Sunday October 6

SolFest Picnic in the Park

SolFest kicks off the festival with the third annual SolFest Picnic in the Park. Join us for this communal event to celebrate seven years of artistic excellence and programming.

Monday October 7

Dolorosa
By Anne García-Romero. Direction by Laurie Woolery.
In a 1990 Boston suburb, Dolores, a bicultural Latina at midlife, struggles to be a good aunt to her troubled, teenage niece Rosa, while recovering from her own difficult past, with help from her cats, Felipe and Osvaldo.
Content Advisory: Family alcoholism, female infertility, and recovery from childhood sexual abuse.

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Monday October 7
North Star Projects Latiné ShortsFest (NSPLSF)
Curation by Andrés Nicolás Chaves & Adriana Gaviria

Join us for the second NSP Latiné ShortsFest during SolFest! The evening will include 12 short films featuring Latiné filmmakers Claudia Mulet, Hedi B. Asencio, Ana Grethel Solis, Adriana Gaviria, Marissa Chibás, Alejandro Alviar, Pablo Mejia, Alessia Sanchez, Fernando Morett, Steven Luna and more.

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Tuesday October 8

Three Short Works: New York Historias (titles with asterisk)
To learn more about HISTORIAS, a multi-year initiative of The Clemente and LxNY Latinx Arts Consortium of New York, visit lxnyarts.org/networkbuilding.

* Te quiero en South Street Seaport
By Peter Pasco. Direction by Katherine George.
Alfredo proposes to his long time girlfriend Yolanda at one of the most romantic spots in the city, South Street Seaport. What could go wrong?

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* Afro-Borinqueña
By Reynaldo Piniella. Direction by Reza Salazar.
Afro-Borinqueño is a solo theater piece about Arturo Schomburg, a man who crossed oceans in a quest to preserve our history.

* La Gringa No Baila
By Jen Diaz. Direction by Adriana Gaviria.
“Where are you from?” seems like a simple question, but it’s a little complicated when you were born on an island colonized by the U.S. & raised in the Deep South. Jen navigates the complexities of diasporic Puerto Rican identity and grapples with the question of where home truly lies. Join her on a heartfelt and humorous journey as she explores the intersections of heritage, identity, and belonging in this captivating one-woman show.

Lottery Boy
By Edwin Sanchez (Excerpt – Act Two). Direction by Jorge B. Merced
At the end of act one, Paco, a 16-year-old boy, had found a way to take control of his dead father’s lottery winnings. In act two, Paco learns just what money can and can’t buy, and one can have all the money in the world and still be powerless to help the people he loves.

La Tormenta
By Ana Luz Zambrana and Aditya Joshi. Direction by Kathleen Capdesuñer.
In La Tormenta, Zaire and her daughter Estrella attend Abuela’s 93rd birthday in Castañer, Puerto Rico. Estrella resents her older sister Maria, whose distance from the family is the harshest form of abandonment, and she and Zaire don’t even expect Maria to show up and celebrate Abuela. But when Maria arrives at the same time as a hurricane and power outage, the standard-issue chaos of a Puerto Rican family devolves into something much more corrosive.

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Wednesday October 9

Dead Girl’s Quinceañera
By Phanésia Pharel
Being 15 is even more complicated when your best friend goes missing. Maria’s besties are in a race against the clock to find out what happened to her and bring her home alive. A dark comedic thriller about secrets, sisterhood, and crime solving; Dead Girl’s Quinceañera asks what it means to come of age in a messed-up world and what we need to do to survive.
Content advisory: Violence, guns, and sexual abuse.

Thursday October 10

The Brunch Crowd
By Dillon Yruegas. Direction by Rula A. Muñoz.
Always wanted to know how transgender people of color go about their daily lives? Spoiler alert: they don’t just talk about hormones, surgery, or anything else that The Cis seem to be so obsessed about; they go to brunch and drink too many mimosas, just like you! In The Brunch Crowd, follow the lives of four twenty-something queer trans friends who often meet at their favorite Mexican brunch spot in rapidly gentrifying Austin, Texas.

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January 6th, A Celebration: A bodega princess remembers tradition, not insurrection
By Iraisa Ann Reilly. Direction by Estefanía Fadul.
In the basement cafeteria of St. Nicholas School in Egg Harbor City, NJ, the Latiné community held a huge celebration every January 6th to celebrate the Feast of Los Reyes Magos. For writer and performer Iraisa Ann Reilly, the fiesta in 1998 changed the course of her life forever. Reilly recounts four years’ worth of Reyes Magos celebrations, introducing the audience to members of her family and her hometown where she grew up between language and culture. This interactive one-woman show invites the audience to celebrate and reclaim the date, January 6th.

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Don’t miss the 7th edition of SolFest:
A Latiné Theater Festival 2024!