Friday, November 28, 2008

Community calendar


HOMENAJE CULTURAL -POETICO A PRISIONERA
9 p.m. TONIGHT
El Maestro, Inc.
1029 E. 167 St., Bronx

For more information, (646) 337-6775

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Puerto Rico Sun Communications thanks you for your support of this independent community multimedia project aimed at informing, empowering and building community.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who believes and contributes to this social entrepreneurship project in one way or another.

Feliz Dia de Accion de Gracias.

Gracias for your continued support.

For this independent community media project to continue and grow, remember that your financial contribution is also important. Apoya lo nuestro.

PRSUN has been serving la comunidad since 2002. Help PRSUN remain independent.

Con amor,

Clarisel Gonzalez
editor and publisher
Puerto Rico Sun Communications

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Dear Readers,

Come check out my photo merchandise gallery on Zazzle and join my fan club! Being a part of my fan club means you can get notifications whenever I add new products to my gallery.

www.zazzle.com/prsuncom/myfanclub

Shopping at my online photo store at Zazzle is a way of supporting the PRSUN Communications social entrepreneurship venture. Support independent community media. Thanks. -- Clarisel

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Community calendar

You are cordially invited to the National Institute for Latino Policy's Forum on "Latinos and the Obama Presidency: A Discussion of the Results of the National Latino Opinion Leaders Survey." This event is being held on the evening of Monday, December 1. The forum will begin at 6 p.m. and will be followed by a reception at 7:30 p.m. This is a fundraiser to support the work of the National Institute for Latino Policy, so the Institute is asking for contributions of $50 per person ($40 of which is tax-deductible), which can be paid at the door. The forum will be at 101 Avenue of the Americas, 22nd Floor, a couple of blocks north of Canal Street in Manhattan. If you cannot attend, the Institute hopes you will consider making a tax-deductible. For more information, go to
http://latinopolicy.org/lp/donation.html.

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Originally uploaded by clarisel
@ Mass in honor of Our Lady of Providence, patroness of Puerto Rico, at St. Jerome's Church, the Bronx

For more photos of the Our Lady of Providence celebration, visit www.flickr.com/photos/clarisel. Click on the "Our Lady" photo set, which is dedicated to images of the Virgin Mary.

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico


Today's featured footage is by bagmorrison of the PRSUN Video group.

Monday, November 24, 2008

My Neighbor at the Fair


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Originally uploaded by clarisel.
My neighbor at the Comite Noviembre Artisans Fair & Exhibit in NYC was a fellow photographer.

From left, Brooklyn-based photographer David Cajigas and his son Michael staff a table showcasing photos of Puerto Rico. You can check out some of Cajigas' work at www.myspace.com/pics4all.

Cajigas is also a vocalist.

For more images of Comite Noviembre's Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Exhibit last Saturday, go to www.flickr.com/photos/clarisel.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Support the Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Exhibit Tomorrow in NYC

Featured Puerto Rican Heritage Month event



I, representing Puerto Rico Sun Communications, which publishes the Puerto Rico Sun and Bronx Latino blogs, will have a table at this fair. I will also showcase some of my boricua-related photography.

Stop by.

See you at the festival. Apoya lo nuestro.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Puerto Rico's Orfeon San Juan Bautista Performs in NYC


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Originally uploaded by clarisel.
The Orfeon San Juan Bautista, a professional 33 mixed-voice choral ensemble from Puerto Rico, performs at Blessed Sacrament Church, NYC. The ensemble's diverse repertoire spans the sacred and secular compositions of the great European choral traditions, as well as Latin American traditional and folkloric music.

The ensemble is taking part in its NYC Concert tour. They will be performing at 4 p.m. November 20 at the Spence School and at 4:30 p.m. November 21 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, both in Manhattan. Both performances are free and open to the public. Take advantage and enjoy quality music for free.

I attended last night's performance at Blessed Sacrament. Que orgullo boricua. I was at peace listening to their beautiful voices.

I especially enjoyed their performance of "Puerto Rico" (author Roberto Cole) and "Piel canela" (author Bobby Capo). Pues claro.

I'm glad I went.

For more of my photos of The Orfeon San Juan Bautista performance at Blessed Sacrament, go to www.flickr.com/photos/clarisel. You can click on the "Live Your Culture" photo set.


(See related November 17 entry posted in this blog for more info.)
Featured Puerto Rican Heritage Month exhibit

The Association of Hispanic Arts pays tribute to Jorge Soto-Sanchez (1947-1987)

Selected Works
AHA in NYC's El Barrio showcases the works of Jorge Soto-Sanchez

Jorge Soto-Sanchez, a prominent figure of the Nuyorican movement, who suffered an untimely death in 1987, left a body of work which celebrated his Puerto Rican heritage and explored the formal issues of art. He was an artist who was completely at ease with the expressionist tradition in western art and who brilliantly used this aesthetic to create his own mythology of Puerto Rican/Caribbean history. The deconstruction of official Puerto Rican history and it reconstruction in his hands is vibrant and totally urban. Even his reconstructions of European masters such as his Titianesque nudes confront the very urbanity which is the soul of his aesthetic.


The exhibition, which kicked off November 19, features seldom seen works ranging from acrylics on canvas with found objects, to pen and ink portraits on rice paper, to studies of nudes from Gray’s Anatomy on paper.


Exhibit runs through January 10, 2009
Exhibition hours: Tuesdays - Thursdays 4-8 p.m. Saturdays by appointment.

Gallery Talk
1 p.m., November 22, FREE

For more information, go to
http://www.latinoarts.org/featured.html

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Balcon y bandera


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Originally uploaded by Petite Photography.
Today's featured shot from the Puerto Rico Sun photo group is by Petite Photography.
Navidad Boricua

A Traditional Puerto Rican Christmas

The Fifth Annual Parranda in NYC's El Barrio

Live music, food and spirits
Maracas & Guiros A MUST!

8 p.m. December 13
Taino Towers Crystal Room
240 E. 123rd St.
$35 by today and $40 after

To reserve your table, contact laparrandanyc@gmail.com or call Cristian at (718) 619-6059 or David at (347) 446-9891.

You may also mail your check or money order payable to
Anna Villafane, PhD
842 Tysens Lane
SI, NY 10306

All proceeds go to Escuela Dr. Jose Ramos Lebron Sector de la Playa de Fajardo, Puerto Rico.