A free story hour dedicated to children’s books, featuring "Call Me Roberto" by Nathalie Alonso, celebrating the life of Roberto Clemente. This event is in collaboration with the East Harlem Tutorial Program.

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Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Teatro Círculo presents 'El alcalde de Zalamea' (The Mayor of Zalamea).

When a father’s love meets military abuse, justice becomes a deadly weapon. This version of Calderón de la Barca's classical masterpiece is set during the invasion of Puerto Rico by the US Army in 1898 and explores the moral challenges of a wealthy peasant, Pedro Crespo, whose daughter, Isabel is attacked by a Captain of the Spanish Army. When Pedro Crespo is elected the Mayor of Zalamea, he finds himself in a position of power, able to avenge his daughter. Will he do it?

Direction by Daniel Alonso de Santos and verse direction by Karmele Aranburu, production design by Israel Franco-Müller.

Cast: Gerardo Gudiño, José Cheo Oliveras, Juan Luis Acevedo, Sandra Gumuzzio, Eva Cristina Vásquez, Fernando Gazzaniga, Luis Rivera Figueroa, Guillermo Iván

Performed in Spanish verse with overtitles in English. ADA Accessible Teatro Círculo 64 East 4th Street, NYC

$10 off Tickets! Valid for the first weekend only, November 8-10, 2024! Promo Code: OPENING

$40 General Admission $35 Students & Seniors $30 Groups of 10+

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A weekend of dance workshops in our beautiful new dance studio with workshops ranging from bellydancing to Ghanaian to Bengali, Samba, Flamenco, and more!

$25 Per Workshop | $30 for 2 Workshops | $50 for 5 Workshops

Sunday:

12:45-2:00 | Ballet by Elisa Toro

2:30-3:45 | Hip Hop by Deena Clemente

4:15-5:30 | Flamenco by Olyda

For more, please visit: www.bronxmusichall.org/classes#1418544708

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Teatro Círculo presents 'El alcalde de Zalamea' (The Mayor of Zalamea).

When a father’s love meets military abuse, justice becomes a deadly weapon. This version of Calderón de la Barca's classical masterpiece is set during the invasion of Puerto Rico by the US Army in 1898 and explores the moral challenges of a wealthy peasant, Pedro Crespo, whose daughter, Isabel is attacked by a Captain of the Spanish Army. When Pedro Crespo is elected the Mayor of Zalamea, he finds himself in a position of power, able to avenge his daughter. Will he do it?

Direction by Daniel Alonso de Santos and verse direction by Karmele Aranburu, production design by Israel Franco-Müller.

Cast: Gerardo Gudiño, José Cheo Oliveras, Juan Luis Acevedo, Sandra Gumuzzio, Eva Cristina Vásquez, Fernando Gazzaniga, Luis Rivera Figueroa, Guillermo Iván

Performed in Spanish verse with overtitles in English. ADA Accessible Teatro Círculo 64 East 4th Street, NYC

$10 off Tickets! Valid for the first weekend only, November 8-10, 2024! Promo Code: OPENING

$40 General Admission $35 Students & Seniors $30 Groups of 10+

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Come join four Viequense community organizations for an afternoon gathering that celebrates the history of Vieques and the work being done to strengthen rhizomatic connections necessary to flourish futures in the broad Puerto Rican archipelago. This event follows the Friday, November 8 panel “Radical Sovereignties, Radical Archives.”

The afternoon gathering will feature the Archivo Histórico de Vieques, La Colmena Cimarrona, Vidas Viequenses Valen and La Alianza de Mujeres Viequenses. There will also be poetry reading by Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Mariposa (María Teresa Fernández), an art workshop with Sandra Reyes, and exhibition tours of Materials of Solidarity by Nadine Fattaleh, Student Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.

There will be presentations, booths, art, music and food.

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Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Teatro Círculo presents 'El alcalde de Zalamea' (The Mayor of Zalamea).

When a father’s love meets military abuse, justice becomes a deadly weapon. This version of Calderón de la Barca's classical masterpiece is set during the invasion of Puerto Rico by the US Army in 1898 and explores the moral challenges of a wealthy peasant, Pedro Crespo, whose daughter, Isabel is attacked by a Captain of the Spanish Army. When Pedro Crespo is elected the Mayor of Zalamea, he finds himself in a position of power, able to avenge his daughter. Will he do it?

