BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CentroPR - ECPv6.15.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:CentroPR X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://staging.centropr.dev X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CentroPR REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T140000 DTSTAMP:20260423T053023 CREATED:20250501T142426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T142428Z UID:10000436-1746360000-1746367200@staging.centropr.dev SUMMARY:(Partner Event) Performing the Bronx with Charles Rice-González & Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel / Queer presence in the Bronx DESCRIPTION:Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx\n\nTo join this free experience and to received specific directions as to where to meet\, contact Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com or click HERE \n\nSunday\, May 4\, 12 Noon\, 2025 \nMeet at BAAD! 2474 Westchester Avenue\nCharles Rice-González and Nicolás convene with a group to activate LGBTQ+ space – outdoors in the open –through writing. This event is co-shaped by all participants as a ritual that honors the queer Bronxites who have been here before and who have courageously inhabited our neighborhoods. Taking this as a point of inspiration\, all of those present give this experience tangible form through an altar in flux\, to be infused with the writings that emerge\, the devotions that arise\, and any other offerings to this impermanent socio-emotional sculpture. \n\nQueer presence in the Bronx continues to inform the cultures\, activisms and spirits of this part of New York City where many of those existing at the edges of society have played a central role in the struggle for social justice. Charles will guide us all into the herstories/theirstories/ourstories/histories whose roots run deep into the rich soil of our borough\, and which have allowed many of us to flower.\n\nWhat are the catalyst organizations\, groups and individuals – some no longer existing or alive in physical form – who must be remembered and their impetus invoked into our now? \n\nPlease bring a simple offering for the altar.\n\nFor directions to BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance click HERE\nThe closest train is the number 6 to Westchester Square in the Bronx. BAAD! and then walk a couple of blocks. \n \nCharles Rice-González\, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx\, is a writer\, long-time community and LGBTQ activist\, and co-founder of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and an Associate Professor at Hostos Community College – CUNY. He received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. His debut novel Chulito (Magnus Books 2011) has received nearly a dozen awards including honors from the American Library Association and the National Book Critics Circle. His writing’s been published in over a dozen journals and anthologies\, and he co-edited From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction. His play I Love Andy Gibb was published in Blacktino Queer Performance: A Critical Anthology\, and Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo has been produced each year at BAAD! since 2004. \n\nHis honors include a MacDowell Fellowship\, Letras Boricuas Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship\, a PEN Writing as Activism Fellowship\, the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award\, an Audre Lorde scholarship from the ZAMI Foundation\, and a Gay City News Impact Award for his activism and contributions to advancing the lives of LGBTQ people. \n\nIn 1998\, Charles co-founded\, with award-winning choreographer/dancer Arthur Aviles\, BAAD! – The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance is a cultural organization and theater that presents empowering works for women\, people of color\, and the LGBTQ community. \n \nHe serves on the boards of the Bronx Council on the Arts and the National Association of Latino Art and Cultures\, where he is currently chair of both. Website\n\nThis event will be documented through video and photographs. Those attending must be okay with this. \n\nTo join this gathering\, please contact Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com or click HERE\n\nABOUT: PERFORMING THE BRONX\nSince 2015 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel has invited a group of remarkable Bronxites to co-develop actions embedded in the day-to-day of our beloved home borough. The gestures that emerge are presented in private spaces\, as well as in the Bronx’s public realm\, and focus on the roots that weave these visionaries with specific communities and neighborhoods in our part of the City. Performing the Bronx is an expansion of Nicolás’s ongoing in honoring\, recovering\, reclaiming and remembering herstories/histories/theirstories of the area’s neighbors and trailblazers that run the risk of being effaced by time\, lost in the midst of neighborhoods in flux\, or dismissed by dominant discourses that often position themselves at the center of the conversation. \n\nPast participants: Arthur Avilés\, Bill Aguado\, Benny Bonilla\, Mili Bonilla\, Caridad De La Luz ‘La Bruja’\, Dr. Drum\, Ana ‘ROKAFELLA’ García\, Reverend Danilo Lachapel\, Wanda Salamán\, and Rhina Valentin\n\nPerforming the Bronx as a whole has been supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council\, Casita Maria’s South Bronx Culture Trail 2020\, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. It has also received love\, space and support from Mothers on the Move\, BronxNet TV\, The Andrew Freedman Home\, and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.\n\nThe 2025 chapters of Performing the Bronx with Lisa Ortega\, and Charles Rice-González are presented with support from Historias\, a multi-year programmatic initiative led by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias celebrates the transformative impact of Latinx communities in NYC through research\, artistic interpretations\, and public engagement. URL:https://staging.centropr.dev/event/partner-event-performing-the-bronx-with-charles-rice-gonzalez-nicolas-dumit-estevez-raful-espejo-ovalles-morel-queer-presence-in-the-bronx/ LOCATION:BAAD\, 2472 Westchester Avenue\, Bronx\, New York\, 10461 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://staging.centropr.dev/app/uploads/2025/04/charles_rice_gonzalez_and_nicolas_dumit_estevez_raful.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural &%3B Educational Center":MAILTO:libertadguerra@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T053023 CREATED:20241009T134807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T135003Z UID:10000381-1728543600-1728594000@staging.centropr.dev SUMMARY:(Partner Event) Performing the Bronx: A Living Archive of NYC’s Most Iconic Borough DESCRIPTION:Performing the Bronx / A Living Archive of New York City’s Most Iconic Borough This film premieres at Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance BAAD! \n\nOctober 10\, 7 PM \n\n2474 Westchester Ave\, Bronx\, NY 10461\n\nhttps://www.baadbronx.org\n\nTo purchase tickets click HERE or go to: https://www.interiorbeautysalon.com/happenings/performingthebronx\n\n Arthur Avilés\, Bill Aguado\, Benny Bonilla\, Mili Bonilla\, Caridad De La Luz ‘La Bruja’\, Dr. Drum\, Ana ‘ROKAFELLA’ García\, Reverend Danilo Lachapel\, Wanda Salamán\, and Rhina Valentin\, With Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel \n\nNicolás invites a group of remarkable Bronxites to co-develop actions embedded in the day-to-day of our beloved borough. The gestures that emerge are presented in private spaces\, as well as in the Bronx’s public realm\, focusing on the roots that weave these visionaries with specific communities and neighborhoods. \n\nNicolás dedicates this film to the late Bronx community advocate and activist Martha J. Watford \n\nThis event is being co-presented with support from Historias\, a multi-year programmatic initiative led by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias celebrates the transformative impact of Latinx communities in NYC through research\, artistic interpretations\, and public engagement. \n\nThe Performing the Bronx chapters have been supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affair in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts. The Drumming for and with Benny chapter was produced with Casita Maria as part the South Bronx Culture Trail Festival 2020. Funding for editing this video compilation was provided by the University of Texas at Austin. Performing the Bronx has also received love\, space and support from Mothers on the Move\, BronxNet TV\, The Andrew Freedman Home\, and BAAD! \n\nA video conceived and directed by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful / Video filming and editing: Geoffrey Jones / Still photography: Argenis Apolinario\, Elias Rischmawi\, and Rafaelina Tineo Performing the Bronx copyrights 2015-present\, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful URL:https://staging.centropr.dev/event/performing-the-bronx-a-living-archive-of-nycs-most-iconic-borough/ LOCATION:BAAD\, 2472 Westchester Avenue\, Bronx\, New York\, 10461 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://staging.centropr.dev/app/uploads/2024/10/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-819473039-1584436949923-1-original.20240802-161458.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR