VolvoTango Argentine Tango Dancing on Pier 45
Wednesdays & Sundays, April-November
Argentine tango dancing
WEST VILLAGE, NYC ~ Dance on a pier with romantic Hudson river views
celebration, jazz, live music, Morningside Heights, Summer
Paul Winter’s Summer Solstice at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
0, 1, argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, French, italian, soccer, spanish, sports, women
Women’s World Cup France 2019
Saint John’s Eve or Festa Junina
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Brazilian Creole French French-Canadian Italian Portuguese Puerto Rican Spanish Celebration
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ~ Celebrate midsummer (or midwinter) by gathering with family around bonfires on the eve of Saint John the Baptist’s birth
Queens Dominican Parade 2019
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Dominican parade celebration
JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens ~ Show your Dominican pride
Dance Argentine Tango at El Destino at Solas
Sundays
Argentine tango dancing
EAST VILLAGE, NYC ~ NYC’s best tango dancers embrace in an intimate room and dance to one of New York’s best tango DJs
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Cuban Jazz at Birdland
Sundays
Live music Cuban jazz
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ Multi-Grammy winners carry on the Sunday tradition started by Chico O’Farrill in 1997
‘Hamilton’ Puerto Rican Broadway at the Richard Rodgers
Open run. Dark Mondays
Puerto Rican Broadway musical theatre
TIMES SQUARE, NYC ~ The Broadway hit of our generation was written by Puerto Rican New Yorker Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights)
Women’s World Cup France 2019
June 7 – July 7, 2019
Women’s soccer
Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, French, Italian, Spanish, & USA teams play to be the best
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Features
Latin culture is originally Italian. Greco-Romans and the Renaissance are the foundation of European civilization. When Rome fell, European civilization survived in the hands of Christians, Jews and Muslims in Spain.
SummerStage 2019 Lineup Announced
June 1 – August 27, 2019
Summer live music dance theatre festival
NYC PARKS ~ African, Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Creole, Cuban, Dominican, French, Garifuna, Haitian, Indigenous, Italian, Jewish, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Spanish culture and more. FREE
Mundos Alternos, welcome to the Latin world(s) at Queens Museum
April 7 – August 18, 2019
Wednesday-Sunday
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, QUEENS ~ You might not have a heard of most of these artists, but each and every one will make you think (as in Kidnapped by Aliens)
In the Americas, European mixed with Indigenous and African into our Latin thing. We learned to turn suffering into joy, so now everybody wants some of whatever we are having.
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“Now in one of my earliest tunes, ‘New Orleans Blues,’ you can notice the Spanish tinge. In fact, if you can’t manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning, I call it, for jazz.”
Jelly Roll Morton (Louisiana Creole, 1890-1941)
African | Brazilian | Colombian | Cuban | Dominican | Ecuadorian | Italian | Jewish | Mexican | Puerto Rican | MORE
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Things to do in NYC Next Week
June 24-30, 2019
It’s Pride Week
Mulher, você vai gostar
Tô levando uns amigos pra conversar
…E vamos botar água no feijão
‘Feijoada Completa’ (1978) Chico Buarque (Brazil)
Women’s World Cup France 2019
June 7 – July 7, 2019
Women’s soccer
Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, French, Italian, Spanish, & USA teams play to be the best
White Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Catholic church celebration
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC ~ Celebrate the grace of workers in the medical field
Our Lady of Perpetual Help is the patron saint of Haiti
Thursday, June 27, 2019
HAITI ~ She is known for miracles preventing cholera and smallpox in Haiti in 1882
Dance Argentine Tango at Tango La Nacional
Thursdays
Argentine tango dancing
CHELSEA, NYC ~ New York’s most traditional milonga (tango party) is also the center of NYC’s tango community
Do the Central Park Tango
Saturdays, June-September
Argentine tango dancing
CENTRAL PARK, NYC ~ Dance, take a free lesson or just watch. FREE
Dance Argentine Tango at the All Night Milonga at Stepping Out
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Dancing
NOMAD, NYC ~ One of America’s biggest Argentine tango parties has great guest teachers and performers
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Latin Art Exhibitions On View
“Todo lo que puede ser imaginado es real” ~ Everything that can be imagined is real
Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
Mundos Alternos, welcome to the Latin world(s) at Queens Museum
April 7 – August 18, 2019
Wednesday-Sunday
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, QUEENS ~ You might not have a heard of most of these artists, but each and every one will make you think (as in Kidnapped by Aliens)
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything at the Jewish Museum
April 12 – September 8, 2019
Closed Wednesdays
Jewish French-Canadian art exhibition
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ One of the great poets of the last generation knew exactly where the light enters you
The revenge of the Shaman ‘Camp: Notes on Fashion’ at the Met Museum
Daily, May 9 – September 8, 2019
French, French-Canadian, Italian, Spanish fashion art exhibition
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ The Costume Institute’s 2019 exhibition explores how camp fashion goes mainstream
Whitney Biennial 2019 shows the diversity of American art today
May 17 – Sep 22, 2019, Closed Tuesdays
Argentine, Colombian, French, Indigenous, Mexican & Puerto Rican art exhibition
MEATPACKING DISTRICT, NYC ~ The survey of the latest developments in American art
Taíno culture at the Museum of the American Indian
July 28, 2018 – October 2019
Daily
Indigenous Taíno art exhibition
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC ~ Caribbean communities are reclaiming our roots. FREE
‘Crown of the Andes,’ Colombian art at the Met Museum
Daily
Colombian Ecuadorian Peruvian Indigenous Inca art
UPPER EAST SIDE, permanent collection ~ This Marion crown from Popayán, Colombia contains the legendary Atahualpa Emerald which belonged to the last Inca emperor
Things to do in New York in June 2019
JUNE 2019
Pride Month
SummerStage
American Ballet Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park
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1 Blue Note Jazz Festival
1 Central Park Tango
2 Celebrate Israel Parade
2 Drama Desk Awards
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3 CFDA Fashion Awards
3-5 NYFW Men’s Spring Summer 2020
4 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
7-7 FIFA Women’s World Cup
8 116th Street Festival
9 National Puerto Rican Day Parade
9 Tony Awards
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10 Portugal Day
11 Museum Mile Festival
11-16 NY Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks
13-20 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
14-7 Copa America
15-7 CONCACAF Gold Cup
16 Father’s Day
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22 Coney Island Mermaid Parade
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25-13 Midsummer Night Swing
30 NYC Pride March
Things to do in New York in July 2019
JULY 2019
SummerStage
Midsummer Night Swing
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn
Shakespeare in the Park
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
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4 U.S. Independence Day
5 Venezuelan Independence Day
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9 Argentine Independence Day
9-13 LAMC Latin Alternative Music Conference
12-13 Afro-Latino Fest NYC
14 111th Street Salsa Street Fair
14 Latin Culture Carnival Bronx
14 Colombian Independence Pride Festival
14 Bastille Day NYC
14 Disability Pride NYC
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16-24 16 Shakespeare in the Park ~ Coriolanus
20 Colombian Independence Day
21-3 Brasil Summerfest
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22-16 NYC Restaurant Week
24-11 Lincoln Center Out of Doors
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29 Junta Hispana Street Fair
Things to do in New York in August 2019
AUGUST 2019
Brasil Summerfest
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
NYC Restaurant Week
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2-4 Carnaval del Barrio Street Fair
4 Ecuadorian Parade
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10 Ecuadorian Independence Day
10 Eid al-Adha
11 Dominican Day Parade
11 Battery Dance Festival
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16 Dominican Restoration Day
24-25 Afropunk
25 Uruguayan Independence Day
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26-8 US Open Tennis
27-28 La Casita
29-2 NY Int’l Salsa Congress
“Sí yo se, yo soy así, un poco loco, pero feliz” ~ Yes I know, I am like this, a little crazy, but happy
Pirulo y la Tribu (Puerto Rico)
Thank you, Gracias, Obrigado, Grazie, Merci, Mulțumesc
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Aunque tú me has echado en el abandono,
aunque tú has muerto todas mis ilusiones,
en vez de maldecirte con justo encono
y en mis sueños te colmo,
y en mis sueños te colmo de bendiciones.
‘Lágrimas Negras’ (1929) ~ Miguel Matamoros (Santiago de Cuba, 1894-1971)
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Dios te bendiga…