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• Cultural Center Saturdays - Dominoes, Cafe, y Amistad (9am-1pm)!

  Tourists in Central Texas visit all the time! Our Cultural Center is open to the community Saturdays during school hours in Spring & Fall (except holidays). Come visit and enjoy Puerto Rican coffee and fun conversation! Or come challenge PRFDance Director Tekina-eiru' Maynard to a game of dominoes. If you know her, it won't surprise you to discover she rarely loses!

  

• Esperanza de la Herencia 2012, May 20, 2012, 2-4pm

  Please post our FLYER. FREE Event. Each year, PRFDance brings the rich heritage of Puerto Rico to life with "Esperanza de la Herencia," a performance event dedicated to inspiring Youth. This live music and dance recital, showcasing our cultural arts students, is backed by our PRFDance & Jr Performing Companies and displays the rich variety of Puerto Rico's traditions. Children are the hope of the future. We hope our programs create a love for culture that lasts a lifetime, and inspires them to celebrate and transmit our joyful heritage to future generations.

  In partnership with the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) this live traditional music and dance performance will be take place at the MACC Auditorium, 600 River Street, Austin 78701. The Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC), along with the City of Austin, is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable modifications and equal access will be provided upon request. For special accommodations please call the MACC at 512-478-6222, or 711-Relay-Texas, or 1-800-735-2989 TTY.

  
  

• Celebrando 2012 - Bomba de Loiza Festival - June 23, 2012, 7:30pm-11pm

  Find your Salsa dance shoes and dress to impress! Los Hermanos Ayala will be here direct from Loiza, Puerto Rico to celebrate our 15th Anniversary with us!

  Join Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance as we celebrate 15 years of dedication to Puerto Rico's culture and heritage, with an exciting evening of folklore and salsa, featuring joint performances Bomba from Loiza and Plena by Los Hermanos Ayala and PRFDance. Dance to the hottest salsa in Central Texas' with Orquesta Trabuko. Come hungry because Chagos Caribbean Cuisine will be there!

  This heritage festival and celebration will take place on June 23, 7:30pm-11pm at the Marchesa Performance Hall, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin TX 78752. Limited table seating available (plan to arrive early). Cash bar available. (Proper ID required. Please drink responsibly.) Ticket on sale in May.

  This performance is sponsored in part by Ahora Si, Chagos Caribbean Cuisine, The City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

• PRFDance 15th Anniversary Celebration, Sept. 9th, 2012, 2-5pm

  FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. PRFDance will be celebrating our 15th Anniversary, birthday style with cake and candles, Sunday, September 9, 2012, 2-5pm. More details later this summer.

  

• 5th Annual Taino Family Camping Trip, October 5-8, 2012!

  Every year is amazing and we will do it again - The 5th Annual Taino Camping Trip in the tradition we enjoy on Boriken, October 5-8, 2012! Each October, our cultural center flies (Chief) Cacike Cacibaopil of El Concilio Taino Guatu-Ma-Cu A Boriken to Austin for a special weekend camping trip, that celebrates Taino heritage and gives our cultural center an "outside the classroom" experience in Taino traditions. More details this Fall.

• Sembrando Herencia 2012 - 9th Musical, Texas School for the Deaf, December 2012, 3pm

  Each year, Sembrando Herencia combines live music, dance, and theater, to bring awareness of often-forgotten elements from Puerto Rico's rich heritage. In 2012, PRFDance will debut Tekina-eiru' Maynard's 9th original bilingual musical, written in her unmistakeable style filled with joy, adventure, and magic, that will bring history to life for both the audience and the dancers, musicians, and performing arts students who share in the experience. This event will take place at the Texas School for the Deaf. Mark your calendar! More details this Fall.

• Octavitas: Celebrating Puerto Ricans in Central Texas - January 20, 2013, 2-5pm

  Come celebrate the Octavitas, the last holiday event of the Christmas Season, as the Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance and Cultural Center honors the next honoree, for their contribution to our community. 2013's event will once again feature antojitos Boricuas, music, artist exhibitions, a Parranda sing-along, and folkloric to contemporary music and dance performances by Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance. Standby for surprise announcement of honoree later this year.

