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Activating Open Spaces Through Community Engagement Programs

That Promote Diversity And Cultural Heritage Preservation

2025  EVENTS  CALENDAR

• Car - Free  Earth  Day

Washington Heights:  St. Nicholas Ave (181 St to 190 St)​​

Apr  26   -   Saturday   |   10 am   to   4 pm  |   💃🏽 🖼️ 🎥

•  Community  Gardens  &  Parks

Herb Garden:   176  E.  111  St

​​May  17   -   Saturday   |   6 pm  |   🎹 💃🏽 🖼️ 🎥

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Harlem Art Park:   120  St  &  Sylvan  PL

​​​Aug  16   -   Saturday   |   6 pm  |   🎹 💃🏽 🖼️ 🎥

•  Summer  Streets  

Washington Heights:  Broadway (Arden St to Dyckman St)​​

Aug  2,  9,  16   -   Saturday   |   10 am   to   3 pm  |   🖼️ 🎥

Bronx:   Grand Concourse  (by E. Mosholu Pkwy S)

Aug  23   -   Saturday   |   10 am   to   4 pm  |   🖼️ 🎥

•  Open  Streets​

Bronx:  Beck  St   (Leggett  Ave  /  Ave  St  John)​

Trains:  6  Train  to  E  149  St   |   2  Train  to  Jackson  Ave​

Jun  7,  14,  21,  28  -  Saturdays   |   6 pm  |   💃🏽 🖼️ 🎥

East  Harlem:  E. 115  St  (Pleasant Ave  /  First Ave)​

Train:  6  Train  to  E  116  St

​​Aug  23,  30.  Sep  6,  13  -  Saturdays   |   6:30 pm  |   🎹 💃🏽

Lower East  Side:  Suffolk  St  (Rivington St  /  Delancey St)​

Train:  F/J/M/Z  Trains  to  Delancey  St  /  Essex  St​

Aug  24,  31.  Sep  7,  14  -  Sundays   |   5 pm   |   💃🏽 🖼️ 🎥

Trick-or-Streets​

[Locations TBD]

[Dates TBD]  |   💃🏽 🖼️ 🎥

Live Bands:  🎹    |   Social  Dancing:  💃🏽

Art   Exhibitions:  🖼️   |   Oral  History  Collection:  🎥

Salsa Stories is an immersive

salsa experience presented in the communities that gave birth to salsa in the streets of NYC.

Our programs activate public spaces with community engagement programs that promote diversity and cultural heritage preservation through arts, music, community building and education.

We have presented over 50 dance events on NYC’s streets, plazas, community gardens, and parks. Our roster of free interactive and participatory art includes augmented reality experiences, oral history pop-ups, video projections, and dance and art-making workshops.

 

Committed to growing foot traffic in environmental justice areas, our programs cater for different cultures, races, languages, and backgrounds. We design spaces that promote accessibility, considering language barriers and disabilities that reflect the participants’ diverse identities. 

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Bianka is a Brazilian-born filmmaker, MUSE and Telly® Award-winner producer, a story curator, and an avid salsa dancer.

She created  Salsa Stories in 2021 to provide her dance community with a safe open space for them to express their cultural identity amidst the pandemic.

Through Salsa Stories Bianka is a recurring Open Streets partner and Public Space Programming partner with NYC DOT. The project has been awarded with several grants, including the City Artists Corps, the Enfoco 2022 Media Arts WIP, Creatives Rebuild New York, CitizensNYC, Alfresco NYC, and the NYC Green Fund Grassroots Award by the City Parks Foundation.

Salsa Stories gratefully acknowledges our privilege to be able to work and create on the traditional and ancestral lands and waters of the Weckquasgeek, Lenape, and the Siwanoy Nations.

 

We also acknowledge the ancestors of the Taínos of the Arawak people of the Caribbean. 

Handmade in the Heart of NYC  -  The Cradle of Salsa 

Closed Frame Productions, LLC © 2023

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