Direction by Daniel Alonso de Santos and verse direction by Karmele Aranburu, production design by Israel Franco-Müller.

Cast: Gerardo Gudiño, José Cheo Oliveras, Juan Luis Acevedo, Sandra Gumuzzio, Eva Cristina Vásquez, Fernando Gazzaniga, Luis Rivera Figueroa, Guillermo Iván

Performed in Spanish verse with overtitles in English. ADA Accessible Teatro Círculo 64 East 4th Street, NYC

$10 off Tickets! Valid for the first weekend only, November 8-10, 2024! Promo Code: OPENING

$40 General Admission $35 Students & Seniors $30 Groups of 10+

Click here to get your tickets!

A weekend of dance workshops in our beautiful new dance studio with workshops ranging from bellydancing to Ghanaian to Bengali, Samba, Flamenco, and more!

$25 Per Workshop | $30 for 2 Workshops | $50 for 5 Workshops

Saturday:

11:00-12:15 | Ghanaian dance by Yawuza AlHassan

12:45-2:00 | Bengali dance by BAFA

2:30-3:45 | Puerto Rican bomba by Juan Usera

4:15-5:30 | Bellydance by Angie Assal

6:00-7:15 | Brazilian samba by Janete

For more, please visit: www.bronxmusichall.org/classes#1418544708

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Teatro Círculo presents 'El alcalde de Zalamea' (The Mayor of Zalamea).

When a father’s love meets military abuse, justice becomes a deadly weapon. This version of Calderón de la Barca's classical masterpiece is set during the invasion of Puerto Rico by the US Army in 1898 and explores the moral challenges of a wealthy peasant, Pedro Crespo, whose daughter, Isabel is attacked by a Captain of the Spanish Army. When Pedro Crespo is elected the Mayor of Zalamea, he finds himself in a position of power, able to avenge his daughter. Will he do it?

Direction by Daniel Alonso de Santos and verse direction by Karmele Aranburu, production design by Israel Franco-Müller.

Cast: Gerardo Gudiño, José Cheo Oliveras, Juan Luis Acevedo, Sandra Gumuzzio, Eva Cristina Vásquez, Fernando Gazzaniga, Luis Rivera Figueroa, Guillermo Iván

Performed in Spanish verse with overtitles in English. ADA Accessible Teatro Círculo 64 East 4th Street, NYC

$10 off Tickets! Valid for the first weekend only, November 8-10, 2024! Promo Code: OPENING

$40 General Admission $35 Students & Seniors $30 Groups of 10+

Click here to get your tickets!

The Clemente and Brooklyn Public Library, in partnership with the Library of America, are proud to present a series of three events this fall celebrating the NYC launch of Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, edited by celebrated poet Rigoberto González. The series will engage new audiences through music, poetry, and performances.

This series debuts the first thematic track for Historias Sembradas, Everyday Poetics: Ritual and Resistance, which explores the role Latinx poets have played a vital role in shaping diasporic identity, institution building, and community organizing.

The work of New York poets José Martí, Salomón de la Selva, Julia de Burgos, Lourdes Casal, and Clemente Soto Vélez has shaped today’s thriving Latino Poetic tradition and our understanding of what it means to be American.

These revolutionary voices represent a range of Latin American geographies and aesthetics, including themes of migration, anti-imperialism, latinidad, language and exile. Join us as we explore the lasting impact of their voices in a multi-dimensional program offered in celebration of the publication of the landmark anthology Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. This event will feature a panel moderated by Latino Poetry contributor Edwin Torres with two scholars of Latino poetry in New York—Laura Lomas (Rutgers University-Newark) and Urayoán Noel (New York University). Torres will then lead an eight-person Poets Choir through an experimental performance of poems from the anthology in English and Spanish by all five of these poetic ancestors.

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Vulnerable communities enact sovereignties that decenter the state while strengthening relationships on which survival depends. This panel will delve into such radical praxis through a closer look at archiving and the Archivo Histórico de Vieques. The AHV is a community archive born out of the struggle against the U.S. Navy’s occupation of Vieques, Puerto Rico (1940s-2003). In the early days, it aimed to give voice to Viequenses and to counter the silences imposed by colonialism.

Today, the AHV continues to cultivate community-centered stories. Moreover, it empowers community members to narrate history in their own terms and to, through such enactment of narrative sovereignty, chart out Viequense futures. This panel will accordingly address how archiving can be a praxis for narrative sovereignty that enables communities to reclaim their stories, counteract historical erasures and assert control over their collective memory. Panelists include historians and archivist from the Puerto Rican archipelago and diaspora.

This event is organized by NYU Gallatin and sponsored in part by The Latinx Project.

IATI Theater presents the LAB Workshop Production of Ahoradespués, a heartfelt play about a young man’s last Father’s Day with his dying father, Tito, as they attend a soccer match at La Bombonera. Through a blend of past and present memories, the play explores the complexities of their father-son relationship, the weight of unspoken words, and the fragility of life as it paints a nostalgic and bittersweet portrait of love, loss, and the small moments that define human connection.

“La enredadera no sabe de límites.”

Written by Guido Zappacosta
Directed by Gerardo Gudiño

Featuring Elias Viñoles

Language: Spanish with English supertitles.

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IATI Theater presents the LAB Workshop Production of Ahoradespués, a heartfelt play about a young man’s last Father’s Day with his dying father, Tito, as they attend a soccer match at La Bombonera. Through a blend of past and present memories, the play explores the complexities of their father-son relationship, the weight of unspoken words, and the fragility of life as it paints a nostalgic and bittersweet portrait of love, loss, and the small moments that define human connection.

“La enredadera no sabe de límites.”

Written by Guido Zappacosta
Directed by Gerardo Gudiño

Featuring Elias Viñoles

Language: Spanish with English supertitles.

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Let Her In

Priscilla Marrero, Ferran Martín & Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel

11-2-2024, 3:30-5:30 PM / Meet us outside West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue Subway Station (2/5 trains), Bronx, NY

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Part performance, part participatory experience and part action, Let Her In is a collaborative movement by choreographer Priscilla Marrero, sculptor Ferran Martín, and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel that recognizes the need to build more bridges in our divisive political climate. This triad of creatives structures their improvisation at different parts of the Bronx River, grounding their walk along the banks of this flowing being. Ferran brings in some of his mirrored-cubes titled Mirror, Mirror, with which he has worked with in the past, and that offer the possibility of concealing our identities, while reflecting back the landscape that surrounds us.

Let Her In invites those in attendance into the realms of play, relaxation, daydreaming, and love for the only fresh water river in the City of New York. At least two drops in every glass of the water we drink in our metropolis comes from the Bronx River. Let Her In is an action that is part of Bodies of Water / Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River, a program conceived and produced by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, with individual actions co-created with Arantxa Araujo, Andrés Senra, Luis A., and Priscilla Marrero & Ferran Martín.

The series of actions is dedicated to the late Nancy Wallace. “She…[Nancy]…helped transform a watery graveyard for automobiles, tires and appliances into an urban greenbelt for New York City and Westchester County” The New York Times

About Bodies of Water/Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River points to the connections between bodies, as in human and non-human ones–such as Rivers–, as well as to concepts of interbeing, interconnectedness, and interdependence with all beings. Similarly, it brings to light ecological and social justice issues regarding colonial histories, environmental racism, and extractive capitalism while issuing a call for individual and collective stewardship and care for all bodies of Water. During four gatherings in different points along the Bronx River, improvisations centered on flow, water, compassion and deep listening are meant to unfold for invited participants, or perhaps unsuspecting audiences and wanderers attracted by a sight inspiring wonder and contemplation.

Bodies of Water/Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River / Background:

The Bronx River has been a constant presence for Nicolás since he moved from the Dominican Republic to New York City in 1991. His first job was in the Fordham Road section with the Bronx River Restoration Project and it entailed engaging the aquatic subject through art classes. In 2011 he was baptized by Bill Aguado and Susan Newmark in Drew Gardens. The sacramental was water from the Bronx River and the intention was that of a rite of passage into Bronxhood. Three decades after his first connection with the Bronx, and in a rapidly gentrifying borough, Nicolás is proposing to approach the Bronx River from the perspective of elderhood and aging.

