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SUMMARY:Fabric Yarn Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Description\nLearn how to recycle fabrics and clothing into a fun material that can be used for\n knitting\, weaving\, crocheting and many other crafts. \nDetails\nWorkshop Duration: 1-2 hours\nCost: FREE\nLanguages: English and Spanish\nLevel: No previous knowledge required\nDates: April 17th\, 2018 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm \nFor participants to bring:\n• Unused fabrics\, Old/Stained T-shirts and/or clothing that you are willing to let go of/cut\nup and transform \nAbout Zaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda\nZaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda is a fiber artist whose work serves as a hands-on\nmanifesto of the symbiotic relationship we can have with our surroundings. She makes\nslowly and mindfully\, using local/organic fibers\, recycled or found materials\, and natural\ndyes. These materials are transformed through traditional craft techniques she\nrespectfully re-contextualizes. Her practice weaves together fiber-art\, soft sculpture\, material rescue\, and\ncontemplative performance. Zaida Adriana advocates the slow\, ethical and hand-made through talks and workshops\nat places like Duduá\, Manufacture NY\, Slow Fashion Spain/Ethical Fashion Academy\,\nEileen Fisher\, Bloomingdales\, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She serves as the\nCountry Coordinator of the Fashion Revolution movement in Puerto Rico.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/fabric-yarn-workshop/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
CATEGORIES:2018,Free Workshop / Class
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SUMMARY:Restoring the heart of Ni'Tiñao - Exhibition Closing
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the closing reception of Restoring the Heart of Ni’Tiñao! \nA part of: The Native Caribbean Heritage Preservation Project & Exhibition. \n\n\nNí’Tiñao means “relative; friend; progenitor” in Kalinago\, and is eponymous with the Taíno peoples of the Caribbean. Loisaida Inc.’s artist-in-residence\, Anthony Rosado’s\, work focuses on historical\, indigenous Caribbean definitions of identity and the influence of their values\, spirituality\, horticulture\, and language today\, as well as our relation to these definitions right here in Loisaida. His exhibition aims to refute eurocolonial claims that the Ní’Tiñao were a divided peoples who went extinct. Via art and storytelling\, We Exist\, he tells us.Objective: \nIn effort to honor Indigenous Caribbean ancestors while providing their descendants with the legitimacy and empowerment of cultural identity\, The Testourmonials Project will research\, draft\, and present an Indigena Caribe Heritage Day that intends on one day being celebrated internationally. As Founder and Artistic Director of The Testourmonials Project\, Rosado will develop a campaign and build a case to support city-wide\, national\, and international celebration of Caribbean Heritage. \nThe project aims to research\, archive\, and memorialize the herstory\, history\, principles\, spirituality\, practices\, and core values of the native peoples of the Caribbean. This project contributes to the “Ní’Tiñao Heritage Day – Celebration Model”. This model will be shared with organizations indigenous to the Ní’Tiñao via interviews\, as well as a community engagement workshop and performance components. \nDescendants will learn of traditions\, practices\, values\, and foods cultivated by ancestors whose stories are made accessible. The model will consequently be redrafted considering review by active members of the Arawak Tainx community and their modern day practices. Once the model is complete\, a proposal will be drafted and campaign launched to consider the “Ní’Tiñao Heritage Day” an annual city-wide\, then state-wide\, thereafter country-wide\, and finally internationally recognized holiday. The holiday will be presented during Summer 2018 via promotion during events\, workshops\, festivals\, and more hosted by organizations who supported the holiday’s culmination. \nThrough the course of the residency at the Loisaida Inc. Center\, Anthony’s project aims to use the researched and archived history\, herstory\, principles\, spiritual practices\, and core values of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean as means to follow the Native Caribbean Day – Celebration Model. The exhibition\, culminating his residency\, will be relaying information\, sources\, reflections\, visual art\, commissioned photography\, and an installation to share the research. \n\nAbout Anthony Rosado: \nAfter graduating Trinity College with a BA in Theatre & Dance\, Rosado performed in works by Anabella Lenzu\, Deborah Goffe of Scapegoat Garden\, Lindsey Dietz Marchant\, Carmen Caceres of Dance Action\, and Leyya Mona Tawil of Dance Elixr. He studied with George Emilio Sanchez during Hemispheric Institute‘s Summer 2015 EMERGEnyc Performer’s Program. \nRosado has choreographed performances for Ange Noir Café via Chez Bushwick‘s ’24 hour Choreographer’s Project’\, Issue Project Room & the Eden’s Expressway Open Performance Series via Movement Research\, Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance via their Blaktinx 2015 & Out Like That! 2016 Performance Series & Dancing While Black‘s Masculinities Reborn Series\, Gallatin Arts Festival‘s Black Lives Matter series\, The Moon Show\, and The Judson Church Open Performance Series. \nAs curator\, Anthony has presented the Universal Humyn Love Series at Make The Road NY\, the #NativeBushwick Artist Lecture Series at Brooklyn Fire Proof\, en casa afuera at The Loisaida Center\, and Progress in Five Myles Gallery. He was a 2016 Artist in Residence with Chez Bushwick. Currently the 2018 Artist in Residence at The Loisaida Center. Anthony is also curating and organizing group-led workshops\, performance and discussion series as Founder of The Testourmonials Project.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/restoring-the-heart-of-nitinao-exhibition-closing/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
CATEGORIES:2018,Artists in Residence
