Things To Do in NYC in August 2023 include the Dominican Day Parade, Ecuadorian Day Parade, SummerStage and US Open Tennis.
August’s late summer weather can be hot and humid with afternoon thunderstorms. Temperature averages 68-83°F.
There aren’t any federal holidays, but the last weeks of August are traditional summer holiday time.
It’s Black August in memory of all freedom fighters. Latin culture includes Pachamama, Assumption of Mary, Haitian Revolution, Santa Rosa de Lima, and August 28.
National days include Bolivian, Ecuadorian and Uruguayan independence days and Dominican Restoration Day.
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, NYC. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, August 4, 2023
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Sunday, August 6, 2023
Dance Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx on Sunday, August 6, 2023 from around 12-5pm. FREE. 🇵🇷
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, January 8, 2023 from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, August 7, 2023
Dance salsa, bachata, merengue, and more at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, NYC. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, August 11, 2023
DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell) and his sister Cindy ran the first Hip-Hop party, a back-to-school party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in Morris Heights, The Bronx; on August 11, 1973.
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Sunday, August 13, 2023
Dance Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx on Sunday, August 13, 2023 from around 12-5pm. FREE. 🇵🇷
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, January 8, 2023 from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, August 14, 2023
Dance salsa, bachata, merengue, and more at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
TRAVEL
The Osun-Osogbo Festival honors Oshun, the orisha of beauty and love, in at the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove in Osogbo, Nigeria from August 14-19, 2023 [To be confirmed]. 🇳🇬
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Celebrate India Independence Day, August 15, 1947 🇮🇳
Celebrate the Assumption of Mary, which marks the start of summer holidays in Catholic Europe.
NYC Broadway Week 2023 Summer (September 4-24) tickets go on sale Tuesday, August 15, 2023 [To be confirmed].
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Celebrate Dominican Restoration Day, and the cry that launched the Dominican War of Restoration (from Spain) on August 16, 1863. 🇩🇴
Celebrate National Rum Day on August 16, 2023.
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, NYC. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, August 18, 2023
Remember Roberto Clemente #21, the baseball star and humanitarian who was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico on August 18, 1934. 🇵🇷
Celebrate the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which gave most American women the right to vote on August 18, 1920. 🇺🇸
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Sunday, August 20, 2023
Dance Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx on Sunday, August 20, 2023 from around 12-5pm. FREE. 🇵🇷
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, January 8, 2023 from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
[RIVALRY]
New York Red Bulls vs D.C. United is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $34. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇯🇲 | 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 | 🇮🇹 | 🇨🇲 🇺🇬
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, August 21, 2023
The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) began on the night of August 21. It’s the only time in history that a people freed themselves and founded a nation. It’s an important moment in Latin history because the fighting pushed a Haitian Diaspora across the Caribbean as far as Trinidad and New Orleans which was then America’s most important city. By 1810, half of New Orleans was Haitian. A lot of our roots pass through Ayti. 🇭🇹
Happy birthday Gilberto Santa Rosa! The legendary salsa singer was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico on August 21, 1962. 🇵🇷
Dance salsa, bachata, merengue, and more at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Remember the UN International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition.
Remember Graciela Grillo of Machito and His Afro-Cubans (Ay José). The legendary Latin jazz singer was born in Jesús María, Havana, Cuba on August 23, 1915. 🇨🇺
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Remember Jorge Luis Borges, the great writer who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 24, 1899. 🇦🇷
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, NYC. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, August 25, 2023
Celebrate Uruguayan Independence Day, August 25, 1825. 🇺🇾
Remember Leonard Bernstein the legendary classical and Broadway composer, who wrote the music to “West Side Story.” He was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on August 25, 1918.
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Happy birthday Thalia! The “Queen of Latin Pop” was born in México City, México on August 26, 1971. 🇲🇽
Remember Rufino Tamayo. The surrealist painter, known for the vibrant colors of his watermelons, was born in Oaxaca de Juárez, México on August 26, 1899. 🇲🇽
Do the Central Park Tango at the Shakespeare Statue on the south end of The Mall in Central Park, Saturdays, from 6-8:30pm. $20 suggested donation. 🇦🇷🇺🇾
New York Red Bulls vs Miami is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, August 26, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $34. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇯🇲 | 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 | 🇮🇹 | 🇨🇲 🇺🇬
Sunday, August 27, 2023
Dance Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx on Sunday, August 27, 2023 from around 12-5pm. FREE. 🇵🇷
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, January 8, 2023 from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, August 28, 2023
August 28 is a very special day:
- Remember Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther, who passed on August 28, 2020. 🇺🇸
- Remember Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech from August 28, 1963. 🇺🇸
- Remember 14 year old Emmett Till who was lynched in Mississippi on August 28, 1955. 🇺🇸
- Celebrate the Feast of St Augustine, an African Berber (354-430) from what is now Algeria, who was one of the most influential Christian philosophers. 🇩🇿
Dance salsa, bachata, merengue, and more at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Celebrate La Fiesta de Santa Rosa de Lima (The Feast of Saint Rose of Lima), patron saint of Peru. 🇵🇪
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Remember Arsenio Rodríguez “El Ciego Maravilloso.” The tres player and composer developed the son montuno template which later evolved into Salsa music in New York City. He was born in Güira de Macurijes, Matanzas, Cuba on August 31, 1911. 🇨🇺
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, NYC. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
