You are invited to join us for a launch celebration of El Semillero - The Seedbed, a maker space community hub for cultivating our skills & community. Set for the first component to open mid 2018. The benefit event will feature a silent auction where over 10 established and up-and-coming artists will donate a piece of art for visitors to bid on and take home that same night. The auction wall is curated by Ryan John Lee and Katharine J. Wright. There will also be a performance by surrealist bohemia pioneer Joe Louis and the New York City + Puerto Rico sensational deejay D'MARQUESINA and much more!

Joe 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.

Loisaida 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.