Today's featured shot from the Puerto Rico Sun photo group is by verodomica.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
'Voiceover'
Community calendar
A public intervention by Nayda Collazo-Llorens
October 25 – November 16
Viewable from dusk until midnight, Thursdays through Sundays
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 25, 6- 8 p.m.
Artist's talk: Saturday, November 8, 4:30 p.m.
Tribute to Edgardo Vega Yunque: Saturday, November 15, 3 - 7 p.m.
MediaNoche, Manhattan's Uptown gallery devoted to new media, presents Voiceover, a site specific public intervention by Nayda Collazo-Llorens. A constant flow of text moving across the storefront windows of MediaNoche engages the public to explore aspects of memory, language and displacement. Viewable at night from the street, nearby buildings and passing trains on the overpass, Voiceover is a non-linear textual piece projected onto the windows of the gallery, located at the Northeast corner of Park Avenue and 102nd Street, NYC's East Harlem.
A lyrical, textual composition, Voiceover is based on Collazo-Llorens' research of the archives and oral histories section of PRdream.com, a web site on the history, culture and politics of Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Fragments from these oral histories are combined with texts from public spaces, literature, the media, as well as the artist's own writings.
The projected words become transmitted signals, simultaneously truncated and expanded, pointing to multiple narrators while triggering viewers to connect to their own experience. The ephemeral quality of the projected light and the fleeting texts suggests the fragility and transient nature of memory and story telling.
Nayda Collazo-Llorens was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is a visual artist based in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. More information on the artist's work can be found at www.naydacollazollorens.com. Nayda Collazo-Llorens appears courtesy of LMAKprojects, New York.
*Please note that there will be a tribute to Edgardo Vega Yunqué who recently passed away in his home in Brooklyn, New York. The homage will take the form of a continuous, non-stop reading of The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle, one of the most recent of the accomplished author's 18 novels.
source: MediaNoche press release
Editor's Note: You can order The Lamentable Journey right here:
A public intervention by Nayda Collazo-Llorens
October 25 – November 16
Viewable from dusk until midnight, Thursdays through Sundays
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 25, 6- 8 p.m.
Artist's talk: Saturday, November 8, 4:30 p.m.
Tribute to Edgardo Vega Yunque: Saturday, November 15, 3 - 7 p.m.
MediaNoche, Manhattan's Uptown gallery devoted to new media, presents Voiceover, a site specific public intervention by Nayda Collazo-Llorens. A constant flow of text moving across the storefront windows of MediaNoche engages the public to explore aspects of memory, language and displacement. Viewable at night from the street, nearby buildings and passing trains on the overpass, Voiceover is a non-linear textual piece projected onto the windows of the gallery, located at the Northeast corner of Park Avenue and 102nd Street, NYC's East Harlem.
A lyrical, textual composition, Voiceover is based on Collazo-Llorens' research of the archives and oral histories section of PRdream.com, a web site on the history, culture and politics of Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Fragments from these oral histories are combined with texts from public spaces, literature, the media, as well as the artist's own writings.
The projected words become transmitted signals, simultaneously truncated and expanded, pointing to multiple narrators while triggering viewers to connect to their own experience. The ephemeral quality of the projected light and the fleeting texts suggests the fragility and transient nature of memory and story telling.
Nayda Collazo-Llorens was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is a visual artist based in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. More information on the artist's work can be found at www.naydacollazollorens.com. Nayda Collazo-Llorens appears courtesy of LMAKprojects, New York.
*Please note that there will be a tribute to Edgardo Vega Yunqué who recently passed away in his home in Brooklyn, New York. The homage will take the form of a continuous, non-stop reading of The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle, one of the most recent of the accomplished author's 18 novels.
source: MediaNoche press release
Editor's Note: You can order The Lamentable Journey right here:
Friday, October 17, 2008
On the Reading Corner
Comedian Bill Santiago
presents his hilarious new book Pardon My Spanglish ¡Porque Because!
