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Girls Club x Chashama: Diamond District Windows

Diamond District Windows 4-10 W 47th St., New York, NY, United States

Being the Change We Want to Sea (Zero Waste, Shark Fondness, Plastic Aversion) by the Lower Eastside Girls Club (LESGC) The Lower Eastside Girls Club installation focuses on environmental awareness. The centerpiece of the installation is LESGC Board Member/mentor/artist Kevin McHugh’s Disco Shark sculpture; McHugh regularly donates portions from the proceeds of sales of his work to marine research and conservation organizations. The rest of the installation has been designed and fabricated by the girls of the LESGC, using recycled and repurposed materials. About The Lower Eastside Girls Club The Lower Eastside Girls Club operates a state-of-the-art community center that offers a safe haven with programs in the arts, sciences, leadership, entrepreneurship, and wellness for girls in middle and high school. Their facilities include a Maker Shop for engineering and coding; Biology lab for STEM programming and research; Alphabet City Art School for visual arts and crafts; Center for Media and Social Justice for digital media and photography; Sound Studio for music production and our radio station/podcast, WGRL (Where Girl Radio Lives); Design Shop for fashion design; a rooftop farm; full culinary kitchen and cafe; and 64-seat state-of the art, 30-foot dome planetarium. Web: https://girlsclub.org/ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/girlsclubny

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Eirini Linardaki — What is to Come.

136 Avenue C 136 Avenue C, New York, NY, United States

The Lower Eastside Girls Club invites you to join us Friday, February 15, 2019 5-8 pm to celebrate our Artist-In-Residence Eirini Linardaki and view “What is to Come” An installation by the Girls Club & Eirini Linardaki Eirini Linardaki is a Greek-French artist who works between New York and the island of Crete. During her stay from January to February 2019, she worked with our girls to create colorful prints of explosions and a magnetic, interactive installation that places the viewer as both an actor and performer of that piece. The drawing installation is made with magnetic, fluorescent surfaces that are interchangeable and guests are invited to create their own composition. Working with different textile patterns, inspired by the diversity of our girls, they also created digital collages which celebrate power, joy and potential for change. Together we are the power of change.

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Girlville at Art on Paper

Pier 36 299 South Street, New York, NY, United States

Join the Lower Eastside Girls Club for our third year exhibiting the work of our members at the Art on Paper fair! We'll be showcasing a data-designed paper city inspired by the work of Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez and East Village photographers James and Karla Murray. Look for Booth #915!

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Fourth Annual Girls Club Comix Festival

Lower Eastside Girls Club Center for Community 402 East 8th Street, New York, NY, United States

Meet the women (and men) who write and illustrate some of your favorite characters, including our host Fly-O, with participating artists; the Fearless Feminists, Isabella Bannerman and Katherine Arnoldi; Javier Cruz Winnik, Bronx Heroes and the Women in Comics NYC Collective International! More artists & creatives TBA! Comix Market Discover the coolest comics and zines available for sale, created by our Girls Club members as well as local artists. Workshops Stop by our comics workshops and drawing stations led by NYC comic art professionals, Girls Club instructors and members — for kids of all ages! Learn how to make mini comics, create characters, develop story ideas, get drawing tips or just have fun reclaiming your power and creativity with pencils & sharpies! Make your own t-shirts in a silk-screening workshop!

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Artist in Residence Maria de Los Angeles at Every Woman Biennial

La Mama Galleria 47 Great Jones Street, New York, NY, United States

MARIA DE LOS ANGELES & Alphabet City Art School Opening Reception MAY 19, 2019 1–4pm Every Woman Biennial 2019 at La Mama, La Galleria 47 Great Jones Street (Art) 222 Bowery (Art + Film Festival) New York, NY Gallery Hours May 20–29  •  1–7pm (including Memorial Day)   About the Every Woman Biennial The EVERY WOMAN BIENNIAL is the all woman and women-identified art biennial founded and curated by C. Finley. What began as the Whitney Houston Biennial, a wild one-night event of art and performance celebrating women in 2014, and expanded to a two-week exhibition in 2017 in the awakening of the #MeToo movement, will present its third iteration, titled Every Woman Biennial, from May 20 - May 29 in NY, and a sister biennial featuring LA-based artists June 2 - 12 in LA.   Contributing Girls Club Members K’mai Allen Angelica Bautista Safari Buckly Shanai Dunbar Pamela Espinalvaldez Martha Flores Sienna Garcia Sophia Guitterez Shaniyah Hohenkirk Zakira Mack Kailey Molina Catelyn Neal Shanice Negron Mia Olavarria Jacky Perez Kaitlyn Perez Angelica B Quinones Conscious Rogers Alissa Ruff Absatou Sadiq Lavonia Sharp Jeisica Sookoo Clari Taveras Destiny White Ayianna Wilson

