Presidents Day Weekend 2019
THIRD FEB MON, Fri-Mon, Feb 15-18, 2019 ~ National holiday commemorating the birthdays of presidents Washington and Lincoln
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
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
6 nxt wk, art, art exhibition, italian, morgan library, Murray Hill, president's day weekend, Renaissance
Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan Library
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
chelsea., classical music, italian, live music, met opera, msg., opera, Pop
Andrea Bocelli Three Centuries of Love at the Met Opera
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
Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks Hot Jazz at Iguana
TIMES SQUARE, Mon & Tue ~ NYC’s specialist in New Orleans Hot Jazz (early jazz, Dixieland).
# italian jazz live music mondays tuesdays
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, Spanish flamenco festival 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
Nadine Sierra & Vittorio Grigolo star in ‘Rigoletto’ at the Met Opera
LINCOLN CENTER, Tue Feb 19; Sat Feb 23; Fri Mar 1; live music Italian opera with a young Puerto Rican Italian Portuguese star. ~ The womanizing duke stirs trouble when he wants to sleep with the court jester’s daughter.
‘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
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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
Jordi Savall Spanish Classical Music
CARNEGIE HALL, ZANKEL HALL, Thu, February 21, 2019 ~ The Catalan Spanish early music master plays a concert of French baroque music
#SPANISH #CLASSICAL MUSIC #LIVE 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.
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.
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).
Nadine Sierra & Vittorio Grigolo star in ‘Rigoletto’ at the Met Opera
LINCOLN CENTER, Tue Feb 19; Sat Feb 23; Fri Mar 1; live music Italian opera with a young Puerto Rican Italian Portuguese star. ~ The womanizing duke stirs trouble when he wants to sleep with the court jester’s daughter.
Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan Library
MURRAY HILL, Tue-Sun, Feb 15 – May 19, 2019, Italian Renaissance art exhibition ~ The development of Renaissance drawing practices in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
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.
Nadine Sierra & Vittorio Grigolo star in ‘Rigoletto’ at the Met Opera
LINCOLN CENTER, Tue Feb 19; Sat Feb 23; Fri Mar 1; live music Italian opera with a young Puerto Rican Italian Portuguese star. ~ The womanizing duke stirs trouble when he wants to sleep with the court jester’s daughter.
‘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.
“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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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.
Presidents Day Weekend 2019
THIRD FEB MON, Fri-Mon, Feb 15-18, 2019 ~ National holiday commemorating the birthdays of presidents Washington and Lincoln
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
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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