This December we are celebrating the first 4 months of the new Loisaida Center.
Proud to have offered and assembled a great team of collaborators, supporters, partnerships and quality programming. A NYC wide Latino sense of community is breeding in the heart of downtown.
Join us for any or all of the following events before we break for the new year.
Cheers!
Libertad O. Guerra
Director
The Loisaida Center
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City & Media in the work, life and afterlives of Julia de Burgos /
Medios & Ciudad en el trabajo, vida y post-vidas de Julia de Burgos
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Thursday, December 11th from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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FREE!
With the participation of : Lena Burgos, Monxo Lopez, Oscar Montero, Urayoan Noel and Vanessa Perez Rosario Proud to present an all-star panel of specialists on De Burgos and diasporic poetry, part of the public programming for La Casita de Julia - a commissioned multimedia installation by Dey Hernandez Vazquez now on view.
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Saturday, December 13th from 6:00pm - 11:00pm
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Buscabulla (Spanish slang for troublemaker) is the music project of Puerto Rican designer and Brooklyn resident, Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle.Heavily influenced by vintage Latin music like salsa gorda, Cuban psych and '80s Argentinian rock, the project combines both electronic and live instrumentation.
DJ sets by: Gabo Lugo!
*Exhibition will open at 5:30pm. Entrance is FREE before 7:30pm. Admission is $12 after 8:00pm and includes one gift before 9:00pm. Keep your receipt for the after-party...
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CantoMundo Poets Read and Respond
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Monday, December 15th from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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at The Loisaida Center - 710 E. 9th Street and Avenue C
Open to the public.
featuring: Yesenia Montilla, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rosebud Ben-Oni, and Urayo�n Noel
This event brings together New York-based current and former fellows of the national Latina/o poets workshop CantoMundo (cantomundo.org/) to read from their work in solidarity with ongoing protests and mobilizations in and around Ferguson, Missouri, and the College of Ayotzinapa in Iguala, Mexico.Many of the poets reading are also participating in #CantoMundoLongestNight, a social-media offering of poems in honor of the countless black and brown bodies slain by state-sanctioned violence.
Darrel Alejandro Holnes is from Panama City and the former Canal Zone of Panam�. His poetry has been published in Poetry Magazine, The Best American Experimental Writing, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, The Potomac, MEADE, Lambda Literary, Assaracus, Weave Magazine, The Feminist Wire, The Paris American, Kweli, featured on The Best American Poetry blog, and elsewhere in print and online. He is the co-author of PRIME: Poetry & Conversations (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014). He is a proud CantoMundo and Cave Canem fellow. darrelholnes.com
Yesenia Montilla is a New York City poet with Afro-Caribbean roots & CantoMundo Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in the literary journals: 5 AM, Adanna, Wideshore and others. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. Her first collection of poetry The Pink Box is forthcoming from Willow Books in Fall 2015.
Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is a CantoMundo Fellow and the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013). Her work is forthcoming or appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Bayou, Puerto del Sol, among others. Rosebud is an Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (vidaweb.org). Find out more at 7TrainLove.org
CantoMundo fellow Urayo�n Noel is the author of the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa, 2014) and several books of poetry in English and Spanish, including EnUncIAdOr (Editora Emergente, 2014) and the forthcoming Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisf�rico (University of Arizona). Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he lives in the Bronx and teaches at NYU.
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The Loisaida Center is proud to support:
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The Asian American Writers' Workshop
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TODAY! December 3rd, 2014 6-8pm
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THE COUNTERCULTURALISTS II: REBELS + BOHEMIANS
@ El Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Ave (btwn. 104th and 105th) Free Admission!
The second event in The Asian American Writers' Workshop's Counterculturalists series highlights some of the rebels and bohemians of color who are often erased from histories of the left and the avant-garde. Watch a clip from American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, the new documentary film about 98-year-old Detroit-based Asian American activist legend Grace Lee Boggs. Poet Urayo�n Noel-author of InVisible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam-talks about avant-garde poet Pedro Pietri, the Nuyorican Movement co-founder who called himself a reverend, donned black robes and carried a large collapsible cross. (He died, he said, in the Vietnam war.) New School Professor Carolina Gonz�lez links together Jes�s Col�n, father of the Nuyorican movement, and Afro-Trinidadian essayist C.L.R. James, one of the central intellectuals of post-colonial Marxism and the African diaspora. Learn about the man Edward Said called "the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of Asia and Africa"-Pakistani intellectual Eqbal Ahmad. Columbia University Professor Manan Ahmed talks about this anti-nationalist scholar who was once tried for conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger. Drop by at6pm and get a free poster screen-printed for you by the artists of CultureStrike. The discussion starts at 630pm. Co-sponsored by The Loisaida Center.
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 6:30pm
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University Settlement,
184 Eldridge St.(at Rivington), Free adminission!
People of color make up almost 70% of New York, but ethnic neighborhoods, like Manhattan's Chinatown, are sometimes seen as exotic, abject spaces. What if we thought of them instead as alternative publics-spaces that disrupt the territorial edges of the rest of the city? For the Asian American Writers' Workshop's final 2014 installation of The Counterculturalists, we focus on the urban spaces of color from Chinatown and the Lower East Side to Harlem and Queens. Film director Charlie Ahearn-the director of the legendary hip-hop/graffiti film Wild Style-will introduce and screen his short film about seminal Asian American queer painter Martin Wong. Influenced by both the 1980s East Village art scene and graffiti, spanning Nuyorican LES and Manhattan Chinatown and the Haight-Ashbury, Wong was "a painter whose meticulous visionary realism... was as culturally complex as his appearance, which was usually distinguished by a Fu Manchu mustache and a cowboy hat" (New York Times).Yasmin Ramirez-a research associate at the Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Hunter College-discusses the Nuyorican movement and the Young Lords. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts-the author of Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America-will set up a pop-up version of BLACKNUSS, her Harlem-based mobile bookstore. Open City Fellows Humera Afridi and Tanwi Nandini Islam discuss their work writing about communities of color for AAWW's Open City magazine. Co-sponsored by The Loisaida Center and University Settlement.
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Stay Connected
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Hope to see you soon!
Sincerely, Libertad Guerra
Creative Director The Loisaida Center
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710 E. 9th Street New York, NY 10009
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