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Memorial Day Weekend is Busy with Latin Culture

“E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, la-la-la-a…” Welcome to New York City’s Latin world in May 2025.

Cimafunk in 2024 (Carnegie Hall)

Cimafunk “Pa’ Tu Cuerpa Tour” Has “The James Brown of Cuba” Getting Funky for Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos” Festival of Latin Culture 🇨🇺

Rauw Alejandro in 2022 (Fernandez Jimenez/Dreamstime)

Rauw Alejandro “Cosa Nuestra Tour” Turns Puerto Rican Reggaeton into Smooth Pop 🇵🇷

Harlem Stage (Marc Millman)

Harlem Stage Gala Supports Visionary Artists of Color 🇺🇸

152nd Street Cultural Festival (Xavier Gallego Morel/Adobe)

152nd Street Cultural Festival 2025 Kicks Off the National Puerto Rican Day Parade 🇵🇷

Loisaida Festival with Batalá New York (courtesy Loisaida, Inc.)

Loisaida Festival 2025 Kicks Off Summer in Alphabet City AKA “Loisaida” 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇷

BIG Salsa Festival New York (Edward Olive/Dreamstime)

BIG Salsa Festival is New York City’s Memorial Day Weekend Salsa & Bachata Dance Festival 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach (Steven Rivieccio/Dreamstime)

Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach is a Hot Summer Salsa Dance Party 🇵🇷

Los Tigres del Norte is one of the most popular Regional Mexican norteño bands (Alterna2/Wikipedia)

Los Tigres del Norte is One of Mexico’s Most Popular Norteño Bands 🇲🇽

Ballet Nepantla "Valentina" (Marty Infante)

Ballet Nepantla Dances Mexican Ballet Folklórico for Los Tigres del Norte 🇲🇽

DanceAfrica (Nate Palmer/Brooklyn Academy of Music)

DanceAfrica, America’s Largest African and Diasporic Dance Festival, Celebrates the Culture of Mozambique 🇺🇸 🇨🇲 🇸🇳

New York African Film Festival (kues1/Adobe)

New York African Film Festival 2025 Celebrates Fluid Horizons in Films from Mother Afrika
🇦🇴 🇧🇫 🇨🇻 🇨🇮 🇨🇩 🇪🇬 🇬🇼 🇰🇪 🇬🇭 🇲🇱 🇲🇦 🇲🇿 🇳🇬 🇸🇳 🇿🇦 🇸🇩 🇺🇬

New York City Football Club, NYCFC (Marty Jean Louis/Dreamstime)

New York City Football Club (NYCFC) Hosts the Hudson River Derby vs New York Red Bulls
🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇯🇲 🇵🇷 🇸🇱

Parrots at the Pagoda at Pregones/PRTT (Pregones)

Pregones/PRTT Presents “Parrots at the Pagoda,” Musical Theatre About Johnny Rodríguez’ “El Cotorrito” Night Club 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈

More LATIN culture This Week

Nuestros Sonidos ~ Carnegie Hall’s Latin Culture Festival

Nuestros Sonidos (Sol Cotti/Carnegie Hall)

By naming this season-long festival of Latin culture “Nuestros Sonidos” (Our Sounds), Carnegie Hall is reaching out to Latins and friends, but is also saying that we belong at Carnegie Hall too!

Start Your Summer with Teatro Real, the Royal Opera of Madrid

Teatro Real, Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra Gala Musical Fantasy From Spain (Teatro Real)

Teatro Real, the Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra, Plays a Gala Musical Fantasy From Spain Featuring Violinist María Dueñas, Soprano Saioa Hernández, and Conductor David Afkham 🇪🇸

Things to do in NYC (AboutLife/Adobe)

Latin Things To Do in NYC

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Latin Art

NADA New York is an Emerging Contemporary Art Fair

STARRETT-LEHIGH BUILDING, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇨🇦 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇷 🇷🇴 🇿🇦

