Event series: Bronx Rising!

Book release party for Nuyorican poet Carmen Bardeguez-Brown, who will read from her new book, accompanied on percussion by Bobby Sanabria, with guest poets Jesús “Papoleto” Meléndez Modesto “Flako” Jiménez, […]

Film Screening: Nana Dijo: Irresolute Radiography of Black Consciousness, followed by Q&A and spoken word performance by film director Bocafloja. Music by Irka Mateo Folk Quartet Featuring folk songs that […]

Each year we cap our Bronx Rising! series with a concert that features traditions from two of the Bronx’s distinct Latino communities: Puerto Rican and Garifuna. This year will celebrate […]

Using an intercultural technique that blends discourse and performance, Romanee Kalicharran & Co. presents “Where Kathak and Bomba Meet in Me,” featuring two dance and percussion forms from different parts […]

Celebrate Halloween early with Edgar Allen Poe’s poetry set to Latin rhythms performed by Bobby Sanabria & Project X with guest vocalist Jenn Jade Ledesna.

Celebrate hip hop’s international influence! Following the Crotona Park DJ Jams sponsored by Tools of War, head over to the BMHC for a ful set of jammin’ hip hop. The […]

Poetry in the key of salsa by La madrina of Nuyorican Poetry Sandra Maria Esteves followed by a performance of Los Más Valientes

Today’s program will celebrate the Bronx’s most famous maritime connection—the writer Herman Melville, who is the author or seafaring stories, most notably, Moby Dick—is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery. The program […]

A presentation about the Harlem Hellfighters followed by the music of the Monroe Mustangs (of Monroe College) and Zlatne Uste Balkan brass band

Featuring musicians Ifti & the Royal Bengal Tea House, a fusion of Spanish and Bengali folk songs with the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore and Pablo Neruda recited by Ifti Chowdhury […]