Forro in the Dark Brazilian Forro at Nublu
EAST VILLAGE, Weds, Live Brazilian forro music ~ Very danceable Brazilian party.
1 today, 3 tomorrow., 4 ths wk., cuban, film forum, hudson square, movies
Legendary film ‘I am Cuba’ (Soy Cuba) at Film Forum
1 today, 3 tomorrow., colombian, film forum, hudson square, Indigenous, movies, president's day weekend, valentines day
‘Birds of Passage’ an epic Colombian movie at Film Forum
1 today, 3 tomorrow., 4 ths wk, 5 ths wkend, Ballet, dance, david h koch theater, French, nyc ballet, valentines day
‘Sleeping Beauty’ NYC Ballet at the David H Koch Theater
.film festival, 3 tomorrow, 4 ths wk, 5 ths wkend, 6 nxt wk, argentine, Brazilian, Indigenous, Midtown, MoMA Film, Peruvian
Doc Fortnight 2019 documentary film festival at MoMA
.film festival, 5 ths wkend, 7 nxt wkend, african, Astoria, Brazilian, brooklyn, chelsea, colombian, cuban, French, greenwich village, Guatemalan, Indigenous, italian, Mexican, Murray Hill, Peruvian, Portuguese, spanish, West Village
New York International Children’s Film Festival 2019
2 feature, dance festival, flamenco, flamenco festival, Midtown, New York City Center 2018-2019, Romani, spanish
Flamenco Festival 2019 Sara Baras ‘Sombras’ New York City Center
Legendary film ‘I am Cuba’ (Soy Cuba) at Film Forum
HUDSON SQUARE, daily Feb 15-21, 2019, classic Cuban movies ~ 1964 Cuban-Soviet film tells four stories of Cuba with the most amazing tracking shots. Presented by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.
‘Birds of Passage’ an epic Colombian movie at Film Forum
HUDSON SQUARE, Feb 14-21, 2019. Indigenous Colombian movies ~ This epic ‘Godfather’-like crime drama made the 2019 Oscars shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film
‘Sleeping Beauty’ NYC Ballet at the David H Koch Theater
LINCOLN CENTER, Tue-Sun, Feb 13-17 & 19-24, 2019, French ballet dance theatre ~ One of NYC Ballet’s most elaborate productions with over 100 dancers.
Speak to your representatives at a Town Hall Meeting
YOUR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ~ Tue-Fri, Feb 19-21, 2019 ~ Your voice matters. Tell your members of Congress that you want jobs, health care, education, equality and whatever is important to you and your family.
# american politics
National Puerto Rican Day Parade Scholarship 2019
NEW YORK CITY, Fri, Feb 22, 2019 ~ Applications for $2,000 National Puerto Rican Day Parade scholarships are due today.
Off-Broadway Week Winter 2019
NEW YORK CITY, Feb 11-24, 2019 ~ 2-for-1 tickets to 34 Off-Broadway shows including ‘Avenue Q’ (Filipino writer), ‘La Celestina’ (Spanish) and Jersey Boys (Colombian choreographer).
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Oscars 2019, the 91st Academy Awards
AWARDS Sun, Feb 24, 2019
NOMINATIONS Tue, Jan 22, 2019
SHORTLIST Mon, Dec 17, 2018
FOREIGN FILM ENTRIES Mon, Oct 1, 2018
Flamenco Festival 2019 Sara Baras ‘Sombras’ New York City Center
MIDTOWN, Thu-Sun, Mar 7-10, 2019, FLAMENCO FESTIVAL, Spanish flamenco dance theatre ~ Sara Baras, one of the world’s great flamenco dancers (really) celebrates her company’s 20th Anniversary and plays with gender in the shadows of flamenco
Doc Fortnight 2019 documentary film festival at MoMA
MIDTOWN, daily Feb 21-28, 2019, international documentary film festival ~ Argentine, Brazilian, Indigenous and Peruvian documentaries screened at the home of one of the world’s great film collections
Pedro Giraudo plays Argentine Tango at Terraza 7
ELMHURST, QUEENS, Thu, Feb 21, 2019, Argentine tango live music ~ 2018 Latin Grammy “Best Tango Album”
Jordi Savall early classical music specialist
CARNEGIE HALL, ZANKEL HALL, Thu, February 21, 2019, French classical live music ~ The Catalan Spanish early music master plays a concert of French baroque music
Dance Argentine Tango at Tango La Nacional
CHELSEA, Thursdays, Argentine tango dancing ~ The most traditional milonga (tango party) is also the center of NYC’s tango community
Gina Rodriguez is tougher than cartel bad guys in ‘Miss Bala’
CITYWIDE, Feb 1-21, 2019, American gangster movie set in Mexico with a Puerto Rican star. ~ Who would you become to save your family?
