Things To Do in NYC in October include the: Panamanian Parade, Hispanic Day Parade, Columbus Day Parade, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Parade, and more. Indigenous Peoples Day (Columbus Day) is October’s national holiday. Hispanic Heritage Month builds to a climax on October 15. October ends with Halloween and Day of the Dead preparations.
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October is Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15. The odd dates include national days of Central America, Chile, and Spain. Columbus Day (Indigenous Peoples Day) is a U.S. national holiday. September weather is early fall. Average temperatures range from 60-77 °F / 25-16 °C.
The October holiday is Indigenous Peoples Day / Italian Heritage Day (formerly Columbus Day). Cristóbal Colón was so violent with Indigenous Peoples and even Spanish colonizers in Hispaniola / Ayiti / Quisqueya (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic), that his Spanish sponsors arrested him, took him back to Spain in chains (really), and put him on trial. The Spanish eventually let him go because he made them rich, but never let him have power again.
The United States started the Columbus Day holiday to humanize Italian Americans in order to discourage Southerners from lynching them for associating with African Americans. It worked. Italian Americans went from being “others” to just being Americans. That’s why Italian Americans are attached to him, but the man was seriously flawed. Recent genetic studies suggest he was a Jewish Spaniard, not Italian after all. Even his claim to have been the person to discover the Americas was false. One of his sailors made the first sighting. Colón lied to claim the reward for himself.
October is one of our favorite months in New York City. It is peak fall. The cultural season is in full swing. It isn’t hot or cold. It is just right. Average temperatures range from 51-65° F (10-18° C). Fall foliage usually peaks in the last two weeks of October.
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Things to do in NYC in October 2025
ART
- The Art Show (ADAA) is on break this year.
- Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021-2025, El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, Aug 28, 2025 – Summer 2026 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷
BOOKS
- Nuyorican Bowery Slam, Mondays 🇵🇷
DANCE
- Arpino Dance Festival, contemporary ballet, Joyce Theater, Chelsea ~ Sep 30 – Oct 12, 2025 🇮🇹
- Paris Opera Ballet, contemporary ballet, New York City Center, Midtown ~ Oct 9-12, 2025 🇫🇷
- Limón Dance Company, modern dance, Joyce Theater, Chelsea, ~ Tue-Sun, Oct 14-19, 2025 🇲🇽
- American Ballet Theatre Fall Season, David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center ~ Wed, Oct 15 – Nov 1, 2025
- Siudy Garrido Flamenco, David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center ~ Fri, Oct 17, 2025 🇪🇸
- Flamenco Certamen USA Finals, scholarship audition, Symphony Space, Upper West Side ~ Sat, Oct 18, 2025 🇪🇸
- Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Día de Muertos,” Queens Theatre ~ Fri-Sun, Oct 24-26, 2025 🇲🇽
- Full Circle Souljahs, Puerto Rican hip hop dance, Hostos Center ~ Sat, Oct 25, 2025 🇵🇷
Latin Dance
- Latin Mondays NYC salsa ~ Mondays 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
- Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea ~ Thursdays 🇦🇷
- El Destino tango in Greenwich Village ~ Sundays 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
FESTIVALS
- Nigerian Independence Day ~ Oct 1, 1960 🇳🇬
- Yom Kippur ~ Oct 1-2, 2025 ✡️
- Nigerian Independence Day Parade ~ Sat, Oct 4, 2025 🇳🇬
- Orunmila orisha ~ Oct 4 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
- Saint Francis of Assisi ~ Oct 4 ✝️
- National Taco Day ~ Oct 4 🇲🇽
- Loisaida Hispanic Heritage Month Festival ~ Sat, Oct 4, 2025 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇬🇶🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪
- Blessing of the Animals ~ Oct 5 ✝️
- Hunter’s Moon full moon ~ Mon, Oct 6, 2025 🌝
- Sukkot (Feast of the Tabernacles) ~ Oct 6-13, 2025 ✡️
- Dada orisha of birth ~ Oct 7 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
- Cuban Independence Day (from Spain) ~ Oct 10, 1868 🇨🇺
- Panamanian Parade ~ Sat, Oct 11, 2025 🇵🇦
- Spain National Day (Día de la Hispanidad) ~ Oct 12 🇪🇸
- Hispanic Day Parade, Fifth Avenue ~ Sun, Oct 12, 2025 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇬🇶🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪
- Indigenous Peoples Day Powwow ~ Sun-Mon, Oct 12-13, 2025 🇺🇸
- Indigenous Peoples Day ~ Mon, Oct 13, 2025 🇺🇸
- Italian Heritage Day ~ Mon, Oct 13, 2025 🇮🇹
- Columbus Day ~ Mon, Oct 13, 2025 🇪🇸
- Columbus Day Parade (It’s Italian) ~ Mon, Oct 13, 2025 🇮🇹
- Fela Kuti birthday ~ Wed, Oct 15, 2025 🇳🇬
- Festival de las Flores, Colombian silletero show ~ Fri, Oct 17, 2025 🇨🇴
- National Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Parade, Broadway ~ Sat, Oct 18, 2025 🇺🇸
- Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade ~ Sun, Oct 19, 2025 🎃
- Diwali, Mon, Oct 20, 2025 🇮🇳
FILM
- New York Film Festival ~ Sep 26 – Oct 13, 2025
- Oscars Best International Feature Film Entries ~ Oct 1
- Bushwick Film Festival ~ Oct 1-5, 2025
- Mott Haven Film Festival ~ Sat, Oct 4, 2025 🗽
- Dominican Film Festival New York ~ Thu-Tue, Oct 23-28, 2025 🇩🇴
FOOD
- New York City Wine & Food Festival (NYCWFF) ~ Wed-Sun Oct 15-19, 2025
MUSIC
- Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra ~ Sundays 🇨🇺
- Elvis Martínez, Dominican bachata ~ Fri, Oct 3, 2025 🇩🇴
- Jey One, Dominican dembow ~ Sat, Oct 4, 2025 🇩🇴
- World Music Institute 40th Anniversary Celebration ~ Thu, Oct 16, 2025 🇮🇳 🇮🇷 🇲🇱 🗽
- Almighty, Cuban reggaeton ~ Fri, Oct 17 🇨🇺
- Sphinx Virtuosi Black & Latin chamber music ~ Fri, Oct 17 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺
- Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center ~ Fri, Oct 17
- BRIC JazzFest ~ Fri-Sat, Oct 17-18, 2025 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇺 🇪🇹 🇮🇱 🇲🇦 🇿🇦
- OKAN, Afro-Cuban alternative ~ Sat, Oct 18 🇨🇺
- Billboard Latin Music Week ~ Oct 20-24, 2025 (Miami, Florida)
- Billboard Latin Music Awards ~ Thu, Oct 23, 2025 (Miami, Florida)
- EL Alfa “El Último Baile World Tour,” Dominican dembow ~ Sat, Oct 25, 2025 🇩🇴
- Mali Obamsawin, Indigenous jazz film score ~ Thu, Oct 30, 2025 🇺🇸
SPORTS
- Gotham vs Seattle Reign ~ Sun, Oct 5, 2025
- NYCFC vs Seattle ~ Sat, Oct 18, 2025
- Red Bulls vs FC Cincinatti ~ Sat, Oct 18, 2025
- El Clásico Real Madrid vs FC Barcelona ~ Sun, Oct 26, 2025 🇪🇸
THEATRE
- Saulo Garcia’s “Risoterapia” Colombian comedy ~ Fri-Sun, Oct 3-5, 2025 🇨🇴
- “The True Story of Little Red ~ La verdadera historia de Caperucita” ~ October Saturdays 🇵🇷
- “Tuya Siempre, Julita” Puerto Rican theatre by Roberto Ramos-Perea ~ Wed, Oct 8, 2025 🇵🇷
- “Los Soles Truncos,” Puerto Rican theatre by René Marqués ~ Fri, Oct 10, 2025 🇵🇷
- “La Ternura,” Spanish comedy by Alfredo Sanzol ~ Sat, Oct 11, 2025 🇪🇸
- “Radojka,” Uruguayan comedy by Fernando Schmidt and Christian Ibarzabal ~ Sun, Oct 12, 2025 🇺🇾
- HOLA Awards (Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors) ~ Mon, Oct 13, 2025
- Days of the Dead Festival ~ Oct 17 – Nov 2 🎃
Things To Do in NYC This Week: October 1-5, 2025
Ongoing
Film Festival
The 63rd New York Film Festival 2025 (#NYFF63) brings international filmmakers, movie stars, and film lovers to red carpet premieres, screenings, Q&As, and talks at Lincoln Center and partner venues in each of NYC’s boroughs, for a little over two weeks from September 26 to October 13, 2025. 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇼 🇨🇮 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇵🇭
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Thursday, October 2, 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, gets busy at 9pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $25. 🇦🇷
Friday, October 3, 2025
Colombian Comedy
“Risoterapia” is Colombian comic Saulo Garcia’s latest show. He is really funny, and really gets the immigrant experience. It’s in Spanish at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Friday, October 3, 2025 at 7pm. Through Sunday. From $28. 🇨🇴
Dominican Bachata
Elvis Martínez, “El Camarón,” sings Dominican bachata at Salsa Con Fuego Dominican restaurant and lounge; on Friday, October 3, 2025 at 2am. (10pm doors.) From $45. 🇩🇴
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Nigerian Parade
The 65th Nigerian Independence Day Parade NYC 2025 marches down Madison Avenue from 38th St to 24th St, on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 10am to the Nigerian Independence Day Festival at Madison Square Park in Manhattan. 🇳🇬
Film Festival
The Mott Haven Film Festival 2025 features screenings and an awards ceremony at the beautiful Bronx Music Hall, in Melrose, The Bronx; on Saturday, October 4, 2025. There are screenings at 2pm, 5pm, and 8pm with an awards ceremony after the 8pm screenings. From $24. 🗽
Latino Children’s Theatre
“The True Story of Little Red ~ La verdadera historia de Caperucita” is bilingual children’s theatre; at Teatro SEA in the Clemente Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; on Saturdays in October, 2025 at 3pm. $23. 🇵🇷
Colombian Comedy
“Risoterapia” is Colombian comic Saulo Garcia’s latest show. He is really funny, and really gets the immigrant experience. It’s in Spanish at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 7pm. From $28. 🇨🇴
Nigerian Party
The 65th Nigerian Independence Day Parade NYC 2025 AfterParty is at Quilox Lounge, an Afro-Caribbean lounge in East Flatbush, Brooklyn; on Saturday, October 4, 2025, from 10pm to 4am. Free before midnight with RSVP, or $29. 🇳🇬
Dominican Dembow
Jey One sings Dominican dembow at Salsa Con Fuego Dominican restaurant and lounge in Fordham Manor, The Bronx; on Saturday, October 4, 2025 late (probably 2am). (10pm doors.) Ladies free with RSVP before midnight From $29. 🇩🇴
Sunday, October 5, 2025
Italian Festival
The Saint Francis of Assisi Mass features a Procession of the Animals, music by Earth jazz legend Paul Winter, and Afro dance theater by Abdel R. Salaam’s Forces of Nature at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Sunday, October 5, 2025, from 10:30am – 12:15pm. People and pets are welcome. The Saint Francis Day Fair and Blessing of the Animals follows. It will be livestreamed on the Cathedral’s website. FREE. ✝️
Colombian Comedy
“Risoterapia” is Colombian comic Saulo Garcia’s latest show. He is really funny, and really gets the immigrant experience. It’s in Spanish at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 3pm. From $28. 🇨🇴
Hispanic Mass
The 61st Hispanic Day Parade NYC 2025 Mass is in Spanish at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown East, Manhattan; on Sunday, October, 5, 2025, at 4pm. 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇬🇶🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Nigerian Parade Gala
The 65th Nigerian Independence Day Parade NYC 2025 Afro Gala has an Owambe African Glamour dress code at Lagos TSQ (Lagos Times Square) African restaurant; on Sunday, October 5, 2025, at 7pm 🇳🇬
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC This Week: October 6-12, 2025
Hispanic Day Parade NYC, Desfile de la Hispanidad New York, Celebrates the Culture and Contributions of 21 Hispanic Countries
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Ongoing
Film Festival
The 63rd New York Film Festival 2025 (#NYFF63) brings international filmmakers, movie stars, and film lovers to red carpet premieres, screenings, Q&As, and talks at Lincoln Center and partner venues in each of NYC’s boroughs, for a little over two weeks from September 26 to October 13, 2025. 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇼 🇨🇮 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇵🇭
Monday, October 6, 2025
Big Band Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play big band 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 with DJs at 5pm. Salsa lesson at 7pm. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs and dance shows 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 (6pm line, 6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Vintage 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, October 8, 2025
Puerto Rican Theatre
“Tuya Siempre, Julita” the love story of two great Puerto Rican poets, Julia de Burgos and Luis Llorens Torres; is in Spanish with English supertitles at Hostos Center at Hostos Community College in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 2:30 (Free) & 7:30pm. From $20. Students $5. 🇵🇷
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Panamanian Parade NYC 2025 Gala
The 30th Panamanian Parade NYC Gala is a semi-formal night of networking over cocktails, dinner, and dancing; at El Caribe Country Club Caterers in Mill Basin, Brooklyn; on Thursday, October 9, 2025; from 8pm – 12 midnight. From $180. 🇵🇦
French Contemporary Ballet
Paris Opera Ballet, the resident dance company at the legendary Paris Opera, performs two-time Olivier Award-winner Hofesh Schechter’s “Red Carpet,” a full-length, contemporary ballet that contrasts the glamourous facade of the Paris Opera with the chaotic reality of being a dancer there. You can also see the ballet as a metaphor for the contrast between France’s elegant past, and the infinitely more complicated reality of being French today. The contrast is refreshing. It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 7:30pm. Through Sunday. From $45. 🇫🇷
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, gets busy at 9pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $25. 🇦🇷
Friday, October 10, 2025
Hispanic Gala
The 61st Hispanic Day Parade NYC 2025 Gala is on Friday, October 10, 2025.
Puerto Rican Theatre
“Los Soles Truncos,” René Marqués’ story about the pain of gentrification in Puerto Rico, told by three upper class sisters who feel that the Americans have taken everything from them; is in Spanish with English subtitles at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Friday, October 10, 2025 at 7pm. From $28. 🇵🇷
French Contemporary Ballet
Paris Opera Ballet, the resident dance company at the legendary Paris Opera, performs two-time Olivier Award-winner Hofesh Schechter’s “Red Carpet,” a full-length, contemporary ballet that contrasts the glamourous facade of the Paris Opera with the chaotic reality of being a dancer there. You can also see the ballet as a metaphor for the contrast between France’s elegant past, and the infinitely more complicated reality of being French today. The contrast is refreshing. It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, October 10, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $45. 🇫🇷
Contemporary Ballet
The Arpino Dance Festival pays tribute to the legacy of Italian American Joffrey Ballet co-founder Gerald Arpino with signature works including “Round of Angels,” “Light Rain,” and “Sea Shadow.” Dancers include renowned artists from Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet, and more. It’s at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, October 10, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $67. 🇺🇸
Dominican Dembow
Ángel Dior sings Dominican dembow at Salsa Con Fuego Dominican restaurant and lounge in Fordham Manor, The Bronx; on Friday, October 10, 2025 late (probably 2am). (10pm doors.) Free with RSVP before midnight. From $25 after. (Da me la trenta) 🇩🇴
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Panamanian Parade & Street Fair
Parade Assembly is on Franklin Ave at Bergen St in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at 9am. The Parade Opening Ceremony is at 10:30am. The 30th Panamanian Parade NYC celebrates Panamanian Independence by marching down Franklin Avenue from Bergen St, to the Panamanian Parade Street Fair on President St and Classon Avenue at Dr. Ronald McNair Park; in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 12 noon. It should end around 2:30pm. 🇵🇦
Latino Children’s Theatre
“The True Story of Little Red ~ La verdadera historia de Caperucita” is bilingual children’s theatre; at Teatro SEA in the Clemente Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; on Saturdays in October, 2025 at 3pm. $23. 🇵🇷
French Contemporary Ballet
Paris Opera Ballet, the resident dance company at the legendary Paris Opera, performs two-time Olivier Award-winner Hofesh Schechter’s “Red Carpet,” a full-length, contemporary ballet that contrasts the glamourous facade of the Paris Opera with the chaotic reality of being a dancer there. You can also see the ballet as a metaphor for the contrast between France’s elegant past, and the infinitely more complicated reality of being French today. The contrast is refreshing. It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $45. 🇫🇷
Contemporary Ballet
The Arpino Dance Festival pays tribute to the legacy of Italian American Joffrey Ballet co-founder Gerald Arpino with signature works including “Round of Angels,” “Light Rain,” and “Sea Shadow.” Dancers include renowned artists from Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet, and more. It’s at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 2pm and 7:30pm. From $67. 🇺🇸
Italian Festival Gala
The 81st Columbus Day Parade NYC 2025 Gala is a black-tie evening with music, dancing, and Italian food at Cipriani Wall Street, in Manhattan’s Financial District; on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at 6pm. From $1,500. 🇮🇹
Spanish Comedy Theatre