• Watch this space for more announcements!

• 1st Annual CAPICU' Dominoes Tournament - Sunday, April 29, 2012, 3-9pm

  CAPICU' !! The Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance and Cultural Center invites the members of our community to an exciting Dominoes Tournament, Sunday, April 29, 2012, 3pm-9pm. Do you feel lucky? Local companies are donating prizes!

  What is your favorite dominoes memory? Our PRFDance Director remembers her Dad: "I remember when I was a little girl, when my Dad and I played dominoes in teams, we were unbeatable! I knew by how he played what he had, and in silence we would build a strategy that would massacre our opponents. My greatest joy was seeing the smile on his face when would he raised his last dominoe in the air before saying -- CAPICU'!!"

  Donation at the door cheerfully accepted! The competition will make you hungry so please bring a pot luck to share. Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance and Cultural Center, 701 Tillery Street, Austin 78702. Center's entrance is in the back, just steps away from the free parking lot. Please RSVP to dance@prfdance.org.

• 1st UT NAISA Eagle & Condor Symposium - Gathering of Nations Reception, April 27, 8:00pm-10pm

  El Concilio Taino Guatu Ma-cu A Boriken in collaboration with Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance is proud to host...

  UT Native American Student Assembly presents the 1st annual Eagle & Condor Symposium's "Gathering of Nations Reception", sponsored by Indigenous Cultures Institute. Experience an ancestral journey that pushes the senses into the future sounds of earth's rhythms with musical guests, HUEHUETL. There will be a fundraiser for Peace & Dignity Journeys 2012.

  Special thanks to El Concilio Taino Guatu Ma-cu A Boriken in collaboration with Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance for hosting this event in a sacred space: 701 Tillery Street, Austin TX 78702. Entrance behind building, next to free parking. For directions visit: http://prfdance.org/location.htm

  For more info on the symposium, contact UT NAISA organizer: Roberto Flotte, flotte.roberto@gmail.com, 432-661-7785.

  

• 1st Annual Taino Earth Celebration & Picnic - Berry Springs Park, April 21, 2012, 11-4pm!

  Please post our FLYER. Elders around the world are encouraging the new generation to learn the old ways. On Saturday, April 21, 2012 11-4pm, El Concilio Taino Guatu Ma Cu A Boriken, in collaboration with PRFD Cultural Center, will hold our 1st Taino earth celebration and picnic at Berry Springs Park in Georgetown.

  Scheduled activities will teach our community -- and especially the children -- about the importance of taking care of the earth and using the resources around us wisely. Sometimes....the children will be teaching us! The day will be fun, educational, and of course, end in a Taino Areyto, in street clothes, so that everyone can join us and celebrate all we have learned! Informal workshops include:

  PROGRAM:
  • 11:00 am - Arrive and settle in! Bring a picnic lunch, refreshments (no glasss), and favorite lawn chairs. There are no vendors at the park.
  • 11:30 am - Official Welcome
    Music of El Concilio Taino with Mayohacan & Taino flute
  • 12:00 pm - Circle of Life - two-part workshop teaches:
    * Craft making with natural and recycled resources
    * Feeding wildlife with renewable resources.
  • 1:00 pm - Batu, learn the ancient Taino ballgame. Competition follows!
  • 2:00 pm - Toy making with available resources, save your lunch packaging for the kids!
  • 3:00 pm - Areyto to La Madre Tierra, all welcome to participate in ceremonial dance.
  • 4:00 pm - Closing.
  • Notes: In Taino tradition, time & plan are approximate.

