HERITAGE
New York City’s Latin culture draws from an extraordinary web of heritage lines — the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the European colonizers who reshaped the hemisphere, the African nations whose descendants forged new traditions, and the Asian communities who arrived through indentured servitude and later migration. More recent arrivals, from Lebanese to Japanese communities, have woven themselves permanently into Latin identity across generations. Explore events, artists, and cultural traditions organized by heritage, spanning the full breadth of the communities that make up NYC’s Latin world.
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Pia Camil: Here Comes the Sun
Friday, November 8, 2019 UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ This Guggenheim 60th Anniversary commission by a Mexican artist is a wonderful performance based on Lygia Pape’s ‘Divisor’ (1969) that shines a bright light on people at the Guggenheim Museum
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Dance Theatre of Harlem Sunday Matinée
Sunday, November 10, 2019 HARLEM, NYC ~ The DTH School, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and Evidence bring ballet to the community at the Dance Theatre of Harlem studios
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La Golondrina
Friday-Sunday, September 27-October 13, 2019 THALIA SPANISH THEATER Sunnyside, Queens Playwright Guillem Clua uses the famous Mexican song ‘The Swallow’ as a metaphor for being true to yourself
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Porgy and Bess
Sep 23, 2029 – Feb 1, 2020 METROPOLITAN OPERA Lincoln Center, NYC James Robinson’s new English National Opera production of the Gershwin classic about African-American life in the old South. “Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…”
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Colombian comic Saul Garcia’s ‘I am Latino’ makes us laugh at ourselves
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
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Climate Strike NYC & Puerto Rico Day of Action
Friday, September 20, 2019 CIVIC CENTER, NYC ~ On the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Maria which devastated Puerto Rico, Greta Thunberg (age 16) and youth leaders are striking to end the use of fossil fuels, make a just transition and hold polluters accountable. NYC public schools allow students to join the climate strike with a…
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UN General Assembly looks for global solutions to global problems
African American, Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Costa Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Filipino, French, Guatemalan, Honduran, Italian, Mexican, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Portuguese, Romanian, Salvadoran, Spanish, United Nations, Uruguayan, VenezuelanSeptember 17-30, 2019 High-Level General Debate September 24-30, 2019 MIDTOWN EAST, NYC ~ Politicians discuss Climate, Universal Health Coverage, Sustainable Development, Financing for Development, Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, and Small Island Developing States
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En el Ojo de la Aguja
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.
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Eduardo Cabra is Trending Tropics
Wed, September 4, 2019 HUDSON SQUARE, NYC ~ Eduardo Cabra of Calle 13, one of the producers who seems to be unlimited in the types of Latin music he makes well, brings his latest project, Trending Tropics to SOB’s
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J’Ouvert Parade 2019
Monday, September 2, 2019 PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn ~ The J’Ouvert Parade forms at Grand Army Plaza, marches through the Park, to Empire, and down Nostrand to Midwood St