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SUMMARY:Cafecito con… Jose Cruz: Con la música a otra parte
DESCRIPTION:Puerto Rican music has made many headlines over the last few years due to its global cultural impact. However\, the influence and development of Puerto Rico’s musical genres\, rhythms\, and songs have roots that have evolved over and across generations. Don’t miss this Cafecito con…Professor José Cruz and moderator Elena Martinez as they discuss Cruz’s latest book\, Con la música a otra parte. \n\n\n\nThis book weaves fiction and reality to tell the stories that may have inspired some of the most emblematic songs in the Puerto Rican popular repertoire\, inviting us to scrutinize the soundtrack of a bygone era and to reflect on the familiarity that the songs evoke in us. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMiss the event? Catch the recording here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Photograph of Jose Cruz\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/cafecito-con-jose-cruz-con-la-musica-a-otra-parte/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T180000
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SUMMARY:Cafecito con... Alison Rand - Sentido: On Sensemaking\, Culture\, and the Practice of Becoming
DESCRIPTION:Sentido is a word layered with meaning. Sense\, feeling\, awareness\, direction. It’s also a way of moving through the world. Join author Alison Rand for a conversation exploring how sentido shapes how we make sense of who we are\, where we come from\, and the systems we’re part of. \n\n\n\nDrawing from her forthcoming book with MIT Press\, Sentido: On Sensemaking\, Culture\, and the Practice of Becoming\, Rand shares how growing up Puerto Rican\, Jewish\, and New York–raised taught her to see complexity not as something to solve but to understand. Together\, we’ll reflect on how identity\, culture\, and care can guide how we lead\, create\, and connect — especially in times of uncertainty and change. \n\n\n\nAt its heart\, this talk is about what it means to stay human inside the systems that shape us\, and how sentido\, in all its forms\, can help us find our way back to purpose and each other. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMissed this event? Catch the recording here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Photograph by Joe Navas\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/cafecito-con-alison-rand-sentido-on-sensemaking-culture-and-the-practice-of-becoming/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81919781873
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260305T180000
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SUMMARY:P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Join CENTRO and El Museo del Barrio for the exciting book launch of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance! Through a series of original interviews that include artists like De La Ghetto\, iLe\, Jowell & Randy\, Tainy\, MAG\, and others\, this book traces Bad Bunny’s career from his early days on SoundCloud to the release of DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS in January 2025. This book\, authored by professors Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera Rideau and published through Duke University Press\, utilizes Bad Bunny’s body of work and subsequent explosion as a global superstar to provide a deeper analysis of the past thirty years in Puerto Rican politics and history. \n\n\n\nJoin authors Díaz and Rivera-Rideau (creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus”) as they explore Bad Bunny’s place in a long tradition of infusing both joy and protest into music and honor the many evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMissed this event? Catch the recording here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Cover Design by Matt Tauch\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational initiative\, and the generous support of the New York City Council.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/p-fkn-r-how-bad-bunny-became-the-global-voice-of-puerto-rican-resistance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T180000
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SUMMARY:Shifting Social Work to Social Justice: Feminism\, Care Work\, and Puerto Rican Women's Community Building
DESCRIPTION:Pivotal Puerto Rican feminist figures like Julia de Burgos\, Yolanda Sanchez\, Antonia Pantoja\, and countless others have laid the groundwork for community-centered activism. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss our upcoming panel with authors Vanessa Pérez-Rosario and Emma Amador as we work to understand and contextualize the stories of women like Burgos\, Sanchez\, and Pantoja and how they overlap in the struggles of national liberation in a patriarchal society. \n\n\n\nPérez-Rosario and Amador’s recent publications\, I Am My Own Path: Selected Writings of Julia de Burgos and The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice help us understand the root of these women’s work and how it’s grounded in a commitment to addressing the high stakes class struggles of women\, migrants\, and people of color. \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\nImage Credit: Social workers / Unas Trabajadoras Sociales | Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS)\, CENTRO Archives\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational initiative
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/shifting-social-work-to-social-justice-feminism-care-work-and-puerto-rican-womens-community-building/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86210812363
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SUMMARY:ESTA ISLA by Cristian Carretero & Lorraine Jones Molina
DESCRIPTION:First-ever Puerto Rican film to win a Spirit Award\, ESTA ISLA\, Opens March 20th in theaters in NYC at Village East by Angelika \nWinner of Best Director\, Best Cinematography\, and the Jury Award at the 2025 Tribeca Festival!  \nFilmmaker Q&As with Directors Cristian Carretero & Lorraine Jones: Friday\, Mar. 20 @ 7:20pm; Saturday\, Mar. 21 @ 7:20pm \nA deeply personal and moving portrait of the Puerto Rican experience\, sharply exploring the complexities of identity\, resilience\, and colonial legacy. Featuring strong performances and striking cinematography\, the debut feature by Lorraine Jones and Cristian Carretero is a powerful exploration of a troubled youth searching for a better future amid a precarious present.   \nBebo\, a teenager from a coastal Puerto Rican town\, lives with his brother in a public housing complex. They fish for a living\, but growing desperation drives them to illegal dealings that promise easy money. When a job goes wrong and blood is spilled\, Bebo flees with Lola\, a wealthy girl seeking to escape her troubled reality. As they navigate the labyrinthine mountains\, they encounter remnants of a fading way of life\, contrasting with the violence that follows them. As hitmen close in\, Bebo must confront his choices and decide if redemption is possible\, or if the sea will be their final escape.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/esta-isla-by-cristian-carretero-lorraine-jones-molina/2026-03-20/1/
