📣 Mark your calendars for ‘Plantando Bandera: Pre-National Puerto Rican Day Parade’! 🗓️ Saturday, June 7 | 2–5 PM 📍 Grand St. Settlement, 80 Pitt St, NYC 🎟️ Free! | All Ages Welcome 🔗 RSVP in bio! Come celebrate Puerto Rican pride, culture, and resistance at this special pre-parade gathering honoring the 2025 cohort of artists, organizers, and cultural leaders who carry the legacy forward. This year marks the 130th anniversary of the Puerto Rican flag, and we’re commemorating it with live music, storytelling, hands-on workshops, and intergenerational celebration. Featured guests include: — Honorees Hermes Croatto and Mariana Reyes Angleró — Libertad Guerra and Victor Rivera, reflecting on Clemente Soto Vélez — Mujeres con Sazón, leading ‘Desde Jayuya a Nueva York: Boricua Cuisine is Culture’ Expect live music & celebration, art-making & cultural workshops, short presentations by honorees, and more! 🎥 This post features video clips from: — Hermes Croatto performing “Homenaje a César Concepción” — Marcelo Matos leading the plena workshop — Mariana Reyes in conversation with Marcelo — Archival footage of Tony Croatto performing “Yo Habito una Tierra Luz” This is more than a tribute—it’s a space for intergenerational exchange, cultural memory, and collective pride. Come plant your flag with us! 🇵🇷 #PlantandoBandera #PuertoRicanDayParade #The Clemente #BoricuaPride #ClementeSotoVélez #CulturalResistance #LaGoyco #CasaDeLaPlena #NYCEvents #BoricuasInNYC (fb)

✨ Spend an afternoon with us at The Met! Join us for ‘From ME to WE: Jamming with Manny Vega: An Interactive Art-Making Workshop on Diasporic Histories’ Explore diasporic memory, collective creativity, and the stories that shape our city through art. 🗓️ Saturday, May 31 | 1–4 PM 📍 The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 1000 Fifth Ave, NYC 📍 Event Location: Plaza, near 83rd Street ☔ Rain Location (ONLY if raining on day of event): Gallery 962, The Robert Lehman Collection, Floor 1 Join us for an afternoon of improvisational art-making with renowned visual artist Manny Vega, whose practice draws from Afro-Caribbean, Latin American, and global traditions. Developed as part of The Clemente’s Historias initiative and in conjunction with the reopening of The Met’s galleries for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, this two-part, drop-in workshop invites us to reflect on NYC as a mosaic of diasporic journeys. Drop-in Projects (1–4 PM): 🔹 RECASTING THE PAST — Collaborate with Vega in crafting a mosaic that reinterprets a selected artwork from The Met’s collection using contemporary materials. 🔹 FRAMING WHAT CARRIES US — Create personal emblems of memory, heritage, and symbolism, to be woven into a large-scale communal artwork conceived by Vega. Through mosaic and collage, ‘From ME to WE’ explores how personal and ancestral stories form a collective tapestry—one that celebrates NYC as a city shaped by movement, memory, and cultural fusion. 🎟️ Free! 🔗 More info in bio #HistoriasNYC #MannyVega #TheClemente #themet #latinxartist #latinamericanart #artistworkshop #themetropolitanmuseumofart (fb)