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
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Balcon y bandera
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.
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.
On the Reading Corner
Book lovers were treated to a literary feast last Saturday at Cemi Underground in NYC's El Barrio with the visit of two authors and the presentation of their books: "Sabrosuras Boricuas," a cookbook by Erisbelia Garriga and "Shadow of the Fathers," a novel by journalist Robert Friedman.
The next book presentation at Cemi Underground is "The Diaspora Strikes Back" by author Juan Flores. This event will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and admission is free.
This is all part of Cemi Underground's Puerto Rican Heritage Month events.
For more information, visit www.cemiunderground.com.
(Photos of Erisbelia Garriga and Robert Friedman by Ismael Nunez)
Editor's Note: You can also purchase Robert Friedman's book "Shadow of the Fathers" at the PRSUN aStore:
"The Diaspora Strikes Back" by Juan Flores is also availabe at the PRSUN aStore
Purchases at the PRSUN aStore are a way of contributing to the Puerto Rico Sun project.
Book lovers were treated to a literary feast last Saturday at Cemi Underground in NYC's El Barrio with the visit of two authors and the presentation of their books: "Sabrosuras Boricuas," a cookbook by Erisbelia Garriga and "Shadow of the Fathers," a novel by journalist Robert Friedman.
The next book presentation at Cemi Underground is "The Diaspora Strikes Back" by author Juan Flores. This event will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and admission is free.
This is all part of Cemi Underground's Puerto Rican Heritage Month events.
For more information, visit www.cemiunderground.com.
(Photos of Erisbelia Garriga and Robert Friedman by Ismael Nunez)
Editor's Note: You can also purchase Robert Friedman's book "Shadow of the Fathers" at the PRSUN aStore:
"The Diaspora Strikes Back" by Juan Flores is also availabe at the PRSUN aStore
Purchases at the PRSUN aStore are a way of contributing to the Puerto Rico Sun project.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Trova York in El Barrio
Music
Trova York (Canciones Para Nuestro Tiempo/Songs For Our Times)
Nueva Trova=expressing progressive sentiments.
Please, come and listen to a repertoire of quality songs of nueva canción/new song movement made popular by international renowned singers such as Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Roy Brown, Violeta Parra and Victor Jara among many others.
Sery Colón
Agüeybaná Productions
For more information on this and other Puerto Rican Heritage Month events, go to www.puertoricofest.org.
(Click on image to see larger text.)
Trova York (Canciones Para Nuestro Tiempo/Songs For Our Times)
Nueva Trova=expressing progressive sentiments.
Please, come and listen to a repertoire of quality songs of nueva canción/new song movement made popular by international renowned singers such as Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Roy Brown, Violeta Parra and Victor Jara among many others.
Sery Colón
Agüeybaná Productions
For more information on this and other Puerto Rican Heritage Month events, go to www.puertoricofest.org.
(Click on image to see larger text.)
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