When: Sept 28, 2024 @ 2:00 - 9:00 PM
Where: Outside of The Clemente on Suffolk St (between Rivington & Delancey)
We are thrilled to launch our groundbreaking initiative Historias with a vibrant block party on September 28th! This event will feature street performances, artist commissions, music, and public activations in partnership with Street Lab. The event will close with the debut of a special Historias commission Cuarto Oscuro, a live streamed four part performance created by Lucia della Paolera and Seth Tillett, projected on the Suffolk Street facade of the Clemente Center.
Full Schedule:
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Block Party
Live vinyl music set by: dJ tres dos
Street Activations by:
Fabio Puentes: NYC Chilerican Solidarity & Resistance
Revista Balam
Street Lab
Vanessa González: Parada: La Fiesta No Termina Aquí
Yanira Castro: Exorcism = Liberation
Qi Zone Wellness: Beads & Seeds for Social Justice. Providers are: Juan, Walter, Margarita, Carlos
Tai Chi demo by Walter Bosque, ex-Young Lord and Lincoln Detox visionary
Maria Lupianez, Steve Ellis & Melanie Vote, Drawn Together*
House of Bones*
Laura Nova, Wishing Tree*
Natalia de Campos in collaboration with Thiago Szmrecsanyi: Artists Against Apartheid*
Stacy Mehrfar: Photo Walk*
Linda Byrne & guest artist Abby Goodman: The Traveling Suitcase & The Art Cart*
*Denotes The Clemente Open Studios Participants
Community tables from:
Bluestockings Bookstore, Grand St. Settlement, District 1, Mutual Aid NYC, UnLocal, and more!
Mutual Aid NYC: In collaboration with mutual aid organizer William Chan and the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Mutual Aid NYC will be collecting donations of urgently needed winter coats to help thousands of newly arrived asylum seekers and immigrants survive this winter. Additional items in need: children’s clothing of all sizes, under garments of all types (must be new), and metrocards. Gently used or new conditions only.
3:30 - 4:00 PM: Opening Remarks
The Clemente Studios Open to the public (4 PM)
4:00 - 9:00 PM: Special Commissions and Performances
4:00 PM: Bulla en el Barrio, Musical Performance
4:50 PM: Edwin Torres, The Historias Conduction: Ancestors of Latino Poetry
With a seven poet choir: Lydia Cortés, Sheila Maldonado, E.J. McAdams, Yesenia Montilla, Urayoán Noel, Kristin Prevallet, and Emanuel Xavier
5:10 PM: Jonathan Gonzalez, PRACTICE
6:00 PM: Intermission with DJ Tresdos
6:40 PM: Xenia Rubinos, Círculo de Voces
7:15 PM: Kiki & the Fellas* (replacement for Jesús Hilario-Reyes whose performance will be rescheduled for a later date due to unforseen circumstances)
8:00 PM: Closing Remarks
8:15 PM: Historias Closing Commission debut
Lucia della Paolera and Seth Tillett: Cuarto Oscuro
9:00 PM: Event ends