Loisaida Inc.

Solo Exhibition: Juan Bautista Climent-Palmer
2017-09-07 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States

Sing for Hope!
2017-08-31 18:30 - 19:30 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Come one, Come All!!
Loisaida Inc., Acacia Network and the Institute for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly invite you to experience the uplifting power of music with Broadway performers from Sing for Hope!
The Sing for Hope vision of art for all is informed by our belief that the arts have unique power to uplift, unite, and transform individuals and communities. Our outreach programs in under-resourced areas – from schools to community centers to healthcare facilities – demonstrate this every day.
Each Sing for Hope program is defined by the volunteer service of artists, the needs of the community, and our belief in the transformative power of the arts.

MAPPING FROM OUTSIDE TO THE INSIDE
2017-08-27 13:00 - 15:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida Inc. and The Little Art Workshop present
MAPPING FROM OUTSIDE TO THE INSIDE:
The program is based on the idea of parting from the largest “object” in our case the Universe, as a starting point and from there begin to construct different visual maps using various artistic approaches. From the “largest” to the “smallest”, from a map of the Universe to a map of our country, city, neighborhood, house and ending by creating a map of our brain. Throughout these workshops we will use different artistic approaches to create our maps, from using our own bodies as representations of “stars” to using more conventional materials such as paint, glue and other crafts. Plus, the children will create maps in both 2 and 3 dimensions.
The program is meant for children starting at 5 years going up to 12, designed for groups up to 10 children per class.

DAY 3 – Sunday, August 27th from 1:00-3:00pm

Activity 1: HOME MAP/MAPA DE LA CASA (1:00pm-2:00pm)

Using a “doll-house” style cardboard, children will draw the inside of a house and and on the other side, they will draw the outside of the house. Then the house will be built and displayed in 3D.

Activity 2: BRAIN MAP/MAPA DEL CEREBRO (2:00pm-3:00pm)

Our brain map. What goes on in our brain? What is helping us see and understand what color is? Would it be a misterious machine? How can we talk? Is our brain reproducing sounds that allow us to speak?

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MAPPING FROM OUTSIDE TO THE INSIDE
2017-08-26 13:00 - 15:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida Inc. and The Little Art Workshop present
MAPPING FROM OUTSIDE TO THE INSIDE:
The program is based on the idea of parting from the largest “object” in our case the Universe, as a starting point and from there begin to construct different visual maps using various artistic approaches. From the “largest” to the “smallest”, from a map of the Universe to a map of our country, city, neighborhood, house and ending by creating a map of our brain. Throughout these workshops we will use different artistic approaches to create our maps, from using our own bodies as representations of “stars” to using more conventional materials such as paint, glue and other crafts. Plus, the children will create maps in both 2 and 3 dimensions.
The program is meant for children starting at 5 years going up to 12, designed for groups up to 10 children per class.

DAY 2 – Saturday, August 26th from 1:00-3:00pm

Activity 1: COUNTRY MAP/MAPA DEL PAIS (1:00pm-2:00pm)

Using a cut-out of the United States map, the children will use glue to attach different small objects, such as seeds, sticks, earth, clay, textiles, cotton, etc. to imagine that each material added will give the country a new meaning.

Activity 2: HOOD MAP/MAPA DEL BARRIO (2:00pm-3:00pm)

Taking a maxi-formatted map of the Lower East Side, the children will imagine where are the streets, the parks, the boundary. Using pre-cut elements and materials as iconography for the children to place inside their neighborhood map.

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MAPPING FROM OUTSIDE TO THE INSIDE
2017-08-25 14:00 - 16:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida Inc. and The Little Art Workshop present
MAPPING FROM OUTSIDE TO THE INSIDE:
The program is based on the idea of parting from the largest “object” in our case the Universe, as a starting point and from there begin to construct different visual maps using various artistic approaches. From the “largest” to the “smallest”, from a map of the Universe to a map of our country, city, neighborhood, house and ending by creating a map of our brain. Throughout these workshops we will use different artistic approaches to create our maps, from using our own bodies as representations of “stars” to using more conventional materials such as paint, glue and other crafts. Plus, the children will create maps in both 2 and 3 dimensions.
The program is meant for children starting at 5 years going up to 12, designed for groups up to 10 children per class.

