Current Events
Enjoy engaging performances, thought provoking exhibitions, and enlightening discussions that are enriching and relevant for all.
Noche Caribeña
Saturday, August 17, 2024
El Rinconcito
We are offering FREE Open Studio in both our Latin Music Project Center and the Humboldt Park Field House every Saturday 11am-2pm.
El Rinconcito Latin Music Project is a Music Open Studio Session that will take place every Saturday from 11am-2pm. It is completely free of charge so stop by and take advantage of this great opportunity. For more information contact benjamin@praachicago.org
El Rinconcito Art Studio is Art Open Studio Session that will take place every Saturday from 11am-2pm. It is completely free of charge so stop by and take advantage of this great opportunity. For more information contact jorge@praachicago.org
Rinconcito Art/Music Open Studio Saturdays 11am - 2pm
Noche Caribeña
Since 2017, PRAA has hosted the Noche Caribeña concert at Navy Pier’s Polk Bros Park Lake Stage Lawn. In partnership with Navy Pier, this summertime event is FREE and open to the public. Featured are Cuatristas along with international and local artists with their groups, as well as, up and coming musicians. This concert offers audience members multiple music genres including Puerto Rican and Afro-Caribbean folk, popular Latin American, big band, salsa, ballads, bomba and plena interpretations. Set with a backdrop of Navy Pier, spectacular views of Chicago and the resonances of music draw Chicago residents and visitors for an enjoyable evening concert.
This year on August 17, 2024 PRAA is honored to present to you some of the most prominent local music artists from Chicago.
Persistence: The Lion’s Roar in the Puerto Rican Arts
Persistence examines the migration of Puerto Rican student-artists to Chicago beginning in the 1920s to study fine arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition present a chronology of over 30 artists admitted to this prestigious institution and a selection of artwork representative of each decade. Showcasing the work of a group of artists reaffirming their national identity as a response to the Chicago experience, the exhibition addresses the migration experience, adaptation to the Chicago environment, confronting institutional colorism and race, and clashing with the Puerto Rico-United States colonial establishment. Curated by Jorge Felix, and Lizette Cruz-Perez, curatorial assistant.
