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SUMMARY:Taller de Plena Mayagüezana - 2nd Round
DESCRIPTION:2nd Round – PLENA MAYAGÜEZANA WORKSHOP \nCOME JOIN US TO LEARN THIS UNIQUE VERY OLD STYLE OF PLENA! \n  This second series of workshops will consist of six sessions.These sessions will work on basic aspects of the plena mayaguezana\, such as:  \n – Tuning of the hand drums (panderos) and proper care-taking of the leather head-drum.  Afinacion de panderos y explicacion sobre el curao de los cueros \n – Basic rhythm patterns of the main base hand-drum (pandereta hermana) \n – Basic rhythm patterns of the second hand-drum (pandereta prima) \n – Relationship between the prima and hermana drums.  \n – Specific hand techniques: ahogo\, llorao\, chachareo\, tono\, esplayao\, caballo\, golpe brocha/guiro\, camapeneo \n – Relationship and similitude to bomba rhythms.  \n – Palitos/clave \n – Maraca \n – Structure of some plena riffs and verses.   \n6 CLASS WORKSHOP \nEVERY SATURDAY FROM APRIL 4TH – MAY 16TH \n 12:00 – 2:30 PM \nNO WORKSHOP APRIL 11th \nAGES YEARS 18 + \nFor more info and tickets  \n		HERE
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/taller-de-plena-mayaguezana-2nd-round-4/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150509T130000
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SUMMARY:Ninth Street Tell-a-Thon
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/ninth-street-tell-a-thon-2/
LOCATION:La Plaza Cultural\, 700 E 9th Street\, New York\, 10009\, United States
CATEGORIES:2015
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SUMMARY:Community Screen Printing Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Hester Street Collaborative & The Loisaida Center\npresent:\nWater-Base Screen Printing Workshop\nNew One-Print Classes!\nOnly 2 sessions – 2 time-slots are open: Monday classes and Saturday classes;\nMonday\, 6:30pm – 8:30pm\nSaturday\, 2:00pm – 4:00pm\nFREE!\nAges 18+ \nStudents will learn:\n• The methodology\, techniques and procedures of water base screen-printing for printing.\nt-shirts\, posters and others on similar types of material; \n• How to utilize all equipment\, tools\, and supplies to produce a quality screen-printed product. \n• How to translate their ideas into images – specifically\, students will be encouraged to\nexplore issues of immigrant identity\, community\, and difference.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/community-screen-printing-workshops/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:Taller de Plena Mayagüezana - 2nd Round
DESCRIPTION:2nd Round – PLENA MAYAGÜEZANA WORKSHOP \nCOME JOIN US TO LEARN THIS UNIQUE VERY OLD STYLE OF PLENA! \n  This second series of workshops will consist of six sessions.These sessions will work on basic aspects of the plena mayaguezana\, such as:  \n – Tuning of the hand drums (panderos) and proper care-taking of the leather head-drum.  Afinacion de panderos y explicacion sobre el curao de los cueros \n – Basic rhythm patterns of the main base hand-drum (pandereta hermana) \n – Basic rhythm patterns of the second hand-drum (pandereta prima) \n – Relationship between the prima and hermana drums.  \n – Specific hand techniques: ahogo\, llorao\, chachareo\, tono\, esplayao\, caballo\, golpe brocha/guiro\, camapeneo \n – Relationship and similitude to bomba rhythms.  \n – Palitos/clave \n – Maraca \n – Structure of some plena riffs and verses.   \n6 CLASS WORKSHOP \nEVERY SATURDAY FROM APRIL 4TH – MAY 16TH \n 12:00 – 2:30 PM \nNO WORKSHOP APRIL 11th \nAGES YEARS 18 + \nFor more info and tickets  \n		HERE
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/taller-de-plena-mayaguezana-2nd-round-5/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="The Loisaida Inc. Center":MAILTO:info@loisaida.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150510T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150510T150000
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SUMMARY:Ninth Street Tell-A-Thon
DESCRIPTION:Click here for directions to La Plaza Cultural \n\nPlease fill out registration form below: \nLoading… \n\nClick here for directions to La Plaza Cultural
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/ninth-street-tell-a-thon/
LOCATION:La Plaza Cultural\, 700 E 9th Street\, New York\, 10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150511T183000
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SUMMARY:Community Screen Printing Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Hester Street Collaborative & The Loisaida Center\npresent:\nWater-Base Screen Printing Workshop\nNew One-Print Classes!\nOnly 2 sessions – 2 time-slots are open: Monday classes and Saturday classes;\nMonday\, 6:30pm – 8:30pm\nSaturday\, 2:00pm – 4:00pm\nFREE!\nAges 18+ \nStudents will learn:\n• The methodology\, techniques and procedures of water base screen-printing for printing.\nt-shirts\, posters and others on similar types of material; \n• How to utilize all equipment\, tools\, and supplies to produce a quality screen-printed product. \n• How to translate their ideas into images – specifically\, students will be encouraged to\nexplore issues of immigrant identity\, community\, and difference.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/community-screen-printing-workshops-2/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150516T143000