DAY 1 – Friday, August 25th from 2:00-4:00pm

Activity 1: CONSTELLATIONS/CONSTELACIONES (2:00pm-3:00pm)

We will observe images of constellations, we will talk about what they are and what are their forms and significance. Observaremos imágenes de las constelaciones, hablaremos de qué son, y cuales son sus formas y significados. Afterwards, using their bodies, the children will distributre across the floor and each one will become a star and their bodies will be traced on to paper and, then each one will color and build their own constellations using glue, paint, glitter, fabric and other crafts.

Activity 2: WORLD MAP/MAPA-MUNDI (3:15pm-4:00pm)

After observing a wooden Earth globe, the children will paint their own globes.

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GARBAGIA UNIVERSE
2017-08-21 16:00 - 2017-09-08 22:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
GARBAGIA UNIVERSE
Overview: Garbagia Project is Loisaida’s Summer Program, a series of free open community workshops with a focus on creating art with recycled materials. This year’s edition Garbagia Universe expands its horizons, it will consist of a 3 week intensive workshop completely FREE for all ages.
Each week participants will be creating art with recycled materials using a different approach; 1st week will be sewing and costume design workshop. 2nd week will be sculpture, drawing and painting workshop. 3rd week will be a collective performance and movement workshop.

1st week – Patterns, Sewing & Costumes
Monday, August 21st – Friday, August 25th from 4:00pm – 10:00pm
Participants will learn basic machine sewing and reading of a pattern. While designing and creating their own costume, we will work on creative stimulation, repurposing of materials that can become fabric. Invited artist; Sonia Peña will direct 2 hours of workshops each day to learn mending and alterations. These classes will help in the development of a costume and while creating it, participants will learn basic, practical and useful techniques for everyday life.
Instructor: Daniele Fabrizi

2nd week – Painting, Sculpture & Drawing
Monday, August 28th – Friday, September 1st from 4:00pm – 10:00pm
This workshop will focus on the development of sculptural elements that add visual force and meaning to the garments made in the 1st week of the Garbagia Universe workshops mostly of recycled materials. Participants will study traditional clothing from different indigenous cultures in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, containing symbols of the universe (such as the Sun, Mother Earth, Planets, Stars, etc.) With these visual and theoretical sources as inspiration, participants will sketch their own sculptural designs.
Instructor: Juan Bautista-Climent

3rd week – Movement, Performance & Dance
Tuesday, September 5th – Friday, September 8th from 4:00pm – 10:00pm
During the last week of Garbagia Universe Program the participants will have the opportunity to develop their character in a collaborative manner. Performance, body movement and character workshops will be held in order to develop the Performance for the event. After creating their fabric and sculptural pieces during the first weeks of the Project, it will be a time to put it in action the creations..
Instructor: Zule Alejandro

La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues: 1985 & 2017 - Exhibition Open
2017-07-29 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-07-28 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-07-27 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-07-22 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-07-21 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-07-20 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-07-15 12:00 - 18:00, 2017-07-14 12:00 - 18:00 and 5 more dates | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Exhibition Details:
Title: La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues: 1985 & 2017
Exhibition Dates: April 8 – June 30 , 2017
Viewing Hours:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Noon to 6:00 pm
and by appointment.
Organizer:
Artmakers Inc.
For more info and media queries: Jane Weissman, ArtmakersNYC@aol.com, (212) 989-3006
Host Venue:
Loisaida Inc. Center
(646) 726-4715
710 East 9th Street, Lower East Side
New York, NY 10009 United States
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Email: info@loisaida.org

Comments on the text "The Tradition of the Abstract Man"
2017-07-29 09:00 - 14:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Comments on the text “The Tradition of the Abstract Man” (9:00 am-5:00pm, with recess from 12: 30 to 2:00 pm)
Original intensive workshop, developed by that will deepen the constructivist concepts of visionary Torres García, making a thorough reading and revision of his text “The Tradition of the Abstract Man”.

