The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center Announces Fall and Winter Programming for Historias Reveladas
THE CLEMENTE SOTO VÉLEZ CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER
ANNOUNCES FALL AND WINTER PROGRAMMING FOR HISTORIAS REVELADAS
EXAMINING PUBLIC MEMORY AND NEW YORK’S FUTURE
Leading up to the Culminating Exhibition
Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight
Opening March 19, 2026
Remesas y Sobremesa: Que Rico Sancocho, 2025
New York, October 1, 2026 – The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, announces its fall 2026 programs for HISTORIAS, a multi-year initiative led by The Clemente and co-presented with the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York (LxNY). Through programming across music, augmented reality, political history, and foodways, the season invites New Yorkers to contribute to a public history of the city through the music, neighborhoods, and everyday practices that have shaped Latinx life, and imagine what comes next.
Programs include Fonoteca: Bring Records, Take Art, an event led by artist Pablo Helguera in partnership with CUE Art Foundation to build a public archive of Latinx music. The programming continues with Live from the Newsdesk of 2044: Hope and HISTORIAS, a live stage performance and workshop hosted by artist Noah Fischer with Urban Omnibus magazine. In partnership with the podcast La Brega, The Clemente will host a listening party and reception for an episode surrounding an endangered sonic landscape in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. A panel discussion co-presented with Creative Time will also feature artists Máximo Colón, Jamal Joseph, and Dr. jah Elyse Sayers to explore activism, mutual aid, and their creative practices.
In the South Bronx, The Clemente will continue the HISTORIAS in Motion public art series, developed with Kinfolk Tech to present site-specific virtual monuments, walking tours, and related public programs to bring overlooked Latinx histories into the streets and sites where they unfolded. This Fall sees the launch of ¡Y Yo Ya Estaba! (And I Was Already Here!), an augmented-reality monument drawing on a mural by artist and activist Virginia Ayress. Presented with South Bronx Unite, The Action Lab, and the International Indigenous Hip Hop Festival, the launch builds upon a Mott Haven mural as a site to connect with neighborhood histories of organizing and land stewardship.
Remesas y Sobremesa, a HISTORIAS signature series that presents intimate roundtable discussions conducted over a meal, also returns in November with two editions exploring collective memory and foodways. Manufacturing Cunt will center the past and present of Latinx nightlife with artist Jesús Hilario-Reyes, designer Raúl Lopez, and writer Carina del Valle Schorske. The second event will continue artists Zacarías González and Chong Gu’s project Carry, a participatory art project to question political hierarchies through shared space and communal eating.
Together, these programs lead toward Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight, the culminating exhibition of HISTORIAS, opening at The Clemente in spring 2027. Bringing together nearly 50 artists and 15 new commissions, Reveladas will activate all five floors of The Clemente’s renewed building following its major accessibility renovation.
All HISTORIAS events are open to the public, with most events offered free of charge. Registration information will be available through The Clemente’s newsletter and on the HISTORIAS landing page. A complete schedule follows.
New York 2044, 2026
October 20, 2026 – La Brega: The Sounds We Would Lose with Esencia
Flamboyan Theater
107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002
6:00 – 8:00pm
In partnership with the creators of La Brega, a bilingual podcast that tells the stories of Puerto Rico and its diaspora, The Clemente will present a listening party and launch celebration for the new episode, “The Sounds We Would Lose with Esencia.” The program will offer a darkened-theater listening experience followed by a Q&A and a reception. Guests are invited to “bring your own blanket”.
“The Sounds We Would Lose with Esencia” shares the story of an endangered sonic landscape in Cabo Rojo. Developers have proposed a luxury private complex called Esencia in an ecologically sensitive part of Puerto Rico, and the La Brega team will present the sounds that could be lost if the project is built.
October 21, 2026 – Fonoteca: Bring Records, Take Art
CUE Art
137 W 25th St, New York, NY 10001
6:00 – 8:00pm
In partnership with CUE Art Foundation, The Clemente will present Fonoteca: Bring Records, Take Art, an interactive event led by artist Pablo Helguera. The event will contribute to his project Fonoteca, a new public vinyl library and listening room devoted to Latin American and Latinx music which will be included in Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight.
The project invites attendees to donate or lend Latin music records across all genres, including salsa, bolero, cumbia, merengue, tango, Latin jazz, spoken word, and experimental music. In exchange for their contributions, Helguera will trade limited-edition works and original drawings created specially for the occasion.
Fonoteca builds a public record of Latinx New York through music and the listening histories of the people who contribute to it. The resulting vinyl collection will be permanently housed at The Clemente on New York’s Lower East Side as an accessible public resource.
November 2 – Live from the Newsdesk of 2044: Hope and HISTORIAS
Flamboyan Theater
107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002
6:00 – 9:30pm
Artist Noah Fischer will host Live from the Newsdesk of 2044: Hope and HISTORIAS, a live stage performance and interactive workshop co-presented with Urban Omnibus magazine. Centered around a speculative newspaper set 20 years in the future, the program explores memories and future visions of New York City through guest correspondents, live musicians, and video projections. The second half of the evening features an interactive workshop where audience members collaborate to share and draft their own speculative scenarios for the city’s future.
