Opportunity
Danza Fiesta holds auditions for new dancers
4-7 p.m., Saturday, November 8
Reyes Karate School
1175 Gerard Avenue, Bronx
Danza Fiesta
Baile y Teatro Puertorriqueño
Under the direction of renowned dancer/choreographer Gilda Rivera Pantojas, Danza Fiesta – Baile y Teatro Puertorriqueño has entranced audiences with its rich array of Puerto Rican traditional dances, and intriguing contemporary dances. Its repertoire ranges from Puerto Rican Bomba, Plena, and Seis music, to other Latin American traditional dances. The company currently is composed by 20 dancers who are accompanied by a 10 member band, and three singers.
MALE/FEMALE AUDITION INFORMATION:
Auditions will be held by Danza Fiesta’s seasoned dancer/choreographer Cristal Reyes with over 10 years experience with the company. All dancers should wear comfortable clothing, and if available females should bring a wide skirt. Headshots and Resumes not necessary but bring if available. No experience is necessary but all dancers should have a great sense of musicality and timing. Callbacks will be held the following week on Saturday, November 15th, 2008. There is currently no pay for rehearsals but there may be performance stipends available, depending on the venue. This is a great opportunity to be part of an innovative and unique dance and theater company.
http://www.DanzaFiesta.org
For more information, e-mail info@DanzaFiesta.org
(photo of Danza Fiesta performing at La Fiesta Folkorica Puertorriqueña in Central Park by Clarisel Gonzalez)
source: Danza Fiesta
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:
Friday, October 10, 2008
Community calendar
Closing reception for Miguel Trelles' painting exhibition TRAMITE: Hsiao
@ the Gabarron Foundation for the Arts (gabarronfoundation.org), 149 East 38th Street (between Lexington & 3rd Ave.), Manhattan
7-9 p.m. Wednesday, October 15
About the exhibit:
The Gabarron Foundation is pleased to present “TRAMITE: HSIAO” by Miguel Trelles. The exhibition, which has been on display since September, will run through October 20 at 149 East 38th Street, Manhattan. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. by appointment Monday - Friday at (212) 573-6968.
Trámite Hsiao is a creative reinterpretation of Chinese scholar-official painter’s Li Kung-Lin’s (1041-1106) enlightening painting hand scroll: the “Hsiao-Ching” (Xiaojing tu) or The Classic of Filial Piety. In it Li adapted to his age the admonitions extolling filial piety found in a Confucian text (350 – 200 B.C.). Li’s adaptation highlights social interactions in11th Century China. The 18 compositions of TRAMITE: HSIAO, portray demon-like creatures from a later Chinese hand scroll by Kung K’ai (1222 –ca. 1304), “Chung K’uei Traveling”, assuming the social roles originally rendered by Li. While retaining the compositions of Li’s Xiaojing tu, TRAMITE constitutes a reinterpretation. The later “demons” scroll constitutes an ethnic caricature of the “other” in 13th Century China. Since in 21st Century Latinos/Hispanic in the United States are a significant “other”, Trelles has appropriated Chung K’uei’s demon countenances to convey Latinos/Hispanic “otherness” in their new setting.
Miguel Trelles is an artist who works out of New York City. After obtaining a B.A. in Art History and Studio Art at Brown University, Miguel Trelles attended graduate courses in Chinese Art History at Yale University. He then took up lithography at the Ecole Superieur des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Trelles holds an M.F.A. (1995) from Hunter College. Trelles’ paintings have traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Santo Domingo, Havana, Tegucigalpa, Buenos Aires, and Paris, among others. Trelles’ work is part of several permanent collections such as those in El Museo del Barrio and Deutsche Bank in New York and in El Museo de Arte de Ponce and the Institue of Puerto Rican Culture in Puerto Rico. His current work, chino-latino, recontextualizes classic Chinese painting in order to highlight its timeless relevance. With Hsiao, chino-latino delves into figurative, non-landscape Chinese painting models. He is also an adjunct professor of Studio Art at Hunter College in New York, and he also teaches at Baruch College.
The Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts has been serving the Spanish and American communities since 2002 promoting the Spanish and Latin American Arts and Culture in the States through exhibitions, seminars, and lectures.
source: Gabarron
Closing reception for Miguel Trelles' painting exhibition TRAMITE: Hsiao
@ the Gabarron Foundation for the Arts (gabarronfoundation.org), 149 East 38th Street (between Lexington & 3rd Ave.), Manhattan
7-9 p.m. Wednesday, October 15
About the exhibit:
The Gabarron Foundation is pleased to present “TRAMITE: HSIAO” by Miguel Trelles. The exhibition, which has been on display since September, will run through October 20 at 149 East 38th Street, Manhattan. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. by appointment Monday - Friday at (212) 573-6968.
