About the show: Miguel Trelles’ ongoing painting series, MESOAMERICAN POP, addresses the compelling beauty of figurative pre-Columbian drawing and sculpture, combining it with North American pop culture elements from the sequential art tradition to formulate a Pan American visual syncretism that is as visually arresting as it is historically encompassing.
New Latiné Play Salon, Flamboyán's debut play reading event. The Salon is a place for writers, actors, directors, and audience members are encouraged to engage with new works and discuss the craft of storytelling before the works begin production for the stage. This will be the first Latiné-focused play reading series in Lakewood! Each of … Continued
Join us for a Women’s History Month Community Event hosted by Baruch’s Black and Latino Studies Department with filmmaker Rosamary Berríos Hernández in conversation with Dr. Margarita Rosa, Visiting Assistant Professor of BLS, and Dr. Rojo Robles, Assistant Professor at BLS and curator of the Roots and Tides film festival. Rosamary Berríos Hernández’s film Santiago … Continued
New Latiné Play Salon, Flamboyán's debut play reading event. The Salon is a place for writers, actors, directors, and audience members are encouraged to engage with new works and discuss the craft of storytelling before the works begin production for the stage. This will be the first Latiné-focused play reading series in Lakewood! Each of … Continued
For this month's Library & Archives Lunch Hour, we are so excited to dive into the collection of Ibrahim Aqil Adbush Shakur González, known as Ibrahim González. González was a multifaceted artist; musician, photographer, radio host, activist, and educator born in East Harlem well known for helping set up one of the first Latino-Muslim organizations … Continued
Join CENTRO on the opening night of Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, on view at the CENTRO Gallery in El Barrio from March 13th, 2025 to September, 2025. This exhibition honors Puerto Rican identities in the archipelago and its diasporas. The Puerto Rican diaspora can be understood as a collage … Continued
Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between two prominent archives, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) and the NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year's theme for Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, … Continued
La querida actriz y comediante puertorriqueña, Marian Pabón presenta su stand-up ¡Más fuerte que nunca! el 23 de marzo en Teatro LATEA. Marian estrenó exitosamente su stand-up a finales del 2024, tras superar un diagnóstico de cáncer. En la pieza teatral, comparte anécdotas de su proceso con la chispa y humor que le caracterizan. Acompáñala … Continued
This coming Thursday, April 3rd, will be the official presentation of the poetry collection "Amnericas," written by Puerto Rican leading actor Miguelangel Suarez and published by the Alejandro Tapia y Rivera Institute of Puerto Rico. The presentation will be free at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at 6:00 p.m., with guest artists reading some … Continued
Iconic Afro-feminist and Afro-Caribbean poet and visual artist Ángela María Dávila Malavé left as part of her legacy, animal fiero y tierno/fierce and tender animal, a force of rhythm and a delicate combination of the of the expressive and the colloquial in the language. Originally published in 1977 (Editorial QueAce, Puerto Rico), it has never … Continued