Saludos,
This is a reminder to our Loisaida community of two important events happening this week: The Avant Ricuas, a performance gathering featuring Victor Hernandez Cruz, and the #Sandy5 March, which we are supporting in these urgent times.
We continue to be 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. Please check in with our website periodically for updates.
In Solidarity,
Loisaida Team
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REMINDER:
TODAY @ 6:30 PM
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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News on the #Sandy5 March
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On Saturday, Oct. 28th people from every corner of NYC will march across the Brooklyn Bridge to remember what was lost to Hurricane Sandy.
We will rise together to demand that our elected officials take bold action needed to fight the climate crisis! This march could not be more timely or more urgently needed.
Invite friends and share this opportunity to take action on critical climate issues and policies that are polluting our water, air, agricultural lands, food supply, wilderness sanctuaries, national parks and our planet's atmosphere. Speak up for health and public safety and a sustainable future --- for yourself, your children and humanity!
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Join the Lower East Side Contingent at the Sandy5 march!
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Please, do not forget to join our mailing list and forward this message to a friend!
In solidarity,
Loisaida Inc. Center
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