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Bronx Latin Culture

The Bronx is a cultural forge. (Ivan Santiago/Dreamstime)

Explore the Latin side of The Bronx at Bronx Museum of the Arts, Hostos Center, Lehman Center, Pregones PRTT, Yankee Stadium, and more.

Los Pleneros de la 21 Teach Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena For Carnegie Hall’s Family Day

Los Pleneros de la 21 (Andres Rodriguez/Lincoln Center)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇵🇷

Julieta Venegas in New York City

Julieta Venegas (Ibsibs/Dreamstime)

BEACON THEATRE, Upper West Side, Manhattan 🇲🇽

Things To Do in NYC in October 2024

Things to do in NYC in October 2024, Hispanic Heritage Month (PintoArt/Adobe)

Hispanic Heritage Month

Spanish Culture in New York City

Spanish NYC (Ocusfocus/Dreamstime)

Explore Spanish NYC, in flamenco and art, books, comedy, dance, fashion, festivals, film, food, music, sports and theatre. 🇪🇸

The Haitian Revolution was One of the Greatest Human Rights Achievements of All Time

Haitian Revolution "Le Negres Marron" (Glenda Powers/Adobe)

August 22, 1791 🇭🇹

Dominican Restoration Day Commemorates “El Grito de Capotillo” That Launched the Dominican War of Restoration

Dominican Restoration Day, General Gregorio Luperón (Public Domain/Wikipedia)

August 16, 1863 🇩🇴

Haitian Culture in New York City

Haitian Culture in New York City (Nadio/Dreamstime)

Explore Haitian Culture in New York City, including Haitian artists and institutions, and New York venues that present Haitian culture. 🇭🇹

Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) Promotes African Diaspora Culture

CCCADI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (courtesy)

GRANT’S TOMB Afribembé A Great Day in Harlem

“EL BARRIO” EAST HARLEM, Manhattan

The Feast of St James Celebrates the Patron Saint of Spain Guatemala and Loíza Aldea Puerto Rico

JULY 25 🇪🇸 🇬🇹 🇵🇷

Macy’s NYC is One of the World’s Largest Department Stores

Macy's NYC Herald Square (Hollandog/Dreamstime)

Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks 🇺🇸
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon Inflation 🇺🇸
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 🇺🇸

HERALD SQUARE, Garment District, Manhattan

Eleguá ~ Papa Legba ~ Elegbara ~ Eshu is the Yoruba Orisha of the Crossroads of Destiny

Eleguá watches a door in Cuba. He watches our door too. (Tupungato/Dreamstime)

Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Benin, Togo 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬

Tribeca Film Festival is an Intersection of Film, Celebrity, and Popular Culture

Tribeca Film Festival (Jon Bilous/Adobe)

TRIBECA 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇯🇲 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇷 🇸🇴 🇺🇾

Open Roads New Italian Cinema 2024 is an Italian Movie Showcase

Open Roads New Italian Cinema (Unardc/Dreamstime)

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan 🇮🇹

Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Fort Greene, Brooklyn (lazyllama/Adobe)

BROOKLYN

Harlem International Film Festival 2024 Brings the Spotlight Uptown

Harlem International Film Festival (serhiibobyk/Dreamstime)

THE FORUM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇼 🇸🇷

Museum of the City of New York Celebrates 100 Years

Museum of the City of New York (Filip Wolak/MCNY)

“We Are Still Here!” Lunaapeew/Lenape Celebration Weekend 🇺🇸

Byzantine Bembé, New York by Manny Vega 🇵🇷 🇧🇷

“EL BARRIO” EAST HARLEM, Manhattan

New Directors New Films 2024 Pushes the Envelope at Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art

New Directors New Films (Sunny Studio/Adobe)

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Manhattan
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Midtown, Manhattan

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ReelAbilities Film Festival New York is a Festival of Disability, Love, and Sharing the Joy of Life

ReelAbilities Film Festival New York (Bangkok Click Studio/Dreamstime)

MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN, Upper West Side, and venues all over town. 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇺🇸

La Sonora Ponceña Plays Puerto Rican Salsa at Lehman Center

La Sonora Ponceña in 2024 (Lehman Center)

LEHMAN CENTER, Jerome Park, The Bronx 🇵🇷

Hip Hop in New York City

Hip Hop in New York City (Chaoss/Adobe)

Explore Hip Hop in New York City: artists, DJs, festivals, and theatre; and venues: stadiums, arenas, performing arts centers, and theaters.

