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Department of Transformation: Time for Transforming
Department of Transformation, Time for Transforming
Four Thursdays: June 11, June 18, June 25, July 2
Each day from 3–5pm, no registration necessary
Studio 308
Free; donations welcome
Starting from the premise that many meaningful changes arrive through small-scale dialogue, the Department of Transformation will offer Time for Transforming, a set of weekly “studio hours.” For four weeks (June 11–July 2) anybody—artists, designers, students, educators, healers, thinkers, makers, and human beings of all sorts—is welcome to drop-in to the DOT studio at The Clemente for talk and tea. Conversations can include feedback on creative work, sharing of practical or theoretical skills, and other topics. No registration is necessary; feel free to email team@d-o-t.nyc with advance questions.
Department of Transformation: Time for Transforming
Department of Transformation, Time for Transforming
Four Thursdays: June 11, June 18, June 25, July 2
Each day from 3–5pm, no registration necessary
Studio 308
Free; donations welcome
Starting from the premise that many meaningful changes arrive through small-scale dialogue, the Department of Transformation will offer Time for Transforming, a set of weekly “studio hours.” For four weeks (June 11–July 2) anybody—artists, designers, students, educators, healers, thinkers, makers, and human beings of all sorts—is welcome to drop-in to the DOT studio at The Clemente for talk and tea. Conversations can include feedback on creative work, sharing of practical or theoretical skills, and other topics. No registration is necessary; feel free to email team@d-o-t.nyc with advance questions.
Department of Transformation: Time for Transforming
Department of Transformation, Time for Transforming
Four Thursdays: June 11, June 18, June 25, July 2
Each day from 3–5pm, no registration necessary
Studio 308
Free; donations welcome
Starting from the premise that many meaningful changes arrive through small-scale dialogue, the Department of Transformation will offer Time for Transforming, a set of weekly “studio hours.” For four weeks (June 11–July 2) anybody—artists, designers, students, educators, healers, thinkers, makers, and human beings of all sorts—is welcome to drop-in to the DOT studio at The Clemente for talk and tea. Conversations can include feedback on creative work, sharing of practical or theoretical skills, and other topics. No registration is necessary; feel free to email team@d-o-t.nyc with advance questions.
Department of Transformation: Time for Transforming
Department of Transformation, Time for Transforming
Four Thursdays: June 11, June 18, June 25, July 2
Each day from 3–5pm, no registration necessary
Studio 308
Free; donations welcome
Starting from the premise that many meaningful changes arrive through small-scale dialogue, the Department of Transformation will offer Time for Transforming, a set of weekly “studio hours.” For four weeks (June 11–July 2) anybody—artists, designers, students, educators, healers, thinkers, makers, and human beings of all sorts—is welcome to drop-in to the DOT studio at The Clemente for talk and tea. Conversations can include feedback on creative work, sharing of practical or theoretical skills, and other topics. No registration is necessary; feel free to email team@d-o-t.nyc with advance questions.
Storms - Five One Act Plays
STORMS is an evening of five one-act plays moving through longing, absurdity, collapse, and fragile hope, each circling what it means to keep feeling in a world that resists it. From a woman confronting God in the aftermath of heartbreak, to two minds unraveling inside a system of control; from corporate “care” cracking under pressure, to a soul refusing to begin again, to sisters reaching for connection after everything familiar has fallen away. By turns darkly funny and raw, STORMS lingers, asking not just how we endure, but why we choose to.
YOU WHO ACHE: A woman who returns to an empty cathedral at night and comes face to face with God himself. What begins as a desperate plea about heartbreak and emotional suffering becomes a confrontation about love, loneliness, and what it means to feel too deeply in a world that rarely returns that devotion.
CIVIL WAR. BREAKFAST: Miz and Dame, play chess while trapped in a surreal authoritarian system. As their game spirals into psychological warfare, political allegory, and grotesque comedy, the play explores power, ideology, class, and the collapse of reality under repression.
