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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Argentinos en NY “Noche Argentina” cumbia & rock en español
Saturday, July 6, 2019 HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ Celebrate Argentine Independence Day by dancing all night at this Argentine dance party
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Holman Trio plays Indigenous Chilean Jazz at Lincoln Center
Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Live music Indigenous Chilean jazz LINCOLN CENTER ~ Ancestral Chilean rhythms, cueca (Chilean national dance) and traditional jazz. FREE
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Quechua, the Inca Language of the Indigenous Andes
QUEENS, NEW YORK PATERSON, NEW JERSEY – PERU, ECUADOR, BOLIVIA PARTS OF CHILE & ARGENTINA
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May Sumak Film Festival 2019
June 14-16, 2019 Friday-Sunday GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC & CORONA, Queens ~ Annual film festival of movies in Indigenous Quechua languages of the central Andes, that screens in New York City and Quito, Ecuador
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Portugal Day Festival and Portugal Day Parade 2019
STREET FAIR Sat-Sun, Jun 8-9 PARADE Sun, Jun 9, 2019 NEWARK, New Jersey | Metro NYC’s big Portuguese celebration
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Children’s Festival of Taíno culture
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC | Sat-Sun, May 18-19, 2019 | Children’s festival | Taíno arts and crafts, dancing and storytelling for the family
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Whitney Biennial 2019 shows the diversity of American art today
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
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Camp: Notes on Fashion
Daily, May 9 – September 8, 2019 French, French-Canadian, Italian, Spanish fashion art exhibition UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ The Costume Institute’s 2019 exhibition explores how camp fashion goes mainstream
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The Silence of Others asks What Happens When Crimes Against Humanity Go Unpunished
FILM FORUM, Hudson Square, NYC 🇪🇸 May 8 – June 6, 2019