Flushing, Queens is a mostly Asian neighborhood. It has one of New York City’s biggest Chinatowns, and one of the oldest Little Indias. It has Hispanic communities too.
Without the parking signs, it may be hard to guess that this is New York City. Isn’t it great?
Cultural Venues in Flushing
Queens Botanical Garden
The Queens Botanical Garden is a lovely public garden in…
Latin Culture in Flushing, Queens
Kupferberg Center for the Arts is the Performing Arts Center at Queens College
Viva el Cinco de Mayo, Mexican music and dance 🇲🇽
Chucho Valdés: Irakere 50, Cuban jazz and timba 🇨🇺
Buena Vista Orchestra, Cuban son 🇨🇺
FLUSHING, Queens
Diwali is Celebrated in NYC’s South Asian and West Indian Communities
HK HALL, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan
ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER, Financial District, Manhattan
NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SEAPORT MUSEUM, Seaport, Manhattan
FLUSHING TOWN HALL, Flushing, Queens
LIBERTY AVE, South Ozone Park, Queens
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Nation Beat Plays Brazilian Maracatu Forró Funk Jazz Fusion at Flushing Town Hall
This New York Brazilian maracatu, forró, funk jazz band is fun!
FLUSHING TOWN HALL
Flushing, Queens
Saturday, May 13, 2023
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January 2023
The Lunar New Year 2023 Photo Exhibition This is Home, features work about New York City by some great New York photographers of Asian descent: Janice Chung (Korean), Cindy Trinh (Vietnamese), and An Rong Xu (Taiwanese). The exhibition opens with a reception at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens; on Saturday, January 21, 2023 from 12-2pm. It ends February 26. FREE! 🇰🇷🇹🇼🇻🇳
[LUNAR NEW YEAR]
New York’s Chinese Theatre Works “Hao Bang-ah, Rabbit!” is Budaixi-style glove puppetry telling bilingual stories of Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rabbit, and other Chinese zodiac traditions. It’s at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens; on Sunday, January 29, 2023. Performances at 1pm & 3pm. Workshops at 1:45pm & 3:45pm. Performance $15. Performance and workshop $22. 🇨🇳
December 2022
The Native American Social with NativeTec, Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, and Niamuck Land Trust, brings Indigenous artwork, storytelling, drumming, singing and dancing to Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens on Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 12pm. Free with rsvp, but suggested donation $10 adults/$5 children. 🇺🇸
The Mini-Global Mashup: Garifuna Meets Flamenco brings together jazz vocalist Lucy Blanco (Afri-Garifuna Jazz Ensemble), jazz bassist Hilliard Greene, and Caribbean flamenco guitarists Lisa y Josué (Lisa Spraragen and Josué Pérez) at the Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens on Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 1pm. $15. 🇻🇨🇭🇳🇪🇸🇵🇷
November 2022
The 12th Queens World Film Festival 2022 brings 157 films from 27 countries to the Queens Theatre, Flushing Town Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Kaufman Astoria Studios and The Local, in Queens, Tuesday-Sunday, November 1-6, 2022. From $15. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