Martin Luther King Weekend
Fri-Mon, Jan 17-20, 2020
UNITED STATES ~ Latin things to do in New York City over the January long weekend
1, african, brazilian, cuban, French-Canadian, italian, jazz, jazz festival, Jewish, le poisson rouge, panamanian Winter JazzFest
1, african, carnegie hall, colombian, cumbia, Family, Hip-Hop, music Musical Explorers Family Concert
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New York Latin Culture Magazine
World-class Latin American, African, Indigenous & European culture
“Few forces change the world so much as education and the empowerment of women”
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Black Comic Book Festival 2020
Friday-Saturday, January 17-18, 2020
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE
Harlem, NYC
Help your child discover the superhero inside them
Winter JazzFest
January 9-18, 2020
MANHATTAN & BROOKLYN ~ Jazz concerts, the Greenwich Village jazz marathon and a Brooklyn jazz marathon for jazz lovers and APAP booking agents
La Celestina
Friday, January 17, 2020
Repertorio Español
KIPS BAY, NYC
Cuban playwright Leyma López renews the classic Spanish tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas (1499) whose critique of the moral rot of medieval Spanish society also reflects our times
Women’s March on NYC
Saturday, January 18, 2020
FOLEY SQUARE 10am
COLUMBUS CIRCLE 10:30am
TIMES SQUARE 3pm
March for the civil rights of every human regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, religion or creed
Musical Explorers Family Concert
Saturday, January 18, 2020
CARNEGIE HALL, ZANKEL HALL
Turn your kids on to the music of our City with Colombian cumbia by Gregorio Uribe, Armenian folk by Zulal, and hip-hop by Soul Science Lab
Zilia Sánchez: Eros
Tuesday-Saturday
Nov 21, 2019 – Jan 18, 2020
Galerie Lelong
CHELSEA, NYC
The Cuban artist’s new freestanding work and first marble and bronze sculptures
Pedro Giraudo
Saturday, January 18, 2020
BARBÈS
Park Slope, Brooklyn
“Best Tango Album” Latin Grammy winner plays Argentine tango jazz
Bárbara Martínez
Saturday, January 18, 2020
LA NACIONAL
Chelsea, NYC
The Argentine-Venezuelan New Yorker sings Spanish flamenco
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Repertorio Español
KIPS BAY, NYC
Colombian director Jorge Alí Triana’s adaptation of the classic Gabriel García Márquez story about how history repeats itself
Porgy and Bess
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Ends February 1, 2020
Metropolitan Opera House
LINCOLN CENTER, NYC
James Robinson’s new English National Opera production of the Gershwin classic about African-American life in the old South. “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…”
La Traviata
Saturday, January 18, 2020
January 10 – February 7, 2020
February 26 – March 29, 2020
Metropolitan Opera House
LINCOLN CENTER, NYC
Michael Mayer’s 2018 production opens with Aleksandra Kurzak and Quinn Kelsey. “Sempre libera degg’io” and “Addio, del passato.”
San Sebastian Street Festival 2020
Thursday-Sunday, January 16-19, 2020
[Dates Confirmed on January 14, 2020]
OLD SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
Every Puerto Rican who can afford to, comes to Old San Juan for Puerto Rico’s biggest party, a patron saint festival (local Carnival) for Saint Sebastian
[We are in San Juan. The earthquakes are far away in the south. It’s fine here. Don’t be afraid. Come party with us!]
Outsider Art Fair 2020
Thursday-Sunday, January 16-19, 2020
METROPOLITAN PAVILION
Chelsea, NYC
Self-taught, naïve art, art brut was defined by renowned French artist Jean Dubuffet and is loved by the French. Kids relate to it really well.
Elina Chauvet’s “Zapatos Rojos” (Red Shoes) performance
Saturday, January 11, 2020
MEXICO CITY
In solidarity with Mexican artist Elina Chauvet’s “Zapatos Rojos” performance at the Zocalo. If we didn’t abuse drugs, alcohol and women, there would be a little girl wearing these shoes and a million other pairs just like them. It’s time to man up and end violence against women.
