Filmmaker and arts administrator BIENVENIDA MATIAS received support to spend two weeks in Puerto Rico to explore how island and United States-based Puerto Ricans define a Puerto Rican national cultural identity. Part of this discussion centers on how artists and critics define and discuss the difference between high/fine and low/popular arts and culture. The question of a Puerto Rican cultural identity runs deeper than aesthetic debates, for it is informed by race, class, language, politics, religion and geography. Her journey is divided into two parts, the first to coincide with a festival of contemporary Latino performance art titled Rompeforma and the second during the Festival of Santiago, the patron saint of the village of Loiza, which is well known as an Afro-Caribbean community.