Caridad De La News

The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the NYC Department of Design and Construction have begun a $24.1 million City-funded renovation project for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Discover the thrilling lineup for REBEL VERSES 2023, featuring captivating performances of The Door, Girl Be Heard, and more. Get the dates and all the details for this must-see event in our latest article.

Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater’s original musical production TORCHED! will run for the first time in the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in Manhattan, the company’s historic Off-Broadway house.

La Secretaría de Cultura federal y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), en colaboración con la Junta de Coordinación Política de la LXV Legislatura del Senado de la República, invitan al concierto con canciones mexicanas que ofrecerán la contralto Ana Caridad Acosta y el pianista Héctor Cruz, el viernes 12 de mayo a las 19:30 horas en Casa Nuestra, Centro Cultural -Antigua Sede del Senado-, ubicado en Xicoténcatl número 9, Centro Histórico. La entrada es libre. 

This fall, Brown Arts Institute (BAI), a university-wide arts research enterprise that serves as a campus resource and catalyst for the arts at Brown University, will launch IGNITE, a series of interdisciplinary, collaborative, impactful projects centered around the possibilities of art as a vehicle for societal change.

Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, in association with Pepatián Bronx Arts ColLABorative, will present From Poor to Rico, a one-woman show written and performed by the Emmy Award-winning poet, musician and storyteller Caridad De La Luz, known as La Bruja (The Good Witch).

Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater announces the much awaited full run of its original musical production TORCHED! on May 19-June 12, 2022. Pulsing to the beat of salsa, funk-disco, and hip-hop, TORCHED! alternates from 1970's New York—when news of Bronx fires filled the headlines—to the present day featuring personal accounts of survival.

The world premiere of COLOROPOLIS, written by A.P. De La Caridad, directed by Travya Santos Gatz and Tor Brown, opens this Friday, February 11 at 8pm and runs through Sunday, February 27 only at Loft Ensemble, located at 11031 Camarillo Street in North Hollywood, 91602. Here is my interview with the talented trio on their vision for the production and the process of bringing it to the stage.

Now in its final week, the 14th annual Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival, running through January 31,will host two in-person events, including the world premiere of a new play by John Kearns and an online curated Irish language theater salon. 

Stage Garden Rumba–the performance series bringing live poetry, music, and dance to green spaces and 'Casitas' (community gardens) of the South Bronx– has announced the lineup for its Saturday, July 24 event at Brook Park (located at Brook Avenue and E 141 Street, in The Bronx).

This year, the series is hosted by celebrated spoken word poet 'La Bruja' Caridad de La Luz and returns in-person after going digital last year.

This year the series–a two-time winner of The Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund–is hosted by celebrated spoken word poet “La Bruja” Caridad de La Luz. Performances start at 3:00 pm, and attendees are asked to observe COVID-19 safety measures.

Stage Garden Rumba–the multidisciplinary performance series that brings live poetry, music and dance performances to green spaces and “Casitas” (community gardens) of the South Bronx–has an exciting lineup of FREE performances this Saturday, June 26th at the Willis Avenue Garden starting at 3:00 pm.

Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage has announced digital programming for the month of April, featuring celebrations for National Poetry Month, World Portuguese Language Day, and International Dance Day.

The Sol Project announced today full details for the third annual SolFest: A Latinx Theater Festival, produced in partnership with Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (Pregones/PRTT) and in collaboration with the Play At Home initiative and North Star Projects.

Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage will present a variety of performances, DJ sets, conversations and more from the Latin sector of the SummerStage Anywhere Digital Series. 

Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (Pregones/PRTT)a?"NYC's longest-running theater company centering Puerto Rican and Latinx artistrya?"announces the opening of its 2020/2021 season with Remojo 2020: a preview of new works in development. Featuring five 30-minute especially produced episodes, Remojo 2020 will be broadcast FREE on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. EDT July 6-August 3 through Zoom, Pregones/PRTT's website, and additional digital platforms.

On December 5th, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe proudly presents a panel with Jeremiah Moss (author of Vanishing New York), Sarah Schulman (author of Gentrification of the Mind) and Betty Yu (co-founder of the Chinatown Art Brigade). These activists and authors will discuss the personal and social impacts of gentrification, and explore effective forms of anti-gentrification activism. The talk will center on the history, and current state, of gentrification in the Lower East Side. Poetic performances by muMs, Caridad De La Luz, and Darian Dauchan will finish out the night.

Multi-GRAMMY Award-winning composer/pianist/educator Arturo O'Farrill and the non-profit The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance (ALJA) announce the kick-off to their 18th Anniversary live performance season with an unprecedented program of progressive artists banding together for change: SONGS OF LOVE & RESISTANCE.

Con un programa que incluirá obras como Bésame mucho, Janitzio y La Llorona, los concertistas de Bellas Artes, Ana Caridad Acosta y Carlos Alberto Pecero, quien además del teclado interpretará obras en acordeón, amenizarán el paseo del público de Paracho, Michoacán, con un concierto este 10 de agosto en la Plaza Principal, en el marco de la XLVI Feria Internacional de la Guitarra.