45th Anniversary Celebration Events Calendar

Summer 2012

• 45th Anniversary Celebration Launch in conjunction with Puerto Rican Day Parade
  Date: Sunday, June 10, 2012

• International Learning Styles Conference
  Date: Monday, July 9 thru Thursday, July 12, 2012

 

Fall 2012

• Art Gallery 45th Anniversary Exhibit: Puerto Rico in Its Labyrinth, Chronicles of a Country and a World in Crisis by Monumental Sculptor José  Buscaglia
  Date: Monday, September 24 thru Saturday, December 8, 2012
  Location: Hostos Art Gallery 

• 45th Anniversary Golf Outing
  Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012
  Location: The Pelham Bay & Split Rock Golf Courses

• 45th Anniversary Homecoming Weekend
  Date: Friday, September 28 & Sunday, September 30, 2012
  
  “Invitation Only” Donors Cocktail Reception
  Date: Friday, September 28, 2012
  Location: A-Atrium

• Alumni Speakers Bureau Official Launch
  

Alumni Homecoming Celebration
Date: Sunday, September 30, 2012

• 45th Anniversary Sporting Events
  Location: Hostos Gym, C-Building, 3rd Floor
  Time: 11:00 a.m.
• Viva Bronx! Festival
  Location: Grand Concourse & 149th Street
  Time: 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
• Domino Tournament
  Location: Hostos Cafeteria, C-Building, 3rd Floor
  Time: 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
• Hostos Gallery Talk: José Buscaglia
  Location: Hostos Art Gallery
  Time: 11:30 a.m.
• Hostos Talent Show
  Grand Concourse & 149th Street
  Time: 1:00 p.m.
• Alumni Parade
  Location: Grand Concourse & 149th Street
  Time: 3:00 p.m.

• Official Opening Reception of 45th Anniversary Exhibit: Puerto Rico in Its Labyrinth, Chronicles of a Country and a World in Crisis and Conversing Bricks Opening
  Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
  Location:   Hostos Art Gallery (Exhibit Reception)
                   Memorial Plaza (Conversing Bricks)

• Bomplenazo: Biennial Celebration of Afro-Puerto Rican Culture
  Date: Thursday, October 4 thru Sunday, October 7,  2012
  Location: Hostos Repertory Theatre & Main Theatre

• Inauguration of Hostos Workforce Development Center
  Date: Week of October 15, 2012
  • Week-long celebration (Open Houses / Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony)
  • Ribbon-cutting ceremony
    Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
    Location: Hostos Workforce Development Center
    
    
• A Conversation with José  Buscaglia
  Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
  Location: TBD
  
  
• 45th Anniversary Fall Concert
  Date: Friday, November 16, 2012
  Location: Hostos Main Theatre
• Concert with Danny Rivera and Cheo Feliciano in commemoration of Puerto Rican Heritage Month
• Dedicated to Wally Edgecombe: celebration for extraordinary service and cultural contribution to Hostos and the Bronx
  
  
• 45th Holiday Celebration: “NATIVITY, A Life Story”
  Date: Friday, December 7 thru Saturday, December 8, 2012
  Location: Hostos Main Theatre
  • An African-American Christmas-themed musical based on the birth of Jesus, inspired by Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity

 

Winter 2013

• 45th Anniversary Black History Month & Dominican Heritage Month Celebration
  Date: February 2012 (TENTATIVE)
  • Three-prong program by Arturo O’Farill
• Concert: Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
• Young Roots program
• Folkloric program

 

Spring 2013

• Hostos Community College Community Service Day
• 45th Anniversary Lecture Series
• 45th Anniversary Gala: March / April 2013
• 45th Anniversary Commencement: May / June 2013
• 45th Anniversary Celebration Closing Event : Hostos / CUNY Family Party / June 2013

45th Anniversary Celebration Events Calendar