August, Chilean, Documentary, Hudson Square, Manhattan, MOVIES ‘CIELO’ captures the heavens over Chile’s Atacama Desert

August, BROADWAY, September Highlights, Summer Broadway Week Summer 2018

¡ Get the Latin World !

NYC Today Sunday, August 19, 2018

Being: New Photography 2018 at MoMA

African, Brazilian, Italian, & Filipino artists at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan
March 18 – August 19, 2018

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. at 205 Hudson Gallery

A touring show from the Getty Museum’s Latino art exhibition ‘Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA’
205 Hudson Gallery
Tribeca, Manhattan
Wednesday – Sunday
June 21 – August 19, 2018

New York Yankees vs Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium

Yankee Stadium
Concourse, The Bronx
March – September
VS BLUE JAYS
Friday, August 17, 2018
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Watch Real Madrid vs Getafe, La Liga opener with Peña Madridista NYC

Real Madrid vs Getafe
La Liga season opener
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Peña Madridista NYC supporters club
Playwright Irish Pub
Garment District, Manhattan
Sunday, August 19, 2018

VolvoTango Pier 45 is an outdoor milonga with stunning river views

APRIL – NOVEMBER & warm
WEDNESDAYS & SUNDAYS
Pier 45, West Village
Summer 2018

Speak to your members of Congress at a local Town Hall Meeting

August/Labor Day State Work Period
May not happen this year because of a political move by the Senate leader
August 6 – September 3, 2018

NYC today is cloudy: 73° ~ 65°. Humidity 80%.

NYC Tomorrow Monday, August 20, 2018

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Watch Atlético Madrid start La Liga with Peña Oficial Atlético de Madrid NY

Big games in August, September, November, February, April and May.
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Valencia vs Atlético Madrid
Atléti’s first game of the La Liga season.
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Peña Oficial Atlético de Madrid NY
Football Factory at Legends
Koreatown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018

Maluma’s ‘Felices los 4’ nominated for “Best Latin” at the 2018 MTV VMAs

OK. Let’s get busy. I’m in. Oh.
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018

Shakira’s ‘Chantaje’ nominated for “Best Latin” at MTV VMAs 2018

Shakira knows how to blackmail.
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018

New York Mets vs San Francisco Giants at Citi Field

Cuban, Dominican, Italian, Mexican & Venezuelan players.
Citi Field Flushing Meadows – Corona Park, Queens
MARCH – SEPTEMBER
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Mets vs San Francisco Giants
Monday – Thursday
August 20 – 23, 2018

Daddy Yankee’s ‘Dura’ nominated for “Best Latin” at the 2018 MTV VMAs

El Patron de Reggaeton plays hard. Does the life ever get old?
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018

Speak to your members of Congress at a local Town Hall Meeting

August/Labor Day State Work Period
May not happen this year because of a political move by the Senate leader
August 6 – September 3, 2018

NYC tomorrow is partly cloudy: 77° ~ 68°. Humidity 74%.

Latin Celebrations

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Celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Muslim Sacrifice Feast

The most important Muslim holiday.
Sundown to Sundown
Monday – Tuesday
August 20 – 21, 2018

Uruguayan Independence Day

Declaration of Independence from Brazil
August 25, 1825
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Brazilian Day New York 2018 is the biggest Brazilian festival outside Brazil

Little Brazil
46th St at Sixth Avenue
Midtown, Manhattan
Sunday, September 2, 2018

The West Indian Day Parade Caribbean Carnival is NYC’s Labor Day Parade

Eastern Parkway from Schenectady Ave to Grand Army Plaza
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Monday, September 3, 2018

Celebrate Brazilian Independence Day

Dom Pedro I declares independence from Portugal
September 7, 1821
Friday, September 7, 2018

St. Patrick’s Cathedral ~ Our Lady Caridad del Cobre Mass (Cuba)

Argentine, Brazilian, Colombian, Cuban, Ecuadorian, Filipino, Italian, Mexican, Nicaraguan, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Spanish and Venezuelan masses.
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
Fifth Ave (between 50th/51st St)
Midtown East, Manhattan
Spanish mass, Sundays
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Our Lady Caridad del Cobre Mass
(Patron Saint of Cuba)
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Spanish Mass

Brazilian Day

“There is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Primary winner for New York’s 14th Congressional District

Latin Politics

Speak to your members of Congress at a local Town Hall Meeting

August/Labor Day State Work Period
May not happen this year because of a political move by the Senate leader
August 6 – September 3, 2018

Latin Broadway

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‘Once on This Island’ at Circle in the Square, a Broadway musical about love

This Caribbean version of ‘The Little Mermaid’ wins hearts.

TONY AWARDS
“Best Musical Revival”

DRAMA DESK NOMINATION
“Outstanding Revival of a Musical”

CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATRE
Times Square Theater District
Through December 31, 2018

‘Hamilton’ is the most influential Broadway show of our generation

The playwright is a Puerto Rican New Yorker.
Richard Rodgers Theatre
226 West 46th St
between Seventh & Eighth Ave
Times Square / Theater District
Dark Mondays
Open-ended run

Phantom of the Opera is the longest-running show in Broadway history

Majestic Theatre
247 West 44th St
between Seventh & Eighth Ave
Manhattan’s Theater District
30th Anniversary Celebration
Wednesday, January 24, 2017

Latin Off-Broadway

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Repertorio Español is NYC’s Spanish-language Off-Broadway Theatre

300 shows a year of 15 plays selected from repertory and new productions.
(In Spanish with English titles)
Kips Bay, Manhattan
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VALOR, AGRAVIO Y MUJER
Spanish Golden Age comedy
Friday, August 24, 2018
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SAUL GARCIA’S SIN WIFI TAMBIEN SE VIVE
Colombian stand-up comedy
Saturday – Sunday
August 25 – 26, 2018