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SUMMARY:Taller de Plena Mayagüezana - 2nd Round
DESCRIPTION:2nd Round – PLENA MAYAGÜEZANA WORKSHOP \nCOME JOIN US TO LEARN THIS UNIQUE VERY OLD STYLE OF PLENA! \n  This second series of workshops will consist of six sessions.These sessions will work on basic aspects of the plena mayaguezana\, such as:  \n – Tuning of the hand drums (panderos) and proper care-taking of the leather head-drum.  Afinacion de panderos y explicacion sobre el curao de los cueros \n – Basic rhythm patterns of the main base hand-drum (pandereta hermana) \n – Basic rhythm patterns of the second hand-drum (pandereta prima) \n – Relationship between the prima and hermana drums.  \n – Specific hand techniques: ahogo\, llorao\, chachareo\, tono\, esplayao\, caballo\, golpe brocha/guiro\, camapeneo \n – Relationship and similitude to bomba rhythms.  \n – Palitos/clave \n – Maraca \n – Structure of some plena riffs and verses.   \n6 CLASS WORKSHOP \nEVERY SATURDAY FROM APRIL 4TH – MAY 16TH \n 12:00 – 2:30 PM \nNO WORKSHOP APRIL 11th \nAGES YEARS 18 + \nFor more info and tickets  \n		HERE
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/taller-de-plena-mayaguezana-2nd-round-6/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150522T130000
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SUMMARY:Pa' la calle!! - Theatre Workshops for the Community
DESCRIPTION:Theatre workshop for community members: Pa’ la calle!!\n– 16 +\, open to public in general \n5 hours\, English and/or Spanish\, maximum capacity: 10-15 people\n– site specific work\n– street theatre techniques\n– object manipulation\n– corporal mime training techniques\nThis is an introductory workshop and it’s open for people without any experience. Artists will work with basic concepts of each technique. On the other hand\, if you have previous experience\, the artists will guide\, council and help you apply these tools to facilitate your creative process. \nBring \n-An object (that you can perform with) \n-comfortable clothes \n-Water and snacks \n-Yoga mat and/or towel \n  \nBoiler plate\n About Vueltabajo:\nThe transdisciplinary art collective now working in Puerto Rico adopts the name Vueltabajo Teatro in Barcelona\, Catalunya in 2012. It was born with the initiative of re-habilitating and activating a space: Magatzem Voltaire in Poble Sec\, dedicated to art investigation and production. Its creative collaborators have been working together for more than 10 years now. The collective has developed methods of creating repertoire based on “practice as research” (presentations\, residencies and laboratories). Each artist creates a seed (concept) and together research the use of diverse tools: physical theatre\, movement\, performance\, street theatre\, visual arts\, media experimentation\, music\, site-specific.\nAbout Narices Negras: \nConcept:\nA duet of characters that stumble upon everyday situations use their imagination to create worlds that help them cope with their routines. Common household chores are taken to the street\, making the personal habits public\, as something very natural. Narices Negras are nomads\, floating on the frontier.\nThe performers use street theatre techniques\, clown and corporal mime to shape their training. Improvisation and site-specific work is essential during the creation and investigation process for further developing the characters\, thus the piece itself. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/pa-la-calle-theatre-workshops-for-the-community-2/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150522T200000
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SUMMARY:Performing Queer Latin@ Loisaida: A Cabaret
DESCRIPTION:Performances by: \nEmanuel Xavier is a poet and performer of Ecuadorian/Puerto Rican heritage and an iconic figure of the Loisaida spoken word and performance scenes. He is the author of the poetry books Nefarious (2013)\, Americano: Growing up Gay and Latino in the USA (2012)\, Pier Queen (2012)\, and If Jesus Were Gay & other poems (2010)\, the novel Christ Like (2009)\, and the audio spoken word album\, Legendary (2009). He is editor of Me No Habla With Acento: Contemporary Latino Poetry (2011) and Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (2008). He appeared on Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry on HBO and has performed in cities throughout the United States\, Buenos Aires\, Ghent\, London\, and Paris. \nSusana Cook is an icon of the Lower East Side lesbian underground. Born in Argentina\, Cook is a New-York-based playwright\, performer and director of works in political theater. She has staged 16 original plays\, including Hamletango\, 100 years of Attitude\, Dykenstein\, Spic for Export\, and Ther Values Horror Show\, in venues such as Dixon Place\, P.S. 122\, W.O. W Café Theater\, Ubu Rep\, and The Kitchen. \nJorge Merced is an award-winning actor\, theatre director\, and queer scholar and activist. He is associate artistic director of the Pregones Theater where he has directed plays and performances such as Baile Cangrejero\, El Apagón\, Blanco\, Aloha Boricua\, Migrants!