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Few forces change the world so much as education and the empowerment of women”
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, “This Has Been the Best Year Ever,” December 28, 2019
New York Latin Culture Magazine selected as a 2020 Hispanic travel market influencer. “Key US Hispanic journalist.”
NYC & Company
(New York City’s official tourism promotion agency)
Betsayda Machado y Parranda El Clavo
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Afro-Peruvian tambor jams with Jewish klezmer.
National Puerto Rican Day Parade Scholarship 2020
Saturday, February 29, 2020
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Application deadline for $2,000 scholarships for exceptional high school and college students of Puerto Rican descent.
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Women’s History Month
MARCH
Contemplating women’s history is actually contemplating women’s future.
Spring
March + April + May
New York City blooms anew in spring.
NYC Ballet Winter 2020
Tuesday-Sunday
January 21 – March 1, 2020
DAVID H. KOCH THEATER
Lincoln Center, NYC
Balanchine, Robbins, Peck, Ratmansky, Wheeldon and Swan Lake
ADAA The Art Show 2020
GALA PREVIEW
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
FAIR
Thu-Sun, February 27 – March 1, 2020
PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Upper East Side, NYC
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The top U.S. art dealer association’s art fair is showing Argentine, Brazilian, French, Indigenous, Italian, Mexican and Venezuelan artists.
Features
The most important thing you can do for your family is register to Vote (vote.org)
Ballet Folclórico Nacional de México Silvia Lozano
Saturday, March 14, 2020
PURCHASE COLLEGE
Purchase, New York (near White Plains)
Mexican folkloric traditions come alive on stage.
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Mariachi Los Camperos
March 20, 2020
PURCHASE COLLEGE
Purchase, New York
(near White Plains)
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The 2020 Grammy winner for Best Regional Mexican Music Album is the orchestra that took mariachi out of the cantina, to La Fonda mariachi theater, and then onto the world’s greatest stages.
Maluca Mala
Saturday, March 21, 2020
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, NYC
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Washington Heights’ own “bad girl” flips it up with her fly R&B barrio techno
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Sponsored by
Carnegie Hall
Flamenco Festival New York City Center 20/20
Friday-Sunday
March 27-29, 2020
April 3-5, 2020
FLAMENCO FESTIVAL
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Midtown, Manhattan
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A 20th Anniversary celebration of what flamenco can be, by the best of Spain. Featuring Rocía Molina, María Pagés Compañía, Compañia Manuel Liñán and a Gala de Andalucía with La Chana. ¡Olé!
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Sponsored by New York City Center
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The most important thing you can do for yourself is get an education
schools.nyc.gov
Ongoing
Tango La Nacional
Thursdays
LA NACIONAL
Chelsea, NYC
Dance Argentine tango at NYC’s most traditional milonga (tango party).
Black History Month
FEBRUARY
“Black History is American History.” Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Langston Hughes, Rosa Parks, Hank Aaron, Abraham Lincoln, Toni Morrison, Frederick Douglass, Machito, W.E.B. DuBois, Fats Domino and many more.
Winter
December + January + February
The holidays are a winter wonderland. Early February is the cheapest time to visit New York City.
Axel Tosca
Saturday, February 29, 2020
ZINC BAR
Greenwich Village, NYC
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One of New York City’s best young timba musicians is joined by the legendary voice of Xiomara Laugart for a hot night of Cuban jazz
All Night Milonga
Saturday, February 29, 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
Xiomara Laugart
Saturday, February 29, 2020
ZINC BAR
Greenwich Village, NYC
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The famed Cuban nueva trova singer (Yerba Buena, Celia Cruz Off-Broadway), a real Guantanamera, joins timba jazz pianist Axel Tosca (Unity) for a hot night of Cuban jazz.
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
Los Hacheros
Sundays
VERLAINE
Lower East Side, NYC
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Thursday, March 5, 2020
GONZALEZ Y GONZALEZ
Greenwich Village, NYC
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Puerto Rican Golden Age salsa for dancing. ¡WEPA!
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Original Sponsor
Carnegie Hall
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
West Side Story Broadway
IN PREVIEWS
Dark Mondays
OPENING NIGHT February 20, 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
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)
Alex Sensation
Monday-Saturday
LA MEGA FM 97.9
NYC’s top radio DJ is a Colombian who plays reggaeton and Latin trap.
Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks
Mondays and Tuesdays
IGUANA
Times Square, NYC
New York’s Italian-American 1920s-30s Dixieland jazz specialist
Lionel Cruet Flood Aftermath and Other Hurricane Stories
Opening Reception
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Wednesday-Sunday
Through March 8, 2020
FACTION Art Projects
Harlem, NYC
The Puerto Rican artist riffs on the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Maria.
