Join CENTRO, the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival, the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, and members of the WNET Community Advisory Board for a special screening of John Leguizamo's and PBS's VOCES American Historia: Echoes of Empires. In this new three-part series, Leguizamo takes viewers on a captivating journey, delving into both well-known and … Continued
In this collage session, LOVE and Collage, held at the Tolas Room, a home museum and culture center, artist Ram Brisueno will guide a group of makers, with intention and intuitive choices, to create unique portraits that connect each artists to their significant others! By layering collage materials, found papers, photocopies, and other personal materials, … Continued
Join CENTRO alongside artist Pablo Delano and art historian Laura Katzman of James Madison University on October 24th as they discuss The Museum of the Old Colony, its themes, its aesthetics, and how the exhibition has evolved over time. This ongoing, site-specific, conceptual art installation by visual artist Pablo Delano addresses the complex history of Puerto Rico … Continued
Vulnerable communities enact sovereignties that decenter the state while strengthening relationships on which survival depends. This panel will delve into such radical praxis through a closer look at archiving and the Archivo Histórico de Vieques. The AHV is a community archive born out of the struggle against the U.S. Navy’s occupation of Vieques, Puerto Rico … Continued
Come join four Viequense community organizations for an afternoon gathering that celebrates the history of Vieques and the work being done to strengthen rhizomatic connections necessary to flourish futures in the broad Puerto Rican archipelago. The event will feature the Archivo Histórico de Vieques, La Colmena Cimarrona, Vidas Viequenses Valen and La Alianza de Mujeres … Continued
Join CENTRO in East Harlem for La Meriendita, a story hour dedicated to children’s books! This month’s Meriendita is Call Me Roberto, written by Nathalie Alonso and illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez. Roberto Clemente always loved baseball. Growing up in Carolina, Puerto Rico, he swung tree branches (since he didn’t have a bat) and hit tin … Continued
Join CENTRO & the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival for un Cafecito con... Puerto Rican Actors. We are joined by Puerto Rican Icon, Iris Chacon, and actors David Zayas, The Bear, and Isabel Arraiza, Accused. This event offers a unique opportunity to gain insight into the struggles and successes that Puerto Rican actors face. … Continued
Kicking off the Navidad Season with IBA is Jose Nogueras! José Nogueras is one of Puerto Rico's most versatile songwriters and singers. He has managed to reach the top of the music charts (Hit parade) in rock, ballad, Creole music and even tropical music. Cheo Feliciano, Rubén Blades, Hector Lavoe, Ismael Miranda, Willie Colón, Gilberto … Continued
Film screening at the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival on November 17th, 2024 at 2:00 PM. Logline: An octogenarian folk-artist uses his paintings to recount Puerto Rican family and life histories to his grandson. A film by Carlos Rivera Fernandez and Arnaldo Fernandez Cruz Produced by Películas Viejas Productions for the Granada Centre for … Continued
November is Puerto Rican Heritage Month! Celebrate the impact that the Puerto Rican LGBTQ community has made on New York City over the past 80 years, with a special focus on social life, activism, and the arts in the 1990s. Activist Charles Rice-González, co-founder of Gay Men of the Bronx (GMoB) and the Bronx Academy … Continued
November is Puerto Rican Heritage Month! Celebrate the impact that the Puerto Rican LGBTQ community has made on New York City over the past 80 years, with a special focus on social life, activism, and the arts in the 1990s. Activist Charles Rice-González, co-founder of Gay Men of the Bronx (GMoB) and the Bronx Academy … Continued
Are you interested in learning how to archive your personal materials or the materials of a loved one? Join CENTRO on November 23rd for a hands-on workshop for creating and preserving family archives. Through interactive discussions and activities, CENTRO will help you examine your family artifacts, reflect on the impact of migration and movement, and … Continued
Looking to expand your reading list? Join CENTRO for a virtual Library & Archives Lunch Hour on December 3rd as we highlight new books in Puerto Rican Studies. The field of Puerto Rican studies is rich and diverse in both its subject matter and those who write about it, and there’s something for everyone this … Continued
Join CENTRO and Hunter College AFPRL Department for an event discussing the themes of colonialism, relocation, and the forging of Puerto Rican communities in Hawaii as shown in Marisel Vera's book, The Taste of Sugar and Carmen Cruz-Venie's upcoming documentary Bajari: Honor and Respect. The Taste of Sugar is a novel set in Puerto Rico … Continued
Cut, paste, and recombine materials to see something new! This month we are making collages inspired by Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People.. First Saturday means Family Day at the MSU Broad Art Museum! Make creative connections with our exhibitions through free hands-on and interactive family fun throughout the museum.
