Loisaida Inc.

"De Aqui y De Allá" by Adrián Viajero Román
2016-10-28 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Viajero's installation process at Loisaida Inc.

“De Aquí y De Allá”
By Adrián Viajero Román
Oct 19th – Nov 18th
Opening Reception: Oct 28 at 7:30pm
The EXODUS series explores the Puerto Rican experience of migration, past and present. Focused on towns and municipalities that are encountering a rapid decrease in population, causing separation of families, homes to be abandoned, and businesses to be closed down. Today’s crisis of the poor economy, high taxes, drugs and violence, and a decrease in agriculture that was once a thriving industry for Puerto Rico’s economy has contributed to an estimated over 300,000 people leaving the island in the past 10 years, with 144,000 of them leaving in the last 4 years, and 64,000 leaving in 2014 alone.

Adrian blocks some traffic on Broadway to show people what Puerto Rico looks like. (Wood house siding cut out in the shape of Puerto Rico, the black outlines are the shapes of the municipalities with the highest population of Puerto Ricans that have left their homes).

This is a portion of Viajero's installation on display at LOISAIDA Center which will become a permanent installation on display at the NYC Facebook office headquarters. #LOISAIDACenter #exodus #crisisisland #DefendPR

2016 The Word Festival at Loisaida Inc.
2016-10-27 19:00 - 2016-10-29 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Festival de la Palabra (The Word Festival) is the top literary event in Puerto Rico, and the only literary festival in the world based on one single community -the Puerto Rican community- which is held in two very distinct cities: San Juan and New York, and for the first time celebrated at Loisaida Inc. in the heart of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Over 15,000 visitors attend this international encounter of writers and readers, featuring 100 prestigious authors from Puerto Rico and 20 other countries in America, Europe and Africa, all sharing their common passion for literature.
More details coming soon.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME MAKING WORKSHOP
2016-10-27 03:00 - 18:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
HALLOWEEN COSTUME MAKING WORKSHOP
WITH: Marta Rosario
WHERE: Loisaida Inc. Center – 710 East 9th Street New York, NY 10009
DATES: October 25th, 27th from 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm and Saturday, October 29th from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
For more information: Zule Alejandro
FREE

HALLOWEEN COSTUME MAKING WORKSHOP
2016-10-25 03:00 - 18:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
HALLOWEEN COSTUME MAKING WORKSHOP
WITH: Marta Rosario
WHERE: Loisaida Inc. Center – 710 East 9th Street New York, NY 10009/b>
DATES: October 25th, 27th from 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm and Saturday, October 29th from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm/b>
For more information: Zule Alejandro
FREE

Folclor de Puerto Rico - Memoria e Identidad
2016-10-22 14:00 - 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Folclor de Puerto Rico: memoria e identidad
Idioma: Español
Fecha: Sábado, 22 de octubre de 2016
Horario: 2:00 pm a 5:00 pm
Recurso: Profesor Néstor Murray-Irizarry
Profesor universitario de Historia retirado. En 1976 fundó el Centro de Investigaciones Folclóricas de Puerto Rico, Inc. con sede en la Casa Paoli en Ponce, Puerto Rico. Investigador y estudioso de nuestra cultura durante más de 50 años. Tiene publicado más de 15 libros sobre diversos temas de nuestra cultura nacional. Fundó la Revista Miradero en papel (hoy virtual www.miradero.org). Ha editado más de 50 libros, revistas, DVD, CD. Es pionero en en el estudio del muralismo en Puerto Rico lo que le ha merecido varios premios. A sus 70 años continua trabajando en beneficio de nuestro acervo cultural.
Para más información: nmirizarry@gmail.com
Entrada gratis

BRAINLINGO - CLASS 4
2016-10-13 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida Inc. presents:
BRAINLINGO – A poetry workshop for the body and mind.
With: Edwin Torres
Thursdays, September 15th, 22nd, 29th & October 13thfrom 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
710 East 9th Street New York, NY 10009
(Joining Edwin on Sept. 22 will be guest artist Will Power, Doris Duke Foundation Resident Artist at New York Theater Workshop)

OVERVIEW:
A Poetry Workshop For The Body And Mind — is a creative laboratory combining elements of theater, collage, and movement structured around language. Participants will explore the performative edges that embody transition as rich tools for transformative work. By cultivating an awareness between the disciplines of body language and archetypes of imagination, the tri-lingual voice, the speaking-seeing-hearing voice, will be nurtured. The four weeks are oriented around opening the sensory awareness necessary for artistic expression.
The workshop is structured sequentially for maximum effect, however each class can be taken individually to fit your schedule. Please enroll by linking online.

