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n50643554762_4465We do lots of politics here at VivirLatino pero the cultural is the political and each feed into each other. Which is why if you are in the NYC area this Friday, you should come through to Brooklyn to celebrate Capicu’s Poetry & Cultural Showcase and not just I’m gonna be there.

What do you get when you mix a trendy lounge, mojitos, a dynamic host, visual artists and some of the hottest poets & comedians in NYC with a crowd that is ready to feed their souls and then party the night away…

CAPICU POETRY & CULTURAL SHOWCASE @ NOTICE LOUNGE IN BROOKLYN!
Friday, March 27
7 pm
Notice Lounge & Cafe
198 Union Ave (across from 90th Precinct)
Brooklyn, NY

Join Capicu Poetry & Cultural Showcase as we celebrate their second anniversary at Brooklyn’s own Notice Lounge.

Here’s just part of our Special Line-Up! (Confirmed):

Flaco Navaja- multitalented performer that has graced the stages as a feature of Nuyorican Poets Cafe, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and is also the lead vocalist for Boricua Roots music group YERBABUENA
Americo Casiano- Award-winning and Founding Poet

c/o PRSUN Radio:
Americo Casiano Jr. is one of the original Nuyorican poets and a key founding activist for the Nuyorican arts movement. He has promoted, produced and coordinated numerous readings and performance series for key arts and cultural organizations in New York City. Among them: El Taller/galleria Boricua (The Puerto Rican Workshop, Inc.), El Museo Del Barrio, Inc., New Rican Village, Inc. the Bronx Council on the Arts and the NuyoRican School Original Poetry Jazz Ensemble, Inc.

Maegan “La Mamita Mala” Ortiz- Managing Editor of VivirLatino.com

A Queens born and bred Nuyorican mami, Espanglish poeta, freelance writer, blogger, and all around rabble rouser. Her words and opinions have been featured in the Washington Post, Latina Magazine, The New York Daily News, and National Public Radio.

George Diaz- Comedian- Creator- Producer- Director

As founder of Latino Laughter, Llegamos Live and Llegamos Radio, George has worked with many of today Latin luminaries in the entertainment industry. Through the years, he has collaborated with Daddy Yankee, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Frankie Negron, Brenda K. Starr, Ulysses, Terrero, Paul Rodriguez, and Dave Chappelle. As producer of Llegamos Live, George has launched the careers of many of his former and current Llegamos Players, but he is humble enough to only remind them of this fact daily, George Diaz is firmly committed to making the world a better place- for Latinos. Oh, and non-Latinos as well.

More info very soon!

You helped us build Capicu…it is only right you come celebrate with us.

More Special Invited Guests will be announced soon…

As always we will have special giveaways and lots of surprises…get there early…afterparty included with your $10 admission.

This is double VivirLatino event as one of the organizers/hosts has been a guest blogger here, Sofrito For Your Soul founder, George “Urban Jibaro” Torres. George and I also shared a mentor, so I think a night like Friday was meant to be.

Hope to see you there.

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VivirLatino is really excited to welcome George Torres, aka The Urban Jibaro as our latest guest blogger. Sofrito is an essential element in all good Puerto Rican things so it makes sense that George tries to keep it real Rican through his website and cultural work.

Bienvenido!

George Torres, The Urban Jibaro

George Torres is a poet, cultural activist and founder of cultural online magazine www.SofritoForYourSoul.com. Having been born & raised between Brooklyn, NY & Bayamon, Puerto Rico, he was reared with traditional Puerto Rican values and incorporated that with what he learned in the streets of East New York. This mixture of elements in his life earned him the nickname “Urban Jibaro” that former Young Lord and Community Leader, the late Richie Perez bestowed on him.

His current projects include Capicu Poetry, a monthly open mic poetry / cultural showcase in Williamsburg Brooklyn of which he is co-founder. He also hosts the first Latino radio show on Blog Talk Radio called Radio Capicu.It is through this work that he hopes to continue to empower the community to promote and document the evolution of Latino culture in order to help second and third generation Latinos reconnect with lost elements of a cultural legacy they rightfully own.

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