El Museo's Simposio 2010: Nexus New York

Saturday, February 13th from 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue @ 104th Street
Admission: Free

Join us for El Museo's Simposio 2010: Nexus New York, featuring conversations and presentations by established scholars and current graduate students working in the field of Latin American modern art.

  • PANEL DISCUSSION: CONVERSATION I
    2:00 - 3:00pm, El Teatro
    Anna Indych-Lopez, Assistant Professor, City College of New York Art, and Michelle Greet, Assistant Professor, George Mason University.
  • GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
    3:30-4:30pm, El Teatro
  • PANEL DISCUSSION: CONVERSATION II
    5:00 - 6:30pm, El Teatro
    Bonnie Rychlak, Curator, The Noguchi Museum and Deborah Cullen, Director or Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio.

Celebrating New York City's Mosaics
Bachata with "El Señor Bolero" (aka Francis Mendez)

Friday, February 19th • 6:00 PM
The Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue / 104th Street

Dynamic radio personality Francis Mendez, known as "El Senor Bolero," brings the soothing sounds of Spanish-language ballads to thousands of radio listeners throughout the Tri-State area. In this special presentation, he recounts the history of Spanish ballads on the airwaves and shares the rhythmic Dominican sounds of today's Bachata. Presented in honor of Dominican Heritage Month, this program features special invited guests and a musical tribute to El Señor Bolero. FREE! Reservations required. Please call 917.492.3395.

Speak Up!/Speak Out!
Edwin Torres Speaks Up!
Out of the Vox

Saturday, February 20, 2010
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
El Café @ El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue @ 104th Street
Admission: Free

The poetry of Sandra María Estevez, Urayoan Noel, Guillermo Rebollo-Gil, and Edwin Torres is an electrically-charged path into Boricua's future. Politically bodified in the old-new lengua school, these mesmerizing performers challenge stereotypes to reconnect the sensory and shake up the speak in us. We have renamed our spoken word series! Read the open letter that addresses the title's change.

Taller Boricua Galleries Presents
Keith O. Anderson: MATIÈRE PREMIÈRE / RAW MATERIAL
Melissa A. Calderon: OSMOSIS
William Coronado: SKIN DEEP
Chanika Svetvilas: IMPORT / EXPORT

1680 Lexington Avenue @ 106th Street
Exhibition Runs to March 6th
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12-6pm
Thursday 1-7pm / Monday and Sunday Closed


Please stop by the Union Settlement Association Adult Education Office to pick up
a FREE Copy of this DVD or send us your mailing address and we will gladly
send you a copy by mail. Call (212) 828-6298 for more information.
Weekly Assembly Continues at Our Lady
Queen of Angels Roman Catholic Church
PADLOCKS NOTWITHSTANDING
   
 
Photos by Angelo Rivera, Photographer
 
EVERY SUNDAY MORNING @ 10:30 AM
East 113th Street (Second / Third Avenues)

Since February 2007, parishioners from Our Lady Queen of Angels Roman Catholic Church in El Barrio have protested the closing of their spiritual "home" by the Archdiocese of New York by holding a Sunday morning mass each week. Join Carmen Villegas and other worshippers to support their efforts to reopen a beloved 121-year-old parish that has served thousands East Harlem residents.

Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase Continues...


Host Oscar Bermeo

Acentos is a program of the louderARTS Project, Inc., presented in conjunction with the Bronx Writers' Center, a program of the Bronx Council on the Arts. Acentos provides a renewed spotlight for Latino poetry in a venue that fosters an encouraging atmosphere for writers of diverse backgrounds and experience, in a setting that stimulates both open dialogue and an increased sense of community in the culturally resurgent South Bronx. Acentos is presented every second and fourth Tuesday of the month by Oscar Bermeo, Jessica Torres, Fish Vargas and Rich Villar. Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase is now held every 2nd & 4th Tuesday, 7:30 pm at the Bruckner Bar & Grill, One Bruckner Boulevard (Corner of Third Ave). IRT #6 Train to 138th Street Station. For information, visit their website: www.louderarts.com/acentos, send email: acentos@louderarts.com or view newsletter: Acentos-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.