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Talia Castro-Pozo’s Midtown Dance is Free Outdoor Dance Classes and Salsa Dancing
GREELEY SQUARE PLAZA
Broadway Boulevard
(near Herald Square)
OUTDOOR DANCE LESSONS
Tuesdays May 4 – July 6, 2021
OUTDOOR SALSA DANCING
Thursdays, June 3 – August 5, 2021
FREE with pre-registration
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Pedrito Martinez, World’s First-Call Cuban Rumbero, Plays Drom
DROM
East Village
Friday, June 18, 2021
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The Met Sees the Caribbean for the First Time in Arte del Mar
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Central Park
December 16, 2019 – June 27, 2021
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Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute Launches “On Protest and Mourning” Exhibition and Student Curriculum
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Justice for Deon Kay
Dee Dwyer with Keyonna Jones
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
NY Yankees Play the Subway Series at Yankee Stadium
YANKEE STADIUM
Concourse, The Bronx
SEASON
April 1 – October 3, 2021
BIG GAMES
Subway Series
Fourth of July Weekend
Fri-Sun, July 2-4, 2021
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Jarana Beat’s New York Fandango is the Perfect Antidote for COVID Blues
TERRAZA 7
Jackson Heights, Queens
Saturday, July 3, 2021 at 7pm
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Cuban Festivals in NYC
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.
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Queens Hispanic Day Parade 2018 celebrates our diverse heritage
Sunday, September 23, 2018
37th Avenue
Jackson Heights, Queens
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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
Ballet Hispánico
Ballet Hispánico is one of America’s leading Latino dance organizations. The contemporary dance company and ballet school…
Repertorio Español
Repertorio Español has been NYC’s Spanish-language repertory theatre for over 50 years. The Company was…
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
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“On Your Feet!” Review
MARQUIS THEATRE, TIMES SQUARE, November 5, 2015 – August 20, 2017 ~ The inspiring Emilio and Gloria Estefan story
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Cuban New Yorkers
New York City’s Cuban community is small, but influential.
Pedrito Martinez, World’s First-Call Cuban Rumbero, Plays Drom
DROM
East Village
Friday, June 18, 2021
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Celia Cruz “The Queen of Salsa” is Remembered With Her Own NYC Street
RESERVOIR AVE & W 195TH ST
Jerome Park, The Bronx
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
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Arturo O’Farrill and NY Phil Musicians Join Bronx Banda
PLAYGROUND 52
Longwood, The Bronx
Saturday, June 5, 2021
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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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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
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Barneys New York
Upper East Side
Chelsea
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Saks Fifth Avenue
Midtown East, Manhattan
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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
Cubans
The Cuban diaspora is everywhere.
OKAN Sings to the Heart of the People
Flushing Town Hall
YOUTUBE
Friday, May 14, 2021
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Cimafunk, One of the Hottest Cuban Singers Right Now
Thursday, January 9, 2020
WEBSTER HALL
East Village, NYC
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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
Cuban culture has a big influence on the world, far beyond its size. A lot of Caribbean culture is really Cuban culture. During the Colonial Period, Havana was one corner of the triangular trade, so whatever happened in Cuba spread across the Spanish Americas and even influenced Spain. Later, standing up to the Americans gave Cuba a unique credibility.
Rumba
Rumba is an Afro-Cuban drum, song and dance tradition from Matanzas in West Cuba that…
Eleguá~Eshu is the Orisha of the Crossroads
Thursday, January 6, 2022
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Celebrate Changó, Orisha of Thunder, Lightning, Fire
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Caribbean Cultural Center teaches Afro-Cuban Plant and Herb Traditions
Thursdays, April 16, 23, 30 & May 7, 2020
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CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE
El Barrio, East Harlem
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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” is a Classic Soviet Film of Cuba in 1964
FILM FORUM, Hudson Square, NYC 🇨🇺 February 15 – April 4, 2019
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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.
Happy Mother’s Day!
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Sunday, May 8, 2022
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Celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Regla!
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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
