Loisaida Inc.

Ferguson/Ayotzinapa: CantoMundo Poets Read and Respond
2014-12-15 20:00 - 21:00 UTC | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
The Loisaida Center
presents:
Ferguson/Ayotzinapa: CantoMundo Poets Read and Respond
featuring:
Yesenia Montilla Peggy Robles-Alvarado Rio Cortez Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Rosebud Ben-Oni and Urayoán Noel

This event brings together New York-based current and former fellows of the national Latina/o poets workshop CantoMundo (cantomundo.org/) to read from their work in solidarity with ongoing protests and mobilizations in and around Ferguson, Missouri, and the College of Ayotzinapa in Iguala, Mexico.Many of the poets reading are also participating in #CantoMundoLongestNight, a social-media offering of poems in honor of the countless black and brown bodies slain by state-sanctioned violence.
Darrel Alejandro Holnes is from Panama City and the former Canal Zone of Panamá. His poetry has been published in Poetry Magazine, The Best American Experimental Writing, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, The Potomac, MEADE, Lambda Literary, Assaracus, Weave Magazine, The Feminist Wire, The Paris American, Kweli, featured on The Best American Poetry blog, and elsewhere in print and online. He is the co-author of PRIME: Poetry & Conversations (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014). He is a proud CantoMundo and Cave Canem fellow. darrelholnes.com
Yesenia Montilla is a New York City poet with Afro-Caribbean roots & CantoMundo Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in the literary journals: 5 AM, Adanna, Wideshore and others. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. Her first collection of poetry The Pink Box is forthcoming from Willow Books in Fall 2015.
Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is a CantoMundo Fellow and the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013). Her work is forthcoming or appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Bayou, Puerto del Sol, among others. Rosebud is an Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (vidaweb.org). Find out more at 7TrainLove.org
CantoMundo fellow Urayoán Noel is the author of the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa, 2014) and several books of poetry in English and Spanish, including EnUncIAdOr (Editora Emergente, 2014) and the forthcoming Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (University of Arizona). Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he lives in the Bronx and teaches at NYU.

La TRIFECTA: Benefit Party of Loisaida Center's first trimester of new programming!
2014-12-13 20:00 - 22:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
La T R I F E C T A

Saturday, December 13th from 6:00pm – 11:00pm

at The Loisaida Center -710 E 9th Street and Avenue C

6:00pm
(M)others’ Politics Performances: A documentation of Jeca Rodríguez-Colón’s maternal characters captured by Ricardo Alcaraz, Ben Lundberg, Marlène Ramirez- Cancio, Linda Duvall, Mariángel Gonzales and Deborah Dudley. Curated by Alejandro Epifanio.

8:00pm
ZOETROPE: Excerpts of Part 1 and 2 by: Caborca Theatre Co. A glimpse of Caborca’s most recent work -developed here at Loisaida Center during our Theater Company. residency program.

9:00pm
Buscabulla (Spanish slang for troublemaker) is the music project of Puerto Rican designer and Brooklyn resident, Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle.Heavily influenced by vintage Latin music like salsa gorda, Cuban psych and ’80s Argentinian rock, the project combines both electronic and live instrumentation.

DJ sets by: Gabo Lugo!

*Exhibition will open at 5:30pm. Entrance is FREE before 7:30pm. Admission is $12 after 8:00pm and includes one gift before9:00pm. Keep your receipt for the after-party…

City & Media in the work, life and afterlives of Julia de Burgos
2014-12-11 19:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Medios & Ciudad en el trabajo, vida y post-vidas de Julia de Burgos
With the participation of : Lena Burgos Lafuente, Monxo López, Oscar Montero, Urayoán Noel and Vanessa Perez Rosario
Proud to present an all-star panel of specialists on De Burgos and diasporic poetry, part of the public programming for La Casita de Julia – a commissioned multimedia installation by Dey Hernandez Vazquez now on view.