LOCATION:Village East by Angelika\, 181-189 2nd Ave\,\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:ESTA ISLA by Cristian Carretero & Lorraine Jones Molina
DESCRIPTION:First-ever Puerto Rican film to win a Spirit Award\, ESTA ISLA\, Opens March 20th in theaters in NYC at Village East by Angelika \nWinner of Best Director\, Best Cinematography\, and the Jury Award at the 2025 Tribeca Festival!  \nFilmmaker Q&As with Directors Cristian Carretero & Lorraine Jones: Friday\, Mar. 20 @ 7:20pm; Saturday\, Mar. 21 @ 7:20pm \nA deeply personal and moving portrait of the Puerto Rican experience\, sharply exploring the complexities of identity\, resilience\, and colonial legacy. Featuring strong performances and striking cinematography\, the debut feature by Lorraine Jones and Cristian Carretero is a powerful exploration of a troubled youth searching for a better future amid a precarious present.   \nBebo\, a teenager from a coastal Puerto Rican town\, lives with his brother in a public housing complex. They fish for a living\, but growing desperation drives them to illegal dealings that promise easy money. When a job goes wrong and blood is spilled\, Bebo flees with Lola\, a wealthy girl seeking to escape her troubled reality. As they navigate the labyrinthine mountains\, they encounter remnants of a fading way of life\, contrasting with the violence that follows them. As hitmen close in\, Bebo must confront his choices and decide if redemption is possible\, or if the sea will be their final escape.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/esta-isla-by-cristian-carretero-lorraine-jones-molina/2026-03-20/2/
LOCATION:Village East by Angelika\, 181-189 2nd Ave\,\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T180000
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SUMMARY:Diasporic Puerto Rican Communities in Transformation
DESCRIPTION: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 the States and the archipelago continue to migrate to non-traditional destinations across the country\, with the current majority residing in Florida. In the last decade\, states like Georgia\, Ohio\, and North Carolina have experienced significant growth in their Puerto Rican population. \n\n\n\nCascading events in the past two decades such as the expiration of Section 936 tax breaks\, a prolonged economic recession\, Puerto Rico’s unaudited debt and the subsequent imposition of the Puerto Rican Fiscal Oversight and Management Control Board (la Junta)\, Hurricanes Irma and Maria\, the earthquakes of 2019–2020\, and the COVID-19 pandemic\, all have contributed to migration. Exploitative labor recruitment of Puerto Ricans from the archipelago by stateside companies continues to draw people away. Concurrently\, the Puerto Rican diaspora has grown\, and Puerto Rican communities have diversified\, though less is known about how Puerto Rican families and communities in the diaspora have become heterogenous through patterns of exogamy\, cultural identities\, regionalism\, social mobility\, and other factors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMissed this event? Catch the recording here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Cándida González\, Caldero Familiar\, 2024. Photo credit: Rik Sferra. Mixed media installation of found and altered objects with printed digital collage.\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/diasporic-puerto-rican-communities-in-transformation/
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SUMMARY:Printing Nueva York
DESCRIPTION: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 discourse and assert self-representation.\n\nUsing Printing Nueva York as a historical anchor\, the conversation will reflect on the longer continuities of Latinx knowledge circulation in New York—from nineteenth-century print networks to contemporary digital humanities projects such as Nueva York Chronicles. Kelly will be joined by Alana Casanova-Burgess\, host and producer of WNYC’s NPR podcast La Brega. \n\nThis conversation is moderated by Monxo López\, MCNY’s Curator of Community Histories with an opening performance by Urayoán Noel\, a writer\, translator\, and performer based in the Bronx who also is an Associate Professor of English\, Spanish and Portuguese at New York University.\n\n\nTickets are limited.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/printing-nueva-york/
LOCATION:Museum of the City of New York\, 1220 5th Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10029\, United States
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SUMMARY:Library & Archives Lunch Hour: Mi Puerto Rico & Cerro Maravilla
DESCRIPTION: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 and the struggle for Puerto Rican self-determination. Come learn more about the richness of the CENTRO Archives and what archivists do behind the scene. \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\nImage Credit: Helicoptero sobre campamento\, Vieques\, the Raquel Ortiz Mi Puerto Rico Film Collection.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/library-archives-lunch-hour-mi-puerto-rico-cerro-maravilla/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89912245489
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T120000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Arlene Torres: Honoring a Legacy of Education
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nBefore her time in the AFPRL department at Hunter College\, she served as University Dean of Recruitment and Diversity and the Director of the Chancellor’s Latino Faculty Initiative in Academic Affairs in the CUNY Central Administration. Dr. Torres is a cultural anthropologist with expertise in Caribbean\, Latina/Latino and Latin American Studies. Early on her scholarly work on the Americas and the Caribbean archipelago prompted her to study the impact of social inequality structurally and relationally over the long durée of history. Her groundbreaking edited volume\, Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean (with Norman E. Whitten\, Jr.)\, is widely regarded in Latin American and Latinx Studies. Dr. Torres has mentored dozens of undergraduate and graduate students\, in addition to junior and midcareer faculty\, throughout the country. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP to join us in-person here:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP to join us virtually here:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Photograph of Arlene Torres\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the generous support of the New York City Council.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/celebrating-arlene-torres-honoring-a-legacy-of-learning/
