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.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Barranquitas, Puerto Rico
Today's featured shot from the Puerto Rico Sun photo group is by Fernando Cuevas.
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.
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
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.)
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
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
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.)
Featured Puerto Rican Heritage Month event
Film
Ángel
7 p.m. TONIGHT
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Sponsored by: SEA in association with El Museo del Barrio
Admission: $5
The most recent film by Jacobo Morales follows a professor and student leader whose political beliefs landed him in prison for 15 years in the '80s, when people affiliated with Puerto Rico's independence movement were repressed and persecuted. This poignant tale of one man's will and determination to unveil the culprits who framed him and murdered his wife deftly interweaves intrigue, suspense and action while exploring the fine line that divides peace and violence, justice and injustice.
Ángel, will also be presented as part of BORIMIX: Puerto Rico Fest 2008 at the Hartford Public Library, CT, on Sunday, November 23rd at 2 p.m. For more information, www.hplct.org.
For more Puerto Rican heritage month events, visit www.puertoricofest.org.
Editor's Note: November is Puerto Rican Heritage Month. Boricua, there is no excuse not to attend at least one Puerto Rican heritage event this month. Apoya lo nuestro.
Film
Ángel
7 p.m. TONIGHT
El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Sponsored by: SEA in association with El Museo del Barrio
Admission: $5
The most recent film by Jacobo Morales follows a professor and student leader whose political beliefs landed him in prison for 15 years in the '80s, when people affiliated with Puerto Rico's independence movement were repressed and persecuted. This poignant tale of one man's will and determination to unveil the culprits who framed him and murdered his wife deftly interweaves intrigue, suspense and action while exploring the fine line that divides peace and violence, justice and injustice.
Ángel, will also be presented as part of BORIMIX: Puerto Rico Fest 2008 at the Hartford Public Library, CT, on Sunday, November 23rd at 2 p.m. For more information, www.hplct.org.
For more Puerto Rican heritage month events, visit www.puertoricofest.org.
Editor's Note: November is Puerto Rican Heritage Month. Boricua, there is no excuse not to attend at least one Puerto Rican heritage event this month. Apoya lo nuestro.
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