September 15th – CLASS 1: GROUND
Poets are creatures grounded in awareness. To establish that ground, we need to see what happens to awareness as it transitions. We activate that trigger by presenting two immersive exercises built to represent the evolution of the creative process as a microcosm of the writer’s experience. The writing that emerges is then shared and a discussion follows, utilizing the newly-charged creative space. This becomes groundwork for transition to become a resource in the creative process.

September 22nd – CLASS 2: BALANCE (with guest artist Will Power)
In this class, we’re lucky to be joined by award-winning playwright and performer Will Power. To nurture creativity is to spark the imagination, to see the world from many viewpoints, to cultivate where balance lies, literally, from one foot to the other. Using alignment to explore movement in theater and performance, we’ll integrate exercises from The Alexander Technique that explore the spine’s relationship to language, and how support is integral to creativity. We’ll then explore improvisation in dialogue on stage and in action by creating brief performances in group settings. Between Will Power and Edwin Torres, an immersive narrative among a range of genres will create an intoxicating blend of creative inspiration for the class to journey by.

September 29th – CLASS 3: SIGHT
Our volume, our mass, the weight of our perception is defined by the movement we attach to it. This week, we’ll take what we explored with Will Power the previous week and interpret music as movement, words as sound, interconnecting the accumulation of classes as possibilities for interpretation. The students will be taking their places with each other to create movement plays, based on word exercises reducing writing into vowels and consonants. Our movements are mapped into choreo-poems, as concrete poetry and collage are explored and assigned, creating new pathways into the visual senses.

October 13th – CLASS 4: VOICE (Please note that the first Thursday in October, Oct. 6th, will be skipped)
To communicate what’s being listening to requires an understanding of border with intention, defined as “voice.” This final class explores the Japanese dance Butoh – which explores energy slowly traveling through the dancer’s body. Butoh will be used to translate the voices within, to interpret listening to unknown voices into action. Mantra and repetition will be used to generate new writing out of trance states, further opening the possibilities of sensory awareness. Collaged pieces will be adapted into new texts, creating a performance of collected works to be presented at The Loisaida Center at a later date in November.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Edwin Torres came to poetry as a graphic designer in New York City, becoming a self-proclaimed “lingualisualist,” fluent in the languages of sight and sound. The iconic diversity of the East Village during the 90’s, along with the combined forces of Dixon Place, The Nuyorican Poets Café, and The St. Marks Poetry Project, shaped his multi-disciplinary approach to language. He was a member of the poetry collective “Nuyorican Poets Café Live” that helped revitalize Spoken Word, performing and giving workshops worldwide. He is the author of eight books of poetry, including Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press 2014), Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books 2010), In The Function Of External Circumstances (Nightboat Books 2009) and The PoPedology of An Ambient Language (Atelos Books 2008). He’s received fellowships from the DIA Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Foundation For Contemporary Performing Arts, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and The Poetry Fund among others.
In 2016, he judged the Andre Montoya Poetry Prize at the University of Note Dame, performed his solo show “Mi Voca Su Voca” at The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, is part of a 2-year artist’s residency entitled Open Studios at The Drawing Center in New York City, and received a residency fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, Creative Writing Program for the upcoming semester. His visual poetics have been exhibited at Exit Art, EFA Gallery in NYC, and a graphic retrospective “Poesís: The Visual Language of Edwin Torres” at The Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, Il. His CD “Holy Kid” (Kill Rock Stars Records) was part of the Whitney Museum’s exhibit “The American Century Part II.” Anthologies include, American Poets in the 21st Century: Vol. 2 (Wesleyan University), Angels Of The Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press), Post-Modern American Poetry Vol. 2 (Norton), Best American Poetry (Penguin), Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems and Plays for Children (Black Radish Books), and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Holt).
Will Power is an award-winning playwright and performer. Plays include “Stagger Lee” (Dallas Theater Center), “Fetch Clay, Make Man”(New York Theater Workshop, Marin Theatre Company, Roundhouse Theatre, True Colors Theater), “Steel Hammer” with SITI Company (Humana Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music), “The Seven” (Lucille Lortel Award Best Musical, New York Theater Workshop, La Jolla Playhouse, Ten Thousand Things Theater Company), Five Fingers of Funk! (Children’s Theatre Company), Honey Bo and The Goldmine (La Jolla Playhouse) and two internationally acclaimed solo shows “The Gathering,” and “Flow.”
In addition to being the Doris Duke Foundation Resident Artist at New York Theater Workshop, Power is also on the faculty at The Meadows School of the Arts/SMU, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence with the Dallas Theatre Center

