Things To Do in NYC in December 2024

Things to do in NYC in December 2024 include all kinds of holiday celebrations: Changó/Santa Barbara (🇨🇺🇵🇷), Día de las velitas (🇨🇴), Guadalupe (🇲🇽), Babalú-Ayé (🇨🇺🇵🇷), Winter Solstice (🌞), Dongzhi (🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸), Christmas (🇮🇹), Hanukkah (🇮🇱), Kwanzaa (🇺🇸), Watch Night (🇺🇸) and New Year’s Eve (🇮🇹).

December is all about the holidays. Work slows down in the last two weeks of the month.

National holidays include Christmas Day, although many people take off Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.

December weather is early winter. Temperatures average 42° – 54°F, so it is cool. New York City’s first snow used to fall in the first week of December. It’s uncertain now.

DECEMBER 2024
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Sponsors

• Carnegie Hall “Nuestros Sonidos”
• Melvis Santa & Jazz Orishas 🇨🇺

Thank you!

NATIONAL DAYS

• Portugal Restoration Day, Dec 1 🇵🇹

FESTIVALS

• Candombe Day, Dec 3 🇺🇾
• Changó, Dec 4 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
• Santa Barbara, Dec 4 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
• Día de las Velitas, Dec 7 🇨🇴
• Immaculate Conception, Dec 8 🇮🇹
• Las Mañanitas de Guadalupe, Dec 11 🇲🇽
• Guadalupe, Dec 12 🇲🇽
• Babalú-Ayé, Dec 17 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
• Winter Solstice, Dec 21, 2024 🌞
• Dongzhi, Dec 21, 2024 🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸
• Christmas Eve, Dec 24 🇮🇹
• Christmas, Dec 25 🇮🇹
• Hanukkah, Dec 25 – Jan 2 🕎
• Kwanzaa, Dec 26 – Jan 1 🇺🇸
• Watch Night, Dec 31 🇺🇸
• New Year’s Eve, Dec 31 🇮🇹

BIRTHDAYS

• Machito, Dec 3

ART

African American Mexican Women’s Art

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, an engaging retrospective about one of the defining Black woman (and Mexican) artists of the 20th century; is in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; from September 13, 2024 to January 19, 2025. brooklynmuseum.org 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

DANCE PARTIES

Argentine Tango

El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village, on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

DANCE THEATRE

The Nutcracker

New York City Ballet “The Nutcracker” is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; through January 4, 2025. From $112. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

MUSIC

Spanish Flamenco Fusion

Basilio Georges, of Flamenco Latino dance company, celebrates the release of his new flamenco fusion album “Acabo de Empezar” with a quartet and three dancers; at Drom, the world music club in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 4pm. Tickets from $20. 🇪🇸

Latin Jazz

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺

THEATRE

Haitian Theatre

Bad Kreyol, a Dominique Morisseau World Premiere co-produced by the Signature Theatre and the Manhattan Theatre Club, tells the story of two cousins, one American Haitian and one Island Haitian, who struggle to connect because they live in different worlds; at the Signature Theatre in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; Tuesday-Sunday, October 8 – December 1, 2024. 🇭🇹

Ballet Nepantla “Nacimiento” is a Holiday Folkloric Ballet About The Birth of the Mexican People From Indigenous and Spanish Roots 🇲🇽

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Holiday Season Honors Judith Jamison and Jody Gottfried Arnhold 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇬🇫

Shakira “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour” 🇨🇴

Aventura and Romeo Santos Play One Last Round of Urban Bachata Together 🇩🇴

Mega Bash Alex Sensation 2024 features Farruko, Nicky Jam, Vico C, Chimbala, La Insuperable and More Dembow, Reggaeton, and Trap 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

Alex Sensation Hosts Mega Bash 🇨🇴

Farruko Headlines Mega Bash 2024 by Alex Sensation 🇵🇷

Nicky Jam Headlines Mega Bash 2024 by Alex Sensation 🇵🇷

New York City Ballet “The Nutcracker” Turned an Obscure Ballet into the World’s Favorite Ballet 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🎄

