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SUMMARY:Partner Event: The Art of Resistance Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Since 1998\, vagabond has dedicated a vast amount of his writing\, art\, and filmmaking talents to the Puerto Rican independence movement. This show is a collection of 25 years worth of his art and agit-prop. July 25th\, 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the US invasion of Puerto Rico which led to ongoing an occupation and colonization of the island nation. Along with other individuals and community organizations\, he launched a graffiti tagging agit-prop campaign that grew to full blown large scale murals. The only surviving mural is the ALBIZU / CHE\, also known as the DOS ALAS mural.\n\nVisit THE ART OF RESISTANCE: DECOLONIZATION RICANSTRUCTED: 25 Years of Art & Agit-Prop by vagabond with curator Tontxi Vazquez and co-curator Ana Hilda Figueroa de Jesús at El Taller Boricua from May 24-July 21\, 2024. Exhibition will be open from Tuesday – Saturday 12 – 6pm; Monday & Sunday closed.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/the-art-of-resistance-exhibition/
LOCATION:Taller Boricua Gallery\, 1680 Lexington Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10029\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240601T080000
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: "Traversing the Light": A Ten-Year Fine Photography Retrospective by Melanie S. Gonzalez.
DESCRIPTION:“Traversing the Light”: A Ten-Year Fine Photography Retrospective by Melanie S. Gonzalez. \nPresentation by the artist at 5PM on Thursday\, June 20th at Highland Public Library. 14 Elting Pl Highland\, NY 12528 \nMore details coming soon by Highland Public Library and Suzanna Productions. \nMelanie S Gonzalez  \nThu\, May 16\, 2:37 PM (7 days ago) \nto Donna\, Suzanna\nHi Donna\, \nI see. It would be cool if the presentation could be projected or audio available while I walk around and those who wish to sit and listen /watch and those who want to walk around can… Either way I’d like to have a slideshow of all the works handy and depending on the crowd we can do either way. \nWords from the artist: \n“Highland Public Library Discussion:\nIn my public and invitation discussion on 06/20\, I will talk about my philosophy behind my layered stills\, a series which I called “Rock and Shadow/Piedra y Sombra” ([https://www.suzannaproductions.com/rock-and-shadow-piedra-y-sombra project] description there) and show it has developed in over 7 years of double exposure photography.\nI will also discuss the types of cameras\, composition and film processes I use over 10 years of analog photography practice…”  \n-Melanie S. Gonzalez\, Fine Art Photographer [https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/artists/melanie-gonzalez/]
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/traversing-the-light-a-ten-year-fine-photography-retrospective-by-melanie-s-gonzalez/2024-06-01/
LOCATION:Highland Public Library\, 14 Elting Pl\, Highland\, NY\, 12528\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240604T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240604T130000
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SUMMARY:Library & Archives Lunch Hour: New Books in Puerto Rican Studies
DESCRIPTION:Looking for a new book to read? Look no further! Join us for another Library & Archives Lunch Hour on new books in Puerto Rican Studies. The field of Puerto Rican studies is rich and diverse in both its subject matter and those who write about it\, and there’s something for everyone this lunch hour. Find your next summer reading book here! \n\n\n\nThere’s something for everyone this lunch hour! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMissed this event? Watch the recording here!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/library-archives-lunch-hour-new-books-in-puerto-rican-studies-3/
LOCATION:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/library-archives-lunch-hour-new-books-in-puerto-rican-studies-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T170000
DTSTAMP:20260514T185454
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SUMMARY:Open Boats: Puerto Rican Studies in Relation
DESCRIPTION:Join CENTRO & The Diaspora Solidarities Lab (DSL) for two days of presentations\, workshops\, conversations\, a film screening\, live music\, and more leading up to the 116th St. Festival & the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. Taking place on June 6th and 7th at the Silberman School of Social Work in East Harlem\, this symposium will host scholars\, organizers\, cultural workers\, authors\, and artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora. Come meet the DSL Fellows and join the CENTRO staff for an exciting week! \n\n\n\nDay One: June 6th\, 2024 \n\n\n\n11:45 AM EST – 12:45 PM EST The Practice of Solidarity: Grassroots Activism in Puerto Rico\nThe multiple ongoing crises in Puerto Rico encompasses a spectrum of challenges\, spanning from instances of femicide to food insecurity\, and environmental degradation. The government has exacerbated these issues by failing to address these compounding issues. In the wake of this\, grassroots community organizations have engaged in radical acts of solidarity as a means to mobilize constructive transformations. Join us in discussing the contours of knowledge and practices of solidarity and grassroots activism. Panelists include members of: Amigxs Del Mar\, Alianza Mujeres Viequense\, La Colectiva Feminista\, and Comedores Sociales. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1:45 PM EST – 4:45 PM EST Open Boats\, Public Knowledge: Archival Study\, Storytelling\, & Digital Humanities Research\nJoin the DSL Open Boat Lab research groups\, community fellows\, and affiliates as they present their research to the community. The Open Boat Lab develops community\, story telling\, and curatorial skills. In addition to the creation of digital archives\, museum and gallery exhibits\, and community workshops\, they offer online and in-person workshops to help transform how we approach knowledge production\, storytelling\, documentation\, and archives. Presentations will include projects by: After the Storm: A Digital Archive of Survival\, The Afro-Latinx Lab\, Revista Étnica\, Proyecto Kokobalé\, Taller Entre Aguas\, Kitsimba Project\, members of the Caribbean Digital Collective\, and more.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6:30 PM EST – 8:00 PM EST Cafecito con… Natasha Alford: American Negra\nAward-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford’s latest book\, American Negra\, is a narrative that is part memoir\, part cultural analysis\, where she reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse\, NY. Join Alford and renowned writer\, Keyaira Kelly\, as they explore American Negra and the expectations and realities of existing as an Afro-Boricua.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDay Two: June 7th\, 2024\n\n\n\n1:30 PM EST –  2:30 PM EST Afternoon Tertulia: Communities in Relation: Cultural Work as Radical Praxis\nJoin us for an Afternoon Tertulia featuring NYC and Puerto Rican cultural workers. Panelists Charles Rice Gonzalez (Co-founder of BAAD – Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance)\, Rosalba Rolón (Artistic Director of Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater)\, Monxo Lopez (Curator at the City Museum of New York)\,  Caridad (La Bruja) De La Luz (Executive Director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe)\, and Alejandro Epifanio (Executive Director at Loisaida Inc.) will share their rooted community work and will share their trajectories to working with NYC-based arts and community organizations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:45 PM EST – 5:00 PM EST Romance Tropical (1934) Screening & Post-Show Discussion\nJoin us for a special screening of Romance Tropical (1934)\, the first Puerto Rican feature film with sound\, and the second Spanish language movie with sound in the world! The film was considered lost for over 80 years\, before a print was located in the PHI/Krypton Collection at UCLA. Photographed\, directed and produced by Puerto Rican film pioneer\, Juan Emilio Viguié\, Romance Tropical tells the story of a young man who discovers a pre-modern tribe on an island and a fortune in pearls\, subsequently falling in love with a beautiful native woman while his upper-class sweetheart waits in the city. The man exploits the island and its assets\, both literally & figuratively\, before returning to the city to marry his sweetheart.  \n\n\n\nJoin Dr. Rojo Robles (Assistant Professor at the Black and Latinx Studies Department at Baruch College\, CUNY.)\, Maillim (May) Santiago (PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies program at George Mason University)\, and Pedro Doreste and Dalina Perdomo (DSL’s Manchineel Project) in conversation as we attempt to understand how the film is an allegory for the colonization and exploitation of third world nations. \n\n\n\nThis screening is produced by the DSL’s newest microlab\, the Manchineel Project\, a multimedia & multimethod interrogation of whiteness in Caribbean moving images & aims to create a living syllabus to better understand the intersections of race and cinema in the Caribbean and its diasporas.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5:15 PM EST – 8:30 PM Workshop & Performance led by Proyecto Kokobalé & Closing Party\nKokobalé/Cocobalé is a martial tradition of Afro-Puerto Rican origin that is practiced with sticks or machetes and with the musical accompaniment of the Puerto Rican Bomba\, our oldest musical tradition of African origin. This tradition includes elements of fighting\, music\, dance and rituals. Kokobalé Project is the only cultural-community organization dedicated to the research\, preservation\, development\, promotion and rescue of our ancestral dance/martial art\, Kokobalé/Cocobalé. Join us for a workshop where you can learn the rhythm of Kokobalé and move along with us!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/open-boats-puerto-rican-studies-in-relation-2/
LOCATION:The Silberman School of Social Work\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10035
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: Jibarito: A Three-Decade Retrospective Celebration of the Bronx's Multicultural Music Group Orchestra!
