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PROPA was founded in 2003 and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in Florida.

10/07/2026

🌍 El Dr. Habib Iddrisu ostenta el título tradicional de Kasike de Cultura, o Yani Malizali Naa I, en el Reino de Dagbon, Ghana. Ha recorrido extensamente el mundo y cuenta con una amplia trayectoria internacional como intérprete, maestro, coreógrafo y académico.

🌟 En 1993, el Dr. Iddrisu fue reconocido con el premio Ghana’s Best Dancer. También ha dirigido varias agrupaciones de gran prestigio dedicadas a la música y el baile tradicional. Fue director creativo y coreógrafo de Norvisi Dance Group, así como tamborero principal y coreógrafo de Abibigromma, la agrupación artística residente de la Universidad de Ghana.

El Dr. Iddrisu traerá a PR su amplio conocimiento de las tradiciones culturales de distintas partes de África, como parte de TEMP🌀RAL, un proyecto de PROPA. Acompáñanos en la comunidad históricamente Afrodescendiente de San Mateo de Cangrejos para un taller de movimiento somático en el que aprenderemos de este bailador magistral cómo utilizar movimientos de la vida cotidiana para liberar el estrés, la tensión y el trauma acumulados en el cuerpo.

🗓️ 23 oct 2026 a las 9:30AM
📍 Sagrado Corazón, Centro Danza, 1857 Ave Ponce de Leon, San Mateo de Cangrejos
🎟️ gratuito y abierto al público / free and open to the public

🌍 Dr. Habib Iddrisu carries the traditional title of Chief of Culture or Yani Malizali Naa I in the Dagbon Kingdom of Ghana. He has toured the world extensively and has diverse international experience as a performer, teacher, choreographer and scholar.

🌟 In 1993, Dr. Iddrisu was honored with the Ghana’s Best Dancer award. He has led several prestigious traditional music and dance groups. Dr. Iddrisu was the creative director and choreographer for the Norvisi Dance Group and lead drummer and choreographer of Abibigromma, the resident performance group for the University of Ghana.

Dr. Iddrisu will bring his wide knowledge of cultural traditions from throughout Africa to PR as part of PROPA’s TEMP🌀RAL project. Join us for a somatic movement workshop in the historic Black community of San Mateo de Cangrejos during which we will learn from this master dancer about how to use everyday movements to release stress, tension and trauma.

10/06/2026

En PROPA estamos felices de recibir durante el mes de octubre al Dr. Habib Iddrisu — Yani Malizali Naa I, nuestro próximo maestro invitado de TEMP🌀RAL. Nos honra darle la bienvenida a Puerto Rico a este destacado académico y líder cultural ghanés, uno de los kasikes más prominentes del Reino de Dagbon y miembro de la familia real Bizing, linaje de historiadores y músicos de la corte del pueblo Dagbamba / Dagomba.

Etnomusicólogo de la Universidad de Oregón, el Dr. Iddrisu es también bailador y músico de formación tradicional, además de historiador y portador de las tradiciones del norte de Ghana. En 2025 recibió el título de kasike o Yani Malizali Naa I — que puede traducirse como «rescatador» o «constructor» — en reconocimiento a su labor de recuperación, fortalecimiento y continuidad de las tradiciones del Reino de Dagbon.

Muy pronto tendremos la oportunidad de compartir con él en Puerto Rico a través de talleres, charlas y otros encuentros en torno a la música, el baile, la historia y la tradición.

🇬🇭 Ghana —> Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

PROPA is thrilled to welcome Dr. Habib Iddrisu to Puerto Rico later this month as the next TEMP🌀RAL master instructor. We are honored to host this distinguished Ghanaian academic, cultural leader, and one of Dagbon’s most prominent chiefs who is a member of the royal Bizing family of court historians and musicians of the Dagbamba / Dagomba people.

This multi-hyphenate is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Oregon and a traditionally trained dancer, musician and historian of traditions from Northern Ghana. In 2025, he was granted the title of Chief or Yani Malizali Naa I which translates to “rescuer” or “builder” for the work he has undertaken to recover traditions from the Kingdom of Dagbon.

Stay tuned for more information about the workshops and lectures Yani Malizali Naa I will provide in Puerto Rico related to music, dance, history and traditions.

09/16/2026

On this day Sept 16, 1898, Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances Alacán - Puerto Rican abolitionist, El Antillano - passed away while living in exile in Paris, France. 📍 Earlier this year, PROPA had a chance to visit the building there where he lived and had a medical practice.

09/07/2026

🇵🇷🌺 PROPA was honored to join the puerto_rican_heritage_society of Hawai’i during the blessing of the Puerto Rican casita at the interactive Plantation Village and gardens in Waipahu, Oahu where we were able to see Heather Paulino (who is 5th generation in Hawai’i) share the portrait of her ancestors who left Yauco, PR 125+ years ago; enjoy Boricua cuisine still found in Hawai’i including a version of bacalao con viandas that uses ube (a purple fleshed tuber); and hear from Dr. Juanita Denninghoff about how her ancestral memory from Puerto Rico is alive not just in her DNA but also in her artwork and curricula that she develops for children across that archipelago.

