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The KASIBAHAGUA TAINO CULTURAL SOCIETY is dedicated to the promotion of the music, song, dance, stories and art of the Indigenous Taino People of the Caribbean. The Society’s name, KASIBAHAGUA, derives from part of an ancient Taino creation story. In the language of the Taino, kasibahagua means, "The black-holed stone" and it represents the womb of ATABEIRA - the Earth Mother.
Members of the Kasibahagua Cultural Society after a successful performance at the American Museum of Natural History, August 2008 (Photo: Ananda Apfelbaum)
Kasibahagua Founder, Roberto Borrero presenting Taino dance at the American Museum of Natural History in 1993
Ausobonex and Kuyayaaku (Photo: Ananda Apfelbaum)
Members of Kasibahagua 2009
PABLO HAGUEY ROSARIO, one of Kasibahagua’s elder representatives and advisors in Boriken (Puerto Rico), demonstrates the GUAHEY (Guiro) at a presentation at the American Museum of Natural History in October 2000. Photo: R. Mickens – Courtesy of AMNH
A founding member of Kasibahagua, Lizzy Sarobey (right) now directs her own troupe Wakia Arawaka Taina in Puerto Rico
Established in 1993, the Kasibahagua Taino Cultural Society is an inter-Tribal, inter-generational, community-based organization of indigenous Caribbean singers, musicians, speakers, and artists dedicated to transmitting their ancestral heritage to their present and future generations with dignity and honor.
KASIBAHAGUA TAINO CULTURAL SOCIETY
The KASIBAHAGUA TAINO CULTURAL SOCIETY is dedicated to the promotion of the music, song, dance, stories and art of the Indigenous Taino People of the Caribbean. The Society’s name, KASIBAHAGUA, derives from part of an ancient Taino creation story. In the language of the Taino, kasibahagua means, "The black-holed stone" and it represents the womb of ATABEIRA - the Earth Mother.
Members of the Kasibahagua Cultural Society after a successful performance at the American Museum of Natural History, August 2008 (Photo: Ananda Apfelbaum)
Next Appearance:
Indigenous Peoples Day NYC, October 11, 2021, Randalls Islands, NYC
Park Ave Armory, New York, NY, May 16, 2020
Jamaica Center for Arts and Culture, Jamaica, Queens, June 27
Bear Mountain Pow Wow, August 1-2, 2020
Indigenous Peoples Day, Randall's Island, October 11-12, 2020
Jamaica Center for Arts and Culture, Jamaica, Queens, June 27
Bear Mountain Pow Wow, August 1-2, 2020
Indigenous Peoples Day, Randall's Island, October 11-12, 2020
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Kasibahagua Founder, Roberto Borrero presenting Taino dance at the American Museum of Natural History in 1993
CONTACT KASIBAHAGUA
Kasibahagua Taino Cultural Society
℅ UCTP PO Box 4518, NY, NY 10163
Via email: oirrc@uctp.org
Ausobonex and Kuyayaaku (Photo: Ananda Apfelbaum)
Past Performances:
Kasibahagua has performed at such notable institutions as the United Nations, American Museum of Natural History, the Institute for American Indian Studies, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian Heye Center, NY Botanical Gardens, NY Open Center, and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, as well as many festivals and Native American Pow Wows, schools, and universities.
Next Kasibahagua Rehearsal
For information contact mukaro.agueibana@uctp.org
Members of Kasibahagua 2009
Kasibahagua is Oral Tradition
According to Taino oral tradition, Kasibahagua is one of two caves located in a sacred mountain of Cauta, and was the original place of emergence of the Taino People after a great flood that covered the whole earth had subsided. It is from this cave that the Taino went from living in darkness to living in the light. The other cave, called Amaiauna, represents the “place of the others”. It is from this cave that Taino people respectfully acknowledged all the other peoples who share their world.
Links to the Taino World
- UCTP Web Portal
- The Voice of the Taino People Online
- The Voice of the Taino People News Journal Archives
- UCTP Did You Know Files: Taino Facts
- Taino TV
- BUY TAINO MUSIC
- UCTP TAINO MERCHANDISE
- Arawak Design: Indigenous Arts and Crafts
- Indigenous People Caucus of the Greater Caribbean
- Guainía Taíno Tribe
PABLO HAGUEY ROSARIO, one of Kasibahagua’s elder representatives and advisors in Boriken (Puerto Rico), demonstrates the GUAHEY (Guiro) at a presentation at the American Museum of Natural History in October 2000. Photo: R. Mickens – Courtesy of AMNH
Kasibahagua Thanks Elba Anaca Lugo
The Kasibahagua Taino Cultural Society would like to take this opportunity to say hahom (thank you) to Elba Anaca Lugo and the members of Paseo Taino/Travesia Taina for all their inspiration over the years. Paseo Taino/Travesia Taina performed contemporary Puerto Rican Folk Music and Taino music and dance throughout Boriken, the Caribbean, and the U.S. In the late 1980’s Elba Anaca Lugo urged a small number of Taino residing in the New York area to formally establish Taino cultural/socio/political organizations in the United States. As a result of this inspiration, Roberto Múkaro Borrero founded, along with some former members of Travesia Taina, the Kasibahagua (Cacibajagua) Taino Cultural Society in 1993.
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A founding member of Kasibahagua, Lizzy Sarobey (right) now directs her own troupe Wakia Arawaka Taina in Puerto Rico
La Confederacion Unida del Pueblo Taino
The Kasibahagua Taino Cultural Society is a proud member of the United Confederation of Taino People