Tribute to Joaquín Torres García's Legacy
2017-07-28 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Commemoration Tribute to Maestro Torres García.
This commemorative event, has been held for fifty consecutive years, thanks to the Uruguayan Embassy, Consulate and Uruguayan Diaspora of NYC. Torres-Garcia’s grandson, Marcos Torres, will be present to give a brief scope of the hemispheric influence of his grandfather’s influential Escuela Constructivista in Uruguay and the rest of the world from its beginning to the present day.
Conference: Joaquín Torres García Legacy (7:00-9:00pm)

Rompiendo Puertas - Break and Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)
2017-07-24 19:00 - 21:45 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida Inc. in collaboration with Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space and Third World Newsreel are proud to present:
Break and Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62)

Duration: 40 min.

Doors open at: 7:00 pm

OVERVIEW:
This film captures the militant antecedents to today’s housing reclamation movement in New York City. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city. They pulled the boards off the doors, cleaned and repaired the buildings and moved in.Third World Newsreel’s historical Newsreel collection provides contemporary audiences with a vast archive of political documentary films chronicling the social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s

Thanks to the generous contributions of the National Film Preservation Foundation, BREAK AND ENTER has been preserved and is available for purchases and rentals.BREAK AND ENTER was preserved thanks to the generous support of the National Film Preservation Foundation. This film is available for public screenings.

REVIEWS:
“…the film is one of the first to represent working class Latinos-particularly Latinas-as active agents of change in new social movements… Break and Enter can be understood as part of the Puerto Rican cultural “renaissance” or innovative cultural formations that emerged in the city during the late 1960s and unsettled the distinctions between art and politics as well as imagined new ways of being in the city.”
– Frances Negron-Muntaner, Latino Arts and Activism Archive at Columbia University
“This film emerges as one of Newsreel’s most powerful films.”
– Cynthia A. Young, Soul Power

KICKING-OFF THE EVENING WITH A SPECIAL SCREENING AND PRESENTATION OF:
Voces de Fillmore
Duration: 19 min.

Ariana Allensworth, Teresa Basilio & Regina Eaton
Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop
2015
US
English and Spanish with English subtitles

This documentary traces the memories and experiences of families living on one block located in South Williamsburg, a Brooklyn neighborhood that is affectionately known by long time residents as Southside or Los Sures. In the past decade, Southside’ Latinx and working class population has steadily decreased from seventy to forty-five percent, in part due to gentrification in New York City. In this film, Puerto Rican families who have lived and raised children in Los Sures for several decades talk about their quest to preserve a sense of community in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
Bios:
Teresa Basilio Gaztambide is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico and has been living in Brooklyn for the past 20 years. Currently Teresa is the Deputy Director for New America’s Resilient Communities Program working with Hurricane Sandy impacted neighborhoods to co-design, build and maintain weather-resistant and locally controlled wifi networks. Prior to joining New America, Teresa was the Co-Executive Director of Global Action Project (G.A.P.) a social justice youth media organization that works with youth most impacted by injustice to build the knowledge, tools, and relationships needed to create media for community power, cultural expression and political change. Teresa is also a multidisciplinary artist and organizer. Her latest production Voces de Fillmore is a documentary on the experiences of Puerto Rican families living in one block in the neighborhood of Los Sures in Williamsburg, Brooklyn dealing with the impact of the gentrification and displacement of their working class community. She recently co-organized the Detroit – Puerto Rico Solidarity Exchange which brought together a delegation of 80 Detroit and Puerto Rican organizers and cultural workers (from the island and diaspora) committed to grassroots efforts rooted in self-determination to the Allied Media Conference.
Rose Muzio is Associate Professor of Politics at SUNY Old Westbury and author of Radical Imagination Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in NY. The book provides the first in-depth account of the origins and activism of El Comite-Movimiento de Izquierda Nacional Puertorriqueno, one of the main organizations of the Puerto Rican Left in the 1970s. Operation Move-In is discussed at length in both the book and a previously published article in Centro, Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies.
Carmen Martell (who appears briefly in the film) has resided in the Upper West Side for over 60 years since coming to New York from Puerto Rico as a child. She was an organizer and participant in Operation Move-In, the Secretary of Organization of El Comite for a decade, and more recently one of the “35 women for Oscar” who helped gain Obama’s last-minute release of Oscar Lopez Rivera. Carmen worked for former Borough President Ruth Messinger and for many years was the Director of Human Resources of UniteHere Health Center.

