Latin Heritage Month Celebration
Dinner
Featuring Miguel Algarín
The Latin Heritage Month Celebration Dinner is a formal
presentation to highlight the achievements and contributions of
Latin Americans to the global community. The dinner will celebrate
the different Latin American cultures with the goal of highlighting
and ultimately embracing these differences.
Miguel Algarin is a writer, poet, and retired Afro-Puerto Rican
Studies professor from Rutgers University. He founded the Nuyorican
Poets Café in 1973. He began operating in his East Village
apartment with co-founders Miguel Piñero, Bittman "Bimbo" Rivas,
and Lucky Cienfuegos. By 1975, the venture outgrew that space, so
Algarín rented an Irish pub on East 6th Street, and called it "The
Nuyorican Poets Café". By 1980, the overflow of patrons led them to
purchase the current building in the Lower East Side. Miguel
Algarín retired from his thirty years of running the Puerto Rican
Studies Department at Rutgers to continue as the executive producer
of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe's theater. Presented at the venue is
work from rising musical artists, spoken word and poetry, and live
theater. Algarín has written many acclaimed books and edited many
poetry anthologies such as Love is Hard Work: Memorias De
Loisaida and Aloud: Voices from Nuyorican Poets
Café.
RSVP
RSVP for this event is required. Please
contact Ms. Nashia Whittenburg, Associate Director of
Multicultural Affairs at (718) 990 6887.
Date
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Time
7:00 PM
Location
Marillac Terrace, Queens Campus
More Information
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(718) 990-5400
Sponsored by Multicultural
Affairs