Cuban NYC is centered in Union City, New Jersey. Cuba is the sacred heart of Latin culture in the Americas.
Yankees 2020 American League Division Series vs Tampa Rays Game 1
Monday, October 5, 2020 on TBS & ESPN Radio 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇵🇷 🇻🇪 🇺🇸
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Celebrate Our Lady of Charity, Caridad del Cobre, Patron Saint of Cuba!
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 UNION CITY, New Jersey 🇨🇺 🇺🇸 BASÍLICA DEL COBRE, El Cobre, Santiago de Cuba
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Cuban Festivals
Junta Hispana 2019
Sunday, July 21, 2019 FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens ~ Family entertainment, games, food and kiosks from twenty Hispanic countries. FREE ~ CANCELLED DUE TO NYC’S DANGEROUS HEAT ADVISORY
Havana Film Festival New York 2019
MANHATTAN, BRONX, QUEENS; PREFEST Apr 5-8, FEST Apr 9-16, 2019; Latin American film festival ~ Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, Peruvian & Spanish movies, red carpet & parties, plus Cuban ballet legend CARLOS ACOSTA
Joyce Theater Cuba Festival 2019
CHELSEA, January 9-20, 2019 ~ Malpaso Dance Company, Los Hijos del Director, Compañia Irene Rodríguez. Some of the best dancers in the world and an island of choreographic talent. # cuban contemporary dance festival flamenco
Queens Hispanic Day Parade 2018 celebrates our diverse heritage
Sunday, September 23, 2018 37th Avenue Jackson Heights, Queens ~ Argentine, Bolivian, Belizean, Chilean, Colombian, Costa Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Guatemalan, Honduran, Mexican, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Spanish, Uruguayan and Venezuelan culture.
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Cuban Parade 2018 is Metro NYC’s big Cuban celebration
Bergenline Avenue Hudson County, New Jersey Sunday, May 20, 2018
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Arturo O’Farrill and Friends ¡ Adelante Cuba ¡ Festival at New York City Center
New York City Center Midtown, Manhattan Saturday, April 28, 2018
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Harlem Havana 2017
Harlem August 12-23, 2017
Cuban New York City
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI)
Tuesday-Friday EL BARRIO, EAST HARLEM, NYC – Preserves and promotes the culture of Africa and the African diaspora – whether African, African-American, Afro-Latino or Afro-Caribbean.
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Cuban UN Mission
Monday-Friday MURRAY HILL, NYC ~ The Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations provides consular services
Ballet Hispánico
UPPER WEST SIDE, NYC United State’s leading Latino contemporary dance organization -¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Repertorio Español
KIPS BAY, NYC New York’s Spanish-language repertory theatre company for over 50 years ~ ¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
“On Your Feet!” Review
MARQUIS THEATRE, TIMES SQUARE, November 5, 2015 – August 20, 2017 ~ The inspiring Emilio and Gloria Estefan story #CUBAN #BROADWAY
Cuban New Yorkers
New York City’s Cuban community is small, but influential
Remember Celia Cruz “The Queen of Salsa” who Popularized Latin Music Around the World
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 🇨🇺 🇺🇸 HAVANA, Cuba October 21, 1925 ¡Azúcar!
Remember Machito & his Afro-Cubans, 1st Artists to Promote African Heritage, 1st Latin Jazz Song, & Palladium Ballroom “Big Three”
Thursday, December 3, 2020 🇨🇺 🇺🇸 HAVANA, Cuba December 3, 1907
Happy Birthday Arturo O’Farrill!