Lecture: Introductory Workshops on Constructivist Aesthetics(in Spanish)
2017-07-21 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Exposition of the Constructivist Doctrine By Marcos Torres Andrada
BIO: Marcos Torres Andrada, son of the painter Augusto Torres, who received by direct oral tradition, the philosophy proposed by his grandfather, Maestro Joaquín Torres García, in his Constructivist School.
Relevancy and Urgency of The Constructivist Proposal, The need to redefine a Pan-American Culture (7:00-9:00 pm)
This conference will bring to light fundamental concepts of the Constructivist Proposal highly relevant in the Contemporaneity of the American Continent and global challenges.

Introductory Workshops on Constructivist Aesthetics
2017-07-15 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Introductory Workshops on Constructivist Aesthetics By Maria Eugenia Méndez-Marconi (Open to all ages from 11:00am -2:00pm)
In the second meeting, the dynamics will have a practice oriented approach. Participants of this workshop will engage in experiential exploration with individual and group proposals, encouraging dialogue between peers and the instructor. The workshop class will present the work methodology, as well as the norms and guidelines of operation for the work ordered within it. The teacher of the workshop will be in person during the whole course, guiding the students and giving shape to the contents worked in relation to the theory approached.

Lecture: The Art of Life and Life in the Art of Joaquín Torres García (in Spanish)
2017-07-14 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Introductory Workshops on Constructivist Aesthetics by María Eugenia Méndez-Marconi
Initial theoretical instance, J.T.G biographical presentation and lecture (7:00-9:00 pm)
It proposes to approach notions about the constructivist aesthetics from the vision proposed by the Master, continued in turn by his direct disciples; giving accessibility to art – which is our inherited cultural heritage. The first instance will be theoretical, giving a frame of reference to the experience that will be realized the next day.

Make it Verde!
2017-06-24 10:00 - 13:00 | High Line at W 14th Street, West 14th Street, Manhattan, NY, 10014, United States
MAKE IT VERDE!
DATE & TIME:

Saturday, June 24, 2017 10:00 am to 1:00 pm

LOCATION:
On the High Line at 14th St.

In partnership with the Friends of the High Line, join us for a day of dancing, music, and creating with recycled materials. Portions of this program will be offered in Spanish and English.
This program is geared towards children ages 0-12.
RSVP for this program beginning June 7. To be notified, please join our mailing list.
High Line members may pre-register for this event beginning on June 2.
Not yet a member? Join today.
If you’re an existing member and lost your card, send us an email.

Schedule of events:
10 – 11 AM: Storytime for children ages 0-5 years old by Poncili Creacion
10 AM – 1 PM: Ongoing activities: mobile garden with a Friends of the High Line gardener, worm bin exploration, and mural art project led by Poncili Creacion
11:30 AM: Performance by Poncili Creacion
12:00 PM: Performance by Poncili Creacion (repeat)
12:30 PM: Performance by The Brandon Project
All children must be accompanied by a caregiver at all times.
This program is held rain or shine.

SUPPORT
High Line Families is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council.

