Below you will find more information about our upcoming events and initiatives--we hope you will join us!
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Artist Talk and Closing:
A conversation with artists Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Pepe Coronado, Scherezade Garcia and Carlos Jesus Dominguez Martinez
September 4th
, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Loisaida Inc. Center, 710 E 9th St & Ave C
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Detail from works by Agitarte. Photo by Melvin Audaz.
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Join us for a report-back from the Valor Y Cambio Project: a story-telling, community-building, and solidarity economy initiative housed at the Pasado Y Presente: Art after the Young Lords exhibition on view at Loisaida. The report back, from artist and creator, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, will be followed by a dialogue with Dominican York participating artists, Pepe Coronado, Scherezade Garcia, and Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez, on New York-Caribbean intra-diasporic ties and fluid understandings of value and exchange.
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Lifting H.E.ARTS:
the Present, the Future and the Foundation
Saturday, September 7
5:30-8:00
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Join us on Saturday, September 7, for a celebration of art and activism in "Lifting H.E.ARTS: the Present, the Future and the Foundation." Commencing with a plenero-led procession from Brook Park to the old Lincoln Detox Center, the event will feature a mural unveiling, an update on a South Bronx community land trust's acquisition efforts and a film screening - all focused on one culturally vital building - and at an important moment in time on the 50
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anniversary of the founding of the Young Lords.
There will be complimentary food and music and intersecting themes of community-led solutions in health, education, the arts, criminal justice, environmental justice and immigration.
With support from the Nathan Cummings Foundation and part of the public events of
Pasado Y Presente: Art after the Young Lords 1969-2019
produced by Loisaida Center. This event is in partnership with Pregones Theater, Nos Quedamos, South Bronx Unite, Mott Haven Community Land Stewards, and Taller Experimental de Arte.
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Todos Juntos: Los de aquí y los de allá
Youth Basketball Game
Saturday, September 7
4:00 to 5:30 pm
BCNY (Boys Club of NY)
287 E 10th St and Avenue A
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To mark the closing of the exhibition
Aquí vive gente: Museum of History and Community Puerta de Tierra
, Storefront for Art and Architecture and Brigada Puerta de Tierra will organize the event Todos
Juntos: Los de aquí y los de allá, which takes the form of a basketball match that celebrates youth and
the power of community in New York and abroad.
With the support of Loisaida Inc. Basketball, this event aims to gather two mixed-gender basketball youth teams: one
representing the LES youth and one representing the Museum of History and Community of Puerta de Tierra for a friendly match of basketball at the Boys Club of NY on 10th Street and Avenue C.
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Garbagia Summer Program:
Hallucination Station
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4th Annual Garbagia Project: Hallucination Station
, will consist in visualizing one of the places the artists Rolando Politi imagined in his story;
The Three Green Suns
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We are pleased to offer a 3 week arts and performance workshops, free to the community, in the lead up to a first-ever
Garbagia Upcycled Art Fair
and Performance
at the
Please join our team of teaching artists at 6th Street Community Center Wednesdays - Fridays from 4pm - 9pm.
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REMINDER:
Our upcoming Senior Day will take place on
Monday, September 9
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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The New York Regional Census Center presents on the details of the 2020 Census during our June Senior Day.
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Call for Applications:
The Poetry Project's Fellowship 2019-2020 Program
Click here for more information.
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Young Leaders in Sports
Flag Football program
14 Street Y at
Baruch Field Playground
Sunday, September 8th - 2019
The 14 Street Y is reaching out to young individuals that are passionate about sports or football, preferably high school students ages 13-17 that are looking to be signed off on community service hours.
The Flag Football program starts 9/8/19 and it seeks at least 1-2 individuals to get on board on a volunteer basis, who can commit to volunteering for 9 consecutive Sundays from 9/8/19-11/3/19. The Flag Football program runs at Baruch Field Playground
If you are or know of an adult that would love to volunteer for the Flag Football program, we ask that they visit the Educational Alliance website to create a volunteer profile, by clicking this
link.
Also we advise that you email Michael Meehan or Joey Brasuell to
better understand initiatives and goals of the program.
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