WELLNESS ROOM: Takes place inside a corporate office “wellness room” during a day of mass layoffs. Two employees, an anxious meditation-seeker and an outspoken administrator, clash as panic spreads through the company, forcing both of them to confront burnout, complicity, and the hollow language of corporate care.
NEW BEGINNINGS: Centers on Ann, a woman who dies in a bizarre accident and wakes up in Heaven with her overworked guardian angel, Chloe. Faced with the prospect of choosing her 875th reincarnation, Ann resists the idea of starting over, leading to a funny, existential conversation about purpose, freedom, and whether life is worth living again.
TEENAGE: Follows two sisters reconnecting in their childhood kitchen after a societal collapse linked to technology and internet dependency. As Lisa attempts to help Dani recover from addiction and self-destruction through rigid routines and analog living, their uneasy reunion reveals deep resentment, grief, and the fragile hope of rebuilding human connection.
Alyson Leonard | Ariella Carmell | Abby Grantham | Thomas Simmons | Matthew Fay | Liz Fernandez | Alexandra Scordato | Robert Barnes Jr. | Chloe Milling | Jolene Mafnas | Ysaias Garcia | Rotem Minster | Nathan Dennis | Samantha Leon | Landon Hubbard | Elisabetta Bracer | Aria Martinelli | Vivien Tierney | Isabella Sale | Constance Lake
Mentors: Menahem Haike, Marcel Simoneau & Suzanne Di Donna
Developed at Circle Theater Workshop
Tickets here.
Art-Work: Balance (Opening reception)
Come for the opening reception for Art-Work: Balance on May 29, 6-8pm! The exhibition will be on view from May 29 to July 12, 2026.
Art-Work: Balance, curated by Arthur Polendo, and organized by ABC No Rio and The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, explores the often invisible tension between creative practice and the jobs artists take on to support their practice. Featuring works across mediums, the exhibition reveals how labor outside the studio—whether inspiring, exhausting, or intrusive—shapes the artist's identity, process, and output. The pieces do not directly depict these jobs but instead respond to the lived reality of navigating survival and self-expression. This exhibition invites viewers to consider the cost, resilience, and ingenuity behind sustaining an artistic life.
Historias in Motion: Dome Cartographies by Natalia Nakazawa
Tickets here.
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center and Kinfolk Tech are excited to announce the Jackson Heights, Queens edition ofHistorias in Motion, featuring Dome Cartographies, a new AR monument by artist Natalia Nakazawa paired with historical contributions from the Queens Memory Project. This signature series engages audiences with historically important Latinx neighborhoods around New York City, building community memory through artist-storyteller pairings, walking tours, limited-edition zines, and commissioned AR monuments that offer new possibilities for memorialization.
Join us at 5 pm on Friday, May 29, at the World's Borough Bookshop to celebrate the monument launch music, artist conversations, walking tours, 'zines, and more!
New York 2024 Releases Issue 4: Education
Come and join us for the release of Issue 4: Education of Noah Fischer's NY2044!
Reserve a spot here.
New York 2044 is a newspaper from the future. Its articles are reported from the imaginations of New Yorkers whose lives and work provide insight into the city's most persistent challenges from housing to immigration. Issue 4, on education, arrives at a moment when the question of what education is for feels more urgent than ever. Can it prepare New Yorkers for a disrupted economy? Is it capable of mending a deteriorated democracy? Will teachers and educational institutions survive AI? What would it take to bring education through the smoke of the present, and into a golden age in the city?
Three issues have been published — on housing, immigration, and energy — distributed through street kiosks, mobile newsstands, and live reading events where correspondents read future dispatches to live soundscapes.
The project was founded by artist and educator Noah Fischer in late 2023, originally commissioned by More Art through a public art grant.
Issue 4, on education, is supported by a research grant from The New School, where Fischer is a unionized part-time professor. The release event is a partnership with the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center where NY2044 is developing a longer-term collaboration alongside Historias (historias.nyc) and Shape of Cities to Come.
The release event will feature free issues of the hot-off-the press illustrated newspaper (plus previous issues), and readings set to a live sonic futurescape—an immersive experience of the future.