BRAINLINGO - CLASS 3
2016-09-29 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States

BRAINLINGO - CLASS 2
2016-09-22 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida Inc. presents:
BRAINLINGO – A poetry workshop for the body and mind.
With: Edwin Torres
Thursdays, September 15th, 22nd, 29th & October 6thfrom 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
710 East 9th Street New York, NY 10009

OVERVIEW:
Writing The Voice Of The Body Combining elements of theater, language, collage, and movement, participants will explore the performative edges that embody transition as rich tools for transformative work. By cultivating awareness between artistic disciplines of body, language and archetypes of imagination, a sense of the tri-lingual voice, the speaking-seeing-hearing voice, will be nurtured. The four weeks are oriented around opening the sensory awareness necessary for artistic expression.
Each class begins with warm-up exercises where the participants utilize their physical space into that week’s theme, embodying the environment to explore the journey about to unfold.

CLASS 1: GROUND
Poets are creatures of awareness. To build awareness, we need to see what happens to awareness as it transitions. We activate that trigger by presenting two immersive exercises around the theme of process. The Dream Exercise is constructed over four phases; 1) A dream is told to the group. 2) A story is consisting of two or three combined dreams is acted out without words while the rest of the group transcribes what they imagine is being told. 3) The entire group recites their story simultaneously while walking, at one point their writing is taken from them and they must continue speaking while music is played. 4) The words “STOP-WRITE” are yelled, signaling a transition to use magic markers and large-sized newsprint scattered on the floor to write what’s been building inside or to allow yourself tangents into newly inspired thoughts.
This exercise is built to represent the evolution of the creative process as a microcosm of the writer’s experience. Beginning with a simple story and following through to its transition over time amidst a changing landscape. Within the classroom, the outside world is portrayed with sound and movement. The writing that emerges is then heard by everyone and a discussion follows on the experience and to utilize a charged creative space. This becomes groundwork for all the exercises that follow.
We will also do an Animal exercise where the participants are asked to move about the room and eventually asked to transform into three animals; a favorite, its opposite and a fantasy creature. Once embodied, the animals develop their personality. We then return to our seats and begin writing a short play with these three characters. The writing is then taken home to finish for the next week. Which is where we not only see how other people act out your writing, we also discuss id and ego as portrayed by their animals. We then deconstruct the plays into a ten-line poem replacing each mention of an animal with the worlds “I”.
Again, the creative process is at the root of this exercise as we eventually allow the ability for transition to become part of everything we experience in the workshop.

CLASS 2: BALANCE
To nurture creativity is to understand what sparks the imagination. To see the world you’re in from many viewpoints, and where our balance lies, literally, from one foot to the other, using improvisation, dance.
We’ll use alignment exercise to explore our movements, the shapes we make with our bodies as beginnings of text. We’ll have Sensory Word Blocks as props to walk around while integrating Alexander Techniques’ movements to understand our spines and how support is integral to creativity. From an active awareness of the space being used, we’ll explore improvisation and how to create short 3-minute performances with a team of 2-4 people. This will lead to the Animal Plays, which will splinter into breathing exercises which will transition into sound exercises.
The concept of sound as creativity will be introduced here, using sound poetry we’ll explore dialogue and language as action. We transition from this to actual performance work, how the poem is performed, how to use our newly-charged body at the microphone, on stage, etc. A homework exercise is given to create 10 postcards out of your animal plays and/or dream poems. Each postcard will have an image on one side and a word on the other.

CLASS 3: SIGHT
“The sensuous breathing body is a dynamic, ever unfolding from, more a process than a fixed or unchanging object.” David Abram. Our volume, our mass, the weight of our perception is defined by the movement we attached to it. This week, we intercept music as sound, words as movement. We interconnect the accumulation of classes, as an ability to interpret.
The students will be taking their places with each other to create movement plays, based on word exercises which break up their writing into vowels and consonants.
The room then gets mapped out on paper and then redrawn once the walk gets recorded, so the action of capturing your movement is transitioned by poetry into a choreo-poem. Concrete poetry and collage is then displayed and the postcards are placed on the floor into combinations that create new pathways. New writing is created as inspired by this new journey. At this point in the workshop, the students are encouraged to allow imagination to take them where they need to go. The raw writing emerging during these sessions is what will be worked on afterwards. The assignment is to create a visual poem using the page as canvas, as well as to draw a choreographed performance of the piece.