© 2000–2017 Friends of the High Line

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FAMILY PROGRAMS

Noches de Bohemia with IRIS CHACON
2017-06-12 18:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
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Your contribution will support our commitment to the Puerto Rican and Latino Cultures and the preservation of our heritage in New York City.

Made possible through the generous support of AgeWell New York

4th Annual Loisaida Festival Theater Lab
2017-05-28 12:00 - 17:00 | La Plaza Cultural, 700 E 9th Street, New York, 10009, United States
The Loisaida Festival’s 4th Annual Theater Lab
Co-produced by MEZCOLANZA NYC & Loisaida Inc.

Brief description of participants and their performance, visual, theatrical or musical pieces:

1. Teresa Hernández / Performance / 15 min
Title: (A) parecer
About the piece: Performance-space intervention and body. Appearance is a human condition that reveals the uniqueness of each in the encounter with the-othrx. Ten years ago he works with a woman dressed in a black suit. She has named her-the walker. She goes out and walks in and out, complains, reveals in she a-seem what she lives.
About the artist: Stage performer. Actress, dancer, creator-interpreter, author and director of her own texts, self-management activist. She has spent more than twenty-five years research and practice from the frontiers of dance, theater and performance. Looking for other ways of doing, narrating and being on stage, starting with the integral study of the body, space, and its own text. Their themes surround; Identities as shifting and complex lands; Art and it´s established canons, violence and power with its multiple faces and bifurcations. Precariousness is a fundamental part of its ethics. Hernández’s career has been recognized by the United States Artists Foundation under the discipline of Theater Arts. (USA Role Fellow-2011). She is the second Puerto Rican on the island to receive such distinction, being the only one in the field of theater. She holds a master’s degree in “Management and Cultural Management” from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras precinct.

2. Kairiana Núñez / Performance / 10 min
Title: La basquetbolista
About the piece: Set in a basketball game’s tight quarter, a Puerto Rican basketball player has to row hard against the opposite team’s defense in the presence of a referee that unfairly penalizes her and does not call the true fault.
About the artist: Actress taurine and Puerto Rican. Graduated from the Drama Department of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, (2009). He began his career in 1996 with Pedro Santaliz, and later became a founding member of the theater group in the streets Jóvenes del 98 under the direction of Maritza Pérez Otero. Later he continued his training with Puerto Rican teachers and artists Rosa Luisa Márquez, Teresa Hernández, Viveca Vázquez, among others. In Argentina, she trained at Sportivo Teatral with Mirta Bogdasarian and Ricardo Bartís (2011-2013, Buenos Aires), and was part of the Quinto Piso Theater Companies, directed by Daniel Godoy, and El Rizoma Collective (2011-2016, Buenos Aires) . In 2017 he returns to Puerto Rico, where despite the imbalance, she bets on continuing to grow artistically, professionally, Ideologically and humanely.

3. Mickey Negrón / Performance / 18 min
Title: Transgressed Body
About the piece: An emigrant, homosexual, transvesti. Strength in the voices of the minority.
About the artist: Mickey Negrón Puerto Rican artist. Artistic director of the Asuntos Efímeros art platform. Enthusiastic writer. Free thinker. Nonconforming gender. Cultural manager. Singer. Moving. Student who never finishes. Fan of pop singers and frustrated athlete. It just premiered as a critic. Currently works an artistic residence at the Center of Fine Arts to be presented in August 2017 and coordinates the second edition of Quiebre: International Performance Festival in Puerto Rico.

