Join us for an evening of celebrating the ritual and music of the Black Madonna traditions in Italy. There will be a screening of Alessandra Belloni's documentary, Musical Journeys with the Black Madonna in Southern Italy, followed by a concert with Alessandra's ensemble, I Giullari di Piazza.

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Hostos Center, in collaboration with NYLAAT, presents a collective exhibition exploring how contemporary artists from Latin America and the Caribbean engage with architecture as both context and concept, unpacking themes such as urban memory, gentrification, and cultural identity. Opening Reception on Wed, Sept 10 at 6pm! Free beverages and a live band, you can't miss it!

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Conjured by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel

With actions by Luis A. Lara Malvacías, Priscilla Marrero with Ferran Martín, and Larissa Velez-Jackson

Presented with La Academia Desposeída

Those wishing to attend MUST arrive at Governors Island by 6:30 PM / Please dress in black

In Wicca, Drawing Down the Moon, which is also the title of a classic publication by Margot Adler, points to the practice of invoking the Goddess as symbolized by the moon, and hence inviting her to enter the High Priestess. In the case of this nocturnal curation, Nicolás asks three Latinx dancers to raise energy from the Earth and to send it up to Spirit or Life Force, whatever their own personal understanding of this concept might be. The three actions in question are meant to be kindled during the night, and within the echoes and reverberations of New York City’s urban web of noises, sounds, creatures, and energies. This program arises from Nicolás’s belief that what is referred to as Art today initially served a spiritual purpose, that is, before devolving into a profession, tradable objects–corpses– and consumable/ marketable events; a spectacle. With this in mind, all three movements in Lifting Up the Moon are meant to return art, in whatever modest ways this might be possible, back into the sacred, especially at a time when patriarchy and capitalism are acting upon a necrophiliac agenda, and when the call is to resist and honor GAIA and creation/emanation, including its satellite the Moon.

All those willing to attend are asked to dress in black, so to blend into the night as we traverse the waters by way of the Governors Island Ferry.

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“La ternura” is a comedy that follows three women and three men as they navigate the peculiar realities of love and relationships. The characters question the saying, “In war and in love, everything goes.” Set on a desert island, they find themselves caught in hilarious mix-ups and magical misunderstandings reminiscent of Shakespeare’s works. Ultimately, they come to realize that the concept of “opposite sexes” is simply a myth.

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Directed by the award-winning José Zayas, "Los Soles Truncos" tells the story of three sisters: Hortensia, Emilia, and Inés. Despite facing numerous adversities, they remain resilient in their efforts to preserve what matters most to them—their home and dignity. Residing on the historic Calle del Cristo in the heart of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, they confront the challenges of time and circumstance while navigating the memories and relationships that have shaped their lives.

Time serves a dual role in the narrative, acting both as an ally and an adversary. It guides the sisters on a journey of self-discovery, love, and hope. This masterpiece of Puerto Rican theater offers an emotionally rich experience filled with humanity, exploring the strength of family bonds in the face of difficulties.

Presented in Spanish with English subtitles.

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The Latinx Project is thrilled to announce the opening and reception for our fall 2025 exhibition entitled Escenas at 20 Cooper Square’s Third Floor Gallery.

The third-floor gallery will host Escenas curated by Orlando Ochoa Jr. and Xavier Robles Armas. The exhibition will showcase the work of contemporary lens-based artists who explore themes of family, migration, intimacy, memory, and belonging. From creative uses of family photographs to stylized re-enactments, Escenas will invite viewers to consider how artists repurpose place, time, and ephemera to carefully regard life through photography.

Escenas spotlights the vibrant work of Andina Marie Osorio, Arlene Mejorado, Ashley Peña, Damon Casarez, Diana Guerra, José Ibarra Rizo, and Steven Molina Contreras.

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Celebrate Black joy, culture, and resistance at CCCADI’s 7th Annual Afribembé Festival on Sunday, August 10, from 4–6 PM at Harlem Week’s main stage at Grant’s Tomb. This year’s theme, “Black Constellation: Mapping Our Joy, Dreams, and Liberation,” invites the Diaspora to gather to celebrate legacy, imagination, and Afrofuturism. From ancestral rhythms to future-facing sounds, Afribembé is a portal connecting memory to future vision, featuring live music, performances, and cultural traditions alongside the vibrant Ọjà Marketplace and Family Village. Free and open to all, and hosted by award-winning artist Michael Manswell.