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SUMMARY:Taller de Soles (Sol Lace Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Sol Lace Workshop /// Taller de Soles\nwith: Zaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda \nDescription\nLearn how to make beautiful and intricate lace pieces through a simple and meditative\ntechnique with Puerto Rican fiber artist\, Zaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda\, who will\nintroduce us to the technique as it is worked in her native country of Puerto Rico.\nUnderstanding the essence of the technique gives us a vocabulary that we can apply in\nboth traditional and experimental/contemporary contexts. \nWhat are Soles?\nSol lace is a type of needle lace usually worked in pieces or appliqués. The technique\nconsists of drawing a net of thread and then weaving and knotting radially to form\npatterns. It has its origins in Spain and arrived to the Americas in the 16th century\,\nwhere it continued to develop into variations known as Ñandutí\, Soles de Maracaibo\,\nRenda\, and simply Soles. Sol Lace is most often used to decorate heirloom clothing\,\nbaby blankets and home linens\, but also assembled to create beautiful lace fabrics and\naccessories. \nWorkshop – “Immersive Introduction to Sol Lace” – 6 hrs\nJoin us for an immersive workshop\, where you will learn about the origins of the\ntechnique and see traditional and contemporary examples. Zaida Adriana will share the\nbasic knowledge to make Soles of different sizes\, shapes\, and decorative patterns. You\nwill leave with two completed Soles\, and the materials to keep creating and\nexperimenting. \nDetails\nDuration total: 6 hours (2 days)\nLanguages: English and Spanish\nLevel: No previous knowledge required\nNumber of participants: min. 5\, max. 8\nPrice: $80 (includes materials fee)\nMaterials included in KIT: Sol cushion\, Sol pattern\, needle\, thread\, and instruction\nbooklet\nDates: Monday\, April 23rd from 6-9pm / Tuesday\, April 24th 6-9pm \nAbout Zaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda\nZaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda is a fiber artist whose work serves as a hands-on\nmanifesto of the symbiotic relationship we can have with our surroundings. She makes\nslowly and mindfully\, using local/organic fibers\, recycled or found materials\, and natural\ndyes. These materials are transformed through traditional craft techniques she\nrespectfully re-contextualizes. Her practice weaves together fiber-art\, soft sculpture\,\nmaterial rescue\, and contemplative performance. \nZaida Adriana advocates the slow\, ethical and hand-made through talks and workshops\nat places like Duduá\, Manufacture NY\, Slow Fashion Spain/Ethical Fashion Academy\,\nEileen Fisher\, Bloomingdales\, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She serves as the\nCountry Coordinator of the Fashion Revolution movement in Puerto Rico. \nAs recipient of the Lexus Grant for Artists\, she is currently exhibiting a large installation\ninspired by Sol lace at the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico\, and is an Artist in Residence\nat Beta-Local’s La Práctica. During the month of April\, she is visiting NY and taking part\nin the Textile Arts Center’s Work In Progress Residency. \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/taller-de-soles-sol-lace-workshop/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
CATEGORIES:2018,Artists in Residence,Free Workshop / Class
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SUMMARY:Cocinando Justicia
DESCRIPTION:Direct from Puerto Rico\, Giovani Roberto\, an organizer with Centro de Apoyo Mutuo – CAM (Center of Mutual Support)\, Caguas\, will be discussing how its projects and others\, are creating alternative solutions to meet the basic sustenance needs of the Puerto Rican people after Hurricane Maria. Other speakers include Melissa Fuster\, Professor of Public Health Nutrition at Brooklyn College\, and Huascar Robles\, author/journalist/producer of Catatonia podcast. \n\nCentral Ethic \nThrough implementing CAM principles of “ayuda mutua y esfuerzo propio” (mutual help and self-effort) the process of creating a new\, regenerative Puerto Rico and allowing a return of the island’s vitality. CAM principles function in contrast to the legacy of colonial policies which continue to eliminate public services and infrastructure\, and compromise natural resources for the exclusive benefit of private interests. The ethic of ‘mutual help and self effort’ has proven effective in creating a viable\, alternative solution or the people of Puerto Rico\, as evidenced by the increasing interest of participants and volunteers received daily in service to the CAM. \nBackground & Growth \nCentro de Apoyo Mutuo ~ Caguas\, appeared 8 days after the passing of Hurricane Maria\, occupying abandoned space\, providing services such as meals\, material resources\, acupuncture and alternative therapies\, and workshops to the public while receiving support from local community volunteers\, and later from supporters outside the island. \nWeeks after the Centro de Apoyo Mutuo started in Caguas\, several groups and individuals across the island helped organize CAMs in their communities\, following the call for collective action to island activists and progressive groups\, resulting in 8 CAM’s throughout the main island\, including 1 on the island of Vieques. Currently there are 8 CAMs\, some with a peoples kitchen\, some with agro-ecological projects\, workshops\, alternative community educational projects\, and acupuncture and therapeutic spaces. \n\n**Giovanni Roberto is a Puerto Rican social justice activist and organizer for the Center for Political\, Educational and Cultural Development (CDPEC) based in Caguas\, Puerto Rico. Roberto is a former student leader of the 2010-2011 mobilizations and strikes at the University of Puerto Rico. \nMelissa Fuster is an assistant professor of Public Health Nutrition at the City University of New York Brooklyn College. Her current research addresses the sociopolitical and cultural factors affecting culinary and nutritional outcomes in the Hispanic Caribbean region and its transnational communities in the US. Previous to joining Brooklyn College\, Prof. Fuster was a Provostial Faculty Fellow in Food Studies at New York University.
URL:https://loisaida.org/event/cocinando-justicia/
LOCATION:The Loisaida Inc. Center\, 710 East 9th Street\, New York\, NY\,  10009\, United States
CATEGORIES:2018,Event/Presentation,Panel / Town Hall
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