BOOgie Down Bronx Halloween Bash
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s fifty-third Anniversary at Bronx Music Hall.
Celebrate Halloween, Día de los Muertos, poetry, music, and community as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe marks its fifty-third anniversary at Bronx Music Hall!
3:00–6:00 p.m. | Family Halloween Celebration — FREE
Doors open at 3:00 p.m.
Bring the whole family for an afternoon of Halloween fun, including holiday family photos, face painting, an open mic for kids, storytelling, and a costume pageant.
6:00–7:00 p.m. | Altar Creation
The evening continues with an altar created by Viajero, followed by an altar activation and celebration.
Theater doors open at 6:30 p.m.
7:00–9:00 p.m. | PoeRican: Edgar Allan Poe Goes Latin Jazz — $10
Edgar Allan Poe gets a Nuyorican twist! Bobby Sanabria & Sexteto Ibiano bring Poe’s legendary poetry into conversation with Latin jazz and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, joined by poets and vocalists La Bruja and Sandra García Rivera.
Experience Poe’s poetry bilingualized and recited to Afro-Caribbean rhythms in a performance where literature, spoken word, and Latin music meet onstage.