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Art Historian Yasmin Ramirez at the Brooklyn Museum

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Yasmin Ramirez, Arts Fellow at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies,
gives a talk on the work of a Caribbean artist.

Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 6:30 p.m.

Location:
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Telephone:
(718) 638-5000; TTY: (718) 399-8440
Admission:
Suggested Contribution: $8; Students with Valid ID: $4; Adults 62 and over: $4; Members: Free; Children under 12: Free
Hours:
Wednesday–Friday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Get detailed hours
Subway:
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum Get detailed directions

El Taller Boricua and Jimmy Delgado Present

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Every Wednesday through August 29 • 5:30 PM

Uptown Salsa After Work Party Event

July 4 – Soneros de Oriente
July 11 – Caransalsa
July 18 – Frankie Morales’s Mambo of the Times Orchestra
Juy 25 – Excelencia
August 1 – Orchestra Broadway
August 8 – Jimmy Sabater, Jr. & Los Salseros Del Hudson
August 15 – Sonsublime
August 22 – Rigo Y Su Grupo Ecua-Jei
August 29 – Tipica Novel
Ladies $5 from 5:30-6:30; $10 after 6:30
Gentlemen $10 all night
Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center
1680 Lexington Avenue
212.831.4333; www.tallerboricua.org

Every Thursday through August 23 • 6:30-9:00 PM
Summer Nights at El Museo

Target Presents Musical Icons of El Barrio
July 5 – Tito Puente, Jr.
July 19 – Plena Libre
August 2 – Spanish Harlem Orchestra
August 16 – Tribute to Hector LaVoe with Chino Nuñez

Budweiser Select’s Alternative Music Festival
July 12 – Circo
July 26 – Cultura Profética
August 9 – Latin Funk Night with Pacha Massive and Folklore Urbano
August 23 – Los Amigos Invisibles

Free. Limited seating – first come, first served.
Teatro Heckscher
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue

The Borinqueneers – NJN Premiere

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The Borinqueneers
NJN Premiere
Monday, August 6, 8:00 PM
Encore presentation at 9:30 PM

The Borinqueneers chronicles the never-before-told story of the Puerto Rican 65th Infantry Regiment, the only all-Hispanic unit in US Army history. Through compelling interviews and rare archival footage, this film explores the unique existence of the 65th, culminating in the Korean War and the dramatic events that would threaten its very existence.

www.njn.com

Centro Exhibition on PR Parade 2007

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Hunter College

Centro Gallery at Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños
Hunter College, CUNY presents:

Puerto Rican Fiestas:
A Salute to the Puerto Rican National Day Parade 2007
Curated by Pedro Juan Hernández

Friday, May 25 to Friday, August 3

Gallery Hours:
Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Wednesday, 9:00 am – 8:00 pm
Friday & Saturday, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

For more information: www.centropr.org

Two “enmascarados” from Hatillo, a Ponce Carnival mask and a Statue of Liberty mask

Costume designed by Zaida Cintrón
Costume Courtesy of Vicente Rodríguez

For more information on Centro Events, please visit
http://centropr.org/events/index.html or call (212) 772-5714.

Mexico Now! presents ABSENCE/PRESENCE AT MEDIANOCHE

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Opening Reception: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 6PM – 9PM

PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS:
MEDIANOCHE
1355 PARK AVENUE, FIRST FLOOR
(ENTRANCE ON 102ND STREET)

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ABSENCE/PRESENCE
an exhibition in two parts: at MediaNoche and Casa Puebla
September 4 – October 12, 2007
Drawings and Mulitmedia by Antonia Guerrero
Opening Reception at MediaNoche: Wednesday, September 12, 6PM – 9PM

Two concurrent exhibitions allow artist Antonia Guerrero to explore the Mexican immigrant experience through different media, articulating a lightness of being that challenges our notions of culture and identity. Crossing the Mexico/U.S. border becomes a rite of passage that is self-contradictory, self-affirming and transformative.

The immigrant is iconically in a state of coming and going, of absence and presence. Through her drawings, the artist establishes a verisimilitude of home at Casa Puebla that is overturned by the virtual reality of a foreign land at MediaNoche. Both become illusive worlds that do not clash as much as meld the familiar with the unfamiliar.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Antonia Guerrero is an award-winning Mexican artist working in a variety of media. Her recent work combines photorealistic paintings and drawings re-purposed for her multimedia installations that include video, photographs, digital prints and performance. She has exhibited throughout the U.S. and Mexico, including the Snite Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art of Mexico. Guerrero studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City and at Pratt Institute in New York City.

CONFERENCIAS CARIBEÑAS

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Para darle nombre a la antillanidad:
Ramón Emeterio Betances y Máximo Gómez Báez

Dr. Félix Ojeda Reyes
Instituto de Estudios del Caribe
Universidad de Puerto Rico – Río Piedras

Auspiciado por:
Instituto de Estudios del Caribe y Biblioteca Regional del Caribe
Jueves, 6 de septiembre de 2007
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Anfiteatro 238, Edificio Ramón Emeterio Betances
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales

Los principales dirigentes políticos y militares de las guerras independentistas cubanas del siglo diecinueve no fueron pródigos en posiciones de solidaridad entre las islas del Caribe. Hubo, sin embargo, honrosas excepciones. Tal es el caso de José Martí, Apóstol de la Independencia de Cuba, y de Máximo Gómez Báez, General en Jefe de su Ejército Libertador. En esta presentación se examinan los proyectos independentistas y las posiciones en conflicto entre el audaz guerrero dominicano y el médico de Cabo Rojo, Ramón Emeterio Betances, a quien con tanta justeza se le ha llamado el Padre de la Patria puertorriqueña.