Hostos Center is One of New York’s Top Latin Performing Arts Centers

Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture is the performing arts center of Hostos Community College (CUNY) in Mott Haven, The Bronx.

Its curation is adventurous. 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!

Hostos Center venues:

• Main Theater (seats 884)
• Repertory Theater (seats 367)
• Longwood Art Gallery

Thank you for sponsoring Latin art, comedy, dance, music, and theatre.

Typical 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. 🇵🇷
• 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.🇵🇷 🇨🇺

About Hostos Center

Hostos is one of the leading Latin performing arts centers in the Northeast. 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.

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 didn’t just talk, he built, and is loved across the Latin world.

“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 just cried, because through Hostos Center, he is part of our DNA too. What a great man.

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