Human Rights Watch Film Festival Ends After Screening 1,000 Independent Films Over 30 Years

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2023 (We Are Guardians/Fernanda Luna)

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Whitney Biennial 2024 is Even Better Than the Real Thing

Whitney Biennial 2024 ~ AI image (Sebastian/Adobe)

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Meatpacking District, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇸🇻 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇹🇹

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is One of the World’s Great Modern, Contemporary, Film, and Latin Art Museums

Museum of Modern Art, MoMA (Bumbledee/Dreamstime)

Carolina Caycedo: Spiral for Shared Dreams, Colombian, Mexican environmental installation 🇨🇴 🇲🇽
Doc Fortnight documentary film festival 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇬🇵 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Crafting Modernity, Design in Latin America, 1940-1980, Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Mexican, Venezuelan interior design 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇻🇪
New Directors New Films film festival 🇨🇱 🇧🇷 🇪🇸

MIDTOWN, Manhattan

Byenveni “Lakay se Lakay” is a Haitian Diasporic Art Exhibition On the Idea that Home is Home at the CCCADI

Byenveni Lakay se Lakey (Madjeen Isaac/CCCADI)

CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI), “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇹

Kwanzaa is the African American Holiday Tradition. Habari Gani!

Kwanzaa NYC (Timothy Nichols/Dreamstime)

DECEMBER 26 to JANUARY 1 ~ Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity), Imani (Faith). 🇺🇸

Babalú-Ayé is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Sickness and Healing

Babalú-Ayé at San Lazaro Church in El Rincón, Cuba (Joe Sohm/Dreamstime)

DECEMBER 17 🇨🇺

Bulla en el Barrio Releases Debut Album “Vámonos que nos vamos”

Bulla en el Barrio (Lincoln Center)

New York City’s first Bullerengue group updates the Caribbean Colombian women’s tradition from San Basilio de Palenque, the first free African town in the Americas. 🇨🇴

Manny Vega’s “Byzantine Bembé, New York” is a Love Letter to “El Barrio,” Puerto Rican, and Yoruba Culture

"Byzantine Bembé" New York by Manny Vega: Manny Vega, "Bomba Celestial," Colored glass on plaster, 2009–2010, Collection of Bobbito García AKA Kool Bob Love (Manny Vega/MCNY)

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇵🇷 🇧🇷

Atlantic Theater Company is a Tony, Pulitzer, Grammy, and HOLA Award-Winning Producer

Atlantic Theater Company (courtesy)

“Buena Vista Social Club” musical 🇨🇺
“El Otro Oz” children’s musical 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

CHELSEA, Manhattan

Lincoln Center Theater is an Important Complex of Broadway and Off-Broadway Theaters

Lincoln Center Theater (Bumbledee/Dreamstime)

Newhouse Theater ~ “The Gardens of Anuncia” Michael John LaChiusa’s Graciela Daniele Story 🇦🇷

LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan

Native American Heritage Day is a U.S. National Holiday on the Day After Thanksgiving!

Celebrate Native American Heritage Day (alfa27/Adobe)

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Celia Cruz, “The Queen of Salsa,” Popularized Latin Music Around the World

Celia Cruz (Estate of Adál Maldonado / Roberto Paradise)

HAVANA, Cuba, October 21, 1925 🇨🇺

Things To Do in NYC in December 2023

Celebrate the Holidays: Hanukkah, Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve!

