Friday, November 8, 2019
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ This Guggenheim 60th Anniversary commission by a Mexican artist is a wonderful performance based on Lygia Pape’s ‘Divisor’ (1969) that shines a bright light on people at the Guggenheim Museum
Friday, November 8, 2019
PURCHASE, NYC (near White Plains) ~ The Texan brings her Latin folk pop and awesome Austin rock and roll to Purchase College
Friday, November 8, 2019
PASSAIC, New Jersey ~ The chart-topping, Latin Grammy and Guinness Book of Records-winning Puerto Rican salsa singer plays Fiesta Night Club
Daily, Nov 8, 2019-Jan 5, 2020
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ One of New York City’s most beloved holiday Christmas holiday shows has something for everyone at Radio City Music Hall
Saturday, November 9, 2019
ENGLEWOOD, NJ ~ The Puerto Rican “Gentleman of Salsa” is still going strong. ‘Perdoname’
Saturday, November 9, 2019
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ The famous Cuban nueva trova singer who was part of Yerba Buena and played Celia Cruz Off-Broadway, is in duo with timba pianist Axel Tosca (Unity) at Zinc Bar
Sat-Sun, November 9-10, 2019
GERMANY ~ On this notorious night, Nazi paramilitary forces and civilians attacked Jewish communities across Germany on November 9-10, 1938. If we forget, things like this will happen again.
Sat-Sun, November 9-10, 2019
KIPS BAY, NYC ~ Cuban director Leyma López created a Spanish-language adaptation of Eduardo de Filippo’s classic Neapolitan comedy which inspired the movie ‘Marriage Italian Style’. At Repertorio Español.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
NOMAD, NYC ~ Argentine tango dancing at one of America’s biggest tango parties with guest teachers and performers from around the world at Stepping Out Studios
Sunday, November 10, 2019
HARLEM, NYC ~ The DTH School, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and Evidence bring ballet to the community at the Dance Theatre of Harlem studios
Sundays
EAST VILLAGE, NYC ~ Argentine tango dancing with NYC’s best dancers in an intimate room with one of New York’s best tango DJs
Sundays
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ Cuban jazz live music by this multiple Grammy winning band continues a Sunday tradition started by Chico O’Farrill in 1997
Oct 2, 2019 – Jan 5, 2020
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda brings one of his early projects, a Latin hip-hop improv show, back to the Booth Theatre
Open run. Dark Mondays
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, NYC ~ Puerto Rican New Yorker Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights) wrote the Broadway hit of our generation at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
Monday, November 11, 2019
This U.S. holiday honors those who serve in the U.S. military on the anniversary of the end of World War I on November 11, 1918
Viewing Wed, Nov 6, 2019
Auction Mon, Nov 11, 2019
ROCKEFELLER CENTER ~ French and Spanish masters Derain, Gaugin, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Monet, Picasso, and Pissarro lead the auction at Christie’s
Viewing Fri, Nov 1, 2019
Auction Tue, Nov 12, 2019
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ Works by French and Spanish masters Degas, Monet, Picasso, Rodin, and Signac lead the auction at Sotheby’s
November 6-15, 2019
WEST VILLAGE & CHELSEA, NYC ~ The biggest documentary film festival in the U.S. is at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea
Friday, November 1, 2019
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, NYC ~ Martin Scorsese’s latest and best in years, stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino in a telling of the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance at the Belasco Theatre. On Netflix November 27.
November
UNITED STATES ~ We are the first Americans. We have always been here. We are still here from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego.
November
Puerto Rico commemorates the month in 1493 when Columbus claimed Puerto Rico for Spain. The Puerto Rican diaspora celebrates our heritage.
Wed-Sat, Nov 6-Dec 20, 2019
LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ One of the living legends of the ‘Wild Style’ era shows pieces of his creative past at James Fuentes
September 23 – Dec 21, 2019
Fall reminds us that life is ephemeral
Daily, Nov 4, 2019 – Jan 7, 2020
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ The Christmas tree and nativity are decorated with handmade figurines from Naples, Italy where the nativity tradition began. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The most important thing you can do for your family today is Register to Vote (vote.org is an NGO)
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.
