Digging Through the Crates with Joe Conzo Sr.

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 […]

TKOs and Timbales: The Intersection of Boxing & Music

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, […]

Bertha Hope, Jazz Pianist & Composer

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 […]

Poemas Pueblos: The Revolutionary Poems of Julia de Burgos

BMHC Lab 1303 Louis Nine Blvd, Bronx, NY, United States

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!

Bronx “People’s State of the Union” Story Circle

BMHC Lab 1303 Louis Nine Blvd, Bronx, NY, United States

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 […]

Ghana in the Bronx

BMHC Lab 1303 Louis Nine Blvd, Bronx, NY, United States

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 […]

Women's History Month

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 […]