The México Now Festival 2024 (MXNOW) is a celebration of contemporary Mexican art, dance, film, music, photography, and more in New York City in November. 🇲🇽
20th México Now Festival 2024
The 20th México Now Festival 2024 is a celebration of contemporary Mexican arts; at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; from November 20-24, 2024. Free with rsvp. 🇲🇽
This year’s lineup features:
- Patrimonio with Santiago Arau, a book presentation of the drone photographer’s work on Anáhuac, the Valley of Mexico, home of Aztecs and México City, is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 6:30pm. Free with rsvp. @santiago_arau 🇲🇽
- Selected shorts from the Morelia International Film Festival in Morelia, Mochoacán, México; at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, September 21, 2024, at 7pm. Free with rsvp. @ficm 🇲🇽
- Fandango Jarocho Newyorkino is a traditional Mexican fandango; a community gathering with music, zapateados dancing, poetry, theater and more; at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, November 22, 2024, at 6:30pm. Free with rsvp. @juliadelpalacio @sinuhe.art 🇲🇽
- Coro Acardenchado is a choral performance of freestyle improvisation and body percussion inspired by the a cappella trios of Durango, México. These community choruses are so beautiful, they will make your hair stand up. It’s at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 7pm. Free with rsvp. @coroacardenchado 🇲🇽
- Arts Building Bridges / Construyendo Puentes con las Artes is a panel discussion of major arts presenters, led by Ruth Wikler, about how we can use the arts to bring communities together. These are all women who are influential in their fields. Our work has taught us that women are the guardians of culture. It’s at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, November 24, 2024 at 1pm. Free with rsvp. @wiklerista @mlaleskie @filloylaura @isabelsoffer @palomaestevez 🇲🇽
- Echoes from the Borderlands is an hour-long excerpt from a 24-hour sonic essay of the sounds of despair and hope that mark the borderlands. This collaboration of author Valeria Luiselli, composer Leonardo Heilblum, and multimedia artist Ricardo Giraldo is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, November 24, 2024 at 5pm. Free with rsvp. If you have never spent time in the deserts of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, you have no idea how hauntingly beautiful they are. There is death there, but also life, lots of life. @valeria_luiselli @ricardogiraldom 🇲🇽
The common thread through all of this is community, an extension of family, the living heart of Latin culture.
Mexico has such great historic traditions that it is easy to miss what is happening there now. Many have reported that Mexico City arts are even more progressive than New York City arts. Mexico is young and the future belongs to the young.
Mexico is important because we are neighbors with a long, complicated familial relationship. We fight like brothers and sisters, because we are. Two-thirds of what became the United States was once Mexico. New York City has had a Caribbean focus since at least the 1920s, but most Latins in the United States are Mexican Americans. The Mexican American community used to be regionalized in the Southwest, but is now everywhere, and growing in New York City too. The United States is the second largest Spanish-speaking country after Mexico. And now that the era of globalization has ended, Mexico is our most important trading partner. Our future is together. It’s time to get to know each other better.
México Now Festival
The México Now Festival (MXNOW) was founded by culture producer Claudia Norman in 2004. It is New York City’s first and only independent festival of contemporary Mexican culture.
The key image is of el Museo Soumaya in México City, an art museum with over 30 centuries of art from México and around the world. It is sponsored by Fundación Carlos Slim, the foundation of the Mexican businessman who was the world’s richest person from 2010-2013.
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