Future Fair 2025 Shows Contemporary Art From Diverse Emerging Galleries

CHELSEA INDUSTRIAL, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇨🇦 🇨🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Shows African and African Diaspora Art

THE HALO, Financial District, Manhattan 🇧🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇩 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇳🇬 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Latin Books

PEN World Voices Festival 2025 Celebrates International Literature

GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan

Nuyorican Poets Cafe Hosts the Nuyorican Poetry Slam and Other Events Offsite and Online While Under Nuyorican-struction

BOWERY POETRY CLUB, NoHo, Manhattan ~ Nuyorican Bowery Slam 🇵🇷
PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan ~ Poetry Grand Slam 🇵🇷

EAST VILLAGE, Loisaida, Manhattan

Langston Hughes was a Harlem Renaissance Jazz Poet Who Spoke of Rivers

JOPLIN, Missouri, February 1, 1902 🇺🇸

Latin Comedy

Repertorio Español is New York’s Busiest Spanish-Language Theater

“Los Soles Truncos” is new. 🇵🇷
“En el tiempo de las mariposas” 🇩🇴
“La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao” 🇩🇴
“La Gringa” 🇵🇷
“La Llamada” 🇪🇸

KIPS BAY, Manhattan

Gabriel Iglesias, the Fluffy Guy Makes Brooklyn Laugh Again

KINGS THEATRE, Flatbush, Brooklyn 🇲🇽

New York Comedy Festival Makes America Laugh Again

IT’S ALL OVER Chelsea, Midtown, Times Square Theater District, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Washington Heights, Manhattan
Flatbush, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇨🇻 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Latin Dance

Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach is a Hot Summer Salsa Dance Party

ORCHARD BEACH, Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx 🇵🇷

DanceAfrica, America’s Largest African and Diasporic Dance Festival, Celebrates the Culture of Mozambique

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇨🇲 🇸🇳

BIG Salsa Festival is New York City’s Memorial Day Weekend Salsa & Bachata Dance Festival

NEW YORK HILTON MIDTOWN, Manhattan 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

Latin Fashion

New York Fashion Week February 2025 Shows Women’s Fall Winter Collections

WEST EDGE, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇭 🇪🇸

Fashion Designers of Latin America (FDLA) 2025 are the Latin Side of New York Fashion Week

CANOE STUDIOS, Starrett-Lehigh Building, Chelsea, Manhattan
UNITED PALACE, Washington Heights, Manhattan
INNSiDE NEW YORK NOMAD, Chelsea, Manhattan
🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Metropolitan Museum of Art is an Encyclopedia of Art and Culture

MET FIFTH AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan:
Mexican Prints at the Vanguard 🇲🇽
Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson 🇺🇸
Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin 🇫🇷
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 🇮🇹
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1875-Now 🇪🇬

MET CLOISTERS, Fort Tryon Park, Hudson Heights, Upper Manhattan

Latin Festivals

Loisaida Festival Kicks Off Summer in Alphabet City AKA “Loisaida”

AVENUE C, Alphabet City, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🇵🇷

152nd Street Cultural Festival 2025 Kicks Off the National Puerto Rican Day Parade

LONGWOOD, The Bronx 🇵🇷

Haitian Flag Day Celebrates the Unity of Africans and Creoles

ARCAHAIE, Ouest, Haiti ~ MAY 18, 1803 🇭🇹

Latin Film

New York African Film Festival 2025 Celebrates Fluid Horizons in Films from Mother Afrika

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan
MAYSLES DOCUMENTARY CENTER, Harlem, Manhattan
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene, Brooklyn
🇦🇴 🇧🇫 🇨🇻 🇨🇮 🇨🇩 🇪🇬 🇬🇼 🇰🇪 🇬🇭 🇲🇱 🇲🇦 🇲🇿 🇳🇬 🇸🇳 🇿🇦 🇸🇩 🇺🇬

Doc Fortnight 2025, MoMA’s New Documentary Film Festival, Screens Many Latin Films

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇷🇴 🇪🇸

Dance on Camera Festival Tributes the Legendary Dancer and Actor Carmen de Lavallade