Join CENTRO December 13th for a panel discussion and celebration of a very special issue of the Summer 2024 CENTRO Journal, titled "Caudal: Contemporary Feminist & Queer Perspectives on Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic." This journal focuses on contemporary feminist and queer/cuir perspectives of cultural, social, and political phenomena from the Dominican Republic and … Continued
Have you ever felt homesick? Join Puerto Rico-born, Chicago-based artist Brenda Torres-Figueroa for a performance inspired by diaspora, survival, and the legacies of Afro-Puerto Rican women. Registration for this free event is encouraged. This performance is offered in connection with the exhibition Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, which is on view … Continued
Learn more about Puerto Rican diasporic experiences and film language at this Broad Underground screening. This event is programmed by Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez, Assistant Curator at the MSU Broad Art Museum, and Dr. Pedro Noel Doreste Rodríguez, Assistant Professor, MSU Film Studies Program. Broad Underground is an ongoing collaboration between the MSU Broad Art … Continued
The Latinx Project invites you to the opening reception of RicanVisions: Global Ancestralities and Embodied Futures, the newest exhibition of the organization. This exhibition was curated by Ana-Hilda Figueroa de Jesús, Andrea Sofia Matos & Xavier Robles Armas and will be open from January 31 - May 2, 2025, at the 20 Cooper Square Gallery … Continued
Puerto Rican actor, writer, professor, and author Teófilo Torres, better known for his classic on-stage monologues such as; "Papo Impala está quitao" and "El Caso Dios," is back in New York City with his latest creative endeavor, the satirical laugh-out-loud book, Décimas por Sacos. Written in the preferred style of the Puerto Rican jíbaro and … Continued
New Latiné Play Salon, Flamboyán's debut play reading event. The Salon is a place for writers, actors, directors, and audience members are encouraged to engage with new works and discuss the craft of storytelling before the works begin production for the stage. This will be the first Latiné-focused play reading series in Lakewood! Each of … Continued
If you love NYC Bodegas, grab your favorite order and join CENTRO Archivist, Herbert Duran, during lunch as he explores the Johnny Torres papers housed at CENTRO. Torres was a former businessman and president of the Metropolitan Spanish Merchants Association, also known as La Metro. After successfully running several bodegas, Torres became a food wholesaler … Continued
Join Dr. Elena Martinez (Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Baruch College) and Dr. Rojo Robles (Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College) for a discussion on the “Black Gaze” as a critical and political act of spectatorship. Often theorized within the context of African American cinema, the Black Gaze challenges the whiteness of mainstream media, fostering … Continued
Taller Boricua presents ALMA: Echoes of the Nuyorican Movement, an exhibition honoring over five decades of Puerto Rican artistic expression and cultural resistance. Founded in 1969, Taller Boricua has been a vital hub for Puerto Rican artists in New York, offering a space for creative freedom and activism. The exhibition showcases key works from the … Continued
About the show: Miguel Trelles’ ongoing painting series, MESOAMERICAN POP, addresses the compelling beauty of figurative pre-Columbian drawing and sculpture, combining it with North American pop culture elements from the sequential art tradition to formulate a Pan American visual syncretism that is as visually arresting as it is historically encompassing.
