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September 2019
Welcome, Neighbors / Bienvenidos vecinos
Join us for food, music, and conversation to celebrate the launch of a new bilingual website: Neighbors/Vecinos: Exploring Philadelphia’s history through 200 years of Puerto Rican migration. Durante los últimos dos años, un dedicado grupo de la comunidad ha estado indagando en el centro de archivos del Taller Puertorriqueño y el de la Sociedad Histórica de Pensilvania para develar historias sobre el proceso migratorio, maleabilidad, resistencia y adaptabilidad que componen la historia de los puertorriqueños en Filadelfia. Enterémonos de sus experiencias,…
Find out more »Meet Angélica Y. Rodríguez
Join us for a book reading and signing by the children’s author, Angélica Yazmin Rodríguez of her new book, My Best Friend, Dylan. A story about coping with psoriasis and about friendship, kindness, and acceptance helps. Raised in Puerto Rico, Mrs. Rodriguez is a writer, producer, and radio personality. Now in living in Philadelphia, she is known for her 2014 book, Bubba The Purple Cat. Her pet cat and dog inspired the book. She is currently writing the third book…
Find out more »Mes de Herencia!
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Taller and Accíon Colombia. Mariposas-Amarillas-ProgramDownload: Spanish version YellowButterfliesinAutum2019 Download: English Version
Find out more »Environmental Justice: Our Future Depends On It
Join us for a discussion on strategies and needed policies for addressing the ever-increasing dangers of climate change. The forum will be moderated by Carlos Martínez Rivera, Ph D, amphibian biologist at the Philadelphia Zoo, and features Puerto Rican environmentalist, Fernando Silva Caraballo, Director of Institute of Science for the Conservation of the Environment (InCiCo), Ryan Kuck, Executive Director of GreensGrow, Jean Warrington, Executive Director of Historic Fairhill, and artist, Samuel Lind. Panel que considera cómo el arte puede…
Find out more »October 2019
Samuel Lind / Portales
Reception On view through January 11, 2020 A cultural ambassador, artist, and activist in his town of Loiza, Samuel Lind (b. 1954 Loiza, Puerto Rico), makes work that brings awareness to issues regarding racial justice, spirituality, cultural legacy, and gentrification. Reared and based in this majority Afro-Latino town, Lind, an Afro-Caribbean artist created in his house and studio a cultural depository and safe space for the people to celebrate and preserve their heritage in the face of climate and economic…
Find out more »Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights offers a reexamination of the history of Puerto Ricans’ political and social activism in the United States in the twentieth century. Authors Lorrin Thomas and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago survey the ways in which Puerto Ricans worked within the United States to create communities for themselves and their compatriots in times and places where dark-skinned or ‘foreign’ Americans were often unwelcome. The authors argue that the energetic Puerto Rican rights movement which rose…
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