Loisaida Inc.

Zoetrope: Part 1 by CABORCA Theatre Co. (Bilingual Version)
2014-10-10 20:00 - 21:00 UTC | NY
THE LOISAIDA CENTER
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:

ZOETROPE: PART 1

WITH CABORCA THEATRE CO.
Caborca has been selected to present the new bilingual version of their play as part of Encuentro 2014, the largest national festival of Latino theatre in more than two decades in Los Angeles, CA. Caborca Theatre developed their bilingual version of ZOETROPE as part of the Art Residency Program @ Loisaida Center.
They will present both the bilingual and English version of Zoetrope: Part 1 completely FREE!
Join us for a delightful evening of drama and theater.

11:30am-
Bilingual version
1:30pm-
English version

Saturday, October 11th

LaGuardia Community College

31-10 Thomson Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101

Pictorial Writing Workshop - CABORCA Theatre Co.
2014-10-04 20:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
THE LOISAIDA CENTER
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE
CABORCA’S FIRST COMMUNITY WORKSHOP:

PICTORIAL WRITING WORKSHOP

Teaching Artist: Tania Molina
Do you want to explore writing, poetry, short fiction and storytelling? This is your opportunity !!!!!
This workshop will give the attendees a chance to write without restrictions of style or experience, using photographs as a starting point.
Materials: Notebook, Laptop, iPad, etc…Any form of writing devise (there will be writing utensils and paper available at the workshop too)

AGES 17+
FREE!!
STARTING: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4TH

ABOUT CABORCA:
CABORCA IS A NEW YORK BASED EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE COMPANY WORKING IN TWO LANGUAGES AND MULTIPLE BOROUGHS. CURRENT 2014 THEATER CO. RESIDENCY RECIPIENTS OF THE LOISAIDA INC. CENTER. CABORCA INCLUDES (IN OCCASIONALLY OVERLAPPING COMBINATIONS) A PLAYWRIGHT/DIRECTOR, DESIGNER, A HANDFUL OF ACTORS, AND TWO STAGE MANAGERS. OVER 15 YEARS, THEY HAVE AMASSED MEMBERS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, AND BEYOND, THOUGH WERE OFFICIALLY FOUNDED AS A COMPANY IN 2009.

3rd Annual Harvest Arts Festival - LUNGS
2014-09-21 08:00 - 17:00 | La Plaza Cultural, 700 E 9th Street, New York, 10009, United States
Third Annual
LUNGS Harvest Festival

The Third Annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival is taking place in more than 30 community gardens on the Lower East Side on Saturday, September 20 & Sunday, September 21.
The gardens will host performances and workshops in music, dance, theater, spoken word, the arts, and more. One of the highlights of this year’s Festival is a performance by Bread And Puppet Theater of their new piece, “Anti Tar Sands Manifesto Pageant”
Help is needed to publicize the Festival, design and distribute posters and flyers, copy editing for the Festival program, coordinating events and scheduling.
This year the Festival coincides with the People’s Climate March, In support of the People’s Climate March, many gardens will host workshops and teach-ins on a wide range of environmental issues.
On Sunday, the Festival gets on its feet as gardeners and friends join the People’s Climate March en masse. To prepare for the march we need artists to design costumes and banners and visuals that can be carried that will represent our love of Mother Earth and all things natural.
This is going to be a historic event we need to step up as New Yorkers, if you can help in any way, contact us.

Programming Schedule & Info

Events in each Lower East Side Garden

2014 Artist in Residence - Dey Hernández-Vázquez
2014-08-24 20:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
The Loisaida Center is proud to announce our current
2014 Visual Arts-Performance Residency Recipient:
Dey Hernández-Vázquez
Hernández will present the installation/performance piece:
Casita: for Julia de Burgos
About the piece:

In the danger of having the memory of Julia reduced to “the stereotype of the bohemian poet who lived a tragically short life…”The artist will use Julia’s poetic images to create a space that lifts off from the page allowing the spectator/participant to drift into the actual space where the artistic experience is taking place, la “Casita”. The architectural installation will mark out personal territory in the public realm.

About Dey:

Deymirie “Dey” Hernández-Vázquez is an Architect, Teaching Artist, and Puppeteer who works in a variety of media. She is a passionate advocate for the arts as an active educational tool. Issues of race, identity, language, and community are fundamental to her work as a cultural educator and artist. For the past 6+ years, she has designed and facilitated art workshops with AgitArte, a non-profit organization dedicated to initiate and support artistic and popular education projects in disadvantaged and marginalized communities to further the struggle for social justice. Dey is also an artist and puppeteer of the radical workers’ heater collective, Papel Machete. Their performances in community, theaters, streets and protests employ puppets, masks, objects and music to denounce exploitation, build solidarity, and agitate to action in the struggles of the working class. All of their cultural work is generated collectively through facilitated creative processes and construction workshops using papier mâché as their medium and exploring a wide range of forms and styles that include toy theater, cantastoria, shadow theater, table-top puppetry, humanettes, cut-outs, masks, and giants. Dey’s arts and architectural background are key to the design and construction of giant puppets, puppetry booths, shadow shows and toy theaters. Dey Hernández-Vázquez received a MA from the School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2010. She currently lives and works in Boston.

2014 Artists in Residence - CABORCA Theatre Co.
2014-08-19 20:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
The Loisaida Center is proud to announce:
2014 Theater Co. Residency Recipients:

Led by playwright/director Javier González, CABORCA is an experimental theatre company making plays that move seamlessly between the irreverent and poetic, the personal and political, and the highly entertaining and intellectually challenging – inspired by Brecht’s view that to be challenged is also to be entertained. Based in New York City and working in both English and Spanish, our work includes new plays, classical adaptations and devised creations.
CABORCA started working together in 2002 at the University of Puerto Rico, continued collecting at Columbia’s MFA Theatre Program, and officially became a company in 2009.
CABORCA steals its name from the novel The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, in which a magazine of the same name is the official organ of visceral realism.
Read more about CABORCA’S residency program.