The launch will coincide with the debut of a new website that presents the project's accumulated narratives, timelines, maps, and entity directory in an interactive format.
Readings will be given by Daven Asafo-Agei, Jacob Cohen, Ciarán Finlayson, Nato Thompson, Sarah Truelsch, Amy Zimmer, Angelo Cabrera, and others. Playwright and theater producer Laurel Mora is helping develop the flow of the evening and will also perform.
NADA Presents—Counter-mapping Nueva York: Artists, Archives, and Public Memory
In 2024, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center launched Historias, a multiyear public humanities initiative dedicated to rescuing and recentering Latinx stories and their role in shaping New York City. Developed with the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York (LxNY), Historias offers a curatorial and civic framework for rethinking how public memory is built, shared, and contested.
At the heart of the initiative is a simple proposition: Nueva York is the city inside the city. It names the dense, often underrecognized histories of labor, migration, artistic invention, spiritual life, and neighborhood formation that have helped make New York what it is. To trace the Nueva York inside New York is to look beyond official narratives and singular landmarks toward the social worlds and collective forms of remembrance through which Latinx communities have shaped the city over time.
This panel presents three artist commissions in development for Historias Reveladas, the initiative’s culminating exhibition and public program series. In dialogue with the digital platform Nueva York Chronicles, these projects demonstrate how artists can work with historically grounded material to activate public memory in rigorous, layered, and accessible ways.
Featured artists include Natalia Nakazawa, whose Dome Cartographies explores migration, collective imagination, and neighborhood-based worldmaking in Jackson Heights; Edwin Torres, whose editorial and artistic work revisits Loisaida’s 1990s poetry scene as a living archive of voice, performance, and gathering; and Alva Mooses and Mauricio Cortés Ortega, whose Hands of Time / Manos del Tiempo examines the labor, craft, and everyday infrastructures that have sustained Lower Manhattan beyond corporate narratives of development.
Together, these projects ask how artists, archives, and cultural institutions can help audiences trace the Nueva York inside New York.
The conversation will be moderated by Libertad Guerra, Executive Director of The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center and Chief Curator of Historias.
Tartuffe, Kiss My Ass!
Written and directed by Joey Marcacci, in collaboration with Berkson Productions
Tartuffe, Kiss My Ass! debuted in 2023 as part of the Muhlenberg College Co-Lab productions led by Professor Nigel Semaj. Written by Joey Marcacci, this new work was derived from the original play Tartuffe by Moliére. Debuting in 1664, Tartuffe was a comedy that focused on religious hypocrisy during the early years of the Enlightenment Era in France. It was met with strong opposition, as Moliére wasn’t afraid to push boundaries when it came to pointing out clear insincerity with religion being used as a means of governing.
Inspired by the guts Moliére possessed in a time of expressive restriction and absolutism, Joey wrote Tartuffe, Kiss My Ass! exploring modern day imposters, the idea of ‘inferiority’, and what it means to disguise it. For the adaptation, in addition to the original text, he drew inspiration from commedia dell’arte, clowning, burlesque, vaudeville, and ballroom culture.
After a long process of re-writes and read-throughs, Tartuffe, Kiss My Ass! was extended to a full-length play. The same inspirations remained, however new questions arose and fresh ideas on how to go about exploring them, both in the text and in rehearsals. Cast with the intent of continuing to explore and devise the work, rehearsals with the cast began in early April. Now, almost three years after the debut, the play premieres in NYC on May 15th!
Tickets here.
Ukrainian Drama Showcase
The Ukrainian Drama Showcase, presented by Razom for Ukraine, is a theater festival of staged readings aimed at introducing classic and contemporary Ukrainian dramatic texts to new audiences through dynamic, developmental work. The 6 plays will be read multiple times across the 4 day festival, and audiences are welcome to join for the whole weekend!
Check out their website for more information on the participating artists and line-up!
Tickets here.
