El Puente WEPA Festival
Sept. 27
12-6p
As a part of this year’s WEPA Festival hosted by El Puente, we will be bringing together artists to celebrate, share, and create an archive of beauty stories in our neighborhood.
WEPA’s theme this year is to protect what we love and uplift the power of culture as resistance and we hope that you’ll join us in solidarity and support of El Puente. The block party will have live music, arts, dancing, and activities for all ages.
Salon will celebrate beauty and culture as resistance with watercolor portraits for an archive project in collaboration with Samantha Hahn alongside the launch of our latest (Salon)imprenta poster “Salons are Pilars of Our Community” in collaboration with Alex Pacheco and Laramie Glen.
Artists:
Free watercolor portraits by Samantha Hahn
Brow bleaching by Laramie Glen sliding scale $35 - $55
Flash stick and poke tattoos by Alex Pacheco sliding scale $75 - $100
Salon will have a written and oral history station dedicated to documenting guests relationship to hair and create a small journal to archive the people and stories of Los Sures on that day.
About El Puente: El Puente is a human rights institution founded in 1982 with a mission to inspire and nurture leadership for peace and justice. Based in NYC and Puerto Rico with national and international impact, El Puente directly serves approximately 12,000 individuals annually from nine youth Leadership Centers across the Southside of Williamsburg and Bushwick, Brooklyn and Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
El Puente creates community-led movements of self determination among low-income, oppressed peoples, Latine and communities of color through a holistic leadership and membership model, and high impact youth and community development programs. The majority of those served by El Puente are Latine (63%) and Black (26%), Spanish-speaking and low-income; many are immigrants and some undocumented, including recently arrived migrant families and asylum seekers. These individuals and their families face high barriers of access to employment and educational opportunities, affordable and adequate housing, and arts and cultural preservation.