Event Details:

Date: August 10, 2025

Time: 4–6 PM

Location: General Grant National Memorial (Grant’s Tomb)

W 122nd St & Riverside Dr, New York, NY 10027

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Teatro SEA invites families across New York City to join us on Suffolk Street (between Rivington and Delancey) for a spectacular afternoon of music, dance, culture, and community as part of our Arte Pa’ Mi Gente Festival and the 2nd Annual Latine Children’s Music Day. This free outdoor celebration will feature an exciting lineup of top-tier performers dedicated to uplifting Latiné children’s music and culture. Headlining the event is Grammy Award-winning artist Lucy Kalantari, known for her joyful and jazz-infused music for children. She will be joined by a vibrant mix of youth performers and special guests from across the city and beyond.

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Featuring Colombian percussionist Martin Vejarano and his group, Chia's Dance Party.

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A Latin jazz series featuring new and emerging bands exploring new rhythms in the Latin jazz genre.

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🎉Join the LP21 family for an intergenerational Meet and Greet, welcoming the next generation of Bomba and Plena practitioners into the fold of these traditions!

📅 BPCW Meet & Greet: June 28, 2025 ⏰ 11:00AM-1:00PM 📍Location: Julia de Burgos Cultural Center - 1680 Lexington Avenue, Room 213, El Barrio, NYC 💵 Admission: FREE

This is the third event in a 3 day festival - “Entre Tambores y Tiempos” - celebrating a year of powerful community storytelling, documentation and cultural continuation.

Meet the teaching artists and learn about their project documenting Bomba and Plena in the Diaspora. As a part of the Community Collections Grant awarded through the Library of Congress, LeAna López alongside Jorge Vázquez have spent this last year gathering, documenting and honoring the voices and perspectives of the practitioners who have shaped our community and our traditions at large. Now, it’s time to share our work and give back to you!

🔗 For more information about LP21’s Community Collections documentation project, go to https://www.losplenerosdela21.org/press. See you there! ✨

This program has been made possible in part by funding from the Library of Congress, New York State Council on the Arts and NYC's Department of Cultural Affairs.

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In partnership with Harlem School of the Arts, Word Up Community Bookshop Librería Comunitaria celebrates the debut novel of Rob Franklin’s Great Black Hope, a gripping, elegant story about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest. In conversation with Franklin will be Roxane Gay, editor of The Portable Feminist Reader.

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Word Up celebrates the launch of local authors Ellen Hagan and David Flores’s Tell Me Every Lie, a moving, layered young adult novel in two voices about finding truth in the lies we tell ourselves. There will be a reading, Q&A, and special guests to celebrate the launch.

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Come join us for a special community screening event showcases films featured in Conch Shell International Film Fest.

Get ready for an afternoon filled with amazing films and great company. This in-person event will feature a selection of diverse and thought-provoking films by Caribbean heritage artists that you won't want to miss. Whether you're a film enthusiast or just looking for a fun Sunday outing, this event is perfect for everyone. Mark your calendars and get ready to celebrate Caribbean stories on film. +

A moderation artist chat will take place after the screening.

This event is presented by Conch Shell Productions Inc, in partnership with Black Spectrum Theatre. This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered by Flushing Town Hall.

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En Foco is pleased to announce the Bronx Issue of Nueva Luz in Celebration of its 40th Anniversary. Curated by Lizzy Alejandro, this issue is a love letter to the Bronx that celebrates the dynamic creativity of a borough known for its cultural legacy and continued artistic innovation. Featuring the lens-based work of Bernardo Almonte, Roy Baizan, Katherine Miranda, Alexis Marie Montoya, and Fernando Zelaya, with essays by natalie flo and Bonafide Rojas, these contributors represent the vibrancy and creative resilience of the Bronx, capturing its layered stories, evolution, and how memory and art shapes cultural identity.

This issue marking the 40th Anniversary of Nueva Luz reflects not only the current moment but also honors the history and cultural power of the Bronx, a borough of creative communities that have been at the fore of shaping visual, musical, and literary culture far beyond New York City. We invite you to join us on June 21, 2025, from 5-7 PM at Inspiration Point (710 Tiffany St, Bronx, NY 10474) for the launch of the Bronx Issue to celebrate this milestone issue and honor the Bronx’s ongoing legacy of artistry and cultural impact.

