BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Loisaida Inc. - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://loisaida.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Loisaida Inc. REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20150101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160711T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160716T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160625T044311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160707T180252Z UID:10000159-1468242000-1468688400@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Garbagia Island - Summer Program Open Studio (Week 1) DESCRIPTION:Loisaida’s First Summer Program 2016: Garbagia Island\nJuly 11th\, 2016 – July 30th\, 2016 – 10:00am to 5:00pm\nat The Loisaida Inc. Center\n\nOpen Studio \n\nJuly 11th to July 30th\, 2016 – 10:00 am to 5:00 pm\nLocation: Loisaida Inc.\nFor more info please contact: Zule Alejandro: (787) 636-4413 or Daniela Fabrizi: (347) 314-3555 \nAudience: Everyone\nWorkshop: Create your own costume and much more!\nDescription:\nBecome part of Loisaida Inc. Center First Summer Program. Learn how to create fashion\, masks and costumes with recycled materials. Be in our pirate fashion show! Learn about historical figures and eco-urban pioneers of Loisaida \n\n \n\nGarbagia Island Summer Program Overview: \nThe Summer Program will be composed of a two-week intensive open studio workshop accessible to the public; Weekdays 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm from July 11th – 29th. There will be five directed workshops for Summer Camps or School groups; Dates are Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm from July 16th – 29th. \nScreening projections and other audiovisual material for educational purposes about the history and important people of the Loisaida (Lower East Side) Community. Then we will have the final activity on Saturday\, July 30th at La Plaza Cultural Garden also open to the public. We will show a pirate fashion show and puppet creatures made out of recycled materials\, then it will all end with a symbolic peregrination to the Carmen Pabón garden. \nPedagogical benefits: \nParticipants will have a political approach to the history of LES by active participation. This will be directed with a pedagogical perspective into recreating what important people did for the neighborhood. This will create awareness into reusing waste and reconstructing its concept into resource. Also pointing out the use of communal spaces for the benefit of the community. We will like to empower the people to be active in their communities. The art workshops are beneficial for the mental health\, motor skills and development of the participants. Using creativity with political consciousness to create more initiative and active people in the community. URL:https://loisaida.org/event/garbagia-island-summer-program-open-studio/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Garbagia-Island-Promo-1-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160716T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160716T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160701T060406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T061144Z UID:10000176-1468666800-1468677600@loisaida.org SUMMARY:TV Pilot Workshop (Day 2) DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents:\nTV Pilot Workshop\n\nDates: July 9\, 16\, 23\, 30 \nTime: 11:00am-2:00pm \nRegister: here. \nLocation: 710 East Ninth Street New York NY 10009 \n\n\nWorkshop provided by WEPA (Workshops\, Entertainment and  Professional Artists) Composed of three young Latino leaders in which are Arilyn I. Martinez Cora\, Andres Lopez and Anoushka Medina. Their objective is to create expand and develop the visual arts within the community of Loisaida. \n\nOverview:\nIn this workshop we will teach participants how to make a TV pilot for television and all the internet platforms. The components of the workshop are:\n• Acting\n• Writing\n• Directing\n• Production\n• The use of the camera and sound gear\n• Also a general class about wardrobe\, make up and set-design \nActing\nIn this workshop we will touch the theory and practice of acting for camera. We start with the origin and development of acting. In the workshop the community will be able to experiment and develop acting skills.\n• The principal idea is to educate through acting games and developing the ability of acting for a scripted show.\n• Example: Alert\, Concentration and teamwork.\nIn this game the class will gain confidence and let go their insecurities in the space as a group. \nWriting\nIn this workshop we will teach and explain the parts of the script. The first setup is where we describe the characters life\, how characters relate to each other and what specific event changes the life of the character. The second step is to develop the obstacle of this story. The third is to resolve\, which we will cover the moral of the story. The scripted final of the pilot will be a collaboration of the group of the class adapting everyone’s stories. \nDirecting\nIn this workshop we will be teaching the necessaries skills to direct actors for camera. Understanding the motivation and obstacle of why the actors should move in the space through the story.\n• One of the exercises will be using the stories of the community and see it come to life through improvisation. \nCamera & Sound\nThe use of the camera and sound gear HANDS ON. In this workshop we will teach the mechanics of the camera\, basic lighting and what it is a good composition for the story on camera. In terms of sound we will teach how to position the microphone and how to use the sound recorder. \nProduction\nThis final workshop creates a plan to shoot the story. We will teach how to breakdown the script\, planning a production timeline\, and how to organize the departments (cast\, crew\, equipment\, locations).\n• Briefly\, we will go over wardrobe\, makeup and set-design; explaining with the importance of this department with videos and pictures. \n  URL:https://loisaida.org/event/tv-pilot-workshop-day-2/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Opening,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Acacia-Network-Tree-cut-grey-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160718T103000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160719T003000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160712T185026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160712T185240Z UID:10000179-1468837800-1468888200@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Una Sola Voz DESCRIPTION:Una Sola Voz: Oscar López Rivera\, the educator.\nJune 22nd\, 2016\n\nEnglish: \nProject developed by public school students Patria Latorre under the direction of Professor Vilma Serrano Vargas in the hometown of Oscar López Rivera : San Sebastian \, Puerto Rico. the social commitment of Oscar López Rivera with the Puerto Rican youth and public education in the country of Puerto Rico continues to stand strong . Students use books as a means to describe their experiences around the figure of Oscar López Rivera and education. The artist Antonio Martorell \, accompanies them at the end of this project emphasizing the importance of education \, social participation as Puerto Ricans and a commitment to their country. Also the project will showcase an installation of 35 backpacks entitled “Cannon fodder.” \nSpanish: \nProyecto desarrollado por estudiantes de la escuela pública Patria Latorre bajo la dirección de la Profesora Vilma Serrano Vargas en el pueblo natal de  Oscar López Rivera: San Sebastián\, Puerto Rico. Se destaca el compromiso social de Oscar López Rivera con la juventud puertorriqueña y la educación del país. Los estudiantes utilizan libretas como medio para describir sus experiencias en torno a la figura de Oscar López Rivera y la educación. El artista\, Antonio Martorell\, los acompaña al cierre de este proyecto enfatizando en la relevancia de la educación\, la participación social como puertorriqueños y el compromiso indelegable con la patria. Además acompaña el proyecto una instalación de 35 mochilas cuyo título es “Carne de Cañon.” URL:https://loisaida.org/event/una-sola-voz-5/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/frente-una-sola-voz-page-001.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160719T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160722T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160712T184324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160712T184324Z UID:10000178-1468933200-1469206800@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Guardians of Loisaida DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. is proud to present: \nMarvel writer Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez \nMiranda-Rodriguez’s exhibition of original artwork from his best-selling debut comic book Guardians of the Lower East Side from the anthology series Marvel’s Guardians of Infinity. \nThis exhibition will display up to 20 pieces of original black and white artwork and full color art prints created for this comic book. \nFollow Edgardo on Twitter: @MrEdgardoNYC \n*Exhibition dates are May 31st\, 2016 through July 28th\, 2016. Gallery is open to the public by appointment and for special tours Monday to Friday 12:00PM – 5:00PM \n \n*PLEASE CONTACT THE LOISAIDA CENTER TO SCHEDULE A VIEWING URL:https://loisaida.org/event/guardians-of-loisaida-10/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Opening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GuardiansOfLoisaida_Logo-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160719T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160723T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160625T044639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160707T191921Z UID:10000160-1468933200-1469293200@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Garbagia Island - Summer Program Open Studio (Week 2) DESCRIPTION:Loisaida’s First Summer Program 2016: Garbagia Island\nJuly 11th\, 2016 – July 30th\, 2016 – 10:00am to 5:00pm\nat The Loisaida Inc. Center\n\nOpen Studio\n\nJuly 11th to July 30th\, 2016 – 10:00 am to 5:00 pm\nLocation: Loisaida Inc.