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 🇨🇺 🇺🇸 MEXICO CITY, Mexico June 22, 1960
Remember Graciela Grillo who Made the Road for Female Latin Singers
Sunday, August 23, 2020 – HAVANA, Cuba August 23, 1915
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Remember Arsenio Rodríguez Who Africanized Son Montuno & Popularized the Conjunto
Tuesday, August 31, 2021 🇨🇺 🇺🇸 Güira de Macurijes, Matanzas, Cuba August 31, 1911
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Cuban American Composer and Conductor Tania León Gives a Master Class
Friday, July 31, 2020 at 1pm nationalsawdust.org FREE
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Pedrito Martinez, World’s First-Call Rumbero
Thursday, March 19 & 26, 2020 GINNY’S RED ROOSTER Harlem, NYC
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Xiomara Laugart, Cuban Jazz Singer
March 14, 2020 ZINC BAR Greenwich Village, NYC
Axel Tosca, Cuban Jazz Pianist
Saturday, March 7, 2020 ZINC BAR Greenwich Village, NYC
Gerardo Contino y los Habaneros
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 THE DJANGO Tribeca, NYC One of New York City’s best Cuban dance bands
Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban All-Stars play The Blue Note
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Live music Cuban jazz Blue Note Jazz Festival GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ One of Dizzy’s legacy bands plays Gillespie’s Latin hits like ‘Manteca’ and ‘Tin Tin Deo’
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Elio Villafranca
BELMONT, THE BRONX, Sun, Jan 27, 2019 ~ The jazz composer of the African diaspora joins Mary Ann Sweeney & Bronx Arts Ensemble to play one of the jazz greats, Charles Mingus. African Cuban jazz live music. FREE
Narciso Rodriguez
Bergdorf Goodman Midtown, Manhattan ~ Barneys New York Upper East Side Chelsea ~ Saks Fifth Avenue Midtown East, Manhattan ~ Intermix Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Meatpacking, West Village, SoHo
Paquito D’Rivera
The Cuban Classical and Jazz sax legend blows the happiest horn on the planet. Blue Note Jazz Festival Blue Note Greenwich Village, Manhattan Tuesday – Sunday June 12 – 17, 2018
Tania Bruguera : ‘Untitled’ (Havana, 2000)
February 3 – March 11, 2018 MOMA, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Midtown, NYC
The Cuban World
Cimafunk, One of the Hottest Cuban Singers Right Now
Thursday, January 9, 2020 WEBSTER HALL East Village, NYC s🇨🇺
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Arturo Sandoval
Wed-Sun, December 4-8, 2019 GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ The jazz legend of Irakere, Dizzy Gillespie and Danzón plays the Blue Note
Zilia Sánchez: Eros
Tuesday-Saturday Nov 21, 2019 – Jan 18, 2020 Galerie Lelong CHELSEA, NYC The Cuban artist’s new freestanding work and first marble and bronze sculptures
Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla at El Museo says “I am an Island”
Wednesday-Sunday Nov 20, 2019-Mar 22, 2020 EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO East Harlem, NYC A touring retrospective of the Puerto Rico-based Cuban artist whose sensual abstractions broke the picture plane before standing on their own
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Dayramir Gonzalez
Thanksgiving Thursday, November 28, 2019 HARLEM, NYC ~ The Cuban jazz pianist and composer puts New York, Cuba and Nigeria in his music at the historic Minton’s Playhouse where bebop was born
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)
Omara Portuondo sings Cuban boleros at Sony Hall
TIMES SQUARE, NYC | Fri, Apr 26, 2019 | Cuban boleros live music ~ From The Tropicana to Chucho Valdés to Buena Vista Social Club, Omara’s career spans the entire time that Cuban music has been a world music
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Tiempo Libre
Sunday, April 7, 2019 PURCHASE, New York ~ Three-time Grammy nominees play Cuban timba dance music at Purchase College
Malena & Lena Burke share an evening of Cuban boleros at Hostos
Saturday, March 30, 2019 CONCOURSE, The Bronx ~ One of the great families of Cuban bolero singers. ‘Contigo Aprendi,’ ‘Me Voy Pa’l Pueblo,’ ‘La Longina’ and ‘Total.’