African Diaspora International Film Festival NYC Brings the Many Faces of Mother Afrika To New York City 🇺🇸 🇧🇧 🇧🇪 🇧🇷 🇨🇲 🇨🇦 🇪🇨 🇪🇬 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇬🇭 🇬🇼 🇭🇹 🇰🇪 🇲🇬 🇲🇦 🇲🇿 🇳🇱 🇳🇬 🇵🇹 🇿🇦 🇸🇷 🇺🇾 🇿🇼

ART

African American Mexican Women’s Art

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, an engaging retrospective about one of the defining Black woman (and Mexican) artists of the 20th century; is in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; from September 13, 2024 to January 19, 2025. brooklynmuseum.org 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

DANCE THEATRE

The Nutcracker

New York City Ballet “The Nutcracker” is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; through January 4, 2025. From $112. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

African American Modern Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates “Legacy in Motion” and Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison (1943-2024) with world premieres of “Sacred Songs” by Matthew Rushing, “Finding Free” by Hope Boykin, “Many Angels” by Lar Lubovitch, and “Al-Andalus Blues” by Jamar Roberts; a 25th Anniversary staging of Ronald K. Brown’s “Grace;” a new production of Elisa Monte’s “Treading;” and beloved Ailey classics including his masterpiece “Revelations.” It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; from December 4, 2024 to January 5, 2025. From $42. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇬🇫

Traditional Flamenco Dance

Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷

DANCE PARTIES

Salsa Dance Party

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, on Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪

Argentine Tango Dance Party

Tango La Nacional, NYC’s most traditional milonga, is at La Nacional, the Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan on Thursdays. Intermediate class at 7pm. Dancing at 8pm. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Best dancers arrive late. Dancing ends around 2am. $25 🇦🇷

Argentine Tango Dance Party

El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village, on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

MUSIC

Colombian Pop

Shakira “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour” comes to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on December 5-6, 2024 at 7:30pm. Tickets On Sale April 22, at 10am. 🇨🇴

Dominican Urban Bachata

Aventura “Cerrando Ciclos Tour” brings Romeo Santos and the Kings of Bachata; to UBS Arena in Belmont Park, Long Island: on Friday, December 6, 2024 at 8pm. 🇩🇴

Latin Jazz

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺

ART

African American Mexican Women’s Art

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, an engaging retrospective about one of the defining Black woman (and Mexican) artists of the 20th century; is in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; from September 13, 2024 to January 19, 2025. brooklynmuseum.org 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

DANCE THEATRE

The Nutcracker

New York City Ballet “The Nutcracker” is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; through January 4, 2025. From $112. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

African American Modern Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates “Legacy in Motion” and Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison (1943-2024) with world premieres of “Sacred Songs” by Matthew Rushing, “Finding Free” by Hope Boykin, “Many Angels” by Lar Lubovitch, and “Al-Andalus Blues” by Jamar Roberts; a 25th Anniversary staging of Ronald K. Brown’s “Grace;” a new production of Elisa Monte’s “Treading;” and beloved Ailey classics including his masterpiece “Revelations.” It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; from December 4, 2024 to January 5, 2025. From $42. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇬🇫

Traditional Flamenco Dance

Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷

DANCE PARTIES

Salsa Dance Party

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, on Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪

Argentine Tango Dance Party

Tango La Nacional, NYC’s most traditional milonga, is at La Nacional, the Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan on Thursdays. Intermediate class at 7pm. Dancing at 8pm. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Best dancers arrive late. Dancing ends around 2am. $25 🇦🇷

Argentine Tango Dance Party

El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village, on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

MUSIC

Latin Jazz

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺

ART

African American Mexican Women’s Art

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, an engaging retrospective about one of the defining Black woman (and Mexican) artists of the 20th century; is in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; from September 13, 2024 to January 19, 2025. brooklynmuseum.org 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

BOOKS

DANCE THEATRE

The Nutcracker

New York City Ballet “The Nutcracker” is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; through January 4, 2025. From $112. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

African American Modern Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates “Legacy in Motion” and Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison (1943-2024) with world premieres of “Sacred Songs” by Matthew Rushing, “Finding Free” by Hope Boykin, “Many Angels” by Lar Lubovitch, and “Al-Andalus Blues” by Jamar Roberts; a 25th Anniversary staging of Ronald K. Brown’s “Grace;” a new production of Elisa Monte’s “Treading;” and beloved Ailey classics including his masterpiece “Revelations.” It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; from December 4, 2024 to January 5, 2025. From $42. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇬🇫

Traditional Flamenco Dance

Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷

DANCE PARTIES

Salsa Dance Party

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, on Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪

Argentine Tango Dance Party

Tango La Nacional, NYC’s most traditional milonga, is at La Nacional, the Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan on Thursdays. Intermediate class at 7pm. Dancing at 8pm. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Best dancers arrive late. Dancing ends around 2am. $25 🇦🇷

Argentine Tango Dance Party

El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village, on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

FASHION

FILM

MUSIC

Venezuelan Holiday Pop

Mariah Carey’s Christmas Time brings the holidays to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on December 17, 2024, at 7:30pm. From $95. 🇻🇪 🇺🇸

Italian Pop Opera

Andrea Bocelli sings a holiday concert of Italian pop opera; at Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Wednesday-Thursday, December 18-19, 2024 at 8pm. From $119. 🇮🇹 🎄

Latin Jazz

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺

NATURE

NATIONAL DAYS

FESTIVALS

BIRTHDAYS

ART

African American Mexican Women’s Art

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, an engaging retrospective about one of the defining Black woman (and Mexican) artists of the 20th century; is in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; from September 13, 2024 to January 19, 2025. brooklynmuseum.org 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

DANCE THEATRE

The Nutcracker

New York City Ballet “The Nutcracker” is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; through January 4, 2025. From $112. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

African American Modern Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates “Legacy in Motion” and Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison (1943-2024) with world premieres of “Sacred Songs” by Matthew Rushing, “Finding Free” by Hope Boykin, “Many Angels” by Lar Lubovitch, and “Al-Andalus Blues” by Jamar Roberts; a 25th Anniversary staging of Ronald K. Brown’s “Grace;” a new production of Elisa Monte’s “Treading;” and beloved Ailey classics including his masterpiece “Revelations.” It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; from December 4, 2024 to January 5, 2025. From $42. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇬🇫

Traditional Flamenco Dance

Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷

DANCE PARTIES

Salsa Dance Party

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, on Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪

Argentine Tango Dance Party

Tango La Nacional, NYC’s most traditional milonga, is at La Nacional, the Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan on Thursdays. Intermediate class at 7pm. Dancing at 8pm. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Best dancers arrive late. Dancing ends around 2am. $25 🇦🇷

Argentine Tango Dance Party

El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village, on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

MUSIC

Latin Jazz

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺

FESTIVALS

ART

African American Mexican Women’s Art

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, an engaging retrospective about one of the defining Black woman (and Mexican) artists of the 20th century; is in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; from September 13, 2024 to January 19, 2025. brooklynmuseum.org 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

DANCE THEATRE

The Nutcracker

New York City Ballet “The Nutcracker” is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; through January 4, 2025. From $112. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

African American Modern Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates “Legacy in Motion” and Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison (1943-2024) with world premieres of “Sacred Songs” by Matthew Rushing, “Finding Free” by Hope Boykin, “Many Angels” by Lar Lubovitch, and “Al-Andalus Blues” by Jamar Roberts; a 25th Anniversary staging of Ronald K. Brown’s “Grace;” a new production of Elisa Monte’s “Treading;” and beloved Ailey classics including his masterpiece “Revelations.” It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; from December 4, 2024 to January 5, 2025. From $42. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇬🇫

Traditional Flamenco Dance

Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷

DANCE PARTIES

Salsa Dance Party

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, on Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪

Argentine Tango Dance Party

Tango La Nacional, NYC’s most traditional milonga, is at La Nacional, the Spanish social club in Chelsea, Manhattan on Thursdays. Intermediate class at 7pm. Dancing at 8pm. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Best dancers arrive late. Dancing ends around 2am. $25 🇦🇷

Argentine Tango Dance Party

El Destino milonga draws brings some of NYC’s best Argentine tango dancers to Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village, on Sundays from 6-11pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

MUSIC

Latin Jazz

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36 + per person minimum. 🇨🇺

FESTIVALS

New Year’s Eve celebrates Roman new year. 🇮🇹