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SUMMARY:Opening Night of Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico & the Survival of a People
DESCRIPTION: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 of overlapping histories of colonialism\, resistance\, and survival\, and Diasporic Collage engages with collage as both practice and metaphor. Countering the concept of a melting pot\, which emphasizes assimilation and loss of culture\, the idea of a collaged community allows for the celebration of roots and relations. This exhibition also considers the close relationship between photography and collage\, both notable 20th-century art forms. It takes the first major documentary initiative on the Puerto Rican diaspora as a point of departure to examine the enduring legacy of survival and migration. The artists featured in this exhibition consider the Puerto Rican diaspora in a fluid and expansive way. While several focus on the diaspora in the traditional sense—Puerto Ricans who migrate to the United States—many honor the different diasporas that intersect with the archipelago of Puerto Rico\, documenting their communities with care and showing us a collage of Puerto Rican and Caribbean experiences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto Credit: Puerto Rican contingent of the Hispanic Festival\, San Francisco Bomba Collective\, San Francisco\, CA\, 1981\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event has been made possible through the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational Research Initiative.
URL:https://staging.centropr.dev/event/opening-night-of-diasporic-collage-puerto-rico-the-survival-of-a-people/
LOCATION:The Silberman School of Social Work\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10035
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SUMMARY:Cafecito con... Puerto Rican Actors
DESCRIPTION: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. Our distinguished panelists will share their personal stories and reflect on the complex issues surrounding representation\, diversity\, and authenticity in their roles.
URL:https://staging.centropr.dev/event/cafecito-con-puerto-rican-actors-2/
LOCATION:The Silberman School of Social Work\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10035
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SUMMARY:Caudal: Puerto Rican and Dominican Dialogues on Feminism and Queerness
DESCRIPTION: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 Puerto Rico and their global diasporas. \n\n\n\nThe writers of this issue “rock the boat” of national insularity to highlight the region’s deep connective tissues. In examining Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic\, this issue refuses to pick from here nor there\, and instead brings together feminist and queer approaches to spotlight our practices of joy\, resistance\, and survival in the face of racist\, patriarchal\, capitalist\, misogynist\, homophobic and transphobic Caribbean politics and maneuvers in the 21st century. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto Credit: Fue esa la vía\, Helen Ceballos\, 2020. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaribe Cuir [Leisure Space] by Circuito Queer\n\n\n\n3:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Hunter East Harlem Gallery\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Hunter East Harlem Gallery opens up a tranquil space to relish on recent depictions of Caribbean cuir lives. The project Caribe Cuir: Las Casas de Ballroom will premiere showing 6 short films about the development of the Caribbean Kiki scene in both DR and PR by documenting local kinship formations. Come learn about the foundation of these houses: House of Goddesses\, Jaus of Pons\, Laboratoria Boricua del Vogue\, House of Soul\, Casa Atón\, and Draguéalo.  \n\n\n\nThis project is brought together by @cirqpr\, an organization that promotes strategic collaborations between activist and cultural initiatives headed by feminist and LGBTQIA+ and cuir leaders in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCAUDAL [Roundtable] : Puerto Rican and Dominican Dialogues on Feminism and Queerness\n\n\n\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Silberman Room 115AB\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial issue editors Dr. Celiany Rivera Velázquez and Dr. Carlos Ulises Decena initiate a roundtable discussion with a live reading of excerpts from the issue’s introduction to highlight its intentions\, uniqueness and impact. Field expert Zaire Dinzey-Flores (Rutgers)\, as invited responders to the issue\, will share their reflections. \n\n\n\nThe space will have a water-themed installations by artist Helen Ceballos. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaudalosxs [the Reception] \n\n\n\n8:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Silberman Lobby\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter delving in the waters of Caudal\, we invite participants to let loose and dance to a performance by the queer and trans salsa band Las Mariquitas over some food and drinks to cheer the night and the semester away. The Hunter East Harlem Gallery will remain open through the night for folks to continue to enjoy the Caribbean Kiki [Lounge Space] and read a bit of the special issue before purchasing your own copy. Within the same space\, immerse yourself in Circuito Queer’s Las Casas de Ballroom\, a 6 part social media series to come out in 2025 about ballroom culture’s family formation on both islands. There will be 3 short documentaries about houses in DR (House of Soul\, Casa Atón\, and Draguéalo) and 3 short documentaries about houses in Puerto Rico (House of Goddesses\, Jaus of Pons\, Laboratoria Boricua del Vogue). These will play in the gallery’s video nook. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible with the support of Rutgers University\, Circuito Queer\, and the Latinx Project at NYU.