\nFor more info please contact: Zule Alejandro: (787) 636-4413 or Daniela Fabrizi: (347) 314-3555\nAudience: Everyone\nWorkshop: Create your own costume and much more!\nDescription:\nBecome part of Loisaida Inc. Center First Summer Program. Learn how to create fashion\, masks and costumes with recycled materials. Be in our pirate fashion show! Learn about historical figures and eco-urban pioneers of Loisaida \n\n \n\nGarbagia Island Summer Program Overview: \nThe Summer Program will be composed of a two-week intensive open workshop accessible for the public. There will be five directed workshops for Summer Camps or School groups. Screening projections and other audiovisual material for educational purposes about the history and important people of the Loisaida (Lower East Side) Community. Then we will have the final activity open for the public were we will show a pirate fashion and creatures made out of recycled materials. It will all end with a symbolic peregrination to the Carmen Pabón garden. \nPedagogical benefits: \nParticipants will have a political approach to the history of LES by active participation. This will be directed with a pedagogical perspective into recreating what important people did for the neighborhood. This will create awareness into reusing waste and reconstructing its concept into resource. Also pointing out the use of communal spaces for the benefit of the community. We will like to empower the people to be active in their communities. The art workshops are beneficial for the mental health\, motor skills and development of the participants. Using creativity with political consciousness to create more initiative and active people in the community. URL:https://loisaida.org/event/garbagia-island-summer-program-open-studio-2/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Garbagia-Island-Promo-1-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160719T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160719T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160624T165300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160625T040918Z UID:10000156-1468944000-1468954800@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Garbagia Island - Summer Program Workshop (Day 1) DESCRIPTION:Loisaida’s First Summer Program 2016: Garbagia Island\nJuly 19th\, 2016 – July 30th\, 2016\nat The Loisaida Inc. Center\n\nDay 1 \n\nJuly 19th\, 2016 – 4:00 pm\nLocation: La Plaza Cultural Community Garden (Register Below)\nAbout: Carmen Pabón\nAudience: Everyone\nWorkshop: Drawing and Mask-making\nDescription:\nWe will briefly introduce Carmen Pabón and her magnificent work in the community. After that the participant will be encourage to create their own community character and describe what that character does for the community.\nOutcome:\nParticipants will be able to reflect about Carmen Pabón heroic support to the community and create their own hero and contribution. Develop their drawing skills and creativity. They will be part of the pirate fashion show. \n\n \n\nGarbagia Island Summer Program Overview: \nThe Summer Program will be composed of a two-week intensive open workshop accessible for the public. There will be five directed workshops for Summer Camps or School groups. Screening projections and other audiovisual material for educational purposes about the history and important people of the Loisaida (Lower East Side) Community. Then we will have the final activity open for the public were we will show a pirate fashion and creatures made out of recycled materials. It will all end with a symbolic peregrination to the Carmen Pabón garden. \nPedagogical benefits: \nParticipants will have a political approach to the history of LES by active participation. This will be directed with a pedagogical perspective into recreating what important people did for the neighborhood. This will create awareness into reusing waste and reconstructing its concept into resource. Also pointing out the use of communal spaces for the benefit of the community. We will like to empower the people to be active in their communities. The art workshops are beneficial for the mental health\, motor skills and development of the participants. Using creativity with political consciousness to create more initiative and active people in the community. URL:https://loisaida.org/event/garbagia-island-summer-program/ LOCATION:La Plaza Cultural\, 700 E 9th Street\, New York\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Garbagia-Island-Promo-1-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160721T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160721T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160625T030459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160625T040617Z UID:10000158-1469116800-1469127600@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Garbagia Island - Summer Program Workshop (Day 2) DESCRIPTION:Loisaida’s First Summer Program 2016: Garbagia Island\nJuly 19th\, 2016 – July 30th\, 2016\nat The Loisaida Inc. Center\n\nDay 2 \n\nJuly 21st\, 2016 – 4:00 pm\nLocation: Loisaida Inc. (Register Below)\nAbout:Jorge Brandon\, Bimbo Rivas and Pedro Pietri\nAudience: Young Adults & Adults\nWorkshop: Fashion and Poetry\nDescription:\nWe will read some of this famous “nuyorican” poetry using it as a base to direct poetry Workshops with a political perspective.\nOutcome:\nReflect about “Nuyorican” poetry and its importance in the LES community. Being able to create poetry with political content. They will be part of the pirate fashion show. \n\n \n\nGarbagia Island Summer Program Overview: \nThe Summer Program will be composed of a two-week intensive open workshop accessible for the public. There will be five directed workshops for Summer Camps or School groups. Screening projections and other audiovisual material for educational purposes about the history and important people of the Loisaida (Lower East Side) Community. Then we will have the final activity open for the public were we will show a pirate fashion and creatures made out of recycled materials. It will all end with a symbolic peregrination to the Carmen Pabón garden. \nPedagogical benefits: \nParticipants will have a political approach to the history of LES by active participation. This will be directed with a pedagogical perspective into recreating what important people did for the neighborhood. This will create awareness into reusing waste and reconstructing its concept into resource. Also pointing out the use of communal spaces for the benefit of the community. We will like to empower the people to be active in their communities. The art workshops are beneficial for the mental health\, motor skills and development of the participants. Using creativity with political consciousness to create more initiative and active people in the community. URL:https://loisaida.org/event/garbaggia-island-summer-program-workshop-day-2/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Garbagia-Island-Promo-1-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160721T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160721T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160705T212100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160707T154709Z UID:10000177-1469125800-1469136600@loisaida.org SUMMARY:La Gran Falacia - The Great Fallacy DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents: \nLa Gran Falacia (The Great Fallacy)\nFilm screening and discussion panel with film director Paco Vazquez and author of the book “War against all Puerto Ricans” Nelson Denis \n\nA 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. \nAlthough this film is aimed to the Puerto Ricans living in the US mainland (which are more than 5 million)\, it can be presented to any audience regardless of nationality. This situation is the reflection of the macrocosm of the social awareness events taking place in the world today. \n\n\nSchedule: \n6:30 –Talk between Paco Vazquez and Nelson Denis \n7:00 – Screening of La Gran Falacia \n9:00 – Q&A \n\nAwards\, Reviews and Ratings: \nThe documentary has been accepted in eight film festival\, and it has won Best Spanish Language film at the Sunscreen Film Festival in St. Petersburg\, Florida and Best Foreign Language film at the International Festival in Lake Worth in Lake Worth Florida \nLa Gran Falacia also received a great review in the New York Times and at TrustMovie \n\nFrom Radio 24 in Milan Italia \nThe documentary film has also great rating at the IMDB\n \nHITN nationwide. \n\nTrailers: The Great Fallacy trailer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHEN\nThursday\, July 21\, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EDT) – Add to Calendar\nWHERE\nThe Loisaida Inc. Center – 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY 10009 – View Map URL:https://loisaida.org/event/la-gran-falacia-the-great-fallacy/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Presentation,Panel / Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Great-Fallacy-poster-web-e1467753569505.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160723T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160723T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160701T060214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T061029Z UID:10000174-1469271600-1469282400@loisaida.org SUMMARY:TV Pilot Workshop (Day 3) DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents:\nTV Pilot Workshop\n\nDates: July 9\, 16\, 23\, 30 \nTime: 11:00am-2:00pm \nRegister: here. \nLocation: 710 East Ninth Street New York NY 10009 \n\n\nWorkshop provided by WEPA (Workshops\, Entertainment and  Professional Artists) Composed of three young Latino leaders in which are Arilyn I. Martinez Cora\, Andres Lopez and Anoushka Medina. Their objective is to create expand and develop the visual arts within the community of Loisaida. \n\nOverview:\nIn this workshop we will teach participants how to make a TV pilot for television and all the internet platforms. The components of the workshop are:\n• Acting\n• Writing\n• Directing\n• Production\n• The use of the camera and sound gear\n• Also a general class about wardrobe\, make up and set-design \nActing\nIn this workshop we will touch the theory and practice of acting for camera. We start with the origin and development of acting. In the workshop the community will be able to experiment and develop acting skills.