MexFest 2025  
Opening Night | Noche de Apertura 
English Version | Versión en Español abajo

Come celebrate with us and learn about the Mexican tradition of Día de los Muertos—all are welcome!

MexFest—an arts festival celebrating Mexican culture in NYC—presents a multidisciplinary art exhibition honoring Día de los Muertos (Day of The Dead) in the Flushing Town Hall Gallery. This year’s theme, Rituales de Resiliencia (Rituals of Resilience), centers memory, cultural ritual, and ancestral connection.  

Opening Night Programming - 6-7:30 PM 
Free admission with RSVP

On November 1, festival visitors are invited to enjoy a multidisciplinary art exhibition, and to celebrate and honor Mexican culture with an evening of community and connection that will include sharing a community ofrenda (altar) to honor lost loved ones, a Papel Picado Workshop, a Writing Workshop, and a gathering of stories and testimonials.  

The evening’s programming will feature a collaborative artistic process focused on remembrance and resilience. The central altar will be curated and co-created by artists Aurelia Fernández, Arantxa Araujo, and Xtian Ávila, and will be part of a larger participatory mural, serving as a space for communal storytelling.

Attendees can enjoy the work in our Gallery and join the workshops free of charge. All are welcome.

Global Mashup: Celebrate Mexico! - 7:45 PM
Linda EPO Meets Mariachi Tapatio de Alvaro Paulino
A ticketed event - General Admission: $25 Adults / $5 Children 12 and under

MexFest attendees are invited to join us for our paid, culminating event: Global Mashup: Celebrate Mexico! Linda EPO Meets Mariachi Tapatio de Alvaro Paulino.

Bringing together two distinct New York-based Mexican music bands, attendees will enjoy:

• A short dance lesson for all audience members

• A dedicated set from each band

• A 15-minute intermission for food and drinks

• A combined jam session where both bands perform together

Whether you're familiar with Día de los Muertos or experiencing it for the first time, come celebrate with us and enjoy this beautiful tradition—all are welcome! 

MexFest Artistic Directors

Arantxa Araujo is a queer Mexican artist whose central axis is performance art, branching into video, photo, installation, and sculpture. Influenced by neuroscience, their multisensory, movement-based work has been presented at the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Queens Museum, and internationally at Illuminus (Boston) and Nuit Blanche (Canada). Recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund and other grants, Araujo also co-organizes MexFest 2025 and serves as Program Manager at the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Araujo is Co-Artistic Director of MexFest.

Xtian Ávila, (he/they) is a Mexican-born theatremaker (theater director, producer, curator, playwright, and actor) Drama League Fellow, teaching artist, and arts administrator. Ávila currently works as Executive and Artistic Associate at Flushing Town Hall and is founder and Co-Artistic Director of MexFest.

MexFest Artists

Queens native Linda EPO is a dynamic singer, pianist, and whose transcendent performances blur cultural boundaries. She is known for her vibrant energy and stage presence. Her ability to sing in multiple languages, including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Kreyòl, enables her to connect with audiences worldwide, creating captivating cross-cultural experiences. Fresh off her attention-grabbing performance for NYC's SummerStage 2025 season, where she shared the bill with the legendary Puerto Rican salsa powerhouse La Sonora Ponceña, Linda EPO continues her rapid ascent in the live music scene.

Aurelia Fernandez is a Mexican-born artist who has lived in the United States for twenty-seven years. Through her traditional papier mâché artwork, Aurelia has helped assure that the cultural traditions of Mexico add a new layer of richness and vitality to New York City's cultural life. Her art has been exhibited in museums such as the Queens Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York and The National Arts Museum of Chicago. She has shown work and engaged with multiple libraries, public schools, and the Mexican Council in New York City. Additionally, Aurelia has demonstrated outstanding leadership in her community by volunteering in various churches and helping in the documentation of Mexican migrants. She was also part of the Mano a Mano Organizing Committee at the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, NY. Aurelia has been honored seven times for her work and her contribution to society by important cultural institutions in the United States and Mexico. Book a workshop with Aurelia.

Mariachi Tapatío de Alvaro Paulino 
Alvaro Paulino Jr. (Musical Director, Mariachi Tapatío de Alvaro Paulino) is a fifth-generation mariachi musician, continuing the legacy of his pioneering father who brought the tradition from Puebla, Mexico, to New York City in 1983. Proclaimed by the State of New York as "The Northeast's Finest Mariachi," Paulino Jr. is dedicated to ensuring this vibrant Mexican folk music thrives for future generations. He preserves the art form while strengthening cultural ties across New York’s multicultural landscape, with celebrated performances at venues like Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden.

This event is presented in partnership with Historias, a transformative citywide effort led by The Clemente that re-centers Latinx cultural narratives in New York City through exhibitions, performances, oral histories, and digital storytelling.

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Celebrate Día de los Muertos with El Museo!

El Museo’s annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Celebration returns on Saturday, November 1 with a full day of family-friendly, free programming. Honoring the lives of loved ones who have passed, this beloved tradition invites visitors of all ages to come together and experience the vibrant cultural traditions surrounding Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).

Enjoy live music and dance performances, art-making workshops, calavera (skull) face painting, and a communal altar.

Community Altar: Ofrenda de Nuestra Herencia

In collaboration with The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, El Museo del Barrio debuts the 2025 Día de los Muertos Community Altar, designed by renowned visual artist Nitza Tufiño. With over five decades as a muralist, printmaker, and public artist, Tufiño is celebrated for her transformative contributions to community-based art in New York, Puerto Rico, and beyond.

