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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) Mesoamerican Pop: Paintings and Drawings by Miguel Trelles
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-mesoamerican-pop-paintings-and-drawings-by-miguel-trelles/
LOCATION:New Alliance Foundation Art Gallery\, 20 Church Street Connecticut\, New Haven\, CT\, 06510\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibit
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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) The New Latiné Play Salon
DESCRIPTION: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 the works being performed will receive productions by Flamboyán\, and also act as a first look at our upcoming season. The event will be a hybrid presentation\, with a private livestream on our YouTube channel\, allowing for theatre fans from around the world to engage with these exciting stories.   \nThe Salon is broken up into two nights. On March 3\, we will be highlighting the work of Mexican-American playwright Bella O’Brien’s paranoid thriller water from the river is also in the sea\, which will be the opening play of our 2026 season. This will be followed by Puerto Rican playwright Baylee Shlichtman’s horror comedy You Will Be Made of Ashes Too\, which will have a full production September 17-27. On March 5\, we will showcase the comedic works of two Puerto Rican writers\, Jon Marcantoni and Alberto Medina (President of Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora)\, as well as a bilingual jukebox musical about the life of La Lupe by Mexican-Puerto Rican author Alejandro Valtierra. Puro Estilo will receive a full production June 11-21\, and Playa and Right of Admission will have a one night performance on June 8!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-the-new-latine-play-salon/2025-03-03/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) Documentary Filmmaking and Black Spirituality in Puerto Rico
DESCRIPTION: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 de las Mujeres screens at Mishkin Gallery from March 3-7.\n\nThis bilingual conversation with Berríos\, organized by the Black Studies Colloquium\, offers audiences a compelling opportunity to engage with documentary filmmaking in a dynamic and participatory manner. The event will focus on ethical filmmaking practices\, Black spirituality and culture in Puerto Rico\, and women’s narratives\, drawing inspiration from Berríos’s film Santiago de las Mujeres (2023). Attendees will have the chance to interact directly\, providing feedback on film sequences and engaging in discussions about Afro-Puerto Rican topics with Berríos.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-documentary-filmmaking-and-black-spirituality-in-puerto-rico/
LOCATION:Mishkin Gallery\, 135 E 22nd St\, New York\, New York\, 10010
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T180000
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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) The New Latiné Play Salon
DESCRIPTION: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 the works being performed will receive productions by Flamboyán\, and also act as a first look at our upcoming season. The event will be a hybrid presentation\, with a private livestream on our YouTube channel\, allowing for theatre fans from around the world to engage with these exciting stories.   \nThe Salon is broken up into two nights. On March 3\, we will be highlighting the work of Mexican-American playwright Bella O’Brien’s paranoid thriller water from the river is also in the sea\, which will be the opening play of our 2026 season. This will be followed by Puerto Rican playwright Baylee Shlichtman’s horror comedy You Will Be Made of Ashes Too\, which will have a full production September 17-27. On March 5\, we will showcase the comedic works of two Puerto Rican writers\, Jon Marcantoni and Alberto Medina (President of Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora)\, as well as a bilingual jukebox musical about the life of La Lupe by Mexican-Puerto Rican author Alejandro Valtierra. Puro Estilo will receive a full production June 11-21\, and Playa and Right of Admission will have a one night performance on June 8!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-the-new-latine-play-salon/2025-03-05/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T120000
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SUMMARY:Library & Archives Lunch Hour: Ibrahim Gonzalez Papers
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nGonzález 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 in the East Coast of the United States. González was involved in various organizations and social justice movements\, ultimately leading him to getting involved with the Afro-American Islam-influenced movement The Five-Percent Nation. \n\n\n\nWith the support of other Muslim Latinos\, he founded the first Hispanic Muslim organization in the US\, Alianza Islámica\, along with a bilingual islamic journal. By the early 1990’s Ibrahim González had already started hosting radio shows at WBAI named Radio Libre and In the Moment. During this time\, he led various bands like the Ibrahim González Latin Jazz Quintet\, Caribbean Troubadours\, Nuyorican Jazz Experience\, Bronx Jam Band\, and the Overnite Cabal. He also taught at different cultural institutions such as Carnegie Hall where he would conduct workshops introducing Latin Jazz to NYC school teachers; Warner Music Project\, where he would conduct music workshops to community youth and organize community concerts. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss out on this opportunity to get an up close look at the life and legacy of Ibrahim! \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\nPhoto Credit: Photo of Ibrahim Gonzalez in the WBAI studio. Ibrahim Gonzalez Papers. CENTRO Library & Archives\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event has been made possible through the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational Research Initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/library-archives-lunch-hour-ibrahim-gonzalez-papers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T190000
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SUMMARY:Opening Night of Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico & the Survival of a People
DESCRIPTION: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 of overlapping histories of colonialism\, resistance\, and survival\, and Diasporic Collage engages with collage as both practice and metaphor. Countering the concept of a melting pot\, which emphasizes assimilation and loss of culture\, the idea of a collaged community allows for the celebration of roots and relations. This exhibition also considers the close relationship between photography and collage\, both notable 20th-century art forms. It takes the first major documentary initiative on the Puerto Rican diaspora as a point of departure to examine the enduring legacy of survival and migration. The artists featured in this exhibition consider the Puerto Rican diaspora in a fluid and expansive way. While several focus on the diaspora in the traditional sense—Puerto Ricans who migrate to the United States—many honor the different diasporas that intersect with the archipelago of Puerto Rico\, documenting their communities with care and showing us a collage of Puerto Rican and Caribbean experiences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto Credit: Puerto Rican contingent of the Hispanic Festival\, San Francisco Bomba Collective\, San Francisco\, CA\, 1981\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event has been made possible through the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational Research Initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/opening-night-of-diasporic-collage-puerto-rico-the-survival-of-a-people/
LOCATION:The Silberman School of Social Work\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10035
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T180000
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SUMMARY:CENTRO x Cumbre - Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors\, Archives\, and Arts
DESCRIPTION: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\, Archives\, and Arts\, dedicated to Arturo Schomburg and produced in collaboration with PR-AFRO at UPR\, is an opportunity to celebrate afrolatinidad memory in the age of divisiveness; a reminder of our shared experiences as Black Diasporic peoples. By recognizing the privilege of academics in universities and non-profit organizations\, the Afro Summit makes resources available to communities to form alliances\, establish networks\, and share historically invisibilized and marginalized experiences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarch 21\, 2025 | CENTRO in El Barrio & via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT IN-PERSON\, BUT YOU CAN JOIN US VIRTUALLY – SCROLL DOWN TO RSVP FOR THE VIRTUAL KEYNOTE!  \n\n\n\nKeynote Presented by Vanessa Valdés | Conversation Featuring Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez\, Joy Bivins\, and Vanessa Valdés\n\n\n\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Hybrid\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Vanessa Valdés\, author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg\, kicks off CENTRO x Cumbre with a poignant keynote address based on her book which examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad. After this keynote\, Valdés is joined by CENTRO Directora\, Dr. Yomaira-Figueroa-Vásquez\, and Schomburg Director\, Joy Bivins for a conversation building on the themes found in her book.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarch 22\, 2025 | CENTRO in El Barrio & via Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiasporic Memory Keepers: The Labor of Archiving & Counter Archival Practices \n\n\n\n10:00 AM – 11:15 AM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStart CENTRO x Cumbre with a timely panel featuring several stewards of archives responsible for maintaining black historical artifacts during a time where DEI initiatives and ethnic studies institutes are under attack. Listen as they share their responsibilities and experiences in the face of powerful institutions\, such as the US Archivist\, purportedly “sanitizing” exhibitions that may upset visitors and politicians. Our panelists from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, the Dominican Studies Institute\, The Haitian Studies Institute\, and CENTRO\, will discuss their historical counter-archival practices and the histories we tell that disrupt common narratives. How do these archival practices contend with the rise of AI\, a powerful tool in the revision of history\, and how can you bring these practices into your life? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLieu de Mémoire: Recalling and Responding: Ancestral Memory & Living History \n\n\n\n11:30 PM – 12:45 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSites of memory of the Black Diaspora are all over. From the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) in Harlem to Puerto Rican Organization for the Performing Arts (PROPA) in Orlando\, FL\, these places have been created to honor our histories. How do natural sites of memory compete with curated ones? How have these sites and their meaning changed over time with input from new historians and archivists? How are these spaces disrupted by gentrification and the commodification of these histories (i.e. weddings at plantations)? How do these black cultural organizations work together in East Harlem and beyond to help define our history and shape the present and future of Black Diasporic communities? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlack Diasporic Photography\, Altaring\, & Spirit Practices\n\n\n\n1:15 PM – 2:15 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter a morning filled with insightful and thought provoking dialogues on the power and responsibility of archiving and maintaining our living history\, join us for lunch and a conversation between our featured artist for Cumbre Afro\, José Arturo Ballester Panelli and Diogenes Ballester. Their work will be featured in the lobby of the building and the auditorium lounge\, respectively.  \n\n\n\nJosé Arturo Ballester Panelli (Ballesta 9) is an Afro-Caribbean artist based in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  His work explores the connections between photography\, Afro-Caribbean aesthetics\, history and the racial\, social and ecological system in the Caribbean and its diasporas. \n\n\n\nDiogenes Ballester is a painter\, printmaker\, and teacher. His work combines organic elements and forms that might be considered part of a symbolic language created by the artist. It draws on references to history\, mythology\, spiritual and spiritualist rituals\, individual and collective memory\, oral history\, and Caribbean identity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew Directions: Hemispheric Afro-Latine Studies from the Miriam Jiménez Román Postdoctoral Fellows at the Latinx Project at NYU\n\n\n\n2:30 PM – 3:45 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMiriam Jiménez Román was an Afro-Puerto Rican scholar\, activist\, and author on Afro-Latine culture. Her legacy is forever enshrined at the Latinx Project at NYU under the Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship\, designed for post-doctoral candidates and junior scholars whose research advances the study of Afro-Latine communities in the U.S. This panel brings together the most recent recipients of this fellowship and asks the question: what questions does Afro-Latine scholarship seek to answer? Join us in exploring what upcoming projects we can expect from these up and coming scholars. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCafecito con… Mayra Santos Febres: La Otra Julia\n\n\n\n4:00 PM – 5:15 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMayra Santos-Febres is a Puerto Rican author\, poet\, novelist\, professor of literature\, essayist\, and literary critic and author of children’s books. Her work focuses on themes of race\, diaspora identity\, female sexuality\, gender fluidity\, desire\, and power. Her latest book\, La otra Julia (The Other Julia)\, a fictionalized account of the emblematic and controversial Julia de Burgos. What began as a simple assignment\, writing about Julia\, ends up as a map to understand the lives of so many Latin American authors\, including her own. Join Santos-Febres at Cumbre for a behind the scenes look into her latest book. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP for the In-Person CENTRO x Cumbre Symposium Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP for the Virtual CENTRO x Cumbre Keynote/ Symposium Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event has been made possible through the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational Research Initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/centro-x-cumbresites-of-black-memory-our-ancestors-archives-and-arts/
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SUMMARY:Marian Pabón "Más fuerte que nunca"
DESCRIPTION: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 a reír de todo lo que la ha hecho llorar. \n\nEste evento es parte del BoriCorridor Tour 2025\, una iniciativa producida por Ágora Cultural Architects con el apoyo de The Mellon Foundation\, que pretende conectar una vasta red de trabajadores culturales en EE.UU. y servir de herramienta para que los artistas puertorriqueños del archipiélago y la diáspora puedan llegar a ellos\, colaborar y mostrar su trabajo. BoriCorridor cuenta con dos iniciativas: un mapa digital (www.boricorridor.com) y una gira artística.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/marian-pabon-mas-fuerte-que-nunca/
LOCATION:Teatro Latea\, 107 Suffolk Street\, New York\, New York\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Theater
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