Brick and Stone: Landmarking our Lower East Side Heritage (Outdoor Event)
Join us for the opening ceremony for Brick and Stone: Landmarking our Lower East Side Heritage. Held on the street in front of The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, where the exhibition also is!
Date: May 2, 2026
Time: 2-5 pm
Location: Suffolk Street, in front of The Clemente
To celebrate our neighborhood’s extraordinary architecture and cultural history, the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative will showcase 12 historic buildings in an outdoor exhibition. These include health facilities, settlement houses, financial and religious institutions, firehouses and schools. LESPI is working to designate some of these buildings as NYC landmarks, to ensure they remain tangible links to our community’s rich past and survive for a vibrant future.
The exhibition itself will be on view from May 1 – June 30.
Hosted by The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center.
Supported in part by Council Member Christopher Marte.
Farewell, and Erase
Farewell, and Erase is an original multilingual ethnodrama and participatory theatre work written and directed by Geboli Long and produced by JC Chang. Built from real interviews, archival fragments, and theatrical reconstruction, the piece transforms cultural memory and the afterlives of Farewell My Concubine into a cross-cultural theatrical encounter about identity, survival, and what remains in an age of erasure.
Farewell, and Erase draws on more than 50 hours of interviews conducted across China and the U.S., weaving together documentary voices, personal testimony, and symbolic staging into a polyphonic theatrical encounter shaped by the complex afterlives of Chinese culture as it continues to circulate across regions and generations in the era of globalization. Moving between realism and ritual, memory and the contemporary moment, the work explores questions of cultural inheritance, precarity, identity, and public encounter, inviting audiences not only to witness, but to enter a shared space of reflection and participation.
Performance Schedule
Friday, May 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM and 7:30 PM
Sunday, May 3, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Tickets here.
La Pecera
The Clemente and Princeton University’s Humanities Council, Department of Comparative Literature, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Program in Latin American Studies are proud to present La Percera/ The Fishbowl (2023) at Teatro SEA!
La Pecera/ The Fishbowl (2023) directed by Glorimar Marrero Sánchez tells the story of a visual artist from Vieques as she faces terminal cancer and decides to return to her community, which is still dealing with the effects and toxicity of decades of U.S. military testing ground for war. It is a film that talks about grief, colonialism, ecological harm, and gender, as it makes us see the ecological and social consequences of U.S. colonialism, as well as about the power of a community that resisted it.
The film made history being the first Puerto-Rican produced film to premiere at 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and to receive a nomination for the prestigious Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film (2024). The film received numerous international accolades, including Best Film at the Cyprus Film Days and the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival. It was also nominated for Best Latin American Film at the Forqué Awards, and received two nominations at the Platino Awards.
The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with film director Glorimar Marrero Sánchez.
Reserve tickets here.
Limited seating.
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
When:
Friday, April 17th @ 7pm
Saturday, April 18th @ 2pm, 7pm
Sunday, April 19th @ 1pm
Where: Flamboyán Theater @ The Clemente Center
Cast: Venetia Street, Keira Botjer, Henry Vanhouten, Hadley Brown, Alexa Dailey, Annabelle Policiniak, Ainsley McNicoll, Peyton Harker, Jeté Gladding, Hayden Seid, Ivy Bass, Aviendha Asati, Natalie Benoist, Coralie Lyford, Caitlyn Gelchie, Zac Hilimire
Production Team: Grace DeLossa, Twila Fraser-Hewlett, Caroline Madeira, Miles DeSantis, Abagail Richard, Ellie Coffee, Sascha Leiken, Jay Gao, Caitlyn Gelchie, Cayman Stranahan, Rihanna Twist
The American Classics Theatre is proud to present The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, directed by Grace DeLossa! When a student's lie spirals out of control, scandal threatens to upend two school teachers' lives.
Tickets can be purchased here.
