| | |  | Click here to watch our latest 50th Anniversary Video: Women of Centro. | March may be in full swing but do👏🏽 not👏🏽 forget👏🏽 that it is also Women's History Month! It is hard to summarize the profound impact the women at CENTRO have had on what we do, but there is always something they have in common:
They are ambiciosas 🏆, atrevidas 🦸🏽♀️, independientes 💁🏽♀️, inteligentes 📚, inquisitivas 🧐, rule-breaking 🔨, boundary-pushing 🏋🏽, poderosas 💪🏽💅
Here at CENTRO, we are fortunate to have a rich legacy of women who have made significant contributions to the fabric of our organization and the larger Puerto Rican community. Current Directora, Yarimar Bonilla, may have been named the first woman to actively fill the role, but CENTRO has been ready for a female Director for decades. (Dr. Maria Josefa Canino was nominated by CENTRO staff to serve as Director **three times** during her tenure!)
Since our founding, CENTRO has remained a progressive institution producing radical and bold work that wouldn't be possible without the women who have passed through our doors. As Camille Rodríguez, Former Director of Operations, said in our Women of CENTRO video, CENTRO was "community-based and focused, and it wasn't afraid to challenge the prevailing intellectual paradigms."
And you already know, CENTRO siempre está listo for a challenge! As we look to the rest of the month and year, we ask ourselves how can we continue to challenge the prevailing paradigms that exist today? We aim to continue highlighting the vital role that women have played at CENTRO and in the Puerto Rican community starting with our Artistic Research Resident Fellow on Feminism, Diasporican Art In Motion - Artist of the Month, and our upcoming events like the opening night of the exhibition Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo!
And lastly….remember to follow us on social media 📲 @centropr | | | |  | José Ortiz Pagán, Exit, 2015 | CENTRO Announces the opening of Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo with Hunter East Harlem Gallery this Spring | Don't miss Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo (Arrivals and Departures: Migration Experiences in Contemporary Puerto Rican Art) in partnership with Hunter East Harlem Gallery, from March 30th, 2023 through September 30th. This is the first exhibition CENTRO has presented in the last 10 years. Make sure to join us for this historic occasion! | |  | CENTRO names Leenda Bonilla as Spring 2023 Artistic Research Resident Fellow on Feminism | CENTRO has named Leenda Bonilla as the Spring 2023 Artistic Research Residency Fellow. Leenda Bonilla is an interdisciplinary artist, art + culture producer, and a specialist in civic engagement with art-making practices. She will develop a visual narrative project focused on the history of Puerto Rican women and girls living in the mainland and island from 1972 to 2022. | |  | Diasporican Art In Motion - Artist of the Month: Gabriela Salazar | Gabriela Salazar was born in New York City to architects from Puerto Rico. Her work examines the modes and measures of knowledge that are transmitted—visibly and invisibly—via structure and objects, the built and found environment, personal history, and material, as frameworks for site-responsive installations and sculpture. | | | | |  | CENTRO & The Whitney
"No existe un mundo poshuracán" Luto y Lucha: Grief and Resistance in the wake of María
March 15th at 4PM ET
Virtual | FREE, RSVP required
Can grief and mourning be catalysts for political change? This conversation with artists Garvin Sierra Vega, Gabriella N. Báez, Sofia Córdova, Awilda Sterling-Duprey, Elle Pérez, Lulu Varona, and Edra Soto considers aspects of loss, whether personal or societal, and the inextricable relationship between art and politics in Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Maria. Moderated by Marcela Guerrero, Senior Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Cafecito con… La Brega
March 16th 3PM ET
Virtual | FREE, RSVP required
Join La Brega host, Alana Casanova-Burgess, and writer, Sergio Gutierrez Negrón, as we explore episode 6 of the 2nd season of La Brega: "Boricua En La Luna", a classic Puerto Rican anthem about a young man born outside Puerto Rico, who dreams of going back to his parents' home but never does.
Episode 6 just came out! Listen in English here and Spanish here! |
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March 22nd 6PM ET
In-Person | FREE, RSVP required
Join CENTRO and Sierra Club for a screening of the film and a conversation with the film's director, JuanMa Pagán Teitelbaum, and Ramón Cruz, President of the Sierra Club. "Serán las dueñas de la tierra" (Stewards of the Land) follows the experience of three land cultivators on the archipelago as they work on their farms, advocate for food sovereignty and security, and attempt to build up their country.
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|  | Afternoon Tertulia: Is Statehood as a Decolonizing Option for Puerto Rico?
March 29th 2PM ET
In-Person | FREE, RSVP required
Is statehood a pathway towards decolonization? What are the implications of Puerto Rico shifting its status from an unincorporated territory to a state? As part of the Bridging the Divides Decolonization study group, CENTRO Directora will have a conversation with Prof. Christina D. Ponsa Kraus and Rep. José Bernardo Márquez to hear their views on statehood as an alternative for the self-determination process for Puerto Rico. Tune in and bring your questions!
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Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo
March 30th 6:30 PM ET
In-person | FREE, RSVP required
Join CENTRO for the opening night of "Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo" at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery on March 30th. The exhibit, whose name translates to Arrivals and Departures: Migration Experiences in Contemporary Puerto Rican Art, is curated by Laura Bravo and features 19 Puerto Rican artists whose works respond to the experience of many Puerto Ricans living abroad.
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| | | | | | Legacies of San Juan Hill Displacement and Survival in Puerto Rican New York: Broken Promises in Lincoln Square
by Lorrin Thomas, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden
During the 1980 presidential campaign, Puerto Rican residents in New York's poorest census tract – located in the poorest congressional district in the country, in the South Bronx – found themselves in the spotlight. Learn more about this historic chapter by visiting the newly launched microsite, Legacies of San Juan Hill. | |
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CENTRO T-SHIRT
CENTRO is more than a research institute…it is a ~state of mind~ and what better way to honor that than by dressing the part 😉
By purchasing CENTRO swag, you not only get to match #TeamCENTRO, you'll also be supporting our next 50 years!
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| | Taller Puertorriqueño Exhibition Asserting Presence
Join Taller Puertorriqueño on March 17th at 5:30pm for the opening reception of their latest exhibition "Asserting Presence" by Nitza Tufiño. Born in Mexico, Tufiño is the daughter of the Puerto Rican artist Rafael Tufiño and the Mexican dancer and model Luz María Aguirre. She considers herself bi-cultural, being from multiple backgrounds, Puerto Rican and Mexican or Mexi-Rican. Her prints and paintings of family, friends, and places she has visited. In her work, she addresses the duality of seeing and being seen. | |
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| | UPR Cumbre Internacional de Afrodescendencia
Join la Cumbre Internacional de Afrodescendencia on March 20 to 23. This summit will bring together people from academia, art, media and the Puerto Rican community to discuss the eradication of racism and the affirmation of Afro-descendants in the Americas. | |
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| | Pa'lante!
-Your friends at CENTRO | Like what you see? Let us know your thoughts about any of our initiatives | | Help preserve our past and forge nuestro futuro. |
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