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 La Tea Theater Company is the oldest resident theater at CSV. Founded in 1982, La Tea is committed to nurturing and promoting Latin American literature,music and visual art. La Tea seeks to maintain its cultural heritage and to strengthen and advance the understanding of the contributions made by Latinos to our society. La Tea is a community based cultural organization operated by professional artists who believe in providing access to persons traditionally excluded from participating in the enriching experience of the performing arts. The members work to challenge persistent negative portrayals of Latinos by giving opportunities to young artists, writers, directors and performers. Recently celebrated their 15th Anniversary and are inaugurating, yet another season featuring some of the best pan-Latino performing artists in New York City.
 SEA-Society of the Educational Arts, Inc./Sociedad Educativa de las Artes, Inc. was founded in 1985 in Puerto Rico, operating in New York since 1993, SEA is a not-for-profit Hispanic/Bilingual Arts-in-Education Organization dedicated to the empowerment and educational advancement of children and young adults.Over the past 17 years, SEA has created and produced a unique combination of theatre productions and art workshops/programs specifically designed to examine, challenge and create possible solutions for current educational, social and community issues, while fostering talents, potential, and self-esteem. SEA is New York's Only Hispanic/Bilingual Arts-in-Education Organization and is considered one of the most culturally diverse with a professional bilingual Artist/Teacher staff that represents over 15 Latin American countries and over 22 countires overall. Currently, SEA is implementing programming in over 25 school districts throughout New York City as well as throughout Puerto Rico. SEA is responsible for reviving the tradition of producing Children's Theatre in Spanish in New York City, a tradition that had been abandoned for more than 18 years.
 TEATRO SEA @ Los Kabayitos Puppet & Children's Theater, is New York's ONLY Latino Children's Theater (possibly the Only Latino Children's Theater in the United States) and it is SEA's home base theater. SEA offers a year-round calendar of professional Puppet and Children's Theatre for family audiences. SEA latest program - SEA's Electronic Arts Center is a educational facility where computers and electronic communications technologies are available to children, young adults and community, but especially to those who otherwise might have little or no opportunity to use or learn to use these technologies. Currently, SEA's programming is reaching over 100,000 a year in New York and Puerto Rico.
 Latino Experimental Fantastic Theater (L.E.F.T) was originally founded in 1994, to strengthen and develop social and cultural awareness of Latinos in New York City. L.E.F.T. addresses social and economic issues affecting the health and general well being of the Latino population of New York City, through the direct medium of theater and community related programs. L.E.F.T. produces and conducts educational programs for diverse audiences, to promote education, and to improve the quality of the life of Latinos. While addressing current societal issues, theater artists, interns and community participants from diverse backgrounds, are provided with a creative and supportive environment in which to voice their issues and concerns, and further develop their craft.
 HOLA, Hispanic Organization for Latin Actors is a Hispanic arts service organization committed to exploring and expanding available avenues for projecting Hispanic artists and their culture into the mainstream of the Anglo-American industry, culture, and society. Since its founding 27 years ago, HOLAÕs objective has been to gain an accurate, educated and non-stereotypical portrayal of Hispanic culture and its people through the arts and media.Ê HOLAÕs active involvement with the industry at large enables it to create positive job opportunities for its members and to pursue increased access to such opportunities.Ê In HOLA's quest of these pursuits, it offers a variety of services and programs designed to serve Hispanic talent and the entertainment/communications industries – networking the two for the enrichment of both.
Mark DeGarmo Dancers/ Dynamic Forms, Inc. was founded in New York City in 1982 by choreographer, dancer, arts educator, and artistic director Mark DeGarmo and incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in 1987. The company's mission is based on the interplay of three long-standing tenets: creation, production, performance and documentation of works by Mark DeGarmo; education of the community, especially its children, about dance and the role of the arts in society; and intercultural communication and inquiry leading to greater exchange and understanding among people from diverse cultures. The Company has received numerous fellowships, commissions, awards, and honors that reflect Artistic Director DeGarmo's 27 years in dance in NYC and our organization's commitment to dance, education and intercultural communication and understanding. Our education mission is to work in long-term, in-depth, complex, layered partnerships focusing on creative movement, dance, creative process and literacy with 5 to 10 inner city public schools in NYC. Mark DeGarmo has created and produced 76 choreographic works and led his company on 22 international tours and projects in eleven countries: Argentina, Canada, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, France, Mexico, Russia, Slovenia, and Peru where a critic remarked ÒThis is a choreographer who says he dances and he really does!
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Capoeira Angola Palmares Academy, a non-profit organizations founded in 1991, expands the circle of people who express themselves through art with capoeira instruction, performance and the production and distribution of educational material. Programs include the Capoeira Angola Palmares Academy, Capoeira Workshop and Residency Program, Afro Brazil Arts Dance Troupe, and Educational Material. Through the Capoeira Angola Palmares Academy NYC, ABA gives capoeira classes to adults and children. The academy program was initiated in 1989 and operates primarily out of our own studio at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In more than 1,000 shows, the Afro Brazil Arts Dance Troupe has thrilled over 700,000 youth and adults with African and Brazilian rhythm and dance. For the past decade, Afro Brazil Arts has performed in theaters, universities and schools throughout the U.S.
 Moxie Films founded in 1995, is a New York City based non-profit organization, which includes the brands MoxieDocs, MoxieShorts and MoxieStage. Our mission is to form partnerships with individual artists, nurture their creative growth, encourage the exploration of innovative storytelling, and promote exhibition to a broader public. Launched in January 2001, Executive Director Drew R. Figueroa has raised over $500,000 in-kind support for the Moxie Films Program via partnerships established with leading Film, Media, and Restaurant Industry product and service providers. The Moxie Films Program was established for the sole purpose of facilitating underserved artists - presently, assisting but not limited to: short and documentary filmmakers, theatre producers, screenwriters and playwrights.
 Féraba is an African dance and percussion ensemble.The members of Féraba originally came from Austria, Japan, the USA and West Africa and brought their diverse cultural backgrounds with them to this growing eclectic company. A true melting pot in its most delightful form, FérabaÕs musicians play music from Guinea, Mali and Senegal on traditional instruments, such as the balafon and djembe and doun doun drums, while the dancers blend African movement and rhythms with the percussive sounds and tones of tap dance.
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