and New York, and for the first time celebrated at Loisaida Inc. in the heart of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
San Juan Noir is an unprecedented volume of contemporary Puerto Rican fiction edited by renowned author Mayra Santos-Febres, creator of Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra which its New York edition will be celebrated at Loisaida Inc. Center this same weekend.
As diversity initiatives gain in popularity, how can we ensure that equity is at the root of their focus? Together, let’s explore the landscape and ask what is needed for tangible, real success around race, gender, disability status, and artistic aesthetic in the arts and beyond.
The Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) is committed to protecting and enhancing
the daily economic lives of New Yorkers.
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 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.