Music Moves Chicago Presents: Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba with Lauren Brooks

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 10:00 pm UTC-05:00

Washington Park | Chicago

Music Moves Chicago
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Music Moves Chicago Presents: Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba with Lauren Brooks
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Join Music Moves for a FREE Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba class with Lauren Brooks on Oct 16, Nov 20, and Dec 18!
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Join us for three FREE Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba classes with Lauren Brooks!

Bomba is an Afro-Puerto Rican traditional music and dance form that has survived over 400 years. Like other African diasporic performance styles, Bomba features improvised expression and collaboration between dancers, vocalists, and drummers. Participants will enjoy learning fundamental dance vocabulary, technique, and timing!

Bring a wide skirt or scarf, if possible.

All levels and ages are welcome, and programming is FREE and open to the public!

🗓️ Thursdays - October 16, November 20, December 18

🕡 6:30 - 8:00 pm

📍 Washington Park Field House • 5531 S Martin Luther King Dr, Chicago, IL 60637

💸 FREE! (Gratis!)

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Music Moves Chicago (MMC) is Old Town School of Folk Music's a place-based, youth-focused, intergenerational initiative that aims to inspire, restore, and transform communities by providing access to high quality arts education, concerts, and workforce readiness through partnerships with community organizations, schools, and other institutions located in South and West side neighborhoods.



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Washington Park, 5531 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Chicago, United States

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