\, Las facultades\, Neon Baby\, and Marchers Trilogy and the readings and workshop productions for the Asunción Playwrights Project. His New York directing credits also include Fellini’s La Strada with René Buch\, El huésped vacío and The Smell of Popcorn (IATI). As an actor\, he is acclaimed for his role as Loca la de la locura [The Queen of Madness] in Pregones’s play based on the writer Manuel Ramos Otero’s short story of the same name\, El bolero fue mi ruina [The Bolero Was My Downfall]. He has trained\, performed\, and directed throughout the U.S. and abroad in Brazil\, Chile\, Cuba\, France\, Mexico\, the Netherlands\, Nicaragua\, Peru\, Portugal\, Puerto Rico\, Slovakia\, and Spain. \nKaren Jaime is an acclaimed spoken word/performance artist and poet\, an accomplished scholar\, and a postdoctoral research associate (2014-2015)/ Assistant Professor (2015-) in the Department of Performance and Media Arts and the Latina/o Studies Program at Cornell University. As a performer\, she has served as the host/curator for the Friday Night Slam at the world-renowned Nuyorican Poets Cafe\, participated in the spoken word documentary Spit!\, and was featured in the Emmy-award winning CUNY-TV program Nueva York. As a poet\, Jaime’s work is included in The Best of Panic! En Vivo From the East Village\, Flicker and Spark: A Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry\, and in a special issue of Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal\, “Out Latina Lesbians.” Her critical writing has been published in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory\, in the online journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics\, e-Misférica\, and in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. Karen is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Queering Poetry in Loisaida: Language\, History\, and Performance at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. \nHosted by: Larry LaFountain-Stokes is a distinguished creative writer\, scholar\, and performer. He is an associate professor of Spanish and American Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and author of the bilingual book of short stories and personal essays Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails\, the performance piece Abolición del pato\, and the scholarly study Queer Ricans: Puerto Rican Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. He is well-known for his performance persona Lola von Miramar. \nCurated by: Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé is professor of Spanish and comparative literature\, and director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham University in New York. He is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio\, Keith Haring\, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails\, a book about art and queer Latino popular culture in the gentrifying New York of the 1980s\, and coeditor\, with Martin Manalansan\, of Queer Globalization: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism. He has been a recipient of the Ford Foundation and the NEH fellowships. \nSponsored by:\n \n  \nFOR MORE INFO VISIT: http://www.loisaidafest.org
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/performing-queer-latin-loisaida-a-cabaret/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150523
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150607
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SUMMARY:HOMENAJE: The Traveling Exhibit Honoring Our Puerto Rican and Nuyorican Heroes
DESCRIPTION:  \nHOMENAJE: The Traveling Exhibit Honoring Our Puerto Rican and Nuyorican Heroes\nThis traveling exhibit\, consisting of 17 by 11 horizontal posters\, pays tribute and homage to those Puerto Ricans and Nuyoricans who have paved the way for others over the past twenty to sixty years and who are still in the forefront of the fight for recognition\, parity\, and equity for all Puerto Ricans. The heroes featured in HOMENAJE are our Puerto Rican heroes\, and they are and have been our voices. The exhibit introduces our heroes to a new generation of Puerto Ricans throughout New York City. To that end\, each portrait is accompanied by a loosely biographical story that reveals each hero’s unique personality and idiosyncrasies. The posters are strung together in different configurations using clotheslines and clothespins—reminiscent of how clothes were dried in the old days from tenement windows and how clothes are still dried in many places in Puerto Rico. Some of the cultural icons who are featured in HOMENAJE include writers/poets Nicholasa Mohr\, Miguel Algarín\, Dr. Nancy Mercado\, Dr. Myrna Nieves and Jesús Papoleto Meléndez; opera singer Eva de la O; musicians Johnny Colón\, Bobby Sanabria and Orlando Marín; artists Marcos Dimas and Nitza