CLASS 4: VOICE
To communicate what you listen to , requires an intersection of time and space. A geographic invention of border and intention defined as “voice.” This final class takes the exercises that have built up to this point, and digs deeper into the sensory by exploring the Japanese dance Butoh – which explores energy slowly traveling through the dancer’s body. In the workshop, Butoh will be used to translate metaphor into action, meaning into definition, person to geography. Mantra and repetition will be used to generate new writing out of a trance state, further opening the possibilities of sensory awareness.
We will look at the visual poem assignment and performance, which transitions into a conducting exercise using orchestra conduction signals to conduct a vocal improvisation. This exercise uses a student’s existing text as a score to follow according to the conductor’s hand signals, making a live audio-collaged piece out of existing texts.
The class will then have an ending discussion, covering the 4 weeks and how to maintain newly-awakened states of awareness. Throughout the course, there will be a range of poetry screened or broadcast to support the markers along the way.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Edwin Torres was born in New York City and came to poetry as a graphic designer in New York City’s East Village in the early 90’s. The iconic diversity of that neighborhood, along with the combined forces of Dixon Place, The Nuyorican Poets Café, and The St. Marks Poetry Project, shaped his multi-disciplinary approach to language. He was a member of the poetry collective “Nuyorican Poets Café Live” that helped revitalize Spoken Word in the early 90’s, performing and giving workshops worldwide. He has conducted improvisations between poets and musicians, adorned envelope pants while wearing a brain of soil, and lectured on the agency of edge as a premise for trigger. He is the author of eight books of poetry, including Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press 2014), Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books 2010), In The Function Of External Circumstances (Nightboat Books 2009) and The PoPedology of An Ambient Language (Atelos Books 2008). He’s received fellowships from the DIA Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Foundation For Contemporary Performing Arts, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and The Poetry Fund among others. In 2016, he has been awarded a 2-year artist’s residency at The Drawing Center in New York City, he’s received a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, Creative Writing Program for the upcoming semester, and he’ll also be judge for the Andre Montoya Poetry Prize at the University of Note Dame. His visual poetics have been exhibited at Exit Art, EFA Gallery in NYC, and a graphic retrospective “Poesís: The Visual Language of Edwin Torres” at The Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, Il. His CD “Holy Kid” (Kill Rock Stars Records) was part of the Whitney Museum’s exhibit “The American Century Part II.” Anthologies include, American Poets in the 21st Century: Vol. 2 (Wesleyan University), Angels Of The Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press), Post-Modern American Poetry Vol. 2 (Norton), Best American Poetry (Penguin), Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems and Plays for Children (Black Radish Books), and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Holt). Edwin has a dual career as a graphic designer, working in the field of advertising and design for over 25 years, becoming a self-proclaimed “lingualisualist,” fluent in the languages of both sight and sound.

Tale of Four Schools
2016-09-22 18:30 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Architect CBJ Snyder was a prolific designer of New York public school buildings, completing more than 350 schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A graduate of Cooper Union, Snyder had big ideas about design, too – he believed that public school buildings should be civic monuments to a better, brighter future. Snyder’s innovative buildings included progressive solutions for light, air, fireproofing, and classroom size. How can we better care for our community resources facilitate adaptive reuse, and what can we still learn from Snyder’s century-old philosophies? Professor Jean Arrington, who has researched Snyder’s work and legacy in New York, will share her insights and Simeon Bankoff, Executive Director of the Historic Districts Council, will moderate a discussion with stakeholders of four Snyder projects – a demolished Bronx landmark, two former Harlem schools aiming to serve as community anchors, and an East Village building with an uncertain future.
Co-sponsored by Loisada, Inc., the Historic Districts Council, East Village Community Coalition and Lower East Side Preservation Initiative.

