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SUMMARY:CLOSED*
DESCRIPTION:  \n*The center will be closed from Nov. 25th\, 2015 – Nov. 30th\, 2015 \n\n  \nIf you need to communicate with us please write us an email to info@loisaida.org \nExpect more in 2016\, it promises to be a full year of activities for the whole community. \nHappy Holidays! \nThe Loisaida Inc. Center
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-20/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-23/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:Puerto Rican Güiro 101: with Tato Torres
DESCRIPTION:Details \n\n\nWe will be having an “EMERGENCY” basic güiro workshop by Tato Torres\, director and güirero of the Boricua Roots ensamble YERBABUENA.\nGet ready for Christmas and parrandas! $15.\nBYOG….bring your own guiro. Or we will be selling artisanal guiros that evening.\nPart of the #PlenatoriumProject \nALL proceeds go to the #PLENATORIUM Project.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/puerto-rican-guiro-101-with-tato-torres/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
CATEGORIES:2015
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-18/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-17/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:El Gran Tour
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Puerto Rican Heritage Month\, The New York Regional Office of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration in collaboration with The Puerto Rican Creative Network\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer invite you to accompany us on the first annual El Gran Tour: Experiencing Puerto Rican Visual Artists’ Artworks and Spaces Sunday\, November 15th\, 2015 | 9:00 am to 4:30 pm | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. \nBegin the day at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for a light breakfast and become acquainted with the significance of Puerto Rican art within New York City. Afterwards\, prepare to explore the various themed exhibitions throughout historic neighborhoods which foster and celebrate Puerto Rican art and heritage. Each attendee will learn more about Boricua artwork currently featured in a spectrum of cultural centers\, galleries\, and museums throughout Manhattan and the Bronx. \nPlease arrive at the Met at 9:00am through the Fifth Avenue & Eihty-First Street entrance\, where a representative will greet and direct guests to the Bonnie J. Sacerdote Hall in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education. At 10:30 am\, guests will leave the Met and board either the uptown OR downtown tour bus to visit centers exhibiting creative and influential Puerto Rican artists. \nThis event is made possible thanks to the support from Manhattan Borough President\, Gale Brewer\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation\, Hostos Community College\, Acacia Network\, Taller Boricua\, Bill Aguado and Comité Noviembre. \nWe hope you can make it! \nCheers\, \nCommonwealth of Puerto Rico\, New York Regional Office & Loisaida Inc.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/el-gran-tour/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151114T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163949
CREATED:20151014T001315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151112T205805Z
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SUMMARY:¡CASA ABIERTA!
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. Center \nOPEN HOUSE\nNovember 14th\, 2015 – 2:00pm – 9:00pm \n\n  \n2:00 pm \nGuided tour of ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York  with Wilson Valentín-Escobar and Pepe Flores. Featuring rare footage of Eddie Figueroa and The New Rican Village assembled by Henry Medina and Henry Medina’s Archives. \n\n  \n3:30 pm \nArtist talk with Adrian ‘Viajero’ Román. \n\n  \n5:00 pm \nScreening of documentary “A Cuban Legend: The Story of Salvador Gonzalez” followed by Q&A with director\, producer and editor Bette Wanderman. Music by Tata Guines\, Steve Turre\, Clave Y Guaguanco. Theatrical release 2002. (80 mins.) \nThis documentary has been featured in the following:Sofia International Film Festival – International House Philadelphia – Latin American Film Festival London – Raindance—London\, Aijjic Mexico – Mill Valley International – Havana International Festival of Latin American Cinema – San Diego Latino Film Festival – Chicago Latino Film Festival – San Francisco Latino Film Festival – Trieste\, Italy Latino \n\n  \n7:00 pm \nPerformance of ISLA NO ISLA: Cuba-New-Ricua featuring: Edwin Torres\, Casa Cruz de La Luna and Plenatorium Project. \nEdwin Torres\, The Plenatorium Project and Casa Cruz de la Luna will celebrate the newly charged complexity of our two islands with multi disciplinary performances that cross-pollinate Cuba and Puerto Rico. \nFeaturing: \nEdwin Torres has represented New York in the 1992 National Poetry Slam\, celebrated in Boston\, and he has won the Nuyorican Poets Cafe First Annual Prize for Poetry with his poem “Po-Mo Griot“. He has also appeared on MTV’s Spoken Word Unplugged and the Charlie Rose Show and been featured on Newsweek\, in Rolling Stone Magazine and in New York Magazine. His poem\, “I Saw Your Empire State Building” was included in the book\, Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam[1] in the chapter which dealt with the poetry slam community’s response to 9/11\, and his work has appeared in numerous anthologies such as Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe\,[2] Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry\,[3] and Heights of the Marvelous: A New York Anthology\,[4] among many others.\n\nAravind Enrique Adyanthaya (born 1965) is a Puerto Rican writer\, performer\, and theater director. He is the founding artistic director of Casa Cruz de la Luna\, an experimental theater company and cultural center based in an old house in the historical district of San Germán\, Puerto Rico.[1][2] He holds a PhD in theatre historiography from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and an MD from the Mayo Medical School. Adyanthaya has been awarded a Jerome Playwriting Fellowship and a McKnight Advancement Grant\, both from the Playwrights’ Center; a Jerome Performance Art Fellowship by Intermedia Arts and an Artist of Color Directing Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop. For his play The Faculties\, he received the Pregones Theater’s Asunción Prize and First Prize in Theatre at Casa de Teatro in the Dominican Republic.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/casa-abierta-2015/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151114T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151114T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163949
