Plena is a traditional Afro-Puerto Rican musical genre. Santurce, a neighborhood in San Juan, has a rich history of plena groups, composers and performers. Plena Cangrejera will set up 15 stations along busy Loíza Street to tell the stories of some of these cultural warriors. The stations will each have a photograph of a performer or group with a brief description of their work and a QR code that will take the visitors to the website where they can listen to a podcast with each interviewee and their music, and also read their bios and link to their webpages and social media.

This multidisciplinary exhibit will also offer a monthly musical tour in which we will play some of the songs of the featured pleneros walking from one station to the next. Tito, main curator of the exhibit, is a Grammy nominated lifelong plenero who also lives in the neighborhood, and leader of the band Viento de Agua, will lead the musical tours with local pleneros. 

The stations will be placed on the walls of private buildings, facing the street, some are homes and others are businesses, the outreach of incorporating them to the project is a very important part of our work since it is a way of engaging the community with the project. This outreach will also be done by a neighbor that will be hired for these purpose. The entire project is a tribute to a local art form and to the history of the community. Our aim is for this to be a first step of a long term project that will include conferences, cultural events and a permanent exhibit at a local closed school reappropiated by the community.