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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AfriBembé Festival 2019
Sunday, August 18, 2019 EAST HARLEM ART PARK, NYC 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇬🇳 🇭🇳 🇲🇱 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
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Jesús Carmona
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center Charismatic Spanish flamenco dance star of the new generation brings one of his more personal shows to New York. Arooj Aftab opens with Sufi rock. -¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
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Garifuna Collective & Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theater
Friday, August 2, 2019 CROTONA PARK, The Bronx ~ If you never danced African drum, you never lived. Indigenous Honduran Garifuna shake things up for SummerStage at the Crotona Park Amphitheater
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Tulipa Ruiz in New York City
Thursday, August 1, 2019 LINCOLN CENTER ~ The multi-talented, Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian singer-songwriter of MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) plays a free acoustic concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium
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Children Marched for Justice in the Harlem Silent Parade 104 years ago
SUGAR HILL CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Harlem, NYC Sunday, July 28, 2019 🇺🇸
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Castro in NY ‘An Evening with Fidel & My Mother The Radical’ at NYU Tisch
Sat-Sun, July 27-28, 2019 GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ This one-man multimedia play examines Latino history, memory, identity and the current treatment of migrant children, parents and U.S. citizens, juxtaposed on the Cuban revolution. FREE
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Alceu Valença
Saturday, July 27, 2019 CENTRAL PARK, NYC ~ One of the elders of MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) brings the sounds of Pernambuco in Northeast Brazil to Brasil SummerFest at Central Park SummerStage
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La Fiesta de Santiago Apóstol in Loíza is one of Puerto Rico’s most Beautiful Patron Saint Festivals
LOÍZA, PUERTO RICO Sunday, July 25, 2021 🇵🇷
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Carlos Acosta, the Cuban Ballet Legend, is “Yuli”
Sunday, July 14, 2019 LINCOLN CENTER, NYC ~ This inspiring movie tells the life story of Cuban ballet dance legend Carlos Acosta (Royal Ballet, Acosta Danza)
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Afro-Latino Festival 2019
African American, Brazilian, Calypso, Colombian, Dominican, Downtown Brooklyn, FOOD, Haitian, Mexican, MUSIC, Panamanian, SalsaFri-Sat, July 12-13, 2019 DOWNTOWN, Brooklyn