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Hostos Center

Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture is the performing arts center of Hostos Community College (CUNY) in Mott Haven, The Bronx. It also hosts the Longwood Art Gallery. Hostos is one of the leading Latin performing arts centers in the Northeast, and one of the hidden gems of the South Bronx!

Thank you Hostos Center for sponsoring New York Latin Culture Magazine!

By the way. We love The Bronx, pa’ que tú lo sepas! ❤️

Hostos Center News

May 7, 2022

Puerto Rican Salsa

Spanish Harlem Orchestra with special guests Paquito D’Rivera and Hermán Olivera play their coming album “Imágines Latinas” at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx, Sat, May 14 at 7:30pm. From $25 (Students $5). hostos.cuny.edu 🇵🇷🇨🇺🇵🇷

Latin Music

Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture (Hostos)
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture (Hostos)

Hostos Center Tickets

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Student tickets are as low as $5

Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse
(between 149th & 144th St)
Mott Haven, The Bronx
(718) 518-4455

Instagram @hostoscenter
YouTube @hostoscenter

Subways
(2)(4)(5) to 149th St
The station is right on the block.

A Great Place for Latin Music in NYC

The Bronx is the home of Latin Jazz, Salsa and Hip-hop. Reggaeton also passed through from Jamaica to Panama to The Bronx to Puerto Rico and Medellín. The Bronx is a super creative place.

The community is very Puerto Rican and Latin, so the Center is one of the great places to listen to Latin music in New York City. The curation is excellent. You can see great artists that you won’t see in other venues, and tickets are cheaper.

Also the natural habitat of Latin music is the living room, patio, park or street. Because it’s really part of the community, the Center has that Latin vibe, even though it’s a theater. You will feel at home at Hostos Center.

Eugenio María de Hostos

Hostos (1839-1903) was a writer, educator and independence advocate from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

He was a Renaissance man with many accomplishments around the world including in New York City. But he is remembered as an advocate of secular education for all people including women. In his time, that was truly revolutionary.

Hostos wasn’t just a philosopher. He built many schools and changed the cultures of the societies in which he worked. Not many of us can say that about our lives.

And he was right. In New York City, one of the things we most lack as a community is education. Getting educated is one of the best things you can do to improve your life.

Hostos Community College is a great place to start.

Previously

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company presents “The Story of Cinco de Mayo” at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx on Sat, Apr 30 at 3pm. $10 (Students Free). Ashé. hostos.cuny.edu 🇨🇺

Josean Jacobo Shows Our Jazz
“Herencia Criolla” at Hostos Center

Josean Jacobo 2022 "Herencia Criolla" (the artist)
Josean Jacobo 2022 “Herencia Criolla” (the artist)

Josean Jacobo presents his new Jazz album “Herencia Criolla” at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx with a Master Class on his process Wed, Apr 27 at 7pm (free with registration hostos.cuny.edu) and a live Concert on Fri, Apr 29 at 8pm. From $20 (Students $5). hostos.cuny.edu

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Josean Jacobo, “the Ambassador of Afro-Dominican Jazz,” is a Berklee-trained pianist who is one of the hot young Jazz cats to come out of the Dominican Republic.

He’s inspired by the rhythms of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola where Jazz is from, before it took root in New Orleans.

Jacobo is playing his 2022 album “Herencia Criolla” (Creole Heritage) which speaks to the Latin mix of Indigenous, African and European peoples and cultures. He’s also giving a Master Class on how he brings Dominican folk traditions into his straight-ahead Jazz.

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African Diaspora Dance

Afro-Cuban dance collective Oyu Oro call the great mother Yemayá and the great drummer Changó in the world premiere of “Oni Oni” in the main theater at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx on Sat, Apr 23 at 7pm. $10 (Students Free). Ashé. hostos.cuny.edu 🇨🇺

Gay Chorus

The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus returns to the stage with some Queer performance joy at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx on Sun, Apr 24 at 3pm. $20 (Students $5). hostos.cuny.edu 🏳️‍🌈

Repertorio Español presents La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Oscar Wao, a play based on the Junot Díaz Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx, Tue-Wed, Mar 29-30. $10 (Hostos Students $5). hostos.cuny.edu 🇩🇴

Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans
with Randy Brecker & Ada Rovatti rock Hostos with Women’s Jazz

Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans (Angel Rosado/Hostos)
Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans (Angel Rosado/Hostos)

Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans, with guests Randy Brecker and Ada Rovatti, play Brazilian and Latin Jazz and Salsa at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx on Sat, Apr 2 at 8pm. Live $20 ($5 students). Streaming $10. 🇧🇷🇮🇹🇳🇮

This concert has some serious heavy hitters. It is Latin music (Jazz, Salsa, Samba), but the artists have storied backgrounds in American Rock.

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Annette A. Aguilar is an exceptional Jazz percussionist, bandleader, producer and educator in New York City. She is a little bit of everything. Classically trained, of Nicaraguan descent, Aguilar came up in San Francisco’s 1960s Rock scene. She played with people like the Grateful Dead, and members of Santana.

Brazilian Jazz is another part of her sound. In New York, Aguilar founded the Women in Latin Jazz Festival and is a U.S. State Department Latin Jazz Ambassador. She teaches in the East Village and Our Beautiful Bronx where she is much loved and respected.

Women are the guardians of culture, and Annette A. Aguilar is a serious drummer. It is still unusual, but in the 1960s, a woman drummer was exceptional.

Randy Brecker is a seven-Grammy winning Jazz and Rock trumpeter (Blood, Sweat & Tears; Jazz Messengers; Eliane Elias). Ada Rovatti is an Italian Jazz saxophonist and regular Brecker collaborator.

Members of Viento de Agua, Los Pleneros de la 21, and La Máquina Insular, tribute the late Puerto Rican Plena Master Hèctor “Tito” Matos, on Fri, Mar 25 at 8pm. Free with registration. hostos.cuny.edu 🇵🇷

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Tributes Eddie Bobè

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra and special guests tribute master percussionist Eddie Bobè at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx, Fri-Sat, Mar 18-19 at 8pm. From $20 (Hostos Students $5). hostos.cuny.edu 🇨🇺🇵🇷

Nélida Tirado: Dime Quién Soy dances traditional Spanish Flamenco con sabor Caribeño for the CUNY Dance Initiative at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx on Sat, Mar 12 at 7:30pm. Free with registration. 🇪🇸🇵🇷

Orchestra of St Luke’s presents “Earth Works: Music for our Planet” at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx on Thu, Mar 10 at 7pm. Free with registration. 🇵🇪

December 2021

The 30th Kwanzaa Celebration is virtual on Zoom, Facebook and YouTube at Hostos College in Mott Haven, The Bronx on Thu, Dec 2 at 7pm. FREE. cuny.edu 🇺🇸

November 2021

The 16th National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo is live at Hostos Community College, Sat, Nov 20 from 12-5pm and virtual at comitenoviembrevirtualfair.org 🇵🇷

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