Things To Do in NYC in November 2023

Things to do in NYC in November 2023 (Art/Dreamstime)

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 […]

Isabel Allende Reads From and Discusses Her New Book “The Wind Knows My Name” with Alicia Menendez

Isabel Allende at the 92nd Street Y, New York in 2020 (Nancy Crampton/92NY)

92ND STREET Y, NEW YORK
Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇮🇱 🇸🇻

Chosen Memories at MoMA Finds the Needle in the Haystack of Contemporary Latin American Art

Chosen Memories installation (Jonathan Dorado/MoMA)

The Cisneros Institute show the power of giving.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Midtown, Manhattan
April 30 – September 9, 2023

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African Diaspora International Film Festival is a World Full of Music & Soul

African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 (Susana Baca "Memoria Viva"/Mark Dixon)

This is an outstanding curation of excellent films that show the power and resilience of African Diaspora culture around the world. There are American, Brazilian, British, Cuban, French, Guadeloupean, Malian and Peruvian music films.

COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE
Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Friday-Sunday, April 28-30, 2023
🇺🇸 🇩🇿 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇬🇵 🇮🇳 🇲🇱 🇵🇪 🇬🇧

Dry Ground Burning Moves Real Brazilian Women on the Edge to the Front and Center

"Dry Ground Burning" (Grasshopper Films)

Part gangster film, part cowboy western, and part science fiction, a woman fresh out of prison becomes a champion of the oppressed in dystopian Brazil.

BAM
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
April 21 – May 3, 2023
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Black Arts Movement: Then & Now Conference

Black Arts Movement Examined at Harlem Stage

HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Xiomara Fortuna, the Queen of Afro-Caribbean Fusion, Plays Hostos Center

Xiomara Fortuna, The Queen of Afro-Caribbean Fusion (Hostos Center)

Saturday, April 1, 2023
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Crotona Park East, The Bronx

Crotona Park Nature Center, Crotona Park East, The Bronx (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

Crotona Park East is a residential neighborhood in The Bronx. It is also known as Crotona or East Morrisania. There is a vibrant Garifuna community. The neighborhood’s boundaries are: Cross-Bronx ExpresswayCrotona/Prospect Ave | Crotona Park East | Bronx RiverEast 167th St This used to be a cultural center like Harlem and Greenwich Village. We got […]

Things To Do in NYC This Weekend: March 22-28, 2023

Things To Do in NYC This Weekend: March 22-28, 2023 (Gulrez-K/Dreamstime)

MANHATTAN: flamenco, theatre, classical music, mariachi, pop, jazz, salsa

THE BRONX: latin jazz, spoken word, bullerengue, bomba, regional mexican, classical music

BROOKLYN: house music

QUEENS: bachata, merengue, salsa, reggaeton, dem bow, trap, banda, jazz

Things To Do in NYC in February 2023

Things To Do in NYC in February 2023 (Jill Shepherd/Dreamstime)

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New York Latin Theatre

NYC Theatre Broadway (Rafael Ben Ari/Dreamstime)

Latin broadway, off-broadway, off-off-broadway, festivals, hispanic alliance

Mexican NYC

Mexican cuisine (Chitokan/Pexels)

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 […]

New York Latin Jazz NYC

New York Latin Jazz (Francesco Lorenzetti/Dreamstime)

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. […]

Tribeca NYC

Tribeca, Downtown NYC (Alena Kravchenko/Dreamstime)

Tribeca NYC (TRIangle-BElow-CAnal) is a family neighborhood filled with the movie industry, restaurants, and art galleries. Canal StWest Side Hwy | Tribeca | BroadwayVesey St Tribeca grew into a commercial neighborhood in the 1850s-60s. It was the home of Washington Market, NYC’s main produce market, until that was replaced by the World Trade Center in […]

African American New York

Dizzy Gillespie was the co-founder of bebop modern jazz, and a godfather of Latin jazz (© Everett Collection/Adobe)

“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

Italian NYC

Little Italy, NYC (Patrid Poendl/Dreamstime)

Today, Italian NYC is mostly in Throgs Neck & Morris Park The Bronx; Staten Island; and Harlem, and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Italians are one of the communities that defines New York City and the United States. The big wave of immigration came between the 1850s and 1930s. Many Southern Italians came between 1880 and 1920. Italy […]

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