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Recurring Gatherings

  • Cafecitos
    Fridays, 3-5pm | DB Room in La Casa
    Weekly informal meetups for conversation and networking. Led by Antonio.

Fall 2026 Events

  • 📜 Caribbean Studies Certificate — Petition & Student Survey
    Now through December 2026 | Committee on Majors submission
    The Certificate in Caribbean Studies: Archipelagos, Seas, and Diasporas goes to Yale's Committee on Majors this December. Everyone can sign the petition; current and former students should also fill out the survey on Caribbean-focused coursework they have already taken. Fifty-two years after Yale was first asked.
    Take the student survey → · Read the full case in El Boletín →
  • 🥁 Bomba at Schwarzman
    Fall 2026 | Schwarzman Center — with Movimiento Cultural
    Afro-Puerto Rican music, rhythm, dance, and history in one of Yale's biggest shared spaces. Bomba is a conversation between drummer and dancer, between generations, and between community and history. We want Yale to experience that conversation.
  • 🪁 Kite-Making & Vejigante Mask Workshops
    Fall 2026 | with Arte Inc. and New Haven youth
    Hands-on cultural workshops: chiringas, vejigante masks, art, history, and intergenerational community-building. Not culture behind glass — culture you make with your hands.
  • 🗳️ La Urna — Voter Registration & Civic Power
    Fall 2026 | La Casa Cultural — with Juan Candelaria and campus partners
    Practical help with registration, absentee ballots, and state-specific voting questions, plus a larger conversation about what political participation can and cannot do.
  • 🎬 DB × MEChA × DECO Documentary Screening
    Fall 2026 | Details TBA
    A documentary on the Puerto Rican diaspora and broader Latine activism, followed by a community conversation across movements, histories, and communities.
  • 🚆 DB Goes to CENTRO
    Fall 2026 | Hunter College, New York City
    The DB board visits the Center for Puerto Rican Studies — a tour, time with selected archival collections, and groundwork for Estamos Aquí and the Caribbean Studies certificate. With help from Karina, CENTRO's student liaison.
  • 🏫 La Casa Open Doors — New Haven High School Students
    Monthly | DB Room & La Casa Cultural
    Once a month, DB opens the DB room and La Casa to local high school students. Meet the board, hang out, ask questions, learn about college, use the space.
  • ☕ Haiti, Puerto Rico & the Caribbean — Cafecito Conversation
    Fall 2026 | La Casa Cultural — with LakaYALE
    A conversation with Yale's Haitian student community about Haiti, Puerto Rico, neocolonialism, and Caribbean solidarity — what our different colonial histories teach us when we stop studying our islands separately.
  • 🌴 Caribbean Student Mixer
    Fall 2026 | Details TBA
    One of our yearly traditions returns: Puerto Rican, Haitian, Dominican, Jamaican, Trinidadian, Cuban, and other Caribbean student communities in one room — music, food, conversation, and new collaborations by the end of the night.
  • 🎨 Graffiti Workshop (maybe 👀)
    Fall 2026 | Still cooking
    Street art, lettering, political expression, and the visual language of Puerto Rican and Latino urban culture. Still in the works. But you know us — we have ideas.
  • 🏛️ Estamos Aquí: In the Halls of Power
    May 2027 | CENTRO, Hunter College — The Puerto Rican Futurity Conference
    Developed in partnership with CENTRO and the Northeast Alliance's 20+ campuses, and organized around a constellation of four clusters: Educación, Practitioners, Multigeneracional, and Imaginación. A serious, sustained space for Puerto Rican students across the Northeast to turn access into power — and to get as serious about imagining what could be right as we are about explaining what is wrong.
    Alumni practitioners and elders: we need you in the room. Write to despiertaboricua@yale.edu with the subject "Estamos Aquí." 🇵🇷

Recent Events 26-27

  • Extracurricular Bazaar
    September 2026 | Yale
    First day of a year that feels different. DB tabled, recruited, and welcomed the Class of 2030. 🇵🇷
  • Esencia No Va — Puerto Rico Solidarity Tour 2026
    September 2026 | La Casa Cultural
    DB hosted a stop on the 2026 Puerto Rico Solidarity Tour, welcoming filmmaker and organizer Gabo Ramos of Defiende a Cabo Rojo for a screening and conversation on the fight against Project Esencia — a 1,500-acre luxury enclave, 1.5 million gallons of water a day, and the question of who Puerto Rico is being built for.
    Pay attention to Cabo Rojo. — Read what we learned in El Boletín →