2014 Artist in Residence - Jeca Rodríguez-Colón
2014-11-24 08:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
The Loisaida Center is proud to announce our current
2014 Dance-Theater Residency Recipient:
Jeca Rodríguez Colón
Rodriguez is currently in the development stages of a piece with the working title:
(M)others.

About the piece:

The piece has four female characters, all women, 2 of which are ghosts or memories from the family of the main character, one character who is the mother of the main character and the main character. Through their movements and their occasional dialog the audience will be able to witness how the invasion of the United States of America influenced and affected each of this mothers. Some were affected directly by the lack of education, others by the alcoholism and abuse of her veteran husband and the others by the unspoken past of their mothers.

About Jeca:
Jessica “Jeca” Rodríguez-Colón is a Puerto Rican performer with over 12 years of experience as a dancer and choreographer. She began her contemporary dance training with Petra Bravo and Viveca Vázquez. She holds a B.A. from Hunter College with a double major in Dance and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She was the recipient of Hunter College’s 2005 Choreography Departmental Award. Jeca is an MFA candidate at Transart Institute with Plymouth University. After participating in the EMERGENYC 2013 program at the Hemispheric Institute she began to explore performance arts and public interventions. Her work is connected to different aspects of the maternal kinesthetic language in space and the politics that surrounds it. She is currently part of inaugural cohort of The EmergeLab@BAX, a laboratory initiative with the support of the Hemispheric Institute and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Her latest work includes a street intervention in collaboration with Mette Loulou von Kohl “Manifest Collective Movement”, a future installation “Sneak into My Maternal Chaos” and future performance “Desde Adentro” to be presented August 2014 in Berlin, Germany.

Making Music with Everyday Objects
2014-11-22 15:00 - 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Making Music with Everyday Objects
Join the amazing and dynamic musical duo Acopladitos for an interactive musical experience as you create your own musical instruments using recycled materials during an exiting music/art making session. This 90-minute workshop will be structured in the format of Loisaida Center’s one-time specialized workshop or talk program the X-Change Express.
Acopladitos will demonstrate how to make a variety of musical instruments using everyday objects, especially those found at home. They will share with the audience their playful approach to the idea of “sound explorations.” More than making your own instruments, Acopladitos will share some musical ideas to guide the audience through a creative composition process that the entire family can practice at home. The last portion of the talk consists of a “hands on” approach to music making where the audience will have the opportunity of playing the instruments.
Acopladitos is dedicated to teaching Spanish language through music and movement to young learners.
This events is open to a general audience, but will specifically benefit early childhood teachers and parents.
We hope you can join us and help us spread the word!

About Acopladitos:
Acopladitos is a Spanish immersion music program for young children. The word “acopladitos” in Spanish can be translated to mean “being together in complete harmony” and refers to much more than just music. The program is designed to cultivate the child’s first musical encounters through singing, creative movement, music-making, games and dramatic play. A presentation by Acopladitos incorporates charming original songs with a repertoire of popular Latin American children’s songs. Designed and led by composer Angelica Negrón and ethno-musicologist Noraliz Ruiz, the program was created to fill a void in early childhood Spanish-language music education in NYC. This team of Brooklyn-based experienced educators and creative artists will engage the children in a collaborative and exciting musical experience that will nurture their artistic, intellectual, physical and social-emotional development. We are interested in collaborating with Loisaida Center in order to bring fun and interactive programming to the children of Loisaida and reach out to the community at large.

My Body, My World - Veraalba Santa
2014-11-22 13:00 - 16:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
In My Body, My World with actress and dancer Veraalba Santa:
We will explore how our bodies move and react to our immediate and imaginary surroundings using fun and energetic movement exercises and music.
Ages 8-12
Saturday, November 22nd at 2:30pm
About:
Veraalba Santa is currently an artist in residence at the Loisaida Center and part of Caborca Theatre Company.

