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Join us for a presentation of Bomba Puertorriqueña by a local group called Batey Tambó!

Batey Tambó

As the oldest genre of indigenous-Afro-Caribbean style of song and dance, Bomba represents a form of activism and resistance against political, racial, economic, patriarchal, and cultural hegemony in the island and beyond.

Drawing from its Afro-Caribbean roots, Bomba discursively reimagines traditional relationships between oppressor and oppressed by symbolically flipping the relationship between the dancer and the music (In Bomba, the dancer proposes the beat of the drum through musicalized movement). Herein lies the potential for a spiritual, queer, socio-political intervention.

In this event, we will learn about the historical and contemporary expressions of this genre and how spiritual/faith leaders can draw from this form of  “artivism” to promote social transformation.

Facilitators: Pacific School of Religion Professors Ish Ruiz and Alexandra Rosado-Román.

Professor Ish Ruiz

Professor Alexandra Rosado-Román