SYMPHONY SPACE, Upper West Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇪🇸 🇹🇹

Latin Food

Bronx Week 2025 Features the Bronx Ball, Bronx Parade, Bronx Food & Arts Festival, Bronx Week Concert, and More

THE BRONX 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

Malbec World Day Celebrates the Argentine Wine with French Roots

APRIL 17 🇦🇷

NYC Restaurant Week 2025 Winter is a Great Time to Try Latin Restaurants with Family and Friends

Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

Latin Music

Los Tigres del Norte is One of the Most Popular Norteño Bands

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇲🇽

Cimafunk “Pa’ Tu Cuerpa Tour” Has “The James Brown of Cuba” Getting Funky for Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos” Festival of Latin Culture

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Shakira “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour” in New York City

BARCLAYS CENTER, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 🇨🇴

Latin Parades

Loisaida Festival Kicks Off Summer in Alphabet City AKA “Loisaida”

AVENUE C, Alphabet City, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🇵🇷

Dance Parade 2025 is Once Again About Reclaiming the Freedom to Be Yourself

SIXTH AVE, 8TH ST, TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village, Manhattan
🇺🇸 🇦🇴 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇩 🇨🇬 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 🇰🇷 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇾 🇵🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇸 🇹🇼 🇹🇭 🇹🇹

Bronx Week 2025 Features the Bronx Ball, Bronx Parade, Bronx Food & Arts Festival, Bronx Week Concert, and More

THE BRONX 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

Latin Sports

Westminster Dog Show 2026 Celebrates 150 Years of Best in Show

JAVITS CENTER, Hudson Yards, Manhattan
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Chelsea, Manhattan
2024 ~ 🇨🇩 🇨🇬 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇿🇼

New York City Football Club (NYCFC) Hosts the Hudson River Derby

YANKEE STADIUM, Concourse, The Bronx
CITI FIELD, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED STADIUM, Harrison, New Jersey
🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇯🇲 🇵🇷 🇸🇱

Jackie Robinson Day Celebrates the Day He Broke Major League Baseball’s Color Barrier in 1947

APRIL 15 🇺🇸

Latin Theatre

Pregones/PRTT Presents “Parrots at the Pagoda,” Musical Theatre About Johnny Rodríguez’ “El Cotorrito” Night Club

“Parrots at the Pagoda” the Johnny Rodríguez “El Cotorrito” story 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈
Nuyorican Poets Cafe Final Friday Slam 🇵🇷

PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan

Teatro Fest NYC 2025 is New York’s Festival of Latino Theatre

IATI THEATER, East Village, Manhattan 🇻🇪
INTAR Theatre, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇨🇺
PREGONES/PRTT, Mott Haven, The Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇵🇷
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL, Kips Bay, Manhattan 🇨🇺
TEATRO CIRCULO, East Village, Manhattan 🇵🇷
TEATRO LATEA, Lower East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇷
TEATRO SEA, Lower East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇷
THALIA SPANISH THEATER, Sunnyside, Queens 🇪🇸

NYC Off-Broadway Week 2025 2-for-1 Tickets to Latin Off-Broadway Shows

NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇸🇳
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL, Kips Bay, Manhattan 🇵🇷
SOHO PLAYHOUSE, Hudson Square (West SoHo) 🇨🇦

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92nd Street Y, New York (Cory Weaver Bright/92NY)

92nd Street Y, New York is a World-Class Cultural and Community Center That Serves All Communities

Brooklyn Museum (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)

Brooklyn Museum Combines African, Indigenous, Asian, Islamic, and Women’s Art with Community

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company "Puebla: The Story of Cinco de Mayo" (Julieta Cervantes/Calpulli)

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Puebla: The Story of Cinco de Mayo” Shows the Origins of America’s Celebration of Mexican Culture

Nuestros Sonidos at Carnegie Hall (Sol Cotti)

Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos” (Our Sounds) Festival of Latin Culture

Harlem Stage (Marc Millman)