Since its founding in 1985, Nueva Luz has stood as more than just a magazine. It has become a cultural document, a historical archive, and a vital bridge between generations of artists, writers, and cultural workers from communities of color. The Bronx Issue embodies the publication’s original purpose and ongoing mission to serve as a platform for artists of color, creating a space where their stories, creative visions, and cultural contributions are centered and celebrated.

ABOUT THE CURATOR:

Lizzy Alejandro is a Bronx-based artist and curator whose multidisciplinary practice explores identity, language, and gender. Drawing inspiration from her mixed religious and cultural upbringing, Alejandro sets out to challenge notions of identity, fostering dialogue within her works, connecting history and personal experience. She holds an MFA in digital media from Lehman College, CUNY.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS: ​​

Bernardo Almonte is a Dominican documentary photographer based between New York City and the Caribbean. His work focuses on nostalgia, the imaginary, and the dream of deliverance from postcolonial trauma and has been published in Messenger Mag and Pandora.

Roy Baizan is a Mexican documentary photographer and arts educator whose work focuses on themes of community, environment, and identity. They have dedicated their career to empowering New York City youth through visual storytelling and community engagement. Baizan is a graduate of ICP’s Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism certificate program and recipient of fellowships from En Foco and the Magnum Foundation.

Katherine Miranda (they/he) is a Latinx, non-binary multidisciplinary artist born, raised, and based in the Bronx. Utilizing objects collected from their family, community, and the Earth, Miranda creates images and artifacts that honor their familial, communal, and ancestral histories. They have been the recipient of Van Lier Fellowship at Wave Hill, AIM Fellowship at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Create Change Fellowship at The Laundromat Project.

Alexis Marie Montoya is a Puerto Rican and Peruvian multidisciplinary artist and food writer born, raised, and based in The Bronx. Her work examines the intersection of food and culture, especially within Bronx and Latinx communities.

Fernando Zelaya is a publisher, photographer, writer, and designer from the Bronx.

ABOUT THE ESSAYISTS:

nathalie flo is an afro-indigenous poet, earthworker, curandera, and storyteller from The Bronx. Their work spans multiple mediums to tell stories of vulnerability, cosmic and earthen tales, and anchor faith in our collective possibilities. They are a Tin House 2024 selectee, alum of Roots. Wounds. Words., and currently enrolled in GrubStreet's Novel Incubator Program.

Bonafide Rojas is a poet born and raised in The Bronx. He has authored five collections of poetry and is a recipient of The Mellon-Flamboyan Letras Boricua Fellowship and a BRIO from Bronx Council On the Arts. His work has been featured in Kweli Journal: Poets For Puerto Rico, ANMLY #25, and Manteca, among others, and he has performed at major venues both here and abroad. He only wears red socks.

ABOUT NUEVA LUZ:

Launched in 1985, Nueva Luz is an ongoing art publication that addresses social and cultural issues at the forefront of photography, with a particular emphasis on narratives from artists of color. From its inception, the publication’s mission was to advance the professional status of contemporary photographers of diverse backgrounds and cultures. The digitization of Nueva Luz was made possible with support from the Leonian Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and The New York Community Trust Mosaic Fund.

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🎉Join the LP21 family for an intergenerational jam of Bomba y Plena, at our headquarters right in the heart of El Barrio!

📅 Entre Tambores y Tiempos - an intergenerational jam of Bomba y Plena: June 14, 2025 ⏰6:00PM-6:45PM Bomba class with Julia Gutiérrez-Rivera | 7:00PM Event begins 📍Location: Julia de Burgos Cultural Center - 1680 Lexington Avenue, 1st floor, El Barrio, NYC 💵Admission: FREE This is the second event in a 3 day festival - “Entre Tambores y Tiempos” - celebrating a year of powerful community storytelling, documentation and cultural continuation.

As a part of the Community Collections Grant awarded through the Library of Congress, LeAna López alongside Jorge Vázquez have spent this last year gathering, documenting and honoring the voices and perspectives of the practitioners who have shaped our community and our traditions at large. Now, it’s time to share our work and give back to you!

