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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Machito & His Afro-Cubans Defined Cubop Which We Now Call Latin Jazz
HAVANA, Cuba ~ December 3, 1907 🇨🇺
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Lincoln Center Theater is an Important Complex of Broadway and Off-Broadway Theaters
Newhouse Theater ~ “The Gardens of Anuncia” Michael John LaChiusa’s Graciela Daniele Story 🇦🇷 LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan
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Dzul Dance Performs “Crossing Thresholds;” Contemporary dance with Aerial arts, Contortion, and Acrobatics; at the Ailey Citigroup Theater
AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER, Hells Kitchen, Manhattan 🇲🇽
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In the Valley of Coming Forth is an Afrofuturist Funk Ritual Play with Cosplay and a DJ After Party at Weeksville Heritage Center
African American, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), Crown Heights Brooklyn, Haitian, Thanksgiving, THEATERWEEKSVILLE HERITAGE CENTER, Crown Heights, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇭🇹
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The Met Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche are a New York Holiday Tradition
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Central Park 🇮🇹 🇪🇸
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Puccini’s “La Bohème,” the World’s Most Popular Opera, is at the Metropolitan Opera
METROPOLITAN OPERA, Lincoln Center ~ The tragic love story of Mimi and Rodolfo that helped define the popular idea of a bohemian. 🇮🇹 ~ 🇫🇷
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Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!, First U.S. Survey of an Argentine Force in Postwar Latin American Art, is at the Jewish Museum
JEWISH MUSEUM, Upper East Side, Manhattan ~ “Everything is Art” 🇦🇷 🇮🇱
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Calpulli Mexican Dance Company Performs “Navidad: A Mexican-American Christmas” at the Count Basie Center
COUNT BASIE CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Red Bank, New Jersey 🇲🇽
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The Other Side Story is a One-Man Musical Comedy About the Brilliance and Resilience of the Puerto Rican Diaspora at Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ Ángel Vázquez, Resident Artist at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, tells funny, but true stories, about the brilliance and resilience of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. 🇵🇷
