Bobby 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
Q&A with collector Henry Medina, music by Los Artesanos de la Plena
Sandra Maria Esteves with Nancy Mercado and Vanessa Martir, accompanied by Bobby Sanabria on percussion
Roundtable Discussion and Demo featuring Juan Gutiérrez, Julia Gutiérrez, Juan Cartagena, Matthew Gonzalez, and Cesár Colón-Montijo, moderated by Bobby Sanabria
Bomba: Dancing The Drum is a one hour film about the legendary Cepeda family, known as the patriarch family of bomba, Puerto Rico's richest musical expression of its African heritage. For nearly a century, the Cepeda family has been in the forefront of the struggle to keep the bomba tradition alive in Puerto Rico. Don […]
Featuring Akua Dixon, Ray Martínez and Roland Guerrero
The event takes place at Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture. Dr. Valerie Capers was born in the Bronx and received her early schooling at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School of Music, the first blind person to do […]
Norka Hernández Nadal & Bàmbula
Antonia Pantoja (1922-2002), visionary Puerto Rican educator, activist, and early proponent of bilingual education, inspired multiple generations of young people and fought for many of the rights that people take for granted today. Unbowed by obstacles she encountered as a black, Puerto Rican woman, she founded ASPIRA to empower Puerto Rican youth, and created other […]
Poetic Tradition of Puerto Rico with Sery Colón, Prisionera, and Tato Laviera