‘El coronel no tiene quien le escriba’ Colombian drama at Repertorio

Based on the classic Gabriel García Márquez story about how history repeats itself.
Adapted and Directed by Jorge Alí Triana
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Repertorio Español
Kips Bay, Manhattan
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Signature Theatre

Repertorio Español

“We have to stop looking, and start thinking.”
Tania Bruguera, Cuban artist

Latin Art

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Being: New Photography 2018 at MoMA

African, Brazilian, Italian, & Filipino artists at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan
March 18 – August 19, 2018

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. at 205 Hudson Gallery

A touring show from the Getty Museum’s Latino art exhibition ‘Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA’
205 Hudson Gallery
Tribeca, Manhattan
Wednesday – Sunday
June 21 – August 19, 2018

Fritz St. Jean narrates Haitian history in paint at First Street Gallery

First Street Gallery
Chelsea, Manhattan
Monday – Friday
August 13 – 29, 2018

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: The House at Kawinal at the New Museum

Literature, folklore, magic and childhood memories in this Guatemalan performance art installation and sculpture exhibition.
New Museum
Lower East Side, Manhattan
June 6 – September 9, 2018
Closed Mondays

‘La Frontera Encounters Along the Border’ crosses over the MAD Museum

A meditation of thoughtful jewelry inspired by the hope and pain spread along the 2,000 mile-long Mexican – American border.
Museum of Arts and Design
Midtown, Manhattan
Tuesday – Sunday
March 1 – September 23, 2018

White | Black monochrome group show of art stars at Acquavella Galleries

Compare the aesthetics of Miquel Barceló (Spanish), Louise Bourgeois (French), Jean Dubuffet (French), Jacob El Hanani (Jewish), Manolo Millares (Spanish), Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan) and Americans Keith Haring, Robert Longo & Andy Warhol.
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Acquavella Galleries
Upper East Side, Manhattan
August 13 – September 28, 2018

Throckmorton Fine Art

Heavenly Bodies Fashion and the Catholic Imagination at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & the Met Cloisters

Being: New Photography 2018 at MoMA

Yo no soy de aquí, pero tú tampoco
(I am not from here, but neither are you)
Jorge Drexler, Jewish-Uruguayan Academy Award Winner

Latin Music

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Luis Fonsi’s ‘Échame la Culpa’ nominated for “Best Latin” at MTV VMAs 2018

I don’t know why he’s asking. I always get blamed.
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018

Maluma’s ‘Felices los 4’ nominated for “Best Latin” at the 2018 MTV VMAs

OK. Let’s get busy. I’m in. Oh.
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018

Shakira’s ‘Chantaje’ nominated for “Best Latin” at MTV VMAs 2018

Shakira knows how to blackmail.
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018

Daddy Yankee’s ‘Dura’ nominated for “Best Latin” at the 2018 MTV VMAs

El Patron de Reggaeton plays hard. Does the life ever get old?
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018

Gerardo Contino plays Latin Grooves at The Django

Lead singer of NYC’s best Cuban dance band.
The Django
Tribeca, Manhattan
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Forro in the Dark is a Brazil Party Wednesdays at Nublu in the East Village

Nublu Classic
East Village, Manhattan
Wednesdays in August 2018

SummerStage

Borders separate, but also unite
Octavio Paz, Mexican poet

Latin Dance

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Radio City Rockettes Christmas Spectacular 2018

Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
November 9 – January 1, 2018

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I’ve got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

From Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

Latin Dancing

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VolvoTango Pier 45 is an outdoor milonga with stunning river views

APRIL – NOVEMBER & warm
WEDNESDAYS & SUNDAYS
Pier 45, West Village
Summer 2018

VolvoTango LIC Landing outdoor milonga on a pier with city views

LIC Landing
Long Island City, Queens
Spring + Summer + Fall
Tuesdays
FREE

Tango La Nacional is NYC’s most traditional Argentine milonga

It’s the center of NYC’s Tango community. All of NYC’s Tango organizers dance there.
La Nacional
Chelsea, Manhattan
Every Thursday

Central Park Tango is a romantic way to spend a Summer Saturday evening

All ages and levels watch, dance or take an Argentine Tango lesson at the Shakespeare Statue at the south end of The Mall.
Central Park, Manhattan
Saturdays until September

Tango La Nacional

Central Park Tango

VolvoTango

Latin Movies

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‘CIELO’ captures the heavens over Chile’s Atacama Desert

“Oh my God! It’s full of stars!”
Film Forum
Hudson Square (East SoHo), Manhattan
ONE WEEK ONLY
Wednesday – Tuesday
August 15 – August 21, 2018

BlacKkKlansman is Spike Lee straight to the heart of racism

The Brooklyn director is at his best in this comedy about race based on the true story of a Black cop who infiltrated the KKK.
OPENED
Friday, August 10, 2018
NOW PLAYING CITYWIDE

Latin Film Festivals

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Venice Film Festival 2018 launches award-winning films

One of the big 3 European film festivals is known for launching films that win Academy Awards.
Lido di Venezia in Venice, Italy
August 29-September 8, 2018

Latin Food

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NYC Wine & Food Festival 2018 (NYCWFF)

A weekend of fine wine and food prepared by over 500 world-renowned French, Italian, Jewish, Mexican & Spanish chefs and culinary TV personalities from the Food Network and Cooking Channel.
GRAND TASTING
Pier 94 Rooftop
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Saturday – Sunday
October 13 -14, 2018
DINING
Thursday – Sunday
October 11 – 14, 2018