Spotlight: Creatives at Work

Ensemble, Film / Media, Music, Presenting, Theater

FREE ONLINE – Mondays 7:30pm Starting August 24, 2020 – New series and original digital content! Inspiration plus provocations from performing artists and media makers of color, all agents of positive social change. Filmed primarily at Pregones Theater in The Bronx, the first 10 episodes of SPOTLIGHT feature twenty-two different theater, music, dance, and film/media artists. Each episode is a snappy 30-minute compendium of conversation and performance. — SAVE THE DATES!

SolFest 2020: Virtual Edition

Mainstage, Partnerships, Presenting, Theater

FREE ONLINE – August 3-5, 2020 – SolFest 2020: Virtual Edition is three nights of extraordinary Latinx theater, dialogue, and celebration for pandemic times! Produced in partnership with The Sol Project with Plays At Home and North Star Projects. Featuring commissioned short plays by Virginia Grise, juliany taveras, and Cándido Tirado; sneak peek of CARLA’S QUINCE by The Voting Project Ensemble; a new mockumentary by Christine Eve Cato; A SolFest Playwrights Panel; and much, much more! Three jam-packed nights. — RSVP NOW!

Introducing: Primera Fila

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From our earliest beginnings as itinerant performers, through years of focused activity devoted to establishing brick and mortar theaters in The Bronx and Manhattan, down to present day web and cable television broadcasts, Pregones/PRTT always draws its energy from the live current that connects artists and audiences. This unrelenting spark animates a robust multi-generational legacy.…

Bringing Copper & Sunflowers

Dance, Multidiscipline, Online, Presenting

FREE ONLINE – July 25, 2020 – We are proud to partner with Jane Gabriels and PEPATIÁN for the first digital edition of their annual Indigenous Women Artists Residency, a project co-directed with and featuring Caridad de La Luz (Taino). An international and inter-nation gathering of artists from across Turtle Island, also featuring dancers/choreographers Olivia C. Davies (Anishinaabe), Jessica McMann (Cree), and Cynthia Paniagua (Andean and Taino). Live Saturday night — RSVP NOW!

REMOJO 2020 Goes Digital!

Ensemble, Events, Film / Media, Music, Online, Presenting, Theater

FREE ONLINE – Encore! August 14, 2020 – We are proud to roll out our 2020-2021 Season with new online content every Monday night starting July 6th. REMOJO, the company’s recurring sneak peek at works in progress goes digital, giving audiences a chance to get up close and personal with Latinx theater, music, dance, and film/media artists. Events will broadcast for free on website, Zoom, and social media platforms. — RSVP NOW!

New Partnerships for Added Value

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Anchor Arts Organizations in NYC Unite to Form New “Latinx/POC Arts Legacy Consortium” Eight institutions challenge historical austerity and funding inequity when serving underrepresented communities NEW YORK, NY, June 15, 2020 – Spurred by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, eight esteemed arts organizations with deep roots in local communities of…

Solidarity, Values, Practice

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Solidarity is a life value and a life practice. Pregones / Puerto Rican Traveling Theater joins thousands of diverse voices rising against the ongoing abuse of power and racial injustices resulting in the assassinations of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Mubarak Soulemane. Tragically, they are only some of the many African American lives erased…

The Embrace (1990)

Education, Film / Media, Online, Video

In 1990, the artists of Pregones collaborated with documentary filmmaker Diana Coryat to capture a video performance of our long-running interactive forum theater project addressing HIV/AIDS. THE EMBRACE • EL ABRAZO provided hard hit Puerto Rican/Latinx communities in New York City with a bilingual platform where they could voice experiences, get facts, and build solidarity.

ARTIST LENS | Our Bronx Future

Dance, Events, Humanities, Multidiscipline, Online, Partnerships, Poetry, Presenting, Theater

FREE ONLINE – May 16-21, 2020 – We are proud to partner with Jane Gabriels and the extended creative family of PEPATIÁN in bringing together diverse cultural and community leaders to talk about issues impacting the future of the Boogie Down, and how arts and culture can be a conduit towards a better tomorrow. Get thinking, join the dialogue, and let’s all keep it real! Advance RSVP is required; events live via Zoom. — RSVP NOW!

Still from the film Moving Through Love featuring Latinx older adults.

Moving Through Love (2010)

Education, Film / Media, Online, Video

In the spring of 2010, a group of Latinx older adults from Erma Cava Senior Center in the South Bronx collaborated to develop, script, perform, and shoot a short film. This foray into the arts was one of Pregones/PRTT’s signature Seniors In Motion workshops. The enduring result reflects on the idea and lived experience of LOVE in all its richness.