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 […]
A Puerto Rican and Garifuna Holiday concert. Featuring Hector “Pucho” Alamo (cuatro), Carlos Espada (lead vocals and percussion), Matthew Gonzalez (percussion), Jorge “Georgie” Vazquez (percussion), James Lovell (guitar and vocals), Delmo Nuñez (percussion and vocals), Julio Nuñez (percussion and vocals), Chester Nuñez (percussion and vocals), Lucy Blanco (vocals and maracas), Gianina “Scarlet” Nolberto (dance). The […]
Film: Latinos Beyond Reel” Challenging Media Stereotypes and a Q&A with director Miguel Picker and producer Edwin Pagán.
With the author Joe Flood. The one thing people continue to remember about the Bronx is its devastation through the fires in the 1970s and 1980s . The area was documented on celluloid— the opening shot of Paul Newman’s movie, Fort Apache, the Bronx, was shot right outside the Bronx Music Heritage Center’s door. In […]
We invite you to our gorgeous mosaic to join in with Antoinette Montague as we cele- brate Black History Month. and the pride of a people whose boots on the ground move- ment helped make America beautiful.. From Africa, to slavery, historic Civil Rights March songs from Mahalia Jackson, to Curtis Mayfield...may we the "people […]
Recently there was an exhibit at the New York Public Library called, 100 Years of Flamenco. It included beautiful photos of the greatest dancers that have graced New York’s stages and were the toasts of the dance world. However, one significant point that it left out was the grassroots perspective on the art of flamenco. […]
Pre-concert discussion about women in jazz featuring Paula Hampton, Bertha Hope, Cobi Narita, Maxine Roach & Carol Sudhalter
The Afri-Garifuna Ensemble featuring Lucy Blanco plus screening of Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital, post-concert dance party with DJ Pwhyte.
Kool Jai Infiniti, Pastoral Garifuna, Maya Forbes, Tae Edwards, and Gabriel Sarmiento. The event will take place at BMHC Lab and Louis Niné Boulevard