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Haitian Culture in New York City

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

French Culture in New York City

Explore French Culture in New York City in art, books, comedy, dance, fashion, festivals, film, food, music, sports, and theatre. 🇫🇷

Argentine Culture in New York City

Explore Argentine Culture in New York City, including artists, venues that present Argentine culture, Argentine New York City, and more. 🇦🇷

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 […]

Things to do in NYC This Week June 19-25, 2023

Things to do in NYC this week June 19-25, 2023 include: Juneteenth, Summer Solstice, NYC Pride week, and American Ballet Theatre. Latin Dance American Ballet Theatre’s summer season is at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center, June 22 – July 22, 2023. Teaze, NYC Pride’s BIPOC diversity dance party, is at Club Lambda BK […]

Dance Parade NYC 2023 DanceFest Gets over 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Streets

DANCE PARADE
Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village

African, Afrobeat, Afro-Cuban, Bhangra, Bollywood, Bomba, Break Dancing, Caporales, Carnival, Dancehall, Flamenco, Folkloric, Hip-Hop, House, Jazz, Latin, Majorette, Mexican, Moko Jumbies, Reggae, Salay, Salsa, Samba, Soca, Street, Tammurriata, Tap, Tarrantella, Tinkus, and more. 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇹🇹

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Saturday, May 20, 2023

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

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

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, […]

I’m a Storyteller and This is My Story “Lo Co-qui” Keith Widyolar

Buenas. ¿Todo bien? If I am any one thing, it is creative. Whether writing, singing, marketing, designing, photographing, dancing, or just having fun with friends; I am a storyteller. My first mentor taught me to write. My second taught me that marketing is always having an answer. I learned that lesson myself doing beauty photography […]

Things To Do in NYC in February 2023

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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 […]

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 […]

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

Things To Do in NYC in January 2023

Three Kings Day, Martin Luther King Day
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Chinese NYC

Chinese NYC is the biggest population of Chinese descent outside of Asia. NYC has many Chinatowns now, but the original Manhattan Chinatown was formed by the workforce that built the western end of the Transcontinental Railroad (1863-1869). Chinese are Latin through the Caribbean. We were the first to understand what was done to the African […]

Filipino NYC

Filipino NYC is a small, vibrant community that is strong in health care. NYC’s main “Little Manila” is a five-block stretch of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. There are communities around the Philippine Consulate in Midtown, around the hospitals in the East Village, and in Jersey City, New Jersey. We don’t consider ourselves Latin, but […]

Things To Do in NYC in December 2022

Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve

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New York Bomba

Bomba in NYC is a Puerto Rican drum, song, and dance tradition with African roots. The barille drum used to be made from old rum barrels. “Bomba” in Spanish means “pump.” We pump the barille. The Bomba dancer challenges the lead drummer to match their dance moves. Cuban Rumba Columbia plays a similar game. Women […]

Christmas in New York City

Christmas in New York City is much more than Christmas. New Yorkers call the season “The Holidays” to respect everyone’s traditions. Holiday traditions are rooted in the Winter Solstice which is traditionally an important day in the northern hemisphere. The Christmas holiday was created by a pope in Roman times. Whatever you call the season, […]

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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Things to Do in NYC in August 2022

DANCE: BAAND Together & Battery Dance Festival
FESTIVALS: Afribembé, Arte Pa’ Mi Gente, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Harlem Week, Summer For the City, SummerStage, Summer Streets
FOOD: Creole Food Festival, NYC Restaurant Week
MUSIC: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
PARADES: Dominican & Ecuadorian
THEATRE: Shakespeare in the Park
SPORTS: US Open Tennis

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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 […]

Things to do in NYC in September 2020

1-24 US Open Tennis (ESPN)
2 Corn Moon
3 Whitney Museum reopens
4-7 Labor Day Weekend
4 NY Carnival Brass Fest 🇹🇹
5 Morgan Library reopens
6 Roberto Clemente Day 🇵🇷
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7 Labor Day
7 NY Carnival Virtual Road 🇹🇹
7 Brazilian Independence 🇧🇷
9 American Museum of Natural History reopens
11 Remember 9/11
11-16 FDLA Fashion Designers of Latin America 🇩🇴
12 El Museo del Barrio reopens
12 Brooklyn Museum reopens
13-16 RUNWAY360 (NYFW) 🇨🇱 🇻🇪
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15-15 Hispanic Heritage Month
15 Independence of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua 🇨🇷 🇸🇻 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇳🇮
16 Mexican Independence 🇲🇽
17 MoMA PS1 reopens
18 Chilean Independence 🇨🇱
18-28 High Holidays 🇮🇱
18-20 Rosh Hashanah 🇮🇱
19 Procession of San Gennaro 🇮🇹
20 African American Parade
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25-11 NY Film Festival
26 NY Carnival Panology 🇹🇹
27-28 Yom Kippur 🇮🇱

Liquidus Tabula Rasa Dance Theater for Our Times

Saturdays, July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2020 at 7pm
YouTube Live Streams
Next Day recorded re-runs
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Mexican, Thai, Argentine & Japanese -American artists
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The performance is funded by the Ford Foundation. Instagram won’t let us post the image.

Things to do in NYC in March 2020

Women’s History Month
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3-9 Spring/Break Art Show
4-8 Volta New York
5-15 Rendez-Vous with Frenc Cinema
5-8 Armory Show
5-8 Scope New York
5-8 Art on Paper
5-8 Clio Art Fair
6-8 Independent art fair
8 International Women’s Day
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9 Purim
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17 St. Patrick’s Day
17 St. Patrick’s Day Parade
20 Spring
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26-29 Affordable Art Fair
27 Register to Vote
27-5 Flamenco Festival
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31 Cesar Chavez Day

Things to do in NYC in February 2020

Black History Month
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Broadway Week
Off-Broadway Week
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3-12 New York Fashion Week
5-19 MoMA Doc Fortnight
8 VILLALOBOS BROTHERS
8-11 Westminster Dog Show
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CHEAPEST WEEK TO VISIT NYC
14 Valentine’s Day
14 President’s Day Weekend
14 PISTOLERA
14 Neighboring Scenes Film Festival
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17 PRESIDENTS DAY
21 Carnival weekend
21-15 International Children’s Film Festival
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25 Mardi Gras
26 Ash Wednesday
26 ADAA Art Show
27 Dominican Independence Day