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The National Academy of Design in New York will host WAI Think Tank’s 'A Loudreading in Nueva Yol' on July 8, a free performance scheduled for 6-8 pm at 519 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor. The event listing describes the program as a loudreading performance that shares critical and emancipatory narratives and is centered on anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist themes. Reservations are required.
According to the academy’s summer programs email, the performance will feature presenters Christopher Rey Pérez, Daniel Jonas Roche and Rose Mary Florián Rodríguez. The event is presented under the name LOUDREADERS in the newsletter copy, which says the group will offer “A Loudreading in Nueva Yol” at the National Academy of Design as “a performance of anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and anti-fascist worldmaking.”
The material provided by the academy frames the program around Puerto Rican activist, anarcho-syndicalist and utopian author Luisa Capetillo. The newsletter notes that between 1919 and 1920 Capetillo lived in New York, where she helped organize workers in the city’s tobacco factories while operating a boarding house and a vegetarian restaurant. It adds that food, loud reading and activism coalesced in her practice in an anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist spirit.
WAI Think Tank’s performance arrives as part of the academy’s broader summer calendar, which includes talks, workshops and public programs tied to 'Future Schools' and other residencies. The July 8 event is listed separately from those other offerings and is presented as a standalone performance with free admission and required reservations.
The academy’s newsletter identifies the National Academy of Design as the venue for the program and includes the organization’s 200th-anniversary fundraising language elsewhere in the mailing, but the verified event listing for 'A Loudreading in Nueva Yol' itself gives only the academy address and time. Eventbrite also lists the program as an event by National Academy of Design in New York, NY, and shows it as a July 8 event from 6 PM to 8 PM.
In the same summer mailing, the academy highlights other programming, including 'In Praise of Noise' on July 1 and later events in July and August, but those listings are separate from the WAI Think Tank performance. For 'A Loudreading in Nueva Yol', the confirmed details are July 8, 2026, from 6-8 pm at the National Academy of Design, 519 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, with free admission and reservations required.