Tufiño; activists Terésa Santiago\, Sery Colón and Jaime Estades; choreographers Merián Sóto and Arthur Áviles; and boxer Carlos Ortiz. \n  \nHOMENAJE is a traveling exhibit\, a modern take on the original groundwork laid by the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater. It will tour different Puerto Rican neighborhoods in New York City—from community centers to bodegas to galleries to senior centers to museums to local colleges and schools to local teen hangouts. Instead of asking Puerto Ricans to go to a gallery or museum to see the work\, the exhibition visits the typical  Puerto Rican in his/her own Puerto Rican neighborhood. \n  \nFor more information on the exhibit\, go to Homenaje: A Traveling Homage to Our Puerto Rican Heroes and Facebook. \nViewing hours by appointment only\, for more info email: alejandro@loisaida.org
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/homenaje-the-traveling-exhibit-honoring-our-puerto-rican-and-nuyorican-heroes/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150523T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150523T170000
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SUMMARY:Pa' la calle!! - Theatre Workshops for the Community
DESCRIPTION:Theatre workshop for community members: Pa’ la calle!!\n– 16 +\, open to public in general \n5 hours\, English and/or Spanish\, maximum capacity: 10-15 people\n– site specific work\n– street theatre techniques\n– object manipulation\n– corporal mime training techniques\nThis is an introductory workshop and it’s open for people without any experience. Artists will work with basic concepts of each technique. On the other hand\, if you have previous experience\, the artists will guide\, council and help you apply these tools to facilitate your creative process. \nBring \n-An object (that you can perform with) \n-comfortable clothes \n-Water and snacks \n-Yoga mat and/or towel \n  \nBoiler plate\n About Vueltabajo:\nThe transdisciplinary art collective now working in Puerto Rico adopts the name Vueltabajo Teatro in Barcelona\, Catalunya in 2012. It was born with the initiative of re-habilitating and activating a space: Magatzem Voltaire in Poble Sec\, dedicated to art investigation and production. Its creative collaborators have been working together for more than 10 years now. The collective has developed methods of creating repertoire based on “practice as research” (presentations\, residencies and laboratories). Each artist creates a seed (concept) and together research the use of diverse tools: physical theatre\, movement\, performance\, street theatre\, visual arts\, media experimentation\, music\, site-specific.\nAbout Narices Negras: \nConcept:\nA duet of characters that stumble upon everyday situations use their imagination to create worlds that help them cope with their routines. Common household chores are taken to the street\, making the personal habits public\, as something very natural. Narices Negras are nomads\, floating on the frontier.\nThe performers use street theatre techniques\, clown and corporal mime to shape their training. Improvisation and site-specific work is essential during the creation and investigation process for further developing the characters\, thus the piece itself. \nClick here to RSVP
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/pa-la-calle-theatre-workshops-for-the-community-3/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150523T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150523T173000
DTSTAMP:20150518T193836Z
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SUMMARY:Reconstructing Queer Latin@ Loisaida in Cinema Literature and Art
DESCRIPTION:Reconstructing Queer Latin@ Loisaida in Cinema\nLiterature and Art (1:00-5:30 pm)\nSponsored by: Loisaida Inc. \nLoisaida has long been recognized as an international cutting-edge center of creativity and experimentation in the arts and activism. However the contribution of Latin@ lgbtq artists and activists in creating this culture\, which has inspired the rest of the nation and the world\, has only recently been the object of scholarly study. The Loisaida Center pays homage to two of the founding figures of Queer Latin@ Loisaida art and activism\, drag performer Mario Montez (1935-2013) and performance artist Alina Troyano (a.k.a Carmelita Tropicana)\, divas of queer Latin@ Loisaida cinema and stage\, by showing two of their most famous and representative films\, José Rodríguez-Soltero’s The Life\, Death\, and Assumption of Lupe Velez (1966) and Ela Troyano’s Your Kunst Is Your Waffen (1996). The viewing of Lupe will be introduced by Yale University film historian and curator Ron Gregg. The viewings ofLupe and Your Kunst will be followed by Q & A with curator Ron Gregg\, the artist Alina Troyano\, and the director Ela Troyano. A panel of distinguished scholars discussing the state of the research on the contribution of Latin@ lgbtq artists and activists to Loisaida’s cultural and social life will follow the viewings. Curated by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé. \nDivas of Queer Latin@ Loisaida Cinema and Stage:\nMario Montez and Carmelita Troyano\n1:00-2:00 pm José Rodríguez-Soltero’s The Life\, Death\, and Assumption of Lupe Velez (1966) (50 mins). Starring Mario Montez. Introduced by Ron Gregg (Yale University) \n2:00-2:30 pm Ela Troyano’s Your Kunst Is Your Waffen (1996) (27 mins). Starring Carmelita Tropicana. \n2:30-3:30 pm Q and A with Ron Gregg\, Ela Troyano\, and Alina Troyano (a.k.a Carmelita Tropicana). \nThe State of Research on Queer Latin@ Loisaida: A Round Table Discussion.