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07/01/2026

Join us in celebrating our 2026 Spring Visual Arts Grantee, Hilda Shen!

Hilda’s work beautifully addresses ideas of landscape, memory, temporality and motion as expressed materially through clay, and on paper. This grant will support her upcoming project, Ever Beyond a solo exhibition of recent and new sculptures, which opens at the Museum of Chinese in America in October 2026.

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." — Edgar Degas

Learn more about Hilda’s work and her upcoming exhibit:
https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/hilda-shen

06/29/2026

Introducing our 2026 Spring Performance Grantee: Robin Frohardt!

Robin's new work, Shopping Center of the Universe, will captivate audiences by blending live performance, puppetry, film, prose, and music to explore how the architecture of consumer culture shapes our sense of self and our relationship to nature. Café Royal Cultural Foundation is proud to support this upcoming production!

Learn more about Robin’s upcoming performance: https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/robin-frohardt

06/27/2026

Words have the power to change the world, and our 2026 Spring Literature Grantee is doing just that. Congratulations to sheena daree romero!

sheena’s writing is evocative, deeply moving, and fiercely authentic. Her voice brings vital stories to the forefront, exploring complex human truths with grace and striking clarity. We are incredibly proud to support the creation of her latest work, On Guacamole That Comes Out of a Sq**rt Gun, a short story collection-in-progress.

Learn more about sheena and her upcoming project: https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/sheena-daree-romero

06/25/2026

Help us congratulate our 2026 Spring Music Production Grantee, Angélica Negrón!

Angélica is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who crafts distinct, shimmering acoustic and electronic soundscapes. Her innovative approach to music—often incorporating unexpected instruments and robotic elements—captures the vibrant, eclectic spirit of the contemporary music scene.

We are so excited to support her next musical journey, Entreformas, and can't wait for your ears to hear it!

Congratulations, Angélica!

Discover Angélica’s sound and read about her grant project at: https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/angelica-negron

06/23/2026

We are absolutely thrilled to announce Café Royal Cultural Foundation’s 2026 Spring Grant Recipients!

Our mission has always been to empower NYC artists who push boundaries, spark conversations, and enrich our cultural landscape. This season’s winners represent stunning talent across Visual Arts, Performance, Music Production, and Literature.

Join us in celebrating these phenomenal creators:

Angélica Negrón (Music Production)
Sheena Daree Romero (Literature)
Robin Frohardt (Performance)
Hilda Shen (Visual Arts)

Stay tuned as we feature each artist and their work over the coming days!
Learn more: https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/2026-spring-grantees

03/31/2026

Celebrating our 2026 Winter Music Production Grantee: Patrick Cornelius

After 25 years as a pillar of the NYC jazz community, alto saxophonist and composer Patrick Cornelius is bringing his most ambitious project yet to life. We are proud to award a grant for the release of We Dare, a collection of large ensemble works that serves as both a career retrospective and a tribute to the "musical comrades in arms" who make up the city’s vibrant big band scene.

This album is a true labor of love—a documentation of the mental and physical energy required to make large-scale creative music flourish in New York. We can’t wait for you to hear it.

Learn More: https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/patrick-cornelius

03/30/2026

Announcing our 2026 Winter Visual Grantee: María Rodríguez Jiménez

We are proud to support María’s upcoming installation, Crossroads. This immersive, double-sided quilted painting spans 18 feet and is crafted from found and donated textiles—fabrics that carry the "energies" of the local community through old garments and lived-in sheets.

By bisecting the gallery space at Pure Moon Studios, Crossroads invites viewers to move through a landscape of collective memory. While one side features intricate stitched patterns, the reverse reveals the "scars" of the construction, layered with oil and acrylic gestures that speak to age, touch, and the passage of time.
Congratulations, María! We can't wait to see this vision come to life.

Learn more: https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/maria-rodriguez-jimenez

03/28/2026

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation is proud to support the latest project from Bessie Award-winning choreographer and producer Benjamin Akio Kimitch.

His upcoming ensemble work—set for a New York City world premiere in Fall 2026—is a profound exploration of Japanese American identity. By examining the period between the 1945 Hiroshima bombing and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Kimitch juxtaposes the postwar pressures of U.S. conformity with the expressive freedoms of art movements in occupied Japan.

Learn more: https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/benjamin-akio-kimitch

03/26/2026

Announcing our 2026 Winter Literature Grantee: Sidik Fofana

The Café Royal Cultural Foundation is proud to award a 2026 Winter Literature Grant to Sidik Fofana for his upcoming story collection, tentatively titled Brief Moments in Black History.

A public school teacher and acclaimed author (Stories from the Tenants Downstairs), Sidik brings a unique, pedagogical lens to this new project. Each story is designed to be read within a single class period, offering visceral, concise windows into the Black experience—ranging from a reimagining of To Kill a Mockingbird’s Tom Robinson to innovative renderings of modern police aggression.

Congratulations Sidik!

Learn more: https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/sidik-fofana

03/24/2026

We are incredibly proud to unveil these visionary artists and creators who are shaping the cultural landscape of New York City and beyond. From monumental installations to transformative literature and performance, these 2026 Winter Grantees represent the very best of contemporary craft:

• Literature: Sidik Fofana
• Performance: Benjamin Akio Kimitch
• Visual: María Rodríguez Jiménez
• Music Production: Patrick Cornelius

Learn more about them at https://caferoyalculturalfoundation.org/grantees

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