Things to do in NYC in January 2024 include:
- LATIN ART ~ Winter Show (Jan 19-28), Master Drawings New York (Jan 27 – Feb 3).
- LATIN DANCE ~ American Dance Platform (Jan 9-14), Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival (Jan 10-16), New York City Ballet (Jan 23 – Mar 3).
- LATIN FILM ~ New York Jewish Film Festival (Jan 10-24).
- LATIN FOOD ~ NYC Restaurant Week (Jan 16 – Feb 4).
- LATIN MUSIC ~ Winter Jazzfest (Jan 10-18), Prototype Opera Theatre Now (Jan 10-21), Jazz Congress and Unity Festival (Jan 11-13), NYC Jazz Piano Festival (Jan 12-16), globalFEST (Jan 14).
- LATIN THEATRE ~ Under the Radar (Jan 5-21), Live Artery (Jan 9-20), NYC Broadway Week (Jan 16 – Feb 4).
The APAP conference of booking agents brings many dance, music, and theatre showcases.
Latin Culture in January 2024:
- BANK HOLIDAYS are New Year’s Day and Martin Luther King Day.
- LATIN FESTIVALS ~ Haitian Independence Day (Jan 1), Letter of the Year (Jan 1), Solemnity of Mary (Jan 1), Three Kings Day (Jan 6), Three Kings Day Parade (Jan 5), Eleguá (Jan 6), Las Octavitas (Jan 7-14), San Sebastian (Jan 20), Dominican Heritage Month (Jan 21-Feb 27), Altagracia (21), Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan 27).
January weather is peak winter with average temperatures of 26-39°. New York City’s coldest month is still a great time to visit. You just need to plan what to do. It’s too cold for wandering around and may be slushy. Bring a jacket, hat, scarf, and gloves so you can layer.
Things To Do in NYC January 1-7, 2024
Kwanzaa is the African American Holiday Tradition. Habari Gani?
Emancipation Proclamation is 246 Years Old
Haitian Independence Day is One of the Greatest Humanitarian Achievements of All Time
Eleguá ~ Papa Legba ~ Elegbara ~ Eshu is the Orisha of the Crossroads of Destiny
Three Kings Day is the Hispanic Gift-Giving Day at the End of Christmas Season
New Orleans Mardi Gras Carnival Starts on Kings Day January 6
Las Octavitas Extend Puerto Rican Christmas Season
Monday, January 1, 2024
Happy New Year 2024!
Latin Festivals
The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 says that “all persons…shall be free.” 🇺🇸
Latin Festivals
Haitian Independence Day, January 1, 1804, marks one of the great humanitarian achievements of all time. It’s the only time in history that a people freed themselves, and founded a republic. 🇭🇹
Latin Festivals
The Cuban Yoruba community produces the Letter of the Year, a foretelling of events and good behaviors for the coming year. 🇨🇺
Latin Festivals
The Solemnity of Mary celebrates the divinity of mother and child. 🇮🇹
African American Holidays
Kwanzaa, the African American holiday that was started in New York City, ends with Imani ~ Faith. Habari Gani?