LOCATION:Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter  College\, 47-49 E 65th St\, New York\, New York\, 10065\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T180000
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: "Julia VIVE" ("Julia LIVES") - Documentary/Drama feature film from Puerto Rico
DESCRIPTION:“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.\n\nOur 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 Puerto Rican poet & patriot JULIA DE BURGOS. \n\nOur film’s documentary thread is fueled by elements of Julia’s brief & intense life\, validated by well-documented interviews with highly-regarded international academic & cultural experts on her legacy\, supported by abundant photos & footage from Puerto Rico\, Cuba & NY in the 1930s to 1950s. \n\nThey are enriched by well-crafted drama scenes that portray Julia’s intense spirit\, sensibility\, passions and the splendor of her poetic work\, featuring a talented cast\, meticulous period styling & production values that proudly honor her legacy. We are very honored and grateful by the enthusiastic support of Julia de Burgos’ family to our film!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/julia-vive-julia-lives-documentary-drama-feature-film-from-puerto-rico/
LOCATION:The Silberman School of Social Work Auditorium\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10065
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T191500
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SUMMARY:Cafecito con... Víctor Fragoso: ser islas
DESCRIPTION: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! \n\n\n\nVictor Fragoso (1944-1982)\, a Puerto Rican writer\, made his mark in poetry\, playwriting\, and essays. His work traversed disciplines and boundaries\, leaving an indelible impact on the Puerto Rican and queer communities in New York and beyond. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOriginally published in 1976\, this latest edition of ser islas/being islands delicately interwines images from Fragoso’s personal archival collections\, elegantly capturing the nostalgic and intimate nature of his work with new essays by Archivist Herbert Duran and Gustavo Quintero Vera. “In Fragoso\, the intimate and the political do not clash; there is a poiesis of encounter\, a queer gaze upon the always-queer experience of being human” (Ángel Antonio Ruiz Laboy). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/cafecito-con-victor-fragoso-ser-islas/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81492982178
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T210000
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: Last Request
DESCRIPTION:Last Request presents the story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s. \n\n\n\nWritten 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 story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s by a young couple\, an old couple\, and a blind couple. Their reactions to his possessions trigger escalating chaos and revelations about their personal lives\, becoming an exploration of morality\, greed\, dignity\, and survival in mid-century urban life. \n\n\n\nKnown for elevating street language\, working-class experience\, and collective memory in his poetry\, Pedro Pietri was a foundational figure in the Nuyorican poetry movement. Presented at Teatro LATEA\, a location that sustained experimental bilingual performance throughout the 1980s and 1990s\, the production locates Pietri’s rarely staged theatrical work within the same cultural context that originally shaped his artistic voice. The play is directed by Juan Valenzuela\, a México-born director\, playwright\, actor\, short story writer\, and performer who has been active in the downtown New York scene since the 1970s. He has directed several plays by Pedro Pietri and has served as space manager at the Yippie Museum. His plays include “Love\, Ambition & Destiny.” \n\n\n\nThis play will be presented alongside an exhibition by artist Miguel Trelles\, curated by Alejandro Torres\, titled Nuyorican Splendor II. This exhibition brings together portraits and “garabatos” inspired by Trelles’ encounters with iconic Nuyorican writers. \n\n\n\nThis production and exhibit promises to immerse viewers and attendees in the energy of the Nuyorican movement through the works of Pedro Pietri and the many people he inspired. The show runs from April 9th to 26th.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-last-request/2026-04-23/
LOCATION:The Clemente Center
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T210000
DTSTAMP:20260528T000956
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: Last Request
DESCRIPTION:Last Request presents the story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s. \n\n\n\nWritten 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 story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s by a young couple\, an old couple\, and a blind couple. Their reactions to his possessions trigger escalating chaos and revelations about their personal lives\, becoming an exploration of morality\, greed\, dignity\, and survival in mid-century urban life. \n\n\n\nKnown for elevating street language\, working-class experience\, and collective memory in his poetry\, Pedro Pietri was a foundational figure in the Nuyorican poetry movement. Presented at Teatro LATEA\, a location that sustained experimental bilingual performance throughout the 1980s and 1990s\, the production locates Pietri’s rarely staged theatrical work within the same cultural context that originally shaped his artistic voice. The play is directed by Juan Valenzuela\, a México-born director\, playwright\, actor\, short story writer\, and performer who has been active in the downtown New York scene since the 1970s. He has directed several plays by Pedro Pietri and has served as space manager at the Yippie Museum. His plays include “Love\, Ambition & Destiny.” \n\n\n\nThis play will be presented alongside an exhibition by artist Miguel Trelles\, curated by Alejandro Torres\, titled Nuyorican Splendor II. This exhibition brings together portraits and “garabatos” inspired by Trelles’ encounters with iconic Nuyorican writers. \n\n\n\nThis production and exhibit promises to immerse viewers and attendees in the energy of the Nuyorican movement through the works of Pedro Pietri and the many people he inspired. The show runs from April 9th to 26th.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-last-request/2026-04-24/
LOCATION:The Clemente Center
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T210000
DTSTAMP:20260528T000956
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260423T022455Z
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: Last Request