The altar will invite the public to honor their own ancestors, and will become a transformative space of remembrance, resilience, and collective healing. It will be on view at El Museo from mid-October through November 21, 2025 during open hours (Thursday through Sunday)

Highlights of the Day Include:

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM (Meet at El Museo del Barrio) – Join Atl Tlachinolli, a Conchero dance group, for a procession from El Museo del Barrio to Central Park’s Harlem Meer. The group will return to perform in El Museo’s courtyard before blessing the communal altar.

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Explore the communal altar Ofrenda de Nuestra Herencia by artist Nitza Tufiño. The altar honors East Harlem Latine community artists and activists and highlights Afro-Mexican and Caribbean spiritual traditions. Join the artist and museum educators to learn more about the symbolic elements of the altar and to add a dedication to your loved ones who have passed.

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Join Calaveritas Creativas workshop, to design your very own colorful sugar skull mask.

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Inspired by Nitza’s Ofrenda de Nuestra Herencia altar, use mixed media to create a banner commemorating a loved one who has passed. Participants are encouraged to bring a photo of their loved ones to include in their artwork.

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Enjoy traditional face painting inspired by vibrant calavera (skull) designs.

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM – Capture the moment with La Catrina y el Catrín in our festive photo booth.

1:45 PM – 2:05 PM – Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de Nueva York (BFMNY) presents a vibrant performance that celebrates Mexico’s cultural richness through a fusion of traditional dances.

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM – Experience Danza de Tecuanes San Gabriel (Dance of the Jaguars)—a powerful story of villagers uniting to capture a fierce jaguar, symbolizing a history of resistance and communities defending their land.

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM – Experience the lively sounds of Mariachi Sol Azteca from NYC, renowned for their energy, passion, and authentic Mexican spirit.

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM – Feel the energy of Danza de los Diablos, an Afro-Mexican tradition from Guerrero and Oaxaca that honors African roots through vibrant masks, lively rhythms, and powerful dance.

4:15 PM – Follow the sounds of Mariachi Sol Azteca from NYC as they invite you into El Teatro for our culminating performance.

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM – End the day with a captivating performance by Oaxacan singer Nylzher and Mazarte Dance Company blending folkloric music and dance from various regions of Mexico.

Sponsors and Partners:

This program is generously supported by Morgan Stanley. This program is supported by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, with additional support from U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and NYC Council Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala. Special thanks to The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center for partnering on this year’s altar.

We are also grateful to partner with the Central Park Conservancy on this special event.

In partnership with Kinfolk Tech, The Clemente presents Cigar Workers’ University, an augmented-reality public artwork by artist Molly Crabapple, developed with archival research and contributions by scholar Monxo López. Join us to celebrate the launch of this new initiative at the beloved El Barrio landmark, La Marqueta, and hear from the artist-historian team themselves about the creation of the monument, inspired by writer and workers' rights advocate Bernardo Vega’s acclaimed memoirs. The monument will be accompanied by a limited-edition zine and self-guided walking tour.

The work memorializes Puerto Rican and Cuban cigar rollers, as well as the enduring history of La Marqueta, a community marketplace that has been active since the early 20th century. Crabapple’s AR monument honors Vega and the cigar workers he described—reading poetry, news, and political tracts aloud to one another as they rolled cigars—capturing a moment when labor, learning, and collective life converged.

Cigar Workers' University marks the launch of Historias in Motion, a new Historias signature series of virtual monuments and neighborhood site clusters that bring Latinx histories into the public sphere through digital and place-based storytelling. The inaugural edition focuses on East Harlem/El Barrio, viewed through the lens of writer and labor organizer Bernardo Vega and his chronicles of 1930s New York.

Cigar Workers’ University will remain accessible at La Marqueta via the Kinfolk App. This project is the first in a planned series of five monuments and walking tours to be launched across New York City through the fall of 2026.

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Remesas y Sobremesa: An archive immune to dispossession / Un archivo inmune a la desposesión

📅 Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
📍 Location: Flamboyán Theater, The Clemente Center

Remesas y Sobremesa makes dialogue a meal, carrying memory through food, storytelling, and shared ritual. The series reimagines the academic panel through the conviviality of the table. Taking its name from the remittances that sustain diasporic bonds, it transforms public dialogue into shared tradition.

For the fourth edition, Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Natalia Lassalle-Morillo will curate and host the evening, engaging in dialogue with peers they have invited and guiding an intimate conversation over a communal meal prepared by chef Pao Lebrón.

The evening invites participants to reflect on intangible archives and memories that cannot be possessed, shared among folks with diverse migration experiences to New York.

This event is part of the Historias Initiative, under the thematic track Material Culture & Memory: Diasporic Objects and Archives.

Hosts & Culinary Experience

Hosts: Sofía Gallisá Muriente & Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
Culinary Experience by: Pao Lebrón
Guest Participants: To be announced closer to the event.

About the Hosts

Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Natalia Lassalle-Morillo are visual artists living and working in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Their collaborative practice is grounded in research-based moving image projects that bring their distinct artistic methodologies into dialogue.

Their first collaboration, Foreign in a Domestic Sense, is a 4-channel film that weaves together the testimonies and imaginaries of Puerto Ricans who migrated to Central Florida following political and environmental disasters in the archipelago. The piece won the Audience Award for Best Experimental Film at the BlackStar Film Festival and has been presented at Third Horizon, the Flaherty Seminar, and as immersive installations at the Contemporary Art Museum at USF, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Dazibao in Montréal (CA), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taiwan.

Their most recent work, Unruly Subjects, engages with two Puerto Rican collections housed at the Smithsonian, exploring their histories of accession into the imperial archive and how indigenous and folk art objects exist within the institution. The project proposes and mediates forms of return to the people and places these objects belong to. Unruly Subjects was recently showcased in New York as part of the 2024 Vera List Center Forum and the Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Museum.

Sofía and Natalia have been Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows and artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts together. They also continue pursuing their individual practices and other collaborative endeavors.

