We hope that you are as excited as we are to join us for our upcoming opportunities and events! To round out the summer, we are bringing back the Garbagia program, where all ages can learn about immigrant, cultural history and be a part of it. We are proud to inaugurate the much anticipated
Semillero
with a program in electronic music production geared towards our youth. Also pleased to announce that artist Antonio Serna will join us as a 2018 Artist in Residence.
Below you will find more information to make the most of our Center.
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Loisaida is proud to bring our community an ongoing summer program highlighting and revitalizing the migrant experience, our neighborhood's historical inventiveness, and ecological resilience. Inspired by local artist and activist, Rolando Politi, whose iconic repurposed and recycled sculptures pepper community gardens throughout Loisaida, the program uses place-based pedagogy and recycled materials to equip youth and residents in using creative strategies to address the city's urgent issues.
Join Loisaida Center's third year of the Garbagia Open Atelier for both collaborative and individual projects, with a final community celebration!
OPEN WORKSHOPS @ THE LOISAIDA CENTER (710 E 9th St.):
Aug 28th-31st / 4-9PM / COSTUMES / Teaching Artist: Daniela Fabrizi
Sept 4rd-7th / 4-9PM / SCULPTURE / Teaching Artist: Daniel Polneau
Sept 10th-14th / 4-9PM / PERFORMANCE / Teaching Artist: Marta V
ALL AGES & ALL WELCOME!
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Last year's final celebration at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden.
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REGISTER HERE for the Youth Electronic Music Production
and Performance for Transformation Course launching THIS FALL!
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Abrons Arts Center's Engagement Program teams up with Loisaida Inc. Center's newly inaugurated El Semillero, New York City's first Latinx-led maker's space. With the support of Loisaida's thirty-eight year long history serving the Lower East Side, as well as with El Semillero's professional digital media equipment, Abrons will host arts education courses at Loisaida in partnership with
Sonic Arts for All!
. In keeping with the Lower East Side tradition of DIY cultural innovation, the acclaimed DJ, producer, and community organizer Riobamba will facilitate a youth-oriented music production course that utilizes open source software.
The course is an introduction to electronic music production focusing on beat production, sampling techniques, and live performance methods for youth ages 13 - 19. The workshop focuses on utilizing free or low-cost software and hardware resources, and provides a foundation for exploring music as a means for self-expression and as a pathway to entrepreneurship.
Scholarships are still available!
Please inquire ASAP to reserve your spot!
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"Music and music culture never happens in a vacuum. There's always a context around it and there's politics around it. Music and communities for me are really inseparable in the same way that music and politics are inseparable."
- The Ecuadorian-Lithuanian DJ and producer, Riobamba discussing her work in the Fader.
Photo by Amina Gingold
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Announcing 2018 Artist-in-Residence:
Antonio Serna, presenting
Documents of Resistance: Our Time
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We are pleased to present
Documents of Resistance: Our Time
, a participatory exhibition and residency of new work by
Antonio Serna
.
How do we give contours to an art history that remains unwritten, scattered across archives, and siloed in scholarship? How can we begin to reconnect the struggle for civil rights across all artists of color and their fight for inclusion in our cultural institutions? In the exhibition,
Documents of Resistance: Our Time
, Mexican-American artist, Antonio Serna is hoping to take us down a visual path to consider these and many other questions in regards to the important but often overlooked contributions of artists of color.
Online and public drop-ins for submitting memories of resistance will be open until exhibition closes. Please join us.
Read more about his residency and exhibition here, and stay tuned for related programming, to be announced.
Documents of Resistance: Our Time is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs' Cultural Development Fund.
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Help us in the community movement for energy efficiency!
¡Ayudanos en el movimiento comunitario para energia eficiente!
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In collaboration with LES Ready! and Beyond the Grid, we are conducting a survey to gather
information on the type of appliances used in our community members' homes, apartments or buildings; this data will reinforce micro-grid initiatives at the local level.
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AND LEARN MORE!
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PLEASE NOTE: Our next Senior Day will be September 17th, in recognition of Labor Day!
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EXPLORING ART + TECHNOLOGY LABS
@ National Museum of the American Indian
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Join Puerto Rican artist Jorge González for an afternoon of collaborative art-making. Participants will have the opportunity to learn traditional weaving techniques with cattail (enea, Typha domingensis) a native plant common in Puerto Rico - and all over the world! Learn basic fiber technology and weaving techniques inspired by agricultural families in the mountainous region of Puerto Rico.
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Stop by this neighborhood festival in s
upport of the return of the Stanton Street building for community use, right after the Garbagia Pageant!
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Sincerely,
The Loisaida Team
Funding for our programs and services are made possible in part by funding from the New York City Council, the offices of Councilmember Carlina Rivera, the offices of former Councilmember Rosie Mendez, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Immigrant Initiative, Investors Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
Opinions like those expressed while in a panel, event or presentation, performance or through artwork are expressed by the author in his personal capacity and are the author's own. They do not necessarily reflect the views of Loisaida Inc. its affiliates or staff.
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