\n• The principal idea is to educate through acting games and developing the ability of acting for a scripted show.\n• Example: Alert\, Concentration and teamwork.\nIn this game the class will gain confidence and let go their insecurities in the space as a group. \nWriting\nIn this workshop we will teach and explain the parts of the script. The first setup is where we describe the characters life\, how characters relate to each other and what specific event changes the life of the character. The second step is to develop the obstacle of this story. The third is to resolve\, which we will cover the moral of the story. The scripted final of the pilot will be a collaboration of the group of the class adapting everyone’s stories. \nDirecting\nIn this workshop we will be teaching the necessaries skills to direct actors for camera. Understanding the motivation and obstacle of why the actors should move in the space through the story.\n• One of the exercises will be using the stories of the community and see it come to life through improvisation. \nCamera & Sound\nThe use of the camera and sound gear HANDS ON. In this workshop we will teach the mechanics of the camera\, basic lighting and what it is a good composition for the story on camera. In terms of sound we will teach how to position the microphone and how to use the sound recorder. \nProduction\nThis final workshop creates a plan to shoot the story. We will teach how to breakdown the script\, planning a production timeline\, and how to organize the departments (cast\, crew\, equipment\, locations).\n• Briefly\, we will go over wardrobe\, makeup and set-design; explaining with the importance of this department with videos and pictures. \n  URL:https://loisaida.org/event/tv-pilot-workshop-day-3/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Opening,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Acacia-Network-Tree-cut-grey-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160724T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160724T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160712T201838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160713T164309Z UID:10000180-1469386800-1469394000@loisaida.org SUMMARY:GUARDIANS OF LOISAIDA (CLOSING) DESCRIPTION:GUARDIANS OF LOISAIDA – CLOSING RECEPTION \n710 East 9th Street New York NY 10009 (District X – Loisaida) \n7:00 pm \n\n  URL:https://loisaida.org/event/guardians-of-loisaida-closing/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Presentation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GuardiansOfLoisaida_Logo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160726T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160730T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160625T044836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160707T195208Z UID:10000161-1469538000-1469898000@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Garbagia Island - Summer Program Open Studio (Week 3) DESCRIPTION:Loisaida’s First Summer Program 2016: Garbagia Island\nJuly 11th\, 2016 – July 30th\, 2016 – 10:00am to 5:00pm\nat The Loisaida Inc. Center\n\nOpen Studio\n\nJuly 11th to July 30th\, 2016 – 10:00 am to 5:00 pm\nLocation: Loisaida Inc.\nFor more info please contact: Zule Alejandro: (787) 636-4413 or Daniela Fabrizi: (347) 314-3555\nAudience: Everyone\nWorkshop: Create your own costume and much more!\nDescription:\nBecome part of Loisaida Inc. Center First Summer Program. Learn how to create fashion\, masks and costumes with recycled materials. Be in our pirate fashion show! Learn about historical figures and eco-urban pioneers of Loisaida \n\n \n\nGarbagia Island Summer Program Overview: \nThe Summer Program will be composed of a two-week intensive open workshop accessible for the public. There will be five directed workshops for Summer Camps or School groups. Screening projections and other audiovisual material for educational purposes about the history and important people of the Loisaida (Lower East Side) Community. Then we will have the final activity open for the public were we will show a pirate fashion and creatures made out of recycled materials. It will all end with a symbolic peregrination to the Carmen Pabón garden. \nPedagogical benefits: \nParticipants will have a political approach to the history of LES by active participation. This will be directed with a pedagogical perspective into recreating what important people did for the neighborhood. This will create awareness into reusing waste and reconstructing its concept into resource. Also pointing out the use of communal spaces for the benefit of the community. We will like to empower the people to be active in their communities. The art workshops are beneficial for the mental health\, motor skills and development of the participants. Using creativity with political consciousness to create more initiative and active people in the community. URL:https://loisaida.org/event/garbagia-island-summer-program-open-studio-3/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Garbagia-Island-Promo-1-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160730T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160730T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160701T060226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T061056Z UID:10000175-1469876400-1469887200@loisaida.org SUMMARY:TV Pilot Workshop (Day 4) DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents:\nTV Pilot Workshop\n\nDates: July 9\, 16\, 23\, 30 \nTime: 11:00am-2:00pm \nRegister: here. \nLocation: 710 East Ninth Street New York NY 10009 \n\n\nWorkshop provided by WEPA (Workshops\, Entertainment and  Professional Artists) Composed of three young Latino leaders in which are Arilyn I. Martinez Cora\, Andres Lopez and Anoushka Medina. Their objective is to create expand and develop the visual arts within the community of Loisaida. \n\nOverview:\nIn this workshop we will teach participants how to make a TV pilot for television and all the internet platforms. The components of the workshop are:\n• Acting\n• Writing\n• Directing\n• Production\n• The use of the camera and sound gear\n• Also a general class about wardrobe\, make up and set-design \nActing\nIn this workshop we will touch the theory and practice of acting for camera. We start with the origin and development of acting. In the workshop the community will be able to experiment and develop acting skills.\n• The principal idea is to educate through acting games and developing the ability of acting for a scripted show.\n• Example: Alert\, Concentration and teamwork.\nIn this game the class will gain confidence and let go their insecurities in the space as a group. \nWriting\nIn this workshop we will teach and explain the parts of the script. The first setup is where we describe the characters life\, how characters relate to each other and what specific event changes the life of the character. The second step is to develop the obstacle of this story. The third is to resolve\, which we will cover the moral of the story. The scripted final of the pilot will be a collaboration of the group of the class adapting everyone’s stories. \nDirecting\nIn this workshop we will be teaching the necessaries skills to direct actors for camera. Understanding the motivation and obstacle of why the actors should move in the space through the story.\n• One of the exercises will be using the stories of the community and see it come to life through improvisation. \nCamera & Sound\nThe use of the camera and sound gear HANDS ON. In this workshop we will teach the mechanics of the camera\, basic lighting and what it is a good composition for the story on camera. In terms of sound we will teach how to position the microphone and how to use the sound recorder. \nProduction\nThis final workshop creates a plan to shoot the story. We will teach how to breakdown the script\, planning a production timeline\, and how to organize the departments (cast\, crew\, equipment\, locations).\n• Briefly\, we will go over wardrobe\, makeup and set-design; explaining with the importance of this department with videos and pictures. \n  URL:https://loisaida.org/event/tv-pilot-workshop-day-4/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Opening,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Acacia-Network-Tree-cut-grey-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160907T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160907T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160831T160635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160831T160635Z UID:10000186-1473249600-1473267600@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Senior Day - September DESCRIPTION:‘SENIOR DAY’ \nPROGRAMA \n12:00-12:30pm: \nREGISTRO \n12:30-1:30pm: \n1ra Sesión de Talleres \n-ETIQUETAS NUTRICIONALES (IPRO) – Teatro \n-ZUMBA – Salón 1 \n1:30-2:30pm: \nCOFFEE BREAK \n2:30-3:30pm: \n2da Sesión de Talleres \n-REIKI (sanación y energía) con Malín Falú -Teatro \n-TAI CHÍ (ejercicio chino) – Salón 1 \n3:30-4:30pm: \nBOHEMIA con Wally Ruíz – Teatro URL:https://loisaida.org/event/senior-day-september-2016/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Loisaida-Senior-Day-Flyer-e1462202056389.