It’s Martin Luther King Weekend!
DANCE
92nd Street Y, New York is a Jewish Cultural and Community Center That Serves All Communities
Rosie Perez & Eddie Muller talk about “Sweet Smell of Success” film screening 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
Arturo Sandoval, Cuban jazz 🇨🇺
“What Flows Between Us” Indian classical dance and music festival 🇮🇳 🇺🇸
Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival + Ladies in the Shoe Conference 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Starts a New Era with Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack
NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇬🇫
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Navidad” is a Mexican American Nutcracker
Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, Queens 🇲🇽
Music
92nd Street Y, New York is a Jewish Cultural and Community Center That Serves All Communities
Rosie Perez & Eddie Muller talk about “Sweet Smell of Success” film screening 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
Arturo Sandoval, Cuban jazz 🇨🇺
“What Flows Between Us” Indian classical dance and music festival 🇮🇳 🇺🇸
Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival + Ladies in the Shoe Conference 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
Carnegie Hall is One of the World’s Legendary Music Halls
Isabel Leonard and Friends, American Songbook 🇦🇷 🇺🇸
Timo Andres & Aaron Diehl, American music 🇺🇸
Juan Diego Flórez & Vincenzo Scalera, opera recital 🇵🇪 🇮🇹
MIDTOWN, Manhattan and CITYWIDE
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center Presents Free Concerts and Dance Parties
Conjunto Imagen, Puerto Rican salsa 🇵🇷
Dámaris Bójor, Mexican folk pop 🇲🇽
Miriam Elhajli, Venezuelan Moroccan American experimental folk 🇻🇪 🇲🇦 🇺🇸
LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan
Theatre
Repertorio Español is New York’s Busiest Spanish-Language Theater
La casa de Bernarda Alba, Spanish drama 🇪🇸
La gringa, Puerto Rican comedy 🇵🇷
La ternura, Spanish comedy 🇪🇸
En el tiempo de las mariposas, Dominican drama 🇩🇴
La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao, Dominican American drama 🇩🇴
KIPS BAY, Manhattan
NYC Broadway Week 2026 Offers 2-for-1 Tickets to Popular Broadway Shows
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, Manhattan 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Teatro SEA is America’s Latino Theatre for Young Audiences
“Dream of Kings // Seuño de Reyes” bilingual children’s theatre 🇵🇷
CLEMENTE CENTER, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Film
92nd Street Y, New York is a Jewish Cultural and Community Center That Serves All Communities
Rosie Perez & Eddie Muller talk about “Sweet Smell of Success” film screening 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
Arturo Sandoval, Cuban jazz 🇨🇺
“What Flows Between Us” Indian classical dance and music festival 🇮🇳 🇺🇸
Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival + Ladies in the Shoe Conference 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
New York Jewish Film Festival 2026 Screens the Jewish Experience Around the World
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Lincoln Square, Manhattan ✡️ 🇦🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇱 🇳🇱 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Film at Lincoln Center is One of NYC’s Leading Film Presenters
“Iracema” (Iracema, uma transa amazônica, 1974) 🇧🇷
“The Secret Agent Network” (O Agente Secreto, 2025), Brazil Oscar Entry, Wagner Moura 🇧🇷
Cinema Tropical Awards 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇻🇪 🇺🇸
New York Jewish Film Festival ✡️
“The Hunger: Film Writing, 2012-2024” Melissa Anderson book signing + “Trenque Lauquen” screening 🇦🇷
Plus 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🌍 Film Festivals
LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Art
Guggenheim New York
Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival, Naomi Tunaki tap, Kukai Dantza Basque Flamenco 🇯🇵 🇪🇸
Guggenheim Pop, iconic and contemporary pop art 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇵🇭 🇺🇸
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
National Puerto Rican Artisans and Authors Fair Has Great Boricua Holiday Gifts and Family Entertainment
BORICUA COLLEGE, Washington Heights, Manhattan 🇵🇷
Sotheby’s November Art Auctions in Its New Breuer Building Include Basquiat and Kahlo Masterpieces, and Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Which is a Gift Fit for a King
Leonard A. Lauder Collection 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
Surrealist Art 🇲🇽
Now & Contemporary Art 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Modern Art 🇧🇷 🇨🇺
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
Sports
FIFA World Cup 2026 Draw Sets Up Soccer Matches in the USA, Mexico, and Canada
North America 🇨🇦 🇨🇼 🇭🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇺🇸
South America 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇾 🇺🇾
Africa 🇩🇿 🇨🇻 🇪🇬 🇬🇭 🇨🇮 🇲🇦 🇸🇳 🇿🇦 🇹🇳
Europe 🇫🇷 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
