Puerto Ricans Molded by New York November is Puerto Rican Heritage Month in New York, giving the city a chance to recognize the ways figures like the Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Knicks star Carmelo Anthony, the cultural historian Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and the founders of the Nuyorican poetry movement have shaped and been shaped by New York. And the Miser, being the Miser, after all, is happy to note that a number of the programs tied to the celebration are free and open to the public. United States Army A film about Puerto Ricans in the Army will be screened on Friday. On Friday night at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Laboratory, the story of the United States Army's mostly Puerto Rican 65th Infantry Regiment will be narrated by the actor Héctor Elizondo in Noemi Figueroa Soulet and Raquel Ortiz's film "The Borinqueneers." Created in 1899, the regiment saw action in both World Wars and in the Korean War. On Saturday night, also at the center, the writer, activist and Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance director Charles Rice-González will read from his novel "Chulito," a bildungsroman about a young gay man in the South Bronx. Both the reading and the screening are part of the Bronx Rising! series and are free, with a suggested donation of $5. Film, Friday at 8 p.m., and reading, Saturday at 7:30 p.m.; 1303 Louis Niñe Boulevard, at Southern Boulevard, Crotona Park East; 718-839-1189, whedco.org/arts/bmhclab. Another free reading, on Friday night at the MNN El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center, a neighborhood-oriented broadcast production studio in East Harlem, will feature poets spanning generations, from the original Nuyoricans José Angel Figueroa and Sandra Maria Esteves to the younger writers Peggy Robles-Alvarado and Rafael Landron. Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., 175 East 104th Street; 212-757-2670, mnn.org. Not too far downtown from the Firehouse, paintings by Marc Chagall, another artist shaped by a diasporic tradition, can be seen at the Jewish Museum, where the exhibition "Chagall: Love, War, and Exile" is on view. On Sunday evening, the museum is presenting the first installment of a three-part series, Painting Beyond Belief, featuring a discussion between the painters Amy Sillman and Peter Doig, moderated by Jordan Kantor, associate professor of painting at California College of the Arts. The group will consider the course of painting since Chagall's death in 1985. Admission is free; reservations are required, and can be made by phone or via the museum's website. Sunday at 6:30 p.m., 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street; 212-423-3200, thejewishmuseum.org.