Making Room: Museum as Space for Self-Expression, community art
Futura 2000: Breaking Out, Leonard Hilton McGurr graffiti art to abstraction
CONCOURSE VILLAGE, The Bronx
María José Llergo and Sandra Carrasco contemporary flamenco 🇪🇸
Ana Tijoux Chilean French hip hop 🇨🇱 🇫🇷
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Spanish flamenco tablao 🇪🇸
Combo Chimbita & Pachyman Colombian alternative cumbia & Puerto Rican reggae 🇨🇴 🇵🇷
Céu Brazilian música popular brasileira (MPB) 🇧🇷
Bebel Gilberto Brazilian bossa nova 🇧🇷
Carmen Consoli Italian pop 🇮🇹
Louane French pop 🇫🇷
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan
Celebrate the Holidays: Hanukkah, Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve!
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 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.
Jewish NYC is one of the communities that defines New York City. We are the world’s largest Jewish community outside Israel. There are many Jewish communities in the Latin world. NYC’s first Jewish Community arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. It is now Congregation Shearith Israel, a Sephardic (Spanish & Portuguese) community. We made New […]
Uruguayan NYC is a small community based in Jackson Heights, Queens and Elizabeth, New Jersey. The community center is the Uruguayan restaurants on 37th Avenue between 84th & 86th St in Jackson Heights. Uruguayan NYC News January 2023 The Annette A Aguilar Trio, featuring Uruguayan guitar hero Bele Beledo, plays late night jazz on New Year’s […]
Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve
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Latin folk, jazz, music
Harlem is NYC’s iconic African American neighborhood. It is famous for Jazz, Swing, Rhythm and Blues, Rap, great food and fun nights. 155th StHudson River | Harlem | Fifth AvenueCentral Park North (110th) A lot of history was made here. The Harlem Renaissance produced legendary artists in the 1920s and 30s. The Black Arts Movement […]
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, […]
NYC Music Festivals come all year long. In winter, artists perform for booking agents at APAP and Winter JazzFest. In summer, New York City becomes one long outdoor music festival. Latin Music Festivals NYC October 2022 September 2022 The Afropunk music festival is at Commodore Barry Park in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Saturday-Sunday, September 10-11, 2022. […]
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 […]
Prospect Park is the big park in Brooklyn. Its home to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It provides green space, wetlands, an indigenous forest, a band shell, a zoo, an ice rink, a carousel and athletic facilities. The LeFrak Center at Lakeside offers ice skating, figure skating, curling and hockey […]
Holidays in New York
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
1 Portuguese Restoration Day
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2 Cyber Monday
2 Advent
2 Winter’s Eve street fair
3 Giving Tuesday
4 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
4 Alvin Ailey
5-8 Art Basel Miami Beach
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11 International Tango Day
11 Las Mañanitas
12 Our Lady of Guadalupe
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16 La Posada / La Novena
19 Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice
22-30 HANUKKAH
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24 Christmas Eve
25 CHRISTMAS
26-1 KWANZAA
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31 New Year’s Eve
Black History Month
1-3 Cinema Tropical film festival
5 Lunar New Year
6-10 Film Comment Selects
8-16 New York Fashion Week
9-12 Westminster Dog Show
11-24 Off-Broadway Week
14 Valentine’s Day, Carnival
18 Presidents Day
21-28 MoMA Doc Fortnight
22-17 Int’l Children’s Film Festival
22-26 Neighboring Scenes film festival
28-3 ADAA Art Show
28-10 Rendez-vous with French Cinema
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