Coming up @ The Loisaida Center

LOISAIDA MISSION SENIORS SUPPORT CONTACT

March 1st, 2019

You are invited to the opening of:

Analemma | LAZO exhibition curated in collaboration with Javier Bosques

Presented By Loisaida Inc. Center and Alva Mooses & Claudia Cortínez

Saturday, March 2nd, 2019 | 6 - 8pm

Loisaida Inc. Center - 710 E. 9th St and Avenue C

Participating artists: Javier Bosques, Alva Mooses, Sofía Reeser del Rio, Ana Vaz.

Thank you to all who join us for Project LAZO's opening exhibition: Supported at its End.

Photo by Melvin Audaz.

Senior Days and Bohemia Nights

March 4th, 2019 *

12:00pm - 4:30pm * Every First Monday of the Month

Presented by Acacia Network, Fidelis Care and Loisaida Inc.

Hosted at: Loisaida Inc. Center - 710 E. 9th St and Avenue C

For those of us young at heart but over 65!

Starting in March, we will be hosting a special online banking workshops in collaboration with our friend at Good Old Lower East Side and their Healthy Aging Initiative.

Free and open to all adults over 60.

12:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Loisaida Center, 710 E 9th St.

FULLY ACCESSIBLE FACILITY

For more information email coordinator, Angel Santini

M.U.J.E.R Community Media in Action

Used For Justice, Equity, and Respect

Mondays & Wednesdays * March 18th - May 8th, 2019 * 5:30pm - 7:30pm

We are Loisaida are very pleased to present this 8-week intensive workshop in media literacy and production for girls, young women, female-identify and GNC youth at the early stage of their careers, within the launch of our long-awaited El Semillero/The Seedbed. The program will be led by educators Patri Gonzalez and Milton Xavier Trujillo of the Global Action Project, with support from the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment.

This program designed for girls, young women, female-identify and GNC youth, but young men are welcome to apply! We are offering the program to individuals who are emergent or pre-emergent artists, media workers, and/or technologists. Participants will learn how to break down media messages, stories from the LES, strategic messaging and script writing, video production, and more.

Read more about the program at our website.

We are pleased to offer a $250 stipend for participants who are committed to the full run of the program. P articipants are chosen by a committee on a needs-basis as well as on the basis in which participants can demonstrate their level of commitment. Click below to register!

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Save the Date:

Learning Exchange with A Blade of Grass

Event Date: April 13, 2019 | Tickets available February 26!

Location: Downtown Art, 70 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003

A Blade of Grass Assembly is a biannual day-long learning exchange and magazine launch for creative changemakers to investigate the methods, ethics, challenges, and joys of practicing art that advances social justice. The Spring 2019 Assembly will be co-presented by FABnyc and explore the diverse partnerships that make social change through art possible. Attendees will choose amongst site visit experiences for the afternoon, specially curated by six Lower East Side arts and culture organizations, including us! We have chosen a selection of our artistic residents to present on the topic:

Please Join us for: Resident Mobilization @ 2pm

The panel, composed of resident alumni, will present on their residency projects and the sustainable ways that keep nurturing the productive relationships between the Loisaida Center's core community of artists, cultural organizers, local residents, and both academic and vernacular researchers / archivists. The blend of these diverse types of knowledge (community-based - academia) has proven to be especially fruitful, and to the benefit of a hybrid intergenerational, city-wide, and trans-local public through relevant contemporary issues and themes.

Panelists: Alva Mooses ( Project LAZO ), Antonio Serna ( Documents of Resistance ), Aresh Javadi ( More Gardens ), Daniela Fabrizi ( Garbagia Project ), Jeca Rodríguez, ( Eco-Kit Puerto Rico) . Chaired by Libertad O. Guerra (Loisaida Center), Moderated by Andrea Gordillo (Loisaida Center).

Register here!

email: Info@loisaida.org for inquiries into discounts.

FROM OUR FRIENDS:

Recent Alien Abductions

Written & Directed By Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

Saturday March 23, 2019

321 West 44th Street | Suite 802 New York, NY 10036

About the Play: Álvaro is certain that an episode of The X-Files he saw while growing up in Puerto Rico has been mysteriously altered since its broadcast, but no one believes him. A darkly compelling tale about the dread of having no one to trust - and how families, and nations, keep circling the places that haunt them.

Please join us for the following IDEA LAB Free Pre-Show Events:

Saturday, March 2 at 4:30: (Deep) Roots of the Debt Crisis - The Colonial Context Led by Marisol Lebrón

Saturday, March 9 at 4:30: The Debt Crisis Era - How did Puerto Rico become one of the most indebted places in the world? Led by Ed Morales

Sunday, March 10 at Noon: The Impact of Hurricane Maria - How the devastation was not a "natural" disaster

Saturday, March 23 at 4:30: Debtless Futures - How the crisis is producing new ways of thinking and acting in the world. Led by Monxo Lopez

PLUS: Playback after-show discussions: Friday, 3/8; Tuesday, 3/12; Sunday, 3/17

Attendance to the performance is not required. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis according to availability.

Specially discounted tickets ($15) to the March 23rd play are available to Loisaida's community at ticket purchase.

Use CODE: LO15

Learn-in: arts, pedagogy and reimagining our existence in dark times

Saturday, March 9, 12-8pm

The 8th Floor, 17 West 17th Street, NYC

Featuring Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Adelita Husni-Bey, and Michael Roberson and Robert Sember (Ultra-red), convened by Nikolay Oleynikov (Chto Delat), and Alessandra Pomarico (Free Home University), this symposium will address different modes of experimental pedagogy and artistic and activist mediums, considering which strategies are more effective in today's political climate. Through a sound walk, workshops, performative lectures, screenings, and intentional listening exercises, the event urges the re-imagining of pedagogical and political processes as a necessity to produce the paradigmatic shift called for in the troubling present.

East Village "Winter Flowers": Where will they bloom again?

In the Loisaida Center's courtyard.

Have you read Harry Bubbin's (East Village and Special Projects Director at GVSHP) profile on the artist , Rolando Politi's, public sculpture? Check it out and stay tuned for the Loisaida Restoration Project's opening reception for Politi's installation of his iconic public art piece so beloved in our neighborhood in March!

Photo by Paul Adrien Davies.

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SAVE THE DATE FOR THE LOISAIDA FESTIVAL:

Sunday, May 26th, 2019

Rain or Shine!

Your support of our May 26th, 2019 Loisaida Festival contributes to further ROOTING the largest Latinx celebration in Lower Manhattan, and BRANCHING the expanded services of the Loisaida Inc.

This year, Loisaida celebrates its 32nd Annual edition of its Festival, under the theme of Strong Roots, Healthy Branches: Harvesting C onnections , in our mission to provide grassroots connectivity among communities, learners, artists, and scholars through potent education and career opportunities in cultural fields, S.T.E.A.M., and everyday life.

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Be a part of this iconic celebration!

We're hiring!

The Loisaida Center is searching a part-time Creative Technologist to work with our staff in the launch of El Semillero/The Seedbed--the east coast's first Latinx Center for Media and Technology.