Department of Transformation, Time for Transforming

Four Thursdays: June 11, June 18, June 25, July 2

Each day from 3–5pm, no registration necessary

Studio 308

Free; donations welcome

Starting from the premise that many meaningful changes arrive through small-scale dialogue, the Department of Transformation will offer Time for Transforming, a set of weekly “studio hours.” For four weeks (June 11–July 2) anybody—artists, designers, students, educators, healers, thinkers, makers, and human beings of all sorts—is welcome to drop-in to the DOT studio at The Clemente for talk and tea. Conversations can include feedback on creative work, sharing of practical or theoretical skills, and other topics. No registration is necessary; feel free to email team@d-o-t.nyc with advance questions. 

Department of Transformation, Time for Transforming

Four Thursdays: June 11, June 18, June 25, July 2

Each day from 3–5pm, no registration necessary

Studio 308

Free; donations welcome

Starting from the premise that many meaningful changes arrive through small-scale dialogue, the Department of Transformation will offer Time for Transforming, a set of weekly “studio hours.” For four weeks (June 11–July 2) anybody—artists, designers, students, educators, healers, thinkers, makers, and human beings of all sorts—is welcome to drop-in to the DOT studio at The Clemente for talk and tea. Conversations can include feedback on creative work, sharing of practical or theoretical skills, and other topics. No registration is necessary; feel free to email team@d-o-t.nyc with advance questions. 

Department of Transformation, Time for Transforming

Four Thursdays: June 11, June 18, June 25, July 2

Each day from 3–5pm, no registration necessary

Studio 308

Free; donations welcome

Starting from the premise that many meaningful changes arrive through small-scale dialogue, the Department of Transformation will offer Time for Transforming, a set of weekly “studio hours.” For four weeks (June 11–July 2) anybody—artists, designers, students, educators, healers, thinkers, makers, and human beings of all sorts—is welcome to drop-in to the DOT studio at The Clemente for talk and tea. Conversations can include feedback on creative work, sharing of practical or theoretical skills, and other topics. No registration is necessary; feel free to email team@d-o-t.nyc with advance questions. 

Tickets here, seats limited.

The CWP Evolution Festival presents a double bill of two new musical performances inspired by the preservation of the earth.

About INSTINCT AND EXTINCT:

When your home is changing, how do you stick to your life's purpose? Multidisciplinary artist Dominique Francis Grogan explores this concept from the perspective of some of America’s most critically endangered species: the Whooping Crane (Grus americana), the Northern Long-Eared Bat (Myotis septentrionalis), and the ʻĀkohekohe (Crested Honeycreeper).

This show is completely self-produced by the artist, with compelling alternative music production and provocative arias and a never-before-heard musical identity. Dominique has a background in classically trained vocal performance which is seamlessly combined with the modern sound of e-voque, their musical project with over 25 releases to date. Grogan worked with naturalists to source recent field recordings of these specific animals, which became an inspiration for telling the stories of their lives and experiences in an increasingly hostile natural world.

At the center of this work is an urgent political reality. Specifically, the Trump administration has proposed redefining the word 'harm' in the 1973 Endangered Species Act so that habitat destruction no longer legally counts as harming an endangered animal. Science is clear; destroying habitat is indirectly killing animals and entire ecosystems.

INSTINCT AND EXTINCT also touches on the still-present beauty of creatures and their habits: their musical hums, flutters, coos and calls. You will be reminded of the stunning rhythm and rhyme of mother nature.

This is a can't-miss premiere of a solo opera from award-winning experimental electronic musician Dominique Francis (aka e-voque). It is 25 minutes in length and completely performed by Dominique as a one-man show. Their piece LIQUESCENT premiered last summer on Governors Island for a three-month run, also exploring climate change and animal rights.

Cast & Creative Team:
Writer, Producer, and Performer: Dominique Francis Grogan (e-voque)
Bat Recordings and Sound Production: Ben Kinsley
Whooping Crane: Nate Shipley
ʻĀkohekohe Calls: Brooks Rownd

About Ofrenda:

Ofrenda is a multidisciplinary performance that lives at the intersection of art, ecology, spirituality, memory, and migration. Created and performed by Argentine artist Natalia Martinez Sagan, the piece brings together live interpretations of beloved Argentine folklore songs through singing and dance, alongside storytelling, ritual, and a hand-crafted costume inspired by her cultural lineages.

