Puerto Rican Cultural Center - Austin

Puerto Rican Cultural Center - Austin Our community is bonded like Family - the only Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Texas & the Southwest. We are celebrating 29 years!!

Located in East Austin, our community enjoys monthly cultural events & 10 performing arts education programs weekly. The Puerto Rican Cultural Center (501C3) is the only center in Texas and the Southwest affiliated with the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture for ongoing cultural programming. Our programs are open to all and attract cultural tourism. We are a community, bonded like Family, under the

umbrella of cultural arts and traditions. You must travel to faraway states to enjoy another cultural center like ours! Founded in 1997, our nonprofit mission is to promote cultural awareness and pride through education and events based in folklore, history and traditions -- dance, music, community theatre, ancestral fighting arts, and indigenous Taino heritage! Our East Austin facility is home to Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance (PRFDance), our performing company of dancers, musicians, and juniors. We share Taino culture and living traditions through Yukayeke Yara Cu (Tribe of the Sacred Place) - our Taino yukayeke of blood descendants and Guaytiao (friends).

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Since 2001, our achievement and quality have been validated by repeat support by the National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division, Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2011+) and others! Our facility is available for rent for special events.

👀 Keeping my eye out for those candid moments...One minute our company musicos are posing with the instruments we love. ...
05/29/2026

👀 Keeping my eye out for those candid moments...

One minute our company musicos are posing with the instruments we love. The next, we're surrounded by drums, building the bandstand for final rehearsals with our maestros from Puerto Rico. 🪘✨

These behind-the-scenes moments are where the festival begins.

The countdown is on!

🎟️🔥 HAVE YOUR TICKETS YET? 🎟️
🇵🇷 15th Celebrando Salsa & Heritage Festival
Puerto Rico–India Cultural Exchange

✨ SEMI-FORMAL EVENT
📅 June 7, 2026, 3-8pm

https://buytickets.at/puertoricanfolklorcdanceinc/2196278

Don’t miss this unforgettable night of Salsa, culture, and celebration! 💃🏽✨

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🔥Live Salsa

Dance old-school Salsa classics with Orquesta Saboré 10-piece orchestra!
Enjoy artesanía and delicious comida criolla by Borinken Roots

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🌺 Featured Cultural Performances

🔥 Southern Bomba & Plena direct from Puerto Rico
Paracumbé with Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance

🔥 Bharata Natyam Dance of India
with Anu Naimpally & Austin Dance India

🔥 Original Jíbaro, Salón, Bomba, and Plena music and dance
Puerto Rican Cultural Center students and performing company

PLEASE SHARE!

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Puerto Rican Cultural Center (Austin)
🔥Celebrating 29 Years
📧 [email protected]
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🎶✨ Right now… the magic is being built. ✨🎶Wonderful meeting today with Paracumbé as we finalize music, choreography, tra...
05/28/2026

🎶✨ Right now… the magic is being built. ✨🎶

Wonderful meeting today with Paracumbé as we finalize music, choreography, transitions, rhythms, staging, and artistic surprises for the Festival — now only 10 days away! 🇵🇷🔥

What audiences experience in one evening takes months of collaboration, rehearsals, cultural exchange, creativity, and heart behind the scenes. 💛

And this year’s Festival is something truly special.

Puerto Rico.
India.
Salsa.
Bomba.
Plena.
Bharata Natyam.
Live music.
Living traditions.
One unforgettable night. ✨

🎟️🔥 HAVE YOUR TICKETS YET? 🎟️
🇵🇷 15th Celebrando Salsa & Heritage Festival
Puerto Rico–India Cultural Exchange

✨ SEMI-FORMAL EVENT
📅 June 7, 2026, 3-8pm

https://buytickets.at/puertoricanfolklorcdanceinc/2196278

Don’t miss this unforgettable night of Salsa, culture, and celebration! 💃🏽✨

---

🔥Live Salsa

Dance old-school Salsa classics with Orquesta Saboré 10-piece orchestra!
Enjoy artesanía and delicious comida criolla by Borinken Roots

---

🌺 Featured Cultural Performances

🔥 Southern Bomba & Plena direct from Puerto Rico
Paracumbé with Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance

🔥 Bharata Natyam Dance of India
with Anu Naimpally & Austin Dance India

🔥 Original Jíbaro, Salón, Bomba, and Plena music and dance
Puerto Rican Cultural Center students and performing company

PLEASE SHARE!

~~
Puerto Rican Cultural Center (Austin)
🔥Celebrating 29 Years
📧 [email protected]
Photos copyright.












05/25/2026

🇵🇷 15th Celebrando Salsa & Heritage Festival
Puerto Rico–India Cultural Exchange

✨ SEMI-FORMAL EVENT
📅 June 7, 2026, 3-8pm
https://buytickets.at/puertoricanfolklorcdanceinc/2196278

Don’t miss this unforgettable night of Salsa, culture, and celebration! 💃🏽✨

🔥 Central Texas' favorite Salsa & Heritage Festival returns!

The 15th Celebrando Salsa & Heritage Festival is the - grand culmination of a year in development - for our Puerto Rico–India Cultural Exchange, bringing master artists from Puerto Rico together with Indian classical dance in a vibrant evening of Salsa, folklore, and living cultural traditions.

Presented by the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (Austin), this milestone 15th anniversary festival celebrates *nearly three decades of community work preserving and sharing Bomba, Plena, Jíbaro music, and Boricua dance traditions in Central Texas.