“La Ternura,” Alfredo Sanzol’s reality-showish Shakespearean Spanish comedy about three women trying to avoid the domination of men on a desert island; is in Spanish with English subtitles; at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at 7pm. From $28. 🇪🇸
Portuguese Fado
Amália in America – Beyond Fado is a tribute to Amália Rodriguez, the Queen of Fado, by the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jan Wierzba, featuring fado singers Cristina Branco, Raquel Tavares, and Ricardo Ribeiro. The concert includes Amália’s traditional fado and goes beyond with Broadway hits that she sang. It’s at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at 8pm. From $30. 🇵🇹
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Italian Festival
The 81st Columbus Day Parade NYC 2025 Wreath Laying is at Columbus Circle, Manhattan; on Sunday, October 12, 2025, at 9am. 🇮🇹
Indigenous Festival
The 11th Indigenous Peoples Day NYC 2025 Powwow opens in the Harlem River Event Area near the athletic track on Randall’s Island, Manhattan on Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10am. The Grand Entry at 12 noon is followed by intertribal drumming, dancing, cultural performances and talks by Indigenous advocates. Free with items for purchase. Overnight camping is available. 🇺🇸
Hispanic Parade
The 61st Hispanic Day Parade NYC 2025 Desfile de la Hispanidad New York marches up Fifth Avenue from 44th to 69th St, from Midtown/Midtown East to Central Park/Upper East Side; on Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12 noon. 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇶🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪
French Contemporary Ballet
Paris Opera Ballet, the resident dance company at the legendary Paris Opera, performs two-time Olivier Award-winner Hofesh Schechter’s “Red Carpet,” a full-length, contemporary ballet that contrasts the glamourous facade of the Paris Opera with the chaotic reality of being a dancer there. You can also see the ballet as a metaphor for the contrast between France’s elegant past, and the infinitely more complicated reality of being French today. The contrast is refreshing. It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 2pm. From $45. 🇫🇷
Contemporary Ballet
The Arpino Dance Festival pays tribute to the legacy of Italian American Joffrey Ballet co-founder Gerald Arpino with signature works including “Round of Angels,” “Light Rain,” and “Sea Shadow.” Dancers include renowned artists from Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet, and more. It’s at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 2pm. From $67. 🇺🇸
Uruguayan Comedy Theatre
“Radojka,” Uruguayan playwrights Fernando Schmidt and Christian Ibarzabal’s comedy about a dead 80-year old’s caregivers who pretend she is alive to keep their jobs. “If you die, I’ll kill you.” Directed by Leyma López. In Spanish with subtitles at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Sunday, October 12, 2025, at 3pm. From $28. 🇺🇾
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga 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 jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC This Week: October 13-19, 2025
Ongoing
Film Festival
The 63rd New York Film Festival 2025 (#NYFF63) brings international filmmakers, movie stars, and film lovers to red carpet premieres, screenings, Q&As, and talks at Lincoln Center and partner venues in each of NYC’s boroughs, for a little over two weeks from September 26 to October 13, 2025. 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇼 🇨🇮 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇵🇭
Monday, October 13, 2025
Indigenous Festival
The 11th Indigenous Peoples Day NYC 2025 Powwow closes in the Harlem River Event Area near the athletic track on Randall’s Island, Manhattan; with a tobacco and water ceremony followed by cultural performances and advocates on Indigenous Peoples Day, Monday, October 13, 2025, starting at sunrise which is about 7:05am. 🇺🇸
Italian Festival
The 81st Columbus Day Parade NYC 2025 Mass, is at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown East, Manhattan; on Columbus Day, Monday, October 13, 2025, at 9am. 🇮🇹
Italian Parade
The 81st Columbus Day Parade NYC 2025 celebrates Italian-American culture with over 100 marching groups on Fifth Avenue, from 47th St in Midtown/Midtown East, to 72nd St in Central Park/Upper East Side; on Columbus Day, Monday, October 13, 2025, from 11:30am – 3:30pm. You can also watch it on WABC-7 at 12noon. 🇮🇹
Big Band Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play big band 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 with DJs at 5pm. Salsa lesson at 7pm. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs and dance shows 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 (6pm line, 6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Vintage 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. 🇮🇹
Mexican Modern Dance
Limón Dance Company celebrates its 80th Anniversary with iconic Limón works “Chaconne” (1942), and a new staging of “The Emperor Jones” (1956). “Jamelgos,” a Diego Vega Solorza World Premiere, explores the legacy and future of queerness in Mexico; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 7:30pm. Through Sunday. There is a curtain chat on Wednesday, October 15. 🇲🇽 🏳️🌈
Bronx Standup Comedy
Rob Stapleton Celebrity Comedy Jam features the Bronx comic and friends at Salsa Con Fuego Dominican restaurant and lounge in Fordham Manor, The Bronx; on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 8pm. (5pm doors.) From $13. 🗽
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Food Festival