Performed primarily in Spanish - Natalia’s first language and the second most spoken language in New York City and the United States - the piece is deeply informed by her early immersion in Argentine folklore music and dance, and by her mixed cultural lineages, including Polish, Spanish, and Indigenous ancestry from South America.

Ofrenda explores themes of belonging, remembrance, and reciprocity, blending them into a contemporary offering centered on honoring and thanking the Earth.

Cast & Creative Team
Creator, Performer, Costume Designer and Maker, and Producer: Natalia Martinez Sagan
Production Consultant: Julia Nuin
Creative and Audio Consultant: Justin Zerza
Vocal Coach: Gabriel Lima
Ritual and Spiritual Advisors: Ñusta and Nahuan (Inti Waka)

About Dominique Francis Grogan:

Dominique Francis Grogan (e-voque) is an award-winning artist originally from Portland, Oregon, now living in Brooklyn, NY. Coming from a classical background, they dove into music production, activism, and songwriting around 2020, a journey that led them to their current project, the otherworldly and genre-defying e-voque. They use their vocal training to create ambient atmospheres with stunning layering and harmonies. The production moves between fuzzy and poignant, drawing from genres like shoegaze, baroque pop, and experiential composition. A deep love of nature and conservation appears prominently throughout their work, often serving as the central focus of their album projects, performances, and installations.

About Natalia Martinez Sagan:

Natalia Martinez Sagan is an Argentine multidisciplinary artist, performer, designer, and lifelong student of spiritual practices. Professionally trained in musical theater, singing, and dance, she has performed internationally, in both English and Spanish. Her artistic practice is deeply informed by Argentine folklore, regenerative ways of living, and spiritual ecology, and explores her cultural intersections and lineages, including Polish, Spanish, and Indigenous ancestry from South America. An environmental activist since childhood, Natalia is the Creative Director of Martinez Sagan Studio, through which she offers services focused on ecological creativity: exploring how to live more aligned with the wisdom of the Earth. An environmental activist since childhood, Natalia is the Creative Director of Martinez Sagan Studio, through which she offers services focused on ecological creativity: exploring how to live more aligned with the wisdom of the Earth.

About the CWP Evolution Festival

The fifth annual CWP EVOLUTION FESTIVAL presents original works of theater, dance, music, comedy, and interdisciplinary performance by NYC-based artists at venues across Manhattan in June and September 2026. Participants receive free performance & rehearsal space, marketing & technical support, a guaranteed artist fee, performance photography and archival videography, and more!

Learn more about the festival and the 20+ other shows on the schedule at www.centeratwestpark.org/evolution-festival-2026

Department of Transformation, Time for Transforming

Four Thursdays: June 11, June 18, June 25, July 2

Each day from 3–5pm, no registration necessary

Studio 308

Free; donations welcome

Starting from the premise that many meaningful changes arrive through small-scale dialogue, the Department of Transformation will offer Time for Transforming, a set of weekly “studio hours.” For four weeks (June 11–July 2) anybody—artists, designers, students, educators, healers, thinkers, makers, and human beings of all sorts—is welcome to drop-in to the DOT studio at The Clemente for talk and tea. Conversations can include feedback on creative work, sharing of practical or theoretical skills, and other topics. No registration is necessary; feel free to email team@d-o-t.nyc with advance questions. 

STORMS is an evening of five one-act plays moving through longing, absurdity, collapse, and fragile hope, each circling what it means to keep feeling in a world that resists it. From a woman confronting God in the aftermath of heartbreak, to two minds unraveling inside a system of control; from corporate “care” cracking under pressure, to a soul refusing to begin again, to sisters reaching for connection after everything familiar has fallen away. By turns darkly funny and raw, STORMS lingers, asking not just how we endure, but why we choose to.

YOU WHO ACHE: A woman who returns to an empty cathedral at night and comes face to face with God himself. What begins as a desperate plea about heartbreak and emotional suffering becomes a confrontation about love, loneliness, and what it means to feel too deeply in a world that rarely returns that devotion.

CIVIL WAR. BREAKFAST: Miz and Dame, play chess while trapped in a surreal authoritarian system. As their game spirals into psychological warfare, political allegory, and grotesque comedy, the play explores power, ideology, class, and the collapse of reality under repression.

WELLNESS ROOM: Takes place inside a corporate office “wellness room” during a day of mass layoffs. Two employees, an anxious meditation-seeker and an outspoken administrator, clash as panic spreads through the company, forcing both of them to confront burnout, complicity, and the hollow language of corporate care.

