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  • El Semillero Benefit Event

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States +1 more

    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!

  • Ecological Arts Costume Workshops

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Costumes Workshop with artist: Michele Brody

  • Noche de Bohemia with Joe Louis

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    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.

  • The Native Caribbean Heritage Preservation Project – Exhibition

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    The 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 States

    Learn 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 States

    Please 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 States

    Learn 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 States

    Direct 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 States

    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.

  • Dome Building Workshop

    The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Learn 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.