February 2017 Latin Things to do in NYC

Latin things to do in February include Carnival, Broadway Week, Off-Broadway Week, New York Fashion Week, NYC Restaurant Week, Valentine’s Day, and Dominican Independence Day. It’s Black History Month.

New York Fashion Week Men’s continues through February 2, 2017.

NYC Restaurant Week continues through February 10, 2017.

Wednesday, February 1

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay performs Spanish drama El Quijote.

Brazilian dance band <a “title=”Forró in the Dark” href=”/forro-in-the-dark/”>Forró in the Dark plays its weekly Wednesday residency at Nublu in the East Village with sets at 9 & 11pm.

Thursday, February 2

Western Christians celebrate the Feast of Candlemas.

Celebrate the birthday of Shakira, Colombia’s biggest pop star in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1977.

Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa “Silence” opens at Galerie Lelong in Chelsea, 6-8pm. The exhibition continues through March 11, 2017.

The Colombians Adriana Salgado Neira y Daniel Martinez Cadavid take over Tango La Nacional in Chelsea from 9pm-Late

Cuban Jazz pianist Axel Tosca Laugart plays Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village from 9pm to 1am.

Friday, February 3

Celebrate the birthday of the father of Reggaeton Daddy Yankee in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico on February 3, 1977.

La Serenissima music and arts from the Venetian Republic, a festival of Venetian culture, is at Carnegie Hall and other venues February 3-21, 2017

The Dance on Camera Festival opens at Film Society of Lincoln Center. The Festival is February 3-7.

Catalan Spaniard Jordi Savall leads “The Millenarian Venice: Gateway to the East,” a musical tour through the thousand year history of the Venetian Republic, as part of La Serenissima festival at Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage on Friday, February 3, 2017 at 7:30pm.

Argentine Tango Jazz bassist and leader Pedro Giraudo brings his Tango Ensemble to Joe’s Pub with special guest vocalist Sofia Tosello at 7:30pm.

Argentine tenor Marcelo Álvarez, French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine, and soprano Janai Brugger star in Georges Bizet’s French opera Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center at 8pm.

Saturday, February 4

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay performs Latin musical comedy La Canción at 8pm.

Sunday, February 5

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay performs Spanish comedy Burundanga at 2:30pm.

Cuban multi-Grammy® winners Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays their weekly gig at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen at 9 & 11pm.

NYC Broadway Week ends.

Tuesday, February 7

The Dance on Camera Festival closes at Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Argentine tenor Marcelo Álvarez, French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine, and French soprano Sophie Koch star in Georges Bizet’s French opera Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center at 7:30pm.

Brazilian pop star Marcos Valle plays Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen with special guest Celso Fonseco Tuesday-Saturday February 7-11, 2017 with shows at 8:30 & 11pm.

Cuban rumbero Pedrito Martinez plays his Tuesdays residency at Subrosa in the Meatpacking District with sets at 7 & 9pm.

Afterwards stay for the Salsa On2’Sdays dance party.

Wednesday, February 8

Brazilian dance band Forró in the Dark plays its weekly Wednesday residency at Nublu in the East Village with sets at 9 & 11pm.

Boston’s Soul Clap join the legendary New York Puerto Rican DJ Louie Vega at his weekly Roots NYC party at Cielo in the Meatpacking District from 10pm-4am.

Thursday, February 9

New York Fashion Week Women’s is February 9-16, 2017.

Watch Spanish Principal dancer Joaquin De Luz dance Prince Désiré in the New York City Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty at 7:30pm.

Cuban rumbero Pedrito Martinez joins Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez in a duo at the Jazz Standard, February 9-10, 2017 with sets at 7:30 & 9:30pm.

Mexican mixed media and performance artist Raúl de Nieves is joined by Colin Self in The Fool, a four-act chamber opera for chorus and string ensemble at The Kitchen in Chelsea, February 9-11 at 8pm. $15

Cuban Jazz pianist Axel Tosca Laugart plays Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village from 9pm to 1am.