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-19/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151112T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151112T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163949
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SUMMARY:BARRIOS(\ˈbär-ē-ˌōz\) A Seis del Sur Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Details \n\n\nLoisaida Inc. Center presents:\nNovember 12th\, 2015 – 6:30pm \nThe six photojournalists from the Seis del Sur photo collective will participate in a special Town Hall gathering to discuss the imagery and perception of the various Latino diasporas from within and without the Americas. \nFeaturing: Joe Conzo\, Ángel Franco\, Ricky Flores\, David González\, Edwin Pagán & Francisco Molina Reyes II
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/barrios{d189f1124ffa6975f5923217354196c41f30852329af055ade71c436dc0b2403}cb{d189f1124ffa6975f5923217354196c41f30852329af055ade71c436dc0b2403}88bar-e-{d189f1124ffa6975f/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
CATEGORIES:2015,Panel / Town Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151112T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163949
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-16/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151110T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163949
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-15/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151107T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151107T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163949
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SUMMARY:The New Rican Spirit
DESCRIPTION:Please click on image to RSVP\n\n  \nNew Rican Village Alumni Reunion\, Round-Table and Reception (celebrating the Young Lords cultural legacy to the Lower East Side) \nThe purpose of this activity is to:\n1. Recognize the Lower East Side neighborhood legacy of the Young Lords Party.\n2. Honor the 25th anniversary of the passing of Eddie Figueroa\, the founder of the New Rican Village Cultural Arts center\, whose battle with cancer ended in 1990.\n3. Offer an opportunity for peer organizations to celebrate a community instrumental in creating an innovative Latin@ arts spirit and institution within New York City. \nStarting with the Young Lords Party’s (YLP) official announcement at Tompkins Square Park in 1969\, the ¡Presente! exhibition highlights the important activism spearheaded by the YLP as it operated within the context of the Lower East Side. \nOne of the institutions that came out of this era was the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center (NRV) established by Lower East Young Lord member\, Eddie Figueroa. The NRV\, is an overlooked and under-appreciated Loisaida cultural arts institution that was as an aesthetic laboratory for a working-class\, Puerto Rican/Latin@ avant-garde arts community since it opened in 1976 through its closing in 1979 (it continued to exist in other locations throughout New York City). \nThis art collective’s goals fostered a social surrealism that sought to transform both aesthetic forms and neighborhoods. The inter-arts community of musicians\, poets\, painters\, actors\, dancers\, sculptors\, and visual artists at the New Rican Village envisioned the importance of building community art spaces and political sovereignty by establishing and building an independent\, community-based arts institution and also contributing to a Latin@ cultural arts scene within New York City\, helping establish a Latin@ Cultural Left that was emerging among various Puerto Rican/Latino cultural arts centers at the time. Finally\, the NRV helped to foster a New Rican Renaissance that celebrated a marginalized identity\, and also translate the zeitgest of resistance and aesthetic and intellectual exploration into various art form. \nThis event would not be possible without the co-sponsorship support of: \nLower Eastside Girls Club\,\nAllCare Provider Services\, Inc.\nClemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center\,\nLatino Studies Department at Fordham University\nCarlos Aponte\,\nLisa Baltazar\,\nArnaldo Cruz-Malavé\,\nPepe Flores\,\nLibertad Guerra\,\nAna Ramos\,\nWilson Valentín-Escobar.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/the-new-rican-spirit/
LOCATION:Lower Eastside Girls Club\, 402 East 8th Stree\, NYt\, 10009\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151105T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151105T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163949
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LAST-MODIFIED:20151013T225254Z
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-14/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-13/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-12/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-10/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-9/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151024T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151024T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163949
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LAST-MODIFIED:20151020T214015Z
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-11/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151022T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151022T150000
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-5/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151020T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151020T150000