🔗 www.natalialassallemorillo.com | www.sofiagallisa.com
📸 IG: @natalialassallem | @hatoreina

RSVP

This is an intimate gathering with limited seating. RSVP here!

Accessibility & Dietary Notes

• Please let us know in advance of any food allergies or dietary restrictions when registering.

• The Flamboyán Theater is not wheelchair accessible; if you require additional accommodations, please contact us so we can best support your participation.

 We look forward to sharing this evening of food, memory, and collective reflection with you.

The event will be preceded by "From Which We Descend," a hands-on archival and oral history workshop exploring memory, family, and legacy, led bycultural preservationist Djali Brown-Cepeda, founder of NuevaYorkinos. The workshop will be held on the fourth floor in Studio 406 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

Join Djali Brown-Cepeda, Cultural Preservationist and Founder/Curator of NuevaYorkinos, for a day of oral history and archiving.

What does home mean? What does it look like? When was the last time you looked through photo albums with your loved ones? Spoke with your families about your personal histories?

In this workshop, Djali Brown-Cepeda walks us through her process of listening, sharing, and archiving as a cultural preservationist and community archivist. Bridging oral history and personal family photographs and ephemera, we ensure the survival of our lineages and legacies.

In this workshop, we'll:

• discuss the importance of oral history

• pen our own stories

• scan and digitize photos and ephemera

• walk away with tools on how to be our family's archivists

Please bring:

• family photo albums

• a notebook, or laptop

• an external hard drive (USB/thumb drives are great!)

How can we honor our pasts by using the tools we have access to today? How can we reframe the way we look at our day-to-day lives as budding archivists? How can we begin cultivating memory? And from this cultivation, how can we begin to activate our relationships to memory as a vehicle for grounding, self-preservation, and understanding?

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Djali Brown-Cepeda is a Capricornian cultural preservationist and visual storyteller. Rooted in the tenets of reclamation and rematriation, her work as a film and television producer centers oral tradition and lived experiences as a tool of cultural restoration. The founder of NuevaYorkinos, an oral history archive dedicated to documenting and preserving NYC's Latine and Caribbean culture and history through family photos, oral history, and ephemera, she is a book worm and self-taught public historian, with a penchant for all things red, black, and green. An Olorisha Yemayá, memory worker, alchemist. A steward of remembrance. A Mother to a Sun. An eldest daughter and vinyl collector of Caribbean, Afro Native, and Southern heritage. Fifth generation Gullah Geechee from unceded Wecquaesgeek territory in Lenapehoking (Upper Manhattan, New York City). She enjoys tending to her altars and conspiring with the Universe for all good things. You can find her annotating her books sipping on wine she usually can’t afford, or any pilsner or lager. Prefers a cup of dark roast coffee, speaking to spirit, and being barefoot on the grass. Wherever she goes, so do her ancestors.

(This is held in conjunction with La Incubadora, which is exhibited in the same location. You are encouraged to come and view the exhibition before or after the workshop!)

The Clemente will partner with eleven community organizations to co-present the International Indigenous Hip-Hop Festival (IIHHF), a four-day gathering rooted in the origins of hip-hop culture, which emerged in the wake of displacement caused by the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway. Linking this history to the experiences of Latinx diasporas and Indigenous communities, the festival examines contemporary struggles against the erasure of Indigenous languages and the ongoing impact of environmental disaster.

Festival components to highlight include a Grounding Ceremony and Community Care Workshops, centering Indigenous and diasporic practices of restoration, alongside the afternoon Workshops series. The Clemente contributes to Territory & Land Reclamation in the Face of Displacement, led by Monxo López, Libertad O. Guerra, and Oscar Oliver-Didier of South Bronx Unite (SBU), The Clemente, and the Shape of Cities to Come Institute (SCCI). This session traces the Bronx’s history of dispossession and community-led reclamation.

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The Clemente will partner with eleven community organizations to co-present the International Indigenous Hip-Hop Festival (IIHHF), a four-day gathering rooted in the origins of hip-hop culture, which emerged in the wake of displacement caused by the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway. Linking this history to the experiences of Latinx diasporas and Indigenous communities, the festival examines contemporary struggles against the erasure of Indigenous languages and the ongoing impact of environmental disaster.

As part of its contributions, Historias will support the festival’s citywide programming while also co-developing the Rematriation Trail collaboration with the Shape of Cities to Come Institute (SCCI), South Bronx Unite (SBU), and the Mott Haven Community Land Stewards. The Trail connects historic and reclaimed sites through guided tours, workshops on environmental justice and land stewardship, and pan-Indigenous ceremonial practices, complemented by  wheatpasting of images by photo pioneers Joe Conzo and Jamel Shabazz. A public walking tour through the South Bronx will be held on October 9 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm, led by Land Stewards, SBU leadership, and Bronx historians. Beyond the festival, the Trail will endure as a collaborative project, building on signature components of Historias, including the Nueva York Chronicles platform, to ensure its legacy continues. To learn more, visit the IIHHF’s website.

The Clemente is proud to partner with The Healing Project, South Bronx Unite, and the Mott Haven–Port Morris Community Land Stewards for a powerful afternoon of music, food, and collective reflection at Willis Playground.

This community offering highlights the H.E.Arts campaign, an effort led by South Bronx Unite to establish a hub for Health, Education, and the Arts on the historic grounds of the former Lincoln Detox Center—where members of the Young Lords once pioneered alternatives to methadone and advanced community-based wellness practices.

As part of our evolving collaboration with artist Samora Pinderhughes, the event will feature a special live performance by The Healing Project Choir. Together, we will celebrate resilience, creativity, and the ongoing struggle for community well-being in the South Bronx.