Spring 2026 Events

Recent Events 25-26

  • Dr. Antonia Novello Visit
    Thursday, Sept 18, 12:30-3pm | Yale School of Medicine
    The first woman AND first Latina U.S. Surgeon General came through and blessed us. Dr. Novello shared her journey breaking barriers in medicine, serving as Surgeon General, working at the NIH, leading as NY Commissioner of Health during 9/11, and coordinating healthcare in PR after Hurricane María and during COVID. Puerto Rican med students got a private trainee conversation with her afterward, and she even autographed books for DB!
    Status: STANDING ROOM ONLY ✓
  • Bad Bunny LIVE Watch Party
    Saturday, Sept 20, 8:30pm | Hopper Buttery
    When Bad Bunny announced he was livestreaming his FINAL Debí Tirar Más Fotos concert from Puerto Rico, we gathered to watch together. Antonio cooked fresh alcapurrias and arroz con gandules in the buttery, plus homemade limber. A night of music, food, and feeling connected to home—even from thousands of miles away.
    Lesson Learned: Alcapurrias need to be frozen first or they fall apart 😅
  • Hartford Puerto Rican Parade
    Sunday, Sept 21, 12-3:30pm | Pope Park → Downtown Hartford
    We marched as co-sponsors with Movimiento Cultural in the Hartford Puerto Rican Parade alongside thousands celebrating Boricua culture and community. We brought our instruments and made sure people heard us coming! The energy, the flags, the pride—pure Boricua spirit. 🇵🇷
    Vibe: Pure Pride
  • Brasil Club x DB x LUL Party
    Thursday, Sept 26, 10pm-1am | LUL House
    A blend of Brazilian and Puerto Rican music, coquito meets caipirinha—celebrating our shared Latin American roots.
  • Caribbean Students Mixer
    Friday, Sept 27, 7-9pm | La Casa Cultural
    Co-hosted with CSO, DSA, CAUSA (+ Sabro support). The ANNUAL Caribbean mixer: dancing workshop, social dancing, dominoes, and incredible food. DB brought Pan del Cielo II pastries and homemade coquito. DSA made arroz con leche, CAUSA brought mocktails, and CSO/Sabro led the dance workshop.
  • Día Nacional de la Salsa
    Sunday, Oct 5, 2-5pm | Beinecke Plaza
    In honor of Puerto Rico's Día Nacional de la Zalsa—an annual festival celebrating our salsa legends—we teamed up with Sabro to bring the music outside. Sabro led a salsa workshop, teaching choreography to anyone brave enough to learn, followed by social dancing with a salsa-only playlist echoing across campus.
  • Antonio Martorell Fireside Chat
    Thursday, Oct 9, 6-8pm | Luce Hall
    Legendary Puerto Rican multimedia artist Antonio (Toño) Martorell came through, and DB got to moderate a fireside chat with him about his work, his creative process, and the political messages woven into his art. Martorell brought his painting materials and created art live while talking. The audience—packed with students, faculty, and alumni—was captivated.
  • Tobin Report 50th Anniversary
    Friday, Oct 10, 1-4pm | Yale SOM
    The Center for a New Economy and Yale's Tobin Center for Economic Policy commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Tobin Report on Puerto Rico—a landmark 1975 assessment of PR's economic challenges commissioned by the governor and led by Nobel laureate James Tobin. Leading economists, policymakers, and scholars reflected on the report's legacy and discussed what it means for Puerto Rico's future today.
  • Cafecito Estilo Domino (DB x DSA)
    Friday, Oct 10, 3-5pm | DB Room + LWAY Room
    After many requests, we finally held a joint cafecito with DSA! DB brought 50 pastries from Pan Del Cielo II, connecting our Boricua and Dominican communities over coffee and conversation.
  • Reggaeton y Dembow Party (DB x DSA)
    Saturday, Oct 11, 10pm-1am | GodQuad
    The collab people had been waiting for: DB x DSA party with the best Puerto Rican and Dominican music in one room.
  • Bori-Grad Brunch
    Sunday, Nov 9, 11:30am-2pm | La Casa Cultural
    Professional school students joined us for our signature Grad Bori Brunch featuring queso frito, pan sobao, salchicas, bacalaitos, eggs, and farina. Most attendees were grad students from across the Latino community—proof that Puerto Rican food brings everyone together.
    Plot twist: People actually showed up on time. We're still in shock. 😳
  • MEChA x DB: Shared History Teach-In
    Thursday & Friday, Nov 20-21, 7pm | Beinecke Library & La Casa
    A two-day collaboration with MEChA diving deep into our shared history in New Haven. Diego Martinez and Sonia Rosa presented archival discoveries, followed by a session at the Beinecke exploring primary sources together.
    Turns out we've been making history while FINDING history. Very meta. 📖✨
  • Celebración de Lux — Lechón Asado
    Tuesday, Dec 2, 6:30pm | La Casa Cultural
    La Casa's annual holiday gathering, and DB went ALL OUT. Antonio Padilla picked up a 40-pound whole pig, butchered it at La Casa, and seasoned it with sofrito, vinegar, oil, sazón, adobo, paprika, chili powder, and garlic paste. Hours later: tender, flavorful pernil that had everyone coming back for seconds and thirds.
    40 pounds of pork. Sparse leftovers. That's called EFFICIENCY. 💪🐷
  • Last Cafecito of the Semester
    Friday, Dec 5, 3pm | La Casa Cultural
    Antonio and his Grandma came through with homemade flan de vanilla, flan de queso, and pastelillos de guayaba. Plus empanadillas and leftover pernil. The perfect way to close out the semester: sweet treats, good conversation, and the warmth of family.
    Shoutout to Antonio's abuela—you're officially an honorary DB board member. 🧡
  • Club Caribe — St. A's x DB Party
    Friday, Dec 5, 10pm | St. Anthony Hall
    Club Caribe took over St. Anthony's for a Caribbean-themed night. DB brought fresh coquito. The perfect end to the semester.
    From flan at 3pm to coquito at midnight. We call that a FULL day. 🌴🍹

Events 24-25

  • Brazilian Mixer
    Jan 25
    Mixer to encourage Brazilians to associate with La Casa and challenge what it means to be Latino.
  • Bad Bunny Party
    Jan 25
    Listening party to the #1 album in the world with a glass full of coquito.
  • Community Cooking at La Casa
    Saturday Feb 8, 5–7 PM
    Share recipes and stories in a communal cooking experience. Hosted by DB and local chefs.
  • PRU Cafecito
    Feb 14
    A warm, casual meetup to discuss pressing community issues over coffee.
  • Julia de Burgos Anniversary
    Feb 23
    Special poetry reading: "We Are Owned." Curated by Kris to honor the legacy of Julia de Burgos.
  • El Coquí Show – Long Wharf Theatre
    Feb 23 A theatrical tribute to Puerto Rican folklore, in collaboration with local performers.
  • Community Cafecity
    APR 12
  • Conga Handpainting: Last Cafecito of 24-25
    APR 25