This week, the Feast of Our Lady of Highest Grace, La Altagracia, launches New York Dominican Heritage Month, with her message of love, spiritual protection, unity, and hope. 🇩🇴 🇺🇸
Bad Bunny is showing the world who we really are. Let’s make this the most watched, #1 Rated, Super Bowl Halftime Show of all time, because as Rita Moreno said:
“While one is alive, one should love as much as one can.” 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇵🇷
New York City Center is One of NYC's Premiere Homes for Dance and Theatre
Lyon Opera Ballet, contemporary dance 🇫🇷 🇬🇷 🇺🇸
Flamenco Festival, Mañuel Liñán, Eva Yerbabuena, El Farru, Juan Tomás de la Molía, Estévez / Paños y Compañía, Sara Baras 🇪🇸
MIDTOWN, Manhattan
92NY is a World-Class Jewish Cultural Center That Serves All Communities
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Starts a New Era with Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack
NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇬🇫
Pablo Mayor Colombian Folkloric Jazz
BRONX MUSIC HALL, Melrose, The Bronx 🇨🇴
Pablo Mayor Colombian Folkloric Jazz
BRONX MUSIC HALL, Melrose, The Bronx 🇨🇴
92NY is a World-Class Jewish Cultural Center That Serves All Communities
Repertorio Español is New York's Busiest Spanish-Language Theater
La casa de Bernarda Alba, Spanish drama 🇪🇸
La gringa, Puerto Rican comedy 🇵🇷
La ternura, Spanish comedy 🇪🇸
En el tiempo de las mariposas, Dominican drama 🇩🇴
La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao, Dominican American drama 🇩🇴
KIPS BAY, Manhattan
NYC Broadway Week 2026 Offers 2-for-1 Tickets to Popular Broadway Shows
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, Manhattan 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Teatro SEA is America's Latino Theatre for Young Audiences
“Dream of Kings // Seuño de Reyes” bilingual children’s theatre 🇵🇷
CLEMENTE CENTER, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Bronx Music Hall Shows The Best of The Bronx
Pablo Mayor, Colombian jazz 🇨🇴
“Nosotros, la música” Cuban film 🇨🇺
MELROSE, The Bronx
Oscars 2026 Academy Awards Best International Feature Film Short List Trailers
Best International Feature Film Shortlist 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
Latin Best International Feature Film Submissions 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇸🇳 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇬 🇬🇧 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
DOLBY THEATRE, Hollywood, California and ABC-7
92NY is a World-Class Jewish Cultural Center That Serves All Communities
Guggenheim New York
Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival, Naomi Tunaki tap, Kukai Dantza Basque Flamenco 🇯🇵 🇪🇸
Guggenheim Pop, iconic and contemporary pop art 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇵🇭 🇺🇸
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
National Puerto Rican Artisans and Authors Fair Has Great Boricua Holiday Gifts and Family Entertainment
BORICUA COLLEGE, Washington Heights, Manhattan 🇵🇷
Christie's New York Fall Art Auctions Include African American, Colombian, French, Ghana Nigerian, Mexican, and Spanish Masterpieces
CHRISTIE’S Rockefeller Center, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇬🇭 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇪🇸
FIFA World Cup 2026 Draw Sets Up Soccer Matches in the USA, Mexico, and Canada
North America 🇨🇦 🇨🇼 🇭🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇺🇸
South America 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇾 🇺🇾
Africa 🇩🇿 🇨🇻 🇪🇬 🇬🇭 🇨🇮 🇲🇦 🇸🇳 🇿🇦 🇹🇳
Europe 🇫🇷 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
El Clásico Real Madrid vs FC Barcelona is One of the World's Most Watched Sporting Events
PEÑA MADRIDISTA NYC, Playwright Irish Pub, Garment District, Manhattan 🇪🇸
PENYA FC BARCELONA, Smithfield Hall, Chelsea, Manhattan ~ 🇪🇸
New York Red Bulls vs NYCFC is the New York Derby
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED STADIUM, Harrison, New Jersey 🇨🇲 🇨🇱 🇬🇦 🇬🇭 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
La Altagracia is the Patron Saint of Dominican Americans
HIGÜEY, Dominican Republic ~ Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia. 🇩🇴
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Taught That We Are All Part of One American Community
ATLANTA, Georgia ~ January 15, 1929 🇺🇸
Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián 2026 (Sanse) is Puerto Rico's Biggest Festival
CALLE SAN SEBASTÍAN, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Three Kings Day in New York City 2026
January 6 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇮
North Americans
Caribbean Americans
South Americans
European Americans
African Americans
New York and the world’s leading Latin, Indigenous, European, African, Jewish, and Global cultural organizations support us because they support you.
Let’s support them back! Thank you! ¡Gracias ustedes!
Puerto Rican NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri (God Bless) explained Latin in the Americas and the Latin influence on United States culture in the simplest way:
The Spaniard brought the African
Eddie Palmieri at the 92nd Street Y in 2016 🇵🇷
The African put everyone to dance
In the States, they took away the drum,
and we got the blues“
The blues is the root of most American (and some Caribbean) popular music and dance, including: jazz, rhythm and blues, country, rock, reggae, soul, funk, disco, house, hip hop, reggaeton, and trap. Even American country music originates in Mother Afrika.
The Latin family has created art, music, dance, theatre, and food that is uniquely American, and loved around the world. It’s because Latin culture brings people together and turns the blues into joy. ¡Aguanilé!
La Llamada de los Tambores
(The Call of the Drum is also The Call to Dance)
Bienvenido a el areíto en el batéy del pueblo Latino. Somos uno en el tambor.
Escucha la llamada. La rumba ya se forma en el solar.
Yo prendo una vela.
(Welcome to the community gathering in the sacred circle of the Latin people.
We are one in the drum. Listen to the call. The party is starting in the patio. I lit a candle.)
Bom, bom, bom
ba-ta-ba-ta, ba, ta-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba
This call of the drum is Bomba Puertorriqueña Sicá.
“E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, le-le-le“
Loíza Aldea, Loíza, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
La salsa begins with the “Diana,” the call to prayer that asks for spiritual connection before we dance;
because by tradition, dance is how we pray.
“E-le, le-le, le-le-le-le“
La Marina, Matanzas, Cuba 🇨🇺
Rumba is what the first Africans in Cuba did, as soon as their hands were free.
“Yo Soy Ogun Balenyo”
Los Congos, Villa Mella, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana 🇩🇴
Palo, even more than merengue, is the folk music of La República Dominicana.
“Diki riki riki riki, Diki riki riki riki, Diki riki riki riki, Di, Diki ri”
Capotillo 42, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana 🇩🇴
Dembow is the sound of Dominican streets.
“Ay, ay, Ay-ay“
San Juan de Ulúa, Veracruz, México 🇲🇽
“Canta y no llores…”
“Aí aí aí“
San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar, Colombia 🇨🇴
“Ajai, al son de los tambores…”
“Bim Bom, Bim Bim, Bom Bom“
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 🇧🇷
“O meu coração pediu assim, só…”
“I like to be in América“
San Juan Hill, New York City 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇱
“Okay, buy me in América,
Everything free in América
For a small fee in América…”
¡ A-G-U-A-N-I-L-É !
El Barrio, Loisaída, Bushwick, y El Bronx 🇵🇷
“Aguanilé” is a healing prayer to Ogun.
Who answers the call? The community responds!
We are defined by family and community.
Dios te bendiga
(God bless you)
¡Aché!
(Amen)
“E-le-le, le-le-le…”
(We start and end the dance with a call to Eleguá, God’s messenger, because dance is how we pray)