Hispanic Heritage Month
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Things To Do in NYC in May 2024
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Things To Do in NYC in March 2024
Women’s History Month
Christmas is the World’s Most Popular Latin Holiday
The origins of Christmas, the traditional date, Christ’s birthplace, and the Mass that is the root of its religious and secular traditions.
Babalú-Ayé is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Sickness and Healing
DECEMBER 17 🇨🇺
Winter Solstice is the Ancient Root of Winter Holiday Celebrations
DECEMBER 21
National Sangria Day is a Good Day for Iberian Wine Fruit Punch
SPAIN and PORTUGAL 🇪🇸 🇵🇹
Watch Neil Tyson’s Manhattanhenge Solar Alignment
MANHATTAN 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, 57th, and 79th St
Louie Vega and the Elements of Life Spin House at the Blue Note New York
This legend of 1990s house music is from a Puerto Rican musical family. 🇵🇷
Chris Botti’s 19th Jazz Holiday Residency at the Blue Note is a New York Holiday Tradition
BLUE NOTE NEW YORK in Greenwich Village, Manhattan ~ One of America’s most popular instrumentalists plays through the holidays. 🇮🇹
American Ballet Theatre’s Fall Season is a Grand Tour of Recent Ballet History
DAVID H. KOCH THEATER at LINCOLN CENTER ~ Seven ballets in three programs that provide an epic tour of periods in ballet history.
October 18-29, 2023
GALA Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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Seu Jorge and Daniel Jobim Pay Homage to the Iconic 1962 Bossa Nova Concert at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan ~ Superstar Brazilian actor, funk, and samba singer who went global in the movie “City of God” (2002). 🇧🇷
Cimafunk, “the James Brown of Cuba,” Plays Timba Backed by Chucho Valdés and Pedrito Martinez at the Blue Note
One of the hottest young singers out of Cuba gets everyone dancing.
Thursday-Sunday, September 28 – October 1, 2023
BLUE NOTE in Greenwich Village
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Labor Day Celebrates Workers
Celebrate organized labor.
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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 […]
Celebrate Ogun, the Warrior Orisha of Metals, Technology, Drivers and Rum. ¡Aguanile!
June 29
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NYC’s Museum Mile Festival is an Open House Block Party on Fifth Avenue
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie, Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Jewish Museum, Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, Africa Center 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇵🇷
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
Salsa Dance
Salsa Dance NYC The New York Salsa Dance Scene New York is the world salsa capital. The Origin of Salsa Dance Salsa originates in the African Diaspora, so you can trace it back to Mother Africa. That’s a long journey, so we’ll start in Cuba, the living heart of Caribbean culture. Most human culture begins […]
Things To Do in NYC This Week June 5-11, 2023
Isabel Allende 🇨🇱 🇨🇺
Yasser Tejeda 🇩🇴 🇭🇹
SummerStage
National Puerto Rican Day Parade 🇵🇷
New York Salsa Festival 🇵🇷 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇩🇴
Tribeca Film Festival
116th St Festival 🇵🇷
Things To Do in NYC in June 2023
Blue Note Jazz Festival 2023 Brings Latin Jazz Legends to NYC
A jazz festival with everything from the blues to Latin to hip-hop.
Hammerstein Ballroom, The Town Hall, Sony Hall, Blue Note NYC
May 31 – July 2, 2023
Grace Jones 🇯🇲
Chucho Valdés & Paquito D’Rivera 🇨🇺
Omara Portuondo 🇨🇺
Sergio Mendes 🇧🇷
Julius Rodriguez 🇺🇸
Bomba NYC
Bomba is a Puerto Rican drum, song, and dance tradition of the African Diaspora, but today it is a communal expression of family, faith, community, and love for all Puerto Ricans. Bomba rhythms mixed with Cuban son into salsa. In NYC, bomba is performed and taught by folkloric drum, song and dance groups such as […]
Things To Do in NYC This Week May 22-28, 2023
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
BIG Salsa Festival
152nd Street Festival
Loisaida Festival
Orchard Beach Salsa Sundays
Frieze New York 2023 Brings International Galleries to One of NYC’s Contemporary Art Cores
Frieze brings hi-end contemporary art galleries from 27 countries to New York. The Frieze Week cluster of art fairs puts New York on the international art calendar.
THE SHED
Hudson Yards, Manhattan
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Ballet Hispánico Legacy Gala Hosted by Ana Navarro with Sergio Trujillo Tributes The Miranda Family at The Plaza
Ana Navarro (The View) with Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, On Your Feet!) lead a star-filled tribute to The Miranda Family with dancing to the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
THE PLAZA
Midtown, Manhattan
Thursday, June 1, 2023
International Workers Day or Labor Day is a National Holiday in Much of the Latin World
This ancient European spring holiday became associated with the labor movement. The U.S. downplays it, but it’s a major holiday in the Latin world.
Monday, May 1, 2023
New York Latin Theatre
Latin broadway, off-broadway, off-off-broadway, festivals, hispanic alliance
New York Latin Jazz NYC
New York Latin Jazz is traditional in Harlem and Greenwich Village. Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance are New York’s leading jazz and Latin jazz institutions. Birdland and the Blue Note are famous jazz clubs. The Village Vanguard is NYC’s oldest. Minton’s is where bebop was born. Terraza 7 is Latin. […]
Trinidad Carnival 2023 is the Mother of Caribbean Carnival
Wednesday-Thursday, February 15 – 23, 2023
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹
Indian NYC
Indian NYC is NYC’s second biggest immigrant community. New York has many Little Indias. Most Indians don’t consider ourselves to be Latin, but in the English-speaking Caribbean we are. After abolition, we came as indentured servants. That’s where that all that good Caribbean curry comes from. In Trinidad, Indian descent is the largest group, though […]
Spring Studios
New York Latin fashion, film, Tribeca
New York Latin Fashion
Latin Fashion shopping districts, designers, department stores, vintage, fashion weeks
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
New York Latin Food
Latin food restaurant weeks, festivals, markets
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. […]
Nublu
Nublu is a music collective with a pair of East Village world Jazz clubs. It has spawned a label with a number of bands and its own unique Nublu sound. It is a late night club. Performances usually start around midnight. The open door policy is cool. If you don’t get in, the club is […]
Caribbean
New York Latin Caribbean travel is a great way to discover beaches, rainforests, wildlife, Indigenous, Colonial and African history, good food and friendly people. Traveling the Caribbean, you just might find yourself. Caribbean Culture Each country is different experience of geography, people and history, but we all share Caribbean culture.
Antônio Carlos Jobim wrote The Girl From Ipanema
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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New York Latin Soccer
Red Bull Arena
New York Latin soccer, sports
Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival 2023 Brings New York Street Dance to the Guggenheim Museum
Thursday-Tuesday, January 12-17, 2023
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
Upper East Side
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New York Dominican NYC
New York Dominicans are one of the Latin communities defining New York today. New York City has been Dominican since the first immigrant, Juan Rodríguez, arrived in 1613. He set up New York’s first bodega (colmado or store), in the Financial District where the National Museum of the American Indian is now. We have been […]
Carnival 2023 is the World’s Biggest Latin Party
New York Latin festivals
Alcarràs, Spain’s Oscar Entry, Screens at Film at Lincoln Center
Friday, January 6, 2023
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
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Met Cloisters
New York Latin art
Red Hook, Brooklyn
Metropolitan Opera House
ballet, dance, opera, music
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 […]
Rockefeller Center
Latin art, dance, flamenco, mariachi, opera, pop, portuguese music, rap, rock, salsa, music