The Food Network New York City Wine and Food Festival 2025 (NYCWFF) features over 60 food and drink events, with over 300 chefs, vinters, and mixers, and celebrities including Colombian actress Sofia Vergara, Brooklyn Beckham, and rapper Ja Rule; in a benefit for the James Beard Foundation; over five days at the The Seaport in Manhattan’s Financial District; from Wednesday-Sunday, October 15-19, 2025. 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇪🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬
Contemporary Ballet
American Ballet Theatre presents “Twyla@60: A Tharp Celebration,” a tribute to the 84-year old American choreographer who created crossover ballet, or ballet danced to jazz or popular music. Though common now, Twyla Tharp was the pioneer. The program includes a Company Premiere of her “Sextet,” plus “Bach Partita,” and “Push Comes to Shove,” created for Baryshnikov and considered the iconic example of crossover ballet. It’s at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 7:30pm. There is a Post Performance Toast to the artist. The Season continues with various programs through November 1, 2025. From $47. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Mexican Modern Dance
Limón Dance Company celebrates its 80th Anniversary with iconic Limón works “Chaconne” (1942), and a new staging of “The Emperor Jones” (1956). “Jamelgos,” a Diego Vega Solorza World Premiere, explores the legacy and future of queerness in Mexico; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 7:30pm with a curtain chat. 🇲🇽 🏳️🌈
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Food Festival
The Food Network New York City Wine and Food Festival 2025 (NYCWFF) features over 60 food and drink events, with over 300 chefs, vinters, and mixers, and celebrities including Colombian actress Sofia Vergara, Brooklyn Beckham, and rapper Ja Rule; in a benefit for the James Beard Foundation; over five days at the The Seaport in Manhattan’s Financial District; from Wednesday-Sunday, October 15-19, 2025. 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇪🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬
Puerto Rican Theatre
“La gringa” is a classic comedy about a New York Puerto Rican who visits the island and thinks she knows everything Puerto Rican. “Ay bendito.” Even though people travel back and forth a lot, Island Puerto Rican life is very different from New York Puerto Rican life. By Carmen Rivera. Directed by René Buch. It’s at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 11am. From $37. 🇵🇷
World Music Benefit
World Music Institute’s 40th Anniversary Celebration honors Robert & Helene Browning, Tom & Kamala Buckner, David & Daisy Paradis, the late Tino Puri & Rajika Puri, plus honorary board members Javier Limón and Farah Siraj. Performances include Yacouba Sissoko and Arun Ramamurthy, Mehrnam Rastegari with Camila Celin and Roshni Samlal, and DJ Nickodemus. It’s at 150W17TH in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 6:30pm. $178. 🇮🇳 🇮🇷 🇲🇱 🗽
Mexican Modern Dance
Limón Dance Company celebrates its 80th Anniversary with iconic Limón works “Chaconne” (1942), and a new staging of “The Emperor Jones” (1956). “Jamelgos,” a Diego Vega Solorza World Premiere, explores the legacy and future of queerness in Mexico; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 7:30pm. 🇲🇽 🏳️🌈
Contemporary Ballet
American Ballet Theatre presents “Twyla@60: A Tharp Celebration,” a tribute to the 84-year old American choreographer who created crossover ballet, or ballet danced to jazz or popular music. Though common now, Twyla Tharp was the pioneer. The program includes a Company Premiere of her “Sextet,” plus “Bach Partita,” and “Push Comes to Shove,” created for Baryshnikov and considered the iconic example of crossover ballet. It’s at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $47. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
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, gets busy at 9pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $25. 🇦🇷
Friday, October 17, 2025
Food Festival
The Food Network New York City Wine and Food Festival 2025 (NYCWFF) features over 60 food and drink events, with over 300 chefs, vinters, and mixers, and celebrities including Colombian actress Sofia Vergara, Brooklyn Beckham, and rapper Ja Rule; in a benefit for the James Beard Foundation; over five days at the The Seaport in Manhattan’s Financial District; from Wednesday-Sunday, October 15-19, 2025. 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇪🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬
Day of the Dead & Halloween Theatre
Days of the Dead Festival of independent Fringe Theatre on themes of the Day of the Dead, Halloween, and Samhain; is at the Under St Marks Theater in Manhattan’s East Village; from October 17 to November 2, 2025. $25. 🎃
Dominican Theatre
“En el tiempo de las mariposas,” is the story of the Dominican Mirabal Sisters “Las Mariposas,” who supported a rebellion until they were murdered by the dictator Trujillo. Adapted by Caridad Svich from the Julia Álvarez novel. Directed by José Zayas. In Spanish with subtitles at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 11am. From $37. 🇩🇴
Jazz Festival
BRIC JazzFest presents jazz trumpeter Chief Adjuah, Adrian Younge, South African jazz vocalist Yuyo Sotashe & Chris Pattishall, Moroccan electronic Gnawa group Saha Gnawa, Ethiopian jazz singer Meklit Hadero, and Israeli blues guitarist Dida Pelled at BRIC House in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Friday, October 17, 2025, with 5:30pm doors. Continues Sunday. From $63. 🇺🇸 🇪🇹 🇮🇱 🇲🇦 🇿🇦
Chamber Music
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performs a pair of Romantic piano quintets by Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel and French composer George Onslow; in the Repertory Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos Community College in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Friday, October 17, 2025. FREE with rsvp.