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Support for Artists Grant (Bronx, NY) to support his creative work. Sponsored by The Action Lab, this award is funding Bodies of Water/Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River. Through New York State’s continued investment in arts and culture, NYSCA has awarded over $80 million since Spring 2023 to over 1,500 artists and organizations across the state.

Bodies of Water/Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River Ó 2022 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful / with copyrights for individual actions equally shared with each collaborator.

IATI Theater presents the LAB Workshop Production of Ahoradespués, a heartfelt play about a young man’s last Father’s Day with his dying father, Tito, as they attend a soccer match at La Bombonera. Through a blend of past and present memories, the play explores the complexities of their father-son relationship, the weight of unspoken words, and the fragility of life as it paints a nostalgic and bittersweet portrait of love, loss, and the small moments that define human connection.

“La enredadera no sabe de límites.”

Written by Guido Zappacosta
Directed by Gerardo Gudiño

Featuring Elias Viñoles

Language: Spanish with English supertitles.

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Poe goes Latin jazz with Bobby Sanabria & Project X. 

Location: Bronx Music Hall, 438 E 163rd Street, Bronx, NY 10451

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Don’t miss LA COCINA (starring Rooney Mara and Raúl Briones, Berlinale premiere) by acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios. The premiere will take place at the Angelika on October 24 at 7pm (Q&A set to start at 9:15pm) and will be followed by a discussion with Alonso Ruizpalacios, actor Raul Briones, One Fair Wage President Saru Jayaraman, and moderated by Mark Bittman.

The film opens in theaters soon!

October 25: New York

November 1: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago 

November 8: Nationwide

The film has partnered with One Fair Wage on its impact campaign. One Fair Wage is a national movement advocating to end the subminimum wage (just $2.13/hour for tipped workers), which disproportionately affects women and people of color. With a network of nearly 300,000 restaurant and service workers, One Fair Wage is driving critical policy change.

Film Synopsis: In the heart of a bustling Times Square kitchen, dreams and desperation collide as the back-of-house staff each chase the elusive American dream. When money goes missing from the register, the spotlight falls on the undocumented workers in the kitchen, especially Pedro (Raúl Briones), a passionate dreamer entangled in a tumultuous love affair with Julia (Rooney Mara), a waitress grappling with her own commitments. As tensions rise and shocking revelations unfold, the relentless pace of the kitchen threatens to shatter the hopes and aspirations of those who keep it running.

"A singular masterwork" - RogerEbert.com

"The Bear on steroids" - Deadline

"An explosive account of immigrant restaurant workers chasing the American Dream" - The Hollywood Reporter

“Ruizpalacios is in the same league as Del Toro, Cuarón and Iñárritu” - Deadline

Click here to watch Trailer!

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Save the date for a panel organized by NYU professor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo as part of Beyond a Boundary: the Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective at NYU. Building on Black feminist theorizations of intersectionality, the Collective functions as a forum for feminist/queer scholars, activists, and cultural workers throughout New York City and the Tri-State region.

The panel will consist of a conversation with Children’s Rights Legal Advocate Tania Morales; Author and Activist Alejandra R. DeRuiz; Performance Artists and Activists Lía García, and Angel Lartigue, moderated by Prof. Laura Gutierrez. Performance to follow.

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Please see additional information here: https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/20242025/border-crossings-cruzando-fronteras-trans-life-across-the-us-mexico-border

You’re invited to Homecoming: a BAX Alumni Reunion & Performance Party! Together we celebrate BAX’s legacy of nurturing artists working at the intersection of interdisciplinary art and social justice with a BAX alumni show… AND COMPETITION! BAX Alumni Groups will FACE OFF in a DANCE BATTLE in the style of “Dancify That!” —  a playful and fierce dance competition where teams transform stories, recipes, and memes into dance.

Alumni Resident Artists 

vs. 

Students 

vs. 

EMERGENYC 

vs. 

Teaching Artists 

Who are you rooting for?!

Support BAX by cheering on your favorite alumni team and join in the fun with ring toss, cornhole, gambling-with-fate, raffle, and more at our pre-show tailgate!

