May is Lower East Side History Month!
About
Lower East Side History Month was founded eleven years ago by local groups in the hope that a collective celebration of our stories and peoples would strengthen our sense of community.
Honoring the history of this community together is one element in working collaboratively to sustain an inclusive LES – despite waves of change and displacement.
The Lower East Side has been home to Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, and Pacific Islander peoples, to LGBTQ communities, to artists, radicals, organizers, immigrants, refugees, and workers. In May, we celebrate their past stories and their presence today.
Over 60 Lower East Side cultural and community groups, small businesses, and residents will host a variety of public events, exhibits, tours, and festivals.
We invite you to celebrate the LES with us!
2024 PARTICIPANTS
This May, over 60 organizations will celebrate the diverse peoples, communities, and histories of the Lower East Side!
Abrons Arts Center, Anthology Film Archives, Art Loisaida Foundation, Bond Street Theatre, Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, Chinatown Partnership, City Lore, The Clemente, Cooper Square Committee, Creative Time, Downtown Art, Earth Celebrations, East Village Community Coalition, East Village Vintage Collective, Educational Alliance, Essex Market, East Village Independent Merchants Association (EVIMA), Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc), GOLES, Grace Church School, Grand Street Settlement, Green Map System, Hi-Note, IATI Theater, International Center of Photography (ICP), Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum, KGB Bar and Red Room, La Sirena Mexican Folk Art, Loisaida Inc, Lower Eastside Girls Club, Lower East Side Preservation Initiative (LESPI), Lucky, M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden, Magnum Foundation, Mark DeGarmo Dance, Merchant’s House Museum, Middle Church, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Marble Cemetery, New York Theatre Workshop, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Office of Assembly Member Harvey Epstein, Office of Council Member Carlina Rivera, Office of Council Member Christopher Marte, Ottendorfer Library, The Performance Project @ University Settlement, Performance Space New York, Ping Chong + Company, Poetic Theater Productions, The Poetry Project, Rod Rodgers Dance Company, Sixth Street Community Center, St Marks Church in the Bowery, Swiss Institute, The Tenement Museum, Think!Chinatown, Theater for the New City, Tompkins Square Library, The Ukrainian Museum, University Settlement, Village Preservation, Vision Urbana, Inc., Wild Project, WOW Café Theatre