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 starring her and Marc Anthony). The film will be followed by a Q&A with Gilberto “Pulpo” Colón and José Mangual, who were members of Hector […]
Part of Seis del Sur photography exhibition Joe Conzo Sr. will present photographs of Tito Puente and other salsa and mambo musicians, while telling stories of Tito’s life and taking questions from the audience
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, screenings of When We Were Kings with director Leon Gast and The Champion’s Trek: The Untold Story of Sugar Ramos with filmmaker Elio Bernardo-Ruíz Even […]
Featuring poetry with Nuyorican legend Jesús “Papoleto” Meléndez and doo wop music with SPANK! in honor of the Chords, who attended Morris High School
BMHC honors the Jazz pioneer with a performance Bertha Hope Quintet at the Morris High School Campus. Bertha Hope is from Los Angeles and attended Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles. It was on the west coast that she met pianist Elmo Hope, who became her husband in 1957. Bertha studied piano at Los […]
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 Lucy Blanco, Braata Productions, Libana Maraza, James Lovell, Bobby Sanabria, Jorge Vazquez. In the Caribbean the holiday season is an occasion for many traditions, many of which have similar origins. So on this our second Parranda con Paranda: A Puerto Rican and Garifuna Holiday Celebration, we add a new twist. The Puerto Rican holiday […]
Five Boro Story Project is a cultural organization dedicated to local and community storytelling in different neighborhoods across the city’s five boroughs. In 2013, BMHC partnered with Five Boro Story Project to present “I’m Tawkin’ Here: Storytelling with a New York Accent” at the BMHC Lab. The event this year was designed as a participatory […]
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 foreign-born population but in the Bronx it is as high as 10%. The Ghanaian community in the Bronx is one of the largest enclaves in […]
Poetry and music by Hattie Gossett, Michael Wimberly, plus musical performance by Jenn Jade Named in honor of the pioneering jazz vocalist who made the Bronx her home, the program will open with a poetry reading by Hattie Gossett, “jazzy old babe still poeting on the mike: excerpt from a one-woman show,” accompanied by Michael […]