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-4/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151017T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151017T190000
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-8/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151015T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151015T190000
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-7/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151013T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151013T190000
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-6/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T200000
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SUMMARY:Sonidos Primarios: traditional Puerto Rican music for children
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc and Plenatorium Project present a double feature: \n12:30 Sonidos Primarios: a hands-on discussion and presentation by artists who produce kid-friendly cultural content featuring an album of traditional Puerto Rican music for children by Viento de Agua\, a Grammy Nominated bomba and plena contemporary band dedicated to de production of new music and projects as well as teaching the traditional rhtyms… Bring the kids! $5 suggested donation \nCome share with Grammy-nominee and percussion master Tito Matos about the experience and details of recording a kid’s musical record. Tito and his group Viento de Agua have just released a children’s songs record\, Sonidos Primarios\, and he comes to share the experience and to perform a few of the songs from the record. He will be joined in the discussion by the members of the band Aclopaditos\, who have vast experience in teaching and recording for children. Acopladitos will also perform a few songs for the enjoyment of all. Bring your little ones! \nFollowing the presentation:\n2:30 ‘The New Latinos’ – screening and guided discussion featuring Tito Matos and Tato Torres. \nJoin us in the viewing of ‘The New Latinos’\, episode 4 of The Latino Americans documentary series. This 60 minutes episode\, that dwells on the experience of the Caribbean migration (Cuban\, Dominican and Puerto Rican) to the United States\, will be followed by a hands-on-drums one hour discussion reflecting on the musical aspects of these diasporic groups; the discussion will specifically revolve around the preservation\, innovations\, and hybridization of the musical traditions of these three groups after their arrival to the continental United States. The hands-on-drums discussion will be led by Grammy Award nominee\, the maestro Tito Matos\, and Tato Torres\, founder\, singer and leader of the group YERBABUENA. This viewing and talk are part of the Loisaida\, Inc. Center’s Plenatorium Project initiative and part of the American Library Association/NEH Grant The Latino Americans\, LA500. \nSponsored by Acopladitos\, Viento de Agua and the National Endowment for the Humanities
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/sonidos-primarios-traditional-puerto-rican-music-for-children/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
CATEGORIES:2015,Free Workshop / Class,Panel / Town Hall
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T150000
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SUMMARY:Sonidos Primarios with Tito Matos
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc and Plenatorium Project present a double feature: \n12:30 Sonidos Primarios: a hands-on discussion and presentation by artists who produce kid-friendly cultural content featuring an album of traditional Puerto Rican music for children by Viento de Agua\, a Grammy Nominated bomba and plena contemporary band dedicated to de production of new music and projects as well as teaching the traditional rhtyms… Bring the kids! $5 suggested donation \nCome share with Grammy-nominee and percussion master Tito Matos about the experience and details of recording a kid’s musical record. Tito and his group Viento de Agua have just released a children’s songs record\, Sonidos Primarios\, and he comes to share the experience and to perform a few of the songs from the record. He will be joined in the discussion by the members of the band Aclopaditos\, who have vast experience in teaching and recording for children. Acopladitos will also perform a few songs for the enjoyment of all. Bring your little ones! \nFollowing the presentation:\n2:30 ‘The New Latinos’ – screening and guided discussion featuring Tito Matos and Tato Torres. \nJoin us in the viewing of ‘The New Latinos’\, episode 4 of The Latino Americans documentary series. This 60 minutes episode\, that dwells on the experience of the Caribbean migration (Cuban\, Dominican and Puerto Rican) to the United States\, will be followed by a hands-on-drums one hour discussion reflecting on the musical aspects of these diasporic groups; the discussion will specifically revolve around the preservation\, innovations\, and hybridization of the musical traditions of these three groups after their arrival to the continental United States. The hands-on-drums discussion will be led by Grammy Award nominee\, the maestro Tito Matos\, and Tato Torres\, founder\, singer and leader of the group YERBABUENA. This viewing and talk are part of the Loisaida\, Inc. Center’s Plenatorium Project initiative and part of the American Library Association/NEH Grant The Latino Americans\, LA500.  \nSponsored by Acopladitos\, Viento de Agua and the National Endowment for the Humanities
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/sonidos-primarios-with-tito-matos/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T163949
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LAST-MODIFIED:20151004T225025Z
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-3/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151008T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151008T190000
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york-2/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151006T190000
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SUMMARY:¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
