Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture is the performing arts center of Hostos Community College (CUNY) in Mott Haven, The Bronx. Hostos presents artists you won’t see anywhere else, and tickets are less than in Manhattan. Hostos Center is not commercial. It’s educational. It’s Hostos!
Thank you for sponsoring Latin art, comedy, dance, music, and theatre. You are part of our DNA.
Danza Fiesta Honors Puerto Rico’s Greatest Composers with the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band
HOSTOS CENTER Mott Haven, The Bronx 🇵🇷
Teatro SEA Takes Ricitos & the 3 Bears on Tour to Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx
Ricitos y Los 3 Ositos (Ricitos and the 3 Bears), a bilingual Goldilocks 🇵🇷
PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Las Locaventuras de Don Qujote (The Crazy Adventures of Don Quixote) 🇵🇷
CLEMENTE CENTER, Lower East Side, Manhattan (touring in 2024)
Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans Women in Latin Jazz Festival at Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Hostos College, Mott Haven, The Bronx 🇳🇮 🇧🇷 🇵🇹
Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours Play a Puerto Rican Holiday Jazz Parranda
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx 🇵🇷
The Other Side Story is a One-Man Musical Comedy About the Brilliance and Resilience of the Puerto Rican Diaspora at Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ Ángel Vázquez, Resident Artist at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, tells funny, but true stories, about the brilliance and resilience of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. 🇵🇷
Salute Tito Puente el Mambo Diablo, Celia Cruz, and La Lupe, with Family, Friends, and his Mambo Legends Orchestra, at Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ Go if you love mambo, salsa, and bolero by Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, La Lupe, Vicentico Valdes, Santos Colon, and well you know.
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Merengueras Dominicanas: Ninoshka, Lidia de la Rosa, & Indira Rubiera Bring Quisqueya to Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ Three legendary women play their own flavors of Dominican merengue. 🇩🇴
ACO SONiC Festival with Miguel Zenón and Angélica Negrón Creates Avant-Garde Puerto Rican Classical Music at Hostos
A primer on some of the young Latin artists who are doing incredible work stretching the jazz and classical music canon in New York City.
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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Luis Santeiro’s “Dancing With Dictators” is a Heartfelt Cabaret with the Music and Rhythms of Cuba
The multiple Emmy Award-winning writer for “¿Qué Pasa, USA?” and “Sesame Street” tells his family story from pre-Castro Cuba to Latino All-American. He is the American Dream!
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
Thursday, May 4, 2023
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Xiomara Fortuna, the Queen of Afro-Caribbean Fusion, Plays Hostos Center
Saturday, April 1, 2023
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair 2022 is at Hostos Center
Saturday, November 19, 2022
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Hostos Center News
JUNE
Puerto Rican Jazz
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band; featuring Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer), Antoinette Montague (Duke Ellington Orchestra), Sugar Hill Nutcracker star Jennifer Jade Ledesna, and the Danza Fiesta dancers; celebrate Puerto Rico’s greatest composers in the Main Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos Community College in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 7:30pm. hostos.cuny.edu 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
About Hostos Center
Hostos is one of the leading Latin performing arts centers in America. Curation is excellent. You can see great artists that you won’t see elsewhere, and tickets are cheaper. It’s a great place to see Latin culture because Latin culture is community-oriented, and Hostos Center feels like home.
Hostos Center venues:
- Main Theater (seats 884)
- Repertory Theater (seats 367)
- Longwood Art Gallery
Hostos
Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla (1839-1903) was a Puerto Rican scientist, educator and independence advocate who worked for equal rights and education for all people. He supported the education of women when that was not popular. He didn’t just talk, he built.
“I wish that they will say: In that island (Puerto Rico) a man was born who loved truth, desired justice, and worked for the good of men.”
Eugenio Hostos wrote his own epitaph.
Hostos won’t return to Puerto Rico until it is free, so he is buried in the Panteón de la Patria, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. We went to visit him and cried out loud, because this was a great man who is loved throughout the Caribbean for his work.
More Information
http://hostoscenter.org
Twitter @hostoscenter
Instagram @hostoscenter
YouTube @hostoscenter
Artists
Many great Latin artists play Hostos Center. This is just since 2022.
- Ángel Vázquez “The Other Side Story” Puerto Rican theatre. 🇵🇷
- Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans Nicaraguan jazz, salsa, rock. 🇧🇷🇮🇹🇳🇮
- Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Cuban jazz. 🇨🇺
- Bulla en el Barrio, bullerengue 🇨🇴
- Calpulli Mexican Dance Company folkloric dance. 🇲🇽
- Danza Fiesta Puerto Rican bomba, plena, seis dance. 🇵🇷
- Gilberto Santa Rosa Puerto Rican salsa. 🇵🇷
- Hèctor “Tito” Matos Puerto Rican bomba and plena. 🇵🇷
- Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Cuban jazz. 🇨🇺
- Josean Jacobo Dominican jazz. 🇩🇴
- Lena Burke Cuban bolero. 🇨🇺
- Los Pleneros de la 21 Puerto Rican bomba and plena. 🇵🇷
- Malena Burke Cuban bolero. 🇨🇺
- Mambo Legends Orchestra Tito Puente’s legacy band. 🇵🇷
- National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair Puerto Rican art. 🇵🇷
- Nélida Tirado Puerto Rican Spanish flamenco. 🇵🇷 🇪🇸
- Orchestra of St Luke’s classical music. 🇨🇦
- Papo Vázquez and the Mighty Pirates Troubadours Puerto Rican jazz. 🇵🇷
- Paquito D’Rivera Cuban jazz. 🇨🇺
- Repertorio Español Hispanic theatre. 🇨🇺
- Spanish Harlem Orchestra Puerto Rican jazz and salsa. 🇵🇷
- Teatro SEA America’s Latino theatre for young audiences. 🇵🇷
- Tito Rodríguez Jr Puerto Rican mambo and salsa. 🇵🇷
- Xiomara Fortuna, Afro Dominican fusion. 🇩🇴
- Xiomara Laugart Cuban bolero. 🇨🇺
- Zaccai Curtis Afro-Cuban Jazz Quartet. Puerto Rican Cuban jazz.🇵🇷 🇨🇺
Hostos Center Tickets
Student tickets can be as low as $5.
Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse
(between 149th & 144th St)
Mott Haven, The Bronx
(718) 518-4455
Subways
(2)(4)(5) to 149th St
The station is right on the block
Recently
APRIL
Bilingual Puppet Theatre
Teatro SEA “Ricitos y Los 3 Ositos” (Ricitos and the 3 Bears) is a bilingual Goldilocks story; in the Main Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos College (CUNY) in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 3pm. $10. hostos.cuny.edu 🇵🇷