Keep Boricua Cultural Joy Burning With Your Generous Support!

Arts and Entertainment

October 29, 2025

Atabey cacona guari! (Blessings!)

I hope this message finds you in good spirits. I’m writing with an urgent request for support.

For 28 years, our nonprofit cultural center has kept Boricua culture and joy burning bright in Central Texas - through music, dance, theatre, and education - uplifting our community and preserving the heritage of our Ancestors.

This year, we face a crisis. National grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities - the very programs that have sustained our work for decades - were cancelled.

You have to travel to faraway cities - like Chicago or Nuevayork - to enjoy another cultural center like ours. Without these funds, essential programs -- like our Salsa & Heritage Festival (which brings Puerto Rican masters to Austin) and our annual Community Theatre Musical (teaching our true history through performance) - are at risk.

We are Subtle Activists!

While the current political climate would rather see cultural education silenced, together we can keep the beacon of cultural light and joy burning, strong, visible, and celebrated.

Please consider making a generous year-end, tax-deductible gift! Your investment in our Legacy will ensure our youth and community stay connected to our roots - through the music, stories, and spirit of Puerto Rico. It takes a village to raise a child - we are that village for them and for each other.

Thank you for standing with us in solidarity and pride.

Checks can be sent to our MAILING ADDRESS:

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc.

15228 Quiet Pond Ct

Austin TX 78728

Or through Paypal Giving Fund using this easy link: https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/2277453

Enjoy our accomplishments thus far this year!

Please support the future!

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc (501C3)

Mission & Accomplishments

We are the only Puerto Rican Cultural Center (dba) in the Southwest US. Since 1997, we annually produce artistically excellent programs firmly grounded in humanities, history, cultural arts, and traditions.

Enjoy this video of our mission and accomplishments (3 minutes)!

https://youtu.be/U5Ryyh7SarA

Program Accomplishments 2025 (to date)

PiraguaMan Returns, 23rd Original Musical - Debuts Dec 13-14, 2025

https://www.facebook.com/events/805352142147196

Taino Harvest & Casabe Workshop / Indigenous People's Day, Oct. 12, 2025 (FREE)

https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=prfdance&set=a.10163173304310731

28th Bombazo Birthday Celebration, Sept 7, 2025 with joy, dance, and song! (FREE)

https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=prfdance&set=a.10163130414365731

CAPICÚ! Dominoes Social, August 24, 2025 (FREE)

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10163081230550731&type=3

Celebrando 2025 - Salsa & Heritage Festival, Bahian Dream, June 8, 2025