Last Request by Pedro Pietri (Theater Premiere)
Last Request: A Dark Comedy by Pedro Pietri
When: Apr 9-26, 2026 (see here for performance dates and times)
Where: Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002
Artist: Pedro Pietri, Juan Valenzuela, Tessie Harrasti, Frances Lozada, Gloria C. Zelaya, Alex Emanuel, Marshall, Factora, Frank Perez
Written approximately two years before his death in 2004, the play is a rare theatrical work by the Poet Laureate of the 1960s Puerto Rican revolutionary organization, the Young Lords. Last Request presents the story of a corpse discovered in the lobby of a pre-war Bronx apartment building in the 1950s by a young couple, an old couple, and a blind couple. Their reactions to his possessions trigger escalating chaos and revelations about their personal lives, becoming an exploration of morality, greed, dignity, and survival in mid-century urban life.
Known for elevating street language, working-class experience, and collective memory in his poetry, Pedro Pietri was a foundational figure in the Nuyorican poetry movement. Presented at Teatro LATEA, a location that sustained experimental bilingual performance throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the production locates Pietri’s rarely staged theatrical work within the same cultural context that originally shaped his artistic voice.
Purchase tickets here.
Printing Nueva York (Book Talk & performance)
Historias is excited to partner with MCNY to present a conversation on Printing Nueva York with author Kelley Krietz. Krietiz’s groundbreaking study maps the vibrant world of nineteenth-century Spanish-language print culture in New York, tracing networks of Cuban émigrés, political exiles, and Puerto Rican intellectuals who used newspapers, pamphlets, and literary journals to shape public discourse and assert self-representation.
Using Printing Nueva York as a historical anchor, the conversation will reflect on the longer continuities of Latinx knowledge circulation in New York—from nineteenth-century print networks to contemporary digital humanities projects such as Nueva York Chronicles. Kelly will be joined by Alana Casanova-Burgess, host and producer of WNYC’s NPR podcast La Brega.
This conversation is moderated by Monxo López, MCNY’s Curator of Community Histories with an opening performance by Urayoán Noel, a writer, translator, and performer based in the Bronx who also is an Associate Professor of English, Spanish and Portuguese at New York University.
Tickets are limited, reserve yours here.
TABLAO FLAMENCO SHOW
Cristina Candela is a Spanish flamenco dancer and multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. With nearly twenty years of professional experience, she has performed internationally across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She was a headliner at the Ankara International Flamenco Festival and has appeared at renowned venues including Los Tarantos in Barcelona, Café Flamenco Zyriab in Madrid, and Alegrías at La Nacional in New York. She is the director and lead dancer of the Candela Flamenco Ensemble and creator of Flamenco Jazz Jam and the contemporary performance NANA, bridging traditional flamenco with improvisation, live music, and cross-cultural collaboration.
Reserve tickets here.
Limited seating.
La Fête de la Francophonie Festival
Teatro LATEA, under the direction of Miguel Trelles, proudly presents the Festival de la Francophonie—a vibrant, electrifying celebration of the French language and the rich diversity of Francophone cultures from around the world!
Now, in 2026, history is being made as Teatro LATEA hosts the Festival for the very first time! This landmark edition, curated by Carole Alexis, bursts to life with a bold and dynamic program featuring French-language cinema, engaging conferences, dazzling dance, live concerts, theatrical performances, vibrant discussions, and so much more.
This is more than a series of events—it is an immersive cultural journey. Audiences connect with Francophones and Francophiles alike, participate in meaningful community-building experiences, and feel the pulse of a language and culture that continues to inspire the world.
And as the Festival reaches its grand finale, the celebration rises to its most joyful height—ending in a spirited party filled with music, movement, laughter, and connection. Artists and audiences come together, cultures mingle, and the night sparkles with festivity and shared joy. It is a radiant, unforgettable celebration that keeps the spirit of Francophonie alive long after the final note fades.
Reserve seating here.
Limited seating.
La Fête de la Francophonie Festival
Teatro LATEA, under the direction of Miguel Trelles, proudly presents the Festival de la Francophonie—a vibrant, electrifying celebration of the French language and the rich diversity of Francophone cultures from around the world!
