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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\nMissed the event? Catch the recording 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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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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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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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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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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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\nMissed this eventl? Catch the recording here: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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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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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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
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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\nMissed this event? Catch the recording here: \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:20260519T134641Z
CREATED:20260519T134406Z
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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:20260522T175940Z
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:20260604T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T150000
DTSTAMP:20260601T140211Z
CREATED:20260529T182518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T140211Z
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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) Los Pleneros de la 21 "Por La Plena" Tour: New York City
DESCRIPTION:The second stop of Los Pleneros de la 21’s 3-city Por La Plena tour is our return HOME. We are excited to present a weekend of talleres\, community gatherings and musical celebrations in The Bronx and El Barrio\, in partnership with Bronx Music Hall and La Casita de Chema/El Rincón Criollo.  \nThe weekend kicks off with a special LP21 Un Paso Alante workshop event facilitated by master bombero\, plenero y tremendo amigo\, Víctor Vélez on June 4\, 6pm at the LP21 studios in Julia de Burgos. Then on June 6th at 8pm the Pleneros ensemble and special guests from Puerto Rico take the stage at Bronx Music Hall for an evening designed to get all dancing and featuring a special pop up performance by youth students of our very own Bomba and Plena Children’s Workshops. And to close out the weekend\, on Sunday\, June 7th – the closing celebration and family-friendly gathering of the Bomba and Plena Children’s Workshops followed by a plenazo in honor of José “Joseíto” Rivera at La Casita de Chema/Ricón Criollo from 12pm – 3pm (rain location: Bronx Music Hall). \nIt is a great series of events to kick of the month of June\, and the Puerto Rican heritage events around the Puerto Rican Heritage Parades of NYC. \nFor more information on the Un Paso Alante workshop\, and Sunday’s BPCW final celebration and plenazo: programs@lp21.org  \nFor tickets and information on the concert at Bronx Music Hall: https://bronxmusichall.org/ \nNew York City\nJune 4\, 6pm | Un Paso Alante with Víctor Vélez (an LP21 event): https://www.losplenerosdela21.org/upcoming-events\nJune 6\, 8pm | Concert at Bronx Music Hall: https://bronxmusichall.org/\nJune 7 | Plenazo celebration at La Casita de Chema: https://www.losplenerosdela21.org/upcoming-events\nwith Bronx Music Hall and La Casita de Chema \nThese programs are part of Los Pleneros de la 21’s Local & Touring Residency Project and Cultural Legacy Initiatives. They are made possible in part by the support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature\, the Offices of NYC District 8 Council Member Elsie Encarnación\, the Mid Atlantic Arts’ ArtsCONNECT program through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts‘ Regional Engagement Program. The BMHC is supported\, in part\, by the National Endowment for the Arts\, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature\, New York State Assembly Member Chantel Jackson\, New York State Senator José M. Serrano\, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council\, Citi Foundation\, Cowles Charitable Trust\, Howard Gilman Foundation\, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund\, and The New York Community Trust.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/los-pleneros-de-la-21-por-la-plena-tour-new-york-city/2026-06-04/
LOCATION:Bronx Music Heritage Center\, 1303 Louis Nine Blvd.\, Bronx\, New York City\, NY\, 10459\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Los Pleneros de La 21":MAILTO:juango@lp21.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260606T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260606T200000
DTSTAMP:20260601T140204Z
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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) José Jun Martínez: At the centre there is a stillness