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,

Roots & Resistance: Reclaiming Historias in the Bronx
For this keynote conversation, historian Johanna Fernandez and artist Chat Travieso will explore the legacy of music, resistance, and the reclamation of space in the South Bronx.

Artistic Keynote Performance: Shaun Leonardo, performing Rehearsal

A rehearsal is unscripted, unfixed – a workshop of the workshop – a moment of planning and execution in one. It need not reach resolve or finality. A rehearsal might provide the time and space for an unsettled moment of reckoning or simply serve as training for how we might exist with one another.

For CRUCES, Rehearsal will cull participatory somatic responses from the historically grounded morning sessions to transition attendees to the future-facing afternoon sessions. 

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

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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?

Breakout Session Topics:

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.

*The Clemente is proud to be in the process of a major capital project to bring our historic building into ADA compliance for greater accessibility for all. In the meantime, please note that our building is inaccessible for wheelchair users and potentially other mobility impairments. Don't hesitate to contact info@theclementecenter.org for questions or accessibility requests; we will do our best to accommodate.

Alternative Futures: Community-based Practice in New York

When: June 3 @ 6:30 - 8:00PM

Where: The Clemente

Participants: Elena Ketelsen González , Azikiwe Mohammed, Cinthya Santos Briones, Sienna Fekete

More info and RSVP HERE

Join ICI and The Clemente for a public conversation that explores the evolving landscape of alternative, community-based curatorial practices in New York today. Amid the current climate of political and financial uncertainty, artists, curators, and organizers are reimagining what it means to engage in projects that are not just created for communities, but emerge from them.

The panel discussion brings together four cultural workers—Elena Ketelsen González (Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1), Azikiwe Mohammed (teacher and maker), Cinthya Santos-Briones (interdisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural worker), and Sienna Fekete (Senior Arts Manager, The Lower Eastside Girls Club)—who have each developed models that center kinship and belonging. They will discuss how their practices are reorienting curatorial and artistic work away from traditional methodologies and outcomes (such as the art object or the exhibition) and toward meeting material needs and building infrastructures of support, visibility, and resistance. Through youth programs, food banks, healing spaces, and other initiatives, the panelists’ work asks us to expand our understanding of what curatorial practice is and who it can serve.

The program is hosted at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, a model organization for collective and knowledge justice practices in the Lower East Side for over 30 years. It is presented in partnership with the Historias Initiative, a multi-year program led by The Clemente in collaboration with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias celebrates the transformative impact of Latinx communities in New York City through research, artistic interpretation, and public engagement.

From ME to WE: Jamming with Manny Vega | An Interactive Art-Making Workshop on Diasporic Histories

When: Saturday May 31st @ 1-4 PM

Where: The Metropolitan Museum, 1000 5th AvenueNew York, NY, 10028

Artist: Manny Vega

More info HERE!

Developed as part of The Clemente’s Historias initiative and in conjunction with the re-opening of The Met’s newly reinstalled galleries for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, this interactive workshop invites participants to reflect on New York City as a mosaic of diasporic journeys.

Led by renowned visual artist Manny Vega—whose improvisational, memory-rich practice draws from Afro-Caribbean, Latin American, and global traditions—this two-part workshop centers the city as a living archive shaped by generations of migration, adaptation, and cultural fusion. Just as The Met’s collections gather objects that reflect the diverse civilizations of the world, this workshop explores how our own stories form a collective tapestry of identities, rituals, and inherited memory.

Visitors are welcome to join either or both of the following drop-in projects, active from 1:00 to 4:00 PM:

Project 1: RECASTING THE PAST

Participants will collaborate with Vega in crafting a mosaic that reinterprets a selected artwork from The Met’s collection. By recontextualizing this object through contemporary materials, the group engages in an act of cultural translation—connecting past to present, and individual to collective.

Project 2: FRAMING WHAT CARRIES US

Drawing on prompts around memory, heritage, and the symbols that ground us, participants will create personal emblems that speak to their diasporic lineages. These elements will be woven into a large-scale communal artwork conceived by Vega, a visual record of the many pathways—personal and ancestral—that converge in New York City.

Through mosaic and collage,From ME to WEcelebrates the shared yet distinct narratives that define NYC as a diasporic city—one built, carried, and continually remade by movement, memory, and imagination.

Esto No Tiene Nombre

When:  May 17, Doors at 3:30 pm, show runs 75 min, Talkback session afterwards

Where: Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente

Writer and Performer: Denice Frohman

Director and co-creator: Alex Torra

Talkback Participants: Denice Frohman, Carmelita Tropicana, Frances Negron-Muntaner

RSVP & Tickets HERE!

The Clemente will host artist, writer, and performer Denice Frohman; director and co-creator Alex Torra; and projection and set designer Nia Benjamin in a micro-residency to produce Esto No Tiene Nombre, a one-woman show that chronicles the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders. Curated by Jacqueline Woodson, renowned author and 2020 MacArthur Fellow, the play presents a tapestry of vignettes exploring Latina lesbian activism, expression, and desire, from pre-Stonewall police raids in Philadelphia to first kisses. The title is inspired by Esto No Tiene Nombre, the first Latina lesbian magazine, founded in the 1990s by Colombian poet and activist Tatiana de la Tierra.

This work is rooted in archival interviews conducted by Frohman as part of I See My Light Shining: Oral Histories of Our Elders, a year-long project featuring more than 20 oral history interviews from Latina lesbian elders in New York City.

Esto No Tiene Nombre

When:  May 16, Doors at 6:30 pm (Show runs 75 min, Talkback session afterwards)

Where: Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente

Writer and Performer: Denice Frohman

Director and co-creator: Alex Torra

Talkback Participants: Denice Frohman and Suhaly Bautista-Carolina

RSVP & Tickets HERE!

