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SUMMARY:Artist Talk + Workshop | Loisaida through Cyanotypes with Maylyn ‘Zero’ Iglesia
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Swiss Institute + Maylyn ‘Zero’ Iglesia\nJoin Maylyn ‘Zero’ Iglesias for a free artist talk and cyanotype workshop at Swiss Institute on Sunday\, May 17 from 1:30–4:30PM! \nWe will begin by exploring Zero’s place-based photography practice\, use of alternative photographic processes\, and connection to Loisaida and its Nuyorican culture. This will be followed by a hands-on workshop where we will learn about the process of preparing cyanotype paper\, and then develop cyanotypes of our own using transparent photo negatives of Zero’s work of the neighborhood and local found materials. \nAll materials are provided\, though participants are welcome to bring objects\, drawings\, and the like that they might wish to use in their making. \nThe workshop portion will take place outside\, on the Swiss Institute rooftop. Should there be rain\, this program will be rescheduled. Rain date is May 30th. \nRSVP required and spots are limited!
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/artist-talk-workshop-loisaida-through-cyanotypes-with-maylyn-zero-iglesia/
LOCATION:Swiss Institute\, 38 St Marks Pl\, New York\, NY\, 10003
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month,Talk,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space: Preserving Lower East Side Squatting & Environmental Activism History
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Tompkins Square Library (NYPL) with the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS)\nPlease join us for an inside look at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS)\, including a slide talk at the Tompkins Square Library\, followed by a visit to MoRUS\, where a guided tour will be provided. \n12:00 PM to 1:00 PM: The program begins with an introduction to MoRUS\, led by Bill Di Paola (MoRUS Director & Founder) and Marie Cantor (Archive Director). Learn about the museum’s past\, present\, and future. The talk will include photographs and much more and will conclude with a Q&A session. MoRUS event calendars will also be available. \n2:00 PM to 3:00 PM: Particpants are invited to attend a tour of MoRUS\, located just two blocks from the Tompkins Square Library at 155 Loisaida Avenue (aka Avenue C).
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/the-museum-of-reclaimed-urban-space-preserving-lower-east-side-squatting-environmental-activism-history/
LOCATION:Tompkins Square Library\, 331 E 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month,Talk
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SUMMARY:Block by Block: Mapping the Evolution of Chinatown and Yiddish New York
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Museum at Eldridge Street\nIn anticipation of the Museum at Eldridge Street’s 25th Annual Egg Rolls\, Egg Creams\, & Empanadas Street Festival on June 21\, join multimedia journalist Aaron Reiss and Dr. Agnieszka (Agi) Legutko\, Director of the Yiddish Language Program at Columbia University\, on Thursday\, May 14th at 6pm Eastern Time on Zoom to discuss the role of digital mapping in tracing the evolution of Chinese and Yiddish-speaking communities in New York City. \nIn his journalism work\, Aaron Reiss uses maps as visual arguments and storytelling tools. In 2022\, he co-reported an interactive map and story for The New York Times chronicling the origins and disappearance of Chinatown’s Chinese street signs\, investigating the history of the neighborhood on a hyperlocal scale. Since 2014\, Dr. Agi Legutko has worked with Columbia University’s students on Mapping Yiddish New York\, an online archive documenting the historic sites of Yiddish New York\, from Yiddish record labels to iconic theaters and restaurants. The ongoing project invites users to discover the spaces\, people\, and events that shaped Yiddish culture in the city. \nPlease see the Zoom link in your order confirmation email. This program is entirely virtual. \nRegistration for this Zoom program is pay-what-you-wish. The following are suggested amounts for each ticket type:\nAdults $12\nSeniors $10\nStudents $8 \nREGISTER HERE \n\nAaron Reiss was raised in a coastal California town called Encinitas. He went to Yale University and majored in Urban Planning and Environmental Studies where he fell in love with mapping as beautiful means for talking about we live our lives. For the last decade plus\, he has been making maps\, taking photographs\, shooting video\, writing articles\, and recording audio to explore how people imagine and shape the places they inhabit – from rural villages in China\, to the outer boroughs of New York City. His work focuses on interactive journalism – combining different kinds of media (visual and otherwise) to tell rich and complex stories. Aaron spent 6 years\, on and off\, researching the Chinese names of streets in New York City. \nDr. Agi Legutko specializes in modern Yiddish literature\, language\, and culture\, women and gender studies\, spirit possession in Judaism\, as well as in American and European modern Jewish literatures\, theater\, and film. Her research interests also include trauma\, memory\, performance\, and the body represented in modern Jewish cultures. She is interested in new approaches to content-based foreign language teaching and developing new Yiddish pedagogy in the post-method era\, as well as in employing digital humanities in teaching language and literature. \n\nAbout the Museum at Eldridge Street:\nThe Museum at Eldridge Street is housed in the Eldridge Street Synagogue\, a magnificent National Historic Landmark that has been meticulously restored. Opened in 1887\, the synagogue is the first great house of worship built in America by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Today\, it is the only remaining marker of the great wave of Jewish migration to the Lower East Side that is open to a broad public who wishes to visit Jewish New York. Exhibits\, tours\, public programs\, and education initiatives tell the story of Jewish immigrant life\, explore architecture and historic preservation\, inspire reflection on cultural continuity\, and foster collaboration and exchange between people of all faiths\, heritages\, and interests. \n\nImage Credit (left to right): Carl T. Gossett/The New York Times; Courtesy of Jewish Studies at Columbia University
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/block-by-block-mapping-the-evolution-of-chinatown-and-yiddish-new-york/
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month,Talk
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SUMMARY:What Makes a NYC Landmark?