DESCRIPTION:Cecilia Brunson Projects is pleased to present José Jun Martínez: At the centre there is a stillness\, the Puerto Rican artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery\, opening during London Gallery Weekend 2026. The gallery will host an exhibition walkthrough with the artist on Saturday\, 6 June at 5.00pm.\n\nBringing together a new body of monumental paintings made in London and informed by years of immersion within the tropical river landscapes of Puerto Rico\, the exhibition reflects on return\, estrangement\, and the unstable space between memory and perception. Martínez approaches painting not as description\, but as a form of bodily encounter. Rivers\, dense vegetation\, rainfall\, humidity\, and shifting light are translated into fractured compositions where electric ultramarines\, acid greens\, earthy browns\, and synthetic flashes of colour pulse between figuration and dissolution. The works emerge from what the artist describes as the contradictory sensation of returning to a landscape that feels at once intimately familiar and suddenly strange.\n\nCentral to the exhibition is a series of large-scale diptychs and triptychs in which an intense ultramarine blue moves across the surface like both water and apparition. For Martínez\, colour itself carries psychological and political charge. Drawn partly from the contested blues of the Puerto Rican flag\, the paintings hold competing emotional registers of belonging and displacement. Branches and leaves repeatedly cut across the compositions\, obstructing clear vision and destabilising perspective. Rather than presenting landscape as something distant or fixed\, Martínez constructs immersive sensory environments shaped by sound\, rainfall\, bodily disorientation\, and overstimulation. Influenced by the writings of Heraclitus and by reflections on “re-entry” after distance or exile\, the paintings meditate on the impossibility of returning unchanged\, asking how both land and self continue to transform through time.\n \nJosé Jun Martínez (b. 1992) received a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Puerto Rico\, Río Piedras\, and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art\, London\, where he was awarded the Valerie Beston Artists’ Trust Prize in 2024. Recent solo exhibitions include The Hymn of the Toads (Matt Carey-Williams\, London\, 2025)\, Interludio del Viento (Galería Leyendecker\, Tenerife\, 2025)\, and Hermano de las Flores (Museo de San Juan\, San Juan\, 2025).
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-jose-jun-martinez-at-the-centre-there-is-a-stillness/
LOCATION:Cecilia Brunson Projects\, 3G Royal Oak Yard\, Bermondsey Street\, London\, SE1 3GE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibit,Partner Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T193000
DTSTAMP:20260519T135116Z
CREATED:20260519T134143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260519T135116Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T203000
DTSTAMP:20260707T145914Z
CREATED:20260127T184848Z
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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\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\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:MI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T170000
DTSTAMP:20260709T172719Z
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SUMMARY:Community Art Day
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE\, family-friendly community event open to everyone. Enjoy a day of hands-on art activities\, live music\, local vendors\, and more.\nWhile you’re there\, stop by my booth to browse my newest collection of handcrafted candles and elegant soap dispensers—thoughtfully designed to add style and warmth to any space.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/community-art-day/2026-08-01/1/
LOCATION:Pelham Art Center\, 155 Fifth Avenue\, Pelham\, NY\, 10803\, United States
CATEGORIES:Parades & Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T140000
DTSTAMP:20260709T172719Z
CREATED:20260709T172704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260709T172719Z
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SUMMARY:Community Art Day
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE\, family-friendly community event open to everyone. Enjoy a day of hands-on art activities\, live music\, local vendors\, and more.\nWhile you’re there\, stop by my booth to browse my newest collection of handcrafted candles and elegant soap dispensers—thoughtfully designed to add style and warmth to any space.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/community-art-day/2026-08-01/2/
LOCATION:Pelham Art Center\, 155 Fifth Avenue\, Pelham\, NY\, 10803\, United States
CATEGORIES:Parades & Festivals
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T210000
DTSTAMP:20260904T172921Z
CREATED:20260904T165712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T172921Z
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SUMMARY:NATURA X Taller Boricua by ArteYUNQUE
DESCRIPTION:NATURA at Taller Boricua brings together ArteYUNQUE’s inaugural artist cohort\, embodying a poetic exploration at the intersection of art\, nature\, and El Yunque. The exhibited works delve into the intricate interplay among these elements\, addressing themes such as the political dimensions of the landscape\, the richness of biodiversity\, the significance of soil\, and enduring traditions. \nFeaturing commissioned installations by Migdalia Luz Barens-Vera\, Zaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda\, Jorge González Santos\, Ivelisse Jiménez\, Guillermo Rodríguez\, Jaime & Javier Suárez\, and Omar Obdulio Peña Forty\, the works in NATURA were originally conceived and installed within El Portal Visitor Center Trail in Río Grande and have now been thoughtfully adapted for presentation in the gallery. \nIn this new setting\, the exhibition opens a dialogue between the rainforest and a traditional gallery space\, creating connections between diasporic communities and ancestral landscapes while exploring art’s capacity to bridge cultural identity\, environmental consciousness\, and collective memory. \nJoin us for the opening reception:\nThursday\, September 10 at 6:00 p.m.\nTaller Boricua\, 1680 Lexington Avenue\, El Barrio\, New York 10029 \nPhotos by Christopher Gregory-Rivera. You can register for the opening reception and related programming using the link in our bio. 🔗 \nWe extend our gratitude to the funders\, partners\, and supporters who have made this exhibition possible. ArteYUNQUE is supported by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation\, with additional support from Bloomberg Philanthropies\, and through partnerships with the U.S. Forest Service and Fundación Amigos de El Yunque.  \nTaller Boricua’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts\, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/natura-x-taller-boricua-by-arteyunque/
