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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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EllaMaeFlossie presents Tea Time

East Village Planetarium 402 East 8th Street, New York, NY, United States

A 360 ̊ audio-visual-movement journey in afrofuturism, rooted in the herstory of America’s Sea Island Gullah
culture, EllaMaeFlossie is a snapshot into womanhood.

$20

Hester Street Fair’s Girl Power Fair

Hester Street Fair’s Girl Power Fair is back for its fourth edition on June 15th with the best and the boldest womxn in New York! Our beloved Girl Power event is proud to showcase a line up of owned and operated businesses, vendors, artists, and performers—a packed day powered by womxn! EVENT DETAILS Charitable Partners Lower East Side Girls Club Hester Street Fair has partnered again with The Lower Eastside Girls Club of NY which provides a place where middle school and high school girls can grow, learn, have fun, and develop confidence in themselves and their ability to make a difference in the world. By delivering strong arts, literacy, science, health and leadership programs we provide girls with the vision to plan – and the tools to build – their future. The Lower Eastside Girls Club will have a Made By Us booth and Hester Street Fair will be making and collecting donations.   Special Features What is Girl Power: We collectively take a look at What is Girl Power through self-expression and individuality. Hester Street Fair will provide paper & supplies in our workshop tent to write, draw and color “What Is Girl Power”. Once finished each participant will pin […]

BioBus Science Happy Hour — Drugs for Bugs: Friend or Foe?

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

Enjoy drinks and light bites, hear some of the latest science about our microbiome from our guest speaker, and ignite your natural curiosity using our microscopes.

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Girls Make Music New York 2019

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

The Lower Eastside Girls Club is taking it to the streets again! Come party with us on Friday June 21st as we celebrate the beginning of summer and Make Music NY! Enjoy performances by the Girls Club Avenue DJs, our Girls Club Step Team, Girl poets, singers, rappers, and hip-hop dancers! We’ll also be featuring guest performances by the Kim Clarke Quartet, an all-women jazz ensemble; Moon Moon Moo, Dai Burger with Lynelle Whichard's Kids Ensemble, RKHTY, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir and many more!

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Cocktails for Camp 2019

The Standard, East Village 25 Cooper Square, New York, NY, United States

Join us at The Standard, East Village for our annual Cocktails for Camp summer party for an evening of cocktails, appetizers, and breathtaking New York City skyline views — all for a great cause!

$100

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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LUNGS Festival

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

The Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens (LUNGS) is dedicating a day to the Lower East Side’s Gardens. Join us on our Rooftop Farm for private tours at 11 AM and 1 PM, given by our very own LESGC members.

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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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