30th anniversary screening of Wild Style
Q&A with director Charlie Ahearn and film participants DJ GrandWizzard Theodore, Master Rob, and Original Waterbed Kev of the Fantastic Romantic.
Q&A with director Charlie Ahearn and film participants DJ GrandWizzard Theodore, Master Rob, and Original Waterbed Kev of the Fantastic Romantic.
Featuring Sidney Mejía and drummers Oracio Alvarez, Julio Avila, Rosendo Blanco, and Julio Rubio
Music: Traditional drum-based music of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic
Stories, Q&A with director Sonia Gonzalez
With anthology editor Myrna Nieves and poets Elizabeth Cruz, Etnairis Rivera, and Diana Gitesha Hernández, open mic hosted by Peggy Robles-Alvarado
(The Ponce Carnival Masks, According to Miguel A. Caraballo García) with a Q&A by producer Nestor Murray-Irizarry and mask maker Felipe Rangel
Book reading and signings by Michele Carlo, author of A Fish Out of Agua: My Life on Neither Side of the (Subway) Tracks, and Annie Lanzillotto, author of L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
With Jorge Maldonado (maracas & vocals), Ray Martinez (bass), Pete Nater (trumpet), Arturo Ortiz (piano), Cristian Rivera (congas), Ricky Salas (percussion & timables), “Pro” and “DJ Charlie Hustle” from the Rebel Diaz Arts Collective (sound production)
Screening of the documentary “Our Latin Thing” and a Q&A with director Leon Gast and poet, journalist, & activist Felipe Luciano