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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) Parrots at the Pagoda
DESCRIPTION:Parrots at the Pagoda\, inspired by the life of iconic vocalist and prolific trio musician Johnny Rodríguez\, takes audiences into the world and music of this legendary Puerto Rican composer\, drag artist\, and impresario. Prepare to be transported to the life and times of this pioneering female impersonator who owned the legendary El Cotorrito (The Little Parrot) club in Puerto Rico—and the older brother of the also legendary Tito “El Inolvidable” Rodríguez.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-parrots-at-the-pagoda/
LOCATION:New York
CATEGORIES:Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T190000
DTSTAMP:20260517T202802
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SUMMARY:Archives\, Memory\, & the Present Past of Puerto Rico
DESCRIPTION:We’re celebrating our Rooted + Relational Research initiative with a symposium aimed at contending with the material and theoretical importance of the archive in contemporary scholarship and research practices. Through a day of panels\, the inaugural cohort of CENTRO research associates\, hybrid-fellows\, artists in residence\, and dissertation fellow will engage with contestation\, archival reckoning\, archival architecture\, facilities\, and accessibility\, and quotidian interventions and forms of archival refusal. Join us as we illuminate how CENTRO expands Puerto Rican studies and how we can best tend to its past and futures. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors Open at 10 AM!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWelcome & Opening Remarks by Director\n\n\n\n11:00 AM – 11:15 AM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel 1 – Expanding Archival Methodologies \n\n\n\n11:15 AM – 12:30 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis panel will examine the future of Puerto Rican studies through the lens of archival research\, exploring how evolving methodologies can challenge existing frameworks and open new avenues for examination. Panelists will discuss the intersections between archival practices and decolonial scholarship\, considering how the archive can be used to rethink Puerto Rico’s past\, present\, and future. \n\n\n\nModerated by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. Presentations by Daniel Morales-Armstrong\, Joaquín Villanueva\, Cristina Pérez Jiménez\, and Amanda Guzmán \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel 2 – Contesting Archives & Authority \n\n\n\n12:45 PM – 2:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis panel will explore how the politics of ownership and access play out in archival spaces\, particularly when dealing with contested materials related to Puerto Rican history\, culture\, and politics. Discussions will center around how scholars and activists are challenging traditional notions of who has the right to control\, curate\, and narrate the archive. \n\n\n\nModerated by Cristel Jusino Díaz. Presentations by Shakti Castro\, Alberto Ortiz Díaz\, Emma Amador\, and Lorraine Torres Colón. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLunch and Community Microgrant Program Presentation\n\n\n\n2:00 PM – 3:30 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Rosa Cruz Cordero and Essah Diaz. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel 3 – Archival Reckonings & Praxis\n\n\n\n3:30 PM – 4:45 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat happens when we contest or reject the dominant archival systems? This panel will focus on acts of resistance and refusal that take place in archival spaces by analyzing oral histories\, community-based records\, or alternative forms of knowledge. Panelists will discuss how these practices reshape the boundaries of the archive. \n\n\n\nModerated by Essah Diaz. Presentations by Nayda Collazo-Llorens\, Keishla Rivera-Lopez\, Karrieann Soto Vega\, and Xenia Rubinos. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote Presentation by Quiara Alegría Hudes\n\n\n\n5:00 PM – 6:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOffices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS) Records. Bodega Scene. Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives\, Hunter College\, CUNY.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/archives-memory-the-present-past-of-puerto-rico/
LOCATION:CENTRO en El Barrio\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10065
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T200000
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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) Latin American and Chinese Musical Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Join Puerto Rican guitarist Dr. José Maldonado and Chinese pianist Dr. Weiwei Zhai for an evening of music from China and Latin America. The program will feature traditional Chinese folk songs\, Latin American boleros\, and twentieth-century and contemporary works by composers from Mexico\, Costa Rica\, and Puerto Rico.\n\nWhen: Friday\, May 2nd at 7:00 PM\nWhere: Bloomingdale School of Music\, 323 West 108th Street\, New York\, NY 10025\n\nFree and open to the public!\n\nWeiwei & José is a classical guitar and piano duo based in New York City\, composed of Chinese pianist Dr. Weiwei Zhai and Puerto Rican guitarist Dr. José Maldonado. Together\, they perform classical repertoire as well as music from their cultural backgrounds\, creating programs that highlight the rich timbres of their instruments and reflect their artistic identities.\n\nLearn more at:\nwww.josemaldonadoguitar.com\nwww.weiweizhaipiano.com
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-latin-american-and-chinese-musical-landscapes/
LOCATION:Bloomingdale School of Music\, 323 West 108th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10025\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bloomingdale School of Music":MAILTO:registrar@bsmny.org.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T140000
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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) Performing the Bronx with Charles Rice-González & Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel / Queer presence in the Bronx
DESCRIPTION:Presented as part of Historias with The Clemente and as part of Performing the Bronx\n\nTo join  this free experience and to received specific directions as to where to meet\, contact Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com or click HERE \n\nSunday\, May 4\, 12 Noon\, 2025 \nMeet at BAAD! 2474 Westchester Avenue\nCharles Rice-González and Nicolás convene with a group to activate LGBTQ+ space – outdoors in the open –through writing. This event is co-shaped by all participants as a ritual that honors the queer Bronxites who have been here before and who have courageously inhabited our neighborhoods. Taking this as a point of inspiration\, all of those present give this experience tangible form through an altar in flux\, to be infused with the writings that emerge\, the devotions that arise\, and any other offerings to this impermanent socio-emotional sculpture. \n\nQueer presence in the Bronx continues to inform the cultures\, activisms and spirits of this part of New York City where many of those existing at the edges of society have played a central role in the struggle for social justice. Charles will guide us all into the herstories/theirstories/ourstories/histories whose roots run deep into the rich soil of our borough\, and which have allowed many of us to flower.\n\nWhat are the catalyst organizations\, groups and individuals – some no longer existing or alive in physical form – who must be remembered and their impetus invoked into our now? \n\nPlease bring a simple offering for the altar.\n\nFor directions to BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance click HERE\nThe closest train is the number 6 to Westchester Square in the Bronx. BAAD! and then walk a couple of blocks. \n \nCharles Rice-González\, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx\, is a writer\, long-time community and LGBTQ activist\, and co-founder of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and an Associate Professor at Hostos Community College – CUNY. He received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. His debut novel Chulito (Magnus Books 2011) has received nearly a dozen awards including honors from the American Library Association and the National Book Critics Circle. His writing’s been published in over a dozen journals and anthologies\, and he co-edited From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction. His play I Love Andy Gibb was published in Blacktino Queer Performance: A Critical Anthology\, and Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo has been produced each year at BAAD! since 2004. \n\nHis honors include a MacDowell Fellowship\, Letras Boricuas Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship\, a PEN Writing as Activism Fellowship\, the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award\, an Audre Lorde scholarship from the ZAMI Foundation\, and a Gay City News Impact Award for his activism and contributions to advancing the lives of LGBTQ people. \n\nIn 1998\, Charles co-founded\, with award-winning choreographer/dancer Arthur Aviles\, BAAD! – The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance is a cultural organization and theater that presents empowering works for women\, people of color\, and the LGBTQ community. \n \nHe serves on the boards of the Bronx Council on the Arts and the National Association of Latino Art and Cultures\, where he is currently chair of both. Website\n\nThis event will be documented through video and photographs. Those attending must be okay with this. \n\nTo join this gathering\, please contact Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com  or click HERE\n\nABOUT: PERFORMING THE BRONX\nSince 2015 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel has invited a group of remarkable Bronxites to co-develop actions embedded in the day-to-day of our beloved home borough. The gestures that emerge are presented in private spaces\, as well as in the Bronx’s public realm\, and focus on the roots that weave these visionaries with specific communities and neighborhoods in our part of the City. Performing the Bronx is an expansion of Nicolás’s ongoing  in honoring\, recovering\, reclaiming and remembering herstories/histories/theirstories of the area’s neighbors and  trailblazers that run the risk of being effaced by time\, lost in the midst of neighborhoods in flux\, or dismissed by dominant discourses that often position themselves at the center of the conversation. \n\nPast participants: Arthur Avilés\, Bill Aguado\, Benny Bonilla\, Mili Bonilla\, Caridad De La Luz ‘La Bruja’\, Dr. Drum\, Ana ‘ROKAFELLA’ García\, Reverend Danilo Lachapel\, Wanda Salamán\, and Rhina Valentin\n\nPerforming the Bronx as a whole has been supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council\, Casita Maria’s South Bronx Culture Trail 2020\, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. It has also received love\, space and support from Mothers on the Move\, BronxNet TV\, The Andrew Freedman Home\, and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.\n\nThe 2025 chapters of Performing the Bronx with Lisa Ortega\, and Charles Rice-González are presented with support from Historias\, a multi-year programmatic initiative led by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias celebrates the transformative impact of Latinx communities in NYC through research\, artistic interpretations\, and public engagement.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-performing-the-bronx-with-charles-rice-gonzalez-nicolas-dumit-estevez-raful-espejo-ovalles-morel-queer-presence-in-the-bronx/
LOCATION:BAAD\, 2472 Westchester Avenue\, Bronx\, New York\, 10461
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T180000
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SUMMARY:Cafecito con... Glorimar Garcia: En tus manos/ En mi nombre