InVisible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam
2014-11-17 20:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
InVisible Movement:
Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam

¡Gracias to all who joined us for the book release!
September 17th, 2014 @ 7 PM
Poet and scholar Urayoán “Ura” Noel, an Assistant Professor of English and Spanish at NYU, presented his new book InVisible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press, 2014), the first book-length critical study of Nuyorican poetry.
Discounted copies of the book are still available for sale.

“A crucial contribution to our literary history, In Visible Movement charts the evolution of an increasingly visible movement in the literary arts, shedding light on many related poetries of the past six decades in the process. Noel proposes ‘an understanding of poetry performance as revisionism: operating across and along page and stage,’ an understanding that proceeds from the poets themselves.”
—Aldon Lynn Nielsen, author, Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation

About the author:
Urayoán Noel is a poet, performer, scholar, and translator who is currently an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Albany and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at NYU. His books include the poetry collections Kool Logic/La lógica kool (Bilingual Press, 2005), Boringkén (Ediciones Callejón/La Tertulia, Puerto Rico, 2008), Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVOX, 2010), and Los días porosos (Catafixia Editorial, Guatemala, 2012), and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam(University of Iowa Press, forthcoming). His other works include the performance DVD Kool Logic Sessions(Bilingual Press, 2005, with Monxo López), the multimedia project The Edgemere Letters (2011, with Martha Clippinger), and, as translator, the chapbooks ILUSOS by Edwin Torres (Atarraya Cartonera, Puerto Rico, 2010) and Belleza y Felicidad (Belladonna, 2005). He has been a fellow of CantoMundo, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and the Ford Foundation, and his creative and critical writings have appeared in Latino Studies, Contemporary Literature, Small Axe, Bomb, Fence, and in numerous national and international anthologies. Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Urayoán Noel earned his B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, his M.A. from Stanford, and his Ph.D. from NYU. He lives in the Bronx.

Muchas Julias / Many Julias
2014-11-15 20:00 - 22:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
Muchas Julias / Many Julias
The first multimedia production by the new Loisaida Center!
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The new Loisaida Inc Center, in association with the Society of the Educational Arts, inc. (SEA), proudly presents:
Muchas Julias / Many Julias as part of the Borimix: Puerto Rico Fest.

In this multi-disciplinary event, art enlivens a space long known to harvest projects and services of great importance for the Latino community, the original Loisaida, Inc. building at 710 9th Street & Ave C, in the Lower East Side.
This time is the poetry of the great Julia de Burgos, whose centenary we celebrate this year, presented in five (5) distinct pieces representing different disciplinary approaches; in Muchas Julias / Many Julias visitors will stroll through the extensive premises of the new Loisaida Center to stop only at determined points and intimately experience the aesthetic pieces (from dance to theater, from film to installation), all inspired by the work of Julia de Burgos, one of Latin America’s greatest poets
Conceived by Yaraní del Valle, Muchas Julias / Many Julias is a site-specific montage that features the participation of artists and scholars such as: Oscar Montero, Deymirie Hernández, Gabo Lugo, Caborca Theater,Right Minded Creations, JecaRodríguez, Veraalba Santa and Tres Tristes collective.
Venue: 710 E 9th Street and Avenue C
Date: Saturday November 15, 2014
Time: 7:30 pm
(Presentations will begin at 8:00pm)
Price: $10 suggested donation (Help Us Grow)

Click to RSVP for this event.

Sponsored in part by:

Isla No Isla
2014-11-09 16:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
THE LOISAIDA CENTER
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:

ISLA NO ISLA

A Sunday Reading with:
Uráyoan Noel (Puerto Rico), Omar Pérez (Cuba), Edwin Torres (New York City)

BIOS:

Urayoán Noel teaches at NYU and is the author, most recently, ofEnUncIAdOr (Editora Educación Emergente, 2014) and the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam(University of Iowa Press, 2014). A former CantoMundo and Ford Foundation fellow, he has two books forthcoming: Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico (University of Arizona Press) and a bilingual edition of the poetry of Pablo de Rokha (Shearsman Books). He lives in the Bronx and is the poetry editor of NACLA Report on the Americas.

