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Shakespeare in the Parking Lot Finds a New Home at Clemente Soto Velez Center

The Drilling Company's annual production of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot is moving to the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (CSV). After 20 summers in the municipal parking lot at Ludlow and Broome streets, the quirky theatrical happening was...

Monthly Latin Event Begins at the Clemente on Thursday

The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center and ALBOR (the Association of Latino Business Owners and Residents) are kicking off a monthly series. On Thursday, they're throwing the first party. Loisaida Baila/Dance Loisaida is a tropical Latin live music event...

Arts Watch: What To Do in October

Here are some highlights of events coming up this month. Nightmare Haunted House, the team that produced last year's wildly popular Killers, returns to the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center with Killers 2, “a horrifying, immersive haunted house experience about...

Cutlog Reveals Participating Galleries, Partners For LES Art Fair

The art world descends on New York in early May for Frieze New York on Randall's Island and several satellite art fairs, including two on the Lower East Side. One of those fairs, Cutlog, announced its exhibiting galleries and...

Jazz Luminaries Perform Tonight in Support of LES Live Music Venue

For many years, the New York arts community has been lamenting the state of experimental music on the Lower East Side.  Take a look at the chart posted above tracking he demise since the 1970's of live performance spaces...

Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center Celebrates Reopening This Weekend

In case you haven't noticed, the scaffolding covering Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center (CSV) on the corner of Suffolk and Rivington streets, has come down after 18 years!  To celebrate the beautiful new facade of this 1898 former public school...

Manhattan Charter School to Host Benefit for Urban Gardening Program

The students at Manhattan Charter School will be hosting a special benefit celebration tomorrow night for their urban gardening program, "The Curious Garden," in collaboration with P.S. 142 and through a partnership with the Horticultural Society of New York....

Ready To Meet The L.E.S. – Artist Marinella Senatore

Italian filmmaker and artist Marienella Senatore creates site specific, group film projects with communities around the world.  Her film, Speak Easy, was created and produced by 1200 residents of Madrid, Spain. Over 400 residents of Trento, Italy, helped create...

CSV to Become New Home for Children’s Arts Organization, Teatro SEA

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center has announced it will become the official home of the highly regarded Latino Children's Arts-in-Education organization, Teatro SEA.  Teatro SEA has received grants from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs...

Clemente Soto Velez Hosts Show by One of the Cuban 5

A month-long show of paintings by Cuban Five political prisoner Antonio Guerrero entitled "From My Altitude" will open tomorrow at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center. Guerrero began painting and writing poetry in 2003, after after serving his first...
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The Lo-Down Culture Cast Episode 19 – Roxy Hunt, Co-Founder of The Lower East Side Film Festival

We spoke with Roxy Hunt, Co-Founder of The Lower East Side Film Festival (LESFF), for this week's episode of...
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