BRAINLINGO - CLASS 1
2016-09-15 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States

Senior Day - September
2016-09-07 12:00 - 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
‘SENIOR DAY’
PROGRAMA
12:00-12:30pm:
REGISTRO
12:30-1:30pm:
1ra Sesión de Talleres
-ETIQUETAS NUTRICIONALES (IPRO) – Teatro
-ZUMBA – Salón 1
1:30-2:30pm:
COFFEE BREAK
2:30-3:30pm:
2da Sesión de Talleres
-REIKI (sanación y energía) con Malín Falú -Teatro
-TAI CHÍ (ejercicio chino) – Salón 1
3:30-4:30pm:
BOHEMIA con Wally Ruíz – Teatro

TV Pilot Workshop (Day 4)
2016-07-30 11:00 - 14:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida Inc. presents:
TV Pilot Workshop

Dates: July 9, 16, 23, 30
Time: 11:00am-2:00pm
Register: here.
Location: 710 East Ninth Street New York NY 10009

Workshop provided by WEPA (Workshops, Entertainment and Professional Artists) Composed of three young Latino leaders in which are Arilyn I. Martinez Cora, Andres Lopez and Anoushka Medina. Their objective is to create expand and develop the visual arts within the community of Loisaida.

Overview:
In this workshop we will teach participants how to make a TV pilot for television and all the internet platforms. The components of the workshop are:
• Acting
• Writing
• Directing
• Production
• The use of the camera and sound gear
• Also a general class about wardrobe, make up and set-design
Acting
In this workshop we will touch the theory and practice of acting for camera. We start with the origin and development of acting. In the workshop the community will be able to experiment and develop acting skills.
• The principal idea is to educate through acting games and developing the ability of acting for a scripted show.
• Example: Alert, Concentration and teamwork.
In this game the class will gain confidence and let go their insecurities in the space as a group.
Writing
In this workshop we will teach and explain the parts of the script. The first setup is where we describe the characters life, how characters relate to each other and what specific event changes the life of the character. The second step is to develop the obstacle of this story. The third is to resolve, which we will cover the moral of the story. The scripted final of the pilot will be a collaboration of the group of the class adapting everyone’s stories.
Directing
In this workshop we will be teaching the necessaries skills to direct actors for camera. Understanding the motivation and obstacle of why the actors should move in the space through the story.
• One of the exercises will be using the stories of the community and see it come to life through improvisation.
Camera & Sound
The use of the camera and sound gear HANDS ON. In this workshop we will teach the mechanics of the camera, basic lighting and what it is a good composition for the story on camera. In terms of sound we will teach how to position the microphone and how to use the sound recorder.
Production
This final workshop creates a plan to shoot the story. We will teach how to breakdown the script, planning a production timeline, and how to organize the departments (cast, crew, equipment, locations).
• Briefly, we will go over wardrobe, makeup and set-design; explaining with the importance of this department with videos and pictures.

Garbagia Island - Summer Program Open Studio (Week 3)
2016-07-26 13:00 - 2016-07-30 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida’s First Summer Program 2016: Garbagia Island
July 11th, 2016 – July 30th, 2016 – 10:00am to 5:00pm
at The Loisaida Inc. Center

Open Studio

July 11th to July 30th, 2016 – 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Location: Loisaida Inc.
For more info please contact: Zule Alejandro: (787) 636-4413 or Daniela Fabrizi: (347) 314-3555
Audience: Everyone
Workshop: Create your own costume and much more!
Description:
Become part of Loisaida Inc. Center First Summer Program. Learn how to create fashion, masks and costumes with recycled materials. Be in our pirate fashion show! Learn about historical figures and eco-urban pioneers of Loisaida

Garbagia Island Summer Program Overview:
The Summer Program will be composed of a two-week intensive open workshop accessible for the public. There will be five directed workshops for Summer Camps or School groups. Screening projections and other audiovisual material for educational purposes about the history and important people of the Loisaida (Lower East Side) Community. Then we will have the final activity open for the public were we will show a pirate fashion and creatures made out of recycled materials. It will all end with a symbolic peregrination to the Carmen Pabón garden.
Pedagogical benefits:
Participants will have a political approach to the history of LES by active participation. This will be directed with a pedagogical perspective into recreating what important people did for the neighborhood. This will create awareness into reusing waste and reconstructing its concept into resource. Also pointing out the use of communal spaces for the benefit of the community. We will like to empower the people to be active in their communities. The art workshops are beneficial for the mental health, motor skills and development of the participants. Using creativity with political consciousness to create more initiative and active people in the community.