‘Que León’ romantic comedy starring Ozuna & Clarissa Molina
TIMES SQUARE & MORE, Jan 25 – Feb 21, 2019, Dominican Puerto Rican movies in Spanish ~ This family romantic comedy with two Latin stars is a big hit in the Dominican Republic & Puerto Rico
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Things to do in NYC This Week
Monday-Friday, February 18-22, 2019
‘Sleeping Beauty’ NYC Ballet at the David H Koch Theater
LINCOLN CENTER, Tue-Sun, Feb 13-17 & 19-24, 2019, French ballet dance theatre ~ One of NYC Ballet’s most elaborate productions with over 100 dancers.
Speak to your representatives at a Town Hall Meeting
YOUR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ~ Tue-Fri, Feb 19-21, 2019 ~ Your voice matters. Tell your members of Congress that you want jobs, health care, education, equality and whatever is important to you and your family.
# american politics
Doc Fortnight 2019 documentary film festival at MoMA
MIDTOWN, daily Feb 21-28, 2019, international documentary film festival ~ Argentine, Brazilian, Indigenous and Peruvian documentaries screened at the home of one of the world’s great film collections
Jordi Savall early classical music specialist
CARNEGIE HALL, ZANKEL HALL, Thu, February 21, 2019, French classical live music ~ The Catalan Spanish early music master plays a concert of French baroque music
National Puerto Rican Day Parade Scholarship 2019
NEW YORK CITY, Fri, Feb 22, 2019 ~ Applications for $2,000 National Puerto Rican Day Parade scholarships are due today.
‘Sleeping Beauty’ NYC Ballet at the David H Koch Theater
LINCOLN CENTER, Tue-Sun, Feb 13-17 & 19-24, 2019, French ballet dance theatre ~ One of NYC Ballet’s most elaborate productions with over 100 dancers.
Doc Fortnight 2019 documentary film festival at MoMA
MIDTOWN, daily Feb 21-28, 2019, international documentary film festival ~ Argentine, Brazilian, Indigenous and Peruvian documentaries screened at the home of one of the world’s great film collections
Neighboring Scenes 2019 Latin American movies at Film Society
LINCOLN CENTER, Feb 22-26, 2019, Latin American film festival ~ Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Mexican, Peruvian and Uruguayan movies. Co-presented by Cinema Tropical.
New York International Children’s Film Festival 2019
MANHATTAN, BROOKLYN & QUEENS, Weekends, Feb 22 – Mar 17, 2019 ~ Children’s movies from Andorra, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, France, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Portugal and Spain
Farruquito Spanish flamenco dance theatre at Town Hall
MIDTOWN, Fri, Feb 22, 2019, Spanish flamenco dance theatre ~ “Greatest flamenco dancer of the century” (The New York Times)
‘La Celestina’ Spanish comedy opens at Repertorio Español
KIPS BAY, Fri Feb 22; Mar 1, Classic Spanish comic theatre, based on the Fernando de Rojas masterpiece (1499), adapted by Cuban New York playwright Leyma López.
Nadine Sierra & Vittorio Grigolo star in ‘Rigoletto’ at the Met Opera
LINCOLN CENTER; Sat Feb 23; Fri Mar 1; Italian opera live music with a young Puerto Rican-Italian-Portuguese star. ~ The womanizing duke stirs trouble when he wants to sleep with the court jester’s daughter.
Oscars 2019, the 91st Academy Awards
AWARDS Sun, Feb 24, 2019
NOMINATIONS Tue, Jan 22, 2019
SHORTLIST Mon, Dec 17, 2018
FOREIGN FILM ENTRIES Mon, Oct 1, 2018
Off-Broadway Week Winter 2019
NEW YORK CITY, Feb 11-24, 2019 ~ 2-for-1 tickets to 34 Off-Broadway shows including ‘Avenue Q’ (Filipino writer), ‘La Celestina’ (Spanish) and Jersey Boys (Colombian choreographer).
