Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/03/2014
12:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Pregones Theater
Categories
SUMMER BLOCK PARTY
in collaboration with
Lincoln Center Out of Doors’ LA CASITA
Poet AMIRI BARAKA honored at this year’s celebration!
We are thrilled to join forces once again with Lincoln Center Out of Doors’ LA CASITA.
One of our most popular free outdoor events, this dynamic celebration provides a fun summer afternoon of performances, a live preview of Pregones/PRTT’s upcoming season and much more!
This year’s gathering honors Amiri Baraka –poet, musician, activist philosopher, provocative theorist—with words and sounds that reflect the late writer’s pan-diasporic sensibilities and progressive challenges to the status quo.
In this day-long celebration, Affrilachian masters, youth poet laureates, hip-hop freestylers, and other writers devoted to story and verse join explosive flamenco, salsa con conciencia, experimental Mexican vocal music, folk-jazz reinventions of Pakistani qawwali, Afro-Bahia music and dance, and inspired Native American song.
Sunday August 3, 2014 • 12noon to 8pm
Walton Avenue, between 149th & 150th Streets, Bronx, NY 10451
FREE! GRATIS!
FEATURING:
Poets: Jennifer Celestin, Louise Sky Dancer Halfe, Jamaal May, Tony Medina, Lenelle Moïse, Jessica Care Moore, Taqralik Partridge, Ramya Ramana, and Frank X Walker
Music: Acardenchados, Arooj Aftab, Soni Moreno, Sonia Olla & Ismael Fernández, Ologundê, and Orquesta SCC
MC: Baba Israel
For more information: 718-585-1202