PRIAA Founder Lydia Perez on The Business Spotlight with Dori DeCarlo
Lydia Perez says "If you're not familiar with Puerto Rico, we'll introduce you to it."
Lydia Perez is the founder and the Artistic director of The Puerto Rican Institute for Arts and Advocacy (PRIAA), based in Rhode Island and founded in 1994. The institute champions the gathering and retention of cultural memory, language, and identity transmitting these across generations in the form of education through the arts, not only for Puerto Ricans, but for all Latinos and for all Rhode Island.
Through the arduous 32 years of Afro-Puerto Rican career in Rhode Island and throughout New England, Lydia Pérez brings with her the Cultural Heritage Center, where all PRIAA social and cultural activities are developed for its members and for the Diaspora in Rhode Island.
Yidell Rivera, a devoted member of the PRIAA family since 2000, has played a vital role in shaping the organization's mission and vision as an Assistant for the Board of Directors and through her work as part of her Volunteer internship.
The Puerto Rican Institute for the Arts and Advocacy, Inc. (PRIAA) is a non-profit organization founded in October 1994 by Puerto Rican artist Lydia Pérez, an internationally renowned performance and folklore artist, dedicated to promoting and facilitate citizenship and cultural awareness of Puerto Rico through the music and the arts. On October 30, 2021, PRIAA opened its Cultural Heritage Center at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket to continue internships and promotion in our collaborative space.
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Lydia Perez
Founder/Program Director
The Puerto Rican Institute for the Arts and Advocacy, Inc., (PRIAA) is dedicated to promoting civic and cultural awareness services for the Puerto Rican in Rhode Island.
(PRIAA) runs Caribbean Arts programs in the community and in education. We are a creative performing arts organization, and as an integrated arts and academic facility, we have nurtured future 21st century leaders.
Our Cultural Heritage Center is a new space available for teaching, learning, and cultural exchange in Rhode Island.
PRIAA has held traditional Puerto Rican festivals in Central Falls, Woonsocket, and Providence. These festivals are known in Puerto Rico as "Fiestas de Pueblo". According to the 1996 Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, p. 31. refer to us and we quote: "It was more than a festival, it was" a meeting in which the Puerto Rican and Latino communities merged".
Since 1996 PRIAA have collaborated with great leaders in the Puerto Rican and other ethnicity Community. Now, we have brought our Fiesta de Pueblo under the Caribbean Arts program for Education throughout New England.
PRIAA works to advocate for the Puerto Rican community. Our goal is to reach out to our Puerto Rican communities to keep and maintain a sense of pride in their cultural identity and language, and to demonstrate the importance of maintaining that intergenerational pride. We use the arts as our main tool to maintain the preservation of Puerto Rican culture in our state and others state in Nationwide. We advocate for our Puerto Ricans as Americans and maintain the respect we dese…
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