Holiday Jazz
Italian New Yorker Chris Botti, one of America’s most popular jazz instrumentalists, plays trumpet for his 19th Holiday Residency at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Monday, January 1, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. From $88. 🇮🇹
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Holiday Jazz
Italian New Yorker Chris Botti, one of America’s most popular jazz instrumentalists, plays trumpet for his 19th Holiday Residency at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. From $88. 🇮🇹
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Holiday Jazz
Italian New Yorker Chris Botti, one of America’s most popular jazz instrumentalists, plays trumpet for his 19th Holiday Residency at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. From $88. 🇮🇹
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. 🇵🇷
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Famous Birthday
Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American Hollywood star, was born in Los Angeles, California on January 3, 1905. 🇺🇸
Argentine Tango
The Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet plays Argentine tango in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, January 4, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇦🇷
Italian Opera
Puccini’s “La Bohème, the classic bohemian love triangle, is at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Thursday, January 4, 2023 at 7:30pm. In Italian, with Met Titles. From $37. 🇮🇹
Holiday Jazz
Italian New Yorker Chris Botti, one of America’s most popular jazz instrumentalists, plays trumpet for his 19th Holiday Residency at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Thursday, January 4, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. From $88. 🇮🇹
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, January 5, 2024
Famous Birthday
Alvin Ailey, founder of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the African American dance company that popularized modern dance around the world, was born in Rogers, Texas (near Austin) on January 5, 1931. 🇺🇸
Theatre and Performance Showcase
The Under the Radar 2024 theatre showcase of experimental theatre and performance presents 23 shows at seventeen venues across New York City; over three weekends from January 5-21, 2024. 🇱🇧 🇸🇾 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇿🇦
Three Kings Day Parade Breakfast
The 47th Three Kings Day Breakfast is an opportunity to meet parade honorees and community leaders at El Museo del Barrio in “El Barrio” East Harlem; on Friday, January 5, 2024 from 8:30-10:30am. FREE. 🇵🇷
Three Kings Day Parade
The 47th Three Kings Day Parade 2024 features the Three Kings, giant puppets, camels, floats and live music including Puerto Rican bomba or plena by BombaYo, Latin jazz by Annette Aguilar & Stringbeans, the women’s Brazilian drum line Fogo Azul, and more in the parade on Park Avenue from 106th St to 115th St; on Friday, January 5, 2024 from 11am – 12pm. FREE. 🇧🇷 🇵🇷
Three Kings Day Parade Celebration
The 47th Three Kings Day Celebration follows with Puerto Rican television host Rhina Valentin and live bomba and plena music, and probably some dancing, by Los Pleneros de la 21 in El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio in “El Barrio” East Harlem; from 1:30-3pm. FREE. 🇵🇷
Holiday Jazz
Italian New Yorker Chris Botti, one of America’s most popular jazz instrumentalists, plays trumpet for his 19th Holiday Residency at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Friday, January 5, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. From $88. 🇮🇹
House of Yes (HOY) 8th Birthday Party
New York Puerto Rican DJ Eli Escobar, Colombian DJ Madame Vacile, Bronx Dominican DJ Ultra Violet, and Bronx Dominicans Dos Flakos; make the House of Yes Birthday Party at House of Yes in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Friday, January 5, 2024 from 10pm – 4am. From Free to $41. 🇵🇷 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇩🇴
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Latin Festivals
Three Kings Day is the Hispanic gift-giving day at the end of Christmas season. 🇪🇸 🇵🇷
Latin Festivals
Elegúa, orisha of the crossroads (destiny) and messenger of God, the same one God as in many religions, is celebrated in Cuban Yoruba tradition on Three Kings Day, January 6. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Three Kings Celebration
Meet the Three Kings and receive a free gift; at the Three Kings Block Party; at Teatro SEA, at the Clemente Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; on Saturday, January 6, 2024, from 3-5pm. FREE. 🇵🇷 🎄
Travel
New Orleans Mardi Gras Carnival starts on Kings Day, January 6 and builds to its climax on Fat Tuesday. 🇺🇸
Holiday Jazz
Italian New Yorker Chris Botti, one of America’s most popular jazz instrumentalists, plays trumpet for his 19th Holiday Residency at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. From $88. 🇮🇹
Urban Latin Dance Party
The Spanglish Saturdays urban and latin dance party; of dem bow, hip-hop, reggaeton, trap; with bachata, cumbia, merengue, and salsa; is at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Saturdays. 10pm – 4am. Free guest list before midnight. $26 after. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Latin Festivals
Las Octavitas, extend the Puerto Rican Christmas season until January 14 and Puerto Rico’s biggest festival, the Sanse, Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián in Old San Juan which begins this year on January 18. 🇵🇷
Famous Birthdays
Juan Gabriel, the Mexican Elvis who opened doors for Latin singers, was born in Parácuaro, Michoacán, Mexico; on January 7, 1950. 🇲🇽
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Holiday Jazz
LAST CHANCE
Italian New Yorker Chris Botti, one of America’s most popular jazz instrumentalists, plays trumpet for his 19th Holiday Residency at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Sunday, January 7, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. From $88. 🇮🇹
Latin Jazz
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $30+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC January 8-14, 2024
The APAP conference of booking agents and presenters is in town, so there are all kinds of dance, music, and theatre showcases.
