OPEN CALL - ARTISTS
Visual Artists, Dancers, Performers, Musicians & Poets
present and collaborate with community creating artistic works exploring climate resiliency, water and ecological sustainability
Nov. 17, 2017
4pm - 8pm
Mercado de Puerto Rico
-Coquito Tasting (Coquito Masters)
-Artesanías (Puerto Rican traditional Arts and Crafts)
FREE
Tale 53; Snowhite is a sinister story told inside an intriguing wooden artefact that houses a toy theatre (with two- dimentional painted puppets moving on tracks), objects, a kamishibai (for backdrop changes) and a cranky or moving panorama. It is based on “Snowhite”, the creation of reknowned Spanish author and illustrator Ana Juan.
Deborah Hunt, (theatre maker, maskbuilder and operator, puppeteer, teacher and autor) has adapted and directed the tale and manipulates the puppets and backdrops. Shanti Lalita, (cellist, poet and performer) is the composer and live musician.
For Shey Rivera Ríos and Huáscar Robles, Hurricane María is an atmospheric manifestation compounded by the fiscal crisis troubling Puerto Rico’s urban landscape. The installation and performance Fantasy Island is an experience that explores how tourism and consumer culture sell a "fantastical" luxury lifestyle, a tropical paradise twisting crisis into “opportunity".
The most recognizable monologist in Puerto Rico, Teofilo Torres with an acting career that spans over 40 years has come to Loisaida with his new creation; Pateco el Sepulturero-"Pateco the Gravedigger".
Please join us on January 13th, 2018 for a night of music, dance, tamales and the celebration of the artistic spirit in the rebuilding efforts of communities impacted by the 2017 earthquakes in Mexico. Performances by Sandra Soto Silva, The Josh Craig and more.
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.
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.
Puppet Workshop with artist: Lucrecia Novoa
You are invited to join us for a launch celebration of El Semillero - The Seedbed, a maker space community hub for cultivating our skills & community. Set for the first component to open mid 2018. The benefit event will feature a silent auction where over 10 established and up-and-coming artists will donate a piece of art for visitors to bid on and take home that same night. The auction wall is curated by Ryan John Lee and Katharine J. Wright. There will also be a performance by surrealist bohemia pioneer Joe Louis and the New York City + Puerto Rico sensational deejay D'MARQUESINA and much more!
