Things To Do in NYC in April 2025 include the Easter Parade, Mega Mezcla, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Broadway openings, baseball and soccer.
April 1-6 | 7-13 | 14-20 | 21-27 | 28-30
April is Arab American Heritage Month, a national celebration of Arab culture and the contributions of Arab Americans to the culture and prosperity of the United States. One of the most consequential Arab Americans was Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Computer who changed modern life with the Macintosh computer, iPod music player, iPhone mobile phone, and iPad tablet. If we didn’t allow Arab immigration, we wouldn’t have Apple.
There are no U.S. national holidays in April, but Passover, Holy Week and Easter, and Earth Day are popular festivals.
April weather is mid-spring, so it can be cool or warm, with average temperatures of 45°-64.°
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Things to do in NYC in April
ART
- Artexpo New York ~ Apr 3-6, 2025
- The Photography Show by AIPAD ~ Apr 23-27, 2025
BOOKS
- Nuyorican Bowery Slam ~ Mondays 🇵🇷
- Nuyorican Final Friday Slam ~ Apr 25, 2025 🇵🇷
- Pen World Voices Festival ~ Apr 30 – May 3, 2025 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇪🇹 🇬🇹 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇦 🇵🇷
DANCE
- Dance Theatre of Harlem, African American ballet ~ Apr 10-13, 2025 🇺🇸
- Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, tablao flamenco ~ April 11-12, 2025 🇪🇸
- New York City Ballet Spring Season ~ Apr 22 – Jun 1, 2025
- Youth America Grand Prix Gala ~ Apr 29, 2025 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
- Nélida Tirado flamenco ~ Wednesdays 🇵🇷
DANCES
- Earth Love Fest ~ Apr 27, 2025
- El Destino tango ~ Sundays 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
- Latin Mondays NYC salsa ~ Mondays
- Tango La Nacional ~ Thursdays 🇦🇷
FILM
- New Directors New Films film festival ~ Apr 2-13, 2025
- ReelAbilities Film Festival New York ~ Apr 3-9, 2025
- Havana Film Festival New York ~ Apr 3-10, 2025 🇨🇺
- African Diaspora International Film Festival Caribbean Film Series ~ Apr 25-27, 2025
FOOD
- Malbec World Day ~ Apr 17 🇦🇷
MUSIC
- Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra ~ Apr 11, 2025 🇨🇺 🇭🇹
- Fito Páez, Argentine rock ~ April 17, 2025 🇦🇷
- Paquito D’Rivera ~ April 18-19, 2025 🇨🇺 + 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇵🇪 🇻🇮
- Inner City Youth Orchestra of New York ~ April 25, 2025 🗽
- Mega Mezcla urban reggaeton, trap, merengue, dembow ~ Apr 26, 2025 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇷
- Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks, old timey hot jazz ~ Mondays and Tuesdays 🇮🇹
- Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra ~ Sundays 🇨🇺
PARADES & STREET FAIRS
- National Dominican Day Parade Scholarship Application Deadline apply now (2024 deadline was Apr 14)
SPORTS
- New York Mets baseball
- New York Yankees baseball
- Gotham FC women’s soccer
- New York City Football Club (NYCFC) soccer
- New York Red Bulls soccer
THEATRE
- Teatro Fest NYC is March 1 – April 30, 2025
- Broadway openings in time for the Tony Awards.
Latin Culture in April
- Arab American Heritage Month
- International Guitar Month
- Jazz Appreciation Month
- National Autism Awareness Month
- National Poetry Month
NATIONAL DAYS
- Sierra Leone: Apr 27
- Togo: Apr 27
FESTIVALS
- World Autism Awareness Day ~ Apr 2
- International Romani Day ~ Apr 8
- Passover ~ Apr 12-20, 2025 ✡️
- Palm Sunday ~ Apr 13, 2025 ✝️
- Holy Week ~ Apr 13-19, 2025 ✝️
- Jackie Robinson Day ~ Apr 15, 1947 🇺🇸
- NYC Immigrant Heritage Week 2024 ~ Apr 15-21
- Maundy Thursday ~ Apr 17, 2025 ✝️
- Good Friday ~ Apr 18, 2025 ✝️
- Easter ~ Apr 20, 2025 ✝️
- Earth Day ~ Apr 22
- International Dance Day ~ Apr 29
- International Jazz Day ~ Apr 30
BIRTHDAYS
- Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet ~ Apr 7, 1889 🇨🇱
- Tito Puente, Puerto Rican mambo musician ~ Apr 20, 1923 🇵🇷
- Chavela Vargas, Mexican ranchera singer ~ Apr 17, 1919 🇲🇽
- Duke Ellington African American jazz composer ~ Apr 29, 1899 🇺🇸
Things To Do in NYC in April 1-6, 2025
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Old Timey Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Tuesdays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Festival
World Autism Awareness Day, a United Nations day on April 2 shows that love is the answer. In Puerto Rico, we invite autistic kids to drum and dance, and they do so perfectly. In Argentina, tango has long been used as therapy for autistic kids. Kids dance so perfectly. In Spain, we teach autistic kids to dance flamenco, and they do so beautifully.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Argentine Tango Dance Party
Tango La Nacional, New York City’s most traditional and longest-running milonga (tango dance party), is at La Nacional, the old Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursdays, with an intermediate lesson at 7pm, dancing at 8pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
Friday, April 4, 2025
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in April 7-13, 2025
Monday, April 7, 2025
Old Timey Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
Salsa Dance Party
Latin Mondays NYC by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular salsa dance parties, is at 5th&Mad in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Mondays. Doors open at 5pm. Salsa class at 7pm followed by DJ sets. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs until late. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Old Timey Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Tuesdays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
Latin Festival
International Romani Day celebrates the community of traveling court musicians that created Spanish flamenco, on April 8.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Argentine Tango Dance Party
Tango La Nacional, New York City’s most traditional and longest-running milonga (tango dance party), is at La Nacional, the old Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursdays, with an intermediate lesson at 7pm, dancing at 8pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
