Sunday Insights: El Batey Puerto Rican Center on Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration
Sunday, March 21, 2021
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT
Installation view of Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration at Albright-Knox Northland. Photo: Brenda Bieger and Amanda Smith for Buffalo AKG Art Museum
FREE
Virtual Event
Join us for Sunday Insights, where community members relate their work and experience to special exhibitions. On March 21, El Batey Puerto Rican Center Founder and Executive Director Beatriz Flores will discuss connections between the special exhibition Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration and Puerto Rican identity. Members of El Batey will also express their responses to the work on view through music and dance.
Registration
Please register online. Registered participants will receive a link to join this virtual event the morning of the program.
About El Batey
El Batey Puerto Rican Cultural Center is an organization with a mission to honor and empower Puerto Rican people through culture, music, and history. Founder and Executive Director Beatriz Flores’s belief is that Bomba is the encapsulated expression of Puerto Rican history and ethos, as well as a vehicle for social change.
Exhibition Sponsors
Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration was made possible through the generosity of M&T Bank, Monica Angle & Sam Magavern, and Rich’s and Rich Family Foundation.
Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration was made possible through the generosity of M&T Bank, Monica Angle & Sam Magavern, and Rich’s and Rich Family Foundation.
Additional support provided by the Creative Arts Initiative of the University at Buffalo, Nicole & Steve Swift, Dr. Richard J. & Maureen W. Saab, and an anonymous donor.
Buffalo Public Schools Sciences and Arts Programming for Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration is made possible through the generosity of The MAK Fund.
The Albright-Knox’s exhibition program is generously supported by The Seymour H. Knox Foundation, Inc.
Albright-Knox Northland Sponsor
Albright-Knox Northland is supported by M&T Bank.
Albright-Knox Northland is supported by M&T Bank.