The Clemente will host artist, writer, and performer Denice Frohman; director and co-creator Alex Torra; and projection and set designer Nia Benjamin in a micro-residency to produce Esto No Tiene Nombre, a one-woman show that chronicles the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders. Curated by Jacqueline Woodson, renowned author and 2020 MacArthur Fellow, the play presents a tapestry of vignettes exploring Latina lesbian activism, expression, and desire, from pre-Stonewall police raids in Philadelphia to first kisses. The title is inspired by Esto No Tiene Nombre, the first Latina lesbian magazine, founded in the 1990s by Colombian poet and activist Tatiana de la Tierra.

This work is rooted in archival interviews conducted by Frohman as part of I See My Light Shining: Oral Histories of Our Elders, a year-long project featuring more than 20 oral history interviews from Latina lesbian elders in New York City.

Esto No Tiene Nombre

When:  May 15, Doors at 6:30 pm, show runs 75 min

Where: Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente

Writer and Performer: Denice Frohman

Director and co-creator: Alex Torra

RSVP & Tickets HERE!

The Clemente will host artist, writer, and performer Denice Frohman; director and co-creator Alex Torra; and projection and set designer Nia Benjamin in a micro-residency to produce Esto No Tiene Nombre, a one-woman show that chronicles the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders. Curated by Jacqueline Woodson, renowned author and 2020 MacArthur Fellow, the play presents a tapestry of vignettes exploring Latina lesbian activism, expression, and desire, from pre-Stonewall police raids in Philadelphia to first kisses. The title is inspired by Esto No Tiene Nombre, the first Latina lesbian magazine, founded in the 1990s by Colombian poet and activist Tatiana de la Tierra.

This work is rooted in archival interviews conducted by Frohman as part of I See My Light Shining: Oral Histories of Our Elders, a year-long project featuring more than 20 oral history interviews from Latina lesbian elders in New York City.

NADA Presents at NADA New York 2025

When: May 8th, starting at 3pm

Where: NADA Art Fair, The Starrett-Lehigh Building601 W 26th Street, 3rd Floor

More info HERE

Join The Clemente and Historias at NADA New York 2025 for their programming schedule, NADA Presents. For the 11th edition of the fair, NADA will host a signature series of conversations and performances curated by Amanda Riesman held at The Starrett-Lehigh Building, with programs occurring daily from May 7–11. The Clemente will be hosting talks discussing Domino Table Talks, one of our Historias Signature Series.

Collaboration and Knowledge Justice in Latinx Cultural Production

Thursday, May 8, 3pm

This conversation will introduce the Historias initiative and The Clemente's artist-driven model that’s rethinking how institutions support Latinx cultural work—especially across public art, knowledge, justice, and representation.

Featuring Libertad O. Guerra (Executive Director of The Clemente), Shaun Leonardo (Artist, Educator, and Historias Advisor), Cinthya Santos Briones (Artist and Community Organizer), and Jonathan Gonzalez (Artist). Moderated by Sofía S. Reeser del Rio, (Curator and Associate Director of Programs of The Clemente).

Domino Table Talks

Thursday, May 8, 4pm

Join artist Edra Soto and Public Art Fund Senior Curator Melanie Kress for a conversation about Graft, Soto’s first large-scale public art exhibition in New York City, and the role of dominoes in Soto's work. Graft is a monument to working class Puerto Rican communities where tables and seating invite visitors to enjoy a moment of rest, connection, and reflection–or a game of dominoes. Soto, who is presenting a solo booth with Morgan Lehman Gallery for NADA New York, and Kress will speak about their collaboration with The Clemente for Domino Table Talks, a signature project for Historias that hosts intimate, intergenerational conversations designed to document the oral histories of the community through the lens of domino culture.

Domino Table Talks Episode Screenings and Domino Play

Thursday, May 8, 5pm

Domino Table Talks episodes will screen on rotation until the end of the fair, while guests are invited to join a domino game at tables set up in the space for play.

Section: New York – A Preview Workshop of Splitting/Absence

When: Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 @ 7:30 PM

Where: Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente, 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY, 10002

Artists: Composed by Sokio | Words by Natasha Tiniacos

Reserve your tickets HERE!

As part of the Historias initiative, The Clemente Center and New Latin Wave present Section: New York, a preview workshop of Sokio’s opera Splitting/Absence, in development with National Sawdust. This multi-phase operatic work explores the life and legacy of 1970s artist Gordon Matta-Clark, whose radical interventions redefined urban spaces. Each chapter of the opera is supported by a different commissioner, with Historias commissioning the New York chapter.

Composed by Sokio, with words by Natasha Tiniacos, Splitting/Absence blends electronic and classical elements to create an immersive operatic experience—bringing Matta-Clark’s transformative vision to life through music, architecture, and storytelling. The opera offers a deeper exploration of Matta-Clark’s impact on contemporary art and urbanism.

Don’t miss Sokio’s talk at the Metropolitan Museum the day before this event, on Friday May 2nd at 6:30 PM, where he’ll be discussing the transformative exchange of influence between art scenes in Latin America and New York City, focusing on the unique dynamics between Gordon Matta-Clark and his father, the renowned Chilean surrealist Roberto Matta.. Link to Sokio’s Met talk HERE!

Artist Bio:

Sokio Díaz Gallardo (Chile, b. 1973) is a composer, producer, music supervisor, and cultural organizer. He leads the performance of his opera Splitting/Absence and is the director and co-founder of New Latin Wave and a member of the LxNY consortium—both initiatives dedicated to amplifying Latinx voices in arts and culture.

Known for his innovative fusion of electronic and classical music, Sokio explores themes of space, transformation, and urban landscapes through operatic storytelling. Based in New York’s Lower East Side, he continues to push creative boundaries across multiple disciplines.