DESCRIPTION:Last Request presents the story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s. \n\n\n\nWritten 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 story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s by a young couple\, an old couple\, and a blind couple. Their reactions to his possessions trigger escalating chaos and revelations about their personal lives\, becoming an exploration of morality\, greed\, dignity\, and survival in mid-century urban life. \n\n\n\nKnown for elevating street language\, working-class experience\, and collective memory in his poetry\, Pedro Pietri was a foundational figure in the Nuyorican poetry movement. Presented at Teatro LATEA\, a location that sustained experimental bilingual performance throughout the 1980s and 1990s\, the production locates Pietri’s rarely staged theatrical work within the same cultural context that originally shaped his artistic voice. The play is directed by Juan Valenzuela\, a México-born director\, playwright\, actor\, short story writer\, and performer who has been active in the downtown New York scene since the 1970s. He has directed several plays by Pedro Pietri and has served as space manager at the Yippie Museum. His plays include “Love\, Ambition & Destiny.” \n\n\n\nThis play will be presented alongside an exhibition by artist Miguel Trelles\, curated by Alejandro Torres\, titled Nuyorican Splendor II. This exhibition brings together portraits and “garabatos” inspired by Trelles’ encounters with iconic Nuyorican writers. \n\n\n\nThis production and exhibit promises to immerse viewers and attendees in the energy of the Nuyorican movement through the works of Pedro Pietri and the many people he inspired. The show runs from April 9th to 26th.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-last-request/2026-04-25/
LOCATION:The Clemente Center
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T210000
DTSTAMP:20260528T000956
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260423T022455Z
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: Last Request
DESCRIPTION:Last Request presents the story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s. \n\n\n\nWritten 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 story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s by a young couple\, an old couple\, and a blind couple. Their reactions to his possessions trigger escalating chaos and revelations about their personal lives\, becoming an exploration of morality\, greed\, dignity\, and survival in mid-century urban life. \n\n\n\nKnown for elevating street language\, working-class experience\, and collective memory in his poetry\, Pedro Pietri was a foundational figure in the Nuyorican poetry movement. Presented at Teatro LATEA\, a location that sustained experimental bilingual performance throughout the 1980s and 1990s\, the production locates Pietri’s rarely staged theatrical work within the same cultural context that originally shaped his artistic voice. The play is directed by Juan Valenzuela\, a México-born director\, playwright\, actor\, short story writer\, and performer who has been active in the downtown New York scene since the 1970s. He has directed several plays by Pedro Pietri and has served as space manager at the Yippie Museum. His plays include “Love\, Ambition & Destiny.” \n\n\n\nThis play will be presented alongside an exhibition by artist Miguel Trelles\, curated by Alejandro Torres\, titled Nuyorican Splendor II. This exhibition brings together portraits and “garabatos” inspired by Trelles’ encounters with iconic Nuyorican writers. \n\n\n\nThis production and exhibit promises to immerse viewers and attendees in the energy of the Nuyorican movement through the works of Pedro Pietri and the many people he inspired. The show runs from April 9th to 26th.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-last-request/2026-04-26/
LOCATION:The Clemente Center
CATEGORIES:Partner Event,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T203000
DTSTAMP:20260528T000956
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SUMMARY:Rooted + Relational: Boricuas in Relation
DESCRIPTION:We’re celebrating our Rooted + Relational Research initiative with the second annual symposium centering the 2025-2026 theme\, Boricuas in Relation. We invited researchers\, students\, and artists to engage with the phenomenon of Boricua archipelagic and diasporic community formation with other racial and ethnic groups. Through special screenings\, presentations\, and panels\, the current cohort of CENTRO fellows will engage with Puerto Rican relations\, histories\, and  practices with multiple communities across the US and beyond. Join us on  expanding Puerto Rican Studies as a field\, a community\, and a praxis of call and response as we learn how to tend to our complex and overlapping relationships across global geographies and specific communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMay 1\, 2026 | 3 PM – 8 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3PM | Free Walking Tour of “Máximo R. Colón: A Lens Rooted in Solidarity” at Harlem Art Park\n\n\n\nJoin us for a free walking tour of an installation highlighting the work of Máximo R. Colón. Over several decades\, Colón’s lens has accompanied marches and demonstrations in New York\, capturing moments of civic participation that\, while not always centered on Puerto Rican subjects\, are shaped by a Puerto Rican photographer’s perspective. This installation will be on view for one week only. No RSVP required. \n\n\n\n5PM | Screening: Archiving\, Movement\, & Mapping Memory\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of experimental and documentary film screenings to celebrate the opening of the “Boricuas in Relation” symposium. These screenings foreground documentary and experimental film as relational research practices. Through movement\, montage\, and archival intervention\, these works interrogate absence\, urban memory\, and embodied mapping. Together\, they ask: How do Boricuas narrate and navigate place when the archive is fragmented\, incomplete\, or silent? And how might creative practice become a method for tending to what history leaves behind? \n\n\n\nFeatured directors:\n\n\n\nNoelia Quintero-Herencia | We are the city: Mapping No es extraño este sitio para la danza \n\n\n\nCarla Gutiérrez and Kristofer Ríos | The Gaps Are the Story: Documentary Practice and the Incomplete Record \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here :\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMay 2\, 2026 | 10 AM – 7 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDay 2 of the Rooted + Relational: Boricuas in Relation Symposium will be hybrid. RSVP to join virtually here :\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11 AM | Panel 1: Diasporic Formations — Language\, Race\, and Archival Silences\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis panel examines how Boricua identities take shape across racialized landscapes of migration and settlement. Moving from Afro-Nuyorican poetics and linguistic struggle in New York City to overlooked labor histories in Utah\, presenters trace how diaspora exceeds the nation-form and unsettles dominant archives. Together\, these works explore relation as lived practice—through language\, errantry\, education\, and survival—while