Now, in 2026, history is being made as Teatro LATEA hosts the Festival for the very first time! This landmark edition, curated by Carole Alexis, bursts to life with a bold and dynamic program featuring French-language cinema, engaging conferences, dazzling dance, live concerts, theatrical performances, vibrant discussions, and so much more.
This is more than a series of events—it is an immersive cultural journey. Audiences connect with Francophones and Francophiles alike, participate in meaningful community-building experiences, and feel the pulse of a language and culture that continues to inspire the world.
And as the Festival reaches its grand finale, the celebration rises to its most joyful height—ending in a spirited party filled with music, movement, laughter, and connection. Artists and audiences come together, cultures mingle, and the night sparkles with festivity and shared joy. It is a radiant, unforgettable celebration that keeps the spirit of Francophonie alive long after the final note fades.
Reserve seating here.
Limited seating.
La Fête de la Francophonie Festival
Teatro LATEA, under the direction of Miguel Trelles, proudly presents the Festival de la Francophonie—a vibrant, electrifying celebration of the French language and the rich diversity of Francophone cultures from around the world!
Now, in 2026, history is being made as Teatro LATEA hosts the Festival for the very first time! This landmark edition, curated by Carole Alexis, bursts to life with a bold and dynamic program featuring French-language cinema, engaging conferences, dazzling dance, live concerts, theatrical performances, vibrant discussions, and so much more.
This is more than a series of events—it is an immersive cultural journey. Audiences connect with Francophones and Francophiles alike, participate in meaningful community-building experiences, and feel the pulse of a language and culture that continues to inspire the world.
And as the Festival reaches its grand finale, the celebration rises to its most joyful height—ending in a spirited party filled with music, movement, laughter, and connection. Artists and audiences come together, cultures mingle, and the night sparkles with festivity and shared joy. It is a radiant, unforgettable celebration that keeps the spirit of Francophonie alive long after the final note fades.
Reserve seating here.
Limited seating.
Havanafama en New York: Balada de un Vernano
Havanafama Theatrical Co. and Teatro LATEA are proud to present two plays by the esteemed cuban playwright, Hector Santiago:
Saturday, 14th of March @ 8:00pm: La Diva en la Octava Casa, a farce with vampiric overtones in which a legendary diva maintains, year after year, her eternal beauty and irresistible power. To achieve this, she summons secretaries with particular qualities: young, brilliant, and capable of imitating her perfectly. But when the new secretary discovers the secret hidden behind her immortal charm, the power game takes an unexpected turn.
Sunday, 15th of March @ 5:00pm: Balada de un Verano, an intimate and deeply familial human story. Santiago returns to his childhood home after years of absence, confronting his sister Teresa and the memories of a past marked by rejection and silence. Among hidden letters, irreparable losses, and old wounds, the siblings reunite at a moment when pain gives way to forgiveness.
Both plays are performed entirely in Spanish. After Sunday's performance, we invite you to a special reception celebrating the career of Héctor Santiago. There will be food and beverages, and the opportunity to share and connect with fellow artists and friends of the latin american theater community.
Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at https://teatrolatea.org/events/ or at the door the day of the performance.
Havanafama en New York: La Diva en la Octava Casa
Havanafama Theatrical Co. and Teatro LATEA are proud to present two plays by the esteemed cuban playwright, Hector Santiago:
Saturday, 14th of March @ 8:00pm: La Diva en la Octava Casa, a farce with vampiric overtones in which a legendary diva maintains, year after year, her eternal beauty and irresistible power. To achieve this, she summons secretaries with particular qualities: young, brilliant, and capable of imitating her perfectly. But when the new secretary discovers the secret hidden behind her immortal charm, the power game takes an unexpected turn.
Sunday, 15th of March @ 5:00pm: Balada de un Verano, an intimate and deeply familial human story. Santiago returns to his childhood home after years of absence, confronting his sister Teresa and the memories of a past marked by rejection and silence. Among hidden letters, irreparable losses, and old wounds, the siblings reunite at a moment when pain gives way to forgiveness.