Friday, April 11, 2025
Spanish Flamenco
Tablao Flamenco by Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana is a flamenco show of Ida y Vuelta (roundtrip) flamenco that is influenced by Latin American culture. It’s part of Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros Sonidos festival of Latin culture at Le Poisson Rouge in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village; on Friday-Saturday, April 11-12, 2025 at 6:30pm and 7:30pm respectively. From $39. carnegiehall.org 🇪🇸
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in April 14-20, 2025
It’s Holy Week, the Christian spring festival; Passover the Jewish celebration of the Exodus from slavery, and NYC Immigrant Heritage Week, a celebration of the people who built New York City. ✝️ ✡️
Holy Week (Semana Santa) is the Christian Spring Festival ✝️
Passover, the Jewish Spring Festival, Celebrates Freedom from Slavery ✡️
NYC Immigrant Heritage Week Celebrates the People Who Built New York City and America 🗽
Jackie Robinson Day Celebrates the Day He Broke Major League Baseball’s Color Barrier in 1947 🇺🇸
Monday, April 14, 2025
Old Timey Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). From $25. 🇮🇹
Salsa Dance Party
Latin Mondays NYC by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular salsa dance parties, is at 5th&Mad in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Mondays. Doors open at 5pm. Salsa class at 7pm followed by DJ sets. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs until late. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam live poetry competition, is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷
Latin Musical Theater
Sabor y Pasión in the Battery is musical theater about the impact of Latin music on American culture, from Latin jazz to reggaeton. It’s part of Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros Sonidos festival of Latin culture at the New York Film Academy in Manhattan’s Financial District; on Monday, April 14, 2025 at 7:30pm. Free with rsvp to nyfa.edu carnegiehall.org 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
Panamanian Musical Theater
“BAYANO, An Afro-Panamanian Odyssey,” presents Panamanian folk and original music from the Darrel Alejandro Holnes play being developed by the National Black Theatre. It’s part of Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros Sonidos festival of Latin culture at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Monday, April 14, 2025 at 9:30pm. $30. 🇵🇦
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Old Timey Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Tuesdays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
African American Festival
Jackie Robinson Day celebrates the day Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. 🇺🇸
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Brazilian Books
The Afrofuturist Evolution presents: Tale of the Orishas, has Brazilian graphic novel author and illustrator Hugo Canuto discussing the relationship between art, culture, myth, and religion in Brazil and Latin America in the context of his graphic novel about Brazilian Candomblé superheroes, with “The Afrofuturist Evolution” author Ytasha L. Womack, and Megascope curator John Jennings. It’s part of Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros Sonidos festival of Latin culture online on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 8pm. carnegiehall.org 🇧🇷
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Cuban Art
Drawing Danza has Argentine illustrator Eugenia Mello and Argentine choreographer Anabella Lenzu leading a figure-drawing workshop inspired by Latin dance forms. It’s part of Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros Sonidos festival of Latin culture at the Society of Illustrators in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 6:30pm. $20. 🇦🇷
Latin Jazz
Nuevas Voces: Emerging Voices in Latin Jazz features Cocomama, a multicultural women’s jazz orchestra, playing Afro-Diasporic rhythms from Cuba, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and more. It’s part of Carnegie Hall’s Nuestros Sonidos festival of Latin culture at The Bronx Music Hall in Melrose, The Bronx; on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 7pm. $15. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇵🇷 🇵🇪
Colombian Salsa
Grupo Niche, the seminal Colombian salsa orchestra from Calí, the “Salsa Capital of the World,” make their Carnegie Hall debut; on the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 8pm. From $36. 🇨🇴
Argentine Rock
Fito Páez, introduces his new rock opera album “Novela” for The Grammy Museum at The Greene Space in Hudson Square, Manhattan; on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 7:30pm. 🇦🇷
Argentine Tango Dance Party
Tango La Nacional, New York City’s most traditional and longest-running milonga (tango dance party), is at La Nacional, the old Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursdays, with an intermediate lesson at 7pm, dancing at 8pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
New York Festival
NYC Immigrant Heritage Week, commemorates April 15, 1907, the day when the most immigrants ever, passed through Ellis Island. The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs 2025 celebration is the theme “NYC: Built by Generations of Immigrants.” 🗽
Latin Wine
Malbec World Day is an international celebration of the Argentine wine with French roots, on April 17. 🇦🇷
Mexican Ranchera Birthday
Chavela Vargas didn’t just sing rancheras, she lived them. Vargas was born in San Joaquín Flores, Costa Rica on April 17, 1919. She ran away to Mexico to find herself. 🇨🇷 🇲🇽
Friday, April 18, 2025
Cuban Jazz
Paquito D’Rivera celebrates 70+ years of a legendary career in music with special guests Chucho Valdés, Edmar Castañeda, Roberta Gambarini, Yotam Silberstein, Héctor del Curto, Roberto Vizcaino, Victor Provost, and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. It’s in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Friday-Saturday, April 18-19, 2025 at 7:30pm. 🇨🇺 + 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇵🇪 🇻🇮
