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Comedy with Bill Santiago
BMHC Lab 1303 Louis Nine Blvd, Bronx, NY, United StatesBobby Sanabria & Quarteto Aché got the audience on their feet with their punchy jazz compositions, and even added a classic by Dizzy Gillespie, famed former Bronx resident
American Comics & the Latino Image
With Miguelangel Ruiz, Christian Montalvo and Wilson Ramos Jr.
T.J. English and No Frisk activist Jazz Hayden
T.J. English reading from The Savage City: Race, Murder and Generation on the Edge. The programming wrapped up with an enlightening discussion about race and police tactics with best selling author TJ English and No Frisk activist Jazz Hayden.
Born in the Bronx and Written!
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.” Born and raised in the Bronx, “Joey” an EMT for the NYFD, acquired a flair for photog- raphy at the age of nine and later […]
Transitions of a Nuyorican Cinderella
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. Born and raised in New York City’s East Harlem (El Barrio), she has worked extensively in Latino theatre and in video productions that deal with […]
Mambo Diablo
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 playing it.
Speak English!
With photographer Rita Rivera and author Rafael Hermoso
Chulito: The Novel with author Charles Rice-Gonzalez
Palabras/Words: Reading of Chulito: The Novel with author Charles Rice Gonzalez Charles Rice-González, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, is a writer, long-time community and LGBT activist and Executive Director of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. He received a B.A. in Communications from Adelphi University and an M.F.A. in […]
Poemas Pueblos: The Revolutionary Poems of Julia de Burgos
BMHC Lab 1303 Louis Nine Blvd, Bronx, NY, United StatesNovember'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!