Sunday, April 27, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Festival of New Play Readings
The Puerto Rico Traveling Theater kicked off its Festival of New Play Readings 2008 this month and it will run until May 27. The readings are part of the theater's Playwrights Unit.
Among some of the upcoming plays are "Widows" by Nancy Nevarez, which is about Latinas growing up in the South Bronx in the 1970s and "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" by Carlos J. Serrano about a baseball star who is his own toughest rival. (Note: Click on the image posted here to see the text in larger size of all the readings.)
All readings are free at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, 304 W. 47 St., Manhattan. They are at 7 p.m. After each reading, there is a short discussion with a guest moderator.
For more information, visit www.prtt.org or call 212 354-1293.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Sports
Serrano Urges Selig to Rethink Approach to Developing Puerto Rican Baseball Players
In a letter to Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig sent on Thursday, Congressman Serrano asked Commissioner Selig to reconsider Major League Baseball's policy for signing prospective players from Puerto Rico. In the letter Serrano expressed his opinion that including Puerto Rican players in the regular draft keeps them from having the opportunity to fully realize their potential.
To read more, go to
http://serrano.house.gov/Newsletter.aspx?NewsID=1551#baseball_cont
Source: The Serrano Report
Serrano Urges Selig to Rethink Approach to Developing Puerto Rican Baseball Players
In a letter to Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig sent on Thursday, Congressman Serrano asked Commissioner Selig to reconsider Major League Baseball's policy for signing prospective players from Puerto Rico. In the letter Serrano expressed his opinion that including Puerto Rican players in the regular draft keeps them from having the opportunity to fully realize their potential.
To read more, go to
http://serrano.house.gov/Newsletter.aspx?NewsID=1551#baseball_cont
Source: The Serrano Report
'Fifty Years of Salsa'
Attention: Salsa lovers. The Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, the Bronx Arts Ensemble, Inc. and William Scribner, executive/artistic director, will present "Fifty Years of Salsa, A Symphonic Odyssey" tomorrow night.
This so-called concert-celebration of the salsa tradition with a twist will be held at the main theater of the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture on the Grand Concourse in the South Bronx. The 7:30 p.m. show will feature Bronx Arts Ensemble Orchestra and Raymond Torres-Santos, conductor and arranger.
The show will include special guest soloists: Jerry Medina, Tito Allen, Isidro Infante, Nelson González and Ralph Irrizarry.
You will know the songs – Oye cómo va, Pedro Navaja, Anacaona, Así se compone un son, Cara de payaso, Periódico de ayer and many others. The concert promises to be a hit parade of all the tunes you danced back in the day. And, they will be sung and played by some of the great salseros of our times, but in symphonic form, accompanied by a 50-piece orchestra composed of musicians who play with some of the great orchestras of the New York metropolitan area.
Admission with free ticket
Main Theater
Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse
For box office and more information, call 718 518 4455.
Poesia, Rumba Jazz Descarga!
Poetry
The NuyoRican School Poetry Jazz Ensemble will present an evening of bilingual poetry mixed with jazz and Afro-Cuban drumming at the Point’s Live From the Edge Theater in the Bronx tonight.
This ensemble invites the public to come celebrate National Poetry Month as they pay homage to three of our most important and prolific Latino poets: Pablo Neruda, Julia De Burgos, and Mario Benedetti. Actor Luis Enrique Flores and vocalist Wendy Rossi-Fernandez provide a presentation of these poets' love poems accompanied by guitarist Octavio Kotan's rendition of Carlos Almaran's popular Spanish ballad: Historia De Un Amor. The poems will be recited in Spanish and printed translations will be available.
Balancing the ensemble's bilingual repertoire, poet Américo Casiano Jr. presents his award-winning urban poems intermingled with Charles Mingus' Nostalgia in Times Square.
The ensemble also pays tribute to Cuba's Alfredo Abrau of Los Papines with their rendition of Para Los Barrios a rugged Afro-Cuban rumba guaguanco interpreted by percussionist/vocalist Abe Rodriguez and percussionist Gene Golden.
Also performing with NuyoRican School is the "Last Puerto Rican Indian" author Bobby Gonzalez y Encuentro (made up by musicians Joe Falcon (bass) and Eddie Aponte (Saxophone).
NuyoRican School Poetry Jazz Ensemble is a not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to promote the creative literature of Puerto Rican writers in the United States while providing economic opportunities for performing artists of color.
The program starts at 7 p.m. and admission is by donation. Suggested donations are $10 adult, $5 college students and seniors admitted free.
For more information, contact Casiano at 646-281-7038 or e-mail
poetacasiano@yahoo.com.
source: Press Release
The NuyoRican School Poetry Jazz Ensemble will present an evening of bilingual poetry mixed with jazz and Afro-Cuban drumming at the Point’s Live From the Edge Theater in the Bronx tonight.
This ensemble invites the public to come celebrate National Poetry Month as they pay homage to three of our most important and prolific Latino poets: Pablo Neruda, Julia De Burgos, and Mario Benedetti. Actor Luis Enrique Flores and vocalist Wendy Rossi-Fernandez provide a presentation of these poets' love poems accompanied by guitarist Octavio Kotan's rendition of Carlos Almaran's popular Spanish ballad: Historia De Un Amor. The poems will be recited in Spanish and printed translations will be available.
Balancing the ensemble's bilingual repertoire, poet Américo Casiano Jr. presents his award-winning urban poems intermingled with Charles Mingus' Nostalgia in Times Square.
The ensemble also pays tribute to Cuba's Alfredo Abrau of Los Papines with their rendition of Para Los Barrios a rugged Afro-Cuban rumba guaguanco interpreted by percussionist/vocalist Abe Rodriguez and percussionist Gene Golden.