confronting the silences that structure historical record-keeping. \n\n\n\nPanelists include: \n\n\n\nCristel Jusino Díaz | Moderator \n\n\n\nJanelle Viera | Contextualizing Race in Place: Diasporic Boricua Identities \n\n\n\nMell Rivera Díaz | Errantry Beyond the Nation-Form: Opacity and Afro-Nuyorican Relation \n\n\n\nKatherine Morales | Relating to Spanish: Puerto Rican Oral Histories and the Making of Bilingual Education in New York City \n\n\n\nNichole Garcia | Making Life Beyond the Ledger: Puerto Rican Migration and Archival Silence in Utah’s Bingham Canyon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here :\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:45 PM | Panel 2: Archipelagic Solidarities — Revolutionary\, Caribbean\, and Transpacific Relations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCentering solidarity as method and practice\, this panel maps Puerto Rican political and cultural relations across Greater Mexico\, the U.S. Virgin Islands\, Vieques\, Palestine\, and South Korea. Presenters explore revolutionary networks\, anti-militarism struggles\, and inter-island friendships to illuminate archipelagic thinking beyond colonial borders. By foregrounding memory work and activist praxis\, the panel considers how Boricua relationality generates shared political imaginaries across geographies. \n\n\n\nPanelists Include:\n\n\n\nEssah Díaz | Moderator  \n\n\n\nMichael Staudenmaier | Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Greater Mexico\, 1978-1988 \n\n\n\nKiana Gonzalez-Cedeño | Islander Friendships: US Virgin Island/Puerto Rico Friendship Day and Lessons on Caribbean Relation \n\n\n\nSara Awartani | Archiving Solidarity: A Memoir of Methods and Praxis \n\n\n\nYeongju Lee | Narrating Vieques Anti-Militarism Activism from a Transpacific Perspective \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here :\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3:30 PM | Panel 3: Cultural Afterlives — Literature\, Comics\, and Global Solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom early women’s fiction to contemporary music and comics\, this panel explores how Boricua cultural production theorizes relation across time and territory. Presenters revisit neglected literary texts\, examine global solidarities articulated in popular music\, and trace graphic storytelling as diasporic worldmaking. Together\, these works show how art not only reflects social conditions but actively constructs relational futures rooted in feminist\, anti-colonial\, and transnational struggle. \n\n\n\nPanelist include: \n\n\n\nJillian Baez | Moderator  \n\n\n\nSuuru (Ashley Torres Carrasquillo) | Afro Saberes: Co-constructing a Community-Based Archive–Archivo de Historias\, Aspiraciones\, Resistencias y Cuidados Colectivos de personas negras que viven y sueñan en Barrios\, Barriadas y Caseríos de Puerto Rico \n\n\n\nAdrianna Ríos | Forgotten Novels\, Enduring Questions: Marriage\, Violence\, and Domesticity in Early Puerto Rican Women’s Fiction \n\n\n\nAlex Sastre-Rivera | Rooted and Relational: Global Solidarity against Settler Colonialism in “Lo Que le Pasó a Hawaiii” by Bad Bunny and “Mundi” by Chuwi  \n\n\n\nAndres Olan-Vazquez |Trazando Líneas: The Making of ¡Wepa! Puerto Ricans in the World of Comics \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here :\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5:00 PM | Rooted Histories and Shared Futures Keynote: A Conversation with Dr. Yomaira Figueroa Vasquez\, Iris Morales\, and Sharayna Christmas \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis keynote conversation brings together an intergenerational reflection on relationality across activism\, scholarship\, and community praxis. Grounded in memory\, and community care\, this dialogue explores how Puerto Rican histories of struggle\, migration\, and cultural production are deeply entangled with Black\, Latinx\, and global liberation movements. Across generations\, the speakers will reflect on their work building solidarities\, navigating conflicts\, and sustaining communities within and beyond institutional spaces. Together\, they will consider how relational praxis can inform both intellectual and collective action. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: People smiling and wearing leis\, Blase Camacho Souza Papers\, CENTRO Archives\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational Initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/rooted-relational-boricuas-in-relation/
LOCATION:CENTRO en El Barrio\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10065
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T230000
DTSTAMP:20260528T000956
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: Bajo el Lino
DESCRIPTION:I am pleased to present Bajo el Lino: The Guayabera\, Colonial Gender Systems\, and the Decolonial Possibilities of Dress\, my senior thesis project\, realized as a one-night exhibition.\n\nDeveloped in collaboration with Seventh House Gallery and Julia de Burgos Bookstore at Taller Puertorriqueño\, this project examines the guayabera as both a material object and a historical archive. The garment is approached as a site through which colonial structures—particularly those of race\, gender\, and national identity—are inscribed\, embodied\, and reproduced.\n\nThrough processes of deconstruction and reconstruction\, including the alteration of inherited silhouettes and the incorporation of embroidered texts and symbols of resistance\, the work positions the guayabera as both critical inquiry and embodied praxis. In doing so\, it proposes dress as a medium through which colonial logics may be materially unsettled and reconfigured toward more expansive and enduring forms of individual and collective expression.\n\nAdmission is free. Proceeds from the event and participating vendors will support Sylvia Rivera Law Project\, which provides legal services and advocacy for trans\, queer\, and gender-nonconforming communities in New York City.\n\nMay 4\, 2026\, 6:00–10:00 PM\n35 Meadow Street\, Brooklyn\, NY 11206\n\n—–\n\nMe complace presentar Bajo el Lino: La guayabera\, los sistemas coloniales de género y las posibilidades decoloniales del vestir\, mi proyecto de tesis de licenciatura\, realizado como una exposición de una sola noche.\n\nDesarrollado en colaboración con Seventh House Gallery y la Julia de Burgos Bookstore de Taller Puertorriqueño\, este proyecto examina la guayabera tanto como objeto material como archivo histórico. La prenda se aborda como un espacio donde las estructuras coloniales—particularmente aquellas relacionadas con la raza\, el género y la identidad nacional—se inscriben\, se encarnan y se reproducen.\n\nA través de procesos de deconstrucción y reconstrucción\, que incluyen la alteración de siluetas heredadas y la incorporación de textos y símbolos de resistencia bordados\, la obra sitúa la guayabera como un ejercicio de investigación crítica y praxis encarnada. De este modo\, propone el vestir como un medio a través del cual las lógicas coloniales pueden ser materialmente desestabilizadas y reconfiguradas hacia formas más amplias y duraderas de expresión individual y colectiva.\n\nLa entrada es gratuita. Los fondos recaudados durante el evento y por los vendedores participantes apoyarán al Sylvia Rivera Law Project\, que brinda servicios legales y defensa a comunidades trans\, queer y de género no conforme en la ciudad de Nueva York.\n\n4 de mayo de 2026\, 6:00–10:00 PM\n35 Meadow Street\, Brooklyn\, NY 11206
