PROJECTS
ONGOING
SHAPE OF CITIES TO COME INSTITUTE
NYC-based co-learning & strategizing platform for urban activism. We bring movements builders together to shape equitable, compassionate & just cities. In residence at The Clemente.
ACTIVIST ESTATES
Activist Estates of the Lower East Side is an online platform that explores the buildings and properties that are celebrated sites of resistance in New York City. This project is an expansion of the themes from the exhibit Activist Estates: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida (2019) authored and designed by the urban historian and architect Nandini Bagchee in partnership with curator Libertad Guerra.
LxNY | LATINX ARTS CONSORTIUM OF NEW YORK
Peer organizations network dedicated to knowledge exchange, resource sharing, and collective action towards systemic change that came together at the beginning of the unprecedented lockdown caused by the Covid pandemic.
OPEN CALL / CURATORIAL PRACTICE
The Clemente is pleased to invite independent curators, emerging artists and arts professionals to submit exhibition proposals to be considered for the two gallery spaces at The Clemente, the Abrazo Interno Gallery, and the LES Gallery. Sign up to our mailing list to receive updates on the next Open Call!
PAST
THE PEOPLE’S BUS/EL BUS DEL PUEBLO
On Friday, April 29, 2022, at The Clemente, City Hall leadership, elected officials, community and cultural organizations, and NYC Speaks joined together to welcome The People's Bus being permanently stationed at The Clemente Center. The People’s Bus is a former Department of Corrections bus used to transport people detained on Rikers Island from 2009 to 2021. It has been transformed, with input from New Yorkers, into a community center on wheels with the purpose of engaging New Yorkers in civic life through beauty and joy.
Loisaida Welcomes Little Amal!
The Lower East Side has the longest, most diverse, and richest puppet history in New York City; a place where the traditions of manifold cultures mix with each other, and then are spread beyond our city’s boundaries.
Little Amal is invited to party in the Clemente Soto Vélez Center on September 28th, 4-5pm. To her surprise she meets puppets friends created by Teatro SEA. Together they celebrate the Afro-Caribbean traditions and cultures of this special place!
JUSTXCHANGES
JUSTXCHANGES is a solidarity economy network in New York City which organizes the exchange of goods, assets, and services through a community currency, the New York Justx.