Ecological Arts Costume Workshops
The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United StatesCostumes Workshop with artist: Michele Brody
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Noche de Bohemia with Joe Louis
The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United StatesJoe Louis returns with his experimental bohemia to NYC from PR. Come and enjoy a night full of stories to wait for the end of the world and face it. Come to love and be loved with music and vocal improvisation. Swimming in the "Río Piedras" had never been so far away.
The Native Caribbean Heritage Preservation Project – Exhibition
The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe Testourmonials Project will host an exhibition at Loisaida Inc. Center opening Monday, March 26 - 30, 2018. The exhibition will be relaying information, sources, reflections, visual art, commissioned photography, and an installation to share the research.
Fabric Yarn Workshop
The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United StatesLearn how to recycle fabrics and clothing into a fun material that can be used for
knitting, weaving, crocheting and many other crafts.
Workshop Duration: 1-2 hours
Cost: FREE
Languages: English and Spanish
Level: No previous knowledge required
Date: April 17th, 2018 - 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Restoring the heart of Ni’Tiñao – Exhibition Closing
The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United StatesPlease join us for the closing reception of Restoring the Heart of Ni'Tiñao!
Ní'Tiñao means "relative; friend; progenitor" in Kalinago, and is eponymous with the Taíno peoples of the Caribbean. Loisaida Inc.'s artist-in-residence, Anthony Rosado's, work focuses on historical, indigenous Caribbean definitions of identity and the influence of their values, spirituality, horticulture, and language today, as well as our relation to these definitions right here in Loisaida. His exhibition aims to refute eurocolonial claims that the Ní'Tiñao were a divided peoples who went extinct. Via art and storytelling, We Exist, he tells us.
Taller de Soles (Sol Lace Workshop)
The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United StatesLearn how to make beautiful and intricate lace pieces through a simple and meditative
technique with Puerto Rican fiber artist, Zaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda, who will
introduce us to the technique as it is worked in her native country of Puerto Rico.
Understanding the essence of the technique gives us a vocabulary that we can apply in
both traditional and experimental/contemporary contexts.
Cocinando Justicia
The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United StatesDirect from Puerto Rico, Giovani Roberto, an organizer with Centro de Apoyo Mutuo - CAM (Center of Mutual Support), Caguas, will be discussing how its projects and others, are creating alternative solutions to meet the basic sustenance needs of the Puerto Rican people after Hurricane Maria. Other speakers include Melissa Fuster, Professor of Public Health Nutrition at Brooklyn College, and Huascar Robles, author/journalist/producer of Catatonia podcast.
Fiestas de Cruz at Loisaida
The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United StatesLoisaida Inc. and its project The Plenatorium are pleased to host a performance and ritual stemming straight from the faith based history of Puerto Ricans in the Lower East Side. The "Feast of the Holy Cross" roughly translates into "Fiestas de Cruz" and members of the community have kept it alive from generation to generation through oral history. On these days during the month of May, many families, neighbors, friends and strangers would gather to recite a live rosary chant accompanied by Puerto Rican traditional plena sounds.
Dome Building Workshop
The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United StatesLearn how to build a dome, using Build With Hubs, Kit for Geodesic Dome Building. This kit uses pre-fabricated connection hubs that allow for the sides of the dome to easily snap together. Come together and build a dome! . The history of dome building on the LES goes back to when CHARAS built domes in collaboration with Buckminster Fuller in 1972/73. Syeus Mottel documented this effort in his photo-journalism book CHARAS THE IMPROBABLE DOME BUILDERS , first published in 1974 and now re published in 2017 by Song Cave Press & Pioneer Works.
CHARAS IS ALIVE ON SPACESHIP EARTH: Reception + Performances
The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United StatesReception + Performances