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160915T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160819T190047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T011417Z UID:10000181-1473966000-1473973200@loisaida.org SUMMARY:BRAINLINGO - CLASS 1 DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents: \nBRAINLINGO – A poetry workshop for the body and mind. \nWith: Edwin Torres \nThursdays\, September 15th\, 22nd\, 29th & October 13thfrom 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm \n710 East 9th Street New York\, NY 10009 \n(Joining Edwin on Sept. 22 will be guest artist Will Power\, Doris Duke Foundation Resident Artist at New York Theater Workshop) \n\n \n\nOVERVIEW: \nA Poetry Workshop For The Body And Mind — is a creative laboratory combining elements of theater\, collage\, and movement structured around language. Participants will explore the performative edges that embody transition as rich tools for transformative work. By cultivating an awareness between the disciplines of body language and archetypes of imagination\, the tri-lingual voice\, the speaking-seeing-hearing voice\, will be nurtured. The four weeks are oriented around opening the sensory awareness necessary for artistic expression. \nThe workshop is structured sequentially for maximum effect\, however each class can be taken individually to fit your schedule. Please enroll by linking online. \n\nSeptember 15th – CLASS 1: GROUND \nPoets are creatures grounded in awareness. To establish that ground\, we need to see what happens to awareness as it transitions. We activate that trigger by presenting two immersive exercises built to represent the evolution of the creative process as a microcosm of the writer’s experience. The writing that emerges is then shared and a discussion follows\, utilizing the newly-charged creative space. This becomes groundwork for transition to become a resource in the creative process. \n\nSeptember 22nd – CLASS 2: BALANCE (with guest artist Will Power) \nIn this class\, we’re lucky to be joined by award-winning playwright and performer Will Power. To nurture creativity is to spark the imagination\, to see the world from many viewpoints\, to cultivate where balance lies\, literally\, from one foot to the other. Using alignment to explore movement in theater and performance\, we’ll integrate exercises from The Alexander Technique that explore the spine’s relationship to language\, and how support is integral to creativity. We’ll then explore improvisation in dialogue on stage and in action by creating brief performances in group settings. Between Will Power and Edwin Torres\, an immersive narrative among a range of genres will create an intoxicating blend of creative inspiration for the class to journey by. \n\nSeptember 29th – CLASS 3: SIGHT \nOur volume\, our mass\, the weight of our perception is defined by the movement we attach to it. This week\, we’ll take what we explored with Will Power the previous week and interpret music as movement\, words as sound\, interconnecting the accumulation of classes as possibilities for interpretation. The students will be taking their places with each other to create movement plays\, based on word exercises reducing writing into vowels and consonants. Our movements are mapped into choreo-poems\, as concrete poetry and collage are explored and assigned\, creating new pathways into the visual senses. \n\nOctober 13th – CLASS 4: VOICE (Please note that the first Thursday in October\, Oct. 6th\, will be skipped) \nTo communicate what’s being listening to requires an understanding of border with intention\, defined as “voice.” This final class explores the Japanese dance Butoh – which explores energy slowly traveling through the dancer’s body. Butoh will be used to translate the voices within\, to interpret listening to unknown voices into action. Mantra and repetition will be used to generate new writing out of trance states\, further opening the possibilities of sensory awareness. Collaged pieces will be adapted into new texts\, creating a performance of collected works to be presented at The Loisaida Center at a later date in November. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nEdwin Torres came to poetry as a graphic designer in New York City\, becoming a self-proclaimed “lingualisualist\,” fluent in the languages of sight and sound. The iconic diversity of the East Village during the 90’s\, along with the combined forces of Dixon Place\, The Nuyorican Poets Café\, and The St. Marks Poetry Project\, shaped his multi-disciplinary approach to language. He was a member of the poetry collective “Nuyorican Poets Café Live” that helped revitalize Spoken Word\, performing and giving workshops worldwide. He is the author of eight books of poetry\, including Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press 2014)\, Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books 2010)\, In The Function Of External Circumstances (Nightboat Books 2009) and The PoPedology of An Ambient Language (Atelos Books 2008). He’s received fellowships from the DIA Foundation\, The New York Foundation for the Arts\, The Foundation For Contemporary Performing Arts\, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, and The Poetry Fund among others. \nIn 2016\, he judged the Andre Montoya Poetry Prize at the University of Note Dame\, performed his solo show “Mi Voca Su Voca” at The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia\, is part of a 2-year artist’s residency entitled Open Studios at The Drawing Center in New York City\, and received a residency fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania\, Creative Writing Program for the upcoming semester. His visual poetics have been exhibited at Exit Art\, EFA Gallery in NYC\, and a graphic retrospective “Poesís: The Visual Language of Edwin Torres” at The Center for Book and Paper Arts\, Chicago\, Il. His CD “Holy Kid” (Kill Rock Stars Records) was part of the Whitney Museum’s exhibit “The American Century Part II.” Anthologies include\, American Poets in the 21st Century: Vol. 2 (Wesleyan University)\, Angels Of The Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press)\, Post-Modern American Poetry Vol. 2 (Norton)\, Best American Poetry (Penguin)\, Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems and Plays for Children (Black Radish Books)\, and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Holt). \nWill Power is an award-winning playwright and performer. Plays include “Stagger Lee” (Dallas Theater Center)\, “Fetch Clay\, Make Man”(New York Theater Workshop\, Marin Theatre Company\, Roundhouse Theatre\, True Colors Theater)\, “Steel Hammer” with SITI Company (Humana Festival\, Brooklyn Academy of Music)\, “The Seven” (Lucille Lortel Award Best Musical\, New York Theater Workshop\, La Jolla Playhouse\, Ten Thousand Things Theater Company)\, Five Fingers of Funk! (Children’s Theatre Company)\, Honey Bo and The Goldmine (La Jolla Playhouse) and two internationally acclaimed solo shows “The Gathering\,” and “Flow.” \nIn addition to being the Doris Duke Foundation Resident Artist at New York Theater Workshop\, Power is also on the faculty at The Meadows School of the Arts/SMU\, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence with the Dallas Theatre Center URL:https://loisaida.org/event/brainlingo-class-1/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/color-splash.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160831T020940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160831T024555Z UID:10000185-1474569000-1474578000@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Tale of Four Schools DESCRIPTION: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 innovative buildings included progressive solutions for light\, air\, fireproofing\, and classroom size. How can we better care for our community resources facilitate adaptive reuse\, and what can we still learn from Snyder’s century-old philosophies? Professor Jean Arrington\, who has researched Snyder’s work and legacy in New York\, will share her insights and Simeon Bankoff\, Executive Director of the Historic Districts Council\, will moderate a discussion with stakeholders of four Snyder projects – a demolished Bronx landmark\, two former Harlem schools aiming to serve as community anchors\, and an East Village building with an uncertain future. \nCo-sponsored by Loisada\, Inc.\, the Historic Districts Council\, East Village Community Coalition and Lower East Side Preservation Initiative. URL:https://loisaida.org/event/tale-of-four-schools/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Presentation,Panel / Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bronxschool-e1472608761946.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160819T191934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160907T025118Z UID:10000182-1474570800-1474578000@loisaida.org SUMMARY:BRAINLINGO - CLASS 2 DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents: \nBRAINLINGO – A poetry workshop for the body and mind. \nWith: Edwin Torres \nThursdays\, September 15th\, 22nd\, 29th & October 6thfrom 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm \n710 East 9th Street New York\, NY 10009 \n\nOVERVIEW: \nWriting The Voice Of The Body Combining elements of theater\, language\, collage\, and movement\, participants will explore the performative edges that embody transition as rich tools for transformative work. By cultivating awareness between artistic disciplines of body\, language and archetypes of imagination\, a sense of the tri-lingual voice\, the speaking-seeing-hearing voice\, will be nurtured. The four weeks are oriented around opening the sensory awareness necessary for artistic expression. \nEach class begins with warm-up exercises where the participants utilize their physical space into that week’s theme\, embodying the environment to explore the journey about to unfold. \n\nCLASS 1: GROUND \nPoets are creatures of awareness. To build awareness\, we need to see what happens to awareness as it transitions. We activate that trigger by presenting two immersive exercises around the theme of process. The Dream Exercise is constructed over four phases; 1) A dream is told to the group. 2) A story is consisting of two or three combined dreams is acted out without words while the rest of the group transcribes what they imagine is being told. 3) The entire group recites their story simultaneously while walking\, at one point their writing is taken from them and they must continue speaking while music is played. 