4. Yan Christian Collazo / Performance / 15 min
Title: Untitled
About the piece: Character that intervenes in the intermediates, comments the pieces, is ally of the public. Uses a half mask makes jokes about the current situation on the island in relation to the floating islands that we are all talking about individualism, migration and the condition of the migrant.
About the artist: Yan Christian Collazo: Actor, poet, creator, dancer. Puerto Rican. He holds a Bachelors degree in Drama with a second concentration in Foreign Languages ​​specialized in Italian. Studied at “Universitá Cattólica del Sacro Cuore” in Milan, Italy; Specialized in poetry and Italian literature. He took workshops with Latin American theater groups including Malayerba from Ecuador and Yuyachkani from Peru. De Clown with maestro Luis Oliva of Puerto Rico, David Martínez Sánchez of Spain and with the group “Pig Iron Theater Company” of Philadelphia. In 2012, he was part of the group La Pata de Cabra, acting in the play ‘Cortadito or Capuchino’, directed by his teacher Rosa Luisa Márquez. The Festival of Theater of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture was invited. He obtained an MFA in Ensemble Based Theater. He was selected to participate in the “Mad River Festival” along with the company of the school “Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater. He has been invited to the “2017 River Theater Festival” in Blue Lake, CA and to “California Summer School for the Arts” in Los Angeles, CA. After completing his short tour with his thesis, he will move to New York with a view to forming a multidisciplinary theater group and establishing a working and collaboration bridge between Puerto Rico, New York, California and the world.

5. Awilda Rodríguez Lora / Theater Lab MC / Contemporary Dance / 19 min
Title: Untitled
About the piece: Contemporary dance movement piece that accounts for its status as a migrant who absorbed American culture and made it theirs.
About the artist: Awilda Rodríguez-Lora is a performance choreographer and cultural entrepreneur. Born in Mexico, raised in Puerto Rico, and working in-between North and South America and the Caribbean, Rodríguez Lora’s performances traverse multiple geographic histories and realities. In this way, her work promotes progressive dialogues regarding hemispheric colonial legacies, and the unstable categories of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Rodríguez Lora is currently a host/coordinator at La Rosario in Santurce (Puerto Rico) where she is creating, researching, and producing her life project, La Mujer Maravilla, while developing new strategies for the sustainability of live arts in Puerto Rico. After more than ten years of work as a fully independent artist, she is committed to further studying how artistic economies can be harnessed to support alternative forms of life rooted in communality, creativity, and social justice. laperformera.org.

6. Jeanne D Arc / Dance / Flamenco / 15 min
Title: Untitled
About the piece: Contemporary dance & Flamenco intertwined with poems of protest by Federico García Lorca
About the artist: Jeanne D Arc Casas (1984) was born in Aibonito, Puerto Rico. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Individualized Studies from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. In 2011 she earned a master’s degree in performance and choreography at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque where she was a Moderna and Flamenco dance instructor. Since January 2012 is part of the company Soledad Barrio y Noche Flamenca. She has made a large number of tours in the United States, Canada and Argentina Europe and the East. It also teaches lessons in modern dance, contemporary dance and body movement in different schools and universities. Recently Jeanne D ‘Arc Houses participated in the program of residential artifacts of the Fine Arts Center Luis A. Ferré de Santurce, PR where shows the show Hij @ s de la Bernarda directed by the teacher Rosa Luisa Márquez.

7. Poncili Creación Artist Collective/ Performance / Art Installation
About their piece: During the month of May Poncili Creación will be studying the Loisaida community and its mural history in order to produce a performance piece that speaks about the short comings that the community has faced in the past and still face today.
Inspired by Loisaida, Poncili Creación will create several of their unique sculptures based on Loisaida’s murals and community. Using different elements they will create a performance to be presented at the Theater Lab.
About the artists: Poncili Creación conceptualizes and designs interactive experiences for all ages. The company has been conspiring for over half a decade, in which they have shared their work with several countries throughout their international tours to the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. Their creation technique consists of several disciplines which lead them to create complex structures that resemble different forms through different mechanisms and means of creation. These objects, often humanized, can induce placebos and metaphorical experiences to the spectating mind that often goes from passive interaction to active observation, in the attempt of decoding what happens and transforms before their eye. They currently reside in Puerto Rico and dedicate their time to the study of objects and reality.

