Arts

The Lo-Down Culture Cast – Public Artist Laura Nova

Lower East Side artist and activist Laura Nova spoke with The Lo-Down Culture Cast host Traven Rice about creating inter-generational projects with a wide array of people from the Lower East Side neighborhood. Nova is an artist, educator, and...

“Candy Store” a New Photo Book About Ray’s Candy Shop Celebrates 50 Years of Ray’s

On the latest episode of The Lo-Down Culture Cast, photographer Whitney Browne talks with Host Traven Rice about her debut Book, "Candy Store - A Behind-the-Counter Look at Ray’s Candy Store, One of NYC’s Most Beloved Sweets Slinging Stalwarts."...

Lower East Side Film Fest Announces Full 2025 Lineup

The Lower East Side Film Festival returns to the neighborhood for it's 15th year on Thursday, May 1st - Monday, May 5th. Touting "5 Days of Cinema, Culture and Chaos in the Lower East Side," this year's jury members...
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Henry Street Settlement Hosts 10th Annual Lillian Wald Symposium, Asks: Can Artists Survive in New York City?

This year's Lillian Wald Symposium at Abrons Playhouse Theater will focus on a question we've all been asking for a while now - "Can artists survive in New York City?" As the costs of living here keep going up,...

The Lo-Down Culture Cast – Artist Immanuel Oni and Co-Chair of M’Finda Kalunga Garden Debra Jeffreys-Glass

Host Traven Rice talked with Immanual Oni and Debra Jeffreys-Glass about the Chrystie Street African Burial Ground's new memorial installation, HALO. The work is located at the entrance to the M'Finda Kalunga Garden, on Rivington Street, between Forsythe and...

Arts For Arts Hosts Weekly Concert Series

Our friends at Arts For Art have been curating a weekly experimental/free-jazz concert series every Wednesday called Free Dimension. They write, "It is a unique, underground scene taking place at the NuBlu Classic in alphabet city. We hope to further create...
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The Lo-Down Culture Cast – Artist Marja Samsom

Host Traven Rice spoke with Lower East Side artist Marja Samsom. Samsom is an international artist and filmmaker, whose work confronts and exposes cultural issues with elegant wit. Poised within 1970’s international avant-garde, her early works are experiments in...

Morning at Essex and Canal

@petethestreet1 artist Peter Brown, aka “Pete the Street,” was painting at Essex and Canal this morning, prepping for a solo show coming soon. Send us your neighborhood photos: tips@thelodownny.com

The Lo-Down Culture Cast – Mark DeGarmo Dance

Host Traven Rice spoke with founder Mark DeGarmo of Mark DeGarmo Dance, who has been based on the Lower East Side for over 30 years. https://youtu.be/-AVpJxpAFdA?si=hh1pkJp42a54r9ml As an artist and scholar, his work investigates embodied imagination, improvisational composition, and nonverbal/non-discursive ways...
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The Lo-Down Culture Cast – “Your Faithful Reader”

Host Traven Rice talks with director Miriam Wasmund and performer Liz Dutton about "Your Faithful Reader," an experiential theater performance that merges the worlds of acting and dance with real letters. Miriam Wasmund is an Alvin Ailey trained dancer living...
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LES Film Festival’s Summer Series Concludes with Free Screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild

Our friends at the Lower East Side Film Festival have another free and fun film screening coming up at...