Event series: Bronx Rising!

With Q&A with , Heather Quinlan (producer), Ben Lee (film participant, featured interviewee)

Featuring Valerie Capers (piano and vocals), Alan Givens (saxophone and flute), Pito Castillo (congas), Doug Richardson (drums), John Robinson (bass)

With photographer Rita Rivera and author Rafael Hermoso

Q&A by directors Al Santana and Denise Belén Santiago, and Porto Rico Steamship Line memorabilia collector, Ralph Méndez

Jackie Flowers had everybody up and riding the Love Train tonight at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Laboratory!

Featuring a book reading by Joe Conzo, Sr. from “Mambo Diablo: My Journey with Tito Puente.” A demo by Bobby Sanabria explaining the history of the timbales and Puente’s innovations […]

Screening of the documentary “Our Latin Thing” and a Q&A with director Leon Gast and poet, journalist, & activist Felipe Luciano

With Jorge Maldonado (maracas & vocals), Ray Martinez (bass), Pete Nater (trumpet), Arturo Ortiz (piano), Cristian Rivera (congas), Ricky Salas (percussion & timables), “Pro” and “DJ Charlie Hustle” from the […]

Book reading and signings by Michele Carlo, author of A Fish Out of Agua: My Life on Neither Side of the (Subway) Tracks, and Annie Lanzillotto, author of L is […]

(The Ponce Carnival Masks, According to Miguel A. Caraballo García) with a Q&A by producer Nestor Murray-Irizarry and mask maker Felipe Rangel