Christian Festival
Good Friday is a Christian commemoration of the traditional crucifixion of Christ. ✝️
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Cuban Jazz
Paquito D’Rivera celebrates 70+ years of a legendary career in music with special guests Chucho Valdés, Edmar Castañeda, Roberta Gambarini, Yotam Silberstein, Héctor del Curto, Roberto Vizcaino, Victor Provost, and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. It’s in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Friday-Saturday, April 18-19, 2025 at 7:30pm. 🇨🇺 + 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇵🇪 🇻🇮
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Christian Festival
Easter, the Christian spring festival, is a celebration of the traditional resurrection of Christ. ✝️
Easter Parade
The Easter Parade NYC 2025 is a spring spectacle. It’s on Fifth Avenue around St. Patrick’s Cathedral from around 10am to 4pm. FREE. 🗽
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Famous Puerto Rican Birthday
Tito Puente, “The King of Latin Music,” was born in Harlem, Manhattan on April 20, 1923. “Oye, ¿cómo va?” 🇵🇷
Things To Do in NYC in April 21-27, 2025
Monday, April 21, 2025
Old Timey Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
New Classical Music
New York New Music Ensemble plays a world premiere by Brazilian composer Marcos Balter, along with works he selected by George Lewis, Tonia Ko, and Martín Matalón; as part of Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos” festival of Latin culture; at Americas Society in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Monday, April 21, 2025 at 7pm. Free with registration (walkups may be available). 🇧🇷 + 🇦🇷
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam live poetry competition, is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Old Timey Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Tuesdays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
Salsa Dance Party
Latin Mondays NYC by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular salsa dance parties, is at 5th&Mad in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Mondays. Doors open at 5pm. Salsa class at 7pm followed by DJ sets. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs until late. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Argentine Tango Dance Party
Tango La Nacional, New York City’s most traditional and longest-running milonga (tango dance party), is at La Nacional, the old Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursdays, with an intermediate lesson at 7pm, dancing at 8pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $30. 🇦🇷
Friday, April 25, 2025
Classical Chamber Music
Inner City Youth Orchestra of New York plays its very first concert at St. Philip’s Episcopal/Anglican Church in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn on April 25, 2025, a 6pm. Free with rsvp @_icyony_ 🗽
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Final Friday Slam is at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Friday, April 25, 2025, from 9:30pm – 1am. $35. 🇵🇷
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Mega Mezcla 2025 features DJ Alex Sensation and Anuel AA, Sech. Kapo, Beele, De La Ghetto, Ken-Y, Fariana, Jey One, Crazy Design, Vakero, with a special presentation by Elvis Crespo, singing Colombian, Dominican, Panamanian, and Puerto Rican reggaeton, dembow, rap, and trap at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey; on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 8pm. From $59. prucenter.com 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇷
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in April 28-30, 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
Old Timey Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam live poetry competition, is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Old Timey Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theater at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Tuesdays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). From $25. 🇮🇹
Lincoln Center
The 26th Youth America Grand Prix 2025 Stars of Today and Tomorrow Gala features talented young dancers from around the world and international guest artists dancing an Isaiah Day (Alvin Ailey) world premiere, and more; at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, Manhattan; on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 7pm. From $95. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
Salsa Dance Party
Latin Mondays NYC by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular salsa dance parties, is at 5th&Mad in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Mondays. Doors open at 5pm. Salsa class at 7pm followed by DJ sets. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs until late. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
The PEN World Voices Festival NYC 2025 celebrates international storytelling in the face of the current crisis of silence and censorship, with over 100 authors from 35 countries, at various venues in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; from Wednesday – Saturday, April 30 – May 3, 2025. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇪🇹 🇬🇹 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇦 🇵🇷
Ballet Scholarship Audition
The 25th Youth America Grand Prix 2024 is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center with: Junior Finals (ages 12-14) on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 4pm, from $50; Senior Finals (ages 15-19) on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 8pm, from $50; 25th Anniversary Gala and Dancing with the Stars on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 7pm, from $95; and the “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow: Best of 25 Years” Gala on Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7pm, from $95.
