Call for Papers -Deadline for submission: 15 February 2008!

8th Conference – Puerto Rican Studies Association
8va Conferencia – Asociación de Estudios Puertorriqueños

October 1-4

Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Program Committee
Chair: Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler (crespokebler@caribe.net)

Members:
Luis Aponte-Parés (Luis.Aponte@umb.edu)
Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz (gjimenez@binghamton.edu)
Anthony De Jesus (tdejesus@hunter.cuny.edu)
Myrna García Calderón (mygarcia@syr.edu)
Frederic W. Gleach (fwg1@cornell.edu)
Jorge Duany (jduany@coqui.net)
Carmen Haydeé Rivera (chrivera@coqui.net)
Carmen Milagros Concepción (cmconcepcion@uprrp.edu)
Alice Colón-Warren (colonal@coqui.net)

NORICUA: the living city

Monday Night poetry series
presented by Dorothy Friedman August and The Living Theatre
Monday Jan. 28 at 8PM

NORICUA: the living city
A performance of poetry, music, theater & non-ideas
by Edwin Torres & Spanic Attack

Come know the knot of NORICUA!

By fusing the indigenous word for the island of Puerto Rico BORICUA, onto the NO of
now, no-thingness and noise, multimedia guerillas Edwin Torres and Spanic Attack
have discovered the borderless territory of NORICUA. A state of mind, a perpetual
caravan, no-toriously irrelevant and nosey, a no-non sense take on identity
politicking and normative-ness.

www.livingtheatre.org/

http://spanicattack.com/

Latino Art Now!

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With massive movements of peoples, economies, communications and imaginations across the globe, many new questions arise about the meaning of art in the Americas. The conference Latino Art Now! seeks to understand the aesthetics of Latino art and how it is assessed and valued within a global context. The meaning of valuation entails multiple considerations, including shared community values, value in the museum world and value in the art market at large.

Conference Panels:

Latino Art from its Production to Consumption; The Dissemination, Publication and Archiving of Latino Art: Print and Media; The Origins and New Horizons of Migration, Diaspora and Exile; Intersections: US Latina/o Art and Artists and Latin American and US Contemporary Art; Cultural Brokers, Curators and New Venues; Markets: Collecting and Collections.

Americas Society (map & directions)
680 Park Avenue (68th & 69th)
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 212-628-3200
Fax: 212-249-1880

PRdream mourns the passing of Raquel Villegas

Community Activist
Woman of El Barrio
She will long be remembered in the hearts
of the men and women of El Barrio
who she cared for so deeply….

VIEWING – ONE DAY ONLY:

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM

JOHNSTONE FUNERAL CHAPELS
300 EAST 104 STREET @ SECOND AVENUE
EL BARRIO, NY 10029
(212) 369-6160

FUNERAL MASS:

TIME OF MASS WILL BE POSTED @ JOHNSTONE FUNERAL CHAPELS

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14
ST. CECILIA’S CHURCH
EAST 106 STREET
(BETWEEN LEXINGTON & PARK AVENUES)

Rafael Tufino, 1922 – 2008

PRdream mourns the passing of our great painter and friend Rafael Tufino

Rafael Tufino is one of the central figures in the history of 20th Century Puerto Rican art. A versatile artist in many media, Tufino has been a major force in founding and furthering modern Puerto Rican art–both on the Island and in the Caribbean Diaspora.

Tufino’s work spanned a period of more than 65 years, depicting Puerto Rican life in urban New York, and pre-industrial Puerto Rico. While the artist’s work often celebrates popular traditions, including folk artists, religious and secular festivals, Tufino remains committed to fostering the appreciation of the Island’s African cultural contributions, especially as expressed in dance and music. Tufino’s images have become a trademark of Puerto Rico’s rich cultural heritage.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Tufino moved permanently to Puerto Rico with his Puerto Rican parents in 1936, initially studying under the Spanish painter Alejandro Sánchez Felipe and with Juan Rosado at his sign-painting workshop in San Juan. In the late 1940s he studied painting, printmaking and mural painting at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico with José Chavez Morado, Antonio Rodríguez Luna and Castro Pacheco. He joined the staff of the Division of Community Education in Puerto Rico as a poster artist and illustrator in 1950, serving as director of the graphic arts workshop of this division from 1957 until 1963. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966 and the National Award for the Arts in 1985. He had two major retrospectives at El Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and El Museo del Barrio in New York, in 2002 and 2003, respectively. PRdream has an extensive interview with the artist in its archives, interview clips may be viewed along with his work in LA GALERIA of this web site.

¡Sammy Ayala’s 75th Birthday!

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SOB’S Concerts
& Aurora Communications invite you to celebrate:

¡Sammy Ayala’s 75th Birthday!
Friday, February 22, 2008

An original, co-founding member of Cortijo y su Combo, singer/songwriter Sammy Ayala was part of the first all-black orchestra featured over Puerto Rican television daily in 1954 ….. ten years BEFORE the civil rights act was signed into Congress in the U.S. Rafael Cortijo’s group fused the music of the great Antilles, crossing color and economic divides, to pave the way for the upbeat salsa music we enjoy today.

Active in his senior years, Sammy Ayala is a member of Zon del Barrio alongside Yomo Toro who will be celebrating Sammy’s birthday. Read their bios @ www.zondelbarrio.com.

Take a look, hear the music, and i’m sure you’ll agree that Sammy’s life makes for an inspirational evening.

SOB’s
204 Varick St @ W Houston
212-243-4940

DIRECTIONS: IRT #1 Train to Houston St or IND Trains A B C D E F to West 4

Doors open at 6.00 pm Shows are at 8.00 pm & 10.00 pm
ADMISSION $12 FROM 6-8PM & $15.00 AFTER 8.00 PM

Musica de Camara, Artistic Director Eva de la O

Third Piano Festival Concert:

The Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
New York, NY 10029

Sunday, February 17, 2:00 pm

Guest Artist:
Anthony Newton, pianist

Works By:
African American Classical Composers
Including Howard Swanson, Robert Nathaniel
Dett, Scott Joplin and a World Premiere of Sonata II
by Carman Moore Commissioned by Musica de Camara

For More Information:
Eva de La O
(212) 410-5612

Paula Zadigian
(212) 534-1672 X 3393

Free With Museum Admission