El Laberinto del Coco Plays Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba Fusion at Drom and for globalFEST at Lincoln Center 🇵🇷
Monday, January 8, 2024
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷
Italian Opera
Puccini’s “La Bohème, the classic bohemian love triangle, is at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Monday, January 8, 2024 at 8pm. In Italian, with Met Titles. From $37. 🇮🇹
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
NYC Broadway Week
NYC Broadway Week Winter 2024, the 2-for-1 Broadway ticket promotion, includes Latin shows “Hamilton,” “Moulin Rouge,” “Prayer for the French Republic,” and “Six the Musical” this season. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, January 9, 2024 for performances from January 16 to February 4, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 ✡️ 🇵🇷
NYC Restaurant Week
NYC Restaurant Week reservations for prix fixe lunches and dinners from January 16 to February 4, open on Tuesday, January 9, 2024.
Latin Film Awards
The 14th Cinema Tropical Awards for the best Latin American films of 2023, are at Film at Lincoln Center on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇬🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
African American Jazz Dance Showcase
The 8th American Dance Platform APAP showcase “Jazz at the Joyce” program features Dormeshia Tap Collective, Michelle N. Gibson, and Josette Wiggan Presents; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 7:30pm. 🇺🇸
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Jazz Showcase
Winter Jazzfest is at multiple NYC venues from January 10-18, 2024.
Opera Theatre Showcase
The Prototype Festival of experimental opera and theatre is at multiple NYC venues and online from January 10-21, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽
African American Jazz Dance Showcase
The 8th American Dance Platform APAP showcase “Jazz at the Joyce” program features Dormeshia Tap Collective, Michelle N. Gibson, and Josette Wiggan Presents; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 7:30pm. 🇺🇸
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. 🇵🇷
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Tap, Flamenco, Kathak Dance Showcase
The 8th American Dance Platform APAP showcase presents Soles of Duende, a blend of tap, flamenco, and kathak dance; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 8pm. 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇪🇸
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, January 12, 2024
Jewish Film Festival
OPENING NIGHT
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Booking Agent and Presenter Conference
The 2024 APAP Conference of booking agents and presenters is based at the New York Hilton Midtown; from January 12-16, 2024. It’s the core reason for the NYC Jan Arts festival of performing arts showcases. apap365.org
Modern and Contemporary Dance Showcase
The 92NY Harkness Dance Center APAP Showcase features Limón Dance Company, MeenMoves, and Annie Rigney in Buttenwieser Hall at the 92nd Street Y in the Upper East Side, Manhattan; on Friday, January 12, 2024 at 1pm & 3pm. FREE with rsvp. 🇮🇱 🇲🇽
Club and Street Dance Showcase
Underground Uptown Dance Festival of club, street, and social dance, is at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center; on Friday, January 12, 2024 at 6pm.
African American Contemporary Dance Showcase
The 8th American Dance Platform APAP showcase presents Dallas Black Dance Theatre contemporary dance; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, January 12, 2024 at 8pm. 🇺🇸
Latin Alternative Showcase
Los Silverbacks from Venice, California (Los Angeles) play their unique blend of Latin, Spanish, and African rhythms in an APAP showcase in the Regent Parlour at the New York Hilton Midtown, on Friday, January 12, 2024 at 8:30pm. lossilverbacks.com 🇦🇷 🇨🇩 🇪🇸
Saturday, January 13, 2024
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
OPENING DAY
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. Runs weekends through February 18, 2024. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Italian Opera
LAST CHANCE
Puccini’s “La Bohème, the classic bohemian love triangle, is at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 12:30pm. In Italian, with Met Titles. From $37. 🇮🇹
Latin Alternative Showcase
Los Silverbacks from Venice, California (Los Angeles) play their unique blend of Latin, Spanish, and African rhythms in an APAP showcase in the Regent Parlour at the New York Hilton Midtown, on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 4:30pm. lossilverbacks.com 🇦🇷 🇨🇩 🇪🇸
African American Contemporary Dance Showcase
The 8th American Dance Platform APAP showcase presents Dallas Black Dance Theatre contemporary dance; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 8pm. 🇺🇸
Urban Latin Dance Party
The Spanglish Saturdays urban and latin dance party; of dem bow, hip-hop, reggaeton, trap; with bachata, cumbia, merengue, and salsa; is at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Saturdays. 10pm – 4am. Free guest list before midnight. $26 after. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Tap, Flamenco, Kathak Dance Showcase
The 8th American Dance Platform APAP showcase presents Soles of Duende, a blend of tap, flamenco, and kathak dance; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 2pm. 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇪🇸
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
World Music Showcase
globalFEST, the world music showcase, is at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 7pm. $60.
