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May 17 – Sep 22, 2019, Closed Tuesdays
MEATPACKING DISTRICT, NYC ~ The survey of the latest developments in U.S. art includes work by artists with an Argentine, Colombian, French, Indigenous, Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage
More Latin Books
Monday, November 11, 2019
PANAMA CITY, Panama ~ The author of ‘The Death of Artemio Cruz’ (1962), ‘Terra Nostra’ (1975), and ‘The Old Gringo’ (1985) was born on November 11, 1928
HARLEM, Fri-Sat, Jan 17-18, 2020 (unconfirmed) ~ Harlem is Wakanda this weekend. Buy, sell, learn, watch or show your stuff at this family festival.
# african comic book festival cosplay
Friday, March 6, 2020
ARACATACA, Colombia ~ The Nobel Prize-winning author and leading writer of Magical Realism was born on March 6, 1927
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)
More Latin broadway
Open run. Dark Mondays
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, NYC ~ Puerto Rican New Yorker Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights) wrote the Broadway hit of our generation at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
Open-ended run. Dark Wednesdays.
TIMES SQUARE, NYC ~ Puerto Rican Broadway legend Chita Rivera originated the role of bad girl Velma Kelly. Italian-American Liza Minnelli played the good girl Roxie Hart in the original production.
Ongoing, dark Sundays
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT ~ The longest-running show in Broadway history is at the Majestic Theatre
PREVIEWS Dec 10, 2019
OPENS Feb 6, 2020
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT ~ One of the great love stories, one of the great New York stories, ‘West Side Story’ comes to the Broadway Theatre. “I want to live in America”
More Latin off-broadway
Sunday, September 8, 2019
KIPS BAY, NYC ~ Cuban director Leyma López created a Spanish-language adaptation of Eduardo de Filippo’s classic Neapolitan comedy which inspired the movie ‘Marriage Italian Style’. At Repertorio Español.
Friday, September 20, 2019
KIPS BAY, NYC ~ Cuban playwright Leyma López renews the classic Spanish tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas (1499) whose critique of the moral rot of medieval Spanish society can also reflect contemporary times
Sat-Sun, September 21-22, 2019
KIPS BAY, NYC ~ Colombian stand-up comic Saulo makes us laugh (in Spanish) at being Latin AND American of the United States
September 7-22, 2019
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ A Colombian director and his theatre company explore how in the age of the internet and social media, actually communicating has become harder than threading a needle. In Spanish with English subtltles.
More Latin celebration
Monday, September 2, 2019
This U.S. holiday celebrates organized labor and is the unofficial end of summer
Fri-Mon, Aug 30 – Sep 2, 2019
The long weekend that celebrates the U.S. labor movement is also the unofficial end of summer
Saturday, September 7, 2019
SÃO PAULO ~ Brazil’s national day celebrates Dom Pedro I’s declaration of independence from Portugal on September 7, 1821
Sunday, September 8, 2019
El COBRE, Cuba ~ La Cachita is a beloved symbol of the Cuban people
More Latin dance
September 17-21, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER ~ NYC Ballet opens its 2019-20 season with the first full-length abstract ballet. Emeralds, Rubies and Diamonds were never so lovely at the David H. Koch Theater.
September 17 – Oct 13, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER ~ New leadership, Lovette and Liang premieres, a centennial tribute to modern dance legend Merce Cunningham, and Brazilian Soloist Jovani Furlan at the David H. Koch Theater
More Latin dancing
Friday, September 6, 2019
EL BARRIO, EAST HARLEM, NYC ~ It’s a special edition White Party at Artspace PS109
Thursdays
CHELSEA, NYC ~ Argentine tango dancing at NYC’s most traditional milonga (tango party) at La Nacional, the Spanish social club that is New York’s oldest social club
Saturdays, June-September
CENTRAL PARK, NYC ~ Argentine tango dancing in the summer is so romantic! FREE
Wednesdays & Sundays, April-November
WEST VILLAGE, NYC ~ Argentine tango dancing on a pier with romantic Hudson river views
More Latin FASHION
Midtown East (Flagship)
SoHo & Battery Park City stores
Bloomingdale’s, Upper East Side
Macy’s, Garment District
Saks Fifth Avenue, Midtown East
Hubert de Givenchy passed away near Paris on March 10, 2018.
Givenchy New York
747 Madison Avenue
(at 65th St)
Upper East Side, Manhattan
Open daily
772 Madison Avenue
(at 66th St)
Upper East Side, Manhattan
Closed Sundays
Upper East Side
Midtown East
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Legendary Italian fashion
More Latin food
Monday, October 28, 2019
Chocolate, made from cocoa, is native to the upper Amazon of Colombia and Venezuela. It was domesticated in Guatemala and Mexico. Spanish priests took it to Europe.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Taste the fruit in this season’s Beaujolais by drinking it chilled right after it is bottled
Friday, April 17, 2020
Argentine wine
A global celebration of the popular Argentine red wine
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Enjoy the spirit of the Caribbean with Cuban, Dominican or Puerto Rican rum
More Latin movies
Wednesday-Sunday, July 24 – August 11, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER & CONCOURSE, THE BRONX ~ Lincoln Center’s summer festival includes African, Cuban, Dominican, Honduran, Indigenous, Jewish, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, & Spanish music, dance, film and word for FREE
More Latin music
Thu-Mon, Aug 29-Sep 2, 2019
LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Reggae Afrobeats Soca
Summer Jam Youth Fest
BrassFest
Junior Carnival Parade
Panorama Steelband Championship
Dimanche Gras Carnival Sunday Party
VIP Breakfast
Parade
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn ~ The Brooklyn Museum and the Parade on Eastern Avenue turns the neighborhood into a Caribbean Carnival
Friday, September 6, 2019
EL BARRIO, EAST HARLEM, NYC ~ It’s a special edition White Party at Artspace PS109
Saturday, September 7, 2019
PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn ~ Winner of the 2018 Latin Grammy for “Best Tango Album” plays Argentine tango at Barbès
Saturday, September 7, 2019
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ The famous Cuban nueva trova singer who was part of Yerba Buena and played Celia Cruz Off-Broadway, is in duo with timba pianist Axel Tosca (Unity) at Zinc Bar
More Latin sports
Fri-Sun, September 6-8, 2019
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens ~ Major League Baseball with Dominican, Italian, Puerto Rican & Venezuelan Mets
Daily, Aug 26 – Sep 8, 2019
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens ~ Reigning champion Djokovic is still the man to beat. Nadal challenges. Osaka is favorite over Halep.
Tue-Thu, September 17-19, 2019
CONCOURSE, The Bronx ~ It’s the last weeks of the regular season
Sunday, September 22, 2019
HARRISON, New Jersey ~ Watch Red Bulls vs Philadelphia Union Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena