Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Loisaida Festival 2015

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

The largest community pride event in Manhattan’s most historic neighborhood. The Lower East Side. Background Since 1987 the Loisaida Festival has been celebrated the Sunday before Memorial Day weekend in the Manhattan neighborhood known as the Lower East Side, the East Village, or Loisaida. This event is the largest community pride festival in the neighborhood [...]

Invisible Loisaida – Ideas City

The booth by Loisaida, Inc. will play with the visible and invisible tensions of rescued social spaces, their cultural output, and their lack of inclusion in the mainstream story line of the Lower East Side. Through a collaborative installation by resident artists Edgardo Tomás Larregui and Alejandro Epifanio, the booth will recreate the vernacular architecture of “seclusion” and social gathering elements of the traditional casita or urban community garden. Our casita also involves a strategy to render visible the reality of Loisaida, Inc., a social-cultural-artistic community (Latino/Puerto Rican Lower East Side), whose contributions to New York City and the downtown scene have usually remained unacknowledged, absent, and invisible to the hegemonic artistic and cultural narratives of New York City’s creative myth. The presentation will feature a listening station of oral histories by Laura Zelasnic, performances by ongoing Loisaida Center collaborators and projects: the Salvage Project; Flux Theater Ensemble; the Plenatorium, which nurtures and documents the “plena universe”; and Edwin Torres, a Nuyorican poet, performer, and downtown icon, who will explore the nonappearance of “No-isaida.”

en casa afuera

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

en casa afuera, a live exhibit which will run from June 12th to June 19th, brings together new young artists from the metropolitan New York and New Jersey region spanning the ages of mid 20’s-30’s.— Mckenzie Angelo, Anthony Rosado, Jonathan Gonzalez, Yoira Santos, Adam Echahly, Lamar Stephens, Adam Rhodes, Chazz Bruce, and Stephanie Mota. They came together to investigate the intersections of home and displacement, as well as the potential for art making to reflect and revision these relations. Loisaida Inc., as the performance hub, may then be the home or shelter that localizes this web of creative results.

¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York. *OPENING*

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

Loisiada Inc. will focus on the Young Lords’ founding and impact in the Lower East Side—displaying rarely seen photographs, posters, and audio and video recordings of live performances. The exhibit begins with the announcement of the founding of the New York Chapter of the Young Lords at Tompkins Square Park on Saturday, July 26, 1969. The exhibition will feature lesser-known perspectives of the Young Lords legacy within the Lower East Side, and their cultural impact upon New York’s cultural scenes. Some highlights include the organizing efforts of the Gay and Lesbian Caucus, the transgender activism of Sylvia Rivera, and innovative “artivism” generated by Eddie Figueroa, the founder of the New Rican Village, an influential multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary art space once located at 101 Avenue A.

Gallery Talk with Photographer Maximo Colon: ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York – LES

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

As part of ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York - LES, on Wednesday, August 5th at 6:30pm, the The Loisaida, Inc. Center hosts a Gallery talk with Maximo Colon - featured photographer.

Followed at 7:30pm by Presente in Absentia: Diasporic Responses to Puerto Rico’s Crisis: teach-in/panel discussion to clarify the reasons for the crisis and engage in dialog about what is to be done.

Presente in Absentia: Diasporic Responses to Puerto Rico’s Crisis

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

Puerto Rico is facing a crisis over its $72 billion debt that threatens life on the island while also causing a mass migration to the US. What can the Puerto Rican Diaspora do to respond? As part of ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York - LES, on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. the The Loisaida, [...]

We refused to cave In

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

: Gender, Race, Class, and Decolonial Intersectionality in the Young Lords’ Liberation Politics

The Look of Sovereignity

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

The Look of Sovereignity: Style and Politics in the Young Lords

¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.

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

The overall collection of materials depict the critical role that YL members played in the environment that lead to Loisaida becoming a safe refuge for a community struggling for respect, belonging, political power, and public legitimacy.

¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.

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

The overall collection of materials depict the critical role that YL members played in the environment that lead to Loisaida becoming a safe refuge for a community struggling for respect, belonging, political power, and public legitimacy.