Event series: Bronx Rising!
Our 3rd Annual Bronx Rising! Halloween with live music scores! Our celebration kicks off with face painting by Confetti Faces and family portraits shot by Seis Del Sur photographer Edwin […]
Maxine Sullivan Women In Jazz Series: Bronx azz Women: Bertha Hope & Mimi Jones
Sep 16, 2017 @ 7:00pm
Followed by a Q&A with Mimi Jones and Bertha Hope. Music performance by the Mimi Jones Band + The Black Madonna Project
Featuring Ray Santos, a Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer who grew up in the Bronx. He is the only living musician who has played, composed and arranged for the Mambo Kings […]
Tsidii Le Loka, South African Tony Award nominated star of the Lion King on Broadway, performs To the Rising Sun, featuring the music of Miriam Makeba and the words of […]
Film Screening: Birthright Crisis (2013) Screening of thisaward-winning film about the plight of Haitians in the Dominican Republic, followed by a Q&A with director Miriam Neptune. Music by:Yasser Tejeda & […]
Celebrating music and dance genres from West Africa and from Garifuna communities in Central America, with performances by Bronx-based groups, The Bambara Drum & Dance Ensemble and Hamalali Wayunagu Garifuna Folkloric & Modern Dance Company
Bomba Dancer and Puerto Rican native Milteri Tucker Concepcion will teach bomba dance, timing, figure and skirt technique. Ages 12 & up. Cost: $15. Pre-Registration necessary.
NYU professor Licia Fiol-Matta presents and reads from her new book, The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music (2017), which traces the careers of four iconic […]
Conversations with the Masters, featuring Helen Merrill (Jelena Ana Milcetic), a Bronx-born jazz vocalist who began her career at 845 Club in the Bronx. Now a world-renowned singer, she’s performed […]
5:30 PM: Crafting Nowruz: A family Workshop – Nowruz, which means “New Day,” is an ancestral holiday marking the first day of spring. In the Iranian/Persian tradition, a special table […]