Saludos,
We are humbled by the overwhelming support for relief and recovery efforts for the grassroots and frontline efforts we support and represent such as Solar Jibaro and EcoKit Puerto Rico.
Last week, we raised nearly 15K in AbrazArte: an Arts benefit for Puerto Rico at Teatro LaTEA. In the same week, we hosted the opening of
Fantasy Island, which has made waves across the nation for its critical interrogation of socio-political conditions on the Island. We are grateful to host Puerto Rican artists in the diaspora.
We are pleased to bring our community
further opportunities to engage in these difficult and critical times as best we know how: through art, culture and collaborative innovation. Below you will find an extension of the AbrazArte benefit with
an online auction and
further related programming throughout the month
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We are also honored to be hosting the legendary Victor Hernandez-Cruz, the
distinguished member of the famed
Nuyorican
school of poets making a visit to his good ole Loisaida neighborhood.
In Solidarity,
Loisaida Team
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The installation explores how tourism and consumer culture sell a "fantastical" luxury lifestyle, a tropical paradise twisting crisis into "opportunity". On view until November 18th.
This panel discussion will focus on the role of the arts in community development, the economic crisis in Puerto Rico, its implications and parallels with other cities/countries, tourism economy, real estate development, and disaster capitalism.
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The AbrazArte Arts Benefit for Puerto raised nearly 15K to the grassroots and frontline relief and recovery efforts, with funds directed to:
Donate Puerto Rico and to support Loisaida's eco-smart relief efforts to empower folks in the island about their choices regarding renewables such as Eco Kit Puerto Rico and the Solar Jibaro initiative currently in research and development stage.
Building on the success of the art auction the day of the event, and the overwhelming support from artists, we are continuing the auction online on our website here. The online version features new contributions by established and emerging Latinx artists, and artists in solidarity with the people of Puerto Rico and the diaspora.
Bids are open between now and and Sunday, October 22nd.
AbrazArte is organized in collaboration with The Loisaida, Inc. Center and Teatro LaTEA.
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Friday, October 20th at 7:00pm the Center will host an inaugural event in which we will hear from Jorge Díaz Ortiz, Founder and Artistic Director of AgitArte, about the grassroots mutual aid, brigades, and collective kitchens that have emerged throughout Puerto Rico to address the immediate needs of the people that are not being met by any other means.
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The Avant Ricuas: A Cross-Generational Poetry Bombessa
Featuring
Victor Hernandez Cruz
Urayoan Noel
and Edwin Torres
This event is a reading, performance, and discussion among three Puerto Rican luminaries, celebrating the publication of Hernandez' new book, "Beneath The Spanish" (Coffee House Press). It will take place at our Center on
Wednesday, October 25th at 6:30pm
ABOUT THE BOOK
Beneath the Spanish is history, the clash and melt of cultures, the conquest of the New World, colonialism, bilingualism, fragmentation, and cubism. Poems built of tobacco, sugar, café; Spanish, Arabic, English; José Martí, Federico García Lorca, and William Carlos Williams. A history and exploration of Hernández Cruz's Caribbean roots as well as a documentation of and counterpoint to the origin of the European cultural intrusion into the New World, Beneath the Spanish deconstructs and reconstructs a wounded history, offering a prayer for communication between distances, oceans, music, dance, and mountains, revealing the past in the present moment we live.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ is the author of several collections of poetry including, most recently, The Mountain in the Sea and In the Shadow of AlAndalus. Featured in Bill Moyers's Language of Life series, Cruz's collection Maraca was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall and Griffin Poetry Prizes. He divides his time between Morocco and his native Puerto Rico.
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Related and recommended news and events
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LOISAIDA NIGHTS AT THE PUBLIC THEATER
Thanks to the generous partnership with the Public Theater, discounted and free tickets are available to the Loisaida community. Below are ways to get the tickets for the two shows available:
ILLYRIA
To access complimentary seats for Illyria:
Enter PPLMVR18 in the "I have a promo code" box on the Public Theater's
Illyria page and choose your date. Or call the box office at
212.967.7555 with the code "PPLMVR18"
Up to 2 complimentary seats are available per order.
OEDIPUS EL REY
To access $30, no fee tickets (regular seats start at $60 and above) for Oedipus El Rey:
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¡Arriba!: Coming Together for Puerto Rico & Mexico
The Loisaida Center is pleased to partner with the High Line in this Benefit in
a special edition of their longest-running Latin live music and dancing event, ¡Arriba!
Traditionally a salsa, mambo and boogaloo-inspired dancing party, this special edition of ¡Arriba! will feature Bomba and Plena contemporary classics Los Pleneros de la 21, Mexican acoustic "bluegrass" with Rana Santacruz, and the amazing beats of DJ Rimarkable. Food and drink will be available for purchase on-site from their food vendors.
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Join the Lower East Side Contingent at the Sandy5 march!
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In solidarity,
Loisaida Inc. Center
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