NEW BEGINNINGS: Centers on Ann, a woman who dies in a bizarre accident and wakes up in Heaven with her overworked guardian angel, Chloe. Faced with the prospect of choosing her 875th reincarnation, Ann resists the idea of starting over, leading to a funny, existential conversation about purpose, freedom, and whether life is worth living again.

TEENAGE: Follows two sisters reconnecting in their childhood kitchen after a societal collapse linked to technology and internet dependency. As Lisa attempts to help Dani recover from addiction and self-destruction through rigid routines and analog living, their uneasy reunion reveals deep resentment, grief, and the fragile hope of rebuilding human connection.

Alyson Leonard | Ariella Carmell | Abby Grantham | Thomas Simmons | Matthew Fay | Liz Fernandez | Alexandra Scordato | Robert Barnes Jr. | Chloe Milling | Jolene Mafnas | Ysaias Garcia | Rotem Minster | Nathan Dennis | Samantha Leon | Landon Hubbard | Elisabetta Bracer | Aria Martinelli | Vivien Tierney | Isabella Sale | Constance Lake

Mentors: Menahem Haike, Marcel Simoneau & Suzanne Di Donna

Developed at Circle Theater Workshop

Tickets here.

Come for the opening reception for Art-Work: Balance on May 29, 6-8pm! The exhibition will be on view from May 29 to July 12, 2026.

Art-Work: Balance, curated by Arthur Polendo, and organized by ABC No Rio and The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, explores the often invisible tension between creative practice and the jobs artists take on to support their practice. Featuring works across mediums, the exhibition reveals how labor outside the studio—whether inspiring, exhausting, or intrusive—shapes the artist's identity, process, and output. The pieces do not directly depict these jobs but instead respond to the lived reality of navigating survival and self-expression. This exhibition invites viewers to consider the cost, resilience, and ingenuity behind sustaining an artistic life.

Tickets here.

The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center and Kinfolk Tech are excited to announce the Jackson Heights, Queens edition ofHistorias in Motion, featuring Dome Cartographies, a new AR monument by artist Natalia Nakazawa paired with historical contributions from the Queens Memory Project. This signature series engages audiences with historically important Latinx neighborhoods around New York City, building community memory through artist-storyteller pairings, walking tours, limited-edition zines, and commissioned AR monuments that offer new possibilities for memorialization.

Join us at 5 pm on Friday, May 29, at the World's Borough Bookshop to celebrate the monument launch music, artist conversations, walking tours, 'zines, and more!

Come and join us for the release of Issue 4: Education of Noah Fischer's NY2044!

Reserve a spot here.

New York 2044 is a newspaper from the future. Its articles are reported from the imaginations of New Yorkers whose lives and work provide insight into the city's most persistent challenges from housing to immigration. Issue 4, on education, arrives at a moment when the question of what education is for feels more urgent than ever. Can it prepare New Yorkers for a disrupted economy? Is it capable of mending a deteriorated democracy? Will teachers and educational institutions survive AI? What would it take to bring education through the smoke of the present, and into a golden age in the city?

Three issues have been published — on housing, immigration, and energy — distributed through street kiosks, mobile newsstands, and live reading events where correspondents read future dispatches to live soundscapes.

The project was founded by artist and educator Noah Fischer in late 2023, originally commissioned by More Art through a public art grant.

Issue 4, on education, is supported by a research grant from The New School, where Fischer is a unionized part-time professor. The release event is a partnership with the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center where NY2044 is developing a longer-term collaboration alongside Historias (historias.nyc) and Shape of Cities to Come.

The release event will feature free issues of the hot-off-the press illustrated newspaper (plus previous issues), and readings set to a live sonic futurescape—an immersive experience of the future.

The launch will coincide with the debut of a new website that presents the project's accumulated narratives, timelines, maps, and entity directory in an interactive format.

Readings will be given by Daven Asafo-Agei, Jacob Cohen, Ciarán Finlayson, Nato Thompson, Sarah Truelsch, Amy Zimmer, Angelo Cabrera, and others. Playwright and theater producer Laurel Mora is helping develop the flow of the evening and will also perform.

In 2024, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center launched Historias, a multiyear public humanities initiative dedicated to rescuing and recentering Latinx stories and their role in shaping New York City. Developed with the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York (LxNY), Historias offers a curatorial and civic framework for rethinking how public memory is built, shared, and contested.