4) The words “STOP-WRITE” are yelled\, signaling a transition to use magic markers and large-sized newsprint scattered on the floor to write what’s been building inside or to allow yourself tangents into newly inspired thoughts. \nThis exercise is built to represent the evolution of the creative process as a microcosm of the writer’s experience. Beginning with a simple story and following through to its transition over time amidst a changing landscape. Within the classroom\, the outside world is portrayed with sound and movement. The writing that emerges is then heard by everyone and a discussion follows on the experience and to utilize a charged creative space. This becomes groundwork for all the exercises that follow. \nWe will also do an Animal exercise where the participants are asked to move about the room and eventually asked to transform into three animals; a favorite\, its opposite and a fantasy creature. Once embodied\, the animals develop their personality. We then return to our seats and begin writing a short play with these three characters. The writing is then taken home to finish for the next week. Which is where we not only see how other people act out your writing\, we also discuss id and ego as portrayed by their animals. We then deconstruct the plays into a ten-line poem replacing each mention of an animal with the worlds “I”. \nAgain\, the creative process is at the root of this exercise as we eventually allow the ability for transition to become part of everything we experience in the workshop. \n\nCLASS 2: BALANCE \nTo nurture creativity is to understand what sparks the imagination. To see the world you’re in from many viewpoints\, and where our balance lies\, literally\, from one foot to the other\, using improvisation\, dance. \nWe’ll use alignment exercise to explore our movements\, the shapes we make with our bodies as beginnings of text. We’ll have Sensory Word Blocks as props to walk around while integrating Alexander Techniques’ movements to understand our spines and how support is integral to creativity. From an active awareness of the space being used\, we’ll explore improvisation and how to create short 3-minute performances with a team of 2-4 people. This will lead to the Animal Plays\, which will splinter into breathing exercises which will transition into sound exercises. \nThe concept of sound as creativity will be introduced here\, using sound poetry we’ll explore dialogue and language as action. We transition from this to actual performance work\, how the poem is performed\, how to use our newly-charged body at the microphone\, on stage\, etc. A homework exercise is given to create 10 postcards out of your animal plays and/or dream poems. Each postcard will have an image on one side and a word on the other. \n\nCLASS 3: SIGHT \n“The sensuous breathing body is a dynamic\, ever unfolding from\, more a process than a fixed or unchanging object.” David Abram. Our volume\, our mass\, the weight of our perception is defined by the movement we attached to it. This week\, we intercept music as sound\, words as movement. We interconnect the accumulation of classes\, as an ability to interpret. \nThe students will be taking their places with each other to create movement plays\, based on word exercises which break up their writing into vowels and consonants. \nThe room then gets mapped out on paper and then redrawn once the walk gets recorded\, so the action of capturing your movement is transitioned by poetry into a choreo-poem. Concrete poetry and collage is then displayed and the postcards are placed on the floor into combinations that create new pathways. New writing is created as inspired by this new journey. At this point in the workshop\, the students are encouraged to allow imagination to take them where they need to go. The raw writing emerging during these sessions is what will be worked on afterwards. The assignment is to create a visual poem using the page as canvas\, as well as to draw a choreographed performance of the piece. \n\nCLASS 4: VOICE \nTo communicate what you listen to \, requires an intersection of time and space. A geographic invention of border and intention defined as “voice.” This final class takes the exercises that have built up to this point\, and digs deeper into the sensory by exploring the Japanese dance Butoh – which explores energy slowly traveling through the dancer’s body. In the workshop\, Butoh will be used to translate metaphor into action\, meaning into definition\, person to geography. Mantra and repetition will be used to generate new writing out of a trance state\, further opening the possibilities of sensory awareness. \nWe will look at the visual poem assignment and performance\, which transitions into a conducting exercise using orchestra conduction signals to conduct a vocal improvisation. This exercise uses a student’s existing text as a score to follow according to the conductor’s hand signals\, making a live audio-collaged piece out of existing texts. \nThe class will then have an ending discussion\, covering the 4 weeks and how to maintain newly-awakened states of awareness. Throughout the course\, there will be a range of poetry screened or broadcast to support the markers along the way. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nEdwin Torres was born in New York City and came to poetry as a graphic designer in New York City’s East Village in the early 90’s. The iconic diversity of that neighborhood\, along with the combined forces of Dixon Place\, The Nuyorican Poets Café\, and The St. Marks Poetry Project\, shaped his multi-disciplinary approach to language. He was a member of the poetry collective “Nuyorican Poets Café Live” that helped revitalize Spoken Word in the early 90’s\, performing and giving workshops worldwide. He has conducted improvisations between poets and musicians\, adorned envelope pants while wearing a brain of soil\, and lectured on the agency of edge as a premise for trigger. He is the author of eight books of poetry\, including Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press 2014)\, Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books 2010)\, In The Function Of External Circumstances (Nightboat Books 2009) and The PoPedology of An Ambient Language (Atelos Books 2008). He’s received fellowships from the DIA Foundation\, The New York Foundation for the Arts\, The Foundation For Contemporary Performing Arts\, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, and The Poetry Fund among others. In 2016\, he has been awarded a 2-year artist’s residency at The Drawing Center in New York City\, he’s received a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania\, Creative Writing Program for the upcoming semester\, and he’ll also be judge for the Andre Montoya Poetry Prize at the University of Note Dame. His visual poetics have been exhibited at Exit Art\, EFA Gallery in NYC\, and a graphic retrospective “Poesís: The Visual Language of Edwin Torres” at The Center for Book and Paper Arts\, Chicago\, Il. His CD “Holy Kid” (Kill Rock Stars Records) was part of the Whitney Museum’s exhibit “The American Century Part II.” Anthologies include\, American Poets in the 21st Century: Vol. 2 (Wesleyan University)\, Angels Of The Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press)\, Post-Modern American Poetry Vol. 2 (Norton)\, Best American Poetry (Penguin)\, Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems and Plays for Children (Black Radish Books)\, and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Holt). Edwin has a dual career as a graphic designer\, working in the field of advertising and design for over 25 years\, becoming a self-proclaimed “lingualisualist\,” fluent in the languages of both sight and sound. URL:https://loisaida.org/event/brainlingo-class-2/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/color-splash.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160819T191943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T015633Z UID:10000183-1475175600-1475182800@loisaida.org SUMMARY:BRAINLINGO - CLASS 3 DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents: \nBRAINLINGO – A poetry workshop for the body and mind. \nWith: Edwin Torres \nThursdays\, September 15th\, 22nd\, 29th & October 13thfrom 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm \n710 East 9th Street New York\, NY 10009 \n(Joining Edwin on Sept. 22 will be guest artist Will Power\, Doris Duke Foundation Resident Artist at New York Theater Workshop) \n\n \n\nOVERVIEW: \nA Poetry Workshop For The Body And Mind — is a creative laboratory combining elements of theater\, collage\, and movement structured around language. Participants will explore the performative edges that embody transition as rich tools for transformative work. By cultivating an awareness between the disciplines of body language and archetypes of imagination\, the tri-lingual voice\, the speaking-seeing-hearing voice\, will be nurtured. The four weeks are oriented around opening the sensory awareness necessary for artistic expression. \nThe workshop is structured sequentially for maximum effect\, however each class can be taken individually to fit your schedule. Please enroll by linking online. \n\nSeptember 15th – CLASS 1: GROUND \nPoets are creatures grounded in awareness. To establish that ground\, we need to see what happens to awareness as it transitions. We activate that trigger by presenting two immersive exercises built to represent the evolution of the creative process as a microcosm of the writer’s experience. The writing that emerges is then shared and a discussion follows\, utilizing the newly-charged creative space. This becomes groundwork for transition to become a resource in the creative process. \n\nSeptember 22nd – CLASS 2: BALANCE (with guest artist Will Power) \nIn this class\, we’re lucky to be joined by award-winning playwright and performer Will Power. To nurture creativity is to spark the imagination\, to see the world from many viewpoints\, to cultivate where balance lies\, literally\, from one foot to the other. Using alignment to explore movement in theater and performance\, we’ll integrate exercises from The Alexander Technique that explore the spine’s relationship to language\, and how support is integral to creativity. We’ll then explore improvisation in dialogue on stage and in action by creating brief performances in group settings. Between Will Power and Edwin Torres\, an immersive narrative among a range of genres will create an intoxicating blend of creative inspiration for the class to journey by. \n\nSeptember 29th – CLASS 3: SIGHT \nOur volume\, our mass\, the weight of our perception is defined by the movement we attach to it. This week\, we’ll take what we explored with Will Power the previous week and interpret music as movement\, words as sound\, interconnecting the accumulation of classes as possibilities for interpretation. The students will be taking their places with each other to create movement plays\, based on word exercises reducing writing into vowels and consonants. Our movements are mapped into choreo-poems\, as concrete poetry and collage are explored and assigned\, creating new pathways into the visual senses. \n\nOctober 13th – CLASS 4: VOICE (Please note that the first Thursday in October\, Oct. 6th\, will be skipped) \nTo communicate what’s being listening to requires an understanding of border with intention\, defined as “voice.” This final class explores the Japanese dance Butoh – which explores energy slowly traveling through the dancer’s body. Butoh will be used to translate the voices within\, to interpret listening to unknown voices into action. Mantra and repetition will be used to generate new writing out of trance states\, further opening the possibilities of sensory awareness. Collaged pieces will be adapted into new texts\, creating a performance of collected works to be presented at The Loisaida Center at a later date in November. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nEdwin Torres came to poetry as a graphic designer in New York City\, becoming a self-proclaimed “lingualisualist\,” fluent in the languages of sight and sound. The iconic diversity of the East Village during the 90’s\, along with the combined forces of Dixon Place\, The Nuyorican Poets Café\, and The St. Marks Poetry Project\, shaped his multi-disciplinary approach to language. He was a member of the poetry collective “Nuyorican Poets Café Live” that helped revitalize Spoken Word\, performing and giving workshops worldwide. He is the author of eight books of poetry\, including Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press 2014)\, Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books 2010)\, In The Function Of External Circumstances (Nightboat Books 2009) and The PoPedology of An Ambient Language (Atelos Books 2008). He’s received fellowships from the DIA Foundation\, The New York Foundation for the Arts\, The Foundation For Contemporary Performing Arts\, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, and The Poetry Fund among others. \nIn 2016\, he judged the Andre Montoya Poetry Prize at the University of Note Dame\, performed his solo show “Mi Voca Su Voca” at The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia\, is part of a 2-year artist’s residency entitled Open Studios at The Drawing Center in New York City\, and received a residency fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania\, Creative Writing Program for the upcoming semester. His visual poetics have been exhibited at Exit Art\, EFA Gallery in NYC\, and a graphic retrospective “Poesís: The Visual Language of Edwin Torres” at The Center for Book and Paper Arts\, Chicago\, Il. His CD “Holy Kid” (Kill Rock Stars Records) was part of the Whitney Museum’s exhibit “The American Century Part II.” Anthologies include\, American Poets in the 21st Century: Vol. 2 (Wesleyan University)\, Angels Of The Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press)\, Post-Modern American Poetry Vol. 2 (Norton)\, Best American Poetry (Penguin)\, Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems and Plays for Children (Black Radish Books)\, and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Holt). \nWill Power is an award-winning playwright and performer. Plays include “Stagger Lee” (Dallas Theater Center)\, “Fetch Clay\, Make Man”(New York Theater Workshop\, Marin Theatre Company\, Roundhouse Theatre\, True Colors Theater)\, “Steel Hammer” with SITI Company (Humana Festival\, Brooklyn Academy of Music)\, “The Seven” (Lucille Lortel Award Best Musical\, New York Theater Workshop\, La Jolla Playhouse\, Ten Thousand Things Theater Company)\, Five Fingers of Funk! (Children’s Theatre Company)\, Honey Bo and The Goldmine (La Jolla Playhouse) and two internationally acclaimed solo shows “The Gathering\,” and “Flow.” \nIn addition to being the Doris Duke Foundation Resident Artist at New York Theater Workshop\, Power is also on the faculty at The Meadows School of the Arts/SMU\, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence with the Dallas Theatre Center URL:https://loisaida.org/event/brainlingo-class-3/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/color-splash.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161013T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161013T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20160819T191952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160907T234717Z UID:10000184-1476385200-1476392400@loisaida.org SUMMARY:BRAINLINGO - CLASS 4 DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents: \nBRAINLINGO – A poetry workshop for the body and mind. \nWith: Edwin Torres \nThursdays\, September 15th\, 22nd\, 29th & October 13thfrom 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm \n710 East 9th Street New York\, NY 10009 \n(Joining Edwin on Sept. 22 will be guest artist Will Power\, Doris Duke Foundation Resident Artist at New York Theater Workshop) \n\nOVERVIEW: \nA Poetry Workshop For The Body And Mind — is a creative laboratory combining elements of theater\, collage\, and movement structured around language. Participants will explore the performative edges that embody transition as rich tools for transformative work. By cultivating an awareness between the disciplines of body language and archetypes of imagination\, the tri-lingual voice\, the speaking-seeing-hearing voice\, will be nurtured. The four weeks are oriented around opening the sensory awareness necessary for artistic expression. \nThe workshop is structured sequentially for maximum effect\, however each class can be taken individually to fit your schedule. Please enroll by linking online. \n\nSeptember 15th – CLASS 1: GROUND \nPoets are creatures grounded in awareness. To establish that ground\, we need to see what happens to awareness as it transitions. We activate that trigger by presenting two immersive exercises built to represent the evolution of the creative process as a microcosm of the writer’s experience. The writing that emerges is then shared and a discussion follows\, utilizing the newly-charged creative space. This becomes groundwork for transition to become a resource in the creative process. \n\nSeptember 22nd – CLASS 2: BALANCE (with guest artist Will Power) \nIn this class\, we’re lucky to be joined by award-winning playwright and performer Will Power. To nurture creativity is to spark the imagination\, to see the world from many viewpoints\, to cultivate where balance lies\, literally\, from one foot to the other. Using alignment to explore movement in theater and performance\, we’ll integrate exercises from The Alexander Technique that explore the spine’s relationship to language\, and how support is integral to creativity. We’ll then explore improvisation in dialogue on stage and in action by creating brief performances in group settings. Between Will Power and Edwin Torres\, an immersive narrative among a range of genres will create an intoxicating blend of creative inspiration for the class to journey by. \n\nSeptember 29th – CLASS 3: SIGHT \nOur volume\, our mass\, the weight of our perception is defined by the movement we attach to it. This week\, we’ll take what we explored with Will Power the previous week and interpret music as movement\, words as sound\, interconnecting the accumulation of classes as possibilities for interpretation. The students will be taking their places with each other to create movement plays\, based on word exercises reducing writing into vowels and consonants. Our movements are mapped into choreo-poems\, as concrete poetry and collage are explored and assigned\, creating new pathways into the visual senses. \n\nOctober 13th – CLASS 4: VOICE (Please note that the first Thursday in October\, Oct. 6th\, will be skipped) \nTo communicate what’s being listening to requires an understanding of border with intention\, defined as “voice.” This final class explores the Japanese dance Butoh – which explores energy slowly traveling through the dancer’s body. Butoh will be used to translate the voices within\, to interpret listening to unknown voices into action. Mantra and repetition will be used to generate new writing out of trance states\, further opening the possibilities of sensory awareness. Collaged pieces will be adapted into new texts\, creating a performance of collected works to be presented at The Loisaida Center at a later date in November. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nEdwin Torres came to poetry as a graphic designer in New York City\, becoming a self-proclaimed “lingualisualist\,” fluent in the languages of sight and sound. The iconic diversity of the East Village during the 90’s\, along with the combined forces of Dixon Place\, The Nuyorican Poets Café\, and The St. Marks Poetry Project\, shaped his multi-disciplinary approach to language. He was a member of the poetry collective “Nuyorican Poets Café Live” that helped revitalize Spoken Word\, performing and giving workshops worldwide. He is the author of eight books of poetry\, including Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press 2014)\, Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books 2010)\, In The Function Of External Circumstances (Nightboat Books 2009) and The PoPedology of An Ambient Language (Atelos Books 2008). He’s received fellowships from the DIA Foundation\, The New York Foundation for the Arts\, The Foundation For Contemporary Performing Arts\, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, and The Poetry Fund among others. \nIn 2016\, he judged the Andre Montoya Poetry Prize at the University of Note Dame\, performed his solo show “Mi Voca Su Voca” at The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia\, is part of a 2-year artist’s residency entitled Open Studios at The Drawing Center in New York City\, and received a residency fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania\, Creative Writing Program for the upcoming semester. His visual poetics have been exhibited at Exit Art\, EFA Gallery in NYC\, and a graphic retrospective “Poesís: The Visual Language of Edwin Torres” at The Center for Book and Paper Arts\, Chicago\, Il. His CD “Holy Kid” (Kill Rock Stars Records) was part of the Whitney Museum’s exhibit “The American Century Part II.” Anthologies include\, American Poets in the 21st Century: Vol. 2 (Wesleyan University)\, Angels Of The Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press)\, Post-Modern American Poetry Vol. 2 (Norton)\, Best American Poetry (Penguin)\, Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems and Plays for Children (Black Radish Books)\, and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Holt). \nWill Power is an award-winning playwright and performer. Plays include “Stagger Lee” (Dallas Theater Center)\, “Fetch Clay\, Make Man”(New York Theater Workshop\, Marin Theatre Company\, Roundhouse Theatre\, True Colors Theater)\, “Steel Hammer” with SITI Company (Humana Festival\, Brooklyn Academy of Music)\, “The Seven” (Lucille Lortel Award Best Musical\, New York Theater Workshop\, La Jolla Playhouse\, Ten Thousand Things Theater Company)\, Five Fingers of Funk! (Children’s Theatre Company)\, Honey Bo and The Goldmine (La Jolla Playhouse) and two internationally acclaimed solo shows “The Gathering\,” and “Flow.” \nIn addition to being the Doris Duke Foundation Resident Artist at New York Theater Workshop\, Power is also on the faculty at The Meadows School of the Arts/SMU\, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence with the Dallas Theatre Center URL:https://loisaida.org/event/brainlingo-class-4/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/color-splash.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161022T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161022T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161012T202007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161012T202007Z UID:10000190-1477144800-1477155600@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Folclor de Puerto Rico - Memoria e Identidad DESCRIPTION:Folclor de Puerto Rico: memoria e identidad \nIdioma: Español\nFecha: Sábado\, 22 de octubre de 2016\nHorario: 2:00 pm a 5:00 pm\nRecurso: Profesor Néstor Murray-Irizarry \nProfesor universitario de Historia retirado. En 1976 fundó el Centro de Investigaciones Folclóricas de Puerto Rico\, Inc. con sede en la Casa Paoli en Ponce\, Puerto Rico. Investigador y estudioso de nuestra cultura durante más de 50 años. Tiene publicado más de 15 libros sobre diversos temas de nuestra cultura nacional. Fundó la Revista Miradero en papel (hoy virtual www.miradero.org). Ha editado más de 50 libros\, revistas\, DVD\, CD. Es pionero en en el estudio del muralismo en Puerto Rico lo que le ha merecido varios premios. A sus 70 años continua trabajando en beneficio de nuestro acervo cultural. \nPara más información: nmirizarry@gmail.com \nEntrada gratis URL:https://loisaida.org/event/folclor-de-puerto-rico-memoria-e-identidad/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Presentation,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Logo-Casa-Paoli-40-final-final-1-e1476303396577-scaled.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T030000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161013T020303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161013T020303Z UID:10000191-1477364400-1477418400@loisaida.org SUMMARY:HALLOWEEN COSTUME MAKING WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:HALLOWEEN COSTUME MAKING WORKSHOP\nWITH: Marta Rosario\nWHERE: Loisaida Inc. Center – 710 East 9th Street New York\, NY 10009/b>\nDATES: October 25th\, 27th from 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm and Saturday\, October 29th from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm/b>     \nFor more information: Zule Alejandro \nFREE URL:https://loisaida.org/event/halloween-costume-making-workshop/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Taller-Marta-Edit2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T030000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161013T022807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161013T043418Z UID:10000192-1477537200-1477591200@loisaida.org SUMMARY:HALLOWEEN COSTUME MAKING WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:HALLOWEEN COSTUME MAKING WORKSHOP\nWITH: Marta Rosario\nWHERE: Loisaida Inc. Center – 710 East 9th Street New York\, NY 10009\nDATES: October 25th\, 27th from 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm and Saturday\, October 29th from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm     \nFor more information: Zule Alejandro \nFREE URL:https://loisaida.org/event/halloween-costume-making-workshop-2/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Taller-Marta-Edit2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161029T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161004T172140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T171934Z UID:10000187-1477594800-1477760400@loisaida.org SUMMARY:2016 The Word Festival at Loisaida Inc. DESCRIPTION: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. \nOver 15\,000 visitors attend this international encounter of writers and readers\, featuring 100 prestigious authors from Puerto Rico and 20 other countries in America\, Europe and Africa\, all sharing their common passion for literature. \nMore details coming soon. URL:https://loisaida.org/event/2016-the-word-festival-at-loisaida-inc/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Opening,Event/Presentation,Free Workshop / Class,Panel / Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-Loisaida-Word-Festival-_web-banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161027T171123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161027T172409Z UID:10000194-1477681200-1477688400@loisaida.org SUMMARY:"De Aqui y De Allá" by Adrián Viajero Román DESCRIPTION:Viajero's installation process at Loisaida Inc. \n \n \n\n \n“De Aquí y De Allá”\nBy Adrián Viajero Román\nOct 19th – Nov 18th\nOpening Reception: Oct 28 at 7:30pm \nThe EXODUS series explores the Puerto Rican experience of migration\, past and present. Focused on towns and municipalities that are encountering a rapid decrease in population\, causing separation of families\, homes to be abandoned\, and businesses to be closed down. Today’s crisis of the poor economy\, high taxes\, drugs and violence\, and a decrease in agriculture that was once a thriving industry for Puerto Rico’s economy has contributed to an estimated over 300\,000 people leaving the island in the past 10 years\, with 144\,000 of them leaving in the last 4 years\, and 64\,000 leaving in 2014 alone. \n \nAdrian blocks some traffic on Broadway to show people what Puerto Rico looks like. (Wood house siding cut out in the shape of Puerto Rico\, the black outlines are the shapes of the municipalities with the highest population of Puerto Ricans that have left their homes). \n  \nThis is a portion of Viajero's installation on display at LOISAIDA Center which will become a permanent installation on display at the NYC Facebook office headquarters. #LOISAIDACenter #exodus #crisisisland #DefendPR URL:https://loisaida.org/event/de-aqui-y-de-alla-by-adrian-viajero-roman/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Opening ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161012T182922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161012T183148Z UID:10000189-1477683000-1477690200@loisaida.org SUMMARY:San Juan Noir DESCRIPTION:San Juan Noir Anthology Launches Amidst Puerto Rican Debt Crisis \n\n \n\nSan 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. \nShe’ll be attending this special New York City launch\, alongside anthology contributors Charlie Vázquez\, Wilfredo Burgos Matos and Manuel Meléndez—as part of Festival de la Palabra. This will take place at the Loisaida Center on Friday\, October 28th at 7:00p.m. \nPublisher Akashic Books will be on-hand to sell both Spanish-language and English-language copies of this breakthrough volume of Puerto Rican crime fiction\, which features writers from the island and the diaspora. The Loisaida Inc. Center is located at 710 E 9th Street\, NY\, NY 10009. \n“Puerto Rico is often portrayed as sandy beaches\, casinos\, luxury hotels\, relaxation\, and never-ending pleasure\,” Santos-Febres says. “But the financial downturn of 2008 hit us hard and as in many crises\, art\, music\, and literature have also flourished. We have responded to our crisis with many stories to tell. In these times\, many of those stories are noir.” \nThe fifteen stories compiled in San Juan Noir have been published in both Spanish and English editions and were written by Ernesto Quiñones\, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro\, José Rabelo\, Luis Negrón\, Ana María Fuster Lavín\, Janette Becerra\, Manolo Núñez Negrón\, Tere Dávila\, Edmaris Carazo and Alejandro Álvarez Nieves. Come celebrate this historic moment… \nInfo: info@loisaida.org \nBook cover: URL:https://loisaida.org/event/san-juan-noir/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Presentation,Panel / Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SJN-e1476295885355.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161029T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161029T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161012T171156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161012T172017Z UID:10000188-1477742400-1477756800@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Loisaida's Mini Fest DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. Center will be celebrating a Family day we like to call the Mini-Fest “Storytelling Edition” as part of El Festival de la Palabra NYC. \n\n \n\nJoin us: \nSaturday\, October 29th from 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm \nLoisaida Inc. Center – 710 East 9th Street and Avenue C \nThe MiniFest will have: Creative workshops for kids\, fun games and activities\, storytelling and a Light Show called “Colorful Animals” with many more surprises. \nMini Fest Program & Schedule:  \n12:00 pm – 1:00 pm \nCuentacuentos – “Storytelling” \nWith: Tina Casanova and José Rabelo (part of: Festival de la Palabra) \n\n1:00 pm – 3:30 pm \nItinerant stations with diferent activities for kids. Including drawing\, painting\, creating you own puppet for the older ones. Creative and fun station for toddlers too. Open air activities and games. \n\n Story Workshop: Participants could create their own little story and their own book. Materials: Paper\, pencils\, crayons. With: Zuleyka Alejandro.