Water-Base Screen Printing Workshop
New One-Print Classes!
Only 2 sessions - 2 time-slots are open: Monday classes and Saturday classes;
Monday, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Saturday, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
FREE!
Ages 18+

2nd Round - PLENA MAYAGÜEZANA WORKSHOP COME JOIN US TO LEARN THIS UNIQUE VERY OLD STYLE OF PLENA! This second series of workshops will consist of six sessions.These sessions will [...]

Performances by: Emanuel Xavier is a poet and performer of Ecuadorian/Puerto Rican heritage and an iconic figure of the Loisaida spoken word and performance scenes. He is the author of [...]

  HOMENAJE: The Traveling Exhibit Honoring Our Puerto Rican and Nuyorican Heroes This traveling exhibit, consisting of 17 by 11 horizontal posters, pays tribute and homage to those Puerto Ricans [...]

Reconstructing Queer Latin@ Loisaida in Cinema Literature and Art (1:00-5:30 pm) Sponsored by: Loisaida Inc. Loisaida has long been recognized as an international cutting-edge center of creativity and experimentation in [...]

The booth by Loisaida, Inc. will play with the visible and invisible tensions of rescued social spaces, their cultural output, and their lack of inclusion in the mainstream story line of the Lower East Side. Through a collaborative installation by resident artists Edgardo Tomás Larregui and Alejandro Epifanio, the booth will recreate the vernacular architecture of “seclusion” and social gathering elements of the traditional casita or urban community garden. Our casita also involves a strategy to render visible the reality of Loisaida, Inc., a social-cultural-artistic community (Latino/Puerto Rican Lower East Side), whose contributions to New York City and the downtown scene have usually remained unacknowledged, absent, and invisible to the hegemonic artistic and cultural narratives of New York City’s creative myth. The presentation will feature a listening station of oral histories by Laura Zelasnic, performances by ongoing Loisaida Center collaborators and projects: the Salvage Project; Flux Theater Ensemble; the Plenatorium, which nurtures and documents the “plena universe”; and Edwin Torres, a Nuyorican poet, performer, and downtown icon, who will explore the nonappearance of “No-isaida.”