🔗 For more information about LP21’s Community Collections documentation project, go to https://www.losplenerosdela21.org/press. See you there! ✨

This program has been made possible in part by funding from the Library of Congress and New York State Council on the Arts.

CRUCES: Thinking in Public Forum

When: June 14 @ 10am–5:30pm

Where: The Clemente, 107 Suffolk St, NY, NY, 10002

Keynote Speakers: Chat Travieso and Johanna Fernández 

Delegates: Oscar Oliver-Didier, Gabriel Hernández Solano, Rev. Juan Carlos Ruiz, Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, Elena Martinez, Marlene Ramirez Cancio, Cristina Pérez Jiménez, Lizania Cruz, Dylan Gamboa, Jorge Matos, Ligia Guallpa, Monxo López, Yazmany Arboleda

Artistic Keynote Performance: Shaun Leonardo

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*All passes include a community lunch

CRUCES: Thinking in Public Forum is a daylong convening of cultural workers, artists, community leaders, scholars, and neighbors, designed as an open, participant-driven space for collective inquiry and exchange. As the culminating event of Sembradas (Phase 1 of Historias), this forum inaugurates CRUCES (Crossings), a signature series of public convenings dedicated to fostering dialogue and collaboration within and beyond the Latinx community. Rooted in the principles of knowledge justice, the forum surfaces collective, situated knowledge and responds to the intentional erasure of culture-specific histories by centering public storytelling, memory work, and shared authorship as vital practices of resistance.

Inspired by unconference models, the event invites unstructured dialogue across three core frameworks:

• Democratizing Scholarship – Advancing inclusive knowledge-making by cultivating scholarship as a communal and iterative process that values co-creation and mutual learning.

• Community-Based Research – Grounding inquiry in lived experience, memory, and intergenerational dialogue to expand the boundaries of knowledge production and foster deeper exchange between communities and institutions.

• Formats for Collective Thinking – advancing participatory methodologies such as creative archiving, mapping, annotation and oral traditions to serve communities in this political moment.

This forum offers a space to reimagine authorship and cultural stewardship—where Latinx and allied communities are not merely subjects of study, but active participants in shaping the narratives that define them. Together, these projects invite reflection on who gathers knowledge, for what purposes, and under whose authority—while generating meaningful, community-rooted insights into Latinx cultural life in New York City.

In doing so, Historias poses a central question: How can we collectively build knowledge infrastructures that honor the complexity, creativity, and enduring contributions of Latinx communities across this city?

Schedule:

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Central Convening & Keynote Framing with Johanna Fernandez and Chat Travieso

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM | Morning Breakout Sessions: Tracing the Past

12:10 PM – 1:15 PM | Midday Share-Backs & Communal Lunch

1:15 – 1:45 PM | Participatory Keynote Performance with Shaun Leonardo

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Afternoon Breakout Sessions: Imagining the Future

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM | Collective Synthesis & Action Wall

4:15 PM – 5:30 PM | Karaoke Practice! (with D.O.T.) + Afterparty

To conclude a generative day of embodied archiving, speculative visioning, and collective creating, Clemente residents Department of Transformation (D.O.T.) will lead a closing session that synthesizes the conceptual strands explored by each breakout session cohort. Through a show-and-tell presentation and rapid proposal prototyping process called Idea Machine, participants will be empowered to come together, think boldly, and take a concrete step towards manifesting the future we dream up together. 

Led by founder Prem Krishnamurthy and curator Sam Rauch, Department of Transformation is an artist-organized group that investigates new formats for collective learning and healing.

This year’s showcase features four visionary directors: Gara Roda (Spain), George Riverón (Cuba), Martín Chamorro (Argentina), and Askel Tang (Argentina). Each director presents a short play (30-40 minutes) spanning genres from musical theater to drama and comedy.

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🎉Join the LP21 family for a Plena workshop at the beloved Casita de Chema - a place near and dear to the heart and history of Los Pleneros de la 21 and to Bomba and Plena in NYC! 📅 Taller de Plena: June 12, 2025 ⏰ 6:30PM-8:00PM 📍Location: Rincón Criollo (La Casita de Chema) - 749 Brook Ave, Bronx, NY 💵 Admission: FREE

This is the first event in a 3 day festival - “Entre Tambores y Tiempos” - celebrating a year of powerful community storytelling, documentation and cultural continuation.

