Join Dr. Raquel M. Ortiz read from her book, Broken Butterfly Wings / Alas de mariposa rotas (2021, Arte Publico Press). The 2022 Cleveland Foundation Artist Fellow has recently launched an Afro-Puerto Rican bomba album, entitled Que vengan los niños, are sung in Spanish and in English, and some are also bilingual. Created in collaboration … Continued
Andrea Navedo Studio Interview Latino Film Market, Manhattan Neighbood Network, and the TV Show Hablando de Cine y Mas con Arilyn presents: Andrea Navedo Studio Interview about her new book "Our Otherness is Our Strength: Wisdom from the Boogie Down Bronx" follow by a book reading and signing. Date: October 28, 2023 - Time: 10:45 … Continued
GRAN ESTRENO MUNDIAL. Join us for an educational journey! Tuya Siempre, Julita de Roberto Ramos Perea (Nueva Edición) Discounted prices for students La secreta vida amorosa entre Julia de Burgos y Luis Llorens Torres puesta al descubierto... "Los dos poetas mas portentosos de toda la literatura puertorriqueña, desnudos, intercambiando sus embriagados alientos y guiños, acariciándose … Continued
Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 7 PM ET Join an all-star lineup for the New York launch of legendary diasporic Puerto Rican writer Manuel Ramos Otero’s Cuentos “completos” in a new Spanish edition published by Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and Callejón, edited by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé. With a bilingual reading by authors Giannina Braschi, Gerard Cabrera, Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, Lina Meruane, Huáscar Robles, and Emanuel Xavier, help celebrate … Continued
Dúo Copla (José Maldonado & Ernesto Ramos) is a classical guitar duo from Puerto Rico that focuses on performing, arranging, and recording music by Puerto Rican composers. In March 2024, they will be performing at various universities and cultural institutions in New York. The tour includes performances at Bloomingdale School of Music on March 2nd, … Continued
Dúo Copla is a classical guitar duo from Puerto Rico that focuses on performing, arranging, and recording music by Puerto Rican composers. In this presentation, Dr. José Maldonado (John Jay College) and Prof. Ernesto Ramos (Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico) will perform and share historical insights about the 19th-century Puerto Rican Danza, exploring its … Continued
Dúo Copla (José Maldonado and Ernesto Ramos) will be performing a concert featuring music for guitar by Puerto Rican composers. The repertoire will include 19th-century Danzas by Manuel Tavárez and Juan Morel Campos, Boleros by Rafael Hernández Marín, and 20th-century works by Leonardo Egúrbida, Juan Sorroche, and Ernesto Cordero. This event is free and open … Continued
The "Titi Strikes Back-Evelina's Return" play is inspired by the life of Dr. Evelina Antonetty, a significant activist in the Puerto Rican diaspora during the 20th century. In the play, Evelina returns to Earth for her 100th birthday celebration after leading Universal Justice in Heaven for 38 Earth years. Facing charges by an illegal Celestial … Continued
Mairym Cruz-Bernal, Poeta, editora, traductora, columnista y ensayista puertorriqueña (1963). Presidió el PEN-Puerto Rico (2008-2012). Dirigió desde el 1993 al 1999 el Grupo Puertas: Movimiento artístico-literario de fin de siglo. Presidió el V Encuentro Internacional de Escritoras en Puerto Rico, evento realizado en 2003 donde más de 300 escritoras firmaron un manifiesto por la paz, … Continued
April 12, 2024 (7pm) @ Bronx Music Heritage Center (1303 Louis Nine Blvd., Bronx, New York). Jazz Boricua presents a jazz tribute to Puerto Rican Danza. Enjoy memorable Puerto Rican songs to the rhythm of jazz, along with four formidable masters of popular music. Jazz Boricua is part of the BoriCorridor Tour 2024 program.
May 4, 2024 (7pm) @ Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture (450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York City). The artist invites us to an encounter with our national identity through our music. It will be a night full of Puerto Rican culture and folklore. Croatto will present a refreshing proposal of folk music fused … Continued
English: Guitarist José Gabriel Maldonado Suárez presents a concert that blends baroque and 19th-century classical guitar sonatas for guitar and piano, coupled with 20th-century songs and danzas from Puerto Rico. Maldonado will perform using a replica of Johann Georg Stauffer's (1778 - 1853) Viennese guitar, to interpret works by JS Bach (1685-1750) and Ferdinando Carulli … Continued
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 … Continued
The Multicultural Music Group (MMG) is thrilled to announce the 2024 Multicultural Music Encounter. This year’s event will take place at the Lovinger Theater, Lehman College, on Friday, June 7, at 7 p.m. This year’s performance will showcase a dynamic repertoire in the form of a musical retrospective celebrating the almost 30 years of the … Continued