Fall is in full swing at the Loisaida Center! We are proud to host, collaborate, and bring you programs, events, and services that affirm our community.
DJ Riobamba and Sonic Arts for All! lead the training.
Stay tuned for more launch events and programs soon!
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We are pleased to host and launch a collaboration with
Dorill Initiative for the Saturday Arts Academy, serving youth ages 10 - 18, primarily in the Lower East Side. The program is focused on arts integration as a way to bridge the gap between the arts and community engagement. Throughout the 2018/2019 academic year, students will have the opportunity partake in performing arts classes in the morning centered around dance education and the dramatic arts, then later in the afternoon apply those techniques to create community action projects to tell their story and impact their community. These classes will take place each Saturday throughout the fall.
This program is funded, in part, by the New York State Assembly and the Office of Child and Family Services.
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Post-Cuban Cabaret with Omar Pérez
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Cuban artist, Omar Pérez, visiting from Havana, invites performers and community members to join him in the creation of the Post-Cuban Cabaret, an intensive workshop culminating in an evening performance. Workshop participants will do theatre exercises, explore themes in multiple forms (music, poetry, dance), and go through improvisational situations. Omar Pérez envisions the manifestation of different cultural traditions and some focus on themes related to "island" - sea, water, Cuba, Latin and Caribbean culture, clichés, neighborhoods, etc. In the evening, the workshop participants perform the material that has emerged during the day. All the arts and skills of the troupe members are integrated into the performance, which continues to be based on improvisational principles.
"The Cabaret was created in Havana more than 10 years ago by contemporary dancer and choreographer Sandra Ramy and myself in order to facilitate improvisation and interaction between "artists" of various kinds: dancers, of course, actors, poets and musicians but also designers, painters, rappers, amateurs...whoever was willing to go through the experience of an ad hoc workshop in order to build a one-night show, a one timer," stated Omar Pérez.
In partnership with the Institute for Publishing Arts.
Workshop dates:
October 13, 2018. Participant sign-up by October 5, 2018
October 27, 2018. Participant sign-up by October 19, 2018
Workshop:
9:30 am to 7:00 pm (no predefined breaks). Suggested donation: $25.
P
erformance:
8:00 pm. Suggested audience donation: $10.
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ArborVitae will be providing herbal wellness consultations on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Loisaida Center on
October 9th.
Arbor
Vitae
practices from a holistic approach to healing and general well-being that seeks balance in all aspects of the individual including food, lifestyle, and spirit. Clients will receive personalized herb, diet and lifestyle recommendations that can best support one's health.
Herbal consultations will be conducted by a 3rd year clinical herbal medicine student, and personally overseen and mentored by one the ArborVitae's faculty.
For more information, check out the
clinic page here
. Please contact Diana at
[email protected] to reserve your space.
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Decolonial & Third World Studies
A panel discussion and e
xhibition walk-through with artist Antonio Serna
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Thursday, October 25th, 7:00-8:30 pm
*Pre-Event: Exhibition walk-through with artist Antonio Serna 6:15 pm
Since the 1960s, students of color have fought to decolonize campuses across the Americas. One of their goals was to introduce studies related to their own experiences and include their history outside of the dominant Eurocentric lens. We will discuss some of the original demands and achievements, and compare them to the current wave of decolonizing academia.
Secondly, one of main concerns in the project
Our Time
is to highlight the racism in the arts as affecting all people of color across America. We ask, what can we gain from a comparative ethnographic analysis of this history? What are the limits and pitfalls of such study? How does it affect the visual arts and visual cultural studies in general (framework of research, production, participation, and consumption)?
As a third discussion point, we will consider spaces of resistance, noting Esteban Izquierdo Mejia's intro to
Spaces of Cultural Resistance
that is similarly echoed in Macarena Gomez-Barris' intro to
The Extractive Zone
. Can we consider examples of the importance of spaces of resistance (decolonial or otherwise) that, as Mejia notes, "operate to create imagined geographies of belonging that challenge the effects of cultural oppression at the local and regional level?"
Moderated by Patrick Jaojoco
Bios
Patrick Jaojoco
is a Brooklyn-based arts professional, curator, researcher, and writer focusing on political ecology and historiography, in particular how creative practices and landscape interpretation can aid in public understanding of long-term ecological, economic, and political histories. He has organized numerous exhibitions and public programs throughout New York; recently, he worked with the curatorial collective Frontview on a project around American pre-colonial, colonial, and cartographic histories and practices. He currently works at Storefront for Art and Architecture, where Patrick supports the organization's exhibitions and projects as Development and Communications Associate. Patrick was a 2015-2017 Curatorial Fellow at SVA's MA Curatorial Practice program, and received his BA in English Literature and Environmental Studies from New York University. `
Macarena Gomez-Barris
is Professor and Chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She is also Director of the Global South Center (GSC), a research center that works at the intersection of social ecologies, art/politics, and decolonial methodologies. Her instructional focus is on Latinx and Latin American Studies, memory and the afterlives of violence, decolonial theory, the art of social protest, and queer femme epistemes.