Psychedelic R&B
Lonnie Holley + Mourning [A] BLKstar, from the USA, play psychedelic R&B for globalFEST, the world music showcase in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center on Sunday, January 14, 2024. Concert starts at 7pm. Holley and BLKstar play from 7-7:55pm. 🇺🇸
Mexican Alternative Showcase
The Villalobos Brothers roll up Mexican folk, classical, and jazz into Mexican alternative, for the globalFEST world music showcase in the Karen and Richard LeFrak Lobby at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 14, 2024. globalFEST starts at 7pm. Villalobos play from 7:30-8:20pm. $60. 🇲🇽
Morrocan Rock
Bab L’ Bluz, from France and Morroco, play psychedelic Gnawa rock for globalFEST, the world music showcase in the Leon and Norma Hess Grand Promenade at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center on Sunday, January 14, 2024. Concert starts at 7pm. Bab plays from 7:55-8:45pm. 🇫🇷 🇲🇦
Cuban Rumba and Timba with Spanish Flamenco
Pedrito Martinez, the world’s first-call rumbero, presents Cross Currents with classical pianist Ahmed Alom; and tributes Flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla, at Drom NYC in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sunday, January 14, 2024, 8pm (7:30pm doors). From $25. 🇨🇺 🇪🇸
Jazz
Luis Perdomo Miguel Zenón Duo plays jazz for the NYC Jazz Piano Festival at the NYC Baha’i Center in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Sunday, January 14, 2024. $55. 🇻🇪 🇵🇷
South African Alternative
Thandiswa Mazwai, from South Africa, sings South African alternative with xhosa rhythms, mbaqanga, and more for globalFEST, the world music showcase in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center on Sunday, January 14, 2024. Concert starts at 7pm. Thandiswa performs from 8:25-9:15pm. 🇿🇦
Dominican Alternative Showcase
Yasser Tejeda plays Afro-Dominican alternative for globalFEST in the Karen and Richard LeFrak Lobby in David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 14, 2024. globalFEST starts at 7pm. Tejeda plays from 8:50-9:40pm. $60. 🇩🇴
Brazilian Alternative
Bia Ferreira, from Carangola, Minas Gerais, Brazil, sings Brazilian alternative or MPB for globalFEST, the world music showcase in the Leon and Norma Hess Grand Promenade at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center on Sunday, January 14, 2024. Concert starts at 7pm. Bia plays from 9:15-10:05pm. 🇧🇷
Spanish Electro Folk
Tarta Relena, from Spain, sing their Spanish folk-infused vocals over electronics for globalFEST, the world music showcase in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center on Sunday, January 14, 2024. Concert starts at 7pm. Tarta Relena perform from 9:45-10:35pm. 🇪🇸
Ukrainian Alternative
Balaklava Blues, from Ukraine and the USA, plays electronic folk for globalFEST, the world music showcase in the Karen and Richard LeFrak Lobby at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center on Sunday, January 14, 2024. Concert starts at 7pm. Balaklava plays from 10:10-11pm. 🇺🇦
Indian Alternative
Karsh Kale, from India and the USA plays Indo classical live electronic landscapes for globalFEST, the world music showcase in the Leon and Norma Hess Grand Promenade at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center on Sunday, January 14, 2024. Concert starts at 7pm. Karsh plays from 10:35-11:25pm. 🇮🇳
Puerto Rican Bomba Fusion
El Laberinto del Coco plays Puerto Rican bomba fusion for globalFEST, the world music showcase in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center on Sunday, January 14, 2024, from 11:05 – 11:55pm. They are closing the concert. They saved the best for last. $60. 🇵🇷
Things To Do in NYC January 15-21, 2024
We Love Rev. Dr. King for Opening Up Our World 🇺🇸
Roberto Roena “El Señor Bongó,” was a Bomba and Salsa Legend 🇵🇷
Dominican Heritage Month New York is One Long Party 🇩🇴
La Virgen de la Altagracia is the Patron Saint of the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Latin Travel
Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastían (Sanse) is Puerto Rico’s Biggest Festival 🇵🇷
Monday, January 15, 2024
Civil Rights Birthday
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the great American civil rights leader, was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. From the words of Rev. Dr. King, we realized that we are part of his community, and he is part of our community. That expanded our world exponentially. 🇺🇸
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Famous Birthday
Roberto Roena “El Señor Bongó,” a bomba and salsa legend for Cortijo y Su Combo, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, and Roberto Roena y su Apollo Sound; was born in Dulces Labios, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico on January 16, 1940. 🇵🇷
NYC Broadway Week