El Clásico Real Madrid vs FC Barcelona is One of the World’s Most Watched Sporting Events
PEÑA MADRIDISTA NYC, Playwright Irish Pub, Garment District, Manhattan 🇪🇸
PENYA FC BARCELONA, Smithfield Hall, Chelsea, Manhattan ~ 🇪🇸
New York Red Bulls vs NYCFC is the New York Derby
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED STADIUM, Harrison, New Jersey 🇨🇲 🇨🇱 🇬🇦 🇬🇭 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
Festivals
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Taught Us to Love All People
ATLANTA, Georgia ~ January 15, 1929 🇺🇸
Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián 2026 (Sanse) is Puerto Rico’s Biggest Festival
CALLE SAN SEBASTÍAN, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Three Kings Day in New York City 2026
January 6 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇮
Three Kings Day Parade NYC Marches Through El Barrio
“El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇵🇷
North American NYC
blues, gospel, ragtime, jazz, swing, tap, rhythm & blues, rock, disco, funk, hip hop, house, trap
Honduran NYC 🇭🇳
Garifuna, punta
powwow
Jewish NYC 🇮🇱
Sephardic, klezmer
Mexican NYC 🇲🇽
ranchera/mariachi, corrido, son jarocho, banda, norteño, rock en Español, cumbia sonidero
Caribbean NYC
Cuban NYC 🇨🇺
Lucumí, Palo, rumba, changüi, danzón, son, trova, bolero, mambo, cha-cha-chá, songo, timba, cubatón
Palo, merengue, bachata, dembow
Haitian NYC 🇭🇹
yanvalou, rara, compas
Sanse, Espiritismo, bomba, plena, música jíbara, danza, salsa, reggaeton, perreo
calypso, soca, Caribbean Carnival
South American NYC
milonga, tango, vals, chacarera, malambo, rock nacional
Bolivian NYC 🇧🇴
caporales, diablada, morenada, tinku
Candombé, samba, capoeira, forró, lambada/zouk
Chilean NYC 🇨🇱
cueca
cumbia, joropo, champeta, salsa, reggaeton
European NYC
African NYC
New York and the world’s leading Latin, Indigenous, European, African, Jewish, and Global cultural organizations support us because they support you.
Let’s support them back! Thank you! ¡Gracias ustedes!
Oye, you are crossing the Kalûnga
Puerto Rican NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri (vaya con Dios) explained Latin in the Americas and the Latin influence on United States culture in the simplest way:
The Spaniard brought the African
Eddie Palmieri at the 92nd Street Y in 2016 🇵🇷
The African put everyone to dance
In the States, they took away the drum,
and we got the blues“
The blues is the root of most American (and some Caribbean) popular music and dance, including: jazz, rhythm and blues, country, rock, reggae, soul, funk, disco, house, hip hop, reggaeton, and trap. Even American country music originates in Mother Afrika.
The Latin family has created art, music, dance, theatre, and food that is uniquely American, and loved around the world. It’s because Latin culture brings people together and turns the blues into joy. ¡Aguanilé!
La Llamada de los Tambores
(The Call of the Drum is also The Call to Dance)
Bienvenido a el areíto en el batéy del pueblo Latino. Somos uno en el tambor.
Escucha la llamada. La rumba ya se forma en el solar.
Yo prendo una vela.
(Welcome to the community gathering in the sacred circle of the Latin people.
We are one in the drum. Listen to the call. The party is starting in the patio. I lit a candle.)
Bom, bom, bom
ba-ta-ba-ta, ba, ta-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba
This call of the drum is Bomba Puertorriqueña Sicá.
“E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, le-le-le“
Loíza Aldea, Loíza, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
La salsa begins with the “Diana,” the call to prayer that asks for spiritual connection before we dance;
because by tradition, dance is how we pray.
“E-le, le-le, le-le-le-le“
La Marina, Matanzas, Cuba 🇨🇺
Rumba is what the first Africans in Cuba did, as soon as their hands were free.
“Yo Soy Ogun Balenyo”
Los Congos, Villa Mella, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana 🇩🇴
Palo, even more than merengue, is the folk music of La República Dominicana.
“Diki riki riki riki, Diki riki riki riki, Diki riki riki riki, Di, Diki ri”
Capotillo 42, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana 🇩🇴
Dembow is the sound of Dominican streets.
“Ay, ay, Ay-ay“
San Juan de Ulúa, Veracruz, México 🇲🇽
“Canta y no llores…”
“Aí aí aí“
San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar, Colombia 🇨🇴
“Ajai, al son de los tambores…”
“Bim Bom, Bim Bim, Bom Bom“
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 🇧🇷
“O meu coração pediu assim, só…”
“I like to be in América“
San Juan Hill, New York City 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇱
“Okay, buy me in América,
Everything free in América
For a small fee in América…”
¡ A-G-U-A-N-I-L-É !
El Barrio, Loisaída, Bushwick, y El Bronx 🇵🇷
“Aguanilé” is a healing prayer to Ogun.
Who answers the call? The community responds!
We are defined by family and community.
Dios te bendiga
(God bless you)
¡Aché!
(Amen)
“E-le-le, le-le-le…”
(We start and end the dance with a call to Eleguá, God’s messenger, because dance is how we pray)