Saludos,
We are happy to welcome the
2016 Fall Season at Loisaida.
To celebrate the season, our well received
"MiniFest" a family fun day is back this year completely free! Make sure to join us
Saturday, October 29th from 12:00-4:00pm for a day full of activities for the entire family.
We have a unique workshop in Spanish for those interested in learning more about Puerto Rican folklore and finding ways to preserve and promote it. On
Saturday, October 22nd at 2:00pm
Folclor de Puerto Rico: Memoria e Identidad by Professor Néstor Irizarry-Murray will surely leave participants with enough encouragement to research their roots.
We hope you can join us this fall and enjoy all the festivities.
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Saturday, October 29th - 12:00 PM (FREE)
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Creative workshops for kids and families, fun games and activities, storytelling and a
Light Show
with many more surprises.
Program & Schedule:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
"Storytelling"
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
"Creative Stations"
Itinerant stations with different activities for kids. Including drawing, painting, creating you own puppet for the older ones. Creative and fun station for toddlers too. Open air activities and games.
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
"Light Show"
Colorful Animals is a Light Show for kids. The story is an effort to learn about accepting each other with our differences. With
: Zuleyka Alejandro, Juan Bautista, Daniela Fabrizi y Kevin Pérez
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Saturday, October 29th - 6:00PM (FREE)
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Presented as part of the 2016 Festival de la Palabra NYC. Ages 16+, bilingual friendly (Spanish, English).
The fifteen stories compiled in
San Juan Noir
have been published in both Spanish and English editions and were written by: Ernesto Quiñones, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro,
José Rabelo, Luis Negrón, Ana María Fuster Lavín, Janette Becerra, Manolo Núñez Negrón, Tere Dávila, Edmaris Carazo
and Alejandro
Álvarez Nieves.
Come celebrate this historic moment...
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2016 FESTIVAL DE LA PALABRA NYC
(FREE)
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October 27th, 28th and 29th
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2016 Festival de la Palabra NYC - FREE
Ages 16+, bilingual friendly (Spanish, English).
Festival de la Palabra (The Word Festival)
is the top literary event in Puerto Rico, and the only literary festival in the world based on one single community -the Puerto Rican community- which is held in two very distinct cities: San Juan and New York, and for the first time celebrated at Loisaida Inc. in the heart of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Over 15,000 visitors attend this international encounter of writers and readers, featuring 100 prestigious authors from Puerto Rico and 20 other countries in America, Europe and Africa, all sharing their common passion for literature
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Saturday, October 22nd - 2:00PM (FREE)
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Taller gratuito, Idioma: Español. 2:00pm - 5:00pm. Dirige el profesor Nestor Murray-Irizarry.
Profesor universitario de Historia retirado. En 1976 fundó el Centro de Investigaciones Folclóricas de Puerto Rico, Inc. con sede en la Casa Paoli en Ponce, Puerto Rico. Investigador y estudioso de nuestra cultura durante más de 50 años. Tiene publicado más de 15 libros sobre diversos temas de nuestra cultura nacional. Fundó la Revista Miradero en papel.
Ha editado más de 50 libros, revistas, DVD, CD .Es pionero en en el estudio del muralismo en Puerto Rico lo que le ha merecido varios premios. A sus 70 años continua trabajando en beneficio de nuestro acervo cultural.
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Special Announcement:
October 31st, 2016
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