Interview and reflections on a community fandango planting with Gemaly Padua
Gemaly Padua Uscanga’s visit left us with a song that tasted like a décima in our mouths, a purr of a tarima in our bodies, a mountain of memories full...
Here I am
A poem by Milvia Berenice Pacheco Salvatierra MÁS Excecutive Director Here I am This is me,My presencemy self defense. Here I am This is me,With an aching glance,With a...
After the absence…
By: Meyby Ugueto-Ponce, comadre, member of the committee of MÁS conversaciones para MÁS orgullo Yesterday, the show had fulfilled expectations, today was different, something else had happened. While she watched...
An interview with Otoqui Reyes, a bearer of Puerto Rican Bomba in Seattle
“When our hands connect with a DRUM that vibrates with our energy, vitality, emotion, euphoria, hope, sensitivity, surrender, sharing and unity, we become whole again.” Barry Bittman, MD Otoqui Reyes,...
My dad wants to learn how to do my hair
By: Meyby Ugueto. Insurgent braids collective Capuchinos subway station. A man with a black complexion and afro hair, chats with his partner, a woman with a white complexion and straight...
San Juan de Curiepe
Research: Meyby Ugueto-Ponce Photos: Franklin Perozo The Celebrations that arise around the Catholic image of San Juan Bautista, happen in Venezuela during the month of June. In Curiepe, an Afro-Venezuelan...
Colombian Cumbia
By: Marcela Rosero and Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle The word “Cumbia” comes from the Guinea Valley of West Africa. Cumbia was born in Santa Cruz de Mompox, Cartagena – Bolivar –...
Tamborito
The tamborito is the King dance and musical genre in the isthmus of Panama and is conventionally recognized as the most important expression of Panamanian folklore. Tamborito is a derivative...