From Our Friends:You still have time to catch Bomplenazo 2020!
The Hostos Center for Arts & Culture and the BomPlenazo Advisory Committee are hosting BomPlenazo festival featuring 4 concerts, 2 panel discussions, 2 film screenings, and 2 workshops engaging with voices from both the island and the diaspora. Join them on Facebook Live, Zoom and YouTube from October 7 to October 11.
This year’s festival – Bomba y Plena: En Acción - celebrates the bomba and plena legacies of struggle, resistance, action and resilience. The Festival pays tribute to the roles that la gente plenera y bombera, from the island and throughout our communities across the diaspora, have played in Puerto Rico’s historical and recent battles with hurricanes, earthquakes, environmental crisis, political corruption, gender, racial inequities, and most recently, COVID- 19. During these times of strife, catastrophe and adversity, our drums, songs and dances are once again sources of healing, mutual aid, and a testament of Afro-Boricua pride and spirit.