SAVE THE DATE!
The 35th Annual Loisaida Festival
Sunday, May 29th, 2022 from 12-5PM
Loisaida Ave - Avenue C
Lower East Side, Manhattan
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April, 25th, 2022
Dear Friends of Loisaida,
As we adapted to the global pandemic, the Loisaida, Inc. Center, its partners, and supporters worked together over the past two years to create successful virtual editions of our iconic Loisaida Festival. Notwithstanding, it is now time to restore our annual tradition and take back the streets, building on our past experiences and looking toward the future.
We are happy to announce this year's 35th Annual Loisaida Festival will return in person to Loisaida Avenue - Avenue C. Our 2022 festival theme, "Taking it back to our streets! – ¡Regresando a nuestras calles!", says it all, as we come back in full swing to bring unique music, cuisine, arts, and performances from the TriState area, Puerto Rico, and more. In addition, the Loisaida Festival will feature 20+ local sister organizations, CBOs, local businesses and merchants, city agencies, service providers, museums, artisans, performers, and workshops to engage our residents and the thousands of guests who will visit us.
In keeping with our annual tradition, this year's Loisaida Festival will represent a culmination of the exciting year-round, multigenerational, educational, artistic, media, arts, and environmental literacy related cultural programming stemming out of the Loisaida Inc. Media and Technology Center.
Some of the ongoing initiatives supported by the Loisaida Festival are Loisaida's Artistic Residency Program, our local 24/7 digital streaming channel LoisaidaTV hosted on YouTube, the media literacy program Media Used for Justice Equity and Respect (M.U.J.E.R.), our environmental justice literacy training program Ecolibrium, and the establishment of the culinary arts training facility, La Cocina de Loisaida - the Loisaida Teaching Commercial Kitchen, scheduled to open this year.
Please save the date, and join us back on Avenue C - Loisaida Avenue!
or call The Loisaida Inc. Center at (646) 726-4715
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The Loisaida Festival can only happen with the support of our community!
Check out different ways to get involved and help:
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NOW PLAYING ON LOISAIDATV
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Entre ON & OFF: Episode 2 - TODAY Monday April 25th at 8:00pm
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Entre ON & OFF is a comedy/variety TV show created by and starring Gilberto Gabriel and Andrés López-Alicea who are the 2022 recipients of the Loisaida Center's Artistic Residency Program. In this NYC based show, the audience will have the chance to experience all the fun of the ONs and OFFs of this city.
Entre ON & OFF is back this month with Episode 2! After their big success with Episode 1, Gilberto and Andrés were almost replaced for this second episode due to a misuse of the Loisaida's Credit Card and Gilberto gets in trouble with a supervisor from another job thanks to Andrés' social media obsession. Find out how it all ended for our hosts... Join us at La Sala de Pepe for a conversation with Pepe Flores and don't miss the segment "ON Broadway & OFF Broadway'', where they talk with the lead actor of "On Your Feet at GALA Theatre and the director of Bloom at IATI Theater. And last but not least, come with us to The Producers Club for a concert by singer Sophia Angélica.
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UPCOMING AT THE LOISAIDA CENTER |
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Loisaida Talks - Wednesday, April 27th 6:30pm - 8:30pm
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Join us to talk about the policy ideas that are most important to you!
We want to gather insight on the important, city-wide issues that New Yorkers experience, as well as specific ideas they have to alleviate or improve these issues. Register for a discussion by choosing a date above.
The topics to be discussed include: Housing & Neighborhoods, Education & Youth Development, Public Safety & Justice, and Racial Equity.
This Community Conversation will take place in a hybrid format, with some participants joining in person at the Loisaida Center, and others joining virtually via Zoom.
Do you live outside of the Lower East Side? Sign up for Community Conversation in YOUR 'hood! This Loisaida Talks discussion is part of a larger effort by NYC Speaks to bring together tens of thousands of New Yorkers from all walks of life to inform the priorities and policies of the new Mayor and the future of New York City.
Community Conversations are a chance to bring this data back to communities and unpack it, share your own personal stories, and put forward ideas to meet the moment. Sign up to attend a planned event or find everything you need to host your own at nycspeaks.org/conversations.
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Monthly Senior Day at Loisaida
Friday, May 6th 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
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Seniors from the Bronx River Older Adults Center will be coming to Loisaida for a day filled with fun activities! They will be able to participate in an Afro-Cuban dance workshop from 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM, led by a professional choreographer and presented by ETD Outreach.
Live music will be performed.
The Senior Days program is offered for FREE with the support of sponsors like Empire Blue Cross.
For more information or for any questions, please contact Angel Santini at (917) 634-6963, or contact The Loisaida Center at (646) 726-4715 or info@loisaida.org.
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FREE OPEN COMMUNITY ART WORKSHOPS AT LOISAIDA |
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Dorill Initiative & Loisaida's TheaterLab Arts Workshops!
May 9th, 10th & 12th from 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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The 2022 Loisaida Festival's TheaterLab Open Community Arts Workshops is back!
We are happy to announce the first official partnership with our local sister arts organization; Dorill Initiative!
During the Loisaida Festival month, we partner with an organization to co-produce the TheaterLab in order to bring guided introductory arts and crafts workshops for community members, guests, and residents that wish to create things like masks, signs, or other "wearable artwork" or crafts to feature and display during the Loisaida Festival's Annual Opening Parade; which starts at 11:00am on the day of the festival, Sunday, May 29th.
Dorill Initiative and their team of Teaching Artists will come to the Loisaida, Inc. Center on Monday, May 9th, Tuesday, May 10th & Thursday, May 12th at 3:30pm to lead introductory arts workshops focused on building a community of conscious artist/learners who are brave enough to advocate for autonomy in their lives and to tell their stories through the exploration, creation and reaction to arts & community.
There will be three days of FREE and OPEN arts workshops during the month of May:
Monday, May 9th from 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Tuesday, May 10th from 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Thursday, May 12th from 3:30pm - 5:30pm
All ages are welcome!
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The Cabezudos of Loisaida
A LoisaidaTV interview with puppeteer Adam Ende
from Junktown Duende and Jawbone Theater.
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The Loisaida community is well-known for its creative force, street performers, community leaders, artists, and activists – all embodied by iconic characters that brought attention to community livelihood issues through music, poetry, art, and theater.
The Loisaida Cabezudos project began in 2017 in collaboration with Jawbone Puppet Theater's founder Adam Ende, who led an open community workshop together with other artists for LES residents to create the Loisaida Cabezudos. Loisaida Inc. developed and implemented an open, three week long, intensive collaborative atelier of parade-making & pageant techniques for the community. In the process, they made a series of parade puppets known as “Cabezudos” (literally translated as “big-heads”). Cabezudos have been historically produced as a type of effigy, in a tradition that ties the Caribbean to Spain and Italy. Loisaida’s Cabezudos were created in the image of local Latinx leaders that have made significant contributions to our community.
This film by Julián Garnik features a short interview recorded in 2021 of Adam Ende and his apprentice, Desiree Workun-Mcintyre, who unveiled the recently commissioned Loisaida Cabezudo of the local poet and founder of the Nuyorican Poet's Café, Miguel Algarín.
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Thank you and stay tuned for more!
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Loisaida Inc. programs are supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), the Black, Asian and Latino (BLAC) Caucus in partnership with the City Council and the office of New York City Mayor Adams, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Hon. Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, NYS Assembly Member Harvey Epstein, Manhattan Borough President, Hispanic Federation, the Promesa Foundation, Stonewall Foundation, Ford Foundation, MOSAIC Foundation of the New York Community Trust, the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation. Thank you! |
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