\n Drawing and Painting Character Workshop: Kids will be able to draw or paint their characters this way helping them to develop the characters. Materiales: Paper\, Paint\, crayons\, pencils. With: Juan Bautista\n Theatrical Games: Fun games for the kids to develop and act their characters. With: Zuleyka Alejandro\n Open air activities: Bubble making games and a variety of fun games and activities.\n Permanent Stations: Clay Sation\, Printmaking Station\, Games for toddlers.\n\n\n3:30 pm – 4:00 pm \n“Light Show” \nColorful Animals is a Light Show for kids! The story is an effort to learn about accepting each other with our differences. With: Zuleyka Alejandro\, Juan Bautista\, Daniela Fabrizi y Kevin Pérez. URL:https://loisaida.org/event/loisaida-mini-fest/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Opening,Event/Presentation,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/minifest-flier.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161107T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161107T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161103T195013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T195013Z UID:10000197-1478543400-1478550600@loisaida.org SUMMARY:PS 122’S LONG TABLE SERIES DESCRIPTION:PS 122’S LONG TABLE SERIES – LOISAIDA\n\nCultural Equity\n\nMonday\, November 7th – 6:30pm\nat The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street and Avenue C\nIn partnership with Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) and Performance Space 122\nFREE; RSVP Recommended \nAs 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. \n\nFor more information about PS122’s Long Table series and upcoming discussions: ps122.org/long-table URL:https://loisaida.org/event/ps-122s-long-table-series/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Presentation,Panel / Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Long_Table_PS122_2016-9930-640x295.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161115T063000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161115T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161027T054033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161105T234654Z UID:10000193-1479191400-1479240000@loisaida.org SUMMARY:War in the Neighborhood: Gentrification and Graphic Art DESCRIPTION:War in the Neighborhood: Gentrification and Graphic Art\nwith Seth Tobocman \nMusic by Eric Blitz\, Andy Laties and Joe Merolla.\n\nTuesday\, November 15th\, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. \n\nPublished in 1999\, Seth Tobocman’s War in the Neighborhood remains one of the most relevant graphic novels exploring housing and community issues. Called a “masterpiece of gentrification” and “the comic book version of Rent\,” War in the Neighborhood is a riveting first-hand account of radical neighborhood transformations in late 80’s and early 90’s New York. \n\nWith nuance and candor\, Tobocman tells the tales of courageous communities built from rubble while exploring the moral complexities inherent in any movement\, and the struggles against displacement that continue in varied forms today.\n\nTo coincide with the republishing of this classic novel by Ad Asta Comix\, Tobocman will lead an illustrated discussion of his experiences\, his art\, and how the two intersect. \nSeth Tobocman co- founded the magazine World War 3 Illustrated and is the author of many graphic books including his latest\, Len\, A Lawyer in History\, about civil rights attorney Leonard Weinglass. His illustrations have appeared in The New York Times\, the Village Voice\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The New Museum of Contemporary Art\, posters\, banners\, murals\, patches and tattoos by people’s movements all over the world. \nThis event is co-sponsored with GVSHP. \n\nFree. \nReservations required. \nPlease reserve here. \n\n  URL:https://loisaida.org/event/war-in-the-neighborhood-gentrification-and-graphic-art/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Opening,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/WAR.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161117T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161117T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161101T173732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161104T002054Z UID:10000195-1479405600-1479412800@loisaida.org SUMMARY:2016 Bronx Latin American Art Biennial - Opening DESCRIPTION:ARTISTS:\nAntonio Tovar\, Darío Fresco\,\nEd Álvarez\, Edwin Torres\, Evelin Velásquez\, Frank Guiller\, Hillie Galarza\, Ignacio Soltero\, Jonás Hidalgo\, Luis Carle\, Ray Llanos\, Rafael Carabano\, Yelaine Rodríguez. \nSPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY:\nCarlos Rivera\n\nBronx Latin American Art Biennial’s Curators: Alexis Mendoza & Luis Stephenberg \nOVERVIEW\nI am one of those peoples that… \nThe 2016 edition of the Bronx Latin American Art Biennial under the title\, “I am one of those people that…” will examine artworks referring to personal aspects of the creation process\, what is in the mind of the artists sometimes is not what is reflecting on the work or the personal opinion; the personal philosophy. The curators and organizers of the 5th Bronx Latin American Art Biennial will focus the selection of the artworks more in the way artists think and what are the specifics behind the creating process. We encourage the artists to be very vocal about their work. Also\, our intention is to have the opportunity to explore some of today’s local\, national and international social issues such as: migration\, women’s rights\, political conflicts\, different types of discrimination\, and more important issues that reflect on the autonomy of the opinion. We are not seeking for every artwork to be a portrait or self-portraits\, rather to be a self-representation of the artist’s way of thinking. \nSometimes art’s autonomy is proposed not as a genuine theoretical claim but as strategic one\, where the suggestion is that only by claiming that art is indemnified by its very nature against moral culture can we prevent the forms of censorship that art is regularly subject to. But this strategic appeal to autonomy may purchase art’s freedom only at the cost of denying art’s power. I believe that a society that supports the arts supports the cultivation of minds that are able to pay attention\, to think and notice what’s on artists’ minds become a habitual experience. Only then are there opportunities to reinforce the national culture. That will be the ultimate autonomy. Here we have drawn unlikely under current conditions\, opinion\, proposing instead a problematization of the same to the extent that we would no longer or with a referential field or with the discursive strategies capable of taking charge of the experience under the dissolutive operations that ideology\, while constituting each of the moments of the object\, has practiced on the disciplines and techniques that seek to address it. URL:https://loisaida.org/event/2016-bronx-latin-american-art-biennial/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Opening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-bronx-latin-art-bienial-.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161117T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161117T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161101T174835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T233025Z UID:10000196-1479412800-1479420000@loisaida.org SUMMARY:Noche de Filin & Bohemia DESCRIPTION:Noche de Filin & Bohemia \nThursday\, November 17th at 8:00 pm \nSuggested donation of $10 \n710 East 9th Street New York\, NY 10009 \n\n \n\nThe Loisaida Inc. Center will revive the romantic times with the oldies: Anibal Ayala and Alma Adentro will be presenting a classic repertoire from Silvia Rexach to El Topo. The evening will include a special tribute to the romantic music of our Quisqueya brothers and sisters. Presented as part of 2016 BORIMIX Festival. \nLite refreshments will be served. \n\nSponsored by: AgeWell Health Plans URL:https://loisaida.org/event/noche-de-filin-bohemia/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Event/Presentation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/iluminacion11.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161213T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161213T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T114854 CREATED:20161206T180519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161206T180519Z UID:10000198-1481655600-1481662800@loisaida.org SUMMARY:The Sustainable Artist Toolkit DESCRIPTION:We are excited to host FABNYC’s next Sustainable Artist Toolkit workshop\, \nArtists with Radical Visions: Shifting\, Challenging\, Thriving! \nBefore we all break for the holidays\, let’s refocus our energies towards realizing our self-determined liberated life. Engage in a strategic dialogue around needs and resources and learn to work together to define boundaries\, affirm goals\, and stand in our power. \nTuesday\, December 13\, 7-9pm right here at Loisaida Inc. Center! \nRSVP: http://fabnyc.org/archive/artists-rad-visions/ URL:https://loisaida.org/event/the-sustainable-artist-toolkit/ LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States CATEGORIES:2016,Free Workshop / Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://loisaida.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Banners_Nia-Radical-Visions_DATECHANGE-825x510.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR