DAVID GEFFEN HALL at Lincoln Center ~ One of the most popular choral works in European art music. 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇹
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This September’s Full Corn Moon is a Harvest Moon
Friday, September 29, 2023
Independent 20th Century Art Fair Looks Deeper Into the Recent Past
The Independent 20th Century 2023 art fair recasts the recent past with a New York state of mind. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇹🇹
West Indian Day Parade is the Climax of New York Carnival
Explore Caribbean culture at the climax of Caribbean Carnival.
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New York Carnival Celebrates Freedom Trinidad Style
New York Carnival 2023 celebrates Trinidad Caribbean traditions with Voice’s Long Live Soca Tour, SocaFest, Junior Carnival, Panorama, Sunrise Day Soiree, J’Ouvert, and the West Indian Day Parade.
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Trinidadian Culture
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago are the two southernmost islands of the Lesser Antilles. They are close to the coast of Venezuela. We are Trinbagonian. Public Holidays in Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago’s public holidays reflect the country’s diversity.
Things To Do in NYC in November 2023
Things to do in NYC in November include: the Veterans Day Parade and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Celebrate Mexico Now cultural festival, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the fall art auctions. November is Native American Heritage Month, Puerto Rican Heritage Month, and Hip-Hop History Month. US national holidays in November include Veterans Day, Thanksgiving […]
Things To Do in NYC in September 2023
Things to do in NYC in September 2023 include: New York Carnival, J’ouvert, and the West Indian Day Parade; New York Fashion Week and Fashion Designers of Latin America; Feast of San Gennaro, African American Day Parade; and Mexican Day Parade. The September holiday is Labor Day on Monday, September 4, 2023. Hispanic Heritage Month […]
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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Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 14, 2023
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New York Latin Dance NYC
New York Latin Dance NYC is both Latin dance theatre and Latin dance. Music and dance are a yin and yang pair. ☯️ Latin dance theatre: African Diaspora, ballet, contemporary, flamenco, folkloric, jazz, modern, hip-hop and tap. By the way, ballet is a Latin dance. Broadway is jazz dance. Latin dance (social): bachata, bomba, champeta, […]
Manhattan
This is an aerial view of Manhattan from New York Harbor. New York City is what it is today because it is on the water which was the superhighway of old. New York Harbor could safely hold a thousand ships. This view shows Manhattan’s two business districts of skyscrapers. The Downtown Financial District, whose tallest […]
Things To Do in NYC This Weekend February 22-28, 2023
Film festival, rumba, timba, tango, salsa, jazz, bachata, merengue, flamenco and more.
Doc Fortnight 2023 Explores the Sad Echoes of Our Colonial Past and Present
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Midtown, Manhattan
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Things To Do in NYC in February 2023
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Barranquilla Carnival 2023 is One of the World’s Great Carnivals
Saturday-Tuesday, February 18-21, 2023
BARRANQUILLA, Colombia 🇨🇴
Mexican NYC
Mexican NYC News January 2023 The Prototype Festival 2023 of contemporary opera and musical theater presents new voices, including Mexican folk singer Silvana Estrada’s beautiful “Marchita;” at Here in Hudson Square and other NYC venues; for one week Thursday, January 5-13, 2023. From $40. prototypefestival.org 🇲🇽 The PBR Buck Off 2022 professional bull rider’s rodeo […]
Nella Rojas Sings Venezuelan Jazz at Carnegie Hall with Flor de Toloache
Friday, March 24, 2023
CARNEGIE HALL Zankel Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
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African American New York
“New York is a secret African city.” Robert Farris Thompson, American historian at Yale University Thompson’s statement is true. Once you learn to read the signs, you see the parallel universe of the African Diaspora, everywhere. To preserve our heritage culture, we hid it in plain sight. New York Latin Culture
Longwood, The Bronx
New York Latin music, festivals
East Village NYC
The East Village NYC is a bohemian neighborhood east of Greenwich Village that is gentrifying. It’s where the Broadway hit musical “Rent” was set. It includes Alphabet City, Manhattan’s eastern rump. St Mark’s Place (8th St) was NYC’s punk street in the 1980s. You still see punkers around. Their mohawks are a bit quaint now. […]
Paraguayan NYC
Paraguayan NYC is a small community centered in Queens and Somerset, New Jersey. Paraguayan culture is a mix of Indigenous and Spanish cultures with some German influences. Guarani were the main Indigenous group. Guarani is still the dominant language. Paraguayan NYC News February 2023 Scottish classical guitarist Sean Shibe celebrates the Spanish influence on classical […]
Caribbean New York
New York Latin Bahamas and Turks and Caicos The Big Islands The big islands are the Greater Antilles which include Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Antilles is an old European name for mythical islands somewhere between Europe and India. The First Nations were Indigenous Taíno. The colonizers were Spanish, English and French. The West Indies […]
South American
New York Latin Vuelvo al Surcomo se vuelve siempre al amor,Vuelvo a voscon mi deseo, con mi temor…” “Vuelvo al Sur,” Astor Piazzolla and Fernando E. Solanas We love the culture we inherited because it is part of us now. Those systems were designed for people at the top to steal everything. “Cien Años de […]
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Latin comedy, festivals, music, parades, sports
Trinidadian NYC
Trinidadian NYC is centered in Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, & Flatbush, Brooklyn; South Ozone Park, Queens; and Nassau County, Long Island. Trinidad and Tobago are the southernmost islands in the Lesser Antilles. Trinidad is less than seven miles from the Venezuelan mainland. The correct term for people from Trinidad and Tobago is “Trinbagonian.” Most […]
Nigerian NYC
Nigerian NYC is centered in Crown Heights and East New York, Brooklyn; Concord-Fox Hills, Staten Island; and Unionburg-Newark Heights, New Jersey. You can find Nigerian products in the West African section of 115th St in Harlem, in and around the Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market. Nigeria has over 250 ethnic groups. Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba are […]
NoHo
Latin music, theatre
Ara Malikian Plays His Mad Violin at Carnegie Hall
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
CARNEGIE HALL
Midtown, NYC
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Elmhurst, Queens
Elmhurst, Queens is a residential neighborhood that is mostly Hispanic and Asian. Roosevelt Avenue on the northern border with Jackson Heights, and Junction Blvd on the eastern border with Corona are very Hispanic. Terraza 7 is a unique, Colombian-owned jazz bar. It’s one of the top jazz bars in Queens. Many NYC Latin jazz musicians […]
Washington Heights NYC
Washington Heights is a residential neighborhood around the I-95 crossing in Upper Manhattan. It is NYC’s Little Dominican Republic. Sub-neighborhoods include Hudson Heights and Fort George. Washington Heights News November 2022 The 11th Dominican Film Festival New York 2022 is at the United Palace and Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights, Cinépolis Chelsea, and […]
Arsenio Rodríguez, “El Ciego Maravilloso,” Added Horns and Conga to Son Montuno
GÜIRA DE MACURIJES, Matanzas, Cuba ~ August 31, 1911 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in September 2022
New York Carnival, Brazilian Day, J’ouvert, Mid-Autumn Festival, Feast of San Gennaro, Hispanic Heritage Month
ART Armory Week, Affordable Art Fair
DANCE NY City Ballet, Fall for Dance
FASHION Fashion Week, FDLA
FILM NY Latino Film Festival, NY Film Festival
INDEPENDENCE Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Chile
MUSIC Met Opera
PARADES West Indian, African American, Mexican
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Son Del Monte Plays Pachanga (Salsa Cuban Style) for the New York Salsa Congress at the Marriott Marquis
Sunday, September 4, 2022
MARRIOTT MARQUIS
Times Square
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New York Carnival & West Indian Day Parade 2022 are Back in Brooklyn!
VIBES WITH VOICE Soca concert
Thursday, September 1, 2022
ISLAND 2 ISLAND Soca concert
Friday, September 2, 2022
JUNIOR CARNIVAL + PAN IN A MINOR
Saturday, September 3, 2022
PAINTOPIA J’OUVERT + AMNESIA Soca & Dancehall party
Sunday, September 4, 2022
WEST INDIAN DAY PARADE
Monday, September 5, 2022
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park is Brooklyn’s big museum. It has strong collections of African art. Civilization as we now it today, started in what is now Iraq and developed further in Egypt in Mother Africa between 4,000 and 3,000 BCE. First Saturdays are a fun community block party with free cultural programming on […]
Summer For the City 2022 Brings NYC Together at Lincoln Center
May 14 – August 14, 2022
Dance, Film, Music, Words
Afrobeats, Brazilian Funk, Salsa, Voguing
LINCOLN CENTER
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Battle of Boyacá was the Tipping Point in the Liberation of South America!
Monday, August 7, 2023
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico really is the island of enchantment. Famous for some of the world’s best beaches, the mountain heartland is even more beautiful. We are both contemporary and conservative. Old ways survive, especially in the mountains. The drum is alive in Puerto Rico. The island is so many things you never imagined. It is famously […]
American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is the world’s largest natural history museum with 45 exhibition halls and the Hayden Planetarium. It is a lot more than dinosaurs. It is planets, elephants, giant trees, a blue whale, Lucy and lots of stuff you will remember all your life. There are many interactive exhibits too. […]
Laylat al-Qadr is the Muslim Night of Power
Friday, April 29, 2022
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Feast of the Ascension Celebrates Jesus’ Entry into Heaven
Thursday, May 26, 2022
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Hurricane Season 2022 is June to November
Wednesday, June 1 – November 2022
Hispanic Heritage Month 2021
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Union County
Union County, New Jersey is anchored by Elizabeth, New Jersey and the southern half of Newark Liberty International Airport. Northeast rail lines and the I-95 Interstate pass through. The Elizabeth Marine Terminal is part of Port Newark. The eastern part of the county is very urban. The western part of the county is rural and […]
Panamanian Parade NYC 2021
Saturday, October 9, 2021
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn
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Coney Island
Coney Island, Brooklyn is a seaside resort community with a legendary boardwalk and amusement parks, hot dog stand, minor league baseball, aquarium, and a bohemian reputation. GravesendLower New York Bay | Coney Island | Brighton BeachLower New York Bay Belt Parkway is the northern border. Ocean Parkway is the eastern border. Coney Island News The […]
Shakespeare in the Park Returns with “Merry Wives” and a Falstaff President set in West African Harlem
July 5 – August 29, 2021
DELACORTE THEATER
Central Park
FREE
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Morningside Heights
Morningside Heights is a quiet residential neighborhood on the hills of Upper Manhattan. It has beautiful views of the Hudson River and the rooftops of Harlem. Broadway is the main street. BORDERS125th StRiverside Dr ✦ Morningside Dr110th St Visit Morningside Heights The neighborhood is home to Columbia University so it is full of teachers and […]
Zaccai Curtis Afro-Cuban Jazz Quartet Keeps Stretching Cubop
HOSTOS CENTER
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Friday, May 28, 2021 at 7:30pm ET FREE
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