\n3:30-5:30 pm A panel of distinguished scholars discusses the state of the research on the contribution of Latin@ lgbtq artists and activists to Loisaida’s cultural and social life: What have Latin@ lgbtq artists and activists contributed to the culture of experimentation and innovation\, social and individual expression that is associated with Loisaida? What have the interactions been between Latin@ lgbtq artists and activists and other queer Loisaida artists and activists? What have the interactions been between Latin@ queer artists and activists and Loisaida artists and activists from other racial and ethnic groups? What have the interactions been between Latin@ queer artists and other Loisaida Latin@ artists and activists? What are the “hidden” or unexplored histories of queer Latin@ Loisaida? Where should we look to recover these “hidden” or unexplored histories? What role or roles have queer Latin@ Loisaida artists and activists played in the cultural\, social\, and economic transformations of Loisaida from 1970s to the present? \nWith the participation of:\nFrances Negrón-Muntaner (Columbia University)is an award-winning filmmaker\, writer\, and scholar. She is an associate professor of English and Latino Studies at Columbia University\, the director of the Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race\, and founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activist archive at Butler Library. Among her books and publications are Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (winner\, 2004 CHOICE Award)\, The Latino Media Gap\, and Sovereign Acts. Her films include AIDS in the Barrio\, Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican\, and Small City\, Big Change. In 2005\, she was named one of the “100 Most Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Business magazine\, and the United Nations’ Rapid Response Media Mechanism recognized her in 2008 as a “global expert.” She is also the recipient of El Diario/La Prensa’s annual “Distinguished Women Award” (2010) and Columbia University’s “Most Distinguished Faculty Award” (2012). \nRoy Pérez (Willamette University)is an accomplished scholar and poet and an assistant professor of English\, American Ethnic Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies at Willamette University in Salem\, Oregon. He received his PhD in English at New York University with concentrations in Latina/o literary and performance studies and is a past fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has published poems and essays in Glitter Tongue\, the Best of Panic! poetry anthology\, TheThePoetry\, bully bloggers\, and FENCE Magazine\, and recently adapted one of his poems to film with director Finn Paul. His current scholarly book project\, Proximity: Queer Configurations of Race and Sex\, examines the function of interracial closeness in the articulation of sexual identity by queer artists from the late-nineteenth century into the twenty-first. \nKaren Jaime (Cornell University)is an acclaimed spoken word/performance artist and poet\, an accomplished scholar\, and a postdoctoral research associate (2014-2015)/ Assistant Professor (2015-) in the Department of Performance and Media Arts and the Latina/o Studies Program at Cornell University. As a performer\, she has served as the host/curator for the Friday Night Slam at the world-renowned Nuyorican Poets Cafe\, participated in the spoken word documentary Spit!\, and was featured in the Emmy-award winning CUNY-TV program Nueva York. As a poet\, Jaime’s work is included in The Best of Panic! En Vivo From the East Village\, Flicker and Spark: A Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry\, and in a special issue of Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal\, “Out Latina Lesbians.” Her critical writing has been published in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory\, in the online journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics\, e-Misférica\, and in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. Karen is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Queering Poetry in Loisaida: Language\, History\, and Performance at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. \nLarry LaFountain-Stokes (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)is a distinguished creative writer\, scholar\, and performer. He is an associate professor of Spanish and American Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and author of the bilingual book of short stories and personal essays Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails\, the