As a part of the Community Collections Grant awarded through the Library of Congress, LeAna López alongside Jorge Vázquez have spent this last year gathering, documenting and honoring the voices and perspectives of the practitioners who have shaped our community and our traditions at large. Now, it’s time to share our work and give back to you!

🔗 For more information about LP21’s Community Collections documentation project, visit https://www.losplenerosdela21.org/press. See you there! ✨

In this second part of our workshop, we explore organizing as the work of strategy, communication and mobilization to resist both fascism and anti-Black racism in our community. We will explore strategies to resist fascism in our daily lives and strategies to resist how anti-Black racism creates divisions and internalized oppression in our communities. We will share security tips that can help keep us safe as we do the work. Finally, we will have an open discussion on what has worked in communicating and mobilizing our close kin, and troubleshoot what has not worked. All participants will receive red Know Your Rights cards.

For more please visit: www.cccadi.org/events/community-member

*You can sign up for one or both workshops

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Join us for a night of fun at the 47th Annual Museum Mile Festival at El Museo del Barrio! Explore the exciting spring exhibitions including Mestre Didi: Spiritual Form, a landmark monographic exhibition exploring the work of the late Afro-Brazilian sculptor, writer, cultural advocate and spiritual leader Mestre Didi (Salvador, 1917-2013), as well as Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop, the first large-scale museum survey of artist Candida Alvarez (b. 1955, Brooklyn, New York).

El Museo’s celebration will feature art-marking activities outdoors for everyone to enjoy inspired by the exhibitions, music, and gallery tours.

All ages are welcome. Please register in advance to expedite check-in.

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Dive into an eight-hour festa junina experience!

There’s something magical about wearing plaids, flowers, and ribbons…

Dancing quadrilha with friends, swaying to forró, sharing traditional treats, getting playfully flirty, watching Bumba Meu Boi come to life, taking part in a mock wedding — and who knows, maybe even being crowned the Quadrilha Queen or King!

Brazil is known for Carnival… but did you know Festa Junina is just as big a celebration? Some say it’s even bigger. So let’s gather, dance, eat, laugh — and make it epic.

We’re transforming @houseofyesnyc into a full-on arraiá with music, food, games, performances, art, and yes — a little party drama: a theatrical battle between the goddess Juno and São João over who really owns the party. Whose side are you on?

Last year, the goddess Juno finally reclaimed what was rightfully hers, and the party formerly known as Opa! São João is now Opa! Festa Junina. But São João isn’t giving up so easily—he wants his birthday bash back! Will Juno hold her ground as the original honoree of the festivity, or will São João win the crowd’s favor? You decide!

Parents, we’ve got you covered! Kids can join the festivities from 3 - 6 PM. 21 + after 6 PM.

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“La ternura” is a comedy that follows three women and three men as they navigate the peculiar realities of love and relationships. The characters question the saying, “In war and in love, everything goes.” Set on a desert island, they find themselves caught in hilarious mix-ups and magical misunderstandings reminiscent of Shakespeare’s works. Ultimately, they come to realize that the concept of “opposite sexes” is simply a myth.

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“La ternura” is a comedy that follows three women and three men as they navigate the peculiar realities of love and relationships. The characters question the saying, “In war and in love, everything goes.” Set on a desert island, they find themselves caught in hilarious mix-ups and magical misunderstandings reminiscent of Shakespeare’s works. Ultimately, they come to realize that the concept of “opposite sexes” is simply a myth.

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Step into the world of Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican librarian in NYC, as her beloved folktales come to life through puppetry, music, and storytelling. Featuring Pérez & Martina, Juan Bobo, and The Three Magi, this interactive show celebrates the power of stories and cultural heritage.

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Word Up welcomes Jorell A. Melendez-Badillo for the paperback launch of Puerto Rico: A National History, a bestselling panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today. In conversation with Melendez-Badillo will be Aurora Santiago Ortiz, professor of Gender & Women Studies and Chicane & Latine Studies at UW-Madison.

Puerto Rico: A National History is an engaging, sometimes personal, and consistently surprising history of colonialism, revolt, and the creation of a national identity, offering new perspectives not only on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean but on the United States and the Atlantic world more broadly.

