Aquí, Somos: 55 Years of SRBCC is Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center’s signature anniversary fundraiser—an unforgettable night celebrating 55 years of Puerto Rican culture, community, and artistic excellence in Chicago.
This year’s program features Agua, Sol y Sereno (Puerto Rico), led by Artistic Director Pedro Adorno Irizarry, presenting an original performance created in Chicago through “Batey de la Memoria” a week-long series of workshops and creative labs with local artists and community members. Rooted in bomba’s power as a living, communal art form, the work weaves voice, rhythm, movement, and image—inviting story, humor, memory, and social commentary into the batey through purposeful improvisation and visual elements such as masks, flags, and printed or drawn pieces.
This performance embodies everything SRBCC stands for: Puerto Rican artists from the Island and Chicago-based creatives coming together in a truly multidisciplinary celebration of culture, community, and collaboration.
Your ticket and donation directly support SRBCC’s year-round programming and artist fund at a critical moment—helping sustain a cultural home that continues to uplift artists and serve our community.
About our guest artist: Agua, Sol y Sereno from Puerto Rico
Agua, Sol y Sereno (ASYS), founded by Pedro Adorno and Cathy Vigo in 1993, is a theater collective—now composed of eight artists—whose aesthetic and community-based work remains in constant dialogue with social realities and the search for the human being’s inner poetics. The collective embraces multiple artistic disciplines within its theatrical practice, including painting, dance, music, and writing. Its creative workshops are designed to explore the questions and imagination of people of all ages across all kinds of communities. ASYS has created more than twenty original theater works grounded in a deep ecological and historical consciousness. Through its comparsas and performance actions, the collective brings art into the street, engaging themes of local and international relevance. Rooted in Caribbean experimentation and in active relationship with both the outer world and the inner world, ASYS’s aesthetic and pedagogical practice generates cultural, artistic, and philosophical processes of profound impact.
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