Find your dancing shoes and join us for an unforgettable evening of music, culture, and community.
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🔥Live Salsa
Dance old-school Salsa classics with Orquesta Saboré's 10-piece orchestra!
Enjoy artesanía and delicious comida criolla by Borinken Roots
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🌺 Featured Cultural Performances

🔥 Southern Bomba & Plena direct from Puerto Rico
Paracumbé with Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance

🔥 Bharata Natyam Dance of India
with Anu Naimpally & Austin Dance India

🔥 Original Jíbaro, Salón, Bomba, and Plena music and dance
Puerto Rican Cultural Center students and performing company.

🇵🇷 THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS 🇵🇷
The Puerto Rican Cultural Center (Austin) is a 29-year-old nonprofit (501c3).

This heritage project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, City of Austin Office of Arts, Culture, Music & Entertainment (ACME), H-E-B, and the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture.
Since 2005, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center has proudly been affiliated with the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.

PLEASE SHARE!

Puerto Rican Cultural Center (Austin)
🔥Celebrating 29 Years
🌐 http://prfdance.org
📧 [email protected]
Photos copyright.

Juego de Batú - Taino Ballgame!Batú is an ancient ceremonial ball game played by our Taino ancestors -- and still played...
05/24/2026

Juego de Batú - Taino Ballgame!
Batú is an ancient ceremonial ball game played by our Taino ancestors -- and still played today!

Dating back 1000 years, it served as a sacred ritual, social gathering, and community sport. Could be played by both men and women (separate or mixed teams). It was also used for non-violent conflict resolution -- to settle tribal disputes, resolve boundary conflicts and disagreements without resorting to warfare.

This video is a great demonstration of official strikes.
No hands, no feet! (Missing the chest strike)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQPyhTsjfFo

Team play demonstration!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8X4NolMkcs&t=213s

El Batu es un deporte que practicaban los indios Taínos (pobladores de la isla Borinquén o Puerto Rico). Para los estudiantes de la escuela Maestro Ladi en V...

🇵🇷 Welcome Boricua Visitor! 🇵🇷 CASA ABIERTA - OPEN HOUSE EVERY SATURDAY, 10am-2pm🇵🇷 Puerto Rican Cultural Center (Austi...
05/24/2026

🇵🇷 Welcome Boricua Visitor! 🇵🇷
CASA ABIERTA - OPEN HOUSE
EVERY SATURDAY, 10am-2pm
🇵🇷 Puerto Rican Cultural Center (Austin)
Cafe, Cultura y Amistad

🇵🇷 Tourists and Visitors enjoy FREE Puerto Rican coffee, conversation & display of traditional music, dance, and cultural arts programs.

🇵🇷 BENDICION, community elders! We are especially excited to see you! Open house includes a free tour of the center and a souvenir photo with company and students for social media!

🇵🇷 Puerto Rican Cultural Center
701 Tillery Street | Austin, TX
🎉 Celebrating 29 Years | 501(c)(3)
🌐 prfdance.org
📧 [email protected]



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💃🏻🧹 Plena with a twist! 🧹💃🏻Sneak peek from our dancers — you’ve never seen Plena like this!🇵🇷 15th Celebrando Salsa & H...
05/23/2026

💃🏻🧹 Plena with a twist! 🧹💃🏻
Sneak peek from our dancers — you’ve never seen Plena like this!

🇵🇷 15th Celebrando Salsa & Heritage Festival 2026 🇵🇷
Puerto Rico–India Cultural Exchange

Don’t miss this unforgettable night of Salsa, culture, and celebration! 💃🏽✨

🎟️🔥 TICKETS NOW ON SALE! 🔥🎟️
https://buytickets.at/puertoricanfolklorcdanceinc/2196278

🇵🇷✨ SEMI-FORMAL EVENT

📅 June 7, 2026
🕒 3:00–8:00 PM

🔥 Central Texas' favorite Salsa & Heritage Festival returns!

The 15th Celebrando Salsa & Heritage Festival is the - grand culmination of a year in development - for our Puerto Rico–India Cultural Exchange, bringing master artists from Puerto Rico together with Indian classical dance in a vibrant evening of Salsa, folklore, and living cultural traditions.

Presented by the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (Austin), this milestone 15th anniversary festival celebrates *nearly three decades of community work preserving and sharing Bomba, Plena, Jíbaro music, and Boricua dance traditions in Central Texas.

Find your dancing shoes and join us for an unforgettable evening of music, culture, and community.

---

🔥Live Salsa

Dance Salsa classics with Orquesta Saboré's 10-piece orchestra!
Enjoy artesanía and delicious comida criolla by Borinken Roots throughout the evening.

---

🌺 Featured Cultural Performances

🔥 Southern Bomba & Plena direct from Puerto Rico
With Paracumbé and Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance

🔥 Bharata Natyam Dance of India
with Anu Naimpally & Austin Dance India

🔥 Original Jíbaro, Salón, Bomba, and Plena music and dance
performed by Puerto Rican Cultural Center students, Coquí dancers, and the PRFD performing company.

PLEASE SHARE!

~~
Puerto Rican Cultural Center (Austin)
🔥Celebrating 29 Years
🌐 http://prfdance.org
📧 [email protected]
Photos copyright.



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701 Tillery Street Ste 13
Austin, TX
78702

Opening Hours

9am - 2pm

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