Suffolk St Solidarity
The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center and Bluestockings Cooperative are excited to announce Suffolk Street Solidarity / Solidaridad en Suffolk: A celebration fundraiser to sustain the essential solidarity work that our spaces—now across-the-street neighbors—do in our LES community.
The Clemente has been part of the Lower East Side for nearly 30 year, for Bluestockings for 22 years. Bluestockings found a new home during the pandemic, and it’s right across from The Clemente on Suffolk St. We are beyond thrilled to be neighbors and for all the possibilities this opens for us to work together. We’re marking this new chapter with a joint fundraiser to mutually support each other’s work and connect our already overlapping communities.
More details:
The event will include both in-person and virtual components, so that everyone can be a part of the celebration and support our ongoing efforts. It will be a night of political education and performance, community connection and enviable raffle prizes!
When: December 8th, 6:30 doors (physical and virtual) open, 7:30 program start - 9:30pm
Where: The Clemente’s Flamboyán Theater & on Zoom
Tickets: Click Here for Tickets!
We’re setting a bold goal to raise $70k, split evenly between our two organizations, to support our various solidarity programming efforts. Funds raised will go toward:
Bluestockings’ mutual aid work: Keeping the free store stocked, building out our basement space to sustain our community resourcing work, and infusing emergency preparedness into our programming
The Clemente’s solidarity work: Venue space subsidy support for emergent cultural producers and community organizations, new Micro-Residency program for Latinx artists, expansion of solidarity economies research and initiative implementation, launch of the Activist Estates of the Lower East Side web exhibit /research tool, and free community events.
This event will celebrate the spirit of mutual aid and our shared commitment to community support, advocacy, and empowerment through the arts, political education, and organizing resources for our most vulnerable neighbors.
Speakers: Alok, Rita Indiana, Molly Crabapple, Yin Q, Victoria Law
Performers: Claudi of PincLouds and Choked Up (with Cristy Road)
Raffle Items: We have coveted items and great gifts which include thematically curated bundles from Bluestockings merch, Hard-cover coffee table books donated by the Museum of the City of New York, tickets and passes to plays and concerts donated by Teatro SEA, and Arts for Art, and more.
Art in Auction: Join a chance to bid on art work by stellar Latinx artists such as
Pablo Helguera, Elia Alba, Karina Aguilera Svirsky, and other compelling visual work by amazing contemporary artists such as Rachelle Mozman, Laura Nova, Susana Coffey, Jay Bulger, and original photo of Lee Scratch Perry.