GUARDIANS OF LOISAIDA (CLOSING)
2016-07-24 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
GUARDIANS OF LOISAIDA – CLOSING RECEPTION
710 East 9th Street New York NY 10009 (District X – Loisaida)
7:00 pm

TV Pilot Workshop (Day 3)
2016-07-23 11:00 - 14:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States

La Gran Falacia - The Great Fallacy
2016-07-21 18:30 - 21:30 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida Inc. presents:
La Gran Falacia (The Great Fallacy)
Film screening and discussion panel with film director Paco Vazquez and author of the book “War against all Puerto Ricans” Nelson Denis

A documentary about the political, economic and social situation of Puerto Rico. It exposes part of the contemporary history of the island and explores several solutions that can force a change in the moral and intellectual psyche of Puerto Ricans.
Although this film is aimed to the Puerto Ricans living in the US mainland (which are more than 5 million), it can be presented to any audience regardless of nationality. This situation is the reflection of the macrocosm of the social awareness events taking place in the world today.

Schedule:
6:30 –Talk between Paco Vazquez and Nelson Denis
7:00 – Screening of La Gran Falacia
9:00 – Q&A

Awards, Reviews and Ratings:
The documentary has been accepted in eight film festival, and it has won Best Spanish Language film at the Sunscreen Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Florida and Best Foreign Language film at the International Festival in Lake Worth in Lake Worth Florida
La Gran Falacia also received a great review in the New York Times and at TrustMovie

From Radio 24 in Milan Italia
The documentary film has also great rating at the IMDB

HITN nationwide.

Trailers: The Great Fallacy trailer

WHEN
Thursday, July 21, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (EDT) – Add to Calendar
WHERE
The Loisaida Inc. Center – 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY 10009 – View Map

Garbagia Island - Summer Program Workshop (Day 2)
2016-07-21 16:00 - 19:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida’s First Summer Program 2016: Garbagia Island
July 19th, 2016 – July 30th, 2016
at The Loisaida Inc. Center

Day 2

July 21st, 2016 – 4:00 pm
Location: Loisaida Inc. (Register Below)
About:Jorge Brandon, Bimbo Rivas and Pedro Pietri
Audience: Young Adults & Adults
Workshop: Fashion and Poetry
Description:
We will read some of this famous “nuyorican” poetry using it as a base to direct poetry Workshops with a political perspective.
Outcome:
Reflect about “Nuyorican” poetry and its importance in the LES community. Being able to create poetry with political content. They will be part of the pirate fashion show.

Garbagia Island Summer Program Overview:
The Summer Program will be composed of a two-week intensive open workshop accessible for the public. There will be five directed workshops for Summer Camps or School groups. Screening projections and other audiovisual material for educational purposes about the history and important people of the Loisaida (Lower East Side) Community. Then we will have the final activity open for the public were we will show a pirate fashion and creatures made out of recycled materials. It will all end with a symbolic peregrination to the Carmen Pabón garden.
Pedagogical benefits:
Participants will have a political approach to the history of LES by active participation. This will be directed with a pedagogical perspective into recreating what important people did for the neighborhood. This will create awareness into reusing waste and reconstructing its concept into resource. Also pointing out the use of communal spaces for the benefit of the community. We will like to empower the people to be active in their communities. The art workshops are beneficial for the mental health, motor skills and development of the participants. Using creativity with political consciousness to create more initiative and active people in the community.

Garbagia Island - Summer Program Workshop (Day 1)
2016-07-19 16:00 - 19:00 | La Plaza Cultural, 700 E 9th Street, New York, 10009, United States
Loisaida’s First Summer Program 2016: Garbagia Island
July 19th, 2016 – July 30th, 2016
at The Loisaida Inc. Center

Day 1

July 19th, 2016 – 4:00 pm
Location: La Plaza Cultural Community Garden (Register Below)
About: Carmen Pabón
Audience: Everyone
Workshop: Drawing and Mask-making
Description:
We will briefly introduce Carmen Pabón and her magnificent work in the community. After that the participant will be encourage to create their own community character and describe what that character does for the community.
Outcome:
Participants will be able to reflect about Carmen Pabón heroic support to the community and create their own hero and contribution. Develop their drawing skills and creativity. They will be part of the pirate fashion show.