Latin Film Festival
The 24th Havana Film Festival New York 2024 screens its Closing Night Film, “Igualada” Juan Mejia’s documentary on Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez; at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Manhattan on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 6pm with an After Party and an encore at 8:30pm. From $82. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇾
Cuban Rumba, Timba, Jazz
Pedrito Martinez, the world’s first-call rumbero, plays Cuban rumba, timba, and jazz; at Drom in Manhattan’s East Village; on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 8pm (7:30pm doors). From $30. 🇨🇺
Ballet Scholarship Audition
The 25th Youth America Grand Prix 2024 “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow: Best of 25 Years” Gala is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center on Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7pm, from $95.
Latin Music Legend
Tito Puente, “The King of Latin Music” was born in Harlem on April 20, 1923. There’s just one thing we want to say, “Oye, cómo va?” 🇵🇷
Spanish Soccer
Watch “El Clásico” Real Madrid vs FC Barcelona, a La Liga match at the Bernabéu in Madrid; with Penya FC Barcelona NYC at Smithfield Hall in Chelsea, or Peña Madridista NYC at the Playwright Irish Pub in the Garment District; on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 3pm. 🇪🇸
House Dance Party Block Party Eco-Festival
Earth Love Fest 2024, the house dance party, block party, and eco-festival at House of Yes in Bushwick, Brooklyn; is Sunday, April 21, 2024, from 12noon – 7pm. FREE with RSVP.
Environmental Festival
Earth Day is April 22. The celebration began in 1970. We are running out of time.
Jewish Spring Festival
Passover, the Jewish spring festival, is from sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025 to sundown on Sunday, April 20, 2025. ✡️
New York Philharmonic Spring Gala with Gustavo Dudamel, Common, Park, and Williams
New York Philharmonic Spring Gala with Gustavo Dudamel features American rapper Common, South Korean soprano Hera Hyesang Park, and Puerto Rican jazz guitarist Bernie Williams #51 (Yankees), playing Shekhar (India), Villa-Lobos (Brazil), Márquez (Mexico), Williams (Puerto Rico), Common (Chicago), and Strauss (Austria); in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 7pm. 🇦🇹 🇧🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇰🇷 🇺🇸 🇻🇪
Friday, April 26, 2024
Black Comic Book Festival
The 12th Black Comic Book Festival 2024, the SchomCom, presents workshops and a marketplace at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, Manhattan; on Friday 26, 2024 from 11am – 6:30pm. The Cosplay Showcase is Saturday. FREE with rsvp. 🇺🇸
Queens Film Festival
The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
Fine Art Photography Fair
OPENING DAY
The Photography Show by AIPAD 2024, one of New York City’s premiere fine art photography fairs, brings international photo galleries to the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, April 26, 2024 from 12-8pm. Through Sunday. $45. 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽
Afro-Caribbean Film Festival
The African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 Caribbean Film Series screens a dozen films about Caribbean life. It opens with “The Mali-Cuba Connection” on Friday, April 26, 2024 at 6pm; at Teachers College, Columbia University in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The Festival continues through Sunday, April 28, 2024. $13 per film ($11 students/seniors). 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🇸🇷 🇹🇹
This is the only film festival where we want to watch every movie. The African Diaspora is so beautifully diverse.
Black Comic Book Festival
The 12th Black Comic Book Festival 2024, the SchomCom, presents workshops, a marketplace, and the Cosplay Showcase at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, Manhattan; on Friday 26, 2024 from 11am – 6:30pm. The Cosplay Showcase is from 1-5pm. FREE with rsvp. 🇺🇸
Afro-Caribbean Film Festival
The African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 Caribbean Film Series screens films about Caribbean life at Teachers College, Columbia University in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Saturday, April 27, 2024, starting from 12noon to 7:50pm. $13 per film ($11 students/seniors). 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🇸🇷 🇹🇹
Queens Film Festival
The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
Fine Art Photography Fair
The Photography Show by AIPAD 2024, one of New York City’s premiere fine art photography fairs, brings international photo galleries to the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Saturday, April 27, 2024 from 12-7pm. $45. 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