The Big Read

The Big Read in the Bronx
April / May 2010 Event Calendar

The Bronx Reads
Sun, Stone and Shadows

The Bronx Council on the Arts builds on the success of last year’s Big Read in the Bronx with an ambitious program designed to celebrate Mexican culture and history and to engage the Bronx in the art of reading. Click here for full press release.

This year's Big Read events include:

Free Documentary Screening

May 12
Indocumentales / Indocumentaries — The final from this US/Mexico Interdependent Film Series presented by what moves you?, Cinema Tropical and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and the Consulate General of Mexico in New York.

Film Screening

Wednesday / May 12, 2010 / 7:00 – 9:00pm
Bruckner Bar & Grill

1 Bruckner Boulevard, Bronx / 718-665-2001
“Al Otro Lado” / “To The Other Side” (Natalia Almada, US/Mexico, 2005, 66 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) — For over 200 years corridos have been Mexico's musical underground newspaper and the voice of those rarely heard outside their communities. From Sinaloa, Mexico, to the streets of South Central and East L.A., Al Otro Lado explores the world of drug smuggling, immigration and the corrido music that chronicles it all. Q & A immediately follows the film.

Bronx Week Celebration

Sat / May 15, 2010 / 12:00 – 5:00pm
Westchester Square Locations

FAIR @ THE SQUARE is a festival of free family activities throughout the Westchester Square area, and free rides on the Bronx Culture Trolley. Ongoing activities include kids arts & crafts, workshops, art exhibits, craft exhibits, face painting, games, music by Bronx Underground, BCA bronxArtworks Artisans exhibitions and sales, artists, local merchants and community-based organizations displays, artwalk guided tour, trivia contest, and a scavenger hunt. The trolley will shuttle people along Tremont Avenue to the Bronx River Art Center and Drew Gardens where additional activities will take place. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. will join us at 2:00pm. Click here for flyer.

Locations: Westchester Square in the Bronx(near the #6 subway station), Huntington Free Library and Owen Dolen Park Plaza.

Information: visit www.bronxarts.org or call 718-931-9500 x33.

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For more information or to schedule an event or reading group,
please contact maria@bronxarts.org.

New York Yankees Foundation

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.

For more information, visit www.neabigread.org.

Additional support for this program is provided by the Scherman Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the NYS Council on the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the NYC Department of Small Business Services and Council Member James Vacca.