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Alicia and the Hurricane: A Story of Puerto Rico

Join Coquí Club, El Museo del Barrio’s lively bilingual program designed for our youngest visitors! Led by our talented museum educators, this interactive experience includes storytelling, artwork discussions, and a related hands-on art-making project. This month, join us for this special bilingual storytime as we read Alicia and the Hurricane: A Story of Puerto Rico, written by Lesléa Newman and illustrated by Elizabeth Erazo Baez, a tender story about a young girl and her experience during Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. Together, we will explore themes of family, resilience, and the ways we hold on to what matters most.

After our story, we’ll get creative with an art activity inspired by the vibrant, emotion-rich works of Puerto Rican artist Candida Alvarez. Just like Alvarez layers color, pattern, and personal stories in her paintings, we’ll make our own mixed-media masterpieces to reflect a special memory or feeling—bright, bold, and full of corazón. It’s a joyful morning of creativity, learning, and community—perfect for our littlest museum-goers! Don’t forget your Coquí crowns!

This event is FREE but RSVP is required. Space is limited—if you reserve a spot but can’t attend, please cancel in advance to allow others to participate.

Each child must be registered separately. Recommended for ages 3–6. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

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This year’s showcase features four visionary directors: Gara Roda (Spain), George Riverón (Cuba), Martín Chamorro (Argentina), and Askel Tang (Argentina). Each director presents a short play (30-40 minutes) spanning genres from musical theater to drama and comedy.

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Dominican Writers Association and Word Up celebrate the launch Pájaros, lesbianas y queers...¡a volar!: An LGBTQ+ Anthology of Dominican Transnational Writers with editors Yoseli Castillo Fuertes and Alicia Anabel Santos, in conversation with Charles Rice-Gonzalez, author of Chulito.

Pájaros, lesbianas y queers...¡a volar! An LGBTQ+ Anthology of Dominican Transnational Writers is a bilingual compilation of poetry, essays, short stories, short plays and memoirs by out Dominican writers on the island and the diaspora. It is a powerful representation of some of the literary, social, political and cultural movements currently taking place in the Dominican community. The worlds, ideas, feelings and stories depicted in this book show how LGBTQ+ Dominicans both fit in and are alienated from the national dictum "Dios, Patria y Libertad", all while navigating typical human traits such as love, family, identity, home, safety, courage, sexuality, faith, language.

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Queens Rising is an annual cultural celebration, dedicated to illuminating the vibrant tapestry of Queens, New York. Since its inception in 2022, this event has united visual artists and performers with art organizations and performance spaces to showcase the borough's rich artistic heritage. It acts as a catalyst for collaboration, connecting artists, venues, and businesses to maximize opportunities for art and culture to flourish in Queens. At Queens Rising, the belief in the transformative power of art and culture to inspire, connect, and uplift communities is steadfast.

Queens Rising is proud to introduce our “Queens Scene,” an initiative showcasing Queens based performing artists. Through a curated series of borough-spanning performances, Queens Scene aims to elevate local voices and foster deeper engagement with audiences in each community. "Queens Rising is a collective invitation for all New Yorkers to experience the vast artistic riches of our borough," said Jeffrey Rosenstock, AVP for External & Governmental Relations at Queens College.

"From Astoria to Jamaica, Flushing to the Rockaways, Queens is rising—again!" -Jennifer Sellers-Dimitrov

7:00 PM - 7:45 PM CreArtBox

8:00 PM - 8:45 PM Alba Musik

9:00 PM - 9:45 PM Marilyn Castillo Approaching Zero is a minimalist journey through sound, silence, and visual art.

Presented as part of Queens Rising at Flushing Town Hall, this special program weaves together music for piano, flute, cello, and electronics, enhanced by original video art projections. Featuring works by Max Richter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, François Couperin, Hanna Selin, Michel van der Aa, Nils Frahm, and Guillermo Laporta, the evening invites the audience into a meditative exploration of stillness, resonance, and the beauty of disappearance.

Performing Artists:

Guillermo Laporta – Flute, piano, electronics, video art

Josefina Urraca – Piano

Natalia Hoffman – Cello (virtual participation)

Hanna Selin – Piano, electronics, video art

Sarah K. Williams – Video art

Guillermo Ordaz – Video art