Harlem

Latin things to do in Harlem, New York City

Pedrito Martinez is the world’s best Cuban rumba percussionist

Thursdays, September 12, 2019
HARLEM, NYC ~ The world’s best Cuban rumba percussionist plays up close and personal at Ginny’s, the hottest joint in Harlem

Black Comic Book Festival 2020 at Schomburg Center

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

Remember Harlem’s Silent Parade of 1917

Tuesday, July 28, 2020
HARLEM, NYC ~ The Silent Parade was a protest against violence against people of color on July 28, 1917

~

Places to go in Harlem

Schomburg Center is NYC’s African Culture Research Library

HARLEM, Mon-Sat ~ Grew out of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary collection of Afro-Puerto Rican Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.
# african puerto rican library

Apollo Theater

HARLEM ~ The soul of Harlem. Wednesdays are Amateur Night at The Apollo!

Harlem Stories

Harlem was Dutch, then Jewish and then Italian before it became the African soul of New York City

Dance Theatre of Harlem 50th at New York City Center

NEW YORK CITY CENTER, MIDTOWN; Wed, Fri-Sat, Apr 10, 12 & 13; African-American classical ballet ~ One of New York City’s great ballet companies honors its founder who we lost last year

Uptown Nights Curtis Brothers & Circa ’95 at Harlem Stage

HARLEM; Sat, Mar 23, 2019; African, Creole, Puerto Rican, Dominican Brazilian jazz hip-hop samba live music ~ The Curtis Brothers map the rhythms of the slave trade. Circa ’95 raps in Spanglish about what happened once we landed in El Barrio. For the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) and Carnegie Hall’s Migrations: the Making of America festival. ¡WEPA!

“Crusader: Martin Luther King Jr.” at Schomburg Center

HARLEM; Mon-Sat, Jan 15 to Apr 6, 2019; African photography exhibition ~ Behind-the-scenes pictures of Dr. King traveling, at rest, and in celebration

Ballet Hispánico soars in “CARMEN.maquia” at The Apollo

APOLLO THEATER, HARLEM, Fri-Sat, December 7-8, 2018 ~ America’s leading Latino dance company shows a Spanish contemporary take on Bizet’s French opera about the fiery Romani woman “Carmen”

African American Day Parade 2018 ~ Culture is Key

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd
From 111th St to 136th St
Harlem, Manhattan
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Afro-Latino Fest celebrates our African roots

Afro- Brazilian, Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Haitian, Mexican, Panamanian, Puerto Rican talk, movies and music.
~
TALKS
Schomberg Center
Harlem, Manhattan
Friday, July 13, 2018
~
FILM FESTIVAL
Abron Center
Lower East Side, Manhattan
Saturday, July 14, 2018
~
CONCERT
The Well
East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Sunday, July 15, 2018