performance piece Abolición del pato\, and the scholarly study Queer Ricans: Puerto Rican Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. He is well-known for his performance persona Lola von Miramar. \nModerated by: Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé (Fordham University)is professor of Spanish and comparative literature\, and director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham University in New York. He is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio\, Keith Haring\, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails\, a book about art and queer Latino popular culture in the gentrifying New York of the 1980s\, and coeditor\, with Martin Manalansan\, of Queer Globalization: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism. He has been a recipient of the Ford Foundation and the NEH fellowships. \nSponsored by: \n \n  \nFOR MORE INFO VISIT: http://www.loisaidafest.org
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/reconstructing-queer-latin-loisaida-in-cinema-literature-and-art/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:Loisaida Festival 2015
DESCRIPTION:The largest community pride event in Manhattan’s most historic neighborhood. \nThe Lower East Side. \n \nBackground \nSince 1987 the Loisaida Festival has been celebrated the Sunday before Memorial Day weekend in the Manhattan neighborhood known as the Lower East Side\, the East Village\, or Loisaida. This event is the largest community pride festival in the neighborhood and grows annually in size\, excitement\, and impact. It is presented in the Avenue C commercial corridor-renamed Loisaida Avenue since 1989. \nThe Loisaida Festival includes diverse manifestations of the Puerto Rican and Latino cultures expressed through music\, cuisine and arts. Although it began as a community event to celebrate the culture\, heritage and accomplishments of Loisaida’s Puerto Rican/Hispanic community\, the event has created a multi-cultural spirit where people from all races and backgrounds descend from all parts on the city into this historic and eclectic neighborhood. \nThe Loisaida Festival has also created a platform for Loisaida’s Latino and\, now growing\, non-Latino neighborhood residents and families that come together on the day of the event to share and celebrate the Memorial Day Holiday as well as their social and cultural differences. The program includes musical concerts\, dance performances\, folkloric musical presentations\, and arts and crafts exhibitions that showcase the work of artisans that represent diverse ethnic groups and nationalities. It also serves as a vehicle to disseminate critical community information distributed by employees and volunteers of many local and city-wide health and human services organizations. \nThe Loisaida Festival is sponsored by Loisaida Inc.\, the oldest Puerto Rican non-for-profit organization in the neighborhood. Loisaida\, Inc. was founded in 1979 to address the problem of social and economic disenfranchisement of poor\, low income and working class residents of the Lower East Side. Over the years\, Loisaida has provided comprehensive education\, training and employment opportunities that have targeted young adults. It has also worked with local businesses in neighborhood economic development activities as a means to promote entrepreneurship and help create jobs for local residents. \nThe festival weekend attracts over 15\,000 participants every year. This year\, Loisaida\, Inc. is poised to generate even more excitement and traffic to Avenue C with the opening of its new Community Center on 9th Street\, which will happen this spring. The festival will become an even more significant Loisaida community event and venue as a signature citywide and tourist destination.\nEvent Objectives \n\nContribute to the preservation and promotion of the Latin American culture of the Lower East Side neighborhood.\nEnhance\, promote and support the artistic-cultural expressions of the Latino and other artists that reside in this community and/or working in the Lower East Side.\nProvide culturally-relevant\, first-class entertainment and educational opportunities for the entire family\, neighborhood residents and visitors.\nIn the tradition of this historic New York City neighborhood\, known as the “America’s Gateway”\, expose non-Latino community residents and visitors to the rich and diverse Latin culture as expressed thorough its music\, arts\, cuisine and folklore\, and promote multi-ethnic understanding and harmony.\nProvide a platform to disseminate educational\, health-specific information and public interest information to community residents\, and special needs populations.\nRemember and recognize Puerto Ricans/Latinos who\, through their advocacy and leadership\, helped establish and strengthen local institutions\, and worked to help improve the economic\, educational and social conditions of the Latino community of the Lower East Side.\n\nLocation \n\nThe Festival is held on Avenue C (Loisaida Avenue) from East 12th to East 6th Streets. Parking around the neighborhood is extremely limited\, so the best way to get to the festival is Subway.