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Mostrando las entradas con la etiqueta University Open Air. Mostrar todas las entradas

domingo, septiembre 27, 2026

LETRAS DE LOS NOMBRES DE LOS PAISES EN EL SURSYSTEM 09 MAGAZINE

Al trabajar con artistas, siempre se descubren nuevas imágenes y formas. El alfabeto es diverso y flexible, y lo fascinante de esas particularidades es que al usarlo de forma verbal o escrita, siempre conserva esas características, algo que se podría comparar con los inmigrantes y sus idiomas. En New York la inmigración es diversa, y los lenguajes que se usan para comunicar, incluido el inglés, se vuelven flexibles para poder permitir esa comunicación. Estas son las letras de los países de los dichos que se escogieron para aparecer en el próximo número del Sursystem Magazin. Como se puede ver, todas son diferentes y únicas, como lo son quienes las hicieron y quienes las compartieron. Cuáles países crees que están representados con estas letras?


Working with artists always leads to the discovery of new images and forms. The alphabet is diverse and flexible, and what is fascinating about these qualities is that—whether used in speech or writing—it always retains them; this is something akin to the experience of immigrants and their languages. Immigration in New York is diverse, and the languages ​​used for communication—English included—become flexible to facilitate that exchange. These are the letterforms representing the countries associated with the sayings selected for the upcoming issue of Sursystem Magazine. As you can see, each one is distinct and unique, just like the people who created and shared them.


By
Marcelo Arroyave
Editor, Producer, Researcher
NYC

viernes, septiembre 26, 2025

University Open Air: From Fields to Cities: The Journey of Sayings

This lecture explores the fascinating evolution of popular sayings, tracing their roots in rural communities and examining how they’ve been reshaped in urban environments. We’ll look at how these expressions reflect cultural and social changes as they move from agrarian life into city living.

We’ll begin by discussing the role of oral tradition in preserving cultural wisdom, and how sayings have served as tools for teaching values, caution, and humor. Then, we’ll explore the historical shift during industrialization, when rural populations migrated to cities, bringing their language with them. We’ll see how these sayings adapted to new urban realities and how they continue to bridge generational and cultural divides.

At the end of the lecture, participants will be invited to share rural sayings that are still used today, as well as sayings from their own backgrounds that have had a positive impact on their lives in New York City.







I hope you can join me at this lecture. The people who share their sayings will get the sayings book if their saying is selected to be published. 


Marcelo Arroyave
Last member of the Sursystem Collective 
Transmitting from the falling Empire!


viernes, octubre 04, 2024

Sound Map of Salsa Music in NYC Playlists

Hola todxs! En la edición del magazín Sursystem 08: Mapa sonoro de la música salsa en NYC, no solo se aprende con el texto, el mapa y los diseños, sino también con la música; en este viaje sonoro se pueden apreciar los cambios que sufrió la música afro latina caribeña hasta convertirse en salsa, pero también si se pone atención a las letras, se puede ver el contexto en el que fue construido el nuevo ritmo. Para lxs amantes de la salsa, y lxs que aun no la conocen, y que quieran escuchar una buena selección de esta música, dejo aquí estos QR donde podrán encontrar el playlist de @adrianishungry para la edición 08 del magazín SSyS y la playlist elaborada por @DianaSiguaraya para la presentación/lanzamiento del Sursystem 08 en Español el Viernes 9 de Febrero del 2024 en Cali, Colombia en el teatrino del Museo de Arte Moderno la Tertulia. Que la disfruten y se la bailen!

Hello everyone! In the latest edition of Sursystem 08 magazine, we explore the Sound Map of Salsa Music in NYC. In this edition, you'll not only read about the history and changes in Afro-Latino Caribbean music as it evolved into salsa, but you can also listen to the music and appreciate the context through the lyrics. For salsa enthusiasts and those new to this music genre, I'd like to share QR codes for two playlists. The first playlist is curated by @adrianishungry for the 08 edition of SSyS magazine, and the second playlist is created by @DianaSiguaraya for the presentation/launch of Sursystem 08 in Spanish on Friday, February 9, 2024, in Cali, Colombia at the Museo de Arte Moderno la Tertulia. Enjoy it and dance to it!


Que disfruren!
Marcelo Arroyave

domingo, abril 14, 2024

SOUND MAP OF SALSA MUSIC IN NEW YORK CITY: LECTURE

This Saturday, April 20, I will do the Sound Map of Salsa Music In NYC lecture under the Brooklyn Public Library University Open Air Spring semester. This will be the last opportunity to get the Sursystem 08 Magazine in Spanish for free, also, the lecture will take place on Sunday, April 21 in Spanish and after it, I will do the South Bronx Salsa Tour for those who want to travel with me from the University Open Air location in BK. The music selection for the lecture by Adrian is Hungry.



English lecture. Start time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm
Saturday, 20 April: Sound Map of Salsa Music in NYC, lecture. In English.
Marcelo Arroyave and Adrian Patino/Colombia
 


Conferencia: Mapa Sonoro de la Música Salsa en Nueva York. En Español: Sunday, April 21: Conferencia + Tour: Mapa Sonoro de la Música Salsa en Nueva York. En Español. Lecture Time: 1:00PM – 2:30 PM. Tour time: around 1:30 minutes + the commute.


jueves, septiembre 14, 2023

UNIVERSITY OPEN AIR: SOUND MAP OF SALSA MUSIC IN NYC, LECTURE (ENGLISH AND SPANISH SESSIONS + SOUTH BRONX TOUR)



September 14 and September 30, BPL Presents and Prospect Park Alliance co-present University Open Air, a series of free courses taught by immigrant scholars, artists, and instructors. This season’s course offerings cover a variety of topics including yoga, abstract art, fiction writing, salsa music, the human/animal connection, beauty in the everyday, and more. Participants will spend time learning outdoors on the Prospect Park Boathouse grounds. Sign up now at the link to take free classes on subjects ranging from the practical to the profound, offered on the Prospect Park Boathouse grounds: bklynlib.org/university-open-air





Nos vemo por allá!

Marcelo Arroyave
Miembro sobreviviente del colectivo Sursystem, transmitiendo desde el South Bronx.

viernes, septiembre 10, 2021

University Open Air: History and Evolution of the City in the West: How the COVID pandemic will change New York City



Since 2019 the Brooklyn Public Library is hosting the University Open Air, an space for immigrant professionals to do workshops, classes, and lectures. Since then the BKYPL - UOP is inviting me to participate in this exciting program and I won't say not to them. This fall is the 2021 version of the event and I will be there with this lecture Sunday, September 12 at 11 and 1PM, please, join me and share the info with your friends and relatives, it is free. Click on the image if you want to know the whole program. 


See you there!


Marcelo 

sábado, septiembre 05, 2020

BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: UNIVERSITY OPEN AIR - FALL SEMESTER 2020

In their third edition, the Brooklyn Public Library is featuring the University Open Air, Fall Semester. As the last two editions, I was invited to participate in this one, I will do two lectures Saturday, September 19 at 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM. I am leaving here all the information about the UOA schedule, participants, and lectures plus my two classes on that specific date. 

This is a free event, please, spread the word and join us!

Click in the imagen to access to all the info about these events.

University Open Air Webpage 

First Lecture - Click in the image to go to the registration webpage


The second Lecture - Click in the image to go to the registration webpage

I hope you can participate
Enjoy!
Marcelo Arroyave
The last Collective Sursystem member in the pandemic world. 











domingo, mayo 31, 2020

OUTCOME FROM THE UNIVERSITY OPEN AIR MAGAZINE SSyS 3'R WORKSHOP AT MARCH 07/2020

Just one week before the lockdown in NYC (03/07/20) I made the final session of the Sursystyem 3'R workshop at University Open Air; it was really fun and very creative, the participants finished their interior pages and build their own magazine SSyS 3'R where they included those pages. 

We didn't decorate the cover and the back cover of the magazine that each participant made, due to a lack of time in the workshop, but we spent quality time learning different things about making pages for the magazine and about how to make the magazine with our own hands (DIY), we shared a lot of ideas and were able to know each other. It was a very nice experience just right BP (Before the Pandemic). It is a good memory from the past time to keep in my mind in this difficult moment. 

I want to show to the blog visitors the pictures from the workshop and their outcome; I don't show here pictures of my magazine exterior because I didn't decorate yet it and I don't know if the other participants did. 


The UOP Workshop participants

The UOP Workshop participants

Interior page from one of the workshop participant

Interior page from one of the workshop participant


Interior page from one of the workshop participant


The next pictures are from inside my magazine SSyS 3'R that I made in the workshop with the participant pages included in the content, plus the content page that was made in a typewriter machine. 
Many thanks to Gary Hardcastle for facilitating the typewriter machine to the workshop







Enjoy!
Marcelo Arroyave
Transmitting from the worst place to be in the middle of a pandemic, NYC.

sábado, febrero 22, 2020

Workshop: Memory Re-Used How to Build a Magazine with Reused Paper Using your Memories

The Brooklyn Public Library (New York City) is hosting the University Open Air Winter Semester from February 24 to March 7th, they invited me to participate for the second time since they started to do the University Open Air (UOA) in 2019. 

On this semester I will do a workshop that I developed since I was living in Colombia, it workshop was named for me Sursystem 3R (Reused, Recycle and Rethink), but for this event, I changed its name, now is called: Memory Re-Used, and the goal is that the participants in the workshop bring their old memories from their life in the neighborhood where they are or were living (old pictures, postcard, letters, posters... etc) and create a new page for the content of the magazine with that memories and, on the same time, they learn how to build a magazine with reused paper and reused shoebox, also, they will make the decoration of the cover and the back cover of the magazine using different techniques.

The workshop will be split into two parts, I will leave below the links to the UOA webpage and the links to my workshop.

Also, there will be more classes and lectures through those two weeks, feel free to explore it and I hope you can participate in this fantastic idea from the Brooklyn Public Library.


https://www.bklynlibrary.org/university-open-air





>Click on the image to go to the UOA webpage<

See you around and enjoy it!
Marcelo Arroyave

viernes, julio 19, 2019

UNIVERSITY OPEN AIR INTERVIEW - VIDEO BY CHIHIRO AMEMIYA

This link will take you into a video-interview made for Chihiro Amemiya after I have done my first lecture class in the University Open Air (see the last post before this to know more about it) on the Rose Garden at Prospect Park, Brooklyn.


Or

You can watch the video here:


Enjoy
Marcelo Arroyave