8. Yaraní del Valle & Gabo Lugo / Music / Performance / 20 min
Title: Pura’s Lágrimas
About the piece: Musical project developed by Yaraní del Valle and Gabo Lugo that fuses pop music with electronic sound supports and stage theatricality.aims to comment and provoke conversations about identity, gender inequality, her experience as an immigrant and the devastating effects of colonialism, the political condition that Puerto Rico has been a victim of for more than a century.
About the artist: Yaraní Del Valle Piñero is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, dancer, educator, cultural promoter, and activist based in New York City. Her interdisciplinary approach to artistic creation has led her to train and to collaborate with theater directors, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and educators as a performer, co-creator and/or curriculum developer. Some of her projects include CHAMACAS, ChicaPReneurs, Seniors In Motion and Pura’s Lágrimas and latest co-founder of Caicú, a nonprofit organization that serves as a cultural platform to empower Puerto Rican artists beyond geographical barriers.

9. Lizbeth Román / Music / 40 min
About the piece: Original music that fuses the Caribbean bohemian with multiple rhythms and a Lyric of the everyday that joins the poetic with the street jargon.
About the artist: Lizbeth Román is a Puerto Rican songwriter, theater and singer. With her scenic force accompanied by the porosity and intensity of her voice, Lizbeth has established herself in the independent scene with her original music that fuses the Caribbean and bohemian vibe with multiple rhythms and a lyric of the everyday that connects the poetic with the street jargon.

10. Alejandro Aldarondo / Art Installation / Site-Specific

Title: Durational
About the piece: Site-specific art installation uses threads or strings that seeks to trace our multiple routes. Uniting as a collective, migrants from here and there. Respecting our qualities and differences, exalting the reasons of movement of each one, looking for a common place from which to leave, is born this installation of threads that looks for the earth and wants to take root.
About the artist: Visual artist Puerto Rican, is dedicated to build facilities with textiles and thread in open spaces. Design and make clothes. Artist / installer, performer, designer, costume designer and dancer. He has a bachelors degree in Interdisciplinary Studies illustration and Drama. Associate Degree in Fashion Design. Has worked on several projects for: Wire / Mezzanine · PR / NYC / The great fantastic circus and the fashion event: Bohemian Sunset.

About TheaterLab co-producers:
MEZCOLANZA NYC 2017 – 12th Edition
Mezcolanza is a cultural platform born in 2013 in the city of Buenos Aires produced by Helen Ceballos. It gathers short pieces of artists and multi-disciplinary collectives in order to maintain a live and open stage for the processes and creations of emerging artists in different cities around the world. We aim to erase distances and expose pieces of author, which account for the social reality that is lived in our changing environments. To date, Mezcolanza has hosted over 250 artists among the cities of Buenos Aires, New York and San Juan de Puerto Rico. On this occasion, Mezcolanza visits the city of New York for the third time and celebrates its twelfth edition. We have convened 14 multidisciplinary artists. These artists work in theater, performance, movement, music, improvisation, construction, musical composition, costume making, sculptures, sound and video art. In this edition of the Festival Loisaida and within the framework of the Theater Lab. Mezcolanza presents the urban interventions of 14 outstanding artists from the local and international scene of Puerto Rico, Latin America and the United States, interlacing the scenic discourses of these creative artists with their status as permanent immigrants.

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The 30th Annual Loisaida Festival
2017-05-28 12:00 - 17:00 | Avenue C Corridor, 12th - 6th Streets on Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
A celebration is coming:

The Loisaida Festival has been historically celebrated on the Sunday before Memorial Day along six blocks of the Avenue C corridor, officially “Loisaida Ave.” This year is on:
Sunday, May 28th fom 12:00pm – 5:00pm

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.

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Loisaida Festival Community Parade
2017-05-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Avenue C Corridor, 12th - 6th Streets on Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Every year the LoisaidaFest 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.

Sunday, May 28th from 11:00am on the Avenue C corridor, Loisaida Avenue between 6th and 12th Streets

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.

Want to participate in the parade or just attend FREE parade preparations workshop? Register here.

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