Black Comic Book Festival 2020 at Schomburg Center
Fri-Sat, Jan 17-18, 2020
HARLEM, NYC ~ Harlem becomes Wakanda. Buy, sell, learn, watch or show your stuff at this family festival.
New York Public Library, Schomburg Center, Instituto Cervantes, King Juan Carlos Center, FIAF, Belmont Library, Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Poetry reaffirms our common humanity by revealing to us that individuals, everywhere in the world, share the same questions and feelings (UNESCO)
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC ~ This global Spanish government language school and cultural center has NYC’s largest Spanish-language library and hosts Hispanic talks, exhibitions, screenings and performances
Appointment only during renovations
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NYC ~ This research library and museum has the most important Spanish art collection outside of Spain
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ Study the histories, politics and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world at King Juan Carlos Center at New York University
Monday-Saturday
HARLEM, NYC~ This library of African culture grew out of the literary collection of Puerto Rican collector Arturo Alfonso Schomburg during the Harlem Renaissance
MURRAY HILL, Tue-Sun, antique book museum ~ JP Morgan’s home is now a museum of historic manuscripts, early books and old master drawings and prints
Friday, March 6, 2020
ARACATACA, Colombia ~ The Nobel Prize-winning author and leading writer of Magical Realism was born on March 6, 1927
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Portuguese national poet books
LISBON, PORTUGAL ~ The author of Portugal’s national epic poem ‘Os Lusíadas,’ about Vasco de Gama’s sea route to India, died on June 10, 1580
March 28, 1936 ~ LLosa was born in Arequipa, Peru.
CELEBRATE
Thursday, March 28, 2019
National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2017 Athlete of the Year
By José Hernandez (1872)
December 7, 2012 ~ The hit first book by Puerto Rican author Luis Negrón about loneliness and the crazy things it drives us to do, is one of those books you can’t put down.
The Mexico Now Festival opens with Benito Taibo presenting his first book…