Meanwhile, there were other great civilizations across Africa, Asia and the Americas. Spices and silk, and later sugar, brought us together. In the Americas we mixed into our Latin thing and New York City is our capital. ¡Azúcar!
Friday, November 8, 2019
PURCHASE, NYC (near White Plains) ~ The Texan brings her Latin folk pop and awesome Austin rock and roll to Purchase College
Thu, November 14, 2019
LAS VEGAS, Nevada ~ Watch the Latin Grammy Awards on Univision
Friday, November 15, 2019
PURCHASE, New York ~ A concert of classical music, ballet and jazz inspired by Haiti as part of ‘(T)HERE: A Global Festival of Art, Culture and Ideas – Haiti’ at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center
Saturday, November 16, 2019
PURCHASE, New York (White Plains) ~ Traditional Haitian folk music as part of ‘(T)HERE: A Global Festival of Art, Culture and Ideas – Haiti’ at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center
European
French | Italian | Jewish | Portuguese |Romani | Romanian | Spanish
Caribbean
Cuban | Haitian | Creole | Dominican | Puerto Rican | Trinidadian
North American
French-Canadian | USA | Mexican
Central American
Costa Rican | Guatemalan | Honduran | Nicaraguan | Panamanian | Salvadoran
South American
Brazilian | Colombian | Ecuadorian | Venezuelan
Argentine | Bolivian | Chilean | Paraguayan | Peruvian | Uruguayan
Monday, November 11, 2019
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ New York City’s Veterans Day Parade celebrates the Veterans Day centennial on Fifth Avenue. The Parade celebrates peace.
Monday, November 11, 2019
PANAMA CITY, Panama ~ The author of ‘The Death of Artemio Cruz’ (1962), ‘Terra Nostra’ (1975), and ‘The Old Gringo’ (1985) was born on November 11, 1928
Mondays & Tuesdays
TIMES SQUARE, NYC ~ Live music by New York’s specialist in early New Orleans jazz
Wednesdays
EAST VILLAGE, NYC ~ Live music by New York City’s leading Brazilian forro band. It’s Brazil night!
Thu, November 14, 2019
LAS VEGAS, Nevada ~ Watch the Latin Grammy Awards on Univision
July 28, 2018 – Nov 12, 2019
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC ~ This art exhibition examines the renaissance of Indigenous Taíno identity in Caribbean communities. FREE
Thusday, November 14, 2019
KIPS BAY, NYC ~ Puerto Rican playwright Cándido Tirado’s Off-Broadway musical about a Bronx kid who wakes up with a hip-hop song in his head and wonders where it came from. Music by reggaeton legend VICO C.
Thursdays
CHELSEA, NYC ~ Argentine tango dancing at NYC’s most traditional milonga (tango party) at La Nacional, the old Spanish social club
Friday, November 15, 2019
PURCHASE, New York ~ A concert of classical music, ballet and jazz inspired by Haiti as part of ‘(T)HERE: A Global Festival of Art, Culture and Ideas – Haiti’ at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center
Friday, November 15, 2019
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ The world’s best Cuban rumba percussionist plays the 92nd Street Y
Saturday, November 16, 2019
PURCHASE, New York (White Plains) ~ Traditional Haitian folk music as part of ‘(T)HERE: A Global Festival of Art, Culture and Ideas – Haiti’ at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center
Saturday, November 16, 2019
PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn ~ This Colombian women’s singing and dancing tradition from San Basilio de Palenque, the first free African town in the Americas, is at Barbès
Tue-Sat, Oct 10-Nov 16, 2019
CHELSEA, NYC ~ Like a phoenix, the renowned Brazilian sculptor and photographer recreates objects lost in the Brazilian National Museum fire, from their own ashes at Sikkema Jenkins
Sunday, November 17, 2019
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC ~ Mass for Our Lady of Providence, patron saint of Puerto Rico
“Todo lo que puede ser imaginado es real” ~ Everything that can be imagined is real
Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
Friday, November 8, 2019
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ This Guggenheim 60th Anniversary commission by a Mexican artist is a wonderful performance based on Lygia Pape’s ‘Divisor’ (1969) that shines a bright light on people at the Guggenheim Museum
July 28, 2018 – Nov 12, 2019
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC ~ This art exhibition examines the renaissance of Indigenous Taíno identity in Caribbean communities. FREE
Tue-Sat, Oct 10-Nov 16, 2019
CHELSEA, NYC ~ Like a phoenix, the renowned Brazilian sculptor and photographer recreates objects lost in the Brazilian National Museum fire, from their own ashes at Sikkema Jenkins
Wed-Sat, Nov 6-Dec 20, 2019
LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ One of the living legends of the ‘Wild Style’ era shows pieces of his creative past at James Fuentes
Through January 1, 2020
Argentine dinosaur
UPPER WEST SIDE, NYC ~ This cast of a 122-foot-long skeleton from Patagonia, Argentina is so big, the head pokes out the door of the dinosaur hall
Wednesday-Sunday
October 30, 2019-Feb 2, 2020
EAST HARLEM, NYC ~ The Foundation of the world’s leading collection of modern and contemporary Latin American art shows its 2019 commissions at El Museo del Barrio
Oct 24, 2019 – Feb 8, 2020
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ A century after the first exposition of Mexican folk art, contemporary design objects show the diversity and the unity of contemporary Mexican culture at Henrique Faria Fine Art
Daily
Oct 5, 2019 – Mar 8, 2020
ASTORIA, Queens ~ The annual exhibition of work by emerging artists created during a summer residency at Socrates Sculpture Park
Daily
Colombian Ecuadorian Peruvian Indigenous Inca art
UPPER EAST SIDE, permanent collection ~ This Marian crown from Popayán, Colombia contains the legendary Atahualpa Emerald which belonged to the last Inca emperor
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
The idea is not that faith will give you what you want, but that “God helps those who help themselves”
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
KIPS BAY, NYC ~ Colombian director Jorge Alí Triana’s off-broadway theatre adaptation of the classic Gabriel García Márquez story about how history repeats itself is at Repertorio Español
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
GARMENT DISTRICT, NYC ~ Watch UEFA Champions League Real Madrid vs PSG with Peña Madridista NYC at Playwright Irish Pub
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
STUYVESANT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn ~ “Best Tango Album” Latin Grammy winner plays Argentine tango at lunÁtico
Thu, November 21, 2019
Taste the fruit in this season’s Beaujolais by drinking it chilled right after it is bottled
Friday, November 22, 2019
WESTBURY, Long Island ~ El Cigala blends flamenco with rumba, tango and salsa at the Theatre at Westbury
Friday, November 22, 2019
Said to have heard heavenly music in her heart, Saint Cecilia represents the idea of divine inspiration
Sunday, November 24, 2019
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn ~ A concert of chamber works by Vivaldi (Italian), Rameau (French) and Telemann’s ‘Don Quichotte’ Overture-Suite (Spanish story) at the Brooklyn Museum
Monday, November 25, 2019
SALCEDO, Dominican Republic ~ The Mirabal Sisters: Patria, Minerva and Maria, whose codename was “Las Mariposas” (the Butterflies), were murdered by Trujillo’s right-hand man for helping the resistance to dictatorship
September 30 to October 13
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD ~ Town halls enable you to share your concerns directly with your Representatives and Senators in Congress. Take your kids so they learn how our system works.
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
NEW YORK CITY ~ The new moon is your best chance to see stars over the City
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
KOREATOWN, NYC ~ Watch Atléti games with Peña Oficial Atlético de Madrid en New York at the Football Factory at Legends
Wed-Sun, Nov 27-Dec 1, 2019
The big U.S. family holiday launches the winter holiday season
Thu, November 28, 2019
This is the main family holiday in the United States
Thursday, November 28, 2019
UPPER WEST SIDE to GARMENT DISTRICT ~ Nothing Latin about the Thanksgiving Parade, but children love it and balloon inflation is something to see
Friday, November 29, 2019
Let’s go shopping for Latin fashion
Friday, November 29, 2019
Newark, New Jersey ~ ‘Baila Baila Baila’ and ‘Calma’ at the Mega Bash at Prudential Center
Saturday, November 28, 2019
PANAMA CITY ~ Rebels drafted a Declaration of Independence from Spain and joined Gran Colombia on November 28, 1821
Saturday, November 30, 2019
CHELSEA, NYC ~ Watch Barcelona at Atlético Madrid (La Liga) with NYC’s official Barcelona supporters club at Smithfield Hall
December 1-24, 2019
Kids love the tradition of counting down the days until Christmas
Monday, December 2, 2019
LINCOLN SQUARE ~ This holiday street fair has entertainment, food tastings, a Christmas tree lighting, and a parade. FREE
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
UNIVERSAL ~ Giving is the natural currency of the universe. The tradition was started by New York City’s 92nd Street Y. Check our list of NYC cultural organizations who deserve your support.