Event will be taped for American Latino TV.
7 p.m., Wednesday, October 22
EAST HARLEM CAFÉ
153 E. 104th St. (Lexington Ave.), NYC's El Barrio
La Casa Azul Bookstore will have copies of Pardon my Spanglish available for sale, with a book signing to follow the event. RSVP recommended lacasaazulbookstore@gmail.com
Editor's Note: Or, you can order it right here:
Comedian Bill Santiago
presents his hilarious new book Pardon My Spanglish ¡Porque Because!
Event will be taped for American Latino TV.
7 p.m., Wednesday, October 22
EAST HARLEM CAFÉ
153 E. 104th St. (Lexington Ave.), NYC's El Barrio
La Casa Azul Bookstore will have copies of Pardon my Spanglish available for sale, with a book signing to follow the event. RSVP recommended lacasaazulbookstore@gmail.com
Editor's Note: Or, you can order it right here:
Community calendar
The Venusz Ensemble brings Danza to the Bronx
Friday, November 7
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
Música de Cámara, Inc., Eva de la O, executive and artistic director & Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture present, direct from Puerto Rico,The Venusz Ensemble in a gala concert featuring a full program of La Danza Puertorriqueña. Under the direction of violinist Elena Sherbanesco, The Venusz Ensemble is made up of world class and internationally acclaimed women musicians, all members of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra.
The concert will be preceded at 7 p.m. by a paseo by dancers in 19th century period dress.
7:30 p.m., Hostos, 450 Grand Concourse
Repertory Theater
Admission: $15 ($7 for students, seniors and groups of ten or more)
For more information, www.hostos.cuny.edu/culturearts
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Puerto Rican Woodpecker
Today's featured shot from the Puerto Rico Sun photo group is by Ronald Flores.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Flight of the Greedy Pigeons
Today's featured shot from the Puerto Rico Sun photo group is by Silvered Capture.
Monday, October 13, 2008
'Aires de Loiza' in the Bronx
Thru Nov 8 / Art Exhibition / Longwood art Gallery @ Hostos Community College, Bronx
Aires de Loiza, Culture & Nature
For more information on the exhibit, www.bronxarts.org
For more photos taken at the exhibit, go to
www.flickr.com/photos/clarisel
Aires de Loiza, Culture & Nature
For more information on the exhibit, www.bronxarts.org
For more photos taken at the exhibit, go to
www.flickr.com/photos/clarisel
Sunday, October 12, 2008
playground by the sea
Today's featured shot from the Puerto Rico Sun photo group is by Petite Photography.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Readers Wanted for YUNQUÉ Tribute
On the Reading Corner
“THE LAMENTABLE JOURNEY OF OMAHA BIGELOW INTO THE IMPENETRABLE LOISAIDA JUNGLE”
BY ED VEGA YUNQUÉ
A TRIBUTE TO THE AUTHOR NON-STOP READING OF THE NOVEL
3-7 p.m., Saturday, November 15
Free
MediaNoche
1355 Park Avenue, Corner Store
(at East 102nd Street), East Harlem
www.medianoche.us
(212) 828-0401
Bring your copy. If you are interested in reading, contact Judith Escalona at
info@prdream.com or call.
MediaNoche is a project of PRdream.com.
You can order a copy right here:
“THE LAMENTABLE JOURNEY OF OMAHA BIGELOW INTO THE IMPENETRABLE LOISAIDA JUNGLE”
BY ED VEGA YUNQUÉ
A TRIBUTE TO THE AUTHOR NON-STOP READING OF THE NOVEL
3-7 p.m., Saturday, November 15
Free
MediaNoche
1355 Park Avenue, Corner Store
(at East 102nd Street), East Harlem
www.medianoche.us
(212) 828-0401
Bring your copy. If you are interested in reading, contact Judith Escalona at
info@prdream.com or call.
MediaNoche is a project of PRdream.com.
You can order a copy right here:
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