At the heart of the initiative is a simple proposition: Nueva York is the city inside the city. It names the dense, often underrecognized histories of labor, migration, artistic invention, spiritual life, and neighborhood formation that have helped make New York what it is. To trace the Nueva York inside New York is to look beyond official narratives and singular landmarks toward the social worlds and collective forms of remembrance through which Latinx communities have shaped the city over time.

This panel presents three artist commissions in development for Historias Reveladas, the initiative’s culminating exhibition and public program series. In dialogue with the digital platform Nueva York Chronicles, these projects demonstrate how artists can work with historically grounded material to activate public memory in rigorous, layered, and accessible ways.

Featured artists include Natalia Nakazawa, whose Dome Cartographies explores migration, collective imagination, and neighborhood-based worldmaking in Jackson Heights; Edwin Torres, whose editorial and artistic work revisits Loisaida’s 1990s poetry scene as a living archive of voice, performance, and gathering; and Alva Mooses and Mauricio Cortés Ortega, whose Hands of Time / Manos del Tiempo examines the labor, craft, and everyday infrastructures that have sustained Lower Manhattan beyond corporate narratives of development.

Together, these projects ask how artists, archives, and cultural institutions can help audiences trace the Nueva York inside New York.

The conversation will be moderated by Libertad Guerra, Executive Director of The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center and Chief Curator of Historias.

Join us for the opening ceremony for Brick and Stone: Landmarking our Lower East Side Heritage. Held on the street in front of The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, where the exhibition also is!

Date: May 2, 2026
Time: 2-5 pm
Location: Suffolk Street, in front of The Clemente

To celebrate our neighborhood’s extraordinary architecture and cultural history, the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative will showcase 12 historic buildings in an outdoor exhibition. These include health facilities, settlement houses, financial and religious institutions, firehouses and schools. LESPI is working to designate some of these buildings as NYC landmarks, to ensure they remain tangible links to our community’s rich past and survive for a vibrant future.

The exhibition itself will be on view from May 1 – June 30.

Hosted by The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center.

Supported in part by Council Member Christopher Marte.

The Clemente and Princeton University’s Humanities Council, Department of Comparative Literature, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Program in Latin American Studies are proud to present La Percera/ The Fishbowl (2023) at Teatro SEA!

La Pecera/ The Fishbowl (2023) directed by Glorimar Marrero Sánchez tells the story of a visual artist from Vieques as she faces terminal cancer and decides to return to her community, which is still dealing with the effects and toxicity of decades of U.S. military testing ground for war. It is a film that talks about grief, colonialism, ecological harm, and gender, as it makes us see the ecological and social consequences of U.S. colonialism, as well as about the power of a community that resisted it.

The film made history being the first Puerto-Rican produced film to premiere at 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and to receive a nomination for the prestigious Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film (2024). The film received numerous international accolades, including Best Film at the Cyprus Film Days and the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival. It was also nominated for Best Latin American Film at the Forqué Awards, and received two nominations at the Platino Awards.

The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with film director Glorimar Marrero Sánchez.

Reserve tickets here.

Limited seating.

Historias is excited to partner with MCNY to present a conversation on Printing Nueva York with author Kelley Krietz. Krietiz’s groundbreaking study maps the vibrant world of nineteenth-century Spanish-language print culture in New York, tracing networks of Cuban émigrés, political exiles, and Puerto Rican intellectuals who used newspapers, pamphlets, and literary journals to shape public discourse and assert self-representation.

Using Printing Nueva York as a historical anchor, the conversation will reflect on the longer continuities of Latinx knowledge circulation in New York—from nineteenth-century print networks to contemporary digital humanities projects such as Nueva York Chronicles. Kelly will be joined by Alana Casanova-Burgess, host and producer of WNYC’s NPR podcast La Brega. 

This conversation is moderated by Monxo López, MCNY’s Curator of Community Histories with an opening performance by Urayoán Noel, a writer, translator, and performer based in the Bronx who also is an Associate Professor of English, Spanish and Portuguese at New York University.

Tickets are limited, reserve yours here.

Cristina Candela is a Spanish flamenco dancer and multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. With nearly twenty years of professional experience, she has performed internationally across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She was a headliner at the Ankara International Flamenco Festival and has appeared at renowned venues including Los Tarantos in Barcelona, Café Flamenco Zyriab in Madrid, and Alegrías at La Nacional in New York. She is the director and lead dancer of the Candela Flamenco Ensemble and creator of Flamenco Jazz Jam and the contemporary performance NANA, bridging traditional flamenco with improvisation, live music, and cross-cultural collaboration.