Wed, Dec 4, 2019 – Jan 7, 2020
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ The Christmas Tree Lighting is a big deal in Rockefeller Center
Friday, December 6, 2019
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn ~ The Puerto Rican bad boy of Latin trap and reggaeton brings his X100Pre Tour (Para Siempre, Forever) to Barclays Center
Thursday, December 6, 2019
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC ~ The Argentine-Venezuelan New Yorker sings Spanish flamenco and Brazilian bossa nova at Club Bonafide
Saturday, December 7, 2019
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 can also reflect contemporary times
Sat-Sun, December 3-4, 2019
MANHATTAN ~ Winter sunrise aligns with the City’s east-west street grid like a temple to the sun
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Colombian Christmas tradition
COLOMBIA ~ Colombians across the country, famously in Medellín, light rows and rows of candles to commemorate the people’s anticipation of the Vatican’s proclamation of the Immaculate Conception in December 8, 1854
Sunday, December 8, 2019
The idea that the Virgin Mary was born free of sin expresses that the divinity of women and men is equal
Puerto Rican Heritage Month
National Native American Heritage Month
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1 Auction exhibitions open
1-5 TEFAF antiques fair
1 Day of the Holy Innocents|All Saints Day
2 Day of the Dead | All Souls Day
3 Panamanian Separation Day
3 New York City Marathon
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5 Election Day
6-15 DOC NYC
8-11 VETERANS DAY WEEKEND
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10-11 Impressionist & Modern auctions
11 Veterans Day Parade
12 Beaver Moon
12-16 Django Reinhardt Festival
13 Puerto Rican Film Festival
13-14 Contemporary Art auctions
14 Salon Art + Design fair
14 Latin Grammys
16 Latin American Art auction exhibition
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20-21 Latin American Art auction
21 Macy’s Holiday Windows
21 Beaujolais Nouveau Day
23 Puerto Rican Artisans Fair
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25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
27-1 THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
27 Thanksgiving Parade Balloon Inflation
28 Panamanian Independence Day
28 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
29 Black Friday
29 New York City Ballet ‘Nutcracker’
1 Portuguese Restoration Day
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2 Cyber Monday
2 Advent
2 Winter’s Eve street fair
3 Giving Tuesday
4 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
4 Alvin Ailey
5-8 Art Basel Miami Beach
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11 International Tango Day
11 Las Mañanitas
12 Our Lady of Guadalupe
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16 La Posada / La Novena
19 Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice
22-30 HANUKKAH
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24 Christmas Eve
25 CHRISTMAS
26-1 KWANZAA
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31 New Year’s Eve
1 Haiti Independence
3-5 PBR Professional Bull Riders
6 ~
6 Three Kings Day
9-18 Winter Jazzfest
10-14 APAP
12 globalFEST
13 ~
17 Martin Luther King Weekend
17-18 Black Comic Book Festival
20 ~
20 Martin Luther King holiday
24 Winter Antiques Show
25 Master Drawings
26 Grammys
27 ~
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A rumba flamenca for the Americas
Miguel Matamoros, Lágrimas negras “Black tears” (Cuba, 1929)
Aunque tú me has echado en el abandono
(Though you lied and abandoned me)
Aunque ya se han muerto todas mis ilusiones
(Though now all my illusions have died)
En vez de maldecirte con justo encoño
(Instead of cursing you with a just bitterness)
En mis sueños te colmo, en mis sueños te colmo de bendiciones
(In my dreams I fill you, in my dreams I fill you with blessings)
Listen to Diego el Cigala sing it with Bebo Valdés and Paquito D’Rivera (YouTube) in 2003 produced by Javier Limón
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Thank you, Gracias, Obrigado, Grazie, Merci, Mulțumesc
Dios te bendiga…