DESCRIPTION:The tradition of lacemaking in Puerto Rico spans many generations. Brought to the island by Spanish settlers\, the Puerto Rican bobbin lacemaking tradition\, called mundillo (which translates to “little world”) became an important economic activity for women across the archipelago. Artist Glorimar Garcia\, whose work is featured in Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survial of a People\, harnesses this tradition as a way of staying connected to Puerto Rico and to reflect upon the religious culture in which she was raised. She combines mundillo with her own family photographs and archival postcards to advertise Frank Espada’s traveling exhibitions of the “Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary Project”. Join her and CENTRO Directora\, Dr. Yomaira Figueroa Vasquez for an intimate exploration of this delicate art form. \n\n\n\nDiasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People is on view at the Hunter East Harlem Gallery at the Silberman School of Social Work through September 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGlorimar Garcia with her mundillo pillow and lace samples winding bobbins at the Lacemakers’ Studio at Bard Graduate Center\, 2022. Photo by Maria Baranova.\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/cafecito-con-glorimar-garcia-en-tus-manos-en-mi-nombre/
LOCATION:CENTRO en El Barrio\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10065
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250514T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250514T200000
DTSTAMP:20260517T202802
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SUMMARY:Afterlives of San Juan Hill: Lincoln Square/ San Juan Hill Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:In 1958\, an emerging Puerto Rican community was displaced from the Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill neighborhoods to make way for the construction of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Utilizing never before seen archival documents made available to CENTRO by the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts and other archival materials\, this exhibit delves into the larger Urban Renewal project and traces the process through which about 2\,000 Puerto Ricans were displaced. These records invite us to reframe existing narratives of dispossession and development in New York City in the mid 20th century as well as highlight the individual stories of Lincoln Square residents during this pivotal time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Source Attributed to NYC Parks’ Archived Collection\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event has been made possible by the generous support of the United States Senate and House of Representatives (Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Representative Espaillat) and the New York City Council
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/afterlives-of-san-juan-hill-lincoln-square-san-juan-hill-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:CENTRO en El Barrio\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10065
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T080000
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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) Esto No Tiene Nombre\, one-woman show\, by poet Denice Frohman
DESCRIPTION:The Clemente is proud to present Esto No Tiene Nombre\, a one-woman show written and performed by acclaimed queer Nuyorican poet\, Denice Frohman\, for three workshop productions from May 15-17th. The play chronicles the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders told through a tapestry of vignettes exploring Latina lesbian activism\, expression\, and desire from pre-Stonewall police raids to first kisses. The title is inspired by Esto No Tiene Nombre\, the first Latina lesbian magazine\, founded in the 1990s by Colombian poet and activist tatiana de la tierra. Co-presented by INCITE at Columbia University. \nThis work is rooted in archival interviews conducted by Frohman as part of I See My Light Shining: Oral Histories of Our Elders\, a year-long project curated by acclaimed writer Jacqueline Woodson\, featuring more than 20 oral history interviews from Latina lesbian elders in New York City. \nWritten/Performed: Denice Frohman\nDirected/Co-Created: Alex Torra\nProduction Design: Nia Benjamin\nLighting Designer: Xotchil Musser  \nTickets are available now!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-esto-no-tiene-nombre-one-woman-show-by-poet-denice-frohman/
LOCATION:Teatro Latea\, 107 Suffolk Street\, New York\, New York\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T160000
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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) The 2nd Annual Lower East Side Puerto Rican Day Parade & Festival
DESCRIPTION:The 2nd Annual Lower East Side Puerto Rican Day Parade & Festival is a tribute to the Boricuas who built this neighborhood—brick by brick\, beat by beat\, and struggle by struggle. In the face of gentrification\, which continues to erase our stories and rewrite our history\, this parade stands as a bold reminder: our legacy is alive and rooted here.\n\nThis celebration is for every Boricua from the Lower East Side—past\, present\, and future—to come together and chant:\n“¡We are still here!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-the-2nd-annual-lower-east-side-puerto-rican-day-parade-festival/
LOCATION:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250531T200000
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SUMMARY:(Partner Event) Los Rivera Destino - BoriCorridor Tour 2025
DESCRIPTION:Bohemia\, sátira y mucho ingenio\, así puede describirse el estilo musical único de Los Rivera Destino\, cuyo reconocimiento se ha disparado exponencialmente durante los pasados años. Carlos\, Antonio y Fernando logran combinar el humor y picardía en sus letras con ritmos como el bolero y el rock\, para ofrecer al público un espectáculo creativo\, dinámico y extraordinariamente divertido.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/partner-event-los-rivera-destino-boricorridor-tour-2025/
LOCATION:Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture\, 450 Grand Concourse\, Bronx\,\, New York City\, NY\, 10451\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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