In My Body, My World with actress and dancer Veraalba Santa: We will explore how our bodies move and react to our immediate and imaginary surroundings using fun and energetic movement exercises and music. Ages 8-12 Saturday, November 22nd at 2:30pm About: Veraalba Santa is currently an artist in residence at the Loisaida Center and [...]
Making Music with Everyday Objects Join the amazing and dynamic musical duo Acopladitos for an interactive musical experience as you create your own musical instruments using recycled materials during an exiting music/art making session. This 90-minute workshop will be structured in the format of Loisaida Center's one-time specialized workshop or talk program the X-Change Express. [...]
The piece has four female characters, all women, 2 of which are ghosts or memories from the family of the main character, one character who is the mother of the main character and the main character. Through their movements and their occasional dialog the audience will be able to witness how the invasion of the United States of America influenced and affected each of this mothers. Some were affected directly by the lack of education, others by the alcoholism and abuse of her veteran husband and the others by the unspoken past of their mothers.
Medios & Ciudad en el trabajo, vida y post-vidas de Julia de Burgos With the participation of : Lena Burgos Lafuente, Monxo López, Oscar Montero, Urayoán Noel and Vanessa Perez Rosario Proud to present an all-star panel of specialists on De Burgos and diasporic poetry, part of the public programming for La Casita de Julia [...]
La T R I F E C T A Saturday, December 13th from 6:00pm - 11:00pm at The Loisaida Center -710 E 9th Street and Avenue C 6:00pm (M)others' Politics Performances: A documentation of Jeca Rodríguez-Colón's maternal characters captured by Ricardo Alcaraz, Ben Lundberg, Marlène Ramirez- Cancio, Linda Duvall, Mariángel Gonzales and Deborah Dudley. Curated by Alejandro Epifanio. 8:00pm ZOETROPE: [...]
The Loisaida Center presents: Ferguson/Ayotzinapa: CantoMundo Poets Read and Respond featuring: Yesenia Montilla Peggy Robles-Alvarado Rio Cortez Darrel Alejandro Holnes Rosebud Ben-Oni and Urayoán Noel This event brings together New York-based current and former fellows of the national Latina/o poets workshop CantoMundo (cantomundo.org/) to read from their work in solidarity with ongoing protests and mobilizations [...]
THE LOISAIDA CENTER IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE: TALLER DE PLENA MAYAGÜEZANA WITH RICK SANTIAGO COME JOIN US TO LEARN THIS UNIQUE VERY OLD STYLE OF PLENA! The first series of workshops will consist of eight sessions.These sessions will work on basic aspects of the plena mayaguezana, such as: - Tuning of the hand drums (panderos) [...]
Doors will be open from 6:00 pm for the viewing of the exhibition, refreshments will be served. The reading will start sharp at: 7:00 pm Friday, February 13th, 2015 About the reading of (M)others': The dancer and performance artist will guide us through the development of her latest maternal character, showcased in the photo-exhibit. Written [...]
Details La Máquina Insular @ The Loisaida Center $5 Admission (on-line) https://eventbrite.com/event/15883153941/ $7 Admission at the Door ____________ La Máquina Insular runs with a powerful force. An army of four pleneros playing traditional and original plenas with the traditional instrumentation; panderetas (handheld frame drums), güiro (scrape gourd), and even forgotten instruments such as the tumbandero [...]
Details Flux Theatre Ensemble’s The Salvage Project is a series of events where communities come together to share stories about the precious objects of their lives. Through sharing these stories, we’ll learn what matters most to the people with whom we share this city, and why. The Salvage Project will unfold in three phases: Thursday, [...]