New Latiné Play Salon, Flamboyán's debut play reading event. The Salon is a place for writers, actors, directors, and audience members are encouraged to engage with new works and discuss the craft of storytelling before the works begin production for the stage. This will be the first Latiné-focused play reading series in Lakewood! Each of … Continued
Join us for a Women’s History Month Community Event hosted by Baruch’s Black and Latino Studies Department with filmmaker Rosamary Berríos Hernández in conversation with Dr. Margarita Rosa, Visiting Assistant Professor of BLS, and Dr. Rojo Robles, Assistant Professor at BLS and curator of the Roots and Tides film festival. Rosamary Berríos Hernández’s film Santiago … Continued
New Latiné Play Salon, Flamboyán's debut play reading event. The Salon is a place for writers, actors, directors, and audience members are encouraged to engage with new works and discuss the craft of storytelling before the works begin production for the stage. This will be the first Latiné-focused play reading series in Lakewood! Each of … Continued
For this month's Library & Archives Lunch Hour, we are so excited to dive into the collection of Ibrahim Aqil Adbush Shakur González, known as Ibrahim González. González was a multifaceted artist; musician, photographer, radio host, activist, and educator born in East Harlem well known for helping set up one of the first Latino-Muslim organizations … Continued
Join CENTRO on the opening night of Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, on view at the CENTRO Gallery in El Barrio from March 13th, 2025 to September, 2025. This exhibition honors Puerto Rican identities in the archipelago and its diasporas. The Puerto Rican diaspora can be understood as a collage … Continued
Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between two prominent archives, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) and the NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year's theme for Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, … Continued
La querida actriz y comediante puertorriqueña, Marian Pabón presenta su stand-up ¡Más fuerte que nunca! el 23 de marzo en Teatro LATEA. Marian estrenó exitosamente su stand-up a finales del 2024, tras superar un diagnóstico de cáncer. En la pieza teatral, comparte anécdotas de su proceso con la chispa y humor que le caracterizan. Acompáñala … Continued
This coming Thursday, April 3rd, will be the official presentation of the poetry collection "Amnericas," written by Puerto Rican leading actor Miguelangel Suarez and published by the Alejandro Tapia y Rivera Institute of Puerto Rico. The presentation will be free at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at 6:00 p.m., with guest artists reading some … Continued
Iconic Afro-feminist and Afro-Caribbean poet and visual artist Ángela María Dávila Malavé left as part of her legacy, animal fiero y tierno/fierce and tender animal, a force of rhythm and a delicate combination of the of the expressive and the colloquial in the language. Originally published in 1977 (Editorial QueAce, Puerto Rico), it has never … Continued
Celebrating the release of Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology, The Latinx Project hosts a special artist panel on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 20 Cooper Square featuring artists Candida Alvarez, David Antonio Cruz and Maria Dominguez with moderator Adriana Zavala. Book editors Yasmin Ramirez and Arlene Dávila will offer an introduction.
My Superhero, Roberto Clemente draws on the journey of Bobby and his friends who discover that Roberto Clemente is a Superhero, after learning that he was the first Hispanic ever inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, from his humble origins to his record-breaking career with the Major Leagues. As a sports star, civil rights … Continued
April is poetry month, so celebrate in style with The Nuyorican Poets Cafe at CENTRO. Join us for an evening of spoken word and connect with your favorite poets in the heart of El Barrio. Attendees will have an opportunity to recite some poetry, meet new poets, check out the CENTRO archival poetry collection, enjoy … Continued
El taller será impartido por Andreína Soto del Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective (CDSC). Los objetivos son: Apreciar la importancia e impacto de la planificación en la gestión de colecciones digitales. Aprender sobre elementos claves de la planificación estratégica en la gestión de colecciones digitales. Familiarizarse con herramientas, estándares y mejores prácticas asociadas a la planificación … Continued
Kevin Quiles Bonilla presents a new iteration of his lecture-performance "Study of Piles", using the concept of the pile as a catalyst to explore various moments, places, and people, specifically imagery from Puerto Rico's political history. The artist approaches the pile as a universal structure that transcends geographical, cultural, and political barriers, asking how we … Continued