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Loisaida Festival and Grand Opening of Campaign HQ

136 Avenue C 136 Avenue C, New York, NY, United States

About Campaign HQ Stop by the opening of the Girls Club’s newest: a Gallery and Gift Shop! About Loisaida Festival Since 1987, the Loisaida Festival has been celebrated the Sunday before Memorial Day weekend in the Manhattan neighborhood known as the Lower East Side, the East Village, or Loisaida. This event is the largest community pride festival in the neighborhood and grows annually in size, excitement, and impact. It is presented in the Avenue C commercial corridor — renamed Loisaida Avenue since 1989. The Loisaida Festival includes diverse manifestations of the Puerto Rican and Latino cultures expressed through music, cuisine and arts. Although it began as a community event to celebrate the culture, heritage and accomplishments of Loisaida’s Puerto Rican/Hispanic community, the event has created a multi-cultural spirit where people from all races and backgrounds descend from all parts on the city into this historic and eclectic neighborhood. The Loisaida Festival has also created a platform for Loisaida’s Latino and, now growing, non-Latino neighborhood residents and families that come together on the day of the event to share and celebrate the Memorial Day Holiday as well as their social and cultural differences. The program includes musical concerts, dance performances, folkloric […]

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Photoville: Water is a Women’s Issue

Brooklyn Bridge Plaza 17-31 Water St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

For the third year in a row, we are exhibiting in Photoville, a free outdoor photo destination with over 90+ exhibitors. This year our installation is titled Water is a Women’s Issue; a national collaborative project organized by the Lower Eastside Girls Club, which examines how water impacts women’s bodies, our home communities, and our daily life.

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Love No Border: An Artists’ Call for Action

Art + Community Gallery 402 East 8th Street, New York, NY, United States

"Love No Border" showcases the work of artists from throughout the United States and Mexico who are using their time and talents to give voice, witness, and love to those who, like them, are standing up for others.
Many have asked: “If not us, who? If not now, when?”.

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Art on Paper: It’s In The Cards

Pier 36 299 South Street, New York, NY, United States

It's In The Cards: Thoughts on TarotThe Lower Eastside Girls Club at Art on Paper Fair Our Artist-in-Residence, Courtney Alexander, focuses her work on representation, using tarot cards as one of her many mediums. For the past few months, Courtney —in collaboration with our Girls Club teaching artists, Megan Kindsfather and Lenora Thornton — worked with our members to create their own interpretations of the cards using mixed media and photography. Over the duration of the class, Courtney provided a space for the girls to honor and learn about themselves through the lens of storytelling. She also constructed an altar which will be on display at our Art on Paper exhibit. Art on Paper 2020 marks the expansion of the fair's reach into the international collecting community and the renewal of important partnerships with Brooklyn Museum, Lower Eastside Girls Club, and the city's most inspiring cultural institutions. Girls Club Members: Sahima S Aziz • Melani Collado • Dalylah Gibson • Octovia Haskins • Cori Hohenkirk • Zakira Mack • Keana Marinez • Joselina Madison • Makayla McPherson Cruz • Jayla Minnifield • Gianna Reyes • Destiny Roche • Alonna Storey • Akera Troche • Shaniyah Ulysse • Ayianna Wilson Booth […]

Earth Day Celebration & Growing Abolition Opening at MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens, NY, United States

Join us for a celebration of Earth Day, featuring music, art-making workshops, and opportunities to seed a new green space at MoMA PS1. The day marks both the closing of Slow Factory’s The Revolution is a School in Homeroom, and the unveiling of jackie sumell & The Lower Eastside Girls Club: Growing Abolition, a new project unfolding around a greenhouse in the side courtyard of PS1 offering points of connection between environmental justice and prison abolition. To celebrate the dialogue forged between these projects, Slow Factory will host a series of musical performances and hands-on workshops on themes of sustainability and climate justice. Bring your used clothing for opportunities to repair, print on, or recycle the textiles. Visitors of all ages will also be invited to participate in the seeding of planters for the greenhouse, a project which continues PS1’s commitment to exploring urban green spaces as places of creativity, community building, and solidarity. Please note that workshop capacity is limited. Workshops: Repair Stations with Multitudes Studio and Makayla Wray Terrarium Making Workshop with Olivia Rose Planting with Alive Structures and jackie sumell Screen Printing Station with Mae Lim Stark Herb Bundling with One Love Community Fridge Live Music: Sam […]

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