BronxDNA

08/14/2026

HEARTS Before H.E.ARTS Summer 2026 Immigration Appreciation Day! Saturday, August 15th - 1pm-5pm.

Join us as we celebrate immigrant communities in the South Bronx with live music, dance, food, and holistic health services. Free and open to everyone.

Featuring Salieu Suso (The Gambia, West Africa), Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theater (Honduras), and Mazarte Dance Company (Mexico)!

Dedicated to the memory of Brook Park Steward DANNY CHERVONI (1956 - 2025). Official street naming dedication, Sunday, August 16h at 3pm.

BROOK PARK & COMMUNITY GARDEN - 494 East 141st Street, The Bronx.

06/22/2026

JOIN US for an epic afternoon that includes a poetry and spoken-word jam, a communal Graffiti workshop, an open Hip-Hop cypher, and live holistic healing sessions—all taking place on sacred community-owned land in the creative cradle of the South Bronx—FREE! This event is part of the “Hearts f...

03/28/2026

SAVE THE DATE: April 28, 2026 - 7pm (EST).
A virtual book talk with DANIEL KRAUS as he does a deep dive into his latest: 'PARTIALLY DEVOURED: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World.'

Partially Devoured uses a frame-by-frame deep dive into 'Night of the Living Dead' to produce a kaleidoscopic cultural investigation of the film’s importance and to examine the author’s early life of rural isolation and local violence.

Moderated by BENJAMIN RUBIN, Horror Studies Collection Coordinator, Archives & Special Collections for the University of Pittsburgh Library System, and George A. Romero Archives.

Register: bronxhistory.org/notld

03/25/2026

BELLS OF REMEMBRANCE TRIBUTE: Happy Land Social Club Fire. 36 Years Later.

A soundscape tribute to the souls that were lost in the Happy Land Social Club Fire on March 25, 1990. The names of the 87 people who died in the fire are read by Bronx media phenom Sonyi Elena López. We will never forget.

01/23/2026

Our next guest on the BronxDNA podcast is Emmy-winning poet/activist/educator, CARIDAD DE LA LUZ (aka La Bruja), and current executive director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

This episode is being recorded on January 31, 2026. Send us the questions you'd like to have Caridad answer. Select questions will be baked into the show along with her replies, others will be included on the episode's landing page.

You can record your question using our Community Xchange link provided below and it will be sent directly to us --

https://bronxdna.com/community-xchange/

01/19/2026

In our first episode of 2026 (S2/E1), BronxDNA profiles 3X Emmy Award nominee, voice-over artist/actor ANTHONY MÉNDEZ!

Anthony is best known as the omnipresent narrator of 'Jane the Virgin' that ran for 100 episodes (2014-2019), as well as on CNN, animated movies, film trailers, commercials, documentaries, and more.

In our first episode of 2026 (S2/E1), we profile 3X Emmy Award nominee, voice-over artist/actor ANTHONY MÉNDEZ!Anthony is best known as the omnipresent narrator of 'Jane the Virgin' that ran for 100 episodes (2014-2019), as well as on CNN, animate...

01/13/2026

BronxDNA-philes:
Our first episode of BronxDNA for 2026 (S2/E1) hits this coming Sunday, January 18th with 3X Emmy Award nominee, voice-over artist/actor Anthony Mendez, as our special guest!

Anthony is best known as the omnipresent narrator of 'Jane the Virgin' that ran for 100 episodes (2014-2019), as well as on CNN, animated movies, film trailers, commercials, documentaries, and more.

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Recorded in The People's Republic of The Bronx. Hosted by Edwin Pagán. Sponsored by The Bronx County Historical Society.

12/26/2025

In this edition BronxDNA profiles educator, cultural advocate, filmmaker, VIVIAN VÁZQUEZ IRIZARRY, the director, producer behind the documentary DECADE OF FIRE, a hard-hitting look at the fire-for-hire burning of The Bronx (1960s through 1980s).

12/11/2025

After a false start and misfire, the BronxDNA podcast is back!

On December 25th well drop the latest episode with an in-depth interview with educator, cultural advocate, filmmaker, VIVIAN VÁZQUEZ IRIZARRY, the director, producer behind the documentary DECADE OF FIRE, a hard-hitting look at the fire-for-hire burning of The Bronx (1960s through 1980s).

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