Event series: Bronx Rising!
Poetry and music by Hattie Gossett, Michael Wimberly, plus musical performance by Jenn Jade
Film screening of Living the Hiplife, plus music and dance performance by K5! The Ghanaian Community in the Bronx In New York City, Africans are about 4% of the City’s […]
2nd Annual Parranda con Paranda: Puerto Rican and Garifuna Holiday Celebration
Dec 15, 2014 @ 12:00am
Featuring Lucy Blanco, Braata Productions, Libana Maraza, James Lovell, Bobby Sanabria, Jorge Vazquez.
November’s Bronx Rising! celebrated Puerto Rican Heritage Month and the poetry of Julia de Burgos. Poemas Pueblos: The Revolutionary Poems of Julia de Burgos honored the poet on the 100th anniversary of her birth with a film, poetry, music, and dance! We ran out of chairs for the packed house at the Lab!
Featuring poetry with Nuyorican legend Jesús “Papoleto” Meléndez and doo wop music with SPANK! in honor of the Chords, who attended Morris High School
Orlando Marín y su Orquesta; panel discussion with boxer and club owner Carlos Ortiz, Academy-Award filmmaker Leon Gast, rock critic Dave Marsh, and scholar Christina Abreu; Golden Gloves boxing demo, […]
The Bronx Music Heritage Center will celebrate Fania’s legacy with Salsa Fest! with a screening of El Cantante (the story of Fania legend Hector Lavoe produced by Jennifer Lopez and […]
Afro-Brazilian drum group Batala NYC, screening of the documentary film Sweet Dreams and Q&A with director Rob Fruchtman, dance & shekere lesson by members of the Legacy Circle Women Drummers, […]
The Afri-Garifuna Ensemble featuring Lucy Blanco plus screening of Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital, post-concert dance party with DJ Pwhyte.
Pre-concert discussion about women in jazz featuring Paula Hampton, Bertha Hope, Cobi Narita, Maxine Roach & Carol Sudhalter