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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
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
Crown of the Andes
Daily
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Upper East Side, NYC
The Atahualpa Emerald on this Marian crown from Popayán, Colombia belonged to the last Inca emperor
The Argentine Titanosaur
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Upper West Side, NYC
How do you know this dinosaur is Argentino? It’s head is so big, it sticks out the door. 😂
La Cultura Latina
Ballet Folclórico Nacional de México Silvia Lozano
The riches of the folk dances of Mexico
Purchase Performing Arts Center, March 14, 2020
Coming Soon
Louie Vega
Friday, March 6, 2020
MR. EAST
Roselle, New Jersey
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Legendary house DJ and producer from a Puerto Rican musical family.
Gabriel García Márquez
Friday, March 6, 2020
ARACATACA, Magdalena, Colombia
The Nobel Prize-winning author and leading writer of Magical Realism was born on March 6, 1927
Grupo Niche
Saturday, March 7, 2020
LEHMAN CENTER
Jerome Park, The Bronx
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The Colombian salsa legends reprise their hits “Cali Pachanguero,” “Un Aventura” and more
Bárbara Martínez
Saturday, March 7, 2020
CLUB BONAFIDE
Midtown East, NYC
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The Argentine-Venezuelan New Yorker sings and dances Spanish flamenco and maybe a little Brazilian bossa nova too!
International Women’s Day
Sunday, March 8, 2020
It’s a Latin tradition to show our love and respect for all the women in our lives (including family, friends and associates) on March 8
Miguel Zenón
Sunday, March 8, 2020
BIRDLAND
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
Zenón joins the Berklee All Star Ensemble
Chris Botti
March 8, 2020
BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Englewood, New Jersey
The best-selling American instrumental artist is Italian-American
Purim
Mon-Tue, Mar 9-10, 2020
SOUTH WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn
This Jewish holiday feast commemorates how Queen Esther of Persia found the courage to break tradition, speak up, and thereby save her people. “Chag Purim Sameach!” (Happy Purim Holiday!)
Astor Piazzolla
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
MAR DE PLATA, Argentina
The Argentine tango composer and father of “tango nuevo” (tango jazz) was born on March 11, 1921
Tony Bennett
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
COUNT BASIE CENTER
Red Bank, New Jersey
The Italian-New Yorker pop and jazz legend left his heart in San Francisco
Atlético Madrid NYC
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
FOOTBALL FACTORY AT LEGENDS
Koreatown, NYC
Watch Liverpool vs Atlético Madrid vs Liverpool (UEFA Champions League) with NYC’s supporters club Peña Oficial Atlético de Madrid en New York
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Ballet Nepantla “Valentina”
Friday, March 13, 2020
AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
This contemporary ballet with Mexican folkloric styling is a collection of stories that speak to the strength and resilience of women during the Mexican Revolution. ¡Viva Valentina!
Bulla en el Barrio
Friday, March 13, 2020
BARBÈS
Park Slope, Brooklyn
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Colombian Bullerengue inspired by the Caribbean women’s song and dance tradition from San Basilio de Palenque, the first free African town in the Americas.
Ballet Folclórico Nacional de México Silvia Lozano
Saturday, March 14, 2020
PURCHASE COLLEGE
Purchase, New York (near White Plains)
Mexican folkloric traditions come alive on stage.
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NYCFC 2020
Saturday, March 14, 2020
YANKEE STADIUM
Concourse, The Bronx
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Follow New York City Football Club’s Argentine, Brazilian, Paraguayan and Romanian stars in important games. This is the home opener against Dallas.
Pedro Giraudo
Saturday, March 14, 2020
BARBÈS
Park Slope, Brooklyn
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020
THE DJANGO
Tribeca, Manhattan
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Thursday, March 26 2020
TERRAZA 7
Elmhurst, Queens
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“Best Tango Album” Latin Grammy winner plays Argentine tango jazz
Mariachi Los Camperos
March 20, 2020
PURCHASE COLLEGE
Purchase, New York
(near White Plains)
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The 2020 Grammy winner for Best Regional Mexican Music Album is the orchestra that took mariachi out of the cantina, to La Fonda mariachi theater, and then onto the world’s greatest stages.
St Patrick’s Day
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ Commemorate the death of the patron saint of Ireland. Spanish Galicians and French Bretons share Celtic culture with western Irish
Saint Joseph
Thursday, March 19, 2020 ~ The Catholic Feast of Saint Joseph is the Latin Father’s Day
Pedrito Martinez
Thursday, March 19 & 26, 2020
GINNY’S
RED ROOSTER
Harlem, NYC
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One of the world’s best Cuban rumba percussionists plays one of the hottest joints in Harlem
Binomio de Oro
Friday, March 20, 2020
LA BOOM
Woodside, Queens
One of Colombia’s most famous vallenato groups joins Puerto Rican salsa romántica singer Maelo Ruiz.
Maelo Ruiz
Friday, March 20, 2020
LA BOOM NYC
Woodside, Queens
The Puerto Rican salsa romántica singer is joined by Colombian Vallenato group Binomio de Oro.