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Lower East Side Preservation Initiative\nMay 13 – LESPI’s Community Meeting: “What Makes a NYC Landmark?” \nHow does the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) decide what to landmark\, what not to landmark\, and how to prioritize their work? How much should a building’s historic architecture versus cultural history weigh in the decision? Should a landmark look like a landmark to be a landmark? \nJoin Margaret Herman\, Director of Research at the LPC\, Preservation Consultant Simeon Bankoff\, and LESPI for a lively yet friendly\, illustrated discussion of this important topic. \nDo you have a favorite historic building you’d like to see landmarked? Email a photo to us at info@LESPI-nyc.org and we’ll try to include it in the discussion. \nWhen: Wednesday\, May 13\, 6:30-8:30PM \nWhere: Henry Street Settlement\, 269 Henry Street \nFree\, reservation required\, limited seating\, sign up HERE. \nMargaret Herman\, Ph.D. is an architectural historian who serves as the LPC’s Director of Research\, leading geographic and thematic surveys\, overseeing special projects\, and managing the designation process for numerous landmarks and historic districts. Prior to joining LPC\, Margaret held various university teaching positions\, where her academic research focused on early 20th century American architectural and urban planning history. \nSimeon Bankoff is a longtime preservation activist in New York City. He has helped lead campaigns to designate and preserve historic buildings in all 5 boroughs for over 30 years. Mr. Bankoff served as the Executive Director of the Historic Districts Council for over 20 years and currently works with organizations throughout the city on community preservation campaigns.
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/what-makes-a-nyc-landmark/
LOCATION:Henry Street Settlement\, 269 Henry Street\, New York\, NY\, 10002
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260503T190000
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SUMMARY:Author Event: Daniel Root's "The East Village Then and Now"
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Book Club Bar\nWhen photographer Daniel Root moved to the East Village in the early 1980s\, this constantly changing neighborhood was in one of its periods of greatest ferment. Multiple immigrant groups maintained enclaves there—including Ukrainians\, Puerto Ricans\, Italians\, Dominicans\, and Poles—even as drug dealers plied their trade in abandoned buildings and young artists flooded in looking for cheap rents\, followed close behind by real estate speculators. Through his lens\, Root captured a young Madonna filming Desperately Seeking Susan on St. Mark’s Place; the storefront galleries of the East Village art scene; Life Cafe\, where Jonathan Larson would write—and set—Rent; retirees playing chess in Tompkins Square Park; junkies fleeing the police. Forty years later\, Root—still an East Village resident—has returned to the very same places where he took those pictures\, to document how the scene has changed. \nRoot’s “then and now” photographs\, presented together in this volume along with his wry commentary\, document the transformation of a legendary New York neighborhood for better and worse—higher rents\, yes\, but lower crime; displacement\, but also the persistence of community and creativity. A foreword by renowned artist Peter McGough and noted Beat historian Bill Morgan shed further light on the history of the East Village. This will be an essential volume for all downtown denizens\, past\, present\, and future. \nDaniel Root is a fine art photographer and a principal in the visual arts firm The Root Group. His popular predawn photographs of Manhattan water holes were collected in the book New York Bars at Dawn (Abbeville). You can find his daily photos\, a practice he’s now maintained for a decade\, on Instagram at @danielrootphotography. Root has lived in the East Village since the early 1980s. \nDaniel will be in conversation with Eric “Roscoe” Ambel\, musician/Lakeside Lounge.
URL:https://www.peoplesles.org/event/author-event-daniel-roots-the-east-village-then-and-now/
LOCATION:Book Club Bar\, 197 E 3rd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10009
CATEGORIES:Lower East Side History Month,Talk
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