Argentine Tango Jazz bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo brings his Tango Ensemble to Terraza 7 in Elmhurst/Jackson Heights, Queens at 9pm.

Friday, February 10

NYC Restaurant Week ends.

Star Mexican tenor Javier Camarena is Arturo in Bellini’s Italian opera I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera at 7:30pm.

Watch Spanish Soloist Antonio Carmena dance a court jester in the New York City Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty at 8pm.

Saturday, February 11

Venice Carnival is Feb 11-28, 2017.

Argentine tenor Marcelo Álvarez, French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine, and French soprano Sophie Koch star in Georges Bizet’s French opera Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center at 1pm.

Spanish Flamenco institution Javier Limón explores the Jewish, Arabic, and Gypsy origins of Flamenco at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center in the Upper West Side at 7:30pm.

Dances of Vice presents the Venetian Valentine Commedia Masked Ball, a Venetian Carnival experience, at the Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn from 8pm – 1am. $60-$450 www.DancesOfVice.com

New Dominican play En el Nombre de Salomé opens at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay at 8pm.

Lehman Center’s all Puerto Rican Valentines concert line up is Maelo Ruiz, Tito Rojas, Giro Lopez, and Nino Segarra, Saturday, February 11, 2017 at 8pm.

Cuban Salsa band Gerardo Contino y los Habaneros plays a free concert at BAMCafe in Brooklyn from 9:30-10:30pm.

Sunday, February 12

Carnival season officially begins.

LAST CHANCE to see Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer at the Met Fifth Avenue (2018).

Dance on Camera Festival is at Film Society of Lincoln Center February 12-16, 2017.

Watch Spanish Principal dancer Joaquin De Luz dance Prince Désiré in the New York City Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty at 1pm.

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay presents the new Dominican play En el Nombre de Salomé at 2:30 & 6pm.

Catalan Spaniard Jordi Savall leads his early music ensemble Hespèrion XXI in “Musica Nova: Venetian Influences in Musical Europe” at Zankel Hall on Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 3pm.

Watch Spanish Soloist Antonio Carmena dance a court jester in the New York City Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty at 7pm.

Cuban multi-Grammy® winners Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays their weekly gig at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen at 9 & 11pm.

59th Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast on CBS at 8pm.

New York Fashion Week Women’s continues through Thursday, February 16, 2017.

Monday, February 13

2-for-1 Off-Broadway Week tickets go on sale for select Off-Broadway shows February 27 – March 12.

The Venezuelan-American with the best taste in fashion Carolina Herrera is showing her Fall 2017 collection at 10am. You can watch the show live at www.NowFashion.com

The Chilean minimalist Zero + Maria Cornejo shows her Fall collection at Pier 59 studios at 5:30pm. You can watch the show live at www.NowFashion.com

Tuesday, February 14

It’s Valentine’s Day. Yay or Oh or Yay!

Watch a fashion show of Latin American designers at Uptown Fashion Week at the Skyline Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen starting with a red carpet at 6pm and ending with Spanish designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada at 8:30pm.

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay presents the new Dominican play En el Nombre de Salomé at 7pm.

Cuban rumbero Pedrito Martinez plays his Tuesdays residency at Subrosa in the Meatpacking District with sets at 7 & 9pm. Afterwards stay for the Salsa On2’Sdays dance party.

Argentine electronica-dub-pop singer-songwriter Federico Aubele plays Joe’s Pub in the East Village at 7:30pm.

Star Mexican tenor Javier Camarena is Arturo in Bellini’s Italian opera I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera at 7:30pm.

Puerto Rican multi-Grammy nominee, Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón plays the Village Vanguard February 14-19, 2017.