URL:https://staging.centropr.dev/event/caudal-puerto-rican-and-dominican-dialogues-on-feminism-and-queerness/
LOCATION:The Silberman School of Social Work\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10035
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SUMMARY:CENTRO Open House
DESCRIPTION:Calling all students\, professors\, community leaders\, activists\, artists\, and more! Join CENTRO on September 19th at the Silberman School of Social Work for an Open House celebrating our rich history of activism\, community\, and the preservation of the Puerto Rican experience. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss this unique opportunity to learn more about our accessible resources including archival collections\, library\, reports\, data tools & dashboards\, study guides\, lesson plans\, and more available to students\, researchers\, and the community for free! Plus\, don’t miss the opportunity to enter into an exclusive swag giveaway! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: CENTRO Staff Member
URL:https://staging.centropr.dev/event/centro-open-house-2/
LOCATION:The Silberman School of Social Work\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10035
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240606T080000
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SUMMARY:Open Boats: Puerto Rican Studies in Relation
DESCRIPTION:Join CENTRO & The Diaspora Solidarities Lab (DSL) for two days of presentations\, workshops\, conversations\, a film screening\, live music\, and more leading up to the 116th St. Festival & the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. Taking place on June 6th and 7th at the Silberman School of Social Work in East Harlem\, this symposium will host scholars\, organizers\, cultural workers\, authors\, and artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora. Come meet the DSL Fellows and join the CENTRO staff for an exciting week! \n\n\n\nDay One: June 6th\, 2024 \n\n\n\n11:45 AM EST – 12:45 PM EST The Practice of Solidarity: Grassroots Activism in Puerto Rico\nThe multiple ongoing crises in Puerto Rico encompasses a spectrum of challenges\, spanning from instances of femicide to food insecurity\, and environmental degradation. The government has exacerbated these issues by failing to address these compounding issues. In the wake of this\, grassroots community organizations have engaged in radical acts of solidarity as a means to mobilize constructive transformations. Join us in discussing the contours of knowledge and practices of solidarity and grassroots activism. Panelists include members of: Amigxs Del Mar\, Alianza Mujeres Viequense\, La Colectiva Feminista\, and Comedores Sociales. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1:45 PM EST – 4:45 PM EST Open Boats\, Public Knowledge: Archival Study\, Storytelling\, & Digital Humanities Research\nJoin the DSL Open Boat Lab research groups\, community fellows\, and affiliates as they present their research to the community. The Open Boat Lab develops community\, story telling\, and curatorial skills. In addition to the creation of digital archives\, museum and gallery exhibits\, and community workshops\, they offer online and in-person workshops to help transform how we approach knowledge production\, storytelling\, documentation\, and archives. Presentations will include projects by: After the Storm: A Digital Archive of Survival\, The Afro-Latinx Lab\, Revista Étnica\, Proyecto Kokobalé\, Taller Entre Aguas\, Kitsimba Project\, members of the Caribbean Digital Collective\, and more.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6:30 PM EST – 8:00 PM EST Cafecito con… Natasha Alford: American Negra\nAward-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford’s latest book\, American Negra\, is a narrative that is part memoir\, part cultural analysis\, where she reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse\, NY. Join Alford and renowned writer\, Keyaira Kelly\, as they explore American Negra and the expectations and realities of existing as an Afro-Boricua.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDay Two: June 7th\, 2024\n\n\n\n1:30 PM EST –  2:30 PM EST Afternoon Tertulia: Communities in Relation: Cultural Work as Radical Praxis\nJoin us for an Afternoon Tertulia featuring NYC and Puerto Rican cultural workers. Panelists Charles Rice Gonzalez (Co-founder of BAAD – Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance)\, Rosalba Rolón (Artistic Director of Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater)\, Monxo Lopez (Curator at the City Museum of New York)\,  Caridad (La Bruja) De La Luz (Executive Director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe)\, and Alejandro Epifanio (Executive Director at Loisaida Inc.) will share their rooted community work and will share their trajectories to working with NYC-based arts and community organizations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:45 PM EST – 5:00 PM EST Romance Tropical (1934) Screening & Post-Show Discussion\nJoin us for a special screening of Romance Tropical (1934)\, the first Puerto Rican feature film with sound\, and the second Spanish language movie with sound in the world! The film was considered lost for over 80 years\, before a print was located in the PHI/Krypton Collection at UCLA. Photographed\, directed and produced by Puerto Rican film pioneer\, Juan Emilio Viguié\, Romance Tropical tells the story of a young man who discovers a pre-modern tribe on an island and a fortune in pearls\, subsequently falling in love with a beautiful native woman while his upper-class sweetheart waits in the city. The man exploits the island and its assets\, both literally & figuratively\, before returning to the city to marry his sweetheart.  \n\n\n\nJoin Dr. Rojo Robles (Assistant Professor at the Black and Latinx Studies Department at Baruch College\, CUNY.)\, Maillim (May) Santiago (PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies program at George Mason University)\, and Pedro Doreste and Dalina Perdomo (DSL’s Manchineel Project) in conversation as we attempt to understand how the film is an allegory for the colonization and exploitation of third world nations. \n\n\n\nThis screening is produced by the DSL’s newest microlab\, the Manchineel Project\, a multimedia & multimethod interrogation of whiteness in Caribbean moving images & aims to create a living syllabus to better understand the intersections of race and cinema in the Caribbean and its diasporas.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5:15 PM EST – 8:30 PM Workshop & Performance led by Proyecto Kokobalé & Closing Party\nKokobalé/Cocobalé is a martial tradition of Afro-Puerto Rican origin that is practiced with sticks or machetes and with the musical accompaniment of the Puerto Rican Bomba\, our oldest musical tradition of African origin. This tradition includes elements of fighting\, music\, dance and rituals. Kokobalé Project is the only cultural-community organization dedicated to the research\, preservation\, development\, promotion and rescue of our ancestral dance/martial art\, Kokobalé/Cocobalé. Join us for a workshop where you can learn the rhythm of Kokobalé and move along with us!
URL:https://staging.centropr.dev/event/open-boats-puerto-rican-studies-in-relation-2/
LOCATION:The Silberman School of Social Work\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10035
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:The Sounds of the Archives: Compositions Inspired by the CENTRO Archives Collections
DESCRIPTION:Our Archives are an incredible source of inspiration\, not just for scholarly research but also for artists of all disciplines. Recently\, two composers: our Artist in Residence\, Gabriel Bouche Caro and Guarionex Morales Matos\, produced two contemporary compositions based on their research. Join us on May 30th for a very special musical performance and witness the rebirth of archived sounds into innovative musical arrangements. \n\n\n\nGabriel Bouche Caro’s piece is a new performance for solo instrument and narrator/singer. It resembles a stream-of-consciousness/musical theater monologue with the vocalist representing the complexities of the Puerto Rican identity and current situation. The performance’s narrative is constructed by taking highly specific texts from the collections of Tato Laviera\, Victor Hernandez Cruz\, Pura Belpre\, and more and making them into a dramatic reading that brings forth conflicts within the ‘diasporican’ identity\, the duality of being a nationalist living in the colonizer’s land\, and the image of an artist who wishes to bring forth the intricacies and beauty of their culture to the world. This is Puerto Rican music\, not as folk\, but as a synthesis of sound\, experience\, tradition\, difficulties\, and successes that come from living life square-rooted in a richly complex and demanding cultural situation.  \n\n\n\nGuarionex Morales Matos’ project\, Pedro Pietri: An Aesthetic Collision Between His Poetry and Puerto Rican Art Song explores the exclusion of diasporic poets from the Puerto Rican art song genre through the work of Pedro Pietri. Pietri’s poetry constitutes the perfect compositional material for this genre\, despite the euro-centrical criteria that have historically marked the latter’s development and approach towards the public. Morales Matos strives to transgress said conventionalisms to crumble the artificial barriers between art forms\, as well as those that divide the popular\, folk\, and classical music spheres. The lyrics and music will derive from three of Pietri’s least-known texts to create a powerful triptych for mezzo-soprano\, clarinet\, and piano. \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by NALAC: National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Image: Sheet music for performance of “Perez y Martina”\, Pural Belpré Papers. CENTRO Library & Archives
URL:https://staging.centropr.dev/event/the-sounds-of-the-archives-gabriel-bouche-caro-guarionex-morales-matos-in-concert/
LOCATION:The Silberman School of Social Work\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10035
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