LOCATION:Taller Boricua Gallery\, 1680 Lexington Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10029\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Taller Boricua / The Puerto Rican Workshop":MAILTO:Contact@tallerboricua.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T170000
DTSTAMP:20260904T181704Z
CREATED:20260904T175812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T181704Z
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SUMMARY:NATURA x Taller Boricua Public Programming Sept 12
DESCRIPTION:Join us for NATURA: Public Programming on Saturday\, September 12\, 2026\, at Taller Boricua in El Barrio.  \n1:00pm — Artist talk with Migdalia Luz Barens-Vera\, Zaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda\, Ivelisse Jiménez\, Guillermo Rodríguez\, and Jaime & Javier Suáreza\, moderated by Miguel Luciano. \n3:00pm — NATURA (lírico) will gather voices of the Puerto Rican diaspora: Denice Frohman\, Mariposa Fernández\, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado\, Urayoán Noel\, and Willie Perdomo for a poetry reading in conversation with the work of the five participating artists. This program is presented in collaboration with CENTRO\, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. \nTaller Boricua\n1680 Lexington Avenue\nEl Barrio\, NY 10029 \nRegister through the link in our bio.  \nArteYUNQUE is supported by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation\, with additional support from Bloomberg Philanthropies\, and through partnerships with the U.S. Forest Service. \nTaller Boricua’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts\, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/natura-x-taller-boricua-public-programming-sept-12/
LOCATION:Taller Boricua Gallery\, 1680 Lexington Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10029\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Taller Boricua / The Puerto Rican Workshop":MAILTO:Contact@tallerboricua.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T124500
DTSTAMP:20260827T143805Z
CREATED:20260827T143728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T143805Z
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SUMMARY:Library & Archives Lunch Hour - Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony
DESCRIPTION:McCarthyism. COINTELPRO. Las carpetas. Through research in the CENTRO Archives\, this new book portrays the gripping history of FBI surveillance\, political repression\, and the fight for Puerto Rican Independence. Join author & political commentator Stephen Howell and CENTRO Librarian\, Anibal Arocho in exploring Howell’s latest book\, Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony. \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\nPhotograph belongs to Nico Andreu. Book cover design by Adam B Bohannon.\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-cold-war-puerto-rico-anti-communism-in-washingtons-caribbean-colony/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84504766322
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260922T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260922T163000
DTSTAMP:20260831T205708Z
CREATED:20260831T205646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260831T205708Z
UID:10003124-1790089200-1790094600@centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
SUMMARY:Diasporican Education Presentation at the New York Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the 125th Street Library for a presentation from educators at CENTRO on the Diasporican Educational Program\, a curriculum & self-guided course teaching the social history of the Puerto Rican Diaspora throughout time across borders\, language\, identity\, histories\, and more. Diasporicans often straddle two cultures\, languages\, places\, and identities. Whether you’re starting your journey today in learning about Puerto Rican history or looking to deepen your knowledge\, you’re in the right place! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/diasporican-education-presentation-at-the-new-york-public-library/
LOCATION:125th Street Library\, 224 East 125th Street\, New York\, New York\, 10035\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T173000
DTSTAMP:20260827T144803Z
CREATED:20260827T144751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T144803Z
UID:10003114-1790262000-1790271000@centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
SUMMARY:CENTRO Open House
DESCRIPTION:Calling all students\, professors\, community leaders\, activists\, artists\, and more looking free resources! \n\n\n\nStop by CENTRO en El Barrio on September 24th (we promise it’s worth the trip!) to learn more about our archival collections\, our library centering the Puerto Rican experience\, new books\, data hub reports\, tools & dashboards\, artist opportunities\, and free educational materials available to students\, researchers\, and the community for free! \n\n\n\n(Plus\, don’t miss the opportunity to grab a free bite to eat and to enter into an exclusive swag giveaway!) \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\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/centro-open-house/
LOCATION:MI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T200000
DTSTAMP:20260827T160442Z
CREATED:20260827T145042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T160442Z
UID:10003115-1790272800-1790280000@centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
SUMMARY:Opening Night: NY Premiere of Desarchivar la mirada
DESCRIPTION:What does historical justice look like? After a successful world premiere in Puerto Rico\, Desarchivar la Mirada comes to CENTRO for its New York premiere! Don’t miss the opening night of this compelling exhibition challenging the original purpose of postcards produced between 1898 and 1915. As Puerto Rico entered its colonial status under the U.S.\, the territory was intensely photographed. These images played a role in constructing “otherness” that was legible and exportable; part of a visual regime that accompanied the island’s political\, economic\, and symbolic reorganization following Spanish American war. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Tickets on Eventbrite\n\nBuy Tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Centro de Investigación y Archivo Digital en Afrodescendencia (Centro PRAFRO)\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/opening-night-ny-premiere-of-desarchivar-la-mirada/
LOCATION:MI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T141500
DTSTAMP:20260901T125254Z
CREATED:20260901T125235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T125254Z
UID:10003125-1791466200-1791468900@centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
SUMMARY:CENTRO Library & Archives' Lunch Hour Live at Comic Con: Brown Gay Ink Featuring Ivan Velez Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Join CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) librarians and archivists in conversation with groundbreaking Bronx-born cartoonist\, genre pioneer\, and educator Ivan Velez Jr. as they discuss his life and career\, and highlight Tales of the Closet\, the poignant\, funny\, melodramatic\, gritty and sad\, Xeric award-winning series. Created in 1986 as one of the first interventions for LGBTQ+ youth facing the AIDS crisis\, this work remains a cornerstone of Puerto Rican and Queer narrative history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet your tickets here
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/centro-library-archives-lunch-hour-live-at-comic-con-brown-gay-ink-featuring-ivan-velez-jr/
LOCATION:Javits Center\, 429 11th Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10001\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T124500
DTSTAMP:20260827T160837Z
CREATED:20260827T160822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T160837Z
UID:10003116-1791892800-1791895500@centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
SUMMARY:Library & Archives Lunch Hour: Ruth Reynolds Oral History
DESCRIPTION:When you think of bold and fierce Puerto Rican leaders\, Pedro Albizu Campos likely comes to mind. However\, Ruth Reynolds was equally essential to the Puerto Rican Independence movement. Finally\, you can hear her discuss firsthand these unique experiences through recently digitized oral histories. Join CENTRO archivists Grace McKenna along with Carlos Rodríguez Fraticelli and Lisa Materson as we dive into Ruth Reynolds’ oral history files recently processed by CENTRO! \n\n\n\nReynolds was a North American civil rights and free India activist who challenged traditional gender roles; a confidant of Puerto Rico’s most controversial independence figure\, Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos; and a living repository of Nationalist Party history following Albizu Campos’ death. Come hear her experience from her words. \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: Ruth M. Reynolds Papers. Ruth M. Reynolds on a Podium. Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives\, Hunter College\, CUNY.\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-ruth-reynolds-oral-history/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86193350748
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261022T200000
DTSTAMP:20260828T151718Z
CREATED:20260827T153445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T151718Z
UID:10003117-1792602000-1792699200@centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
SUMMARY:Diasporican Cultural Research Summit II
DESCRIPTION:If you’re a scholar\, artist\, editor\, archivist\, cultural worker\, and public intellectuals interested in artistic practices\, this event is for you! After an incredibly successful Diasporican Cultural Summit in June 2025 convening artists\, arts administrators\, curators\, and more across the country\, the Diasporican Cultural Summit is returning with a two-day academic and cultural convening focused on arts research. The program combines scholarly presentations with methodological exchanges and publication-oriented activities following a collaboration as a method model. \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\nThis event is made possible thanks to a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/diasporican-cultural-research-summit-ii/
LOCATION:MI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261029T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261029T193000
DTSTAMP:20260909T165634Z
CREATED:20260827T211339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260909T165634Z
UID:10003123-1793296800-1793302200@centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