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/bajo-el-lino/
LOCATION:Seven House Gallery\, 35 Meadow St\, Brooklyn\, CA\, 11206\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T160000
DTSTAMP:20260528T000956
CREATED:20260430T174327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T194943Z
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SUMMARY:A Diasporic Classroom: Teaching with Stories\, Archives\, and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Join a one-day educator institute exploring diasporic histories and identities through panels and workshops that engage with primary sources \n\n\n\nJoin us for a full-day educator institute presented by NYPL’s Center for Educators and Schools in partnership with CENTRO (The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College). \n\n\n\nThis gathering invites educators to explore how diasporic histories\, identities\, and cultural expression can shape classroom practice. Through panels\, interactive sessions\, and hands-on workshops\, participants will engage with archives\, primary sources\, literature\, music\, and creative publishing practices that illuminate diasporic experiences across Latin America and beyond\, with several sessions drawing on Puerto Rican case studies. \n\n\n\nTogether we will consider how migration\, memory\, language\, and culture shape the experiences of students and communities—and how educators can bring these perspectives into the classroom. \n\n\n\nParticipants will leave with practical strategies\, classroom-ready resources\, and connections to NYPL and CENTRO collections\, staff\, and educational programs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP NOW
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/a-diasporic-classroom/
LOCATION:Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library\, 455 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T193000
DTSTAMP:20260528T000956
CREATED:20260414T183000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T185815Z
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SUMMARY:Cafecito con... Steve Howell - Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony
DESCRIPTION:Join author Steve Howell and Professor Sandy Placido as we explore Howell’s latest book\, Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony\, a gripping history of FBI surveillance\, political repression\, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence. \n\n\n\nIn Cold War Puerto Rico\, Steve Howell examines how J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI targeted Puerto Rican communists as part of an offensive against pro-independence parties and activists generally. Howell’s US-born father\, who fell afoul of Hoover for producing radical cartoons while working in San Juan in the 1940s\, remained on the FBI’s watch list long after exiling himself in Britain. His close friends\, the Puerto Rican author César Andreu Iglesias and Jane Speed de Andreu\, were meanwhile arrested and imprisoned three times during the 1950s. Drawing on a wealth of new sources\, including interviews and FBI files\, Howell tells their stories along with those of other activists who battled indictment in 1954 under the Smith Act\, challenged the jurisdiction of the House Un-American Activities Committee in San Juan in 1959\, and revived the Puerto Rican independence movement in the 1960s\, despite the FBI deploying the covert tactics of COINTELPRO against them. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP for this event here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhotograph belongs to Nico Andreu. Book cover design by Adam B Bohannon.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/cafecito-con-steve-howell-cold-war-puerto-rico-anti-communism-in-washingtons-caribbean-colony/
LOCATION:CENTRO en El Barrio\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10065
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260529T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260529T190000
DTSTAMP:20260528T000956
CREATED:20260519T134406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260519T134641Z
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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) Historias in Motion - Dome Cartographies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of “Dome Cartographies” by artist Natalia Nakazawa at Jackson Heights!\n\nThe Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center and Kinfolk Tech are excited to announce the Jackson Heights\, Queens edition ofHistorias in Motion\, featuring “Dome Cartographies\,” a new AR monument by artist Natalia Nakazawa paired with historical contributions from the Queens Memory Project. This signature series engages audiences with historically important Latinx neighborhoods around New York City\, building community memory through artist-storyteller pairings\, walking tours\, limited-edition zines\, and commissioned AR monuments that offer new possibilities for memorialization.\n\nJoin us at 5 pm on Friday\, May 29\, at the World’s Borough Bookshop to celebrate the monument launch music\, artist conversations\, walking tours\, ‘zines\, and more!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-historias-in-motion-dome-cartographies/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 34-06 73rd Street Suite 1A\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
CATEGORIES:Parades & Festivals,Partner Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural &amp%3B Educational Center":MAILTO:libertadguerra@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260529T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260529T190000
DTSTAMP:20260528T000956
CREATED:20260522T175744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260522T175940Z
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SUMMARY:Historias in Motion: Dome Cartographies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of “Dome Cartographies” by artist Natalia Nakazawa at Jackson Heights!\n\nThe Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center and Kinfolk Tech are excited to announce the Jackson Heights\, Queens edition ofHistorias in Motion\, featuring “Dome Cartographies\,” a new AR monument by artist Natalia Nakazawa paired with historical contributions from the Queens Memory Project. This signature series engages audiences with historically important Latinx neighborhoods around New York City\, building community memory through artist-storyteller pairings\, walking tours\, limited-edition zines\, and commissioned AR monuments that offer new possibilities for memorialization.\n\nJoin us at 5 pm on Friday\, May 29\, at the World’s Borough Bookshop to celebrate the monument launch music\, artist conversations\, walking tours\, ‘zines\, and more!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/historias-in-motion-dome-cartographies/