Cuban-American modernist Narciso Rodriguez shows at SIR Stage37 at 8pm. You can watch the show live at www.NowFashion.com

Wednesday, February 15

Argentine tenor Marcelo Álvarez, French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine, and French soprano Sophie Koch star in Georges Bizet’s French opera Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center at 7:30pm.

Brazilian dance band Forró in the Dark plays its weekly Wednesday residency at Nublu in the East Village with sets at 9 & 11pm.

The legendary New York Puerto Rican DJ Louie Vega spins his weekly Roots NYC party at Cielo in the Meatpacking District from 10pm-4am.

Thursday, February 16

It’s the Day Without Immigrants, a nationwide grass-roots strike to protest the President’s anti-immigrant policies.

Tickets go on sale for the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema film festival at Film Society of Lincoln Center March 1-12, 2017.

It’s opening night for Grammy-winning Argentine-American mezzo soprano Isabel Leonard in her role as Charlotte in Massenet’s French opera Werther at the Metropolitan Opera at 7:30pm.

Spaniard Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in the Brahms Requiem at Carnegie Hall at 8pm.

Berlin-based Mexican sound artist Mario de Vega performs at Issue Project Room in Downtown Brooklyn at 8pm.

Cuban Jazz pianist Axel Tosca Laugart plays Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village from 9pm to 1am.

Friday, February 17

Wild Noise / Ruido Salvaje, an exhibition of Cuban art from the 1970s to the present, is at the Bronx Museum from February 17 to July 3, 2017.

NYC’s Colombian Cumbia Jazz King Gregorio Uribe plays Subrosa in the Meatpacking District at 8 & 10pm.

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay presents the new Dominican play En el Nombre de Salomé at 8pm.

Saturday, February 18

Star Mexican tenor Javier Camarena is Arturo in Bellini’s Italian opera I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera at 1pm.

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay performs Spanish drama El Quijote at 3pm, and Dominican drama En el Nombre de Salomé at 8pm.

Last chance to see Argentine tenor Marcelo Álvarez, French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine, and French soprano Sophie Koch star in Georges Bizet’s French opera Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center at 8pm.

The extremely danceable Caribbean Afro-Colombian band Grupo Rebolu plays SOBs in Tribeca at 8pm.

Argentine Tango Jazz bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo brings his Tango Quartet to Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn at 9pm.

Italian-Spanish-Portuguese actor and Tony Award nominee Santino Fontana sings the American Songbook in The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center at 8:30pm

Sunday, February 19

Celebrate the birthday of actor Benicio del Toro in San Germán, Puerto Rico in 1967.

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay performs Latin musical comedy La Canción at 2:30pm.

Cuban multi-Grammy® winner Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays their weekly gig at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen at 9 & 11pm.

Monday, February 20

Scholarship applications for the National Puerto Rican Day Parade are due.

Grammy-winning Argentine-American mezzo soprano Isabel Leonard sings Charlotte in Massenet’s French opera Werther at the Metropolitan Opera at 7:30pm.

Tuesday, February 21

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay performs the classic Dominican drama En el Tiempo de las Mariposas at 11am.

Cuban rumbero Pedrito Martinez plays his Tuesdays residency at Subrosa in the Meatpacking District with sets at 7 & 9pm.

Afterwards stay for the Salsa On2’Sdays dance party.

Wednesday, February 22

Celebrate the birthday of legendary filmmaker Luis Buñuel in Calanda, Spain in 1900.

Star Mexican tenor Javier Camarena is Arturo in Bellini’s Italian opera I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera at 7:30pm.

Brazilian dance band Forró in the Dark plays its weekly Wednesday residency at Nublu in the East Village with sets at 9 & 11pm.

Thursday, February 23

Brazilian master illusionist Vik Muniz opens a solo show Epistemes at Sikkema Jenkins & Co in Chelsea from 6-8pm. The show is up February 23 – April 1, 2017.