Doc Fortnight 2019 documentary film festival at MoMA
MIDTOWN, daily Feb 21-28, 2019, international documentary film festival ~ Argentine, Brazilian, Indigenous and Peruvian documentaries screened at the home of one of the world’s great film collections
Neighboring Scenes 2019 Latin American movies at Film Society
LINCOLN CENTER, Feb 22-26, 2019, Latin American film festival ~ Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Mexican, Peruvian and Uruguayan movies. Co-presented by Cinema Tropical.
Plácido Domingo conducts Verdi’s Italian opera “Aida” at the Met
LINCOLN CENTER, Thu, Feb 28; Mon, Mar 4, Thu, Mar 7, 2019 ~ Kristen Lewis stars in Verdi’s grand opera set in ancient Egypt.
# italian opera live music
Pedrito Martinez & Alfredo Rodriguez ‘Duologue’ at Jazz Standard
NOMAD, Thu-Sun, Feb 28-Mar 3, 2019 ~ Cuban rumba live music. The world’s hottest Cuban rumba drummer joins Alfredo Rodriguez for their ‘Duologue’ album.
New York International Children’s Film Festival 2019
MANHATTAN, BROOKLYN & QUEENS, Weekends, Feb 22 – Mar 17, 2019 ~ Children’s movies from Andorra, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, France, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Portugal and Spain
‘La Celestina’ Spanish comedy opens at Repertorio Español
KIPS BAY, Fri Feb 22; Mar 1, Classic Spanish comic theatre, based on the Fernando de Rojas masterpiece (1499), adapted by Cuban New York playwright Leyma López.
Nadine Sierra & Vittorio Grigolo star in ‘Rigoletto’ at the Met Opera
LINCOLN CENTER; Sat Feb 23; Fri Mar 1; Italian opera live music with a young Puerto Rican-Italian-Portuguese star. ~ The womanizing duke stirs trouble when he wants to sleep with the court jester’s daughter.
“I am Latino” Saul Garcia at Repertorio Español
KIPS BAY, Sat-Sun, Mar 2-3, 2019, Colombian Off-Broadway standup comedy in spanish ~ Saulo has a clever understanding of how Anglos and Latinos react to each other. He’s really funny. It’s good to laugh at ourselves.
Watch Real Madrid with Peña Madridista NYC at Playwright Irish Pub
GARMENT DISTRICT, Sat, Mar 2, 2019 ~ Spanish La Liga soccer. Atlético Madrid vs Real Madrid is the Madrid Derby, the big soccer rivalry in Madrid, Spain.
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Parades
National Puerto Rican Day Parade Scholarship 2019
NEW YORK CITY, Fri, Feb 22, 2019 ~ Applications for $2,000 National Puerto Rican Day Parade scholarships are due today.
International Women’s Day 2019
MARCH 8 (2019, Fri) ~ Honors all the women in your life including family, friends and associates
#HOLIDAY
St Patrick’s Day
MARCH 17 ~ Commemorate the death of the patron saint of Ireland. Spanish Galicians and French Bretons share Celtic culture with the western Irish. All were Atlantic sailors.
#IRISH #SPANISH #FRENCH #CATHOLIC #HOLIDAY
Purim 2019
14TH DAY OF ADAR, Wed-Thu, March 20-21, 2019 ~ Remember how Queen Esther of Persia found the courage to speak up and save her people
#JEWISH #HOLIDAY #FEAST
Passover 2019
Fri-Sat, April 19-27, 2019 ~ Remember our release from slavery and the Exodus
#JEWISH #HOLIDAY #FEAST
Things to do in New York in February 2019
Black History Month, Cinema Tropical film festival, New York Fashion Week, Lunar New Year, Westminster Dog Show, Valentine’s Day, Carnival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, Presidents Day, Film Comment Selects, International Children’s Film Festival, ADAA Art Show, Neighboring Scenes film festival, Broadway Week, Off-Broadway Week
Things to do in New York in March 2019
National Women’s History Month. It brings the Tie Break Tens tennis, Spring Break Art Show, Flamenco Festival, Armory Show, International Women’s Day, St Patrick’s Day, Yankees baseball and the New Directors/New Films film festival
Things to do in New York in February 2020
Black History Month, Cinema Tropical film festival, New York Fashion Week, Westminster Dog Show, Valentine’s Day, Carnival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, Presidents Day, Film Comment Selects, International Children’s Film Festival, ADAA Art Show, Neighboring Scenes film festival, Broadway Week, Off-Broadway Week
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