His latest works include: the chamber opera Paraíso which premiered on June 16, 2023, at National Sawdust; his role as music supervisor for Sebastián Díaz’s documentary A Thousand Pines; and his work as a curator, co-creating the series “Futuros, New Ideas in Composition” at Lincoln Center with Amanda Riesman.

Further details, including the full list of participants, will be announced soon.

This event forms part of Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros Sonidos festival.

Presented by The Clemente Center and New Latin Wave as part of the Historias initiative

Uptown/Downtown: When Boroughs Collide (DEI Warriors on the Culture Front)

When: Monday, April 28 @ 3:00 - 6:00 PM

Where: Flamboyan Theater @ The Clemente

Roundtable Speakers: Lisa Kahane, Joe Lewis, Jane Dickson, Frank Morales, Betti-Sue Hertz, Libertad Guerra and Amy Starecheski.

Invited respondents: John Ahearn, Charlie Ahearn, John “Crash” Matos, Yasmin Ramirez

Organized by: ABC No Rio in partnership with Historias

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Join us for a roundtable discussion Uptown/Downtown: When Boroughs Collide (DEI Warriors on the Culture Front), exploring ABC No Rio's history of collaboration with experimental cultural centers and the intersectionality that arose from artists moving between boroughs throughout the eighties. Photographer Lisa Kahane will complement the discussion with a slideshow presentation on Fashion Moda, a Bronx-based art space that served as a vital second home for many ABC No Rio-affiliated artists.

This event will focus on the history of Fashion Moda, an experimental art space in the South Bronx opened by Austrian emigre artist Stefan Eins in 1978. ABC No Rio opened two years later in Loisaida, after a building occupation. Several of the artists from “the Moda” came down for the Real Estate Show, and later showed at ABC. Artists from ABC went uptown to the Moda regularly. This crosstown traffic continued throughout the 1980s. One of the okupas of the squatting movement in the Bronx had a zine library; when that squat was evicted the zine library came to ABC No Rio, the seed of the present-day collection. This artistic traffic between boroughs was crucially important in laying the foundations for the diverse multi-cultural artworld of the present-day.

Questions around intersectionality have dogged the cultural world in NYC for at least a century.* The axis of Colab, through Fashion Moda and ABC No Rio, set out to intervene in this by siting experimental cultural centers in peripheral barrios of the city in the late 1970s and through the '80s. These centers welcomed artists of color. How did that work? And did it work to build the artworld of today? The question is especially urgent given the recent federal government's all-out attacks on "DEI" funding in all sectors. The time is now urgent for this important history to be better known.

Run of Events: 3:00- 4:15 PM | *30 minute break | 4:45- 6:00 PM | Reception afterwards

PARTICIPANT BIOS:

Lisa Kahane is a politically engaged documentary photographer, author, and educator currently living and working in the Bronx. Her work looks at the interaction of aging, the city, art, and politics.She was the principal photographer for Fashion Moda, a storefront museum in the South Bronx of the ‘80s, and a Fellow at the Bronx Documentary Center in 2019.

Joe Lewis is a post-conceptual interdisciplinary American artist, musician, writer and art educator, and native New Yorker. Lewis was co-founding director of Fashion Moda in New York, where he curated and mounted numerous exhibitions and performance events. He also formed part of the artist collective Colab and ABC No Rio, and appeared in the 1983 seminal American hip hop film Wild Style.

Jane Dickson is an American painter who lives and works in New York City. Her practice explores the psychogeography of American culture and was forged in the crucible of New York’s late-seventies counterculture, where she participated in artist collectives like Fashion Moda, Collaborative Projects, ABC No Rio, and Group Material.

Frank Morales is an Episcopal priest and activist in New York City. He grew up in the LES to Puerto Rican and Peruvian parents, and has been involved in politics since the J.F.K. and M.L.K. Jr. assassinations as a member of the Assassination Information Committee. In 2003, he founded the Campaign to Demilitarize the Police in NYC and he continues to campaign on housing issues.

Betti-Sue Hertz is Director and Chief Curator at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in NYC. Trained as an art historian and artist, her curatorial and scholarly projects are fueled by the intersection of visual aesthetics and socially relevant ideas with a particular interest in relational structures and comparative propositions on global contemporary topics.

Libertad O. Guerra is an urban anthropologist and cultural strategist specializing in equity, place-based arts, and Latinx cultural production. As Executive Director of The Clemente she has transformed it into a hub for co-creation, coalition-building, and cultural organizing in NYC. Her curatorial practice explores social-artistic movements and the aesthetic politics of place through a coalitional, experimental lens. She also serves as Chief Curator of Historias, The Clemente’s largest initiative to date—a multi-year effort re-centering intersectional Latinx narratives and pioneering new models of collaboration.

Amy Starecheski is a cultural anthropologist and oral historian whose research focuses on the use of oral history in social movements and the politics of history, value and property in cities. She is the Director of the Oral History MA Program at Columbia University and served as 2021-22 President of the Oral History Association. 

John Ahearn is an American sculptor best known for the public art and street art he made in the South Bronx in the 1980s. During this time, he started making life casts while working with Colab, a Manhattan artists’ collective, as well as doing live life casting of volunteers on the sidewalk in front of Fashion Moda in the Bronx.

Charlie Ahearn, a New York native, is a film director and creative cultural artist, known for writing and directing the hip hop classic movie Wild Style. Although predominantly involved in film and video production, he is also known for his work as an author, freelance writer, member of the Manhattan artists’ collective Colab,and radio host.