DESCRIPTION:Loisaida Inc. presents\n¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.\nDates : July 30th – October 10th \nNow extended through December 1st\, 2015 \nModified hours from October 20th and 22nd – 11am to 3pm \n*NEW HOURS* \nTuesday & Thursday (12:00 pm – 7:00 pm)  Saturday (12:00 pm – 3:00 pm) All other days are by appointment only. For more information please email info@loisaida.org or call (646) 757-0522 \nLoisiada 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. \nFelipe Luciano and Tato Laviera in pre-production planning of the 1st Festival de Loiza Aldea in the LES. Photo by  Máximo Colón.\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Libertad Guerra and Wilson Valentín-Escobar and features many un-published photographs by Máximo Colón and Hiram Maristany\, as well as poster art by Sandra Maria Esteves\, and rare live video and audio recordings of some of the leading salsa and Latin jazz musicians\, plus an art installation commissioned specifically for this exhibition by contemporary artist Adrian “Viajero”Román. \nThe 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. \n  \n\n\n“I was involved with the Young Lords… it was a time of initiation -into ourselves\, into the history of our people\, and into the deep images of our culture”.\n\n-Eddie Figueroa\, Founder New Rican Village \n\n  \n \n¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York is co-organized by El Museo del Barrio (July 22 – October 17)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15) and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10). The multi-venue exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious range of programs and events to build awareness of the Young Lords’ innovative contributions to the struggle for civil rights and influence on contemporary artists\, and to spark conversations about grassroots community activism today. For a limited time only\, the first 1000 visitors at each partnering organization will receive a commemorative button\, inspired by the Young Lords. Collect them all! For more info\, please visit our featured items page. \n\nAt Loisaida Inc. ¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York was made possible with support from: \n\nAbout the Curators: \nWilson Valentín-Escobar\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Hampshire College. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan\, and a B.A. in Sociology and Puerto Rican/Latin@ and Latin American Studies Studies from Fordham University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration at Yale University in 2011-2012. A Brooklyn New York-native\, Dr. Valentín-Escobar is currently completing his forthcoming book\, Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City (New York University Press). The book examines the cultural activism\, or “artivism\,” of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village Cultural Arts Center and El Puerto Rican Embassy. His scholarship\, which he regularly presents at national and international conferences\, has been published in various academic journals and anthologies\, and has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, among several others. He\, along with the late Dr. Juan Flores\, co-edited a special two-volume issue on Puerto Rican music for the Puerto Rican Studies journal\, Centro. Dr. Valentín-Escobar currently Chairs the Five College Consortium Program in Latin@\, Caribbean\, and Latin American Studies. \nLibertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist\, educator\, social researcher/historian\, independent curator and environmental activist. Her academic research and publications have focused on Puerto Rican\, Latino and Latin American social-artistic movements and cultural activism in urban immigrant settings. Publications include Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest\, (2011); and ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.’ in New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt\, (2008). Ms. Guerra has organized numerous local and international exhibitions\, panels and conferences among them:\n–Loisaida: the Visible/Invisible Body of Puerto Ricans sectors on the Lower East Side to the Downtown scene\, PRSA Biennial Conference\, (2010).\n–Spanic Attack: Living\, Making\, and Reading the Latin/o American City\, LASA Conference\, Rio de Janeiro\, (2009).\n–Re- Membering Loisaida: Lure of the Retro Lens\, and Visualizing Hindsight\, sponsored by Council Member Rosie Méndez and The Center for Puerto Rican Studies\, (2009).\n–Noricua: Performing the Living City\, The House of World Cultures\, Berlin\, (2007).\n–Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town\, NYU’s Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies\, (2006).\n–Constructivismo 2006\, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center\, (2006).\n–La Marginal\, Centro Cultural España (CCE) Lima\, (2004).\nShe is Artistic Director of Loisaida Inc.\, and current curator/event planner of the Loisaida Festival since 2014. \n\n 
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/presente-the-young-lords-in-new-york/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Look of Sovereignity
DESCRIPTION:Sept. 24th\, 2015 – “The Look of Sovereignity: Style and Politics in the Young Lords”\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nFrances Negrón-Muntaner\nFilmmaker\, writer\, and scholar. \nHer work is focused on a comparative exploration of coloniality\, primarily in Puerto Rico and the United States\, with special attention given to the intersections between race\, ethnicity\, gender\, sexuality and politics. She is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University in New York City. She has also contributed to the Huffington Post\, El Diario/La Prensa\, and 80 Grados\, and since 2008 has served as a Global Expert for the United Nations Rapid Response Media Mechanism. She is one of the best-known Puerto Rican lesbian artists currently living in the United States.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/the-look-of-sovereignity/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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