Stage Garden Rumba

Summer 2019 is officially extended through September with Stage Garden Rumba, the FREE live arts series that asks WHAT MAKES OUR SOUTH BRONX BOOGIE?

WHEN: Saturday, September 7, 2019 from 2pm to 6pm

WHERE: Brook Park (494 E 141 Street at Brook Avenue)

WHO: Pregones/PRTT Ensemble in scenes from upcoming new musical ¡GUARACHA!, Simply Rob, Redobles de Cultura, Mariachi Real de México, Mazarte Dance Company, Charles Rice-González, Nieves Ayress, Rosangelica Lopez, Rabih Ahmed, Ed Morales, Walter Bosque, Vir-Amicus DJ Music, and more!

SPECIAL EDITION: This special edition of #SGR2019 culminates in an Afro-Puerto Rican bomba procession led by Redobles de Cultura from Brook Park to nearby Old Lincoln Detox/H.E.ARTS Building at Willis Avenue Playground (349 E 140 Street), where we celebrate the unveiling of the mural We Have A Story to Tell by local artist Virginia Ayress and Taller Experimental de Arte. The mural is dedicated to all immigrant children, and the fun continues with more music, food, and screening of historic doc The People’s Detox by Jenna Bliss. The evening program, titled Lifting H.E.ARTS: The Present, The Future and The Foundation, is co-presented by South Bronx Unite and Loisaida Center.

WHAT: Music, theater, dance, literature, and activism—presented by Pregones/PRTT in partnership with We Stay/Nos Quedamos with our people and for our people! Stage Garden Rumba is an open invitation for all New Yorkers to experience our beautiful South Bronx green spaces and Casitas in the company of creative and fearless agents of change! This season, SGR will again feature: Extraordinary ARTISTS—actors, singers, dancers, writers;  ACTIVISTS with the pulse of local, national, and international struggle and social justice; and COMMUNITY MEMBERS, just like you, who are invited to join in co-learning/co-curating activities shining a spotlight on 40 years of original Puerto Rican/Latinx theater and music by Pregones! Get inspired and connected with live performances, community dialogue, and calls to action.

PLEASE NOTE: This FREE event will take place RAIN OR SHINE!

STAGE GARDEN RUMBA is two-time winner of The Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund. Additional key support provided by Con Edison. All photos property or courtesy of the artists. This FREE arts program is made possible, in part, 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 a full list of our funders, visit www.pregonesprtt.org.