With only a few days left until the 32nd edition of the Loisaida Festival, we're excited to let you know more about what to expect on Sunday afternoon!
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Join the COMMUNITY PARADE!
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Wear a Cabezuedo (Big Mask)! Dance with Batalá NYC - the all women Samba-reggae group! FREE and open to all -- good for all ages!
Assembles at Dry Dock Park @ 11am
On 10th Street between Avenue C (Loisaida Avenue) and Avenue D
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The Loisaida Festival's TheaterLab
on 6th Street and Avenue C, 12:00 pm- 5:00 pm
A production of Loisaida Inc., the
Loisaida Festival's TheaterLab is returning for the 6th year! Starting at 12pm, performances will be held on the street level at 6th Street and Avenue C. Among the highlights of the program are the
Y No Habia Luz visiting from Puerto Rico
, American Marionette Theater dedicated to the preservation of traditional puppetry, didactic old-style demos by
Plenatorium Project, and
CodeScty, part of our newly created Festival S.T.E.A.M. Zone. Joining them will be arts collective
Mezcolanza, participating again with their hybrid platform for the 4th consecutive year.
Please make sure to come and witness street theater, musical performances, and local creativity at its best.
To see the whole program, click
here.
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Valor Y Cambio - NYC Launch!
on view at the Loisaida Festival from 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Valor y Cambio
, an interactive community currency project led by artists Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Sarabel Santos Negrón, addresses themes related to the Puerto Rico's ongoing debt crisis. The project will have its New York City premiere at the 2019 Loisaida Festival, followed by a one-month residency that will include partnerships with local businesses and other venues where the Puerto Rican pesos can be used.
Participating vendors and merchants at the Loisaida Festival include: The Loisaida Center, Brigada PDT, Embajada Gallery, Loisaida Artivists Brigade, Medianías de Lio Villahermosa, Maria Fund, Casa Paoli Books.
City-wide participating vendors and merchants:
Loisaida Center, Teatro SEA, La TEA, Pregones/PRTT, Repertorio Español, Downtown Art, The LitBar, La Morada, Mil Mundos Libreria, Port Morris Distillery, LA Marqueta Retoña, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space.
For more information, click
here.
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The Liquid Highway
at Loisaida Inc. Center's Courtyard from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Developed in collaboration with No Longer Empty and taking place during the Loisaida Festival,
The Liquid Highway is a participatory printmaking workshop that celebrates movement and migration. Artist
Scherezade Garcia will be on site leading an interactive installation of marine landscapes on inner tube material presented as scrolls. This urban intervention and printmaking workshop honors our shared collective history and the commitments we have to one another. Through the act of printmaking, the public will have the opportunity to print a section of the landscape and own their own piece of this complex history.
Part No Longer Empty's InResponse:Immigration Program, exploring the intersection of art and (im)migration in partnership with Loisaida Center. Liquid Highway is also featured in
Pasado Y Present: Art After the Young Lords
exhibition, in partnership with the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
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For the first time this year, presenting:
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The 2019 Loisaida Basketball Tournament
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Saturday, May 25 | 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Dry Dock playground - Basketball Courts
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Thanks to all who came to last Saturday's skills challenge at basketball city!
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Presented by:
Loisaida Inc. Center &
Empire
BlueCross
BlueShield HealthPlus
Special thanks to: Jr. NBA, Under Armour, Anaconda-BSN Sports, NY Knicks, NY Liberty,
Boys Club NYC, New York City Police Department, NYC Parks Department, Tom Brasuell, Henry Comas, Eddie Lau, Kareem Holmes, DJ. Ralphy Ralph, Danny Rodriguez, Jesse Brennan,
Tareake Ramos, Two Boots Pizza, Acacia Network and many more.
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Pasado y Presente: Art After the Young Lords
Opening at the Loisaida Center
May 31st, 2019 6:30pm
Second site exhibition with works by:
AgitArte
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Coronado Print Studio (Pepe Coronado, Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez, Palen Obesa, Karen Revis & Alex "Fdez' Fernandez)
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Sherezade García
, Anthony Rosado and
Valor y Cambio.
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everal participating artists in
Pasado y Presente
will take part in interactive urban interventions during the 32nd Annual Loisaida Festival. Additionally, Nathan Cummings and the Loisaida Center will host a series of public programs investigating topics such as history and influence of the Young Lords in New York, feminist and LBGTQ activism in Latinx communities, cultural production and organizing in Puerto Rico post-Maria, the intersection of environmental justice with anti-displacement efforts in NYC's poor and working class neighborhoods. Updates and dates of programming will be posted on the Nathan Cummings and Loisaida Center websites.
For more information, click here.
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Looking forward to a great ending to the Loisaida month of celebrations and happenings!
The Loisaida Inc. Center
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710 E. 9th Street New York, NY 10009
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