LOCATION:The World’s Borough Bookshop\, 34-06 73rd Street Suite 1A\, Queens\, NY\, 11372\, United States
CATEGORIES:Parades & Festivals
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural &amp%3B Educational Center":MAILTO:libertadguerra@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T193000
DTSTAMP:20260528T000956
CREATED:20260519T134143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260519T135116Z
UID:10003105-1780767000-1780774200@centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
SUMMARY:(Partner Event) I Cannot Submit to Injustices: Martin Sostre’s Continuous Struggle
DESCRIPTION:Join Mariame Kaba\, Garrett Felber\, and Corey Devon Arthur for a conversation about the life\, work\, and ideas of Black Puerto Rican revolutionary Martin Sostre. As a founding figure of both the prison abolition movement and contemporary Black anarchism\, Sostre’s eminence as a political thinker and tireless activist continues to gain wider recognition. The event will focus on the recent publication of I Cannot Submit to Injustices: Collected Works of Martin Sostre (AK Press\, May 26\, 2026). \n\nGarrett Felber is a writer\, organizer\, and community librarian with the Free Society People’s Library in Portland\, Oregon. They are the author of Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam\, The Black Freedom Struggle\, and the Carceral State and A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre. \n\nCorey Devon Arthur is a formerly-incarcerated writer and artist from Brooklyn\, New York. He makes art as an intimate way to heal and offer hope of a reimagined future\, where we strive to resist first with love\, and then with all else we are made of. Corey hopes to create art until every corner of the earth and the people who inhabit it have been touched by his work.\n\nMariame Kaba is an organizer\, educator\, and librarian/archivist. She is the author of the New York Times Bestseller We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Haymarket Books\, 2021) & the National Bestseller Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care with Kelly Hayes (Haymarket\, 2023). \n\nRunning from April 4 through June 28\, 2026\, The Warehouse is a collaboration between artist and writer Vic Liu\, abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba\, and the Bedford branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. The project features more than two dozen new\, full-scale paintings by Liu that cover the library’s walls\, transforming the public space into an immersive exploration of resistance\, survival\, and possibility.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/i-cannot-submit-to-injustices-martin-sostres-continuous-struggle/
LOCATION:Bedford Library\, 496 Franklin Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11238\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel,Partner Event
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SUMMARY:A Sea of Islands: U.S. Territories in Relation
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for this 2-day symposium that seeks to bring together scholars\, artists\, and activists from the inhabited US territories and their diasporas to learn about shared struggles\, relational coalitions\, and expand networks of solidarity. \n\n\n\nFor over a century\, the U.S. federal government has defined the relationship of U.S. territories to the political\, social\, and economic structure of the United States. Political relationships established through federal legislation\, judicial decisions\, and executive decisions continue to contour the lives of populations and the sovereignty of nations rendered subordinate. As fiscal crises\, mass outmigrations\, health challenges\, climate change\, and other challenges continue to affect the peoples of U.S. territories\, longstanding questions concerning sovereignty\, justice\, and freedom have remained at the fore. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJune 10\, 2026 Line Up\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9:00 AM | Doors Open\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9:30 AM | Opening Ceremony\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgua\, Sol\, Y Sereno\n\n\n\n2nd Floor Terrace \n\n\n\nJoin us for the opening ceremony led by Agua\, Sol\, Y Sereno\, a theater collective founded by Pedro Adorno and Cathy Vigo in 1993. Their aesthetic and community work maintains a constant dialouge with social reality and the search for the inner poetics of humankind. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11:00 AM | Plenary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTerritorialized Peoples & the Law: Plenary Power\, De/Colonization\, and the Rights \n\n\n\n2nd Floor Auditorium \n\n\n\nIn this plenary session\, we gather experts on the legal and governance challenges that territorialized minorities face in the United States. From questioning the meaning of plenary powers\, the constitutional politics of land and housing rights for Indian tribes and U.S. territories\, and the histories of decolonial advocacy at the United Nations\, this panel will highlight the ways our territorial histories have been shaped by colonial institutions and will allow us to envision ways in which we can catalyze broader coalitions for legal reform and institutional transformation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:15 PM | Session 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArt\, Cinema\, and Curatorial Practices\n\n\n\n2nd Floor Auditorium \n\n\n\nIn recent years\, we have seen a proliferation of artistic and curatorial projects centering commonalities between U.S. Territories and other territorialized minorities. This panel brings together artists\, curators\, and filmmakers who have been working relationally across the territories to discuss the challenges of creating and curating projects transnationally\, as well as the importance of strengthening cultural networks across the territories while fostering a deeper understanding of our shared histories. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nData Inequities & Community Stewardship: Erasure\, Resiliency and Black Data\n\n\n\nRoom 115AB \n\n\n\nThis panel highlights the ways in which data enables actionable insights and informed decision-making while the lack thereof can cause systemic inequalities\, inefficiency\, and obscure the reality of vulnerable populations. Presenters will focus on the economic well-being of territorial migrants\, how data gaps affect the U.S. territories\, the importance of community stewardship in community resiliency planning\, and addressing who owns and controls Black historical and cultural data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:00 PM | Session 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBodies of Knowledge: Archipelagic Feminisms\, Politics\, and Spirit \n\n\n\n2nd Floor Auditorium \n\n\n\nThis panel explores the ways that feminist theories and praxis challenge colonial representations of islands as isolated\, dependent\, or peripheral. Presenters will focus on the spiritual practices of Chagossian women\, the impact of the U.S. Navy on women’s lives in Vieques\, land reclamation in St. John and broader decolonial and anti patriarchal modes of island feminism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelational Decolonial Ecologies: Cross-Territorial Strategies for Environmental Justice\n\n\n\nRoom 115AB \n\n\n\nAcross the U.S. territories\, environmental injustice and political disenfranchisement operate as entangled legacies of colonial governance\, ecological vulnerability\, democratic exclusion\, and economies rooted in extraction. As the inaugural cohort of the Right to Democracy Environment & Democracy Fellows\, representing Puerto Rico\, Guam\, American Samoa\, the Northern Mariana Islands\, and the U.S. Virgin Islands\, we explore how relational decolonial approaches to solidarity and shared strategy can strengthen decolonial environmental justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJune 11\, 2026 Line Up\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:00 AM | Plenary\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMilitarization\, Resistance\, and the Futures of Our Islands \n\n\n\n2nd Floor Auditorium \n\n\n\nAs we consider the re-militarization of the Puerto Rican archipelago\, we gather researchers and activists from Vieques\, South Korea\, Palau\, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to discuss the impact the U.S military has had on our islands throughout the years as well as the long histories of resistance and transnational solidarity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1:00 PM | Session 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSalt\, Soul\, Soil: Visualizing Insular and Indigenous Sovereignty \n\n\n\n2nd Floor Auditorium \n\n\n\nSalt\, Soul\, Soil: Visualizing Insular and Indigenous Sovereignty is an exhibition and symposium bringing together artists\, scholars\, administrators\, and partner organizations—including universities\, museums\, libraries\, and archives. The multi-site exhibition illuminates the praxis of people and food (nutritional and for the soul)\, and land(s)/ islands in the Virgin Islands\, Guåhan (Guam)\, the Northern Mariana Islands\, and the American Southeast. Guided by Indigenous and Oceanic principles and practices with Black Feminist theories and methods\, the curators will create space to engage one another foregrounding shared histories\, cultural knowledge\, and contemporary challenges shaped by geography and colonial legacies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPreservation\, Self-Determination\, and Archival Practices Across our Archipelagoes\n\n\n\nRoom 115AB \n\n\n\nIn recent years\, we have seen a proliferation of artistic and curatorial projects centering commonalities between U.S. Territories and other territorialized minorities. This panel brings together artists\, curators\, and filmmakers who have been working relationally across the territories to discuss the challenges of creating and curating projects transnationally\, as well as the importance of strengthening cultural networks across the territories while fostering a deeper understanding of our shared histories. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:45 PM | Session 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeaching Across Our Territories: History\, Health\, and Ecologies \n\n\n\n2nd Floor Auditorium \n\n\n\nThis panel highlights cross-territorial and relational curriculum and educational projects. How can we make complex imperial histories legible to a broader public? How do we ensure our lived experiences\, histories\, and traditions are taken into account by institutions shaped by imperialism and colonialism. In this panel\, researchers and educators  from across the territories amplify decolonial pedagogical methodologies that are shaped by deep engagement with community partners and explore connections and ways of building solidarity across our archipelagos. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAcross the Political Imagination: Citizenship & Refusal \n\n\n\nRoom 115AB \n\n\n\nThe question of citizenship is at the root of many discussions about the U.S. Territories and other nations that have been molded by empire. This panel looks beyond discourses of “equality” and citizenship and instead addresses the complexities of existing between multiple nation states and diasporas. What does it mean to go home? What does it mean to be able to work and live where your own national sovereignty isn’t recognized? Panelists will speak on these issues and more\, looking at the specific circumstances of Puerto Rico\, Guam\, the Marshall Islands\, and the Philippines. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClimate Crises\, Ecological Endeavors: Strategies\, Projects & Interventions\n\n\n\nRoom 212 \n\n\n\nIn the past 10 years alone\, the U.S. territories have been experiencing a higher frequency of devastating disproportionate climate crises. This panel will highlight how communities within the U.S. territories are addressing and combating the effects of climate change with locally rooted solutions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:30 PM | Screening\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHOMEGROWN: A Part Of/Apart From\n\n\n\n2nd Floor Auditorium \n\n\n\nJoin us for a documentary shorts screening hosted by Chlöe Walters Wallace (Firelight Media) and Andrés Arias Matos (CENTRO) highlighting the Homegrown film series. HOMEGROWN: A Part Of/Apart From is a collection of 8 documentary short films from the U.S. territories\, Hawaiʻi\, and their diasporic communities. This first-of-its-kind series explores issues of cultural identity\, sovereignty\, and agency unique to each region as local residents and members of the diaspora grapple with what it means to be “a part of and apart from” the mainland U.S. The series is presented by Firelight Media\, Pacific Islanders in Communications\, Black Public Media\, Latino Public Broadcasting\, and PBS\, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6:00 PM | Closing Reception\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Parade carrying of Puerto Rican flag\, Sign in the back reads “Ya Filipinas es libre. Y Puerto Rico?” (“The Philippines are already free. And Puerto Rico?”) Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS) Records\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational research initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/a-sea-of-islands-u-s-territories-in-relation/
LOCATION:New York
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