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Tailgate - Games, Photo Booth, Shmoozing at the Bar

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Dancify That Show & Competition

10:00 PM - 11:00 PM - Dance Party with DJ Nessoono

Event Location: 3 Dollar Bill, 260 Meserole St, Brooklyn, NY, 11206

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En Foco, in partnership with Pregones and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, is proud to present In The Spirit / En El Espíritu: Works by Mariana Yampolsky. This exhibition features a curated selection of portraits by renowned Mexican photographer Mariana Yampolsky (1925–2002). The exhibition is an initiative of the Nueva Luz Study Center (NLSC) and part of En Foco’s mission to preserve the culture and legacy of diasporic lens-based artists. The exhibition will be on view from October 24, 2024 - March 31, 2025, at Pregones/PRTT located at 575 Walton Ave, Bronx, New York 10451, and virtually at enfoco.org. Public programs will be announced.

The exhibition showcases Yampolsky’s captivating black-and-white photographs, which highlight the timeless landscapes and intimate stillness of rural Mexico. Taken primarily during the 1980s and early 1990s, these photographs explore the quiet beauty of Mexico’s small towns, drawing viewers into a reflective space where the silence becomes an open canvas for personal narratives. 

Yampolsky, a foreign-born artist who adopted Mexico as her home, captured the country's rural life through an extraordinary lens. Her work was deeply influenced by Mexican photographic pioneers such as Lola Álvarez Bravo and her peers, including Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Graciela Iturbide. With a focus on indigenous communities, her work speaks to the intersection of tradition, community, and identity. The photographs in In The Spirit Y En El Espíritu go beyond documentation. Yampolsky’s work balances hardship with moments of simplicity and reflection, offering a space to contemplate life's layered human conditions. Through her lens, Yampolsky invites viewers to witness the potential for magic in the every day, presenting rural Mexican life in a way that echoes into the fast-paced modern world. Her work, suspended in time, becomes an incantation of life itself, where the contradictions between life, death, ritual, and celebration palpitate across the images.

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Dr. Troncoso’s dissertation titled “Queering Orishas: Embodied Knowledges and Living Archives” explores the lived experiences of LGBTQ practitioners of Santería and Espiritismo in contemporary Puerto Rico. Dr. Troncoso uses critical autoethnography and participatory observation grounded in decolonial feminist approaches to unravel the complex dynamics of same-sex desires, queer strategies for survival, and notions of transness that deconstruct fixed notions of gender and sexuality within sacred spaces.

Please join Dr. Troncoso and three participants of their ethnographic research: Teresa Karolina, Iris Pier and Ana Paula Teixeira on October 23rd from 6-8 pm at NYU for what promises to be a rich and lively discussion.

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Please see additional information here: https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/20242025/queering-orishas-embodied-knowledges-and-living-archives

Collaboratively created by Grammy Award-winning musical director Martha Gonzalez, Alpert Award-winning interdisciplinary artist Virginia Grise, and director Kendra Ware, Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind is an all-in-one concert, album, and live theater performance. Stories from Their Dogs Came with Them by Helena María Viramontes are brought to life in a multifaceted sonic landscape —a mix of Mexican and Afro-Cuban rhythms, jazz, funk, rock and gospel— performed by Martha Gonzalez, Tylana Enomoto, Juan Perez, and actor Lulu Matute. The music is matched by a rich visual world created by set designer Tanya Orellana, video artist Yee Eun Nam, lighting designer María Cristina Fusté, and costume designer David Arevalo.

Photo credit: Jay Yamada.

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The Global Mashup: “Historias” will bring together two New York-based Latinx bands from different genres and cultural backgrounds to explore the roots of their music and the New York influences that shape their work. The event features individual performances from each band, followed by a collaborative jam session, offering a rich musical exchange. In addition to the concert, there will be dance lessons and a moderated discussion led by poet and DJ Eliel Lucero in both Spanish and English. Audience members will also participate by sharing their own “Historias” on how Latinx music has shaped their lives in New York. 

