Aguacero

Description

SAN JOSE, CA — November 4, 2016 -- On Friday, November 4, the free South First Friday series at MACLA brings to you the traditions and creative expressions of Puerto Rican Bomba music and dance by Aguacero.

The notable First Friday Fiesta Series at MACLA brings several of the Bay Area's most prominent Latin American music and dance companies to MACLA's Castellano Playhouse in the heart of Downtown San José for an evening of free, educational, and engaging performances. The series is presented by MACLA during the monthly SoFA District Art Walk.


About Aguacero

Aguacero is an artistic, educational, and cultural project that focuses on the traditions and creative expressions of Puerto Rican Bomba music and dance. Aguacero literally means a sudden heavy rainstorm usually followed by a refreshing sky clearing and gust of sunshine. The spirit and practice of Bomba, like an aguacero, is intense, healing and pro-motes life and growth. Through song, music and dance, Aguacero embodies the life, en-ergy, and continuity of water in nature.


About MACLA/ Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana

Founded in 1989 as the result of a broad community mobilization in the City of San José and nationwide on behalf of multicultural arts, MACLA has promoted, since its inception, a vision of arts programming as a vehicle for civic dialogue and social equity.

A hybrid urban arts space located in downtown San Jose and rooted in the Chicano/Latino experience, MACLA intersects many communities, cultures, and aesthetic approaches. The participation of Latino and non-Latino audiences has been a distinctive feature of MACLA since its inception.

More than 30,000 children, youth, young adults, families and community residents participate in the 50 programs MACLA produces each year in four core program tracts: visual arts; performance and literary arts; youth arts education; and community development through the arts. http://www.alafiadanceensem-ble.com/

MACLA is committed to emerging Latino artists and audiences.

More Info

Link

http://maclaarte.org/calendar/sff

Call

(408)-998-ARTE (Box Office)

Email

Contact Form (account required)