Event series: Bronx Rising!

Maria Aponte reads from her book, Transitions of a Nuyorican Cinderella, accompanied by members of Retumba!, Nancy Friedman and Yvette Martínez. Mari Aponte is a poet, performance artist, and playwright. […]

With Q&A with director Mark Kotlinski and TATS Cru members BG183, Bio and Nicer In the 70s graffiti artists would gather around DeWitt Clinton High in the Bronx which was […]

The Ghetto Brothers, a former street gang in the South Bronx, became community activists in the 1960s and played a tremendous role in reducing the gang violence in the neighborhood by participating in the historice Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting. They later turned into a musical group, influenced by the Beatles, Santana, doo wop music and Tito Puente. Their album, Power-Fuerza was released in 1972, and was recently re-released to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

With photographer Joe Conzo Jr. & Grandmaster Caz Joe Conzo Jr. In 2005, The New York Times proclaimed photographer Joe Conzo Jr. as “The Man Who Took Hip-Hop’s Baby Pictures.” […]

With Q&A by producer Henry Chalfant In the 70s graffiti artists would gather around DeWitt Clinton High in the Bronx which was just blocks away from the Transit Authority yard […]

Founded in 2010, GRACE DRUMS is a music ensemble of spirited women with the singular mission of making joy contagious across all races, ethnicities, religions, gender & sexual orientation, and […]

Sonia Manzano signed copies of her latest novel “The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano” after her book reading tonight at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Laboratory. Sonia, who lived on Southern […]

Machito’s son Mario Grillo, band leader of the Machito Orchestra, joined Bobby Sanabria tonight for a Q&A filled with hilarious anecdotes from his long career, following a screening of “Machito: […]

James Lovell and his Garifuna Drummers got the crowd moving with their “journey” through Garifuna history tonight at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Laboratory, from the 17th century Caribbean to […]