Black and Latin Chamber Music
Sphinx Virtuosi, a chamber of orchestra of Black and Latin artists, plays a concert dedicated to visions of peace, featuring works by Assad, Lafitte, Prokofiev, a Xavier Blache commission, Still, and Ginastera; featuring cello soloist Sterling Elliott; on the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 7pm. From $30. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺
Spanish Flamenco Show
Siudy Garrido “BAILAORA” Flamenco Reimagined is the Lincoln Center debut of one of America’s most important flamenco dancers; in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 7:30pm. 🇪🇸 🇻🇪
Garrido says, “my feet are my voice.” Those feet are 2-time Latin Grammy nominees. It’s incredible that a Flamenco dancer could be nominated for a music award. She is one of the few flamenco artists to produce flamenco shows for the world’s grand stages in front of a symphony orchestra. Don’t miss this chance to see the most important flamenco dancer in the United States, and her company.
Mexican Modern Dance
Limón Dance Company celebrates its 80th Anniversary with iconic Limón works “Chaconne” (1942), and a new staging of “The Emperor Jones” (1956). “Jamelgos,” a Diego Vega Solorza World Premiere, explores the legacy and future of queerness in Mexico; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 7:30pm. 🇲🇽 🏳️🌈
Ballet
American Ballet Theatre’s Master Choreographers program presents three choreographer’s iconic works: Michel Fokin’s “Les Sylphides,” Antony Tudor’s comic “Gala Performance,” and Agnes de Mille’s “Rodeo” at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $47. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Colombian Festival
Festival de las Flores, is a Silleteros party, in which walkers carry giant flower bouquets attached to chairs on their backs, in the old Medellin, Colombia tradition. This show features Colombian cumbia by Gabriel “Rumba” Romero and comedy by Don Sincero & El Arriero del Café, and an appearance by legendary Colombian football goalkeeper René Higuita (“todo bien, todo bien”); at BarCode Entertainment Complex in Elizabeth, New Jersey; on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 8pm. From $83. 🇨🇴
Cuban Reggaeton
Almighty (Alejandro Mosqueda Paz) sings Cuban reggaeton at Salsa Con Fuego Dominican restaurant and lounge; on Friday, October 17, 2025. 🇨🇺
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Indigenous Parade
The 4th National Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Parade 2025 lines up in Madison Square Park at 26th St in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, at 9am, with an opening ceremony featuring drummer Red Thunder Bear at 10am. The Parade marches through traditional Lenape hunting grounds, down Broadway to 17th St at Union Square; on Saturday, October 18, 2025, from 12-2pm. The closing ceremony features Pueblo Nation Apache Crown Dancers. FREE. 🇺🇸
If you are a photographer, don’t miss this. There are beautiful authentic costumes that will blow your mind. One of the things that strikes me about the Parade is the Indigenous and African mix. Our ancestors both escaped the colonizers by hiding in the mountains and forests. There we mixed together and that is true throughout the Americas. It’s a beautiful mix.
