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This edition: Season 2/Episode 10: Art Centers in the Diaspora





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First aired: March 20, 2018.

We introduce to you Taller Puertorriqueno. This community-based arts organization working out of Philadelphia has been working hard to preserve, promote, and nurture the Puerto Rican community.

We visit the Clemente Soto Velez, or the Clemente. A hub of creativity and art, the Clemente shines light on all manifestations of arts from Puerto Rico and Latin America.

We visit the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture of Chicago. Starting with just a group of volunteers and an old abandoned building, the museum began taking shape in 1999.

  • About this series

  • Puerto Rican Voices is an investigative TV documentary series about colonialism in Puerto Rico. In the aftermath of hurricane María, the island has struggled to get back on its feet, and instead of getting more prepared in the wake of climate change, Puerto Rico finds itself in an even more fragile state. It is within this environment that the government puts forward a privatization agenda, providing unprecedented tax breaks to investors. This five-part series explores the energy crisis, pollution, displacement, and economic precarity, resulting from a decade-long recession, and the aftershocks of hurricane María. Looking at the intersections of resilience, and resistance, Puerto Rican Voices provides a map to the ongoing issues of Puerto Rico. 

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