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Limited seating.

Teatro LATEA, under the direction of Miguel Trelles, proudly presents the Festival de la Francophonie—a vibrant, electrifying celebration of the French language and the rich diversity of Francophone cultures from around the world!

Now, in 2026, history is being made as Teatro LATEA hosts the Festival for the very first time! This landmark edition, curated by Carole Alexis, bursts to life with a bold and dynamic program featuring French-language cinema, engaging conferences, dazzling dance, live concerts, theatrical performances, vibrant discussions, and so much more.

This is more than a series of events—it is an immersive cultural journey. Audiences connect with Francophones and Francophiles alike, participate in meaningful community-building experiences, and feel the pulse of a language and culture that continues to inspire the world.

And as the Festival reaches its grand finale, the celebration rises to its most joyful height—ending in a spirited party filled with music, movement, laughter, and connection. Artists and audiences come together, cultures mingle, and the night sparkles with festivity and shared joy. It is a radiant, unforgettable celebration that keeps the spirit of Francophonie alive long after the final note fades.

Reserve seating here.

Limited seating.

Teatro LATEA, under the direction of Miguel Trelles, proudly presents the Festival de la Francophonie—a vibrant, electrifying celebration of the French language and the rich diversity of Francophone cultures from around the world!

Now, in 2026, history is being made as Teatro LATEA hosts the Festival for the very first time! This landmark edition, curated by Carole Alexis, bursts to life with a bold and dynamic program featuring French-language cinema, engaging conferences, dazzling dance, live concerts, theatrical performances, vibrant discussions, and so much more.

This is more than a series of events—it is an immersive cultural journey. Audiences connect with Francophones and Francophiles alike, participate in meaningful community-building experiences, and feel the pulse of a language and culture that continues to inspire the world.

And as the Festival reaches its grand finale, the celebration rises to its most joyful height—ending in a spirited party filled with music, movement, laughter, and connection. Artists and audiences come together, cultures mingle, and the night sparkles with festivity and shared joy. It is a radiant, unforgettable celebration that keeps the spirit of Francophonie alive long after the final note fades.

Reserve seating here.

Limited seating.

Teatro LATEA, under the direction of Miguel Trelles, proudly presents the Festival de la Francophonie—a vibrant, electrifying celebration of the French language and the rich diversity of Francophone cultures from around the world!

Now, in 2026, history is being made as Teatro LATEA hosts the Festival for the very first time! This landmark edition, curated by Carole Alexis, bursts to life with a bold and dynamic program featuring French-language cinema, engaging conferences, dazzling dance, live concerts, theatrical performances, vibrant discussions, and so much more.

This is more than a series of events—it is an immersive cultural journey. Audiences connect with Francophones and Francophiles alike, participate in meaningful community-building experiences, and feel the pulse of a language and culture that continues to inspire the world.

And as the Festival reaches its grand finale, the celebration rises to its most joyful height—ending in a spirited party filled with music, movement, laughter, and connection. Artists and audiences come together, cultures mingle, and the night sparkles with festivity and shared joy. It is a radiant, unforgettable celebration that keeps the spirit of Francophonie alive long after the final note fades.

Reserve seating here.

Limited seating.

Havanafama Theatrical Co. and Teatro LATEA are proud to present two plays by the esteemed cuban playwright, Hector Santiago: 

Saturday, 14th of March @ 8:00pm: La Diva en la Octava Casa, a farce with vampiric overtones in which a legendary diva maintains, year after year, her eternal beauty and irresistible power. To achieve this, she summons secretaries with particular qualities: young, brilliant, and capable of imitating her perfectly. But when the new secretary discovers the secret hidden behind her immortal charm, the power game takes an unexpected turn.

Sunday, 15th of March @ 5:00pm: Balada de un Verano,  an intimate and deeply familial human story. Santiago returns to his childhood home after years of absence, confronting his sister Teresa and the memories of a past marked by rejection and silence. Among hidden letters, irreparable losses, and old wounds, the siblings reunite at a moment when pain gives way to forgiveness.

Both plays are performed entirely in Spanish. After Sunday's performance, we invite you to a special reception celebrating the career of  Héctor Santiago. There will be food and beverages, and the opportunity to share and connect with fellow artists and friends of the latin american theater community.

Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at https://teatrolatea.org/events/  or at the door the day of the performance.

Havanafama Theatrical Co. and Teatro LATEA are proud to present two plays by the esteemed cuban playwright, Hector Santiago: 

Saturday, 14th of March @ 8:00pm: La Diva en la Octava Casa, a farce with vampiric overtones in which a legendary diva maintains, year after year, her eternal beauty and irresistible power. To achieve this, she summons secretaries with particular qualities: young, brilliant, and capable of imitating her perfectly. But when the new secretary discovers the secret hidden behind her immortal charm, the power game takes an unexpected turn.

Sunday, 15th of March @ 5:00pm: Balada de un Verano,  an intimate and deeply familial human story. Santiago returns to his childhood home after years of absence, confronting his sister Teresa and the memories of a past marked by rejection and silence. Among hidden letters, irreparable losses, and old wounds, the siblings reunite at a moment when pain gives way to forgiveness.

Both plays are performed entirely in Spanish. After Sunday's performance, we invite you to a special reception celebrating the career of  Héctor Santiago. There will be food and beverages, and the opportunity to share and connect with fellow artists and friends of the latin american theater community.

Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at https://teatrolatea.org/events/  or at the door the day of the performance.

Tributo a la obra de Héctor Santiago

Teatro, memoria y poesía se unen en este homenaje especial al dramaturgo Héctor Santiago, presentado por Havanafama en LATEA NYC.

A Tribute to the Work of Hector Santiago

Theater, memory, and poetry unite in this special homage to playwright Hector Santiago, presented by Havanafama at LATEA NYC.

Reserve online here.

Limited seating.

Carole Alexis: Ballet des Amériques

Saturday

02.28.2026

Reserve Online

Limited Seating

Here

First Show: 3:00 PM

Second Show: 6:30 PM

$35 / Online (General Audience)

$40 / Door (General Audience)

$25 / Online (Students & Seniors)

$30 / Door (Students & Seniors)

$53 / Online (VIP)

*Prime Seat + 1 Complimentary Drink

Friday, 02.27.2026

Doors: 7.15 PM

Show: 7.30 PM

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Limited Seating

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Colette Michaan & Friends

An Evening of Afro-Cuban/ Latin Jazz/ World Music

Colette Michaan - Flute

Arthur Luis Alvarez Torres - Piano

William Spaceman Patterson - Guitar

Jorge Bringas - Bass

Yusnier Sanchez Bustamante - Percussion

Keisel Jimenez Leyva - Drums

Kevin Nathaniel Hylton - Mbria, Shekere

Join Teatro LATEA for an evening of various Afro-Brazilian dance styles, a screening of ORI, and a post-screening discussion.

Schedule:

Doors: 3:30-3:45 PM

Screening of ORI and post-screening discussion: 4:00-6:00 PM

Capoeira w/ Mestre Omi: 6:15-7:00 PM

Samba Reggae w/ Mambembe: 7:05-7:45 PM

Folkloric Show: 8:00-8:45 PM

Afro Brazilian Dance: 8.45-9.15 PM

ORI 

Director: Raquel Gerber

Producer: Raquel Gerber

While giving an overall look at the documented history of black movements in Brazil (during the 70s and 80s), ORI tells the story of a woman, Beatriz Nascimento, activist and historian, who searches for her identity through research into the history of "Quilombos" as warrior establishments and focuses of cultural resistance, from 15th-century Africa to Brazil in the 20th century. 

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Limited Seating.

Wednesday, 02.25.2026

Doors: 6:00 PM

Show: 7:00 PM

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Limited Seating

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Leaves by Victor Vauban Júnior

(Award-winning Playwright-Director)

A man is caught up between three sisters’ dreams of fame and fortune. As teenagers, Muriel and her two sisters had dreams of becoming the new musical sensation just like, “The Supremes” but blame it on their so-called-good-for-nothing-brother-in-law.

Starring:

Alexis Braxton

Benjamin Rowe

Patricia Fields

Joy Foster

Obi Nwako

and more…

Michael Fadugbagbe: E Be So! (It is true!)

Experimental Short Film

02.24.2026

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A Nigerian-American artist visits Nigeria for the first time since his parents’ emigration 22 years prior and offers questions about the state of Nigeria past, present, and future by interweaving archival material, found footage, and memoir with an Afrobeat score.

Awarded:

Jessup Prize, Highest Recognition in Art at Wesleyan University