  This all-day, free event will be held outdoors in Berry Spring Park under old Grandfather Pecan trees. Bring your lawn chairs, a picnic lunch and plenty to drink (no glass bottles). There are no vendors at the park. Berry Springs Park & Preserve, 1801 C.R. 152, Georgetown, TX 78626, between I.H. 35 and (Country Road) C.R. 152, main entrance off of C.R. 152.

  

• Roberto Clemente Memorabilia & Puerto Rican Sports Cards Event - March 10, 2012, 10am-2pm

  Free Event. Catch it! Like Roberto Clemente Did!

  Roberto Clemente was -- The Great One -- one of the greatest Puerto Rican baseball players of all time! On Saturday, March 10th, 10am-2pm, come enjoy a showing of Roberto Clemente Memorabilia! Edwin Baez, "die hard" Clemente fan and avid collector of baseball cards, will show his collection and teach you how to start collecting cards in any sport. Come collect trading cards. Follow the career of your favorite sports star!!

  Our sports experts promise there will be surprises -- and door prizes every hour! At PRFD Cultural Center we are more than dance and music! SO COME ONE COME ALL to the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, 701 Tillery Street, in Austin, Texas 78702. Our entrance is on back of the building, steps away from the free parking lot. Here are directions.

  

• Valentine Salsa Social & Potluck Party - Feb 11, 2012, 6-9pm

  Family event for the members of our community. PLEASE RSVP to dance@prfdance.org

  FREE EVENT. This Valentine, Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance & Cultural Center is celebrating love and family with a Salsa Social & Potluck Party, Saturday, February 11, 6-9pm. Fiesta de sorullo, lleva lo tuyo!

  Does anyone remember those wonderful old house parties when we were young? You would bring the whole family, and a pot luck dish to share for the dinner. It would be a wonderful night of dancing and being together! We'll be recreating that world. Come be our Valentine!

  No partner needed at this family-friendly and FREE event. So bring your children and their favorite games. Players, bring your dominoes! Please bring a dish to share for the dinner.

  Find those "dress up" clothes that are screaming for a night out, and come dance "Salsa Dura" with your kids for Valentines. Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance & Cultural Center, 701 Tillery Street, Austin, 78702. Here are Directions. Parking & Entrance are in the back.

  This is a NonAlcoholic, Family Event.

  

• Octavitas: Celebrating Puerto Ricans in Central Texas - January 22, 2012, 2-5pm

  Please share our Flyer!

  Christmas is not over for the Puerto Rican community! Come celebrate the Octavitas as the Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance and Cultural Center honors Linda Irizarry-Crockett, our first honoree, for her contribution to our community.

  Come enjoy with your familia, this traditional holiday festival that will kick off our 15th year! There will be antojitos Boricuas, music, artist exhibitions, a Parranda sing-along, and folkloric to contemporary music and dance performances by Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance.

  FREE EVENT! Don't be shy and stop by. This celebration will take place on Sunday, January 22, 2012, 2-5pm, at our Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance & Cultural Center, 701 Tillery Street, in Austin, Texas 78702. Our escuelita is located in the very back of the building. Here are directions.

  About Linda Irizarry Crockett: She is currently the Media/Marketing & Special Events Coordinator at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. She is dedicated to exposing Latino talent and provides a venue to present their performances. She sees the MACC as a place for generations to come to learn about their heritage and what it means to be a Latino in America.

  This special event is sponsored in part by Chagos Caribbean Cuisine.

• First Taino Gathering 2012 - New Year Celebration - Jaunary 8th, 2012

  Our Taino Family will be enjoying a Taino Gathering to celebrate the New Year, as well as Tekina-eiru' birthday which falls on that day!! This event will include an authentic Areyto (ceremonial dance), and a meaningful discussion that can be applied to everyday life. And of course, having a pot luck is always one of the things we look forward to! Let us know if you would like to learn more about Taino heritage and traditions.

• Auditions - Have a talent hiding in the closet? (Through January 2012)

  If you like to dance, act, sing, play an instrument, or all of the above, Performing Company auditions for dancers, musicians, and juniors during the month of January! Call or email for more information!