Loisaida Inc.

Fantasy Island: Opening Reception
2017-10-05 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
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”. A door opens into a real estate office selling dreams of luxury and reconstruction and the viewer delves into a dizzying spell of animated gifs, performance and altars.
For Fantasy Island, Rivera transformed Loisaida’s space into a real estate office surrounded by a black and white grid that envelops visitors while monitors flash GIFs that borrow aesthetics from the vaporwave movement. In one image, a hand waves a wad of cash to a “Puerto Rico” neon sign while icons of the Virgin Mary and a ram, both cultural symbols of Puerto Rico’s syncretism and colonial history, spin in an enticing, dizzying spell. Viewers are also inspired to reflect on how natural disasters such as the path of hurricanes affecting not only Puerto Rico but also our Caribbean neighbors maybe twisted into “opportunity” after the crisis subsides.
For the Loisaida Center, a cultural enterprise with deep roots in the Nuyorican and Latinx New York community, Fantasy Island stretches the island to New York and its Puerto Rican and Caribbean diaspora as it hits common issues they all grapple with.
The opening reception will include a special performance.
Throughout the fall, and beyond, the Loisaida Inc. Center’s programming will provide opportunities to pledge support to the relief and recovery efforts in the Caribbean.

AbrazARTE: A Benefit for Puerto Rico
2017-09-30 18:00 - 23:55 | Teatro LaTEA, 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY, 10002, United States
The Loisaida, Inc. Center presents, AbrazARTE at Teatro LATEA. Fundraiser to help people affected by #hurricaneMaria in #PR and in solidarity with the evento Verde Luz artistic movement.
AbrazARTE is proud to present a showcase between local and international artists who love Puerto Rico and its people.
Please join us on Saturday to raise funds by those gravely affected. We will present an art auction, theater, poetry, and music, with ongoing projections of performances from the Puerto Rican Diaspora from all over the world.
Complementary food & drink by Port Morris Distillery from 6-7pm.
We are partnering with Eco Kit Puerto Rico, an ecological platform for responsible relief donations that respond to the island’s geography, weather conditions, contamination, waste management , and infrastructure. Funds will be added to the DonatePuertoRico.com which ensures us that 100{d189f1124ffa6975f5923217354196c41f30852329af055ade71c436dc0b2403} of ALL donations will go directly to victims of this hurricane and the legitimate grassroots efforts and organizations we have identified.
LIVE MUSIC BY:
Flaco Navaja and the Razorblades
Buscabulla
Fernandito Ferrer
D’Marquesina
PARTICIPATING PERFORMERS:
Teatro 220
Edwin Torres
Urayoan Noel
Peggy Robles-Alvarado
Bonafide Rojas
Bob Holman
Teresa Martinez
Colectivo
June Bug Basura & Papo Cucaracha Vertedero
Redi Dance Co
Natalie Nazario
Eva Cristina Vazquez
Nicole Cecilia
VISUAL ARTISTS:
Zule Alejandro
Juan Bautista Climent
Coco144
Pepe Coronado
Coronado Print Studio
Cybil Vladimir Charlier
Sofia Shaula del Rio
Giacinta Frisillo
Jonas Hidalgo
Leslie Jimenez
Rejin Leys
Fernando Ruiz Lorenzo
Carlos Jesus Martinez
Zahyde Pietri
Bonafide Rojas
Juan Sanchez
Erick Sanchez
Sebastian Vallejo
and many more
Thanks to co-sponsors: Acacia Network, Port Morris Distillery, Casa Adela, ABC Beer Company, Suffolk Arms, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, FABNYC, and more!

Solo Exhibition: Juan Bautista Climent-Palmer
2017-09-29 13:00 - 18:00, 2017-09-28 13:00 - 18:00, 2017-09-23 13:00 - 18:00, 2017-09-22 13:00 - 18:00, 2017-09-21 13:00 - 18:00, 2017-09-16 13:00 - 18:00, 2017-09-15 13:00 - 18:00, 2017-09-14 13:00 - 18:00 and 1 more date | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States

Lecture: Introductory Workshops on Constructivist Aesthetics(in Spanish)
2017-09-22 19:00 - 21:00, 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.

Sing for Hope!
2017-09-21 18:30 - 19:30, 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.

Merengue Prieto New York 2017
2017-09-09 16:30 - 19:30 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida Inc. Center and Afro-Inspira presents:
Merengue Prieto New York 2017
Marily Gallardo, choreographer/artivist and founder of Kalalú Danza Artes Escénicas, has come from Dominican Republic to share with us her work and provide a master dance class, interactive talk and healing circle. All funds are to support Kalalú Danza Project in keep moving forward their mission and work in Los Mercedes, Dominican Republic.
You are coordially invited to:
MASTER DANCE CLASS: Merengue Prieto / rhythm dance session – traveling steps with TAMBORA. Incorporate another perspective that focuses on the origins of popular tradition and its makers through the execution of poly rhythmic-gestural patterns and to enjoy “merengue” afro.
INTERACTIVE TALK: “Mujeres de la Candela” (Women of the Fire) / pedagogical experience on identity and black women power such as how women power and values are transmitted within the afro-descendant communities, like courage, daily intelligence, and spiritual beliefs, etc.
HEALING RITUAL: Creative full moon circle.
Class starts prompltly at 5pm followed by talk and healing circle.
Suggested Donation: $25
This event is FREE, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please bring comfortable clothes and shoes.

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Mission:
Kalalú Danza, Dominican Republic
For Kalalú Danza, the Afro-antillian concept is presented as one that encompasses and is a synthesis of thought and expression of the socio-cultural diversity of the Caribbean. From that premise, Kalalú’s pedagogical approach affirms a particular study of rhythm and movement, of its oral tradition, and symbolism which influenced by “the Afro” can be found in the popular artistic manifestations of such cultures. Such artistic manifestations provides the basis to generate performance, scenic, and pedagogical proposals which contributes to the development of the local communities as well as the individual and social transformation.

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 | 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.

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.
