Borimix 2021 A celebration of Puerto Rican Heritage, Art and Culture. 500 Years of Old San Juan
Noviembre 6
BORIMIX Puerto Rico Fest makes Puerto Rican arts accessible to a multi-ethnic and multi-generational audience, promoting creative collaboration between Latinx artists.
BORIMIX Puerto Rico Fest was established in 2006 by Clemente visual artist resident Miguel Trelles and Manuel Moran/Teatro SEA at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center in the Lower East Side. This November long festival showcases Puerto Rican and Latin American art in a range of mediums and disciplines.
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. The Festival now takes place citywide and highlights the impact of the Puerto Rican/LatinX community on the arts and cultural life of the City, the Nation, and the Hemisphere.
We are ready to host our 16th annual BORIMIX: Puerto Rico Fest – NYC’s Latinx cultural landmark event -which features an array of events that include panels, films, theatre, music and the visual arts. These events highlight the impact of Puerto Rican identity and arts & culture within the City, Nation, and Hemisphere, as it intersects with other Latinx identities. This year’s edition is dedicated to the 500 years of San Juan.
Borimix 2021 Opening Celebration
Patitos Comiendo Arroz at Studio 309
The experimental short film “Patitos comiendo arroz” (Patitos eating rice) directed by playwright-director and filmmaker Javier Antonio González is a freewheeling collaboration with his artistic troupe, Caborca. The film is inspired by the groundbreaking book la novelabingo by renowned Diasporican-queer writer Manuel Ramos Otero. Initially, the film was created as part and in conversation with the performance/movement piece La Mamutcandungo (2015) created by José Pepé Álvarez. Eventually González decided to make it an audiovisual piece that could stand on its own. The short film dissociates itself from a narrative line, perhaps the closest to it would be a queer theater group rehearsing, playing, and documenting their own practice around Ramos Otero’s work. Moving by visual and sonic associations, the short film represents an exemplary case of interdisciplinary Boricua aesthetics.
El cortometraje experimental Patitos comiendo arroz, dirigido por el dramaturgo, director y cineasta, Javier Antonio González, es una colaboración improvisada con su compañía artística, Caborca. La película está inspirada en el libro la novelabingo del renombrado escritor diaspórico-cuir Manuel Ramos Otero. Inicialmente, la película se creó en conversación con la pieza de performance / movimiento La Mamutcandungo (2015) creada por José Pepé Álvarez. Finalmente, González decidió convertirla en una pieza audiovisual que pudiera valerse por sí misma. El cortometraje se disocia de una línea narrativa, quizás lo más cercano a ella sería un grupo de teatro cuir, ensayando, preparándose y documentando su propia práctica en torno a la obra de Ramos Otero. Guiado por asociaciones visuales y sonoras, el cortometraje representa un caso ejemplar de estética boricua interdisciplinaria.
“Una Función en el Cruce: Puente Ancestral, Corrientes Musicales”
Nov. 11 - Jazz Libre
Curated by Michele Rosewoman
Thursday, November 11 - Curated by Michele Rosewoman
“Una Función en el Cruce: Puente Ancestral, Corrientes Musicales”
7pm Francisco Mora Catlett’s Afro Horn
Francisco Mora Catlett - drums / Sam Newsome - soprano saxophone / Román Díaz - percussion / James Weidman - piano / Rashaan Carter - bass / Alex Harding - baritone saxophone
8pm Roman Diaz’s Rumba Ensemble
Román Díaz - percussion, vocals / Clemente Medina - percussion / Rafael Monteagudo - percussion / Barry Cox - percussion, vocals / Abraham Rodriguez - lead vocals / Máximo Gustavo - vocals / Onel Mulet - saxophone, vocals
9pm Michele Rosewoman’s New Yor-Uba
Michele Rosewoman - piano, vocals / Alex Norris - trumpet / Mike Thomas - alto & soprano saxophone / Isaiah Collier - tenor saxophone / Chris Washburne - trombone, bass trombone, tuba / Gregg August - bass / Robby Ameen - drums / Román Díaz - percussion, vocals / Rafael Monteagudo - percussion / Mauricio Herrera - percussion, vocals / Abraham Rodriguez - lead vocals
Frank Bell will emcee & moderate a post-concert Q&A with ensemble leaders & audience.
These performances are made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Friday, November 12
Arts for Art’s Jazz Libre Celebration for the Opening of BORIMIX
8pm Willy Rodriguez's Exploraciones Ponceñas'
Willy Rodriguez - drums / Dezron Douglas - bass / Santiago Leibson - piano / Yoni Kretzmer - tenor sax
9pm William Parker’s Southern Satellites
Isaiah Barr - sax / Dario Gomez - voice, percussion / Oscar Pena - tambura / Isaiah Parker - piano / William Parker - bass / Francisco Mela - drum set
Saturday, November 13
Arts for Art’s Jazz Libre Celebration for BORIMIX
8pm Juan Pablo Carletti’s Danzas Band
James Brandon Lewis - tenor sax / Ben Stapp - tuba / Juan Pablo Carletti - drums
9pm Brandon Lopez's Die Dreaming (morir soñando)
Matt Nelson - tenor sax / James Brandon Lewis - tenor sax / Brandon Lopez - bass / Buz Donald - drums
There’s a rumble beneath the tarp
November 11
by Kevin Quiles Bonilla
There’s a rumble beneath the tarp incorporates the use of lip-syncing as a “form of embodiment,” with ongoing exploration around the blue tarp. The tarp, an iconographic object in a Puerto Rico post-hurricane Maria, acts as “the remnants of a trauma that lingers within us”. The body will become a physical representation of a hurricane through movement and dress, moving along to salsa music.
Paoli Opera Concert
November 14 4:00pm
This concert, featuring performances by Studio LIS artists and faculty, will include repertoire for which Paoli was best known. We will also explore the rich contribution of Puerto Ricans in classical music as a whole including works by Puerto Rican composers and highlighting other Puerto Rican singers, past and present.