Both plays are performed entirely in Spanish. After Sunday's performance, we invite you to a special reception celebrating the career of Héctor Santiago. There will be food and beverages, and the opportunity to share and connect with fellow artists and friends of the latin american theater community.
Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at https://teatrolatea.org/events/ or at the door the day of the performance.
Havanafama en New York: Tributo a la Obra de Hector Santiago
Tributo a la obra de Héctor Santiago
Teatro, memoria y poesía se unen en este homenaje especial al dramaturgo Héctor Santiago, presentado por Havanafama en LATEA NYC.
A Tribute to the Work of Hector Santiago
Theater, memory, and poetry unite in this special homage to playwright Hector Santiago, presented by Havanafama at LATEA NYC.
Reserve online here.
Limited seating.
Carole Alexis: Ballet Des Amériques
Carole Alexis: Ballet des Amériques
Saturday
02.28.2026
Reserve Online
Limited Seating
First Show: 3:00 PM
Second Show: 6:30 PM
$35 / Online (General Audience)
$40 / Door (General Audience)
$25 / Online (Students & Seniors)
$30 / Door (Students & Seniors)
$53 / Online (VIP)
*Prime Seat + 1 Complimentary Drink
Colette MIchaan & Friends: An Evening of Afro-Cuban/ Latin Jazz/ World Music
Friday, 02.27.2026
Doors: 7.15 PM
Show: 7.30 PM
Reserve online
Limited Seating
Colette Michaan & Friends
An Evening of Afro-Cuban/ Latin Jazz/ World Music
Colette Michaan - Flute
Arthur Luis Alvarez Torres - Piano
William Spaceman Patterson - Guitar
Jorge Bringas - Bass
Yusnier Sanchez Bustamante - Percussion
Keisel Jimenez Leyva - Drums
Kevin Nathaniel Hylton - Mbria, Shekere
An Evening of Afro-Brazilian Culture
Join Teatro LATEA for an evening of various Afro-Brazilian dance styles, a screening of ORI, and a post-screening discussion.
Schedule:
Doors: 3:30-3:45 PM
Screening of ORI and post-screening discussion: 4:00-6:00 PM
Capoeira w/ Mestre Omi: 6:15-7:00 PM
Samba Reggae w/ Mambembe: 7:05-7:45 PM
Folkloric Show: 8:00-8:45 PM
Afro Brazilian Dance: 8.45-9.15 PM
ORI
Director: Raquel Gerber
Producer: Raquel Gerber
While giving an overall look at the documented history of black movements in Brazil (during the 70s and 80s), ORI tells the story of a woman, Beatriz Nascimento, activist and historian, who searches for her identity through research into the history of "Quilombos" as warrior establishments and focuses of cultural resistance, from 15th-century Africa to Brazil in the 20th century.
Reserve tickets here.
Limited Seating.
Leaves by Victor Vauban Júnior
Wednesday, 02.25.2026
Doors: 6:00 PM
Show: 7:00 PM
Reserve online
Limited Seating
Leaves by Victor Vauban Júnior
(Award-winning Playwright-Director)
A man is caught up between three sisters’ dreams of fame and fortune. As teenagers, Muriel and her two sisters had dreams of becoming the new musical sensation just like, “The Supremes” but blame it on their so-called-good-for-nothing-brother-in-law.
Starring:
Alexis Braxton
Benjamin Rowe
Patricia Fields
Joy Foster
Obi Nwako
and more…
Michael Fadugbagbe: E Be So! (It is true!) Experimental short film
Michael Fadugbagbe: E Be So! (It is true!)
Experimental Short Film
02.24.2026
Reserve Online
Limited Seating
A Nigerian-American artist visits Nigeria for the first time since his parents’ emigration 22 years prior and offers questions about the state of Nigeria past, present, and future by interweaving archival material, found footage, and memoir with an Afrobeat score.
