Humboldt Park · Chicago, IL
Humboldt Park Boxing Program fighter, artist, and creator of CANVAS, Noelia Cruz, partners with Humboldt Park Bomba culture bearer and musical director of Colectivo Sayba, Leonarda Lazú Rodríguez, to present CANVAS–Cocobalé.Chicago Parks Boxing Director Angel Ocasio and Coach Johnny Plaza invite us to Humboldt Park’s Annual Boxing Show to honor the Afro-Indigenous Puerto Rican resistance combat art that precedes the legacy of the Nation with the most boxing world champions per capita in the world.Through the Calindá rhythm of Bomba, Colectivo Sayba interpret punches as ancestral sounds of Cocolembe, an extension of Cocobalé, introduced within the ring-batey. https://noeliacv.com/
