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Library Lunch Hour: 20th Century Puerto Rican Migration

You asked, we answered! We looked at our submissions for Library Lunch Hour requests and chose our top four most popular requests (which you voted on)! The polls are closed and the votes tallied and you voted for Puerto Migration Stateside! We're focusing on our collection of the OGPRUS Identification Program. The Identification and Documentation … Continued

Town Hall: Accion UPR Part 2

Join us Tuesday, November 30th at 3 PM EST for part II of Accion UPR! After discussing some of the most urgent problems affecting the UPR in our previous event (Town-hall-event-accion-UPR, in this follow-up meeting we will convene in break-out rooms to outline specific actions that the diaspora and alumni of the University of Puerto … Continued

Afternoon Tertulia: The Third Foundation of San Juan

Historian Anibal Sepulveda Rivera argues that San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, has been re-founded twice. There is the first well-known re-foundation of 1521, when the capital was moved from a mosquito-infested swamp unto the islet it currently occupies; but there was a second re-foundation that happened around the late 1940's, when the capital first … Continued

West Side Story Screening

AMC Lincoln Square 13 1998 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

On December 6th, 2022, Centro hosted a free advanced screening of Steven Spielberg's West Side Story for our friends and members of the community. Over 200 people attended and were able to view the movie in full for the first time.

Afternoon Tertulia: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Response

Join us on Wednesday, December 8th at 4:30 PM EST for our first December Afternoon Tertulia- #CienciaPR: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Response. We will be joined by members of Ciencia Puerto Rico: Giovanna Guerrero Medina, Monica Feliu Mojer, and Greetchen Diaz Muñoz to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the archipelago, Puerto Rico's quick … Continued

Afternoon Tertulia: Reimagining West Side Story: A Critical Discussion of the Remake

Join us on Monday, December 13th at 3:00 PM EST for our second December Afternoon Tertulia- Reimagining West Side Story: A Critical Discussion of the Remake. We will be joined by Dr. Virginia Sanchez-Korrol, Dr. Frances Negron-Muntaner, and Dr. Brian Herrera, with Dr. Jillian Baez as moderator. This panel will provide a critical discussion of … Continued

Library Lunch Hour: Navidad Puertorriqueña

Join us on Tuesday, December 14th at 12 PM EST for our December Library Lunch Hour on La Navidad Puertorriqueña. Puerto Ricans celebrate the holidays like no other people on earth. Join us as we talk about our traditions, music, foods, and drinks that are so special to us during Christmas and Three Kings Day. … Continued