John “Crash” Matos is a NYC native graffiti artist. Crash was first discovered through his murals on subway cars and dilapidated buildings and is now regarded as a pioneer of the Graffiti art movement. His work conveys a visual link between street life and established society. In 1980, Crash curated the now iconic exhibition:"Graffiti Art Success for America" at Fashion Moda, launching the graffiti movement that has remained very active through today.

Yasmin Ramirez is a curator, writer, and cultural worker known for her extensive work in the arts, beginning with her academic memorialization of Nuyorican cultural contributions. Born in Brooklyn, Ramirez was an active member of New York City’s early 1980s creative scene, paying close attention to visual culture in the form of street art, explorations of subculture, and more. Beginning in the 90s, she curated exhibitions exploring the intersection of cultural identity, race, gender, and social justice, particularly in relation to Latinx identity and diasporic communities.

¡Te Amo Porque S.O.S. Pueblo!

Opening Reception: Friday April 25, 5:00 - 8:00 PM

When: April 25 – May 25, 2025

Where: Bronx Art Space, 700 Manida St. (Entrance in Spofford Ave)

Bronx, NY 10474 / 6 train to Hunts Point

Organized by: María Ponce, Marco Saavedra, Blanka Amezkua

Artists: Ruddy, Letty, Odalys, Itzi, Rigo, Gabriel, Marco, Alejandra, Aurelio, Elena, Mary, Cristian, Niceli, Talita, Odette, Katherine, Leslie, Dialekto, Jose Luis, Daniela, Sonia, Maria, MaryJose, Zenaida, Paulina, Margarita, Eufemia, Eugenia, Erika, Patricia, Cinthya, Tammy, Alexis, Blanka

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The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center and the BronxArtSpace are pleased to present ¡Te Amo Porque S.O.S Pueblo!, an exhibition of works by immigrant artists who came to the US as undocumented minors and artists with a family history of crossing borders. This exhibition explores the creation of sanctuary through nourishment, ancestral spiritual practices, legal rights and community resources—affirming art as a means of survival. Co-curated by artists Maria Ponce, Marco Saavedra, and Blanka Amezcua, the exhibition will also serve as an information center with advice and resources provided by local organizations working directly with immigrant communities. ¡Te Amo Porque S.O.S Pueblo! will be on view from April 25 to May 25, 2025, at BronxArtSpace.

“We know that the only way to resist the hateful policies of 'enforcement through attrition' is by caring for our community with love,” Ponce, Saavedra, and Amezcua collectively shared.

The exhibition features works by more than 30 artists, whose last names are kept anonymous to ensure their safety: Alejandra, Alexis, Aurelio, Blanka, Cinthya, Cristian, Daniela, Dialekto, Elena, Erika, Eufemia, Eugenia, Gabriel, Itzi, Jose Luis, Katherine, Leslie, Marco, Margarita, Maria, Mary, MaryJose, Niceli, Odalys, Odette, Patricia, Paulina, Rigo, Ruddy, Sonia, Talita, Tammy, and Zenaida. The artists work in various mediums, including archival family photos, watercolor, embroidery, and screenprinting; some apply their craftwork and hobbies under the guidance of the curatorial team to create works of contemporary art for the first time.

¡Te Amo Porque S.O.S Pueblo! takes its name from the poem by the Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti, “Te Quiero,” which translates to “I love you because you are my people,” with “sos” (“are”) stylized to highlight a state of emergency. Many of the works on view either document or reference the immigration process. Together, they emphasize love, sanctuary, and nourishment as a response to the current climate of hate, racism, deportations, and terror.

The exhibition is supported by The Clemente and LxNY as part of Historias, an expansive multiyear initiative charting the impact of Latinx communities in New York City. Spanning citywide cultural programming and scholarship, Historias serves as a living repository of interconnected histories—consolidating archival research, oral narratives, and multimedia storytelling to preserve and elevate Latine presence across the five boroughs.

BronxArtSpace will activate the exhibition with a series of community events, providing food, informational pamphlets, and legal advice on immigration and deportation to create a care network that outlives the gallery space. All events are open to the public and located at BronxArtSpace, 700 Manida Street, Bronx, NY, 10474. 

EVENTS:

Opening Celebration

Friday, April 25, 2025

5:00 pm–8:00 pm 

Food will be provided by La Morada restaurant, a mutual aid restaurant that first opened during the COVID-19 pandemic to serve the Bronx community. 

Information Portal

Saturday, April 26, 2025

11:00am - 5:00pm

Organizations including Rapid Response, Plaza Proletaria, and the New York Legal Assistance Group, will be on-site to provide presentations, pro bono legal advice, and a guide to rapid response in the face of deportation. 

Colectivo VOCES Presentation and Feast

Saturday, May 10, 2025

12:00pm - 3:00pm

Colectivo VOCES, a collective of Indigenous immigrant women from Guerrero, Mexico, will present a series of cookbook zines preserving Mixtec recipes that were previously passed along orally. The zines are a result of research conducted by Liana Collective as part of the Las Yerbas artist residency conducted at Canal Projects.

Closing Celebration

Saturday, May 24, 2025

5:00pm - 8:00pm

Participating artist Tu’un Savi and Mixtec poet Nadia López García will introduce #Quebrantoa, a poetry book by Marco Nieto about his migration from Oaxaca to the U.S. Food will be provided by La Morada Restaurant, a mutual aid restaurant that first opened during the COVID-19 pandemic to serve the Bronx community. 

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About BronxArtSpace

Founded and opened to the public in 2010 as a space for art exhibits and performances, BronxArtSpace (BAS), a 501C3 organization, is a community-based organization committed to supporting local and often under-resourced artists, fostering projects that engage vital social, educational, and political concerns.

Through curating group exhibitions, offering a residency program for Bronx artists, and providing meeting space for artist-led workshops and community-based interest groups, BAS combines forces with similar non-profit organizations to enhance the cultural vitality of their immediate and extended neighborhood. 