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
is Professor of American Studies and affiliate faculty in Anthropology at Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses related to Indigenous studies, critical race studies, settler colonial studies, and anarchist studies. She is the current Chair of American Studies and the current Director of the Center for the Americas. Her first book is
Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
(Duke University Press 2008) and her second book is
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism
(Duke University Press, 2018). She also has a new edited book,
Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders
. Kauanui currently serves as a co-producer for an anarchist politics show called "Anarchy on Air," a majority POC show co-produced with a group of Wesleyan students, which builds on her earlier work on another collaborative anarchist program called "Horizontal Power Hour."
Conor Tomás Reed
is an archivist, doctoral student, educator, and organizer at the City University of New York, a collective member of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, and a co-founding participant in the Free University of New York City. Conor researches twentieth and twenty first-century literatures of social movements and urban freedom schools, and is a 2016-2017 Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Conor is currently working on his dissertation:
CUNY Will Be Free!: Black, Puerto Rican, and Women's Compositions, Literatures, and Studies
at the City College of New York and New York City, 1960-1980.
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Ed Morales on his new book: Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture
Thursday, November 1st, 2018,
6 - 8pm
"Latinx" (pronounced "La-teen-ex") is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the largest and fastest growing minorities in the United States, accounting for 17 percent of the country. Over 58 million Americans belong to the category, including a sizable part of the country's working class, both foreign and native-born. Their political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states. Yet Latinx barely figure in America's ongoing conversation about race and ethnicity. Remarkably, the US census does not even have a racial category for "Latino."
Please join Ed Morales in conversation with Urayoan Noel, both members of Loisaida's Artistic Advisory Board on Thursday, November 1st.
Ed Morales is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral politics, police brutality, street gangs, grassroots activists, and the Latino arts and music scene. He has been a Latin music Newsday columnist and longtime
Village Voice contributing writer whose work has appeared in
Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Miami Herald, San Francisco Examiner, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Jacobin, and
The Nation. He was a contributing editor to
NACLA Report on the Americas, and a frequent contributor of op ed columns for
The Progressive Media Project.
Urayoán Noel
is a South Bronx-based writer, critic, performer, translator and intermedia artist originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is an associate professor of English and Spanish at New York University, and also teaches at Stetson University's MFA of the Americas.
Noel is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently
Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico
(University of Arizona Press, 2015), as well as the critical study
In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam
(University of Iowa Press, 2014), winner of the LASA Latina/o Studies Book Award.
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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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REMINDER: Senior Day will be held Monday, October 1st!
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Volunteer-led Design and Sustainability Collaborative Launch
the 4th Civic Art Lab on Orchard Street - Oct 5-7, 2018
Friday, October 5th, 6pm-8pm
Opening Reception & Artist Talks
16 Orchard St, New York, NY
Persistence in Practices
by Yasmeen Abdallah
Lake House Stories
by Charisse Foo
Civic Art Lab: Sustainable Futures
is the fourth iteration of the annual, volunteer-powered design and sustainability lab. This year, it will be held on Orchard Street in Manhattan, between October 5th and 7th, 2018. The lab brings together artists, designers, and educators from Columbia University, Queens College, The New School, Pratt Institute, OCAD University, Perez Architecture, Studio Basis, and other independent design and fine art studios. The theme "Sustainable Futures" draws on the notions of utopia and dystopia to offer a series of unique workshops, events, and contemporary art exhibitions that investigate diverse topics including: climate change and resilience, creative reuse, urban agriculture, sustainable architecture, environmental justice, wellness, and civic stewardship.
Accessibility:
The Gallery and Cafe is Wheelchair Accessible.
They please ask visitors to come scent/ fragrance free for the well-being of guests.
Service dogs and children accompanied by an adult, absolutely welcome!
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Standing On The Corner Presents:
Unseen Nuyorican Pictures
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2018 @ 12 PM, 2:15 PM, 3:30 PM, 5:45 PM, AND 7 PM FREE WITH RSVP
what r u waitin on! the end of the world? The Standing On The Corner Art Ensemble
curates a lineup of 7 rarely seen films from the '70s and '80s that depict the underrepresented genre of Nuyorican cinema. <3PR
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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 and Investors Foundation.
Opinions like those expressed while in a panel, event or presentation, performance or through artwork are expressed by the author in their 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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