Screening of the documentary 'Let's Get the Rhythm' by Irene Chagall. The film documents hand-clapping games performed by young girls in US schoolyards and at home, an art that incorporate verbal dexterity with interlocking rhythmic hand patterns. -- Women and girls historically have been silenced in many aspects around the world. Tonight we look at […]
Néstor Murray-Irizarry, historian and founder of Casa Paoli, a research and cultural center in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and J. Emanuel Dufrasne Gonzalez of the bomba and plena group Paracumbé will present their new book on plena entitled, 'La plena puertorriqueña: nuevas fuentes para su estudio.' Plena is a traditional musical genre from Puerto Rico that […]