UPCOMING AT THE LOISAIDA CENTER |
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LA FIESTA DE CRUZ - Friday, May 20th at 7 PM
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The Loisaida Center will be hosting a Fiesta de Cruz celebration on Friday, May 20th from 7pm - 10pm!
Singing and musical accompaniment provided by Yazmín Morales-Vicente (lead vocals, chorus, and percussion), Nelson Seda (lead vocals, chorus, and percussion), George Olivera (chorus and percussion), Carmelo Soto (chorus and percussion), and Ravil López (chorus and percussion).
Hosted by Pepe Flores.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS & WORKSHOPS |
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Dorill Initiative & Loisaida Inc. TheaterLab Arts Workshops
May 10th & 12th from 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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The 2022 Loisaida Festival's TheaterLab Open Community Arts Workshops is back!
We are happy to announce the first official partnership with our local sister arts organization; Dorill Initiative!
During the Loisaida Festival month, we partner with an organization to co-produce the TheaterLab in order to bring guided introductory arts and crafts workshops for community members, guests, and residents that wish to create things like masks, signs, or other "wearable artwork" or crafts to feature and display during the Loisaida Festival's Annual Opening Parade; which starts at 11:00am on the day of the festival, Sunday, May 29th.
Dorill Initiative and their team of Teaching Artists will come to the Loisaida, Inc. Center on Monday, May 9th, Tuesday, May 10th, and Thursday, May 12th at 3:30pm to lead introductory arts workshops focused on building a community of conscious artist/learners who are brave enough to advocate for autonomy in their lives and to tell their stories through the exploration, creation and reaction to arts & community.
There are still two more days of FREE and OPEN arts workshops
during the month of May:
Tuesday, May 10th from 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Thursday, May 12th from 3:30pm - 5:30pm
All ages are welcome!
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LA COCINA DE LOISAIDA - Essex Market and Loisaida, Inc. present a series of cooking seminars led by Chef María Bido |
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This month's class is so popular, it's already sold out! So instead of just one, we're having TWO classes on Wednesday, May 11th and Wednesday, May 25th. In this lesson we’re going small with the plates but big on flavor! You’ll help to prepare an impressive spread of shareable bites and walk away with a new repertoire of party-ready favorites.
The class will be approximately 1.5 hours long and include time to savor the dishes you prepare together as a group. La Cocina de Loisaida takes place in the Essex Kitchen — Essex Market's demonstration and teaching kitchen located on the market's mezzanine level.
La Cocina de Loisaida is a series of monthly hands-on cooking classes where we celebrate the rich cultural traditions of Puerto Rican cuisine. Longtime Lower East Side resident and local caterer María Bido shares the recipes and techniques passed down by her abuela — all based in authentic Puerto Rican flavors and ingredients from Essex Market.
This series is presented in partnership with Essex Market with the collective mission to preserve and pass down culinary heritage from the Lower East Side community. We invite all ages and abilities to join us for these unique, fun, and celebratory cooking classes at Essex Market.
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SENIOR PROM - Acacia Network & IPRHE host Senior Prom on May 20th
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Acacia Network and their affiliate, the Institute for the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Elderly, Inc. (IPRHE), would like to cordially invite you to the IPRHE Senior Prom on Friday, May 20th from 10am - 4pm at the Saint Vartan Church on 34th Street & Second Avenue in Manhattan.
Senior Prom will provide a much needed opportunity for our older adults ages 60+ to socialize in person and celebrate with peers, friends, community members, staff from older adults centers, and other partners. The day-long event will include music, food, activities, and entertainment.
After two years of facing the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the loss of so many in our communities, Acacia Network and IPRHE are more committed than ever to providing high-quality, culturally responsive programming to older adults in our neighborhoods. This wonderful event is a time of unity and hope, and will bring together older adults and their families from every borough, as well as community leaders, elected and government officials.
For any questions, please contact Angel M. Santini Palos, VP of Special Projects, Events & Cultural Programs, at (917) 634-6963 or asantini@acacianetwork.org.
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Join us in following Omar and Victoria as they go through a journey of making music during the pandemic in this two-part COVID PSA series produced by Loisaida, Inc. and made possible with support from the Hispanic Federation Nonprofit Emergency Assistance Fund.
Watch the premiere on LoisaidaTV on Monday, May 9 th at 7:00 pm! |
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ENTRE ON & OFF - Loisaida Center Artistic Residents Gilberto Gabriel and Andrés López-Alicea present Episode 2 of their NYC-based variety show
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Entre ON & OFF is a comedy/variety TV show created by and starring Gilberto Gabriel and Andrés López-Alicea who are the 2022 recipients of the Loisaida Center's Artistic Residency Program. In this NYC based show, the audience will have the chance to experience all the fun of the ONs and OFFs of this city.
Entre ON & OFF is back this month with Episode 2! After their big success with Episode 1, Gilberto and Andrés were almost replaced for this second episode due to a misuse of the Loisaida's Credit Card and Gilberto gets in trouble with a supervisor from another job thanks to Andrés' social media obsession. Find out how it all ended for our hosts... Join us at La Sala de Pepe for a conversation with Pepe Flores and don't miss the segment "ON Broadway & OFF Broadway'', where they talk with the lead actor of "On Your Feet at GALA Theatre and the director of Bloom at IATI Theater. And last but not least, come with us to The Producers Club for a concert by singer Sophia Angélica.
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As we adapted to the global pandemic, the Loisaida, Inc. Center, its partners, and supporters worked together over the past two years to create successful virtual editions of our iconic Loisaida Festival. Notwithstanding, it is now time to restore our annual tradition and take back the streets, building on our past experiences and looking toward the future.
We are happy to announce this year's 35th Annual Loisaida Festival will return in person to Loisaida Avenue - Avenue C. Our 2022 festival theme, "Taking it back to our streets! – ¡Regresando a nuestras calles!", says it all, as we come back in full swing to bring unique music, cuisine, arts, and performances from the TriState area, Puerto Rico, and more. In addition, the Loisaida Festival will feature 20+ local sister organizations, CBOs, local businesses and merchants, city agencies, service providers, museums, artisans, performers, and workshops to engage our residents and the thousands of guests who will visit us.
In keeping with our annual tradition, this year's Loisaida Festival will represent a culmination of the exciting year-round, multigenerational, educational, artistic, media, arts, and environmental literacy related cultural programming stemming out of the Loisaida Inc. Media and Technology Center.
Some of the ongoing initiatives supported by the Loisaida Festival are Loisaida's Artistic Residency Program, our local 24/7 digital streaming channel LoisaidaTV hosted on YouTube, the media literacy program Media Used for Justice Equity and Respect (M.U.J.E.R.), our environmental justice literacy training program Ecolibrium, and the establishment of the culinary arts training facility, La Cocina de Loisaida - the Loisaida Teaching Commercial Kitchen, scheduled to open this year.
Please save the date, and join us back on Avenue C - Loisaida Avenue!
or call The Loisaida Inc. Center at (646) 726-4715
The Loisaida Festival can only happen with the support of our community!
Check out different ways to get involved and help:
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Thank you and stay tuned for more!
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Loisaida Inc. programs are supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), the Black, Asian and Latino (BLAC) Caucus in partnership with the City Council and the office of New York City Mayor Adams, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Hon. Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, NYS Assembly Member Harvey Epstein, Manhattan Borough President, Hispanic Federation, the Promesa Foundation, Stonewall Foundation, Ford Foundation, MOSAIC Foundation of the New York Community Trust, the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation. Thank you! |
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