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Pelham Art Center announces its fall
2019 program of Folk Art events, which
will highlight artistic traditions of four different
cultures through performance and
hands-on workshops.
Now in its twelfth year, the Pelham
Art Center Folk Arts Series celebrates
cultures from around the globe with performances
and art-making opportunities
that are free and open to the public.
This year-round program includes
musical and dance performances, demonstrations,
and hands-on workshops
that allow area residents to experience
and appreciate the diversity of traditions
both within the community and throughout
the world. Pelham Art Center’s fall
Folk Art events coincide with Pelham
Art Center’s gallery exhibition IN/FLUX,
which features artwork by immigrant and
fi rstgeneration artists who refl ect on the
complexity of immigrant experience in
our world.
Sunday, September 22: The Afro-
Puerto Rican Folk Art event with BombaYo
is a new addition to the Folk Arts program
in 2019. Pelham Art Center welcomes internationally
acclaimed performer/educator
and Bronx native Jose Ortiz, a.k.a. Dr.
Drum, to lead the community in a Bomba
music celebration. Bomba is an Africanderived
BombaYo will kindle the joy of this Afro-
Puerto Rican art form and ignite the ancestral
Diwali, the major festival for Hindus,
Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains, who believe
Sattriya Dance Company will perform
Sattriya. Sattriya is a 500-year-old living
dance tradition from the Hindu (Vaishnav)
India. The dance, practiced by celibate
monks, remained confi ned to monastic
rituals until the 1960s. In 2000, the Indian
the pantheon of major Indian classical
dances. Guests will enjoy audience participation,
henna body art.
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music and dance tradition developed
in Puerto Rico. With call-andresponse
singing, drumming and dance,
rhythms of Bomba.
Sunday, October 6 (ArtsFest Weekend):
Pelham Art Center will celebrate
that light is a metaphor for knowledge,
health, wealth and peace. Madhusmita
Bora & Prerona Bhuyan of the
monasteries of Assam in Northeast
government inducted Sattriya into
hands-on art workshops and
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Four folk art events will be coming to Pelham Art Center this fall. The events are free
and open to all ages. Photo courtesy of Pelham Art Center
Dead Folk Art celebration. Experience this
festive Mexican tradition in which passed
loved ones are remembered with joy
and celebration. Renowned artist Zafi ro
Romero-Acevedo returns to the Pelham
Art Center to share the history of one of
Mexico’s richest traditions through performances,
followed by an all-ages art workshop.
The fi rst performance is a traditional
Veracruz dance, “La Morena,” performed
by 14 year old Perla Perez and 16 year old
Fatima Cruz. The second performance is
a traditional Nahualt dance “La Xochipitzáhuatl”
performed by six girls ages 5
to 12. The Dance La Xochipitzáhuatl (the
mystical fl ower of the mother Earth) from
Oaxaca, Mexico also know for the ribbon
dance was renamed the “Holy Mother” or
“Virgin of Guadalupe/Tonantzin” upon the
arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. This
traditional ancient song (Náhuatl) is performed
during many holidays and festivals
across Mexico, including in: Hidalgo, San
Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Puebla, Querétaro,
Morelos, Oaxaca. It is traditionally accompanied
by three instruments: violin, Mexican
guitar, jarana guitar.
Sunday, November 10: Members of
the Matinecock Tribe of Queens and Long
Island, Turkey clan Chief Reggie Ceaser
and artist Tecumseh Ceaser will introduce
attendees to local Indigenous American
history, culture and customs. The two will
share their heritage through interactive
learning experiences and discussions to
provide insight into New York City’s Indigenous
American history and perspectives.
These presentations serve as a unique
educational opportunity by allowing the
audience to learn about the original people
of the borough of Queens and the local
tribes of the metropolitan area. They also
create a space to connect with the indigenous
people of the land on which many
of them live and work each day.
Pelham Art Center is located at 155
Fifth Avenue, Pelham, NY. For more information
call (914) 738-2525.
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The Enrico Fermi Cultural Center
Committee is sponsoring an Italian Musical
Event in honour of Italian Heritage
and Culture Month. The event, featuring
the music of Antonio Guarna, Teo
Ricciardella, Rocco Fiore, and Salvatore
Buonanno, will be held at the Belmont Library/
Enrico Fermi Cultural Center, 610 E.
186th Street, on October 17, from 6:30 to
9 p.m. Admission is Free.
To R.S.V.P., or for further information,
contact Josephine M. Bastone at enricofermiculturalcenter@
yahoo.com.
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Little Sisters of the Poor, 2999
Schurz Avenue, invite you to their Annual
Christmas Bazaar on Saturday, November
9, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday,
November 10, from noon to 2 p.m.
Included in the bazaar will br raffl es,
jewelry,a variety of gift items, craft items,
homemade baked goods, good food, and
much more. Free admission and free
parking.
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