Celebration poster for El Grito de Lares 50th Anniversary Community Street Fair, featuring images of a street fair with people, musicians, and Puerto Rican flags. Includes event details such as date, time, location, and anniversary information.

Become a Community Partner

For fifty years, the El Grito de Lares Community Street Fair has brought generations of Bronx families together to celebrate Puerto Rican heritage, culture, music, food, and community.

On Saturday, September 26, 2026, we will proudly celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this historic Vyse Avenue tradition.

Your sponsorship helps us keep this celebration free and open to the public while supporting the costs of producing a safe, welcoming, and meaningful community event.

Your Sponsorship Helps Support

  • Live music and cultural performances

  • Stage, sound, permits, and event production

  • Community outreach and promotional materials

  • Family-friendly programming

  • Complimentary food and refreshments for the community

  • Event supplies, logistics, sanitation, and operations

A street scene during a community event with people sitting and standing, vendor tables, and a small crowd gathered on a sunny day in an urban area with trees, buildings, and a clear blue sky.
A street scene during a community event with people sitting and standing, vendor tables, and a small crowd gathered on a sunny day in an urban area with trees, buildings, and a clear blue sky.

Choose Your Sponsorship Level

Friend of El Grito — $250

Join local businesses, organizations, families, and individual supporters in helping preserve this 50-year tradition.

Recognition includes:

  • Name listed among 50th Anniversary supporters

  • Social media acknowledgment

Cultural Sponsor — $500

Show your support for Puerto Rican heritage, culture, and community.

Recognition includes everything from Friend of El Grito, plus:

  • Website recognition

Community Sponsor — $1,000

Help strengthen a free community celebration serving Bronx families and residents.

Recognition includes everything from Cultural Sponsor, plus:

  • Logo on sponsor signage

  • Stage acknowledgment

  • Informational table at the event

Heritage Sponsor — $1,500

Support the preservation of Puerto Rican culture and one of the Bronx’s longest-standing community traditions.

Recognition includes everything from Community Sponsor, plus:

  • Prominent logo placement

  • Event signage

Presenting Sponsor — $2,000

Premier recognition for organizations making a significant investment in the 50th Anniversary celebration.

Recognition includes everything from Heritage Sponsor, plus:

  • Premier logo placement

  • Major event signage

  • Additional stage recognition

  • Website and social media recognition

  • Recognition during opening ceremonies

5% Cover the Fee

Centro Cultural y Educativo El Maestro Inc. Nonprofit Organization EIN: 20-5450192

Custom Contribution

Every contribution helps us preserve this historic celebration and keep it free and open to the community.

Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances Puerto Rican abolitionist, physician, and leader associated with the movement that led to El Grito de Lares. 
Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances. Puerto Rican abolitionist, physician, and leader associated with the movement that led to El Grito de Lares.

Prefer to support the event with goods or services?

We welcome in-kind community partners.

This help us reduce the cost of producing the celebration.

Current needs include:

  • Hot dogs and hamburgers

  • Hamburger and hot dog buns

  • Condiments

  • Bottled water

  • Juice

  • Soda

  • Photography and video services

  • Professional services

If your business or organization would like to make an in-kind contribution, please contact us at (646) 299 - 6507 before submitting your sponsorship so we can coordinate. current event needs.

Event Information

50th Anniversary El Grito de Lares Community Street Fair

Saturday, September 26, 2026
1:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Vyse Avenue
Between East 167th Street & Home Street
Bronx, New York

Hosted by:

Centro Cultural y Educativo El Maestro, Inc.
and
Vyse Avenue Friends

For full event details and the public Eventbrite listing, please visit:

Eventbrite — 50th Anniversary El Grito de Lares Community Street Fair:

EVENT DETAILS
Event banner celebrating the 50th anniversary of El Grito de Lares, a Puerto Rican community street fair taking place on Saturday, September 26, 2026, from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Vyse Avenue between East 167th Street and Home Street in Bronx, NY. The banner features photos of people enjoying the event, musical performances, and decorative elements of flowers, musical notes, and a ribbon with the Puerto Rican flag colors. It highlights the event's themes of music, food, culture, family, and community, with text in both English and Spanish.

More Than a One-Day Sponsorship

When you support El Grito de Lares, you are helping preserve a living cultural tradition that has brought generations of Bronx residents together since 1976.

Your partnership helps ensure that young people and families can continue to experience Puerto Rican history, music, culture, food, and community in the place where this Bronx tradition began.

An investment in culture.
An investment in community.
An investment in the next 50 years.

A historical scene depicting a group of men on horseback and on foot in front of a wooden building, with some holding flags, during what appears to be a tense confrontation or protest at night, illuminated by torches and warm lighting.

Sponsorship Contact

Fernando Ponce Laspina
Executive Director
Centro Cultural y Educativo El Maestro, Inc.

Telephone: (646) 299 - 6507
Email: ElMaestrobx@gmail.com