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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Qasida Persian Spanish Flamenco Festival at Carnegie Hall
MIDTOWN, Mar 18, 2016 ~ A Flamenco of Arabic poetry by Spanish and Persian musicians. # persian spanish flamenco festival live music
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Festival Ay! Más Flamenco
March 3-6, 2016 FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NYC WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE SYMPHONY SPACE & LA NACIONAL Upper West Side & Chelsea, NYC Spanish flamenco dance theatre from traditional to cutting edge -Sponsored byWorld Music Institute
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Lyrics and Lyricists
1950s radio played American Songbook standards, Rock and Roll hits, and Country classics. The program directed by two-time Tony Award winner James Naughton features Argentine vocalist Solange Prat. 92nd Street Y February 27-29, 2016
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Vigée Le Brun
February 15 – May 15, 2016 MIDTOWN, NYC ~ Marie Antoinette’s favorite portraitist was one of the great 18th century French painters. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Displaced but not Defeated
In this Films BYkids production, 16-year old Colombian María Ceballos tells her personal story about what it is like to be displaced by civil war. THIRTEEN NYC Sunday, February 14, 2016 7:30-8pm
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Christian Cravo: 25 Years of Bahia, Brazil
January 14 – February 27, 2016 THROCKMORTON FINE ART Midtown East, NYC
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Neighboring Scenes 2016
Contemporary Latin American cinema showcase Film Society of Lincoln Center January 7 – 10, 2016
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Bronzino Allegorical Portrait of Dante
Agnolo Bronzino’s “Allegorical Portrait of Dante” (1532-33) visits New York City for the first time to celebrate the 750th anniversary of Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s birth. Italian Cultural Institute December 15, 2015 – January 15, 2016