This mashup celebrates the diversity within Latinx communities while highlighting the shared experiences of being Latinx in New York. By blending various musical traditions and personal stories, the event aims to reflect on how distinct cultures come together to form new and unique expressions in the city’s dynamic cultural landscape. The event will be live-streamed, and a short film will be produced to capture the performances and audience discussions. Drinks and food will be available for purchase, and don't forget your dancing shoes!

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Collaboratively created by Grammy Award-winning musical director Martha Gonzalez, Alpert Award-winning interdisciplinary artist Virginia Grise, and director Kendra Ware, Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind is an all-in-one concert, album, and live theater performance. Stories from Their Dogs Came with Them by Helena María Viramontes are brought to life in a multifaceted sonic landscape —a mix of Mexican and Afro-Cuban rhythms, jazz, funk, rock and gospel— performed by Martha Gonzalez, Tylana Enomoto, Juan Perez, and actor Lulu Matute. The music is matched by a rich visual world created by set designer Tanya Orellana, video artist Yee Eun Nam, lighting designer María Cristina Fusté, and costume designer David Arevalo.

Photo credit: Jay Yamada.

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Join us for a conversation between artist-in-residence Dalila Sanabria and artist Catalina Tuca. This conversation will be moderated by the exhibition’s curator Laura G. Gutiérrez. The panel will be followed by a reception.

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Please see additional information here: https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/20242025/save-the-date-air-exhibition-program

Vecinos, únanse al Loisaida Center para celebrar nuestro Tercer Festival Anual de la Herencia Hispana del Lower East Side en Dry Dock Park y Playground, completamente gratis y abierto a nuestra comunidad.

¡Habrá juegos de baloncesto juvenil, música en vivo y entretenimiento, comida hispana, vendedores locales, arte, mesas de dominó, recursos comunitarios y mucho más!

Para más, visita: loisaida.org/event/festival-de-la-herencia-hispana-de-loisaida

Let the River In

Meet us outside the 6 subway station in Hunts Point / Participants should be ready to dress up and wear makeup (provided)

Those seeking to join must RSVP by clicking HERE

This gathering engages camouflaging and mimicry as a survival strategy commonly used by non-human animals and plants to blend in with their surroundings. By emulating the predominant colors, shapes and patterns within their ecologies, these wise beings observe without being observed, ensuring their survival while also– sometimes–attracting other beings. Inspired by this phenomenon, participants in Let the River In are invited to inhabit a limited square footage around us along the banks of the Bronx River. The idea is to become deeply familiar with all elements we are in contact with, and from there to transform ourselves by way of fabric and makeup into the place one is embedded in. This embodiment can become an exercise in oneness with all. It is also a movement into the sensuality of the living world and a celebration of bodies, including that of the Bronx River.

Nicolás thanks Lin Wang Gordon for teaching him the square footage practice.

This gathering will be filmed and photographed

Let the River In is an action which is part of Bodies of Water / Fluid Improvisations Along the Bronx River, a program conceived and produced by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, with individual actions co-created with Arantxa Araujo, Andrés Senra, Luis A., and Priscilla Marrero & Ferran Martin.

The series of actions is dedicated to the late Nancy Wallace. “She…[Nancy]…helped transform a watery graveyard for automobiles, tires and appliances into an urban greenbelt for New York City and Westchester County” The New York Times

Fanm Vanyan: Women Warriors Standing on Business

Curated by CCCADI Scholar-in-Residence, Her Royal Majesty Queen Mother of the African Diaspora Dr. Dòwòti Désir, this daylong experience designed for women of color offers an opportunity to gain a broader knowledge of the powerful role of women in resistance movements focusing on the history and legacy of the Agoodjié in Africa and the women warriors of the Haitian Revolution.

Participants will also hear from Her Royal Majesty Kpodjito Zognidi Sokewun via video remarks and will be led by Caleb Dowden, Fulbright-Hays Awardee & Danxomé Dance Master, in an interactive demonstration of dances of Danxomè.