Harlem Stage Develops Visionary Artists of Color

Hostos Center (courtesy)

Hostos Center is One of America’s Top Latin Performing Arts Centers

Melvis Santa (Zuza Gasiorowska)

Melvis Santa Afro-Cuban Jazz For The Ancestors

Ailyn Pérez in "Florencia el el Amazonas" (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera)

Metropolitan Opera is One of the World’s Great Opera Companies

National Indigenous Peoples of the Americans Parade NYC (Wirestock/Dreamstime)

National Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Parade Unites All First Nations and Friends

New York City Center Main Stage (courtesy)

New York City Center is One of NYC’s Premiere Homes for Dance and Theatre

NYU Skirball Center (Ajay Suresh/Wikimedia)

NYU Skirball Center is the New York University Performing Arts Center

Find your next project. Discover your next team. Do it on RISE.

RISE Theatre Directory Joins Diverse Theatre Professionals With Top Employers

Robert Browning Associates is a Global Music pioneer (Ildogesto/Adobe)

Robert Browning Associates is a World Music Pioneer

Teatro Real, Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra Gala Musical Fantasy From Spain (Teatro Real)

Teatro Real, the Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra, Plays a Gala Musical Fantasy From Spain Featuring Violinist María Dueñas, Soprano Saioa Hernández, and Conductor David Afkham

World Music Institute (Ildogesto/Adobe)

World Music Institute is a Leading World Music Producer

¿KLK? Dime a ver. Editor Iroko KíkoKí aquí con todos ustedes. Over more than a decade in this project, our concept of Latin has grown from Caribbean and Latin American, into the great mix of Indigenous peoples of the Americas plus our so-called “mother countries” in Africa and Europe, with Arab, Jewish, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Irish influences. There is only one human race. We are all mixed, and when you learn to love and respect all peoples, your world grows exponentially.

How America Got the Blues ~ NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri defined Latin and its influence on American culture in the shortest, clearest way:

The Spaniard brought the African.
The African put everyone to dance.
In the States, they took away the drum, and we got the blues
“

Eddie Palmieri at the 92nd Street Y in 2016 🇵🇷

The blues, with gospel and ragtime, is the root of most American popular music, including: jazz, rhythm and blues, country, rock, soul, funk, disco, house, hip hop, and trap. Yes, even American country music originates in Mother Afrika.

American culture is far more African and Indigenous than we have been taught. Latin culture brings people together and turns the blues into JOY! Together, the Latin family has created music and dance that is uniquely American, and loved around the world.

The Kalûnga Line (Andreykuzmin)

Oye, you are crossing the Kalûnga

La Llamada de los Tambores
(The Call of The Drum)

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.

“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 the streets in La República Dominicana.

“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, Brazil 🇧🇷

“O meu coração pediu assim, só…”

“I like to be in América“
San Juan Hill, New York City 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇱

“Okay, buy me in America,
Everything free in America
For a small fee in America…”

¡ A-G-U-A-N-I-L-É !
El Barrio, Loisaida, Bushwick, y El Bronx 🇵🇷

“Aguanilé” is a healing prayer to Ogun.

Who answers the call? The community responds!

¿Oye Cómo Va?

playingforchange.com Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman, Tito Puente, Jr, Al Harban Brothers, André Siqueira, Andreus Valdés Torres, Chouloute Minouche, Cory Henry, Estevinson Padilla Valdés, José Valdés Terán, Karl Perazzo, and more.

We are Indigenous, European, African, Jewish, Arab, South Asian, East Asian, and everything in between.

“¿Oye cómo va? Mi ritmo, bueno pa’ bailar, mulata.”

Hey, how’s it going? My rhythm is good for dancing, Latina.

“Andando, andando, andando…”

(Walking, walking, walking…)

“Yo me tiro pa’l solar”

(I throw myself into the field)

Dios te bendiga

(God bless you)

¡Ashé!

(Amen)

Iroko KíkoKí

“E-le-le, le-le-le…”

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