The FAMA Premios Latinos (Latin Fame Awards) are at Queens Theatre in the Park at 7pm. www.famapremioslatinos.com

Italian-American pop singer Ariana Grande brings her Dangerous Woman Tour to Madison Square Garden Thursday-Friday, February 23-24, 2017 at 7:30pm.

Univision’s Premios Lo Nuestro (Our Thing Awards) is broadcast live from American Airlines Arena in Miami.

Friday, February 24

Rio Carnival in Brazil is February 24-28.

Latin History for Morons by Colombian comedian John Leguizamo opens at the Public Theater in the East Village. The show runs February 24 – April 23, 2017.

The New York International Children’s Film Festival is February 24-March 19. www.nyicff.org

The Cinema Tropical Festival opens at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens with Tatiana Huezo’s Mexican documentary Tempestad at 7pm.

Cuban rumbero Pedrito Martinez plays a free concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 7:30pm.

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay presents the new Dominican play En el Nombre de Salomé at 8pm.

Buika, the Queen of Afro-Spanish Flamenco Soul, sings at BB Kings Blues Club in Midtown at 8pm.

Saturday, February 25

Barranquilla Carnival in Colombia is February 25-28, 2017.

LAST CHANCE to see Mexican photographer Flor Garduño at Throckmorton Fine Art in Midtown East.

Portuguese Fado sensation Gisela Joáo brings her “Nua” tour to Schimmel Center in the Financial District at 7:30pm

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay performs the new Dominican play En el Nombre de Salomé at 3pm and Spanish comedy Burundanga at 8pm.

Star Mexican tenor Javier Camarena is Arturo in Bellini’s Italian opera I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera at 8pm.

Sunday, February 26

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay presents the new Dominican play En el Nombre de Salomé at 2:30pm.

Gabriel Mascaro’s Brazilian rodeo love story Neon Bull, Cinema Tropical Award winner for “Best Feature Film,” screens at the Museum of the Moving Image at 5pm.

See whether Latin artists win Oscars for Arrival, Jackie, Elle, and Moana at the 89th Academy Awards in Hollywood, broadcast live on ABC at 8:30pm.

Cuban multi-Grammy® winners Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays their weekly gig at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen at 9 & 11pm.

Two-time world champion DJ duo DJ Ride & Stereossauro, the BeatBombers make their New York debut for the NY Fado Festival at Joe’s Pub in the East Village at 9:30pm.

It’s Armory Week a week of art fairs in New York City.

Monday, February 27

Celebrate Dominican Independence Day from Haiti in 1844.

Off-Broadway Week is February 27 – March 12. Tickets go on sale February 13.

Grammy-winning Argentine-American mezzo soprano Isabel Leonard sings Charlotte in Massenet’s French opera Werther at the Metropolitan Opera at 7:30pm.

Tuesday, February 28

It’s Carnival Tuesday, Mardi Gras, the last day of Carnival season!

Repertorio Español in Kips Bay performs the classic Dominican drama En el Tiempo de las Mariposas at 11am.

The ADAA Art Show starts the art show season with a Gala Preview  on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at the Park Avenue Armory. The Art Show is March 1-5, 2017.

Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes gets his first solo exhibition in New York at Lisson Gallery in Chelsea through April 15.

Cuban rumbero Pedrito Martinez plays his Tuesdays residency at Subrosa in the Meatpacking District with sets at 7 & 9pm.

Afterwards stay for the Salsa On2’Sdays dance party.

Last chance to hear star Mexican tenor Javier Camarena sing Arturo this season in Bellini’s Italian opera I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera at 7:30pm.

The Gala Preview of the ADAA Art Show is at the Park Avenue Armory in the Upper East Side.

Spring Break Art Show exhibits curators, not galleries, in underused historic New York City spaces. This year it explores the Black Mirror of the selfie generation at 4 Times Square. Preview February 28. Fair March 1-6, 2017.

March 2017 calendar of Latin things to do in NYC.

March 2017 calendar of Latin things to do in NYC.