Our newly renovated home in Mott Haven has opened up new space for creative work in the South Bronx community.
ID Studio holds workshops, training and performances at the house and in the surrounding neighborhood, including the production of a series of new Colombian plays; readings by young Latinx poets, slam poets and playwrights; films; concerts, performances in local libraries, schools, and for groups from the housing projects; and Community-Building Theater (CBT) and other workshops.
Musicians from Folklore Urbano give classes and concerts, including performances for exhibitions at the Bronx Arts Space and a summer performance at Brook Park. Pablo Mayor has also created a recording studio for his group and others in the barrio.
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BronxArtSpace: Our next-door neighbor, a contemporary art gallery showcasing the work of artists from the Bronx and beyond. BronxArtSpace and ID Studio have collaborated on an ongoing basis on projects including the video workshop project Mott Haven Home Movies: South Bronx Cribs and State Property, their fall 2017 exhibition about the intersection of consumer culture/incarceration, and our play Maximum Security presented contemporaneously.
Community partners include:
ProjectX: Latinx slam poetry team organizing slams, workshops, and special events
Live Big Girls: A body pride collective offering workshops at ID Studio Theater
Brook Park: A community garden that hosted the creation of the three sculptures for "Fábrica de Sueños."
Green / Arts Live NYC: City Parks Foundation and the Culture in Parks and Plazas Coalition launched Green / Arts Live NYC to bring free performing arts, workshops, and cultural programs outdoors, in local parks, plazas, and community gardens. Green / Arts Live NYC supported ID Studio in bringing Bronxway: ¡A Bailar! to Roberto Clemente Plaza in the South Bronx.
Community-Building Theater (CBT) workshops
ID Studio provides Transformative Organizing and Leadership training for students from 15-75 years old. Innovative workshops address community vision for arts and cultural equity, community leadership, education, communication and public speaking, and understanding power structures and our role in them. Workshops are held once a week throughout the year, with a final performance.
MORE INFO: info@idstudiotheater.org
Summer Arts Conservatory
ID Studio’s Summer Arts Conservatory is a free arts training program for children 9-12 years old. Participants have the opportunity to develop artistically through dance, music, and theater by working with our talented instructors for 3 weeks!
WHERE: ID Studio Theatre
WHEN: July 16th-August 13th from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Bilingual Arts Healing Initiative
Our Bilingual Healing Arts Initiative brings culturally relevant arts workshops to collaborating organizations to help patients/participants cope with the mental and emotional difficulties caused by structural violence and the tensions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Bilingual Healing Arts Initiative intends to alleviate stressors and address risk factors that are commonly ignored when evaluating one’s physical and mental health. Through this program, ID Studio brings innovative, culturally-relevant arts programming to our community's local hospitals, health centers, schools, senior centers, and service organizations. Through a process of collaboration with healthcare professionals, our award-winning artists engage patients in interactive virtual and (virus-allowing) in-person arts programming that complements and enhances their healing process, including music, dance, theater, movement, meditation, and art.
The Bilingual Healing Arts Initiative projects include "Cumbia for All," "Black is Beautiful," and "Community Building Theater (CBT) Workshops," which run in collaboration with Latinx music organization Folklore Urbano NYC and dance organization Pajarillo Pinta'o, long-time collaborators of IDS.