NYC Broadway Week Winter 2024, the 2-for-1 Broadway ticket promotion, includes Latin shows “Hamilton,” “Moulin Rouge,” “Prayer for the French Republic,” and “Six the Musical” this season. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, January 9, 2024 for performances from January 16 to February 4, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 ✡️ 🇵🇷
NYC Restaurant Week
NYC Restaurant Week prix fixe lunches and dinners are from January 16 to February 4, 2024.
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Senegalese French Wellness Concert
Senegalese kora master and djeli (griot) Ablaye Cissoko and French accordionist Cyrille Brotto play a well-being concert in the Resnick Education Wing at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 6:30pm. From $18. 🇸🇳 🇫🇷
Traditional African, Afro-Cuban & African American Contemporary Dance
OPENING NIGHT
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE blends traditional African, Afro-Cuban, and African American contemporary dance in “Walking Out the Dark” (2001), and “Torch” (2012); at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 7:30pm. Through Sunday. From $52. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺
Latin House DJ
Legendary Puerto Rican Producer and DJ Louie Vega spins the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Tuesday, January 16, 2023 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors). From $35. 🇵🇷
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Traditional African, Afro-Cuban & African American Contemporary Dance
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE blends traditional African, Afro-Cuban, and African American contemporary dance in “Walking Out the Dark” (2001), and “Torch” (2012); at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $52. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺
Latin House DJ
Legendary Puerto Rican Producer and DJ Louie Vega spins the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Wednesday, January 17, 2023 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors). From $35. 🇵🇷
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. 🇵🇷
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Travel
La Sanse or Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián, Puerto Rico’s biggest festival, is in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico January 18-21, 2024. 🇵🇷
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Traditional African, Afro-Cuban & African American Contemporary Dance
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE blends traditional African, Afro-Cuban, and African American contemporary dance in “Walking Out the Dark” (2001), and “Torch” (2012); at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 8pm. From $52. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Perreo Dance Party
DJ DirtyFinger spins the Dirty Thursday Bad Bunny perreo party; at the House of Yes in Bushwick, Brooklyn; on Thursday, January 18, 2024, from 10pm – 4am. From Free to $12. 🇵🇷
Friday, January 19, 2024
Travel
La Sanse or Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián, Puerto Rico’s biggest festival, is in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico January 18-21, 2024. 🇵🇷
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Traditional African, Afro-Cuban & African American Contemporary Dance
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE blends traditional African, Afro-Cuban, and African American contemporary dance in “Walking Out the Dark” (2001), and “Torch” (2012); at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, January 19, 2024 at 8pm. From $52. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺
Mexican Rock Pioneer
Enrique Guzman “Inmortales del Rock n Roll” brings the Latin rock pioneer; to the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Friday, January 19, 2024 at 8pm. From $75. 🇲🇽
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Saints
The Roman Catholic Feast of San Sebastián, the early Christian saint and martyr, a saint of athletes (for his male beauty) and the LGBTQ+ community (for his martyrdom), and protection from plagues (from the Greek god Apollo), is January 20. 🇫🇷 🇮🇹
Travel
La Sanse or Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián, Puerto Rico’s biggest festival, is in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico January 18-21, 2024. 🇵🇷
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Traditional African, Afro-Cuban & African American Contemporary Dance
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE blends traditional African, Afro-Cuban, and African American contemporary dance in “Walking Out the Dark” (2001), and “Torch” (2012); at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 2pm & 8pm. From $52. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺
Urban Latin Dance Party
The Spanglish Saturdays urban and latin dance party; of dem bow, hip-hop, reggaeton, trap; with bachata, cumbia, merengue, and salsa; is at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Saturdays. 10pm – 4am. Free guest list before midnight. $26 after. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Travel
La Sanse or Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián, Puerto Rico’s biggest festival, is in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico January 18-21, 2024. 🇵🇷
Dominican Festival
La Virgen de la Altagracia (The Virgin of Highest Grace) is the patron saint of the Dominican Republic. 🇩🇴
Dominican Festival
Dominican Heritage Month is a New York State celebration of our Dominican Heritage, which began with Juan Rodríguez, New York City’s first immigrant, in 1613. 🇩🇴
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Traditional African, Afro-Cuban & African American Contemporary Dance
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE blends traditional African, Afro-Cuban, and African American contemporary dance in “Walking Out the Dark” (2001), and “Torch” (2012); at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 2pm. From $52. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺
Guadeloupean Classical Music Theatre
“The Chevalier;” the New York Premiere of the classical musical theatre piece about the life and music of French Guadeloupean polymath and classical violinist Joseph Bologne; is at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 4pm. From $35. 🇫🇷 🇬🇵
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Regional Mexican Pop Rock
Los Elegantes de Jerez play regional Mexican pop rock; at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens on Sunday, January 21, 2024, from 8pm – midnight. From $46. 🇲🇽
Latin Jazz
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $30+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC January 22-28, 2024
Monday, January 22, 2024
Film Awards
2024 Oscar Nominations are released today.
Jewish Film Festival
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Film Awards
Oscar nominations are announced today.
Jewish Film Festival
LAST CHANCE
The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival screens 28 films on the Jewish experience around the world; at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, co-produced by the Jewish Museum; from January 10-24, 2024. From $17. ✡️
Algerian French Contemporary Dance
OPENING NIGHT
Algerian French Compagnie Hervé KOUBI performs “Sol Invictus” a dance about the invincible sun that shines for all humanity; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; from Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 7:30pm. Through Sunday. From $52. 🇩🇿 🇫🇷
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
African American Classical Music
Grammy winning pianist Michelle Cann with Orchestra of St Luke’s violinist Jesse Mills, play works by Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, two of the first African American women composers to have their work performed by major orchestras; in Cary Hall at The Dimenna Center for Classical Music in Hudson Yards; on Wednesday, January 24, 2023 at 7pm. $33. 🇺🇸
Algerian French Contemporary Dance
Algerian French Compagnie Hervé KOUBI performs “Sol Invictus” a dance about the invincible sun that shines for all humanity; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; from Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $52. 🇩🇿 🇫🇷
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. 🇵🇷
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Algerian French Contemporary Dance
Algerian French Compagnie Hervé KOUBI performs “Sol Invictus” a dance about the invincible sun that shines for all humanity; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; from Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 8pm. From $52. 🇩🇿 🇫🇷
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, January 26, 2024
Dominican Founding Father
Juan Pablo Duarte, the founding father of the Dominican Republic, was born in Santo Domingo on January 26, 1813. There are celebrations at the Altar de la Patria in Santo Domingo, and Duarte Square in Hudson Square, Manhattan. 🇩🇴
Women of Color Retreat
The CCCADI Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute and the DeAlmas Women’s Institute host a retreat for intergenerational women of color at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Virtual Meet & Greet on Friday, January 26, 2024 at 6:30pm. In-person Workshop Saturday, January 27, 2024 from 10am – 5pm. From $135. 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
Italian Opera
Nabucco, Verdi’s grand opera of love, politics, and religion in ancient Babylon, closes at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Friday, January 26, 2024 at 8pm. From $37. 🇮🇹