Located in the densest concentration of public housing in the US, BAS creates programs that represent and inspire its community. BAS works to ensure that Bronx-based artists comprise at least 45% percent of exhibiting artists, and that both women and artists of color are the majority of those presented through their programming.

Historietas: Latinx Comix as Alternative Histories

Opening Reception and Comic Slideshow: April 6 @ 2:00 PM

On View: April 6 - May 31, 2025

Where: 4th Floor @ The Clemente
107 Suffolk Street, NYC

Artists: Ivan Velez Jr., Sandy Jimenez, Carlo Quispe, Sharon De La Cruz, Ivan Monforte, Medar De La Cruz, and Daisy Ruiz

Curated by: Carlo Quispe

Co-presented by: Historias and ABC No Rio 45th

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Space is limited, RSVP is required to attend.

On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of ABC No Rio’s founding, Historias Sembradas—the research and public engagement phase of Historias, The Clemente’s multi-year initiative—presents Historietas, an exhibition of Latinx comic book artists whose work weaves together multi-generational narratives of survival, resilience, and coming-of-age in NYC’s neighborhoods.

Curated by Peruvian cartoonist and educator Carlo Quispe, Historietas brings together seven contemporary Latinx creators whose work spans from the Bronx to the Lower East Side, tracing histories across public schools, prison libraries, community spaces, homes, and streets. These artists—Ivan Velez Jr., Sandy Jimenez, Carlo Quispe, Sharon De La Cruz, Ivan Monforte, Medar De La Cruz, and Daisy Ruiz—challenge dominant narratives through the immediacy of comics, using the medium to document lived experiences and create informal yet powerful counter-histories.

The Spanish word Historietas translates to “little histories” or “short stories,” but despite their modest size, these comics serve as potent tools for self-representation, storytelling, and political discourse. Through independent and mainstream publishing, the featured artists ensure that their voices and perspectives are seen, read, and remembered.

*Historietas is part of ABC No Rio’s 45th Anniversary and part of a larger ongoing Historias partnership with ABC No Rio. For the full list of upcoming events taking place as part of ABC No Rio’s 45th Anniversary see THIS LINK!

Reclaiming Spaces in the South Bronx : A walking tour for Bronxites 

When: Sunday May 30 @ 12:00 PM

Where: To join and receive specific directions as to where to meet, contact Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com or click HERE 

Participants: Lisa Ortega, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel

Revolutionary Boricua Lisa Ortega guides Nicolás Dumit through some of the sites that she, together with neighbors and activists around Southern Boulevard, have regained access to for community purposes. Once condemned, padlocked or out of reach for collective use, some of the lots that Lisa and Nicolás will visit with you are today playgrounds, vegetable gardens and sports courts. This walk on March 30th in the South Bronx evolved from conversations about tourists’ buses, mostly with Spanish visitors, arriving in the area and stopping by for a quick selfie at “The Bronx” mural on Westchester Avenue where the popular Double Discount department store used to be.  What brings people from outside to this section of our borough still perceived by those not from here as a “ghetto”? How does a tour for Bronxites look like and what benefits will it yield in terms of remembering and honoring those who have done the work? 
 
One specific story that prompted this walk was shared with Nicolás by Lisa, and it relates to an unhoused person sleeping below “The Bronx” mural. This person was threatened to be removed because of an outsider’s call to the police so tourists could use the backdrop for their “I was there” selfies.  What does it mean to reclaim spaces for communities in a South Bronx that even some of its local politicians have been giving the green light to developers to gentrify…because as Nicolás heard someone say “…it is “cheap”? How do communities in this culturally vibrant area of our city continue to hold onto the spaces reclaimed and keep them RADICAL?
 
Lisa Ortega is a revolutionary Boricua, Mother of 4, Grandma of 5. She is a recovering addict being clean for 35 years and has been organizing for 31 years. She is a devout atheist and anarchist. She believes strongly that "people power" will ultimately bring about a full revolution...replacing politicians, police, and all other forms of oppression." Organizing is not an option but a way of life". Liberation of all is the final destination. 

This event will be documented through video and photographs.
 
To join for this walk for Bronxites on March 30, 12 noon and to get directions as to where to meet, please contact Nicolás at indioclaro@hotmail.com  or click HERE
 
ABOUT: PERFORMING THE BRONX
Since 2015 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel has invited a group of remarkable Bronxites to co-develop actions embedded in the day-to-day of our beloved home borough. The gestures that emerge are presented in private spaces, as well as in the Bronx's public realm, and focus on the roots that weave these visionaries with specific communities and neighborhoods in our part of the City. Performing the Bronx is an expansion of Nicolás’s ongoing  in honoring, recovering, reclaiming and remembering herstories/histories/theirstories of the area’s neighbors and  trailblazers that run the risk of being effaced by time, lost in the midst of neighborhoods in flux, or dismissed by dominant discourses that often position themselves at the center of the conversation. 
 
Past participants: Arthur Avilés, Bill Aguado, Benny Bonilla, Mili Bonilla, Caridad De La Luz ‘La Bruja’, Dr. Drum, Ana ‘ROKAFELLA’ García, Reverend Danilo Lachapel, Wanda Salamán, and Rhina Valentin
 
Performing the Bronx as a whole has been supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Casita Maria’s South Bronx Culture Trail 2020, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. It has also received love, space and support from Mothers on the Move, BronxNet TV, The Andrew Freedman Home, and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.
 
The 2025 chapters of Performing the Bronx with Lisa Ortega, and Charles Rice-González are presented with support from Historias, a multi-year programmatic initiative led by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias celebrates the transformative impact of Latinx communities in NYC through research, artistic interpretations, and public engagement.