Garbagia Island Summer Program Overview:
The Summer Program will be composed of a two-week intensive open workshop accessible for the public. There will be five directed workshops for Summer Camps or School groups. Screening projections and other audiovisual material for educational purposes about the history and important people of the Loisaida (Lower East Side) Community. Then we will have the final activity open for the public were we will show a pirate fashion and creatures made out of recycled materials. It will all end with a symbolic peregrination to the Carmen Pabón garden.
Pedagogical benefits:
Participants will have a political approach to the history of LES by active participation. This will be directed with a pedagogical perspective into recreating what important people did for the neighborhood. This will create awareness into reusing waste and reconstructing its concept into resource. Also pointing out the use of communal spaces for the benefit of the community. We will like to empower the people to be active in their communities. The art workshops are beneficial for the mental health, motor skills and development of the participants. Using creativity with political consciousness to create more initiative and active people in the community.

Garbagia Island - Summer Program Open Studio (Week 2)
2016-07-19 13:00 - 2016-07-23 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States

Guardians of Loisaida
2016-07-19 13:00 - 2016-07-22 17:00, 2016-07-11 13:00 - 2016-07-15 17:00, 2016-07-05 13:00 - 2016-07-09 17:00, 2016-06-27 13:00 - 2016-07-01 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida Inc. is proud to present:
Marvel writer Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez
Miranda-Rodriguez’s exhibition of original artwork from his best-selling debut comic book Guardians of the Lower East Side from the anthology series Marvel’s Guardians of Infinity.
This exhibition will display up to 20 pieces of original black and white artwork and full color art prints created for this comic book.
Follow Edgardo on Twitter: @MrEdgardoNYC
*Exhibition dates are May 31st, 2016 through July 28th, 2016. Gallery is open to the public by appointment and for special tours Monday to Friday 12:00PM – 5:00PM

*PLEASE CONTACT THE LOISAIDA CENTER TO SCHEDULE A VIEWING

Una Sola Voz
2016-07-18 10:30 - 2016-07-19 00:30, 2016-07-05 18:30 - 2016-07-08 19:30, 2016-06-27 18:30 - 2016-07-01 19:30 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Una Sola Voz: Oscar López Rivera, the educator.
June 22nd, 2016

English:
Project developed by public school students Patria Latorre under the direction of Professor Vilma Serrano Vargas in the hometown of Oscar López Rivera : San Sebastian , Puerto Rico. the social commitment of Oscar López Rivera with the Puerto Rican youth and public education in the country of Puerto Rico continues to stand strong . Students use books as a means to describe their experiences around the figure of Oscar López Rivera and education. The artist Antonio Martorell , accompanies them at the end of this project emphasizing the importance of education , social participation as Puerto Ricans and a commitment to their country. Also the project will showcase an installation of 35 backpacks entitled “Cannon fodder.”
Spanish:
Proyecto desarrollado por estudiantes de la escuela pública Patria Latorre bajo la dirección de la Profesora Vilma Serrano Vargas en el pueblo natal de Oscar López Rivera: San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Se destaca el compromiso social de Oscar López Rivera con la juventud puertorriqueña y la educación del país. Los estudiantes utilizan libretas como medio para describir sus experiencias en torno a la figura de Oscar López Rivera y la educación. El artista, Antonio Martorell, los acompaña al cierre de este proyecto enfatizando en la relevancia de la educación, la participación social como puertorriqueños y el compromiso indelegable con la patria. Además acompaña el proyecto una instalación de 35 mochilas cuyo título es “Carne de Cañon.”

TV Pilot Workshop (Day 2)
2016-07-16 11:00 - 14:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States

Garbagia Island - Summer Program Open Studio (Week 1)
2016-07-11 13:00 - 2016-07-16 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Loisaida’s First Summer Program 2016: Garbagia Island
July 11th, 2016 – July 30th, 2016 – 10:00am to 5:00pm
at The Loisaida Inc. Center

Open Studio

July 11th to July 30th, 2016 – 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Location: Loisaida Inc.
For more info please contact: Zule Alejandro: (787) 636-4413 or Daniela Fabrizi: (347) 314-3555
Audience: Everyone
Workshop: Create your own costume and much more!
Description:
Become part of Loisaida Inc. Center First Summer Program. Learn how to create fashion, masks and costumes with recycled materials. Be in our pirate fashion show! Learn about historical figures and eco-urban pioneers of Loisaida