Algerian French Contemporary Dance
Algerian French Compagnie Hervé KOUBI performs “Sol Invictus” a dance about the invincible sun that shines for all humanity; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; from Friday, January 26, 2024 at 8pm. From $52. 🇩🇿 🇫🇷
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Monthly Grand Slam is at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Friday, January 26, 2024 at 10pm. From $25. 🇵🇷
Urban Latin Dance Party
Ladies Night features Colombian DJ Lecktra Fire with Dominican DJ Alex Viva, and Dominican DJ Boom; spinning Latin Urban music for dancing at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Friday, January 26, 2024. 10pm doors. Free before midnight with RSVP, $20 after. 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇩🇴
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Women of Color Retreat
The CCCADI Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute and the DeAlmas Women’s Institute host a retreat for intergenerational women of color at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Saturday, January 27, 2024 from 10am – 5pm. From $135. 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Los Angeles Colombian Artist
Carolina Caycedo “Scintillae on Earth” (Destellos en la tierra), an exhibition about the interconnection of all things, opens with a reception at Colombian art gallery Instituto de Visión in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; on Saturday, January 27, 2024, from 11am – 1pm. FREE. institutodevision.com 🇨🇴
French Opera
“Carmen,” Carie Cracknell’s new Metropolitan Opera production of Bizet’s classic opera about a fiery woman whose passion knows no bounds, stars African American soprano Angel Blue; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center, and in theaters; on Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 1pm. From $37. 🇫🇷
Mexican Ballet Folklorico
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company presents the “Dances of Mexico” at the Travel and Adventure Show at Javits Center in Hudson Yards, Manhattan; on Saturday, January 27, 2024, from 1:10-2:10pm. $18. 🇲🇽
Algerian French Contemporary Dance
Algerian French Compagnie Hervé KOUBI performs “Sol Invictus” a dance about the invincible sun that shines for all humanity; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; from Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 8pm. From $52. 🇩🇿 🇫🇷
Italian Opera
“Madama Butterfly” Puccini’s opera about how an American soldier breaks a Japanese geisha’s true heart; is at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 8:30pm. In Italian with Met Titles. From $37. 🇮🇹a
Urban Latin Dance Party
Spanglish Saturdays urban and latin dance party features DJ Camilo, DJ Anuedy, with DJ Manny Mills and DJ SpinKing; spinning dem bow, hip-hop, reggaeton, trap; with bachata, cumbia, merengue, and salsa; at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Saturdays. 10pm – 4am. Free guest list before midnight. $26 after. 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇨🇱 🇬🇾
New York Salsa with Colombian Leader
La Excelencia plays New York salsa dura for dancing; at Gonzalez y Gonzalez salsa club and Mexican restaurant in Greenwich Village; on Saturday, January 27, 2024, from 11pm – 3am. 🇨🇴
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Algerian French Contemporary Dance
Algerian French Compagnie Hervé KOUBI performs “Sol Invictus” a dance about the invincible sun that shines for all humanity; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; from Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 2pm. From $52. 🇩🇿 🇫🇷
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Latin Jazz
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $30+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC January 29-31, 2024
Monday, January 29, 2024
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Afro-Brazilian Tap Dance
OPENING NIGHT
Music from the Sole, led by Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson, blends tap, samba, house, and Brazilian Carnival in “I Didn’t Come to Stay,” a Guggenheim commission that explores tap dance’s connections to the African Diaspora; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 7:30pm. Through Sunday. From $27. 🇧🇷
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Afro-Brazilian Tap Dance
Music from the Sole, led by Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson, blends tap, samba, house, and Brazilian Carnival in “I Didn’t Come to Stay,” a Guggenheim commission that explores tap dance’s connections to the African Diaspora; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $27. 🇧🇷
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. 🇵🇷