New York Jewish Film Festival 2020
January 15-28, 2020
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
Lincoln Center, NYC
The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center present the year’s first film festival with Israeli, French, Italian and Mexican films
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Magazine Features
The most important thing you can do for your family today is Register to Vote (vote.org is an NGO)
Women’s March on NYC
Saturday, January 18, 2020
FOLEY SQUARE 10am
COLUMBUS CIRCLE 10:30am
TIMES SQUARE 3pm
March for the civil rights of every human regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, religion or creed
Limón Dance Company
Thursday, January 30, 2020
PURCHASE COLLEGE
Purchase, New York (White Plains)
The legacy company of Mexican-American modern dance pioneer José Limón performs Limón classics and new works
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¡Get the Latin World!
Latin culture is originally Greek. Romans absorbed it from Greeks in southern Italy and spread the culture around the Mediterranean. When Rome fell, the culture survived among Christians, Jews and Muslims in Spain. The Renaissance made it a pan-European culture.
There were other great civilizations in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Spices and silk, then sugar and slavery brought us together. In the Americas we mixed into our Latin thing and New York City is our capital. ¡Azúcar!
CARIBBEAN
creole | cuban | dominican | haitian | puerto rican | trinidadian
CENTRAL AMERICAN
costa rican | guatemalan | honduran | mexican | nicaraguan | panamanian | salvadoran
SOUTH AMERICAN
argentine | bolivian | brazilian | chilean | colombian | ecuadorian |
paraguayan | peruvian | uruguayan | venezuelan
NORTH AMERICAN
french-canadian | usa
AFRICAN
ghanan | nigerian | senegalese
EUROPEAN
french | italian | jewish | portuguese | romani | romanian | spanish
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Continuing
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Sundays
Birdland
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC
Cuban jazz by this multiple Grammy-winning band continues a Sunday night tradition started by Chico O’Farrill in 1997
Filomena Marturano
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Repertorio Español
KIPS BAY, NYC
A Spanish adaptation of Eduardo de Filippo’s classic Neapolitan comedy
El Destino
Sundays
Solas
EAST VILLAGE, NYC
Dance Argentine tango with NYC’s best dancers in an intimate room with one of NYC’s top tango DJs
Hamilton
Dark Mondays
Richard Rodgers Theatre
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, NYC
The Broadway hit of our generation was written by Puerto Rican New Yorker Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights, Freestyle Love Supreme)
Chicago the Musical
Dark Wednesdays
Ambassador Theatre
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, NYC
The original leading ladies of the longest running U.S. musical were Puerto Rican and Italian (Chita Rivera & Liza Minelli)
West Side Story Broadway
Previews to February 6, 2020
Broadway Theatre
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, NYC
One of the great love stories, one of the great New York stories, is our story too
La Parranda
November 19 to January 21
Christmas caroling Puerto Rican style is aguinaldos, cuatros, lechón, pasteles, arroz con gandules, morcilla, coquito, chinchorreo and lots more with family and friends from Discovery Day through Three Kings, then the Octavitas, then the San Sebastián Street Festival, and then we go back to work
Tango La Nacional
Thursdays
La Nacional
CHELSEA, NYC
Dance Argentine tango at NYC’s most traditional milonga (tango party)
An Emphasis on Resistance
Wednesday-Sunday
October 30, 2019-Feb 2, 2020
El Museo del Barrio
EAST HARLEM, NYC
2019 commissions from the Foundation that holds the world’s leading collection of modern and contemporary Latin American art
Mexico is Mexico: Contemporary Mexican Design
Tuesday-Saturday
Oct 24, 2019 – Feb 8, 2020
Henrique Faria Fine Art
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC
A century after the first exposition of Mexican folk art, contemporary design objects continue to show the diversity and unity of contemporary Mexican culture
Carnival, Carnaval, Carnevale
Jan 6 – Feb 25, 2020
WEEK Feb 19-25, 2020
This Italian Catholic winter festival spread to France, Spain and Portugal, and then around the Latin world in colonial times
Socrates Annual
Daily
Oct 5, 2019 – Mar 8, 2020
Socrates Sculpture Park
ASTORIA, Queens
The annual exhibition of work by emerging artists created during the park’s summer residency
Winter
