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Bridging the Divides: Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez & Kyle Powys Whyte on Apocalypse and Indigenizing Futures

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Wednesday, January 31st, at 1 PM ET This event is part of a speaker series organized by Bridging the Divides, a collaborative, interdisciplinary study group that seeks to  develop a new vocabulary and conceptual pathways for theorizing and reimagining Puerto Rico and its future. Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez is an Afro-Puerto Rican writer, teacher, and scholar … Continued

Free

New York Book Launch: Cuentos “Completos” by Manuel Ramos Otero

The LGBT Community Center 208 West 13th St Room 301, New York, New York, United States

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

Free

Library & Archives Lunch Hour: Celebrating Roberto Clemente

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 12 PM ET Roberto Clemente was a trailblazer whose skill on the baseball diamond was matched only by his unwavering commitment to humanitarian causes. Don't miss this chance to immerse yourself in the world of Roberto Clemente – a celebration of a sports icon, a humanitarian, and a complex figure … Continued

Free

Dúo Copla: NYC Tour

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

Free

Partner Event: Curls, Coils, and Waves: The Afro Latina Experience

Latinx Project 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

Join the NYU Latinx Alumni Network and The Latinx Project for a celebration of Afro-Latinidad—featuring a panel discussion and an exclusive sizzle reel preview screening of I’m Not My Hair, a documentary by Cynthia Bastidas chronicling the natural hair journey of an Afro-Latina woman, Cristina Garcia de Leon, and the various ways anti-Blackness manifests itself … Continued

$10

The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition

The Silberman School of Social Work 2180 3rd Ave, New York, New York
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Friday, March 1st, 2024 at 10 AM ET On March 1, 1954, Lolita Lebrón led a group of four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in an armed attack on the U.S. Congress, to dramatize the ongoing colonial nature of the territorial relationship, in the wake of the “Commonwealth” constitution of 1952. Seventy years … Continued

Free

Partner Event: Dúo Copla: Guitar Music from Puerto Rico

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY 524 W 59th St, New York, NY, United States

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

Free

Dúo Copla: Guitar Music from Puerto Rico at Hunter College

Hunter College 695 Park Ave, New York, United States

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

Free

Cafecito con… Carla Acevedo-Yates – Curator of entre horizontes: Art & Activism Between Chicago & Puerto Rico

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 3 PM ET Join curator, Carla Acevedo Yates, and CENTRO Directora, Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, for a cafecito as they journey through entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico. Together, they'll explore the intersection of art and activism, and unpack the myriad ways in which creative expression can … Continued

Free

Sites of Rehearsal

Amant 306 Maujer St., Brooklyn, NY, United States

Amant and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) invite visitors to a walk-through, screening, and conversation on the occasion of Natalia Lassalle-Morillo exhibition En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy. A film and theater commission that reimagines the tragedy of Antigone with a cast of Puerto Ricans based in Puerto Rico and its New … Continued

Free
Event Series “Titi Strikes Back – Evelina’s Return

Partner Event: “Titi Strikes Back – Evelina’s Return

Hostos Community College - Repertory Theater 450 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, New York

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

$10 – $25

La Meriendita Story Hour: Window Fishing by DK Dyson

East Harlem Tutorial Program 2050 2nd Ave, New York, New York, United States

Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 at 4 PM ET Join CENTRO in East Harlem for La Meriendita, a story hour dedicated to children’s books! This month’s Meriendita is Window Fishing, written by DK Dyson and illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez. A heartwarming story following Rudeday, who dreams of creating art that brings people joy but instead, he … Continued

Free

Library & Archive Lunch Hour: Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias and the Fight Against Forced Sterilization

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024 at 12 PM ET Join CENTRO's archivist Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez and Professor Felicia Kornbluh for a compelling exploration of the life and legacy of Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trias, a pioneering advocate for women's health and reproductive justice. Drawing from CENTRO's Archives and Kornbluh's book A Woman's Life Is a Human Life, … Continued

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Partner Event: Digital MoCHA: The Online Archives of the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art Collection

