Tonight, Saturday, April 29, 2023, 8:00pm, Caridad de la Luz (La Bruja) presents “From Poor to Rico” on the Repertory Theater, Hostos Heart for the Arts & Tradition at Hostos Group School (situated at 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York). Chloe Rabinowitz (Broadway World) opinions the present in “Caridad de la Luz (La Bruja) to current “From Poor to Rico” at Hostos Heart for the Arts & Tradition.” [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]
Hostos Heart for the Arts & Tradition, in affiliation with Pepatián Bronx Arts ColLABorative, will current From Poor to Rico, a one-woman present written and carried out by the Emmy Award-winning poet, musician and storyteller Caridad De La Luz, often called La Bruja (The Good Witch). The efficiency is on Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. on the stage of the Repertory Theater at Hostos Group School, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Road), within the Bronx. Tickets can be found at www.hostoscenter.org or on the Hostos Field Workplace, opened Mon-Fri, from 1pm to 4pm and a pair of hours earlier than showtime. Name for tickets at (718) 518-4477.
Guided by Caridad, From Poor to Rico affords a strong testomony to the richness of Puerto Rican historical past, tradition, and its individuals. Audiences meet a resilient island ready to be free from the historic weight of colonization. Caridad envisions a future constructed on Indigenous – Afro – Taíno – Jíbaro tradition and creativeness. She dedicates her work to the Puerto Rican diaspora, a love letter to lives misplaced and to these nonetheless surviving. With authentic poetry, music, and visuals, Caridad invitations us ALL to think about a greater future for Puerto Rico.
Caridad De La Luz gained an Emmy Award as Script Author of “Legacy of Puerto Rican Poetry”, a cultural section that aired on ABC TV through the Nationwide Puerto Rican Day Parade 2021. As of January 2022, she turned the Govt Director of the Nuyorican Poets’ Café, the place she started her inventive profession in 1996. She is a multi-faceted author, performer, composer, and has been one in every of America’s main spoken phrase poets for over 20 years. She was named within the “Prime 20 Puerto Rican Girls Everybody Ought to Know” (La Respuesta). Referred to as a “Bronx Dwelling Legend,” Caridad acquired a Quotation of Advantage from the Bronx Borough President and The Edgar Allan Poe Award from The Bronx Historic Society. She has carried out at The Apollo, Lincoln Heart, Gracie Mansion, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Metropolis Corridor in New York Metropolis and worldwide venues. Since her 1996 debut efficiency on the famed Nuyorican Poets Café, she is now its new Govt Director. Caridad is a 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a David Prize finalist and is cultivating her personal artwork area within the Soundview space of The Bronx known as “El Garaje.” This new full-length work, “From Poor to Rico” shall be obtainable for future touring.
Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative is a non-profit, South Bronx-based arts group based in 1983 by award-winning artists Merián Soto, visible artist/MacArthur Fellow Pepón Osorio, and educator/director Patti Bradshaw. Directed by Jane Gabriels, Ph.D. since 1999 in collaboration with a number of artist consultants/ co-directors, Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative is devoted to creating, producing and supporting modern multidisciplinary artwork by Latina/o/x and Bronx-based artists.
The Hostos Heart for the Arts & Tradition consists of a museum-grade artwork gallery, a 367-seat Repertory Theater, and a 900-seat Foremost Theater, presenting artists of nationwide and worldwide renown. It’s simply accessible from Manhattan, Queens and New Jersey and is a mere quarter-hour by subway from midtown Manhattan. www.hostoscenter.org [. . .].
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For full article, see https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/Caridad-De-La-Luz-La-Bruja-to-Current-FROM-POOR-TO-RICO-at-Hostos-Heart-for-the-Arts-Tradition-20230426
From Poor to Rico
Caridad de la Luz (La Bruja)
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 8:00 pm
Repertory Theater, Hostos Heart for the Arts & Tradition, 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451
https://www.hostos.cuny.edu/culturearts/occasions/Year2023/April/From-poor-to-rico
Additionally https://www.fb.com/HostosCenterfortheArtsCulture (April 13 and 15, 2023 posts)