Food Festival
The Food Network New York City Wine and Food Festival 2025 (NYCWFF) features over 60 food and drink events, with over 300 chefs, vinters, and mixers, and celebrities including Colombian actress Sofia Vergara, Brooklyn Beckham, and rapper Ja Rule; in a benefit for the James Beard Foundation; over five days at the The Seaport in Manhattan’s Financial District; from Wednesday-Sunday, October 15-19, 2025. 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇪🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬
Ballet
American Ballet Theatre’s Master Choreographers program presents three choreographer’s iconic works: Michel Fokin’s “Les Sylphides,” Antony Tudor’s comic “Gala Performance,” and Agnes de Mille’s “Rodeo” at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 2pm. From $47. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Jazz Festival
BRIC JazzFest on its closing night presents jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater Quartet, British saxophonist Nubya Garcia, psychedelic soul singer Adrian Younge, Detroit jazz bassist Endea Owens & The Cookout, jazz drummer Karriem Riggins, Afro-Cuban jazz singers OKAN, and the New Jazz Underground; at BRIC House in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Saturday, October 18, 2025, with 6pm doors. From $62. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇺
Spanish Theatre
“La golondrina” is the story of a young man who wants to learn to sing, but learns much more from his teacher. By Guillem Clua, Directed by Ismanuel Rodríguez. In Spanish with subtitles at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 7pm. From $28. 🇪🇸
Mexican Modern Dance
Limón Dance Company celebrates its 80th Anniversary with iconic Limón works “Chaconne” (1942), and a new staging of “The Emperor Jones” (1956). “Jamelgos,” a Diego Vega Solorza World Premiere, explores the legacy and future of queerness in Mexico; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 2pm and 7:30pm. 🇲🇽 🏳️🌈
Mexican Festival
Mano a Mano, the Mexican culture organization, produces a Day of the Dead / Día de Muertos celebration with a community altar, art workshops, music by Linda EPO, and a pop-up shop of Mexican crafts; at the Hispanic Society museum in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Saturday, October 18, 2025, from 3-6pm. FREE. 🇲🇽
Contemporary Ballet
American Ballet Theatre presents “Twyla@60: A Tharp Celebration,” a tribute to the 84-year old American choreographer who created crossover ballet, or ballet danced to jazz or popular music. Though common now, Twyla Tharp was the pioneer. The program includes a Company Premiere of her “Sextet,” plus “Bach Partita,” and “Push Comes to Shove,” created for Baryshnikov and considered the iconic example of crossover ballet. It’s at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $47. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Spanish Flamenco Scholarship Audition
The Flamenco Certamen USA Finals, the U.S. flamenco scholarship audition, is produced by Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana; in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space in Manhattan’s Upper West Side; on Saturday, October 18, 2025, at 7pm. $53. It can also be livestreamed for $23. 🇪🇸
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Food Festival
The Food Network New York City Wine and Food Festival 2025 (NYCWFF) features over 60 food and drink events, with over 300 chefs, vinters, and mixers, and celebrities including Colombian actress Sofia Vergara, Brooklyn Beckham, and rapper Ja Rule; in a benefit for the James Beard Foundation; over five days at the The Seaport in Manhattan’s Financial District; from Wednesday-Sunday, October 15-19, 2025. 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇪🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬
Dog Parade
The 35th Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade 2025 is on Avenue B along Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan’s East Village. This year there is a street fair on 6th St, between Avenue A and Avenue B. It’sall on Sunday, October 19, 2025, from 1-4pm. FREE to watch. Fee to join the Parade. 🎃
Mexican Modern Dance
Limón Dance Company celebrates its 80th Anniversary with iconic Limón works “Chaconne” (1942), and a new staging of “The Emperor Jones” (1956). “Jamelgos,” a Diego Vega Solorza World Premiere, explores the legacy and future of queerness in Mexico; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 2pm. 🇲🇽 🏳️🌈
Ballet
American Ballet Theatre’s Master Choreographers program presents three choreographer’s iconic works: Michel Fokin’s “Les Sylphides,” Antony Tudor’s comic “Gala Performance,” and Agnes de Mille’s “Rodeo” at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 2pm. From $47. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Dominican Theatre
“La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao,” is Marco Antonio Rodríquez’ adaptation of Junot Díaz’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a New Jersey Dominican college kid who dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but fears that he suffers from the fukú curse, a legacy of the Dominican colonizers. Its in Spanish with subtitles at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; on Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 3pm. From $28.🇩🇴
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga 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 jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC This Week: October 20-26, 2025
Monday, October 20, 2025
South Asian & West Indian Festival
Diwali, the South Asian festival of lights that is also celebrated in the West Indies, peaks on Monday, October 20, 2025. 🇬🇾 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🗽 🇸🇷 🇹🇹
Big Band Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play big band 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 with DJs at 5pm. Salsa lesson at 7pm. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs and dance shows 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 (6pm line, 6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Vintage 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, October 22, 2025
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Ballet
American Ballet Theatre’s Master Choreographers program presents three choreographer’s iconic works: Michel Fokin’s “Les Sylphides,” Antony Tudor’s comic “Gala Performance,” and Agnes de Mille’s “Rodeo” at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $47. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Dominican Film Festival
The 14th Dominican Film Festival New York 2025 opens with a red carpet screening of “Los Rechazados” (The Rejected), a wonderful comedy about a group of Dominicans rejected by society who are recruited for a secret submarine mission to save the world, at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 8:30pm. Continues through Tuesday. From $34. 🇩🇴
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, gets busy at 9pm, performances around 11pm, and “El Choclo” (last dance) around 2am. $25. 🇦🇷
Friday, October 24, 2025
Dominican Film Festival
The 14th Dominican Film Festival New York 2025 continues at Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights, and AMC Empire 25 in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. From $10. 🇩🇴
Mexican Dance (Day of the Dead)
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Día de Muertos” dance theatre brings the Mexican Day of the Dead family tradition to life; at Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Friday-Saturday, October 24-25, 2025 at 7:30pm, and Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 2pm & 6pm. From $25. There is also a VIP Reception (awesome for photographers) on Sunday, October 26 at 4pm for $100, including the show. This production is so good, it should be on Broadway. 🇲🇽
Contemporary Ballet
American Ballet Theatre presents “Twyla@60: A Tharp Celebration,” a tribute to the 84-year old American choreographer who created crossover ballet, or ballet danced to jazz or popular music. Though common now, Twyla Tharp was the pioneer. The program includes a Company Premiere of her “Sextet,” plus “Bach Partita,” and “Push Comes to Shove,” created for Baryshnikov and considered the iconic example of crossover ballet. It’s at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; on Friday, October 24, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $47. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Dominican Film Festival
The 14th Dominican Film Festival New York 2025 continues at Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights, and AMC Empire 25 in Hell’s Kitchen. From $10. 🇩🇴
Mexican Dance (Day of the Dead)
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Día de Muertos” dance theatre brings the Mexican Day of the Dead family tradition to life; at Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $25. This production is so good, it should be on Broadway. 🇲🇽
Puerto Rican Hip Hop Dance
Full Circle Souljahs’ “25 and Still Gettin’ Live” reunites the Bronx street dance crew led by renowned Puerto Rican dance duo Gabriel “Kwikstep” Dionisio and Ana “Rokafella” Garcia for a 25th Anniversary performance of “Thief of Hearts.” It’s in the Repertory Theater at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 7:30pm. From $25. Students/Children $5. 🇵🇷
Hip hop was created by Black kids in the Bronx, but a lot of those kids were Puerto Rican. They brought their family’s bomba Puertorriqueño traditions and their parents’ Palladium Ballroom moves into hip hop. The hip hop dance circle is the bomba batey. Dancers enter the batey and salute the audience just like we do in bomba. Even hip hop’s iconic crossed-arms stance is a bomba dance move. In bomba songs, we improvise lyrics just like rappers. Hip hop is loved around the world now, but it all started here once upon a time in the South Bronx. ¡WEPA!