Garbagia Island Summer Program Overview:
The Summer Program will be composed of a two-week intensive open studio workshop accessible to the public; Weekdays 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm from July 11th – 29th. There will be five directed workshops for Summer Camps or School groups; Dates are Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm from July 16th – 29th.
Screening projections and other audiovisual material for educational purposes about the history and important people of the Loisaida (Lower East Side) Community. Then we will have the final activity on Saturday, July 30th at La Plaza Cultural Garden also open to the public. We will show a pirate fashion show and puppet creatures made out of recycled materials, then it will all end with a symbolic peregrination to the Carmen Pabón garden.
Pedagogical benefits:
Participants will have a political approach to the history of LES by active participation. This will be directed with a pedagogical perspective into recreating what important people did for the neighborhood. This will create awareness into reusing waste and reconstructing its concept into resource. Also pointing out the use of communal spaces for the benefit of the community. We will like to empower the people to be active in their communities. The art workshops are beneficial for the mental health, motor skills and development of the participants. Using creativity with political consciousness to create more initiative and active people in the community.

TV Pilot Workshop (Day 1)
2016-07-09 11:00 - 14:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States

Comi-Cine Outdoor Film Fest (Day 2)
2016-06-26 19:00 - 22:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Details

This two-day festival will highlight contemporary Latino and Puerto Rican cinema and cuisine.
Screenings will be accompanied with a reception and dinner, designed in collaboration with community chefs and local ingridients and executed by the production collective, Cache Cache. Filmmakers, culinary artists, and guests will participate in short Q&A sessions.
FULL LINE UP OF SCREENINGS:
Saturday, June 25th
“Life on Wheels”
Director: Wigner Duarte
Sandro , a handsome young guy who had everything in life suffers a serious accident that leaves him in a wheelchair for life.
“Café Con Leche”
Director: Jon Navarro
A man makes a coffee.
“Endless Cycle”
Director: Fernando Rodriguez
Jimena Silva, a young author, struggles with herself in order to finish her latest piece.
“Uranus in the 7th House”
Director: Jorge Oliver
A man consults his psychic, a reluctant and magical Fairy Dragmother, to find out why he is unlucky in love.
“AMER I CAN”
Director: Ricardo Muniz
Puerto Rican and Latino poetic pride is celebrated in this spoken-word work.
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“Vida Sobre Ruedas”
Director: Wigner Duarte
Sandro, un chico joven y apuesto quien lo tenia todo en la vida sufre un aparatoso accidente que lo deja en sillas de rueda de por vida.
“Café Con Leche:
Director: Jon Navarro
Un hombre hace un café.
“Ciclo Sin Fin”
Director: Fernando Rodriguez
Jimena Silva, una joven escritora, lucha consigo mismo en poder escribir su próxima escritura.
“Urano en la casa séptima”
Director: Jorge Oliver
Un hombre consulta su psíquico, un Dragmother hada, para descubrir por qué tiene mala suerte en el amor .
“AMER I CAN”
Director: Ricardo Muniz
El orgullo poética Puertorriqueña y latina se celebra en este trabajo de la palabra hablada.
Sunday, June 26th
“My Dream at the Other Side”
Director: Carlos Freire
A family documents their experience of migration.
“Split/Image”
Director: Mathew Galindo
A woman dances masterfully in this experimental short.
“Havana in Bushwick”
Director: Gabriel Rodriguez
A surreal film about a Cuban American finding himself in Brooklyn.
“The Texture of Light”
Director: Arilyn Martinez
A single mother is forced to revisit her past when she desperately needs the stem cells of her ex-boyfriend Javier to help improve her son’s eyesight.
“Pride in Puerto Rico”
Director: Jorge Oliver
Documentary short on the 8th Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual and Transgender Pride Parade in Puerto Rico.
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“Mi Sueño en el Otro Lado”
Director: Carlos Freire
Una familia documenta su experiencia de la migración.
“Split/Image”
Director: Mathew Galindo
Una mujer baila con maestría en este corto experimental.
“Havana in Bushwick”
Director: Gabriel Rodriguez
Una película surrealista sobre un cubano-americano que se encuentre en Brooklyn.
“La Textura de La Luz”
Director: Arilyn Martinez
Una madre soltera esta obligada volver a su pasado cuando se necesita desesperadamente las células madre de su ex – novio Javier para ayudar a mejorar la vista de su hijo .
“Pride en Puerto Rico”
Director: Jorge Oliver
Documental corto en la 8ª Gay , Lesbianas , Transexuales y Transgénero desfile del orgullo en Puerto Rico.