Omar Pérez has consistently translated from the English, Italian, French and Dutch languages. He has published, among others, a (Cuban) Spanish version of Shakespeare ́s As You Like It: Como les Guste; a translation of Dylan Thomas ́s Collected Poems; an anthology of XX Century Italian poetry (L ́Antimelancólico), a collection of Anglophone African poetry (Mágicos Intervalos) as well as (Lo que es) an anthology of Dutch verse. Numerous translations of poems, short stories and novels from the above mentioned languages, have been publishedin Cuba and abroad.

Omar Pérez has collaborated in the theatre, both as an actor and musician. He has thus participated in festivals such as Villa e Castelle, Regione Marche, Italy, 1996, or Bienal de Danza del Caribe, Havana, 2008 and 2010.
He has interacted with several actors, musicians and dancers in plays, performances, happenings in Cuba and Europe.
As a poet, Pérez has participated in festivals such as Poetry International, Rotterdam, 2002, and Festival de Poesía de Medellín, in 2006.

Edwin Torres is the author of many poetry collections, including most recently “Ameriscopia” (University of Arizona Press). He’s the founder of The Noricua Movement and has been a leaky fixture in the New York City poetry community for over two decades. Eleni Sikelianos writes, “Edwin Torres shatters the definition of Latino into a million little pieces.” He has an ebook forthcoming in 2015 from (Tuiteratura Ediciones, Spain) entitled “ePOWM!”

FREE!!!
Starts at 4:00PM

Taller de Educación Infantil
2014-11-08 08:00 - 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
THE LOISAIDA CENTER
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:

TALLER DE EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL
WITH CLINICAL/EDUCATIONAL PSYCOLOGIST; CARMEN VÁZQUEZ

Early Childhood Educational Workshop For Spanish speaking Caretakers

Certificados de Capacitación serán otorgados a todos los participantes.
Certificates of Completion will be provided to all participants
(5 hours for one day and 10 hours for both days).
Saturday and Sunday Nov. 8th and 9th from 10:00AM – 4:00PM
+ FREE FLU SHOTS AND BLOOD PRESSURE TESTS WILL BE ADMINISTERED
10AM-1PM SATURDAY ONLY +

BIO:

CARMEN VÁZQUEZ is a Clinical /Educational Psychologist: with above 30 years of experience in learning processes, child challenging behaviour modification, learning disabilities and clinical psychology within the Educational Department of Puerto Rico, consultant, university professor and private workshop facilitator.

$12 each day.*
*Zip-discounts available for residents of 10009-10002

Temas a Cubrirse:

* Desarrollo Socio-emocional 0-6 años
* Modelo Piramidal para Fomentar la Competencia Socio-Emocional
* Transiciones efectivas entre actividades
* Alfabetización Emocional
* Identificación y Expresión de Sentimientos
* Solución de Problemas
* Habilidades de amistad
* Estrategias Visuales
* Apoyo Positivo de la Conducta (PBS)
* Historias Sociales

Site-Specific Theater (Workshop)
2014-10-25 20:00 | La Plaza Cultural, 700 E 9th Street, New York, 10009, United States
THE LOISAIDA CENTER
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:

Part of The Loisaida Center’s XChange Express program.

