Lanzo / Luna: Connections at Teatro Latea is organized within the annual eMeLe-K celebration, this year being the 5th edition!

The urban historian and architect, Nandini Bagchee, and Curator and Executive Director of The Clemente, Libertad Guerra, have teamed up to launch a digital exhibition and public resource, a spin-off of the eponymous book, Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side by Bagchee.

Esos Árboles, a mural by artist Molly Crabapple, is a permanent installation on view in the entrance vestibule of the Clemente. It includes extracts from Soto Veléz's poems translated from Spanish into Yiddish, into Mandarin translated by the artist Yao Xiao and English, bomba dancers, elderly Xiangqi players, the late Nuyorican activist Jorge Brandon, garment workers, a machete wielding cane-worker (aka Clemente’s bouncer), a wooden horse or ‘el caballo de palo’ in a nod to one of Soto Veléz best-known poems, ‘La Diosa de La Ceiba’, and an abandoned prison transforming into wildlife.

La Tierra Prometida | The Promised Land is an installation by Brian Buckley comprised of Composite gold leaf, LED lights, and recorded voices, in the vestibule of 107 Suffolk St. which acts as a beacon of light and sound in honor of Public-School number 160, built on this site in 1893 and the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center who occupies and manages the building today. Clemente Soto Velez’s poem La Tierra Prometida # 18 is heard overhead on a loop (recited by Nancy Mercado and Urayoán Noel).