Free All Ages Special Event

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Location

Harvard Museum of Natural History (26 Oxford Street) and Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology (11 Divinity Avenue)

Celebrate Puerto Rico’s rich culture and natural wonders at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture! 

Join for a fun-filled day with hands-on art-making and storytelling led by Puerto Rican artist and director Pedro Adorno Irizarry and his celebrated arts collective, Agua, Sol y Sereno—known for their vibrant masks, street theater, and community-inspired performances.

Learn about coquí frogs, colorful birds, and glowing bioluminescent bays. Try out cool augmented reality tools to explore ancient Taíno artifacts, and enjoy tasty Puerto Rican food (available for purchase).

Bring the whole family—there’s something for everyone to enjoy!

Advance registration recommended.

Free admission. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture in collaboration with ArtsThursdays, Office for the Arts at Harvard, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Ágora Cultural Architects, and Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción.

Agua, Sol y Sereno (ASYS), founded by Pedro Adorno Irizarry and Cathy Vigo in 1993, is a Puerto Rican theater collective that embraces a variety of artistic disciplines within theater, such as painting, dance, music, and writing. Their creative workshops explore the concerns and imagination of people of all ages in all kinds of communities. ASYS has produced more than twenty original theater pieces rooted in deep ecological and historical awareness. Their parades and performance acts incorporate local and international themes. The group’s experimentation, grounded in the Caribbean and engaging with both the outer and inner worlds, generates significant cultural, artistic, and philosophical impact.

Pedro Adorno Irizarry, Founder and Artistic Director of Agua, Sol y Sereno (ASYS), is a film and theater director, actor, visual artist, and arts manager based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He began his career in the 1980s with the group Los Teatreros Ambulantes de Cayey (The Traveling Theater-makers of Cayey), directed by Rosa Luisa Márquez and Antonio Martorell. In 1989, he relocated to Nicaragua to work with the cultural group MECATE, offering theater workshops in rural communities. Later, he moved to Vermont, where he worked for three years with Bread and Puppet Theatre. Back in Puerto Rico in 1993, he founded Agua, Sol y Sereno together with Cathy Vigo, where he engages with art through the creation of masks, sculptures, and visual arts. He has received various prizes for his cultural work. Adorno completed his Master’s in Art Education from Goddard College in Vermont and Seattle. Apart from holding his position as artistic director of Agua, Sol y Sereno, he works as a professor in the Master of Arts Management program at Puerto Rico University, Recinto de Río Piedras.