The Clemente's Open Studios

The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center Inc. (The Clemente) is a Puerto Rican/Latino cultural institution that has demonstrated a broad-minded cultural vision and a collaborative philosophy. While The Clemente’s mission is focused on the cultivation, presentation, and preservation of Puerto Rican and Latino culture, it is equally determined to operate in a multi-cultural and inclusive manner, housing and promoting artists and performance events that fully reflect the cultural diversity of the Lower East Side and the city as a whole.

The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural &Education Center

Open Studios returns May 20 &amp; 21! Join us for a weekend of performances, film screenings, and the 26th edition of Open Studios

107 Suffolk St

Open Studios returns May 20 &amp; 21! Join us for a weekend of performances, film screenings, and the 26th edition of The Clemente's Open Studios! 🥳S﻿aturday, May 20 , 4pm - 8pmS﻿unday, May 21, 2pm - 6pmHousing more than 46 visual artists’ studios and 11 visual and performing arts organizations, The Clemente community is thrilled to welcome friends, colleagues, and neighbors back into their home on the Lower East Side. The public is invited to explore this multigenerational community of artists, some of whom have lived and worked in the neighborhood for more than two decades, and residents of participating residency programs. The Clemente stands as a complement and bridge to the area's current development, housed in the beautiful, former PS 160 designed in 1897 by Charles B. J. Snyder in the Dutch neo-Gothic style.This year’s Open Studios weekend will feature five floors of visual and performing arts as part of the 5th edition of Public Spaces Open Studios (PSOS2023). Juried by Maria del Carmen Carrion, this year's PSOS will feature work from artists such as Manuel Acevedo, Ophelia Arc, Jennie Booth, Lucia Warck-Meister, and more! Throughout the weekend, enjoy participatory programming like the Capoeira Festival from Afro Brazil Arts and poetry readings from FELT Theater, as well as film screenings as part of the Kabayitos Microcinema Film Festival. All events are FREE and open to the public. See the programming schedule below. Special EventsS﻿aturday, May 20, 20234:00 - 5:00 PM	Cool Culture + The People’s Bus present: Money Monster, Ground Floor4:00 PM		FELT Inc. Poetry Performances, 3114:00 - 5:00 PM	Capoeira Festival, Flamboyán Theater, 1st Floor4:30 PM		Microcinema, Kabayitos Theater6:00 PM		FELT Inc. Poetry Performances, 3116:00 PM		Microcinema, Kabayitos Theater6:00 - 8:00 PM	Capoeira Festival, Flamboyan Theater, 1st FloorSunday, May 21, 20232:00 - 6:00 pmSpecial Events2:30 PM		Microcinema, Kabayitos Theater3:00PM		Workshop: What is Your Identity? with Rathi Varma and Anabella Lenzu4:00 PM		Arts for Art presents William Parker and the Intergenerational Workshop Ensemble, 3094:00 PM		Microcinema, Kabayitos TheaterThis year's Open Studios is sponsored in part by Sierra Nevada and Tito's Vodka.

Public Spaces Open StudiosDates: May 20-June 30Location: Building-wideThroughout the building. Maps will be made available onsite. This year’s edition was juried by María del Carmen CarriónPart of the Annual Open Studios two-day weekend, the Public Spaces Open Studios 2023 (PSOS23) will feature site-specific installations in public spaces throughout the building from a pull of selected artists through an open call.Participating Artists: Manuel Acevedo, Ophelia Arc, Jennie Booth, Brian Buckley, Katie Cercone, Kiani Ferris, Andrew Glass, Dalit Gurevich, Emily Linares, Hector Marin, Linda Mittel, Julio Monsalvo, Sabrina Merayo Nuñez, Nicole Parcher, Maria Elena Pombo, Marylea Quintana, Margaret Roleke, Mollie Serena, Paul Smith, Flavia Souza, Lucia Wark-Meister, Fina Yeung

Cool Culture + The People's BusSaturday, May 202pm - 5pmCome kick it with Cool Culture, The People's Bus for an afternoon of free art-making activities for the whole family!Enjoy a scavenger hunt, art making, and community mapping, as well as health and wellbeing resources and civic engagement activations with The People's Bus!

Performances from FELT TheaterSaturday, 4pm and 6pmStudio 311The Fantastic The Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater, Inc. will present Saturday Poetry Performances featuring readings from:4pm: Jorge Luis Berrios, Nelson Denis, Destiny Padilla, Frances Lozada and AnTONE Pagan with ChoreoPoemSong dedicated to Julia De Burgos and Pedro Albizu Campos.6pm: Sylvie Baumgartel, Jeremy Hoevanaar, Alfredo MarinAs well as visual art from Hector Marín-Arias, Marylea Quintana, Julio Monsalve, Lola Stanton, Seward Ryan, Pablo Monsalve, and Alfredo Marin.

Saturday, 4pm - 5:30pmFlamboyán Theater Organized by Afro Brazil ArtsAfro Brazil Arts invites the families of children in our Mindful Capoeira School Programs to celebrate and honor our young capoeiristas with a performance and graduation event featuring Capoeira masters. Must pre-register to attend.

What Is Your Identity? workshop lead by Rathi Varma and Anabella LenzuSunday, May 213pmRoom 309Organized by Pioneers Go EastMultigenerational. Children 10 years old and up/ Young Adults/AdultsSocial media helps you stay connected, learn new skills, and keeps you informed. But, it can sometimes come at the cost of external validation, insecurity, and anxiety. We place our beliefs on the number of followers, comments, and likes on Instagram or the likes of it. Seeking constant validation through social media, I’ve expressed my views from a user’s perspective. We seem to lose our sense of identity amongst a pool of clones. In this workshop, we will explore how we identify ourselves in relation to social media by using our phone camera. We will incorporate camera angles, text, voice, and movements/gestures.

Arts for Art presents William Parker and the Intergenerational Workshop EnsembleSunday, May 214pmJazz legend, William Parker leads an intergenerational jazz music workshop for kids.

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