DESCRIPTION:The Multicultural Music Group (MMG) is thrilled to announce the 2024 Multicultural Music Encounter. This year’s event will take place at the Lovinger Theater\, Lehman College\, on Friday\, June 7\, at 7 p.m.\n\nThis year’s performance will showcase a dynamic repertoire in the form of a musical retrospective celebrating the almost 30 years of the Multicultural Music Group Orchestra (MMGO)’s establishment in 1996. \n\nAudiences can look forward to the following pieces:\n\n– “Mambo Show” by Charlie Palmieri reflects the composer’s vibrant legacy.\n– “Plena Pa’ Vieques” by Ray Santos explores the presence of the U.S. Marines and the Vieques protests in Puerto Rico.\n– “2nd Chance” by Luis Mojica and Ray Santos celebrates Charlie Palmieri’s recovery from a heart attack with a story of resilience and hope.\n– “Seis” by Ray Santos is a tribute to the influential composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.\n– “Attacks and Expansion” by Eddie Palmieri is a spiritual exploration of African ancestry.\n– “Yambu Pa’ Inglaterra” by Eddie Palmieri bridges the generational gap between Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri while examining their influence on music trends.\n– “A Bedtime Song in a Carnival Day” by Luis Mojica and Charlie Palmieri reflects on the Ponce Carnival and historical events surrounding the pier shutdown.\n– “Jibarito: The Borinqueneers” by Ray Santos highlights the valor of the 65th Infantry during the Korean Conflict.\n\nThe 2024 Multicultural Music Encounter celebrates the orchestra’s anniversary and reflects its ongoing commitment to educating and inspiring younger generations through music. This free event is a must-attend for lovers of music and history alike. \n\nGet your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/897291833027?aff=oddtdtcreator. \n\nAbout The Multicultural Music Group\, Inc. \n\nThe Multicultural Music Group\, Inc. (MMG) is a non-profit established in 1996 with a mission to present history through music. We commission and present integrated arts/humanities performances by living composers\, scholars\, and musicians of color\, as well as large and small ensembles led by Afro-Indigenous people. We also provide after-school music training to students ages 11 to 18. MMG serves economically marginalized communities in four NYC boroughs to advance social justice and global understanding and promote diversity in orchestral repertoire. Visit their website at multiculturalmusic.org. \n\n###
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/jibarito-a-three-decade-retrospective-celebration-of-the-bronxs-multicultural-music-group-orchestra/
LOCATION:Lovinger Theater\, Lehman College\, 250 Bedford Park Blvd\, Bronx\, NY\, 10468\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T140000
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: MiCasa SuCasa
DESCRIPTION:Each June\, Tola’s Room hosts an event celebrating the Puerto Rican diaspora and commemorating the birthday of Edwin Delgado\, our Founder and Creative Director’s father. This tradition not only celebrates our culture but also serves as an annual reminder of our continued work to highlight #PuertoRican culture in #Baltimore\n\nAt Tola’s Room\, we deeply value our creative community and its talents. We believe that fostering relationships and nurturing creative partnerships organically creates a thriving ecosystem and economy. This philosophy is at the core of our 4th annual event entitled\, MiCasa SuCasa\, taking place on Saturday\, June 15\, 2024\, from 2-7 PM. We’ve partnered with a diverse array of creative talents from Baltimore and across Maryland\, and we’re excited to share our space with them.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/micasa-sucasa/
LOCATION:Tola’s Room\, 4212 Sheldon Avenue\, Baltimore\, MD 21206\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21206\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tola's Room":MAILTO:tolasroom@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240731T180000
DTSTAMP:20260514T185454
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: Kevin Quiles Bonilla: A small patch of sand\, yet it holds so much
DESCRIPTION:Solo exhibition of photographs by Puerto Rican artist Kevin Quiles Bonilla at Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York. “A small patch of sand\, yet it holds so much” is curated by Ezra Benus\, Baxter St’s 2023 Guest Curatorial Initiative Recipient. The presentation explores themes of colonialism and diaspora through photographic installations in which the artist and curator invite audiences to consider the role of colonialism in perpetuating debility and disablement.\n\nAs an artist living between San Juan and New York\, Quiles Bonilla’s works focus specifically on the Puerto Rican diaspora. Puerto Rico’s long history of colonization and its current realities as a U.S. colony are explored through artifacts of both fractured everyday life and a thriving tourism industry. Blue FEMA tarps appear throughout the photographs\, emblematic of the post-Hurricane Maria relief that never materialized. Alongside these\, symbols of tourism appear\, such as custom beach towels\, beach sling chairs\, and souvenirs. Works point to the effects of colonial presence and neglect\, and the forces of colonialism are exposed for their role in creating a Puerto Rican diaspora and otherness.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/kevin-quiles-bonilla-a-small-patch-of-sand-yet-it-holds-so-much/
LOCATION:Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York\, 128 Baxter St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: "Traversing the Light": A Ten-Year Fine Photography Retrospective by Melanie S. Gonzalez.
DESCRIPTION:“Traversing the Light”: A Ten-Year Fine Photography Retrospective by Melanie S. Gonzalez. \nPresentation by the artist at 5PM on Thursday\, June 20th at Highland Public Library. 14 Elting Pl Highland\, NY 12528 \nMore details coming soon by Highland Public Library and Suzanna Productions. \nMelanie S Gonzalez  \nThu\, May 16\, 2:37 PM (7 days ago) \nto Donna\, Suzanna\nHi Donna\, \nI see. It would be cool if the presentation could be projected or audio available while I walk around and those who wish to sit and listen /watch and those who want to walk around can… Either way I’d like to have a slideshow of all the works handy and depending on the crowd we can do either way. \nWords from the artist: \n“Highland Public Library Discussion:\nIn my public and invitation discussion on 06/20\, I will talk about my philosophy behind my layered stills\, a series which I called “Rock and Shadow/Piedra y Sombra” ([https://www.suzannaproductions.com/rock-and-shadow-piedra-y-sombra project] description there) and show it has developed in over 7 years of double exposure photography.\nI will also discuss the types of cameras\, composition and film processes I use over 10 years of analog photography practice…”  \n-Melanie S. Gonzalez\, Fine Art Photographer [https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/artists/melanie-gonzalez/]
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/traversing-the-light-a-ten-year-fine-photography-retrospective-by-melanie-s-gonzalez/2024-06-20/
LOCATION:Highland Public Library\, 14 Elting Pl\, Highland\, NY\, 12528\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibit
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