\n\nThe closest stations are: \n\nL train to First Avenue and 14th Streets\nLexington (green line) to Union Square; at Union Station you can transfer to the Eastbound L train to First Avenue\nF Train to Delancey Street. (free shuttle bus service from this location to festival)\n\nTransportation \n\nThe First Avenue and 14th Street stop of the L Train is at walking distance from the festival site–Avenue C and 12th Street. Commuters on the Lexington Line [4\, 5\, and 6] at Union Square can transfer to L\, to reach the East Side\, or transfer to the Avenue A or D 14th Street cross-town buses and get off on Avenue B and 14th Street.\n\nVisitor’s Tips List \n\nThis event is free to the public and family-oriented\, therefore\, no sale or promotion of alcohol and tobacco will be allowed.\nPick up a Festival Program and Guide at the Official Loisaida Festival information booth to be stationed on the Southeast corner of Avenue C and 9thh Street.\nKeep your children engaged and excited with hands-on activities offered at the Children’s Pavilion.\nReunite with old friends and relatives at The Placita-Under the Willow Trees\, located on the Southwest corner of 9th Street.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/4409/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:Invisible Loisaida - Ideas City
DESCRIPTION:IDEAS CITY\nPart of the Street Program 12:00 -6:00pm \nLoisaida Inc: Invisible Loisaida \nThe booth by Loisaida\, Inc. will play with the visible and invisible tensions of rescued social spaces\, their cultural output\, and their lack of inclusion in the mainstream story line of the Lower East Side. Through a collaborative installation by resident artists Edgardo Tomás Larregui and Alejandro Epifanio\, the booth will recreate the vernacular architecture of “seclusion” and social gathering elements of the traditional casita or urban community garden. Our casita also involves a strategy to render visible the reality of Loisaida\, Inc.\, a social-cultural-artistic community (Latino/Puerto Rican Lower East Side)\, whose contributions to New York City and the downtown scene have usually remained unacknowledged\, absent\, and invisible to the hegemonic artistic and cultural narratives of New York City’s creative myth. The presentation will feature a listening station of oral histories by Laura Zelasnic\, performances by ongoing Loisaida Center collaborators and projects: the Salvage Project; Flux Theater Ensemble; the Plenatorium\, which nurtures and documents the “plena universe”; and Edwin Torres\, a Nuyorican poet\, performer\, and downtown icon\, who will explore the nonappearance of “No-isaida.” \n\nA– ONGOING programming throughout the day: \n1. Display and live screen-printing of the templates and prints developed and produced through our workshop: Building Community Through the Arts\, a partnership with Hester Street Collaborative. \n2. Listening Station featuring oral histories focused on local Latino cultural and community organizations such as CHARAS and Loisaida\, Inc.\, by Laura Zelasnic. \n3. Visual Collaborative Installation(s) between artist collaborators of the Loisaida Center. The entire booth will act as an installation and visual collaboration between visual artist’s Alejandro Epifanio and Edgardo Larregui with the support of Urban Garden Center NYC. \n\nB– SCHEDULED programming by time-slots: \n3:00 pm – The Salvage Project: \nStory circles facilitated by the Loisaida Center’s artistic residents Flux Theater Ensemble where community members will share the stories of a precious object and have their stories transformed by professional playwrights into short monologues. \nhttp://www.fluxtheatre.org/2015/02/flux-announces-art-residency-loisaida-center/ \n4:00 pm – Edwin Torres:\n“Nuyorican” (New York-Puerto Rican) poet-performer-sound artist and downtown icon will present work based on the Invisible Loisaida theme. Torres’s work bridges numerous downtown and Loisaida traditions and scenes\, from the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and beyond. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Torres_(poet) \n5:00pm – PLENATORIUM: \nA project initiative of the Loisaida Center focused on the nurturing and documentation of the practice of Puerto Rican plena\, a genre of popular traditional music\, song and dance native to the island of Puerto Rico\, but related to similar Afro-diasporic expressions throughout the Caribbean and commonly present within the casita/community garden culture. \nPlanetarium means a space for the plena-universe of activities such as forums\, workshops\, performances\, and other forms of plena-focused sociocultural participation. \nhttp://loisaida.org/plenatorium/ \n\nInvisible Loisaida is made possible by:“Sprawling family-owned garden resource for plants\, seeds\, sod\, tools\, accessories & firewood” \nAddress: 1640 Park Ave\, New York\, NY 10035 \nPhone:(646) 872-3991 \nHours: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm \n\n 
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