Dominican Dembow
El Alfa “El Último Baile World Tour” brings “El Jefe” (the boss), who most people consider the top Dominican dembow artist, to the United Palace theater in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 8pm (6:30pm doors). From $80. 🇩🇴
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Spanish La Liga Soccer
Watch El Clásico Real Madrid vs FC Barcelona; with Peña Madridista NYC at Playwright Irish Pub in Manhattan’s Garment District; or Penya FC Barcelona NYC at Smithfield Hall NYC in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 11:15am. 🇪🇸
Dominican Film Festival
The 14th Dominican Film Festival New York 2025 continues at Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights, and AMC Empire 25 in Hell’s Kitchen. From $10. 🇩🇴
Mexican Dance (Day of the Dead)
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Día de Muertos” dance theatre brings the Mexican Day of the Dead family tradition to life; at Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 2pm and 6pm. From $25. There is also a VIP Reception (awesome for photographers) at 4pm for $100, including the show. This production is so good, it should be on Broadway. 🇲🇽
Argentine Tango Dance Party
El Destino milonga 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 jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (Doors 7:30pm & 10pm). From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC This Week: October 27-31, 2025
International Creole Day, Jounen Kwéyòl, Celebrates the Rich Multicultural Heritage of the West Indies and the Caribbean 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇬🇫 🇬🇾 🇭🇹 🇱🇨 🇹🇹 🇺🇳
St Jude Thaddeus is the Patron Saint of Lost Causes 🇮🇹
Maradona, One of the Greatest Soccer Players of All Time, Played with The Hand of God 🇦🇷
All Saints Day, Día de los Inocentes, Honors All Saints and Child Souls 🇮🇹
Monday, October 27, 2025
Dominican Film Festival
The 14th Dominican Film Festival New York 2025 continues at Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights, AMC Empire 25 in Hell’s Kitchen, and at Bronx Music Hall in Melrose, The Bronx. From $10. 🇩🇴
Big Band Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play big band 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 with DJs at 5pm. Salsa lesson at 7pm. Live music for dancing at 9pm and 11pm with DJs and dance shows 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 (6pm line, 6:30pm doors and signup). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Dominican Film Festival
The 14th Dominican Film Festival New York 2025 ends with the closing night screening of “Carlota la Mas Barrial,” about a woman (played in drag by urban singer Carasaf Sanchez) who unites her barrio against a group of tigueres (gangsters) who want to take control. It’s at AMC Empire 25 in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. $34. 🇩🇴
Men may take the stage and take the credit, but like everywhere else, it’s women who really manage the community. Barrios in the Dominican Republic may be poorer than anything you’ve ever seen, but they tend to be better organized and more unified than wealthy neighborhoods. It’s a paradox that the rich have money, but the poor have everything else.
Vintage 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. 🇮🇹
Mexican Day of the Dead & European All Saints Day
The 3rd “The Muse: Offerings to the Ancestors” turns the Grand Foyer into a giant community altar (ofrenda) in celebration of the Mexican Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) and the European All Saints Day traditions; at the United Palace theater in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, from 7-8:30pm (6:30pm doors). Free with rsvp.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Indigenous Jazz Film Score
Mali Obamsawin, the Indigenous jazz bassist and composer (Odanak First Nation), plays her score of the “Sugarcane” documentary about the long-term abuse and disappearance of Indigenous children at St. Joseph’s Mission, a notorious Catholic school (1886-1957) near the Sugarcane Reservation of Williams Lake in British Columbia, Canada. The screening for the World Music Institute is at Roulette, the experimental theater in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn; on Thursday, October 30, 2025 at 8pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
Friday, October 31, 2025
Happy Halloween!
Halloween Parade
The 34th Jackson Heights Halloween Parade marches down 37th Avenue, from 89th to 76th St in Jackson Heights, Queens; on Friday, October 31, 2025, at 5pm. 🎃
Halloween Ballet
American Ballet Theatre presents a special halloween program that includes Vietnamese French Soloist Léa Fleytoux and Argentine Principal Herman Cornejo dancing Ashton’s “Rhapsody” which was choreographed for Baryshnikov; at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; on Friday, October 31, 2025 at 7:30pm. 🇫🇷 🇦🇷