Trámite Hsiao is a creative reinterpretation of Chinese scholar-official painter’s Li Kung-Lin’s (1041-1106) enlightening painting hand scroll: the “Hsiao-Ching” (Xiaojing tu) or The Classic of Filial Piety. In it Li adapted to his age the admonitions extolling filial piety found in a Confucian text (350 – 200 B.C.). Li’s adaptation highlights social interactions in11th Century China. The 18 compositions of TRAMITE: HSIAO, portray demon-like creatures from a later Chinese hand scroll by Kung K’ai (1222 –ca. 1304), “Chung K’uei Traveling”, assuming the social roles originally rendered by Li. While retaining the compositions of Li’s Xiaojing tu, TRAMITE constitutes a reinterpretation. The later “demons” scroll constitutes an ethnic caricature of the “other” in 13th Century China. Since in 21st Century Latinos/Hispanic in the United States are a significant “other”, Trelles has appropriated Chung K’uei’s demon countenances to convey Latinos/Hispanic “otherness” in their new setting.
Miguel Trelles is an artist who works out of New York City. After obtaining a B.A. in Art History and Studio Art at Brown University, Miguel Trelles attended graduate courses in Chinese Art History at Yale University. He then took up lithography at the Ecole Superieur des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Trelles holds an M.F.A. (1995) from Hunter College. Trelles’ paintings have traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Santo Domingo, Havana, Tegucigalpa, Buenos Aires, and Paris, among others. Trelles’ work is part of several permanent collections such as those in El Museo del Barrio and Deutsche Bank in New York and in El Museo de Arte de Ponce and the Institue of Puerto Rican Culture in Puerto Rico. His current work, chino-latino, recontextualizes classic Chinese painting in order to highlight its timeless relevance. With Hsiao, chino-latino delves into figurative, non-landscape Chinese painting models. He is also an adjunct professor of Studio Art at Hunter College in New York, and he also teaches at Baruch College.
The Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts has been serving the Spanish and American communities since 2002 promoting the Spanish and Latin American Arts and Culture in the States through exhibitions, seminars, and lectures.
source: Gabarron
In the Mailbox
Recently highlighted in the New York Times, Dionis Ortiz is an artist whose work speaks to the people, cultures and color behind the migration experience. Through paintings, collage, and mixed-media prints, Ortiz delves into passage, movement, journey and exodus, and reveals the beauty in the bustling streets of his Harlem community.
The son of Dominican immigrants, Ortiz's works often reflect the unification of his dual identity as an American and an individual of Latin descent. This idea of double consciousness is symbolized in the conjoining of the old and new worlds, usually seen in a merging of landscapes that disappear and reappear to form one "home".
Currently, Ortiz's artwork can be seen in the artHARLEM exhibit EVOLUTION: The Changing Face of Harlem, through November 6th; in the Oualie Arts exhibit Confluence: Artists Across the Hudson Divide through November 1st; and at the Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration exhibit at Riverbank State Park, on view through October 13th.
For more information, please visit www.dionisortiz.com.
Regards,
Camille Wanliss
Inspiration Fine Art
Recently highlighted in the New York Times, Dionis Ortiz is an artist whose work speaks to the people, cultures and color behind the migration experience. Through paintings, collage, and mixed-media prints, Ortiz delves into passage, movement, journey and exodus, and reveals the beauty in the bustling streets of his Harlem community.
The son of Dominican immigrants, Ortiz's works often reflect the unification of his dual identity as an American and an individual of Latin descent. This idea of double consciousness is symbolized in the conjoining of the old and new worlds, usually seen in a merging of landscapes that disappear and reappear to form one "home".
Currently, Ortiz's artwork can be seen in the artHARLEM exhibit EVOLUTION: The Changing Face of Harlem, through November 6th; in the Oualie Arts exhibit Confluence: Artists Across the Hudson Divide through November 1st; and at the Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration exhibit at Riverbank State Park, on view through October 13th.
For more information, please visit www.dionisortiz.com.
Regards,
Camille Wanliss
Inspiration Fine Art
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