🍍⛩️This park is open to the public and has a number of structures that reflect various ethnic groups (such as Japanese, Portuguese and Korean) that came to work on the various (sugar & pineapple) plantations of the archipelago from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s.

The word plantation is often used there to describe large corporate farms of the recent past.

📸 DiaspoRican Karabalí

09/05/2026

🎉 PROPA in collaboration with the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center and the Puerto Rican Studies Association invite you to be part of a history making event. On Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 7:00 pm PROPA will dedicate La Casita de Don Pedro y Doña Lo**ta on Paseo Boricua in Barrio Borikén / in Humboldt Park as a Lugar Histórico.

🪧 This dedication of La Casita will commemorate a communal space that has long served as a gathering place for the preservation and celebration of Afrodescendant traditions from Puerto Rico – particularly Bomba. This includes rehearsals, performances, bailes de Bomba, workshops and many other events that have drawn ChiRicans, other community members and visitors to this place with the distinct purpose to honor AfroBorikua history and culture over the decades – including various sessions of PROPA’s own biennial Bomba Research Conference, among other workshops with Bomba practitioners from Puerto Rico.

📍Join us in commUnity to dedicate La Casita as a Lugar Histórico to the very rhythms that have been present in this space for nearly 30 years. We invite you to wear white in honor of the Afroancestres whose legacies have been carried forward over time and across land and water where they have lived on in the songs, movements and memories that Chicago’s Bomba community has worked so hard to preserve and share with the world. Bring your Bomba drum, pandereta, skirt and your voice to join this special event!

🌟 This event is supported in part by 26th Ward Alderperson Jessie Fuentes, La Escuelita Bombera de Corazón, AfriCaribe, El Schomburg and Taller Entre Aguas.

09/01/2026

🌍 Since 2020, PROPA’s genealogy program Africa Habla en Mi has explored how ancestral journeys inspire descendants as they pursue community building, educational advocacy, family legacy and so much more. Here are a few of those memories as we celebrate UNESCO’s International Day for People of African Descent.

🌍 Desde el 2020, el programa de genealogía de PROPA, África Habla en Mí, ha explorado cómo las trayectorias de nuestres ancestres inspiran a sus descendientes mientras trabajan por fortalecer sus comunidades, impulsar la educación, preservar el legado familiar y mucho más. Aquí compartimos algunos de esos recuerdos mientras celebramos el Día Internacional de las Personas de Ascendencia Africana de la UNESCO.

08/12/2026

🪧 On this International Youth Day, we celebrate the 2026 Lugar Histórico visit of youth from El Batey in Buffalo, NY to one of the most well known historic Bomba sites in Puerto Rico - the batey of Domingo Negrón Matías in Cataño, PR.

🪧 En este Día Internacional de la Juventud, celebramos la visita de 2026 de jóvenes de El Batey, en Buffalo, Nueva York, a uno de los Lugares Históricos de Bomba más reconocidos de Puerto Rico: el batey de Domingo Negrón Matías en Cataño, Puerto Rico.

08/09/2026

🌎 On this International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, PROPA is proud to support today’s event in St. Thomas, VI: HONOURING INDIGENOUS MIDWIVES: SAFEGUARDING LIFE AND WELL-BEING.

🌎 En este Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas del Mundo, PROPA se enorgullece de apoyar el evento que se celebra hoy en St. Thomas, Islas Vírgenes: HONRANDO A LAS PARTERAS INDÍGENAS: SALVAGUARDANDO LA VIDA Y EL BIENESTAR.

07/06/2026

🐚🌴 We end National Hawai’i Day with a recap of the recent visit by our collaborators Heather Paulino (5th generation in Oahu whose ancestors were from Yauco) and Deborah Francis (4th generation in Maui whose ancestors were from Peñuelas and Adjuntas). While they were in Puerto Rico, they gave somatic movement and observation workshops, participated in historic site visits and shared their families’ stories. Next up, PROPA’s Sugar series is headed to Hawai’i!

🌴🐚 Cerramos el Día Nacional de Hawái con un recuento de la reciente visita de nuestras colaboradoras Heather Paulino (Boricua de 5ta generación en Oʻahu, cuyos ancestros eran de Yauco) y Deborah Francis (Boricua de 4ta generación en Maui, cuyos ancestres eran de Peñuelas y Adjuntas). Durante su estadía en Puerto Rico, ofrecieron talleres somáticos de movimiento y observación, participaron en recorridos por Lugares Históricos y compartieron las historias de sus familias. ¡Ya pronto la serie Azúcar de PROPA se dirige a Hawái!

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