Garbagia Universe Fashion & Performance Show
Presented by The Loisaida Center
Saturday, September 9 , 2017, 6:00 pm
La Plaza Cultural de Armando Pérez Community Garden, SW corner of 9th St & Ave C
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NEW YORK, NY, SEPT 9, 2017– Loisaida Inc. in collaboration with Morus, La Plaza Cultural Armando Perez and Lungs engagement with the community brings for the second consecutive year “Garbagia Universe”. A three weeks intensive workshops and Open Studio Space from 4:00- 10:00 pm Tuesdays to Saturdays from August 22 to September 8 for the community of artists of the Lower East Side and beyond. Acting on the continued need to build public historical awareness of cultural immigrant history, and consistent with Loisaida’s commitment to urban place keeping this year’s Garabagia Project concept is to unify everyone under one universal understanding. Based on Joaquin Torres Garcia Universal Constructivism we want to redefine and expand the American Culture beyond the historical, political and social aspects into the universal and cosmic. Our intention is to erase the differences between humans created by borders to enhance a unifying identity that relies on the principle of the Origin of the Universe and how we all in essence come from the same place.
The outcome intends to present a forward-looking merger of eco-urbanism and art-based community making anchored on Loisaida’s history of place-keeping efforts and the re-generative spirit initiated by the community garden movement. The culmination of this collaborative community project will be an Up-cycled Costume & Fashion pageant as well as a Collaborative Performance Piece that will take place at La Plaza Cultural on Saturday, Sept 9 at 7:00 pm (Rain Date Sept 10) and also we will be part of The Harvest Festival September 24 at El Jardin del Paraiso Community Garden. To learn more visit:
Story for the Performance:
Black matter bodies dancing chaotically in the nothingness in a disharmonious ways attracting each other to form a huge black mass of energy. The amount of energy accumulated in this chaotic mass produces a huge explosion, from within the force of the exploitation the Sun is being born. The Goddess “Mother of all” Sun signs floating in the Universe creating harmonious vibrations and her reflection of light transform the black beings into lightness this way the Planets were born gravitating around the Sun. Suddenly a disruption take place. The Sun decides to hide inside a cave leaving the Universe in total darkness. The planets decide to bring her offerings to the front of the cave making a ritual for the Sun to come out again. They talked about an amazing beautiful Goddess, the Sun by curiosity peaks outside, the Planets had a mirror for the Sun to look at her own reflection. The Sun looks at herself and come out in a ecstasies, they all dance again.