Join us for an afternoon with the Hostos Archives to celebrate its new digital repository showcasing the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA) Collection. The event will launch the open-access portal Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York, an online gallery containing a dazzling array of exhibition catalogs and other primary sources at your fingertips. As … Continued

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Event Series Partner Event: Puerto Rican Archives Symposium: Preserving Community Memory

Partner Event: Puerto Rican Archives Symposium: Preserving Community Memory

Puerto Rican Archives: Preserving Community Memory is a two-day symposium focused on the political potency of Puerto Rican archives—both on the island and in the diaspora. The symposium is a collaboration between Digitizing the Barrio (an archival project of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center), The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, and the … Continued

Free

Partner Event: MAYRIM: Esta manera de volar en globo

El Barrio Arts Space P.S. 109, 215 East 99th Street, New York, NY, United States

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

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Event Series Partner Event: Puerto Rican Archives Symposium: Preserving Community Memory

Partner Event: Puerto Rican Archives Symposium: Preserving Community Memory

Puerto Rican Archives: Preserving Community Memory is a two-day symposium focused on the political potency of Puerto Rican archives—both on the island and in the diaspora. The symposium is a collaboration between Digitizing the Barrio (an archival project of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center), The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, and the … Continued

Free

At the Edge of Each Other’s Battles: Puerto Rican, Palestinian, Black & Indigenous Futures

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Join us for a virtual symposium “At the edge of each other's battles”: Puerto Rican, Palestinian, Black, & Indigenous Futures which convenes scholars and writers to examine the legacies of colonialism, dispossession, and solidarity practices across a series of overlapping experiences. Using the word of Audre Lorde as a point of departure, this day of … Continued

Free

Partner Event: Jazz Boricua

Bronx Music Heritage Center 1303 Louis Nine Blvd., Bronx, New York City, NY, United States

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.

$20

Cafecito con… Jorell Meléndez-Badillo – Puerto Rico: A National History

The Silberman School of Social Work 2180 3rd Ave, New York, New York

Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Join Dr. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo and CENTRO Directora, Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, as we explore Meléndez Badillo's latest book, Puerto Rico: A National History, that gives voice to … Continued

Free

Afternoon Tertulia: ¡Vivas nos queremos! Exploring the CENTRO Summer 2023 Journal on Femicide

Virtual Event Virtual Event

On September 28, 2020, the Black transfeminist collective, La Colectiva Feminista, summoned and organized the “¡Vivas nos queremos! — pa’ la tumba el patriarcado” march to end in front of La Fortaleza, the governor’s mansion, in Old San Juan, repeating their call to the Puerto Rican government to declare a State of Emergency due to … Continued

Free

Family Archives Workshop w/ Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez

Miriam Galler 319 Bedford Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, United States

The workshop invites participants to bring their memories in the form of photographs, papers, and textiles for a hands-on experience in preserving family archives. Through the seemingly technical act of organizing and describing your family archives, we will reflect on the impact of migration and movement, explore the intersection of the tangible and the intangible, … Continued

$10

La Meriendita Story Hour: Churro Stand by Karina González

East Harlem Tutorial Program 2050 2nd Ave, New York, New York, United States

Join CENTRO in East Harlem for La Meriendita, a story hour dedicated to children’s books! This month’s Meriendita is Churro Stand, written by Karina González and illustrated by Krystal Quiles. On a hot summer’s day, Lucía and her brother accompany their mother to sell delicious, sugary churros on the bustling streets of New York City. … Continued

Free

Partner Event: Hermes Croatto

Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx,, New York City, NY, United States

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

$20

Partner Event: Bach to Borikén

Bloomingdale School of Music 323 West 108th Street, New York, NY, United States

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

Free

Mapping Puerto Rican Communities – GIS in Action

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Join CENTRO for a discussion on harnessing the power of maps to tell stories and convey information. Learn from professionals across diverse sectors, both within the archipelago and the Diaspora, about using maps as a resource to engage and inform local communities. Panelists includes Dr. Maritza Barreto Orta, the principal investigator of Instituto de Investigación y Planificación … Continued

Free

Partner Event: ¡Oye! Puerto Rican Theater Breaks Through: Exhibit Opening and Panel Discussion

