BORIMIX

BORIMIX Puerto Rico Fest was established in 2006 by Clemente visual artist resident Miguel Trelles and Manuel Moran/Teatro SEA with the mission to celebrate Puerto Rican Heritage Month and showcase great Puerto Rican art in a range of mediums and disciplines. Beginning as a month-long gathering of Puerto Rico's diaspora artists, the festival was headquartered at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center in the Lower East Side. BORIMIX now takes place citywide and highlights the impact of the community on the arts and cultural life of the city, the nation, and the hemisphere. Each year BORIMIX invites a guest country from Latin America and the Caribbean to participate in the festival, creating a dialogue between the Puerto Rican diaspora and artists from the featured country.

Thanks to its partnership with The Clemente, BORIMIX has transformed Puerto Rican Heritage Month into a gathering of Puerto Rico’s diaspora artists with Latin Americans from all over New York. BORIMIX Puerto Rico Fest makes Puerto Rican arts accessible to a multi-ethnic and multi-generational audience, promoting creative collaboration between Latinx artists.