First-ever Puerto Rican film to win a Spirit Award, ESTA ISLA, Opens March 20th in theaters in NYC at Village East by Angelika Winner of Best Director, Best Cinematography, and the Jury Award at the 2025 Tribeca Festival! Filmmaker Q&As with Directors Cristian Carretero & Lorraine Jones: Friday, Mar. 20 @ 7:20pm; Saturday, Mar. 21 … Continued
First-ever Puerto Rican film to win a Spirit Award, ESTA ISLA, Opens March 20th in theaters in NYC at Village East by Angelika Winner of Best Director, Best Cinematography, and the Jury Award at the 2025 Tribeca Festival! Filmmaker Q&As with Directors Cristian Carretero & Lorraine Jones: Friday, Mar. 20 @ 7:20pm; Saturday, Mar. 21 … Continued
Tune in as we explore the Fall 2025 CENTRO Journal on Puerto Rican migration. Recent decades have witnessed economic, political, ecological, and socio-demographic changes that have engulfed Puerto Rico, with out-migration being a common response to such transformations. While the Puerto Rican diaspora was once concentrated in New York City and Chicago, Puerto Ricans from … Continued
Historias is excited to partner with MCNY to present a conversation on Printing Nueva York with author Kelley Krietz. Krietiz’s groundbreaking study maps the vibrant world of nineteenth-century Spanish-language print culture in New York, tracing networks of Cuban émigrés, political exiles, and Puerto Rican intellectuals who used newspapers, pamphlets, and literary journals to shape public … Continued
Join CENTRO Rooted + Relational Archives Fellow, Gianna Brassil, as they explore the connections between the Raquel Ortiz Mi Puerto Rico Film Collection and the Cerro Maravilla Hearings VHS Video Recordings Collection. Brassil seeks to understand how each collection contributes to distinct yet important facets of Puerto Rican history, especially in relation to US imperialism … Continued
Join us in celebrating Dr. Arlene Torres, retiring associate professor in Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies (AFPRL) at Hunter College. Dr. Torres has had a rich career and leaves behind a lasting legacy. Before her time in the AFPRL department at Hunter College, she served as University Dean of Recruitment and Diversity and the … Continued
“Julia VIVE” (“Julia LIVES”- in English) is an award winning feature-length dramatic documentary selected for the 2026 Latino Film Market's opening-night program in NYC. Our film harmonizes the narrative lyricism of fiction with the educational character of the documentary genre, in a joyous artistic convergence that honors the life, work & legacy of the iconic … Continued
Save the date for the official launch of the latest book released in the Diasporican Library collection of the CENTRO Press, ser islas/being islands by Victor Fragoso and translated by Paul Orbuch! Victor Fragoso (1944-1982), a Puerto Rican writer, made his mark in poetry, playwriting, and essays. His work traversed disciplines and boundaries, leaving an … Continued
Last Request presents the story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s. Written approximately two years before his death in 2004, the play is a rare theatrical work by the Poet Laureate of the 1960s Puerto Rican revolutionary organization, the Young Lords. Last Request presents the … Continued
Last Request presents the story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s. Written approximately two years before his death in 2004, the play is a rare theatrical work by the Poet Laureate of the 1960s Puerto Rican revolutionary organization, the Young Lords. Last Request presents the … Continued
Last Request presents the story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s. Written approximately two years before his death in 2004, the play is a rare theatrical work by the Poet Laureate of the 1960s Puerto Rican revolutionary organization, the Young Lords. Last Request presents the … Continued
Last Request presents the story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s. Written approximately two years before his death in 2004, the play is a rare theatrical work by the Poet Laureate of the 1960s Puerto Rican revolutionary organization, the Young Lords. Last Request presents the … Continued