October 12, 2024 10 AM - 3 PM

CCCADI Firehouse 120 E 125th Street NY, NY 10035

Tickets: $50 (Includes lunch)

Schedule of the Day:

Fanm Vanyan: Women Warriors Standing On Business - A lecture by HRM Queen Mother of the African Diaspora, Dr. Dòwòti Désir This four-part lecture will focus on honoring, respecting and protecting lakay (home). Focusing on the history of the Agoodjié in Africa and unpacking the importance of the women warriors of the Haitian Revolution, HRM Queen Mother Dr. Dòwòti Désir will outline what nation-building means for the African Diaspora in the 21st Century and explore strategies for attendees to use in their daily lives. Lunch & Remarks via video from Her Royal Majesty Kpodjito Zognidi Sokewun Dances of Danxomè - A lecture and workshop by Caleb Dowden on Agoodjie dances This interactive session will explore the body’s organization and the movements that strengthen and heal women, finishing with an empowering Agoodjié “war dance.” Closing Prayer Circle

At the start of 2024, CCCADI named its first Scholar-in-Residence to one of the foremost personalities in the Haitian/Haitian American community: pan-African scholar, interfaith leader, humanitarian, and thought leader Her Royal Majesty Queen Mother Dr. Dòwòti Désir. Together, we pay homage to the legacy of Haiti, the first Black independent nation celebrating 220 years of independence.

Lakay se Lakay: This program is part of CCCADI’s Lakay se Lakay series. Lakay se Lakay is a year-long homage that celebrates the legacy of Haiti, Our Black Nation. Lakay se Lakay is a cultural odyssey through which we dedicate much of our programming. Using the lens of Haitian arts and scholarship, CCCADI explores home as a space for refuge, building family and community, preservation of traditions, a foundation for cultivating joy, and the roots of sovereignty.

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Performing the Bronx / A Living Archive of New York City’s Most Iconic Borough This film premieres at Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance BAAD! Click here to watch the Trailer!

Nicolás invites a group of remarkable Bronxites to co-develop actions embedded in the day-to-day of our beloved borough. The gestures that emerge are presented in private spaces, as well as in the Bronx's public realm, focusing on the roots that weave these visionaries with specific communities and neighborhoods.

Nicolás dedicates this film to the late Bronx community advocate and activist Martha J. Watford

This event is being co-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.

The Performing the Bronx chapters have been supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affair in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts. The Drumming for and with Benny chapter was produced with Casita Maria as part the South Bronx Culture Trail Festival 2020. Funding for editing this video compilation was provided by the University of Texas at Austin. Performing the Bronx has also received love, space and support from Mothers on the Move, BronxNet TV, The Andrew Freedman Home, and BAAD!

A video conceived and directed by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful / Video filming and editing: Geoffrey Jones / Still photography: Argenis Apolinario, Elias Rischmawi, and Rafaelina Tineo Performing the Bronx copyrights 2015-present, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful

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We Lit is a CCCADI series dedicated to exploring authors of the African Diaspora who have beautifully woven their experiences, cultures, and dreams into their works. This series is a call to writers, griots, storytellers, and lovers of the written word to spark collective conservation, reflection, and celebration for African Diasporic literature.

Join CCCADI for our Black literary salon featuring author Felipe Luciano and moderator Jamal Joseph in conversation!

This next event will focus on Felipe Luciano’s book “Flesh and Spirit: Confessions of a Young Lord”.

Growing up fatherless and poor, Felipe Luciano didn’t yearn for wealth or dream of becoming a famous actor or athlete. He was tired of being poor and ached to be a man, to reach that point of sagacity, courage, and independence that would signal to the world that he was now a warrior, ready to fight the battle for truth and justice, to slay the dragon of evil, whatever that might be. In Flesh and Spirit, Luciano paints a vivid portrait of his life in New York City as a member of the city’s Latino community as well as his pivotal role in the Young Lords and The Last Poets.

Sparing no one―not the revolutionaries, the Revolution, nor the author himself―Flesh and Spirit is written with honesty and humility to help guide young people of color and other Americans through the labyrinths of ideology, organization, missteps, false paths, and phony societal promises.

October 10, 2024 6 - 8:30 PM 120 E 125th Street NY, NY 10035 FREE | Registration Encouraged

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Over time Central American studies have emerged as a response to increased migration from the isthmus and the formation of large Diaspora communities in the United States. As the field continues to grow and these communities continue to evolve, what are the new issues within the field that must be addressed and what interventions need to be made? What new directions does scholarship need to take to account for emerging categories of social and political identification within the Central American community?

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