Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
Since its opening, the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center has focused on the preservation of the Puerto Rican and Latino culture for the Lower East Side community.
Watch the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at CUNY #PuertoRicanVoices episode on The Clemente - named after the one and only acclaimed Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and activist Clemente Soto Vélez in order to continue his legacy.
Puppetry Journal: On the Fringe
The excitement, energy, talent, and warmth of the community of puppeteers and of New York City were on full display at the International Puppet Fringe Festival NYC. There were 13 shows listed as on-site performances presented August 11 to 15, 2021. Six reviews are included in this issue. Thanks to all the performers at the Fringe.
In and Out of Focus: Adal Maldonado & Miguel Algarín
The Clemente and LATEA mourn and celebrate two LES/Loisaida pillars of the Nuyorican aesthetic. Their trans-formations allowed for our utopian imaginings of overlapping downtown art traditions where the 'invisible is possible and the impossible is visible'.
Accent on Patria?: Sounding out ancestries in the work of Jean Michel Basquiat
a conversation with historians Ayana Legros and Yasmin Ramirez to discuss the significance of Jean Michel Basquiat’s articulations of Puerto Rican and Haitian ancestry through his art.