Things To Do in NYC This Weekend March 1-7, 2023 include an art fair, film festivals, soccer, tango, salsa, flamenco, classical, jazz and more.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Celebrate Women’s History Month.
Thursday, March 2, 2023
The 28th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema film festival brings 21 French films, filmmakers and film lovers to Film at Lincoln Center; for ten days, Thursday-Sunday, March 2-12, 2023. From $17. 🇫🇷
The Outsider Art Fair New York 2023 shows “art brut” or “naïve art,” at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, NYC; from Thursday-Sunday, March 2-5, 2023. 🇫🇷 🗽
New York French Canadian Bernard Labadie conducts Orchestra of St Luke’s “Viajes y Raices” (Journeys and Roots) string quartets by composers with Cuban and Andean roots, including Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León, inti figgis-vizueta, and Keyla Orozco; at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx on Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 7pm. Free with registration. 🇨🇺 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
African American jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science play a jazz, rock, hip-hop fusion; in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in Midtown Manhattan; on Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $44. 🇺🇸
Dance traditional Argentine Tango at Tango La Nacional; at La Nacional in Chelsea, NYC; Thursdays from 8pm – 2am. Performances around 11pm. $25. 🇦🇷
Friday, March 3, 2023
OPENING NIGHT
The NYICFF 2023 New York International Children’s Film Festival screens great Latin films for all ages at the SVA Theatre and other venues in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island; on weekends, March 3-19, 2023. From $17. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 | 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 | 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
New York French Canadian Bernard Labadie conducts Orchestra of St Luke’s “Viajes y Raices” (Journeys and Roots) string quartets by composers with Cuban and Andean roots, including Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León, inti figgis-vizueta, and Keyla Orozco; at Americas Society in the Upper East Side; on Friday, March 3, 2023 at 7pm. Free with registration. 🇨🇺 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
Saturday, March 4, 2023
HOME OPENER
New York Red Bulls vs Nashville is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 8:30pm. From $34. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇯🇲 | 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 | 🇮🇹 | 🇨🇲 🇺🇬
Sunday, March 5, 2023
New York City Ballet’s School of American Ballet presents “The Beauty of Ballet,” student performances of excerpts from the standard ballet repertoire including, “The Nutcracker,” “Swan Lake,” and “The Sleeping Beauty;” at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 2pm. Free with registration. 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
New York French Canadian Bernard Labadie conducts Orchestra of St Luke’s “Viajes y Raices” (Journeys and Roots) string quartets by composers with Cuban and Andean roots, including Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León, inti figgis-vizueta, and Keyla Orozco; at the Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library in Prospect Park; on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 4pm. Free with rsvp. 🇨🇺 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
Dance Argentine tango with many of New York’s best dancers at the El Destino milonga; at Solas bar in NYC’s East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. $20. 🇦🇷
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 $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, March 6, 2023
Dance salsa, cha-cha-cha, bachata, merengue and more at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties; at Taj in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷 | 🇵🇦 | 🇨🇴🇵🇪🇻🇪
Celebrate Purim, the Jewish spring festival that celebrates how the courage of Persian Queen Esther saved her people, on the eve of Monday, March 6, 2023. ✡️
Celebrate Ghana Independence Day. The first sub-Saharan country to gain independence inspired other independence movements on March 6, 1957. 🇬🇭
Remember Gabriel García Márquez and his magical realism. The Nobel Prize-winning writer was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. 🇨🇴
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
The “Worm Moon,” March full moon, peaks over New York City at 7:42am.
RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA
“Nenah Superstar,” the story of 12-year old Nenah, a Black girl who dreams of dancing in the White ballet world, first screens at Film at Lincoln Center, including Q&A with Director Ramzi Ben Sliman; on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 6:15pm. In French with subtitles. 🇫🇷
Bárbara Martínez sings and dances Spanish flamenco; at Flamenco Tuesdays at Sala Astoria, a Spanish tapas bar in Astoria, Queens; on Tuesdays, from 7-9pm. 🇪🇸🇦🇷🇻🇪
Ongoing
The 22nd MoMA Doc Fortnight 2023 documentary film festival takes a hard look at the legacy of colonialism and human inhumanity; at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan; Wednesday, February 22 – March 7, 2023. 🇨🇺 | 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 | 🇫🇷 | 🇩🇿