Nos Quedamos - Stage Garden Rumba at Brook Park Community Garden - July 24, 2021 ~ 3-6pm

 

STAGE GARDEN RUMBA

7/24/21 ~ 3-6pm

Brook Avenue & East 141st Street South Bronx

On Saturday, July 24, from 3pm to 6pm, We Stay/Nos Quedamos and Pregones/PRTT present another amazing "al fresco" session of Stage Garden Rumba—where art meets green—at Brook Park Community Garden located at Brook Avenue and 141st Street in the South Bronx!

POETRY | MUSIC | DANCE | ACTIVISM | THEATER | OUTDOORS!

STAGE GARDEN RUMBA MEMORY: Bombazo Dance Company dancer Cynthia Paniagua summons the elements via traditional Afro Puerto Rican Bomba at La Finca del Sur on July 17, 2021.    Photo: Edwin Pagán

This week’s powerhouse lineup features:   Legendary Palladium-era dancer Carlos “Charlie Mambo” Arroyo Pafincar Afro Boricua Jam Social and environmental justice activist Esperanza Martell Tenants’ rights activist and CASA leader Fitzroy Christian Poets Amanda "La Tormenta" Villanueva, Caridad De La Luz, Rich Villar, and Luis "Brother North" Cañada Jainardo Batista y Cuarteto Guataca Salsa and Son Montuno Scenes from new Pregones/PRTT musical TORCHED!*

* "Our award-winning Latinx acting and music ensemble is preparing exclusive previews of scenes from our forthcoming musical TORCHED! -- exploding myths about the Bronx fires of the '70s and '80s with real stories from the people who lived them. I can't wait to share it and to experience what other makers and shakers have in store for us.” — Rosalba Rolón, Pregones/PRTT Artistic Director

3:00 pm – Poets Caridad de La Luz and Amanda “La Tormenta” Villanueva. Social and environmental justice activist Esperanza Martell. Featured performer: Legendary Palladium-era dancer Carlos “Charlie Mambo” Arroyo, aka Cha-Cha Taps, who dedicated twenty years of his life to professional dance, traveled the world, and collaborated with some of the best Latin and North American musicians of the ’50’s and ’60’s.

4:00 pm – Featured music group: Pafincar Afro Boricua Jam – Practitioners, lovers, and followers of Boricua music and culture convene to partake in this new group. Homegrown in the Island, seasoned in the Diaspora, with hints of urban delight, serving bomba Pafincar! With Víctor Pablo Gaetán, Clara Díaz, Fernando García and Gabe Globus. Tenants’ rights activist and CASA leader Fitzroy Christian.

5:00 pm – Featured music group: Jainardo Batista y Cuarteto Guataca – Powerful and elegant singer and percussiont Jainardo Batista in a set of Puerto Rican-Cuban-Nuyorican melodies. Poet Luis “Brother North” Cañada.  Theater preview highlight: Scenes from Pregones/PRTT’s forthcomign new musical TORCHED! about the South Bronx fires. Directed by Rosalba Rolón. Music by Desmar Guevara. Ensemble: Caridad De La Luz, Christin Eve Cato, José Joaquín García, Omar Pérez, Álvaro Benavides, Anthony Carrillo, Desmar Guevara.

Space is limited and Covid safety will be observed. Open to ALL and always FREE. Click on map for directions. Download FLIER (PDF).

Photos reproduced by courtesy of the artists and photohgraphers.

Programs made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with City Council, and from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Southwest Airlines is the Official Airline of Pregones/PRTT. View a full list of our generous funders here: pregonesprtt.org.