Also performing with NuyoRican School is the "Last Puerto Rican Indian" author Bobby Gonzalez y Encuentro (made up by musicians Joe Falcon (bass) and Eddie Aponte (Saxophone).
NuyoRican School Poetry Jazz Ensemble is a not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to promote the creative literature of Puerto Rican writers in the United States while providing economic opportunities for performing artists of color.
The program starts at 7 p.m. and admission is by donation. Suggested donations are $10 adult, $5 college students and seniors admitted free.
For more information, contact Casiano at 646-281-7038 or e-mail
poetacasiano@yahoo.com.
source: Press Release
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Comedians Bring Laughs to El Barrio
Four Latino comedians Eric Nieves, Arnold Acevedo (who served as master of ceremonies), Eddie Morales and Herbie Quinones brought a few laughs to East Harlem earlier this month when they performed at Cemi Underground. The comedians say their style of humor comes from a Latino point of view.
“Our comedy is in English,” Nieves said. “Then again all of us perform something that is pure Latino: from rice and beans to dominoes and the jive-talk we heard from our parents growing up.”
The majority of their performance was based on their growing up Latino, home experiences, and culture.
Their performance at Cemi Underground was a fine mixture of comedy, audience participation, monologue, and poetry. -- Ismael Nunez
(In the photo, from left, Eric Nieves, Arnold Acevedo, Hector Caraballo, Kimberly Morales, Eddie Morales, and Herbie Quinones, pose before their performance in East Harlem).
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
In the Mailbox
New Art in the Senator Serrano's District Office in East Harlem
We have more great art in the district office this month! Please come by and take a look. The beautiful paintings were created by Magda Luccioni, and hang throughout Senator Serrano's office. Magda was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, a city that was central to the development of bomba and plena. These traditional Puerto Rican art forms are prominent themes in Magda's work. She is a self taught artist who views art as an important form of spiritual release. "I will paint till the day I die." says Magda.
The gallery is curated by community member Taina Traverso.
For more information Serrano's site, visit www.nyssenate28.com.
New Art in the Senator Serrano's District Office in East Harlem
We have more great art in the district office this month! Please come by and take a look. The beautiful paintings were created by Magda Luccioni, and hang throughout Senator Serrano's office. Magda was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, a city that was central to the development of bomba and plena. These traditional Puerto Rican art forms are prominent themes in Magda's work. She is a self taught artist who views art as an important form of spiritual release. "I will paint till the day I die." says Magda.
The gallery is curated by community member Taina Traverso.
For more information Serrano's site, visit www.nyssenate28.com.
Felicidades to our friends at boricuation.com.
Boricuation.com is now sponsored by a grant from SeedCo Financial in association with The NYC Business Solutions Center and the New York City Department of Small Business Services.
In the next few weeks, we will be upgrading the boricuation.com website with more features and information on Puerto Rican history and culture. The grant awarded to boricuation.com will directly assist in our presence on the internet. The grant was for $1,275.
NYC Business Solutions offers free, quick and reliable answers to a broad range of your business questions, whether you are an entrepreneur or an on-going enterprise - of any size.
The Mission of NYC Business Solutions is to help the business community of New York City find efficient solutions to common business problems.
The Vision of NYC Business Solutions is to transform the city into the resource of first-choice for business assistance.
NYC Business Solutions is an initiative of the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS). SBS is a city agency dedicated to promoting the vitality and growth of small business in New York City, as an engine for job creation, neighborhood development and overall economic health.
In partnership with the Mayor's Office of Industrial and Manufacturing Businesses (IMB), SBS administers the Industrial Business Solutions program. Industrial Business Solutions focuses specifically on assisting industrial businesses and working with city agencies to improve industrial neighborhoods to make it easier to do business in New York.
For more information, visit the NYC Business Solutions Center.
(Note: The grant boricuation received was for $1,275.)
The contact at boricuation.com:
Jose Medina
Founder
Cell: 917 843 6419
www.boricuation.com
VP/Radio Director
ESP51.com Internet Connect Radio
E-Mail: boricuation@gmail.com
Source: Boricuation press release
Boricuation.com is now sponsored by a grant from SeedCo Financial in association with The NYC Business Solutions Center and the New York City Department of Small Business Services.
In the next few weeks, we will be upgrading the boricuation.com website with more features and information on Puerto Rican history and culture. The grant awarded to boricuation.com will directly assist in our presence on the internet. The grant was for $1,275.
NYC Business Solutions offers free, quick and reliable answers to a broad range of your business questions, whether you are an entrepreneur or an on-going enterprise - of any size.
The Mission of NYC Business Solutions is to help the business community of New York City find efficient solutions to common business problems.
The Vision of NYC Business Solutions is to transform the city into the resource of first-choice for business assistance.
NYC Business Solutions is an initiative of the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS). SBS is a city agency dedicated to promoting the vitality and growth of small business in New York City, as an engine for job creation, neighborhood development and overall economic health.
In partnership with the Mayor's Office of Industrial and Manufacturing Businesses (IMB), SBS administers the Industrial Business Solutions program. Industrial Business Solutions focuses specifically on assisting industrial businesses and working with city agencies to improve industrial neighborhoods to make it easier to do business in New York.
For more information, visit the NYC Business Solutions Center.
(Note: The grant boricuation received was for $1,275.)
The contact at boricuation.com:
Jose Medina
Founder
Cell: 917 843 6419
www.boricuation.com
VP/Radio Director
ESP51.com Internet Connect Radio
E-Mail: boricuation@gmail.com
Source: Boricuation press release
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