SUMMARY:The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition - Exploring the CENTRO Spring and Summer 2026 Journals
DESCRIPTION:From the Nationalist Party to UPR Student Movements to the Young Lords\, and more: this is only the surface of the rich legacy of radical resistance that Puerto Rico possess. CENTRO’s latest journals (Spring & Summer 2026) explore a complex political space defined by movements resisting racial/colonial capitalism through the unique lens of Puerto Rican experiences. Rooted in a legacy of abolitionism\, socialism\, and revolutionary nationalism\, this issue highlights how the tradition continues to evolve through contemporary radical feminist\, anti-racist\, and queer movements. \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: Selection from Las potencias anticoloniales en Puerto Rico (2023)\, by Shellyne Rodriguez\, photo by Stan Narson\, 5ft x 3ft\, color pencil on black paper\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/the-puerto-rican-radical-tradition-exploring-the-centro-spring-and-summer-2026-journals-2/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82124937001
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T170000
DTSTAMP:20260827T153541Z
CREATED:20260827T153524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T153541Z
UID:10003118-1794650400-1794675600@centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
SUMMARY:Archiving Home: A Community of Practice
DESCRIPTION:Part showcase. Part workshop\, Part happening. Come join us for Archiving Home: A Community of Practice. This culminating event will highlight the work of Archiving Home participants while inviting broader dialogue and engagement with the community and other practitioners. Join us to learn about non-traditional diasporic archival practices\, connect with others interested in diasporic memory work\, and engage with the emotional\, spiritual\, and personal side of archiving.Archiving Home: A Community of Practice is a collaborative initiative between Centro\, Dominican Studies Institute\, and Haitian Studies Institute that brought together archivists\, cultural workers\, and community memory practitioners engaging with diaspora- and ethnic studies-focused archives. Through shared-meals\, public workshops\, and collective zine-making\, Archiving Home participants explored the technical and ethical challenges of working with bilingual materials\, sustaining community-centered approaches\, and bridging institutional practice with the lived experiences and cultural production of diasporic communities. \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: CHARAS/El Bohío Cultural and Community Center Records. The “Real Great Society”. Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives\, Hunter College\, CUNY. Web. 13 Aug 2026.\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/archiving-home-a-community-of-practice/
LOCATION:MI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T124500
DTSTAMP:20260827T154040Z
CREATED:20260827T154027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T154040Z
UID:10003119-1794916800-1794919500@centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
SUMMARY:Library & Archives Lunch Hour: The Roger Cabán Photographic Collection
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, photography has allowed the Puerto Rican community to reflect our humanity\, culture\, struggles\, dreams\, and more on our terms. Co-founded over fifty years ago by photographer & social worker Roger Cabán\, En Foco aimed to support this work and preserve the legacy of diasporic lens-based artists. Today\, Roger Cabán’s personal photographic collection has finally been processed and we are excited to give you a sneak peek into materials documenting his professional and personal life. Take a break from work\, grab your lunch\, and join CENTRO Archivist Oscar Zamora in exploring this essential collection documenting life in New York City and Puerto Rico from 1960’s to the 2010’s. \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: Roger Cabán Papers . “Tio Diego in a Bodega.”:. Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives\, Hunter College\, CUNY.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooed + Relational initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/library-archives-lunch-hour-the-roger-caban-photographic-collection/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89148285864
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261204T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260827T154144Z
CREATED:20260827T154118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T154144Z
UID:10003120-1796378400-1796414400@centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
SUMMARY:A Decade of PROMESA: Accountability\, Good Governance\, and Puerto Rico’s Future
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our closing symposium of the semester – A Decade of PROMESA: Accountability\, Good Governance\, and Puerto Rico’s Future. This symposium seeks to make a discerning and principled retrospective and prospective analysis of the conditions that lead to the insolvency of Puerto Rico’s government\, the institutional solutions provided for that insolvency (i.e.\, PROMESA and FOMBPR)\, the repercussions of those solutions\, and an assessment of the conditions that may ultimately lead to a future without the need for PROMESA or FOMBPR. \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: Photograph by Rosa 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/a-decade-of-promesa-accountability-good-governance-and-puerto-ricos-future/
LOCATION:MI
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