Dec 22, 2019 to Mar 19, 2020
The coldest time of year is the cheapest time to visit New York City
Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla
Wednesday-Sunday
Nov 20, 2019-Mar 22, 2020
El Museo del Barrio
EAST HARLEM, NYC
A touring retrospective of the Puerto Rico-based Cuban artist whose sensual abstractions broke the picture plane before standing on their own
The Argentine Titanosaur
Through January 1, 2020
American Museum of Natural History
UPPER WEST SIDE, NYC
This Argentine dinosaur from Patagonia is so big, its head pokes through the door of the Dinosaur Hall
Crown of the Andes
Daily
Metropolitan Museum of Art
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC
The biggest gem on this Marian crown from Popayán, Colombia is the Atahualpa Emerald which belonged to the last Inca emperor
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Coming Soon
art | books | broadway | off-broadway | celebrations | dance | dancing | fashion | food | music | movies | sports
La Canción
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Repertorio Español
KIPS BAY, NYC
Puerto Rican reggaeton legend VICO C’s hip-hop reggaeton musical
Pedrito Martinez
Thursday, January 23, 2019
GINNY’S at the Red Rooster
Harlem, NYC
The world’s best Cuban rumba percussionist
New Moon
Friday, January 24, 2020
Your best chance this month to see stars over New York City
All Night Milonga
Saturday, January 25, 2020
STEPPING OUT STUDIOS
NoMad, NYC
Dance Argentine tango at one of America’s biggest tango parties with guest teachers and performers from around the world
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Monday, January 27, 2020
AUSCHWITZ, Poland
When Soviet soldiers opened the gates of Nazi concentration camps on January 27, 1945, the Holocaust/Shoah became undeniable
Limón Dance Company
Thursday, January 30, 2020
PURCHASE COLLEGE
Purchase, New York (White Plains)
The legacy company of Mexican-American modern dance pioneer José Limón performs Limón classics and new works
Our Lady of Candelaria
Sunday, February 2, 2020
CANARY ISLANDS, Spain
The patron saint of these Spanish African islands is a Black Madonna
Atlético Madrid NYC
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Football Factory at Legends
KOREATOWN, NYC
Watch the Madrid Derby Real Madrid vs Atlético Madrid, with NYC’s supporters club Peña Oficial Atlético de Madrid en New York
An Emphasis on Resistance
Wednesday-Sunday
October 30, 2019-Feb 2, 2020
El Museo del Barrio
EAST HARLEM, NYC
2019 commissions from the Foundation that holds the world’s leading collection of modern and contemporary Latin American art
Real Madrid NYC
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Playwright Irish Pub
GARMENT DISTRICT, NYC
Watch the Madrid Derby, Real Madrid vs Atlético Madrid, with NYC’s Real Madrid supporters club: Peña Madridista NYC
January 2020 New York Latin Culture Calendar
1 Haitian Independence
3-5 PBR Professional Bull Riders
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6 Three Kings Day Parade
9-18 Winter Jazzfest
10-14 APAP
12 globalFEST
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17 MARTIN LUTHER KING WEEKEND
17-18 Black Comic Book Festival
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20 Martin Luther King holiday
24-2 Winter Antiques Show
25-1 Master Drawings
26 Grammys
February 2020 New York Latin Culture Calendar
Black History Month
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Cinema Tropical film festival
New York Fashion Week
8-11 Westminster Dog Show
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Cheapest week to visit NYC
MoMA Doc Fortnight
14 Valentine’s Day
14 President’s Day Weekend
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17 PRESIDENTS DAY
Film Comment Selects
International Children’s Film Festival
21 Carnival weekend
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25 Mardi Gras
26 Ash Wednesday
26 ADAA Art Show
Neighboring Scenes Film Festival
Broadway Week
Off-Broadway Week
March 2020 New York Latin Culture Calendar
Women’s History Month
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3-9 Spring/Break Art Show
4-8 Volta New York
5-8 Armory Show
5-8 Scope New York
5-8 Art on Paper
5-8 Clio Art Fair
6-8 Independent art fair
8 International Women’s Day
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9 Purim
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17 St Patrick’s Day
20 Spring
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26-29 Affordable Art Fair
27 Register to Vote
27-5 Flamenco Festival
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31 Cesar Chavez Day
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