Tampa Bomba and Plena: Festival de Bomba y Plena en Tampa - November 16, 2014

FESTIVAL DE BOMBA y PLENA EN TAMPA! NOV. 16TH
ST. JOSEPHS CATHOLIC CHURCH! 
W/ Rafael Maya (Desde Cero) Charley Rivas Johnny A. Frias (Zona de Bomba) Hector Colon (Cuki Ara/Nostalgia Amarilla/Bomba Puertorriqueña En Tampa) Pablo Luis Rivera (Restauracion Cultural)Angelina Rivera (Bomba Yo/Nostalgia Amarilla/Bomba Puertorriqueña En Tampa) Jessica D. Albino-Garza (‪#‎BombaBody‬ /Nostalgia Amarilla/Bomba Puertorriqueña En Tampa)
Proyecto Unión presents ‪#‎Bomber‬@sdelaFlorida y Bomba Body
Julissa Manners, Jessica Bayonet Asia Janay Lavarello
Invited Speaker! Luis Gilberto Torres Santiago
Alberto Delgado Santiago

Event: Festival de Bomba y Plena en Tampa
Bomba and Plena artists: Proyecto Union, Los Pleneros de la Cresta, A Son de Plena, Plena Mar Latino, Renacer Borincano and Bomba Body Dance 
Date and Time: Saturday November 16, 2014 from 12pm -7pm
Venue and Location: St. Joseph's Catholic Church at 3012 W Cherry Street, Tampa, FL 33607
Admission: Free
For more information: (813) 570-8179

Pre-festival party: Friday November 15th at Mojitos Lounge at Crowne Plaza Westshore, Tampa, FL

New York Bomba (class): INTRO to PRIMO DRUM w/ Rafael Maya - Saturday October 25, 2014

The Loisaida Center, Afro-Inspira and Proyecto Unión present: 
Master Bomba drum percussionist Rafael Maya, Introduction to Primo drum workshop. 
(Dance interpretation and Improvisational language)

Workshop description:
This workshop will be about dance interpretation using the language and drum of Puerto Rico’s Bomba. We will be discussing what is needed in preparing for your quest into primo drum playing and will be going over basic variations and language used during improvisation. We will also be diving in hands on with examples of different forms of looking at interpreting dance. Finalizing with ways of adding your own individuality and energy to the equation.

Bio:
Rafael Maya Alvarez was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He is the founder and director of Desde Cero and founder and director of Proyecto Union. Rafael also has participated in Bomba groups such as Majestad Negra(Member and Coreographer), Compania Folklorica De Loiza, Restauracion Cultural(VP, Co-Director), Tambuye, Tendencias(Co-Director), Carabali, Sabor a Bomba, Fiesta Bombera, Son de Plena, y Bomba Tour. Rafael is currently teaching with the project Gigantes de la Bomba who offers classes twice a week in the Plaza de Recreo of Carolina and to schools in the Municipality of Carolina. Rafael has participated as an instructor in programs such as “Vida Plena”, “Head Start,” “Upward Bound”, “Taller Fotoperiodismo”, “Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena”, “Program of continued education”, “Early Start” and “Bomba de Oro”. Rafael also gives bilingual Bomba workshops for the Univeristy of Puerto Rico’s(Rio Piedras campus) exchange student program and is currently giving class in The U.N.E. University(Carolina). He was invited and gave his latest Master Class in Berkeley College of Music in Valencia, Spain. For several years he was one of the dance and percussion instructors for the Corporacion Pinones se Integra in Loiza an also for Arthur Murray Dance Studio is Santurce. Rafael has travelled to numerous countries providing lectures and performing, because for Rafael, the most important element in his work is cultural education.

When???
Saturday October 25th, 2014
3:30pm to 5pm
Cost: $15
Residents of the Lower East Side $10
Bring your own drum/conga/djembe
Djembes for rent $ 5.00 (first come first serve)
Requirements: basic knowledge of Bomba rhythms
No one will be turn away for lack of skills.
Join the Bomba community through movement and song!!!
Loisaida Center-
710 East 9th Street, Lower East Side, NY 10009
http://loisaida.org/

Coral Gables, FL Bomba: Bombazo con Zona De Bomba and Proyecto Union and at Open Stage Club - Saturday March 1, 2014

Join Zona De Bomba and friends visiting from Puerto Rico - members of Proyecto Union and Desde Cero - for a night of Bomba, with a special art presentation by Reynaldo GuAracibo Rodriguez!

Event: Bombazo con Zona de Bomba and Proyecto Union + Art Presentation @ Open Stage Club
Artists: Zona de Bomba, members of Proyecto Union and Desde Cero and art presentation

Date and Time: Saturday March 1, 2014 at 8pm

Venue and Location Open Stage Club at 2325 Galiano Street, Coral Gables, FL 33134

Admission: Not Listed