SITE-SPECIFIC THEATER:
Create stories based upon a specific site or location!!!
with Caborca Theatre

Join Javier Antonio González, Playwright and Artistic Director of Caborca Theatre Company, in this unique workshop where the magical and inspiring setting of La Plaza Cultural Community Garden serves as point of departure for creation.
Caborca Theatre- One of the four theater companies chosen to represent the Latino avant garde theater of NYC at the event; Encuentro 2014, the largest national festival of Latino theater in more than two decades.
Website : http://www.caborcatheatre.org/
Site-Specific Theater Workshop
Time: Saturday October, 25th. at 1:00pm
Duration: 90 minutes
Instructor: Javier Antonio González, Playwright and Artistic Director of Caborca Theatre Company
About Caborca:
Led by playwright/director Javier Antonio González, CABORCA is an experimental theatre company making plays that move seamlessly between the irreverent and poetic, the personal and political, and the highly entertaining and intellectually challenging – inspired by Brecht’s view that to be challenged is also to be entertained. Based in New York City and working in both English and Spanish, our work includes new plays, classical adaptations and devised creations. We began working together in 2002 at the University of Puerto Rico, continued collecting at Columbia’s MFA Theatre Program, and officially became a company in 2009. CABORCA steals its name from the novel The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, in which a magazine of the same name is the official organ of visceral realism.

Introduction to Primo Drum (Workshop)
2014-10-25 08:00 - 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
THE LOISAIDA CENTER
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:

In partnership with Afro-Inspira and Proyecto Unión

INTRO TO PRIMO DRUM:
With Master Bomba drum percussionist Rafael Maya
Introduction to Primo drum workshop.
(Dance interpretation and Improvisational language)
Workshop description:
This workshop will be about dance interpretation using the language and drum of Puerto Rico’s Bomba. We will be discussing what is needed in preparing for your quest into primo drum playing and will be going over basic variations and language used during improvisation. We will also be diving in hands on with examples of different forms of looking at interpreting dance. Finalizing with ways of adding your own individuality and energy to the equation. Join the Bomba community through movement and song!!!
Bring your own drum/conga/djembe
Requirements: Basic knowledge of Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba rhythms a plus! No one will be turn away for lack of skills.
Saturday October 25th, 2014
3:30pm to 5pm
Cost: $15
Residents of the Lower East Side $10
Djembes for rent $ 5.00 (first come first serve)
Bio:
Rafael Maya Alvarez was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He is the founder and director of Desde Cero and founder and director of Proyecto Union. Rafael also has participated in Bomba groups such as Majestad Negra(Member and Coreographer), Compania Folklorica De Loiza, Restauracion Cultural(VP, Co-Director), Tambuye, Tendencias(Co-Director), Carabali, Sabor a Bomba, Fiesta Bombera, Son de Plena, y Bomba Tour. Rafael is currently teaching with the project Gigantes de la Bomba who offers classes twice a week in the Plaza de Recreo of Carolina and to schools in the Municipality of Carolina. Rafael has participated as an instructor in programs such as “Vida Plena”, “Head Start,” “Upward Bound”, “Taller Fotoperiodismo”, “Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena”, “Program of continued education”, “Early Start” and “Bomba de Oro”. Rafael also gives bilingual Bomba workshops for the Univeristy of Puerto Rico’s(Rio Piedras campus) exchange student program and is currently giving class in The U.N.E. University(Carolina). He was invited and gave his latest Master Class in Berkeley College of Music in Valencia, Spain. For several years he was one of the dance and percussion instructors for the Corporacion Pinones se Integra in Loiza an also for Arthur Murray Dance Studio is Santurce. Rafael has travelled to numerous countries providing lectures and performing, because for Rafael, the most important element in his work is cultural education.

El Mini Fest
2014-10-18 08:00 - 17:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
THE LOISAIDA CENTER
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:

EL MINI FEST!

WITH ACOPLADITOS

Day long activities for the entire family!
Beginning Saturday October 18th 2014 from 12 to 5 pm
12:00pm – 1:35pm Open Yoga for the Family & Creative Movement for the Family with Jeca Rodríguez and Sandralis Ginés

1:00pm – 3:00pm Screening of Pura Belpré Storyteller documentary.
Creative Stations will open:
1. Paper Puppet Creations with Rojo Coquí Robles (El Kibutz del deseo) (2hrs)
2. Upcycling Arts with Visiones Culturales
3. Bilingual Storytelling with Maestra Coral Nogueras Ortiz

2:00pm – 3:00pm Interactive Bomba Performance: María Eugenia Rodriguez & TheLegendary Mic
3:00pm – 4:00pm Headliner Concert by: ¡Acopladitos!
Come join us!