This event is presented with support from the Puffin Foundation.
November 8, 2026 – HISTORIAS in Motion: ¡Y Yo Ya Estaba!
Maria Sola Community Green Space
128 Lincoln Ave, Bronx, NY 10454
2:00pm – 6:00pm
In collaboration with Kinfolk Tech, South Bronx Unite, The Action Lab, and the International Indigenous Hip Hop Festival, The Clemente Center will present the third iteration of HISTORIAS in Motion, an augmented-reality public artwork series featuring South Bronx muralist and activist Virginia Ayress and performer and community organizer Kaila Bulé. The launch will include an accompanying zine, monument docents, a community-led walking tour, a wheatpasting project, and live music performances.
The work memorializes the South Bronx as a cradle of Latinx social movements, cultural production, and urban land stewardship. Through digitally editing an existing mural Ayress honors the land’s original Lenape stewards alongside Indigenous migrants, exploring how environmental justice, urban stewardship, Latino culture, and Indigenous ritual practice continue to shape the South Bronx today.
November 17, 2026 – Remesas y Sobremesa: Manufacturing Cunt
Performance Space NY
150 1st Ave 4th floor, New York, NY 10009
7:00 – 10:00pm
The Clemente will present the next edition of Remesas y Sobremesa, discussion and community event centered around a shared meal, as a collaboration with artist Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Raúl Lopez (founder and lead designer of LUAR), and writer Carina del Valle Schorske.
Building from a three-part radio series commissioned from Montez Press Radio on the history and ongoing evolution of Latinx nightlife, dance culture, and collective memory, the conversation will focus on the influence of Nightlife in the Latinx and fashion community.
November 18, 2026 – Sanctuary is a Revolutionary Act
Flamboyan Theater
107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002
6:30 – 8:00pm
In partnership with Creative Time, The Clemente Center will present Sanctuary is a Revolutionary Act, a panel discussion featuring photographer Máximo Colón, filmmaker and author Jamal Joseph, and Dr. jah Elyse Sayers, founder of “the people’s riisearch group”; a collective preserving the queer histories and futures of The People’s Beach at Jacob Riis Park in Queens. The program explores how radical community-oriented organizations create sanctuary through political organizing, mutual aid, and creative practice.
Drawing from their personal experiences with the Black Panther Party, The Young Lords, and El Comité, Joseph and Colón will discuss how Civil Rights–era initiatives established a precedent for social transformation. Joseph will share insights from his work as an author and filmmaker, while Colón will highlight his photography documenting Young Lords community programs.
This event is presented as part of Creative Time’s Towards Sanctuary program series.
December 12 – Remesas y Sobremesa: Carry for HISTORIAS
Flamboyan Theater
107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002
5:00pm – 8:00pm
The second edition of Remesas y Sobremesa of the season will highlight the work of artists Zacarías González and Chong Gu. Carry for HISTORIAS follows González and Gu’s Carry project and will present a fleet of mobile kitchen carts and a kit of attachment accessories designed to support collective cooking and gathering across the Lower East Side through the exchange and adaptation of recipes.
Attendees will assemble their own sandwiches with ingredients drawn from Cuban and Chinese recipes reworked with local, seasonal ingredients. The artists will then hold a discussion of how foodways connect people with the soil and sustain cultural memory across diasporas.
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About The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
Founded in 1993, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center is a Puerto Rican/Latinx multi-arts institution rooted in the Lower East Side/Loisaida. It provides affordable space for artists, small arts organizations, and independent cultural producers while presenting exhibitions, performances, and public humanities programs. Its stewardship of a historic, city-owned former public school connects cultural production with neighborhood history and public access.
The Clemente is a proud co-founder/partner of LxNY Consortium and the Coalition of Small Arts NYC (CoSA NYC).
About LxNY
LxNY | Latinx Arts Consortium of New York is a collaborative network of more than 50 legacy and emergent organizations advancing Latinx arts and culture across New York City. Formed in 2020, the Consortium strengthens the field through knowledge exchange, resource-sharing, collective advocacy, and collaboration among institutions serving Latinx artists and communities. LxNY works to address longstanding inequities in cultural funding and visibility while supporting the leadership, expertise, and legacies of Latinx arts organizations and culture bearers across the city.
About HISTORIAS
HISTORIAS is a multi-year initiative conceived and led by The Clemente and co-presented with the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York. Through artistic commissions, oral histories, public programs, and digital storytelling, it examines how Latinx communities have made New York through cultural production, labor, organizing, and everyday life. Launched with key support from the Rauschenberg Foundation, the initiative unfolds across three phases: Sembradas, Entrecruzadas, and Reveladas. Its culminating exhibition, Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight, opens at The Clemente in spring 2027.
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