Awarded:
Jessup Prize, Highest Recognition in Art at Wesleyan University
BORICORRIDOR TOUR 2026: NUNCA DIGAS NUNCA by Marise "Tata" Alvarez
Actor, writer, and comedian Marisé “Tata” Álvarez brings her stand-up film Nunca Digas Nunca (Never Say Never) to the BoriCorridor Tour. Recorded live at the historic Teatro Shorty Castro in San Juan, the special now reaches the big screen with Álvarez’s sharp humor and unmistakable honesty. She reflects on life in Los Angeles, the realities of sharing a home, why she doesn’t want to be a mother, and her relationship with her father, Pito Álvarez.
Get tickets here!
EL GALLO
Pasajes íntimos del estadista, escritor, poeta, político y ciego, por primera vez en las tablas del teatro dominicano.
Del lecho de muerte al escritorio, escribiendo en su página en blanco, lo revelamos en su espejo, desvelando sus intimidades y desafíos, contrastando las luces y sombras del enigmático hombre de poder, nacido en RD, que gobernó el país por 22 años y quien sirvió durante tres décadas a la tiranía de Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina.
Get your tickets here!
Teatro SEA's Annual Three Kings Day Celebration
Teatro SEA's Annual Three Kings Day Celebration
When: Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Where: The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center. 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002
For over two decades, Teatro SEA's Three Kings Day Celebration has been a cherished tradition for the Lower East Side and surrounding communities, welcoming approximately 1,000 children each year to experience the magic and cultural significance of this important Latin American and Caribbean holiday.
The celebration is made possible through the generous support of community partners, including the NYU Latinx Alumni Network and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), along with individual donors who contributed toys and gifts through Teatro SEA's annual toy drive.
Event Highlights:
● Meet the Three Kings in stunning hand-crafted costumes
● Teatro SEA's magnificent oversized Three Kings puppets
● Live traditional Latin holiday music
● Free gifts for children under age 12
● Photo opportunities with the Three Magi
● Community celebration honoring Latin American and Caribbean traditions
FREE and open to the community.
Andean FACE Painting: Embodying Historical aesthetics with carlos jimenez Cahua
Join artist Carlos Jiménez Cahua for a hands-on, intergenerational Andean facepainting workshop grounded in decolonial thought. Inspired by designs from the artist's internal reference archive of face-painting styles on ancient Andean artifacts, participants will "reactivate" the visual language through contemporary face painting. Following a demo by the artist showcasing various techniques and traditional aesthetics, attendees will have the opportunity to work on their own creations in pairs—a poetic and participatory way to embody historical aesthetics.
The event will also encourage participants to reflect on memories, material culture, and personal and communal practices that maintain and adapt Andean tradition in the diaspora. Attendees will be invited to contribute to the Clemente’s growing archive of 20th Century Latinx New York City, sharing Andean spaces, embodied practices, and movements that have shaped the city.
This workshop is intended for participants who have Andean Diasporic heritage, as well as individuals who would like to learn more about Indigenous Andean culture and traditions.
RSVP here.
Remesas y Sobremesa – ¡Qué rico sancocho!
The fall season concludes with the fifth edition of Remesas y Sobremesa: ¡Qué rico sancocho! The Resistant Corporeal Joy of Latinx Everyday Poetics in Nueva York. Scholar and educator Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé and participatory artist Lizania Cruz will be joined by scholar of U.S. Latinx cultures Dr. Cristina Pérez-Jiménez for an evening of shared food, poetry, and collaborative poster-making. Special guest Carmelita Tropicana will perform, adding her legendary humor and diasporic poetics to the event, while Cocotazo serves their signature sancocho in both beef and vegan versions, complemented by coffee and mini quesitos for dessert.
Unfolding in the spirit of sobremesa—the Latinx tradition of lingering at the table for conversation—the program will explore the joyously creative ways New York Latinxs transform everyday life. Through dialogue, collective action, and inspiration from visual artists and poets, participants will consider how open-ended practices of cultural mixing reimagine social space and reenvision community.
As part of The Clemente Historias initiative and coinciding with an exhibition by LA ESCUELA___ at MoMA PS1, this event combines storytelling, poetry, music, and hands-on art-making.
Space is limited. RSVP here to reserve your spot!