Sense of the Lense: the Photography of Marlis Momber & Lisa Kahane
2014-10-15 20:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
THE LOISAIDA CENTER

IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:

SENSE OF THE LENSE:
REGARDING URBAN RESURGENCE AND SURVIVAL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF:
MARLIS MOMBER & LISA KAHANE

Simultaneously but unknown to each other, Lisa Kahane and Marlis Momber documented the life of people and places caught in cycles of urban disinvestment in the 70s and 80s in shattered, depopulated neighborhoods in the South Bronx and in Loisaida, a self-defined neighborhood of the Lower East Side in Manhattan. Both women remain involved in each community to this day. However, both areas are rendered unrecognizable today, due to successful rebuilding led by community groups and churches, homesteaders, and federal, state, and city assistance; shifting immigration patterns; and a new influx of capital. Through the twin lenses of photography and social practice, this discussion and exhibit will explore the conditions that catalyzed their unique views and engagement with these two symbiotic neighborhoods.

Ms. Momber and Ms. Kahane both document the history and conditions of each place at the same time. John Grierson, the Scottish filmmaker who first coined the term documentary, wrote in 1946 that “It is a basic tenet of documentary theory that the primary search is not for beauty, but for the fact of the matter, and that in the fact of the matter is the only path to beauty that will not soon wear down.” On the other hand, the meaning of photographs is mutable. Sontag wrote in 1977 that “the particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.” How do these photographs read today, especially in light of the social changes and physical evolution of each place depicted?
This discussion will also consider the circumstances that originally opened each place to work in. How did and does each photographer engage with people and groups, including local Puerto Rican activist communities, and what alliances did each photographer forge with other artists and peers? How does the personal, including gender, affect approach, alliances, method and regard? And is there a specific connection between what we now call social practice and photography?
Marlis Momber and Lisa Kahane will be introduced by Amy Westpfahl and Laura Napier, artists and photographers who live and work on the Lower East Side and in the South Bronx today.

Plena Workshop with Tito Matos and Screening of Plenazos Callejeros Documentary
2014-10-11 16:00 - 21:00 | The Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, 10009, United States
THE LOISAIDA CENTER
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:
LIVE PLENA & PLENA WORKSHOPS
AND
SCREENING OF PLENAZOS CALLEJEROS!

1:00pm – 3:00pm
Taller de Plena
with Tito Matos

Master percussionist Tito Matos teaches a basic plena workshop suitable for all levels. The Puerto Rico native has traveled the world playing plena, an Afro Rican musical genre.
Founder and leading plenero of
Viento de Agua; 2014 Latin Grammy Awards Nominee
Students will learn basic rithmic patterns from the traditional to the contemporary style of playing the hand held drum known as pandereta.
Bring your own drum.
All ages Welcomed!

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Plenazos Callejeros
the Documentary

Screening of documentary Plenazos Callejeros, followed by Q&A with producers and musicians.

Plenazos Callejeros is a documentary about a movement that revolutionized Afro Puerto Rican musical genre: plena. Every month a bunch of pleneros would gather at a street corner to play and talk about music. The video takes viewers on a journey through the last 30 years of the plena tradition.
Director: Mariana Reyes Angleró
Producers: Mariana Reyes and Tito Matos for Viento de Agua Inc.
Editor: Juan C. Álvarez Lara

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

ZOETROPE: PART 1

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

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

Saturday, October 11th

LaGuardia Community College

31-10 Thomson Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101

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

PICTORIAL WRITING WORKSHOP

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

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

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

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

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

Programming Schedule & Info

Events in each Lower East Side Garden

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

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

About Dey:

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

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

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