La Celestina
Friday, March 20, 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
Maluca Mala
Saturday, March 21, 2020
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, NYC
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Washington Heights’ own “bad girl” flips it up with her fly R&B barrio techno
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Sponsored by
Carnegie Hall
Benito Juárez
Saturday, March 21, 2020
SAN PABLO GUELATAO, Oaxaca, Mexico
The Indigenous founding father of the modern Mexican state was born on March 21, 1806. There is a statue of Juárez in the northwest corner of Bryant Park.
World Poetry Day
UNITED NATIONS CELEBRATION
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Poetry reaffirms our common humanity by revealing to us that individuals, everywhere in the world, share the same questions and feelings (UNESCO)
Puerto Rico Emancipation Day
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Day off Mon, March 23, 2020
PUERTO RICO ~ This Puerto Rican holiday commemorates the day Puerto Rican slaves were officially freed by the Spanish Parliament on March 22, 1873
Flamenco Festival New York City Center 20/20
Friday-Sunday
March 27-29, 2020
April 3-5, 2020
FLAMENCO FESTIVAL
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Midtown, Manhattan
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A 20th Anniversary celebration of what flamenco can be, by the best of Spain. Featuring Rocía Molina, María Pagés Compañía, Compañia Manuel Liñán and a Gala de Andalucía with La Chana. ¡Olé!
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Sponsored by New York City Center
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New York
Manhattan + Brooklyn + Queens + The Bronx + Staten Island | New Jersey
Latin
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!
Indigenous + European + African + Asian
=
North American + Caribbean + South American
North American
Costa Rican + French-Canadian
Guatemalan + Honduran + Mexican
Nicaraguan + Panamanian
Salvadoran + US American
Caribbean
Cuban + Dominican + Puerto Rican
Haitian + Creole
Jamaican + Trinidadian
South American
Argentine + Bolivian + Brazilian
Chilean + Colombian + Ecuadorian
Paraguayan + Peruvian
Uruguayan + Venezuelan
Indigenous
European
French + Italian + Portuguese
Romanian + Spanish
African
Asian
Chinese + Filipino + Indian
Jewish + Romani
Culture
Art + Celebrations + Dance + Fashion + Food
Literary + Movies + Music + Sports + Theatre
Calendar
JAN + FEB + MAR + APR + MAY + JUN
April 2020 Calendar
National Autism Month
National Poetry Month
International Guitar Month
ReelAbilities Film Festival
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2-5 Paris Photo NY (AIPAD)
2 Yankees home opener
(3-14) Havana Film Festival New York
5-11 HOLY WEEK
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8 PASSOVER
8 Romani Day
9-17 SPRING RECESS
10-17 Youth American Grand Prix
12 EASTER
12 Easter Parade
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15 Dance Theatre of Harlem
15-26 Tribeca Film Festival
16-26 Art of the Real film festival
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21 New York City Ballet Spring
22 Earth Day
23 RAMADAN
23 Artexpo
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28 New York Primary Election 2020
30 International Jazz Day
February 2020 Calendar
Black History Month
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Broadway Week
Off-Broadway Week
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3-12 New York Fashion Week
5-19 MoMA Doc Fortnight
8 VILLALOBOS BROTHERS
8-11 Westminster Dog Show
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CHEAPEST WEEK TO VISIT NYC
14 Valentine’s Day
14 President’s Day Weekend
14 PISTOLERA
14 Neighboring Scenes Film Festival
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17 PRESIDENTS DAY
21 Carnival weekend
21-15 International Children’s Film Festival
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25 Mardi Gras
26 Ash Wednesday
26 ADAA Art Show
27 Dominican Independence Day
March 2020 Calendar
Women’s History Month
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3-9 Spring/Break Art Show
4-8 Volta New York
5-15 Rendez-Vous with Frenc Cinema
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
17 St. Patrick’s Day Parade
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
March is Women’s History Month
Contemplating women’s history is actually contemplating women’s future. Contemplating women’s future is contemplating the future of all humanity.
The writings of Puerto Rican poet and human rights activist Julia de Burgos (1914-1953) came twenty years before the women’s rights movement in the United States. De Burgos was a working class woman with an African heritage who got divorced in a a Catholic culture. She worked in a machista (male chauvinist) society where women were supposed to just stay at home.
Young people today tend to be much more evolved, but for De Burgos to do what she did in her time was exceptional.
En todo me lo juego a ser lo que soy yo”
“Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra” (1977) by Leonard Bernstein with words from the “A Julia de Burgos” poem
(I gamble it all to be exactly as I am)
De Burgos explored themes of colonialism, human enslavement, and imperialism. These themes remain relevant whether you are the colonizer, slaver, imperialist, or the colonized, enslaved, and dominated.
The purveyors of these acts are very much like drug addicts. It seems like a great party, but there is a real human cost to both sides. The price is your own humanity. This is what De Burgos touches in her writing. From the spring of the soul of the great river of Puerto Rico, she touches our common humanity.
In New York City, the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center in El Barrio East Harlem is named after her.