BRONX ARTIST SHOWCASE 2026
16th annual Industry Event
PEPATIAN:Bronx Arts CoLABorative
presents the 16th annual Industry Event
Bronx Artist Showcase & Conversation event
Friday January 9, 2026, 10am-2:30pm
Produced in collaboration with The Bronx Music Hall, Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, and co-curated with award-winning folklorist and co-artistic director of the Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC), Elena Martinez.
With additional support from the Literary Freedom Project and Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.
Please note: this event is geared towards Industry - presenters, funders, and others with resources to support artists; it is not intended for the general public.
If you have any questions, please email: pepatian@gmail.com
Bronx Artist Showcase & Conversation event featuring over 15 artists at The Bronx Music Hall (morning) and Hostos Rep Theatre (afternoon)
SCHEDULE
8:45-9am Transportation available (reservation required; email: pepatian@gmail.com) from Hilton Hotel (53rd St and 6th Ave) to Bronx Music Hall
10am-12Noon Bronx Music Hall (438 E 163rd St, Bronx)
Musician: Salieu Suso
Convo: Caridad De La Luz aka La Bruja, Rokafella, Leenda Bonilla, conversation moderator: Cynthia Paniagua
Collaboration: poet cap and dancer Ava "Kimimilla" Davis
Convo: Milteri Tucker Concepcion, Beverly Lopez, Alethea Pace, Cynthia Paniagua, conversation moderator: Arthur Aviles
coffee/tea
12Noon - depart via van (transportation available, reservation required; email pepatian@gmail.com)
12:30-2:00pm Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, Rep Theater
Dance: The Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts, Mazarte Mexican dance ensemble,
and Dancing Futures 2025 Residency artists: asmara, Quaba V. Ernest, Christian Warner
Conversation moderator: Alethea Pace
2pm-3:30pm Lunch provided for artists and presenters/funders.
After your spot is reserved, pls email pepatian@gmail.com if you require transportation - provided from Hilton Hotel, Manhattan to the Bronx Music Hall, and from the Bronx Music Hall to Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture. Thank you!
Please contact pepatian@gmail.com with any questions
Bronx Artist Showcase 2025
15th annual Industry Event
15th Annual Showcase Program
On a brisk January morning, I stepped into the hushed warmth of Pregones Theater in the South Bronx. I grew up just right across the bridge from the theater in Washington Heights, so I felt an immediate sense of belonging when I entered the space. The intimate theater buzzed with the presence of native New Yorkers, each voice carrying the daring rhythms of the enduring city. There’s something deeply comforting about a room filled with overlapping roots, where stories are personal even before they are told. Pepatián’s 15th annual Bronx Artists Showcase and Conversation promised an eclectic tapestry of movement, words, and sound –– an impassioned celebration of cultural memory and identitarian expression that only the Bronx could inspire.