Bronx Lighthouse College Preparatory Academy Spring Arts Showcase.
This pop-up exhibition features artwork by students from a local high school. The exhibit will remain open from May 4 through May 20th.
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Book Presentation: The Great Woman Singer
NYU professor Licia Fiol-Matta presents and reads from her new book, The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music (2017), which traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez, while exploring how their voices and performance style transformed the public perception of […]
Making the Drum Talk! with Milteri Tucker Concepcion
Bomba Dancer and Puerto Rican native Milteri Tucker Concepcion will teach bomba dance, timing, figure and skirt technique. Ages 12 & up. Cost: $15. Pre-Registration necessary.
Dance in the Diaspora
Celebrating music and dance genres from West Africa and from Garifuna communities in Central America, with performances by Bronx-based groups, The Bambara Drum & Dance Ensemble and Hamalali Wayunagu Garifuna Folkloric & Modern Dance Company
Las Tres Hermanas: Activism Through the Arts
Opening reception for this exhibit ,which pays tribute to the sisters Evelina Antonetty, Elba Cabrera and Lillian Lopez,who settled in the Bronx, where they became activists for the community and the arts.
One Island, Two Houses
Film Screening: Birthright Crisis (2013) Screening of thisaward-winning film about the plight of Haitians in the Dominican Republic, followed by a Q&A with director Miriam Neptune. Music by:Yasser Tejeda & Palotré An infectiously rhythmic and cutting-edge group originally from the Dominican Republic, which fuses Dominican roots music with jazz, blues, funk and rock. Co-sponsored with […]
Crotona Park Birdsong
A concert at Crotona Park with Bobby Sanabria & Project X featuring original compositions by Jeff Lederer inspired by the park’s local birds. It will follow a screening of the documentary, Thomas Chapin, Night Bird Song (2016) at the BMHC and Q&A with the director, Stephanie Castillo
To the Rising Sun
Tsidii Le Loka, South African Tony Award nominated star of the Lion King on Broadway, performs To the Rising Sun, featuring the music of Miriam Makeba and the words of Nelson Mandela
SalsaFest: Conversations with the Masters II
Featuring Ray Santos, a Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer who grew up in the Bronx. He is the only living musician who has played, composed and arranged for the Mambo Kings (Machito, Tito Rodriguez, and Tito Puente). The interview will be followed by a music performance by Anaisa Charanga, a multi-generational Cuban-style charanga all-female band, led […]