Join CENTRO for a Cafecito Con…Professor Rudy Guevarra, author of Aloha Compadre -Latinxs in Hawaiʻi, the first book to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of Hawaiʻi. Since the early 1830s, the Latinx community continues to help shape Hawaiʻi’s history, yet their contributions are often overlooked. Latinxs have been a … Continued
This event is open to Covello Older Adult Program members only. Non-members who wish to attend must register as members. Registration is free and can be done in-person right before the workshop. Call the Leonard Covello Older Adult Center for more details at 212-423-9665 How long have you lived in El Barrio/East Harlem? If you've … Continued
El emblemático conjunto de la Nueva Trova puertorriqueña, Haciendo Punto en Otro Son, celebrará su 50 aniversario, uniéndose a la programación de BoriCorridor Tour 2025 para llevar su música al público de la diáspora que sigue cantando sus grandes éxitos. Dos de sus fundadores, Silverio Pérez y Josy Latorre, junto a Alex Croatto y una … Continued
Parrots at the Pagoda, inspired by the life of iconic vocalist and prolific trio musician Johnny Rodríguez, takes audiences into the world and music of this legendary Puerto Rican composer, drag artist, and impresario. Prepare to be transported to the life and times of this pioneering female impersonator who owned the legendary El Cotorrito (The … Continued
We’re celebrating our Rooted + Relational Research initiative with a symposium aimed at contending with the material and theoretical importance of the archive in contemporary scholarship and research practices. Through a day of panels, the inaugural cohort of CENTRO research associates, hybrid-fellows, artists in residence, and dissertation fellow will engage with contestation, archival reckoning, archival … Continued
Join Puerto Rican guitarist Dr. José Maldonado and Chinese pianist Dr. Weiwei Zhai for an evening of music from China and Latin America. The program will feature traditional Chinese folk songs, Latin American boleros, and twentieth-century and contemporary works by composers from Mexico, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico. When: Friday, May 2nd at 7:00 PM … Continued
Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx To join this free experience and to received specific directions as to where to meet, contact Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com or click HERE Sunday, May 4, 12 Noon, 2025 Meet at BAAD! 2474 Westchester Avenue Charles Rice-González and Nicolás convene with … Continued
The tradition of lacemaking in Puerto Rico spans many generations. Brought to the island by Spanish settlers, the Puerto Rican bobbin lacemaking tradition, called mundillo (which translates to "little world") became an important economic activity for women across the archipelago. Artist Glorimar Garcia, whose work is featured in Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survial … Continued
In 1958, an emerging Puerto Rican community was displaced from the Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill neighborhoods to make way for the construction of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Utilizing never before seen archival documents made available to CENTRO by the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts and other archival materials, this exhibit … Continued
The Clemente is proud to present Esto No Tiene Nombre, a one-woman show written and performed by acclaimed queer Nuyorican poet, Denice Frohman, for three workshop productions from May 15-17th. The play chronicles the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders told through a tapestry of vignettes exploring Latina lesbian activism, expression, and desire from pre-Stonewall … Continued
The 2nd Annual Lower East Side Puerto Rican Day Parade & Festival is a tribute to the Boricuas who built this neighborhood—brick by brick, beat by beat, and struggle by struggle. In the face of gentrification, which continues to erase our stories and rewrite our history, this parade stands as a bold reminder: our legacy … Continued
Bohemia, sátira y mucho ingenio, así puede describirse el estilo musical único de Los Rivera Destino, cuyo reconocimiento se ha disparado exponencialmente durante los pasados años. Carlos, Antonio y Fernando logran combinar el humor y picardía en sus letras con ritmos como el bolero y el rock, para ofrecer al público un espectáculo creativo, dinámico … Continued
The Diasporican Cultural Summit is designed to address the pressing need for gathering spaces that bring together diasporic cultural workers, fostering connections with the next generation of scholars, researchers, and artists. By creating a multidimensional learning environment, the DCS not only facilitates meaningful exchanges between cultural practitioners and emerging academics but also builds bridges to … Continued
Authors, illustrators and editors come together to unpack Tove Jansson's influential work and consider the field of children's literature more broadly as an invocation into citizenship. M.T. Anderson, Lauren LeBlanc, Dr. Raquel M. Ortiz and Tracy Hurren will raise important, even difficult questions on how we initiate our youngest into life in society, and what … Continued