David Geffen Hall 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, United States

The 1970s marked a turning point in the history of Puerto Rican theater in New York City. A vibrant arts scene of Puerto Rican playwrights, poets, and actors emerged, one that traversed the boroughs and neighborhoods of the city and influenced audiences from all cultural backgrounds. Groundbreaking, contemporary works of art that focused on the … Continued

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Cafecito con… Marisel Moreno: Crossing Waters

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Join Marisel Moreno, award-winning author of the book Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art, and Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, CENTRO Directora, for a cafecito as they reconsider the traditional understanding of borders, migration and Puerto Rico's unique position in the migration narrative. Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans … Continued

Free

Partner Event: The Art of Resistance Exhibition

Taller Boricua Gallery 1680 Lexington Ave, New York, NY, United States

Since 1998, vagabond has dedicated a vast amount of his writing, art, and filmmaking talents to the Puerto Rican independence movement. This show is a collection of 25 years worth of his art and agit-prop. July 25th, 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the US invasion of Puerto Rico which led to ongoing an occupation … Continued

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The Sounds of the Archives: Compositions Inspired by the CENTRO Archives Collections

The Silberman School of Social Work 2180 3rd Ave, New York, New York

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

Free

Event Series “Traversing the Light”: A Ten-Year Fine Photography Retrospective by Melanie S. Gonzalez.

Partner Event: “Traversing the Light”: A Ten-Year Fine Photography Retrospective by Melanie S. Gonzalez.

Highland Public Library 14 Elting Pl, Highland, NY, United States

"Traversing the Light": A Ten-Year Fine Photography Retrospective by Melanie S. Gonzalez. Presentation by the artist at 5PM on Thursday, June 20th at Highland Public Library. 14 Elting Pl Highland, NY 12528 More details coming soon by Highland Public Library and Suzanna Productions. Melanie S Gonzalez Thu, May 16, 2:37 PM (7 days ago) to Donna, … Continued

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Library & Archives Lunch Hour: New Books in Puerto Rican Studies

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Looking for a new book to read? Look no further! Join us for another Library & Archives Lunch Hour on 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 lunch hour. … Continued

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Open Boats: Puerto Rican Studies in Relation

The Silberman School of Social Work 2180 3rd Ave, New York, New York

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 … Continued

Free

Partner Event: Jibarito: A Three-Decade Retrospective Celebration of the Bronx’s Multicultural Music Group Orchestra!

Lovinger Theater, Lehman College 250 Bedford Park Blvd, Bronx, NY, United States

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

Free

Partner Event: MiCasa SuCasa

Tola's Room 4212 Sheldon Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21206, Baltimore, MD, United States

Each June, Tola's Room hosts an event celebrating the Puerto Rican diaspora and commemorating the birthday of Edwin Delgado, our Founder and Creative Director's father. This tradition not only celebrates our culture but also serves as an annual reminder of our continued work to highlight #PuertoRican culture in #Baltimore At Tola's Room, we deeply value … Continued

$15

Partner Event: Kevin Quiles Bonilla: A small patch of sand, yet it holds so much

Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York 128 Baxter St., New York, NY, United States

Solo exhibition of photographs by Puerto Rican artist Kevin Quiles Bonilla at Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York. "A small patch of sand, yet it holds so much" is curated by Ezra Benus, Baxter St’s 2023 Guest Curatorial Initiative Recipient. The presentation explores themes of colonialism and diaspora through photographic installations in … Continued

Event Series “Traversing the Light”: A Ten-Year Fine Photography Retrospective by Melanie S. Gonzalez.

Partner Event: “Traversing the Light”: A Ten-Year Fine Photography Retrospective by Melanie S. Gonzalez.

Highland Public Library 14 Elting Pl, Highland, NY, United States

"Traversing the Light": A Ten-Year Fine Photography Retrospective by Melanie S. Gonzalez. Presentation by the artist at 5PM on Thursday, June 20th at Highland Public Library. 14 Elting Pl Highland, NY 12528 More details coming soon by Highland Public Library and Suzanna Productions. Melanie S Gonzalez Thu, May 16, 2:37 PM (7 days ago) to Donna, … Continued

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