The Johnny Pacheco Latin Music and Jazz Festival at Lehman College is an annual event which provides performance and learning opportunities for talented young musicians who are studying music in New York City schools. The Pacheco Festival is committed to developing a world-wide audience via live Internet streaming and other forms of broadcast media. More than 250 student musicians perform at this festival each year.

Daytime Sessions
Lehman College Studio Theatre
Selected livestream presentations TBA
Wed. Feb. 8, Thurs. Feb. 9, Fri. Feb 10

Evening Performances
Lehman College Studio Theatre
Thursday, Feb. 9 @ 7pm: Celia Cruz Bronx HS
of Music Jazz and Vocal Jazz Ensembles
Webstream Link TBA

Friday, Feb. 10 @ 7pm:
Lehman College Studio Theatre
Lehman College Jazz Ensemble, Guitar ensemble and Special guests.
Webstream Link TBA

Allan Molnar
Festival Producer and Artistic Director
Contact:
allan.molnar1@lehman.cuny.edu

Join the Lehman College Art Gallery at an opening for the exhibition that will be on view at the Lehman College Art Gallery from Valentine's day through April 28.

Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art presents paintings and photographs that illuminate both individual and universal stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA community.

The exhibition, which gathers the work of almost 50 artists, opens in two New York City galleries in February 2023−Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx from February 14 to April 23 and La MaMa Galleria in Downtown Manhattan, from February 18 to April 6. Each venue offers works that explore the power and significance of intimate queer familial, romantic, and sexual relationships.

From cheerful, romantic expressions of love to depictions of non-traditional nuclear families, the artwork of these LGBTQIA artists highlights the bond between them as art creators, and those with whom they have the closest ties. The LGBTQIA artists often move from celebrating their love to proclaiming a place for queer people within a larger society. Lushly beautiful, their art creates a series of nuanced and reflective, but largely positive narratives, and love’s transformative impact on both the human experience and the artistic process.

Lehman College proudly presents world-renowned poet and activist Nikki Giovanni. In advance of the College’s opening of James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner,” she will speak about Baldwin and beyond and share her newest poetry.

Works on Paper, Wood, and Glass
David Font-Navarrete (percussion, electronics, and visuals)

This meditative multimedia performance combines electro-acoustic sound and visual art, inviting the audience to hear drawings and see sounds. Using experimental microphone techniques, Professor Font-Navarrete creates a unique, abstract palette of sounds that includes voices, field recordings, electronically generated tones, and gestures on both acoustic instruments (drums and bells) and solid objects (paper, wood, and glass).