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Stage Garden Rumba is back in South Bronx community gardens!

Where Art Meets Green!

Stage Garden Rumba is an open invitation for all New Yorkers to experience the cultural riches, green spaces, and vibrant Casitas of the South Bronx! Our 2024 series comes at you pumped-up with new in-person performances! The series will again feature extraordinary ARTISTS—actors, singers, dancers, and writers;  ACTIVISTS with the pulse of local, national, and international struggle and social justice; and COMMUNITY MEMBERS, just like you! Hyperlocal and universal, Stage Garden Rumba brings together voices of joy and revolution to fuel our collective imagination and propel us into the future.

Click below for more details about the artist lineup!

September 28 at Hunts Point > Click To Open

Date: Saturday, September 28, 2024
Time: 2pm to 6pm
Location: Hunts Point Riverside Park, 1409 Lafayette Ave, Bronx, NY 10474

The first Stage Garden Rumba of the season brings a new lineup of poets, activists and musicians to our beloved gathering in community open spaces. Hosted by Caridad De La Luz, the multifaceted performer known as “La Bruja” and one of America’s leading spoken word poets– audiences will hear from award-winning Afro-Puerto Rican poet Mariposa Fernandez and Stephanie Pacheco–this year’s National Youth Poet Laureate. Mind Builders Stage Band, rapper Regie Angelou and Afro Puerto Rican Bomba artist Alma Moyo will be on site with musical performances and Honduran born poet/rapper/DJ/DJ DeLaCeiba will provide curated DJ sets.

STAGE GARDEN RUMBA is two-time winner of The Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund. This FREE arts program is made possible, in part, by Con Edison and the J. L. Greene Arts Access Fund in The New York Community Trust, and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. For full list of our funders, visit www.pregonesprtt.org.

  • Location

    Hunts Point Riverside Park

  • Date & Time

    Saturdays 2:00pm to 6:00pm Eastern

  • Featuring

    Music & Performing Groups:
    Mind Builders Stage Band

    Regie Angelou

    Alma Moyo

    DJ DeLaCeiba

    Poets:
    Caridad de la Luz

    Mariposa Fernandez

    Stephanie Pacheco

    and more!