Our monthly cultural celebration brings a series of free live music concerts full of local and global talent to let our minds relax, dance and connect with each other. Oye Corona is a celebration of art, music and exercise in diverse forms and an opportunity to uplift our spirits with inspiring messages. See you at Corona Plaza!

Nuestra celebración cultural de cada mes brinda una serie de conciertos de música en vivo gratuitos llenas de talento local y global para que nuestras mentes se relajen, nos animemos a bailar y a conectarnos entre nosotros. Es una celebración de arte, música y ejercicio de varias formas y una oportunidad para alegrar nuestro espíritu con mensajes inspiradores.  Nos vemos en Corona Plaza!

LOCATION:  CORONA PLAZA, 103rd Street & Roosevelt Avenue, Corona, Queens. Adjacent to the 103rd Street stop on the #7 train.

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

2- 6pm: ART MAKING WORKSHOP BY LADY K FEVER

Lady K-Fever (Kathleena Howie) is a New York inter-disciplinary artist and curator from Canada working with painting, installation, photography, performance and public art projects. She began her career in Vancouver the early 1990’s when she was invited to create an installation with Riot Grrlz for “€˜Artropolis 93.

In 2003, she was invited as the first Canadian woman to paint at the legendary Graffiti Hall of Fame in East Harlem, New York and to be put down with NYC graffiti crews KD & TDS. Her work has been exhibited in Bronx Lab Style Wars Bronx Museum, Graffiti Research lab MOMA, Figure8 El Museo del Barrio, Born again: Eight Artist Respond Longwood Art gallery, B-girl Be Intermedia Arts, This side of Paradise No Longer Empty and Figment 2012 New York and published in the New York times, New York Post, Daily News and in the magazines: Studio (Harlem), Mass Appeal (Brooklyn), Backspin (Germany), and Trace (international) among others, and in the books Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents, and Burning New York: Graffiti NYC, and We B Girlz (New York)

3pm: Mujeres en Movimiento Bailotherapia

Join Veronica Ramirez of Immigrant Movement International’s project Mujeres en Movimiento for an exercise dance class. This class is one of IMI most popular workshops; it is not your average zumba, jazzercise, or aerobics class. Vero choreographs energetic dances to a variety of Latin American rhythms from Mexican Banda to 80s Spanish rock ballads, and uses dance to raise awareness about health issues as well as build community and empower women in our community. Come dance and meet the amazing women of IMI! The class will be in Spanish, but English speakers and persons of all gender expressions can follow along to the moves.

Movimiento Inmigrante Internacional es un espacio comunitario en Corona, que empezó como un proyecto de la artista Tania Bruguera. Este espacio comunitario acoge una variedad de talleres educativos experimentales que son facilitados por artistas y miembros de la comunidad que sirven a las necesidades de los inmigrantes que viven en el área. IMI funciona como un comité de pensadores que están interesados en crear el futuro de una realidad legal más humana y digna para los migrantes. Acompañe al proyecto Mujeres en Movimiento de Verónica Ramírez de Immigrant Movement International en una clase mañanera de ejercicio y baile. Esta clase es uno de los talleres más populares de IMI; no es la típica clase de zumba, jazz o aeróbicos. Vero crea coreografías energéticas que bailan música latinoamericana que pasa por ritmos como banda mexicana, baladas rock de los 80, y usa el baile para crear conciencia sobre temas de salud y al mismo tiempo construye comunidad y habla de cómo construir poder en nuestras comunidades. ¡Ven, baila y conoce a las mujeres maravillosas de IMI!. La clase será en español, pero personas que hablan inglés y gente de todos los géneros son bienvenidas a seguir los pasos de baile y el movimiento.

3-6pm: Mobile Print Power
A cooperative mobile printmaking workshop and print collective based out of Immigrant Movement International in Corona, Queens. Members of all ages from the local community learn the useful and adaptable skill of silkscreen printmaking using a mobile printmaking cart. Having learned the printmaking process, members plan and implement public mobile print projects in Corona and throughout the city. http://www.mobileprintpower.com

4:30pm: Quilombo Arte presents Mc Hache ST and Bocafloja

Quilomboarte is a peripheral cultural production conglomerate; a platform that has as its objective the creation of alternative networks of solidarity between counter-hegemonic artists and the systemically invisibilized around the world. We defend a decolonial agenda that arises from the historical margins of our own bodies.

Quilomboarte es un conglomerado de producción cultural periférica; una plataforma que tiene como objetivo tejer redes de solidaridad alternativas entre el trabajo artístico contra-hegemónico y diversas comunidades invisibilizadas sistémicamente alrededor del mundo. Defendemos una agenda decolonial desde los márgenes históricos de nuestro propio cuerpo.

Hache ST  is an MC,  writer and spoken word artist, member of Quilomboarte collective. Hache ST depicts the untold story by the hegemonic civilizing speech of  Latin America, using Hip Hop as a tool of politicization through clever rhymes and deep reviews that highlight issues such as racism, memory, the patriarchal system, education and miscegenation. Musically influenced by variety of rhythms ranging from Soul, Jazz, R & B , to the Haitian Gagá all the way through classic Hip Hop. There are bass lines, acoustic guitars and  percussion showing its versatility when composing, this  has allowed him to work with artists from all over the world.

Music: http://hachest.bandcamp.com/album/zafra

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Y2aSGj7Ts&list=PLCCTiGCeI2dHR5HwSu8NU2heWBiz_U83L&feature=share

Bocafloja is a poet, Rap artist, scholar, cultural ambassador, and founder of the Quilomboarte collective. In addition to five professionally edited music albums being “€œPatologías del Invisible Incómodo”€ his most awarded musical project, and having toured internationally throughout 15 countries, Bocafloja has transgressed into one of the most revered icons in the Spanish speaking Hip Hop communities. In 2008 published his first book ImaRginación. Prognosis is his second literary project. Race relations, decolonial narrative, and the African diaspora in Latin America studies are fundamental topics addressed in his body of work. He was born in Mexico City and lives in New York City.

Music: http://bocafloja.bandcamp.com

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1osSBz4UGAs&feature=share&list=PLCCTiGCeI2dHuJVUwBUPujXUf0N9swhym&index=5

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Corona Plaza programming is supported by grants from The Kresge Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and The David Rockefeller Fund. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Special thanks to the office of Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras and Queens Economic Development Corporation.