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Ballet Contemporáneo de Camagüey at Kaye Playhouse Hunter College
UPPER EAST SIDE; Wed, Mar 13, 2019; Cuban contemporary dance theatre ~ U.S. debut dancing three Pedro Ruiz ballets
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Compañia Irene Rodríguez
Friday-Sunday, January 18-20, 2019 JOYCE THEATER, NYC One of Cuba’s leading flamenco dance companies returns to New York -¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Los Hijos del Director Cuban Contemporary Dance at The Joyce
CHELSEA, Tue-Wed, January 15-16, 2019 ~ One of Cuba’s most daring contemporary dance makers, George Céspedes, makes his U.S. debut at the Joyce Cuba Festival. # cuban contemporary dance festival
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Malpaso Cuban Contemporary Dance at the Joyce Theater
CHELSEA, Jan 9-13, 2019, Wed-Sun ~ Cuba’s leading international contemporary dance company opens the Joyce Cuba Festival with Ohad Naharin’s “Tabula Rasa.” # cuban israeli contemporary dance
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Lourdes Lopez, Miami City Ballet Artistic Director (Interview)
NEW YORK CITY; Dec 3, 2018; Cuban ballet leader ~ Lourdes Lopez, Miami City Ballet Artistic Director, former New York City Ballet Principal, talks about being a Cuban immigrant, family, opportunity, dancing for Balanchine and Robbins, the future of ballet and who we really are
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Septeto Santiaguero
Saturday, October 6, 2018 PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn ~ The successors to the Buena Vista Social Club play traditional Cuban son with contemporary influences for Carnegie Hall Citywide at the Brooklyn Museum
Carlos Acosta Danza Debut
The Royal Ballet legend is debuting his new Cuban contemporary ballet company. New York City Center Midtown, Manhattan Wednesday – Friday April 25 – 27, 2018
Daymé Arocena is Cuba’s finest young female singer
Sat, Apr 7, 2018 RED HOOK, Brooklyn ~ “Cuba’s finest young female singer” (The Guardian) sings her powerful style of rumba jazz for the World Music Institute at Pioneer Works
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Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita reconnect Cuba and Venezuela with Africa
Roulette Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Thursday, March 22, 2018
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Malpaso Dance Company
Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Avenue Chelsea Wednesday-Sunday January 17 – 21, 2018
Gustavo Acosta ‘Inventory of Omissions’
Cuban contemporary artist 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel 532 West 25th St, Chelsea September 8 – October 14, 2017
Los Van Van is Cuba’s original Rock and Roll Band
Special guests Vanessa Formell and Pedrito Calvo (original singer) Lehman Center 250 Bedford Park Blvd W, The Bronx Saturday, August 26, 2017
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Belkis Ayón ‘NKAME’ Cuban prints at El Museo del Barrio
EAST HARLEM, Wed-Sun, Jun 13 to Nov 5, 2017 ~ Prints of the secret dreams of Africa. # cuban print art exhibition
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Irene Rodríguez Compañía Cuba Festival at The Joyce
CUBA FESTIVAL Cuba’s leading Spanish Flamenco company. Joyce Theater Chelsea, Manhattan Thursday – Sunday May 19 – 22, 2016
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DanzAbierta Cuba Festival at The Joyce
CUBA FESTIVAL Marianela Boán’s avant-garde dance troupe uses the Cuban cabaret as a metaphor for life in “Showroom.” Joyce Theater Chelsea, Manhattan Saturday – Tuesday May 14 – 17, 2016
Cuban Culture
Celebrate Obatalá, the Orisha Who Created Humans
Friday, September 24, 2021 AFRICAN DIASPORA
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Honor Changó, the Orisha of Thunder, Lightning and Fire
Friday, December 4, 2020 CUBA 🇨🇺
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Honor Babalú-Ayé, Orisha of the Sick
Thursday, December 17, 2020 SANTIAGO DE LAS VEGAS, Cuba
Honor Èṣù-Ẹlẹ́gbára , Eleguá, Papa Legba, Elegbara, Orisha of the Crossroads
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 WEST & CENTRAL AFRICA, CUBA, BRAZIL, AFRICAN DIASPORA
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Celebrate National Mojito Day with the Cuban Cocktail
Sunday, July 11, 2021 #NationalMojitoDay
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Caribbean Cultural Center teaches Afro-Cuban Plant and Herb Traditions
Thursdays, April 16, 23, 30 & May 7, 2020 ZOOM CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE El Barrio, East Harlem – Oba Frank Bell leads a webinar on Integral Plants & Herbs in Afro-Cuban Orisha & Palo Traditions. FREE
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Santería
The Yoruba religion from Nigeria and Benin was called Santería by the Spanish in Cuba because Africans kept their heritage faith by blending it with worship of Catholic saints
I am Cuba
HUDSON SQUARE, EXTENDED YET AGAIN Fri-Thu, Mar 29-Apr 4, 2019, classic Cuban movies ~ 1964 Cuban-Soviet film tells four stories of Cuba with the most ingenious tracking shots. Presented by Francis Ford Coppola & Martin Scorsese.
Cuba
The Havana Film Festival (International Festival of New Latin American Cinema) is in Havana in December. It’s one of the good times to visit.
Celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Regla!
Monday, September 7, 2020 UNION CITY, New Jersey 🇨🇺 IGLESIA DE NUESTRA SEÑORA DE REGLA, Regla, Havana, Cuba
Havana Biennial 2019
HAVANA, CUBA; daily Apr 12 – May 12, 2019; Cuban art fair ~ “The Construction of the Possible” theme welcomes back the 13th Havana Biennial after Hurricane Irma
