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Things To Do in NYC in May 2025

Things to do in NYC in May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Molly/Adobe)
Things to do in NYC in May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Molly/Adobe)

Things To Do in NYC in May 2025 include: Cinco de Mayo celebrations, Frieze Week contemporary art fairs, Dance Parade, DanceAfrica, BIG Salsa Festival, Summer for the City, and more. May is a transitional month from the school and cultural season into summer rhythms.

May’s U.S. national holiday is Memorial Day Weekend (Friday-Monday, May 23-26), the popular start of summer which includes many summer festivals. Cinco de Mayo is a popular holiday.

May weather is late spring. It’s comfortably warm. Average temperature is 54° – 72°. It’s one of our favorite months of the year because weather patterns bring big fluffy clouds up from the Caribbean. They make the best backdrop for New York City.

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MAY 1-4 | 5-11 | 12-18 | 19-25 | 26-31

  • May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Surprise, Latins are Asian and Pacific Islanders too. The Indigenous Peoples of the Americas came from Asia. Chinese and South Asians came to work after abolition. After building the western end of the Transcontinental Railroad, Chinese built the railroads in the Caribbean before mostly blending in. South Asians are the largest community in Trinidad and Tobago. Japanese added their flavors to Brazilian and Peruvian cuisine. Easter Island is part of Chile. Ancient Colombians made it to Polynesia. We just don’t know if they made it on their own or on a Polynesian round-trip.
  • Haitian Heritage Month 🇭🇹
  • Month of Mary ✝️

ART

BIRTHDAYS

BOOKS

DANCE

DANCES

FASHION

  • Met Gala: May 5

FESTIVALS

  • International Worker’s Day ~ May 1
  • Fiestas de la Cruz ~ May 3 🇵🇷
  • Saint Florian ~ May 4 ✝️
  • Cinco de Mayo ~ May 5 🇲🇽
  • Mexican Mother’s Day ~ May 10 🇲🇽
  • Mother’s Day ~ May 11, 2025 🇺🇸
  • Our Lady of Fatima ~ May 13 🇵🇹
  • Pentecost ~ May 19 ✝️
  • Pinkster ~ May 19 🇺🇸
  • Ascension ~ May 29, 2025 ✝️

FILM

MUSIC

NATIONAL DAYS

PARADES & STREET FAIRS

SPORTS

Things To Do in NYC May 1-4, 2025

Many Cinco de Mayo festivities will be held this weekend.

Thursday, May 1, 2025

Festival

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Through the Caribbean and Latin America, Asians are Latin too.

Labor Day

International Workers Day is the Labor Day celebrated by most of the world on May 1. 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇬🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

Friday, May 2, 2025

Spanish History

Remember the Second of May Uprising (Levantamiento del Dos de Mayo) when the Spanish people spontaneously rebelled against French occupation on May 2, 1808. This revolt against colonization ultimately led to the independence of the Americas. 🇪🇸

Puerto Rican House Dance Party

Eli Escobar House of Grooves has the New York Puerto Rican DJ spinning house, techno, disco, and hip hop in the Main Room; at the House of Yes dance club in Bushwick, Brooklyn; on Friday, May 2, 2025 from 10pm – 4am. From $18. 🇵🇷

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Things To Do in NYC May 5-11, 2025

This week is Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, and Frieze Week, NYC’s spring cluster of contemporary art fairs.

Monday, May 5, 2025

Mexican Festival

Cinco de Mayo is a Poblano celebration of Mexico’s win at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, and an American celebration of Mexican American culture on May 5. ¡Viva México! 🇲🇽

French History

The French Revolution (1789-1799) began with the opening of the Estates General representative assembly in Versailles, France on May 5, 1789.

Tango Birthday

Remember Osvaldo Fresedo. The Argentine tango composer was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 5, 1897. 🇦🇷

Cinco de Mayo ~ Mexican Ballet Folklórico

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Puebla, The Story of Cinco de Mayo” is an educational journey about the origins of America’s celebration of Mexican culture; in The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey; on Cinco de Mayo, Monday, May 5, 2025. There are two performances, one for schools at 10:30am (contact Calpulli for details), and for the public at 6pm (5:30pm doors). Includes a performance and dance party by Mariachi Huitzilin. From $17. 🇲🇽

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Italian Birthday

Rudolph Valentino, the first Latin film idol (and funny Argentine tango dancer), was born in Castellaneta, Apulia, Italy on May 6, 1895.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Argentine Birthday

Remember Eva Perón “Evita”, the legendary first lady of Argentina, who was born in Los Toldos, Argentina on May 7, 1919. 🇦🇷

Contemporary Art Fair

The Frieze New York 2025 contemporary art fair presents 67 galleries from over 25 countries; at The Shed in Hudson Yards, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, May 7-11, 2025. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇬🇹 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇿🇦 🇪🇸

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Cinco de Mayo ~ Mexican Ballet Folklórico

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Puebla, The Story of Cinco de Mayo” excerpts are in the Arts on Stage assembly at the Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at 10am and 11:45am. 🇲🇽

Cinco de Mayo ~ Mexican Ballet Folklórico

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Puebla, The Story of Cinco de Mayo” excerpts are at the Williamson Theater at College of Staten Island; on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at 3:30pm. Free. 🇲🇽

Contemporary Art Fair

Independent New York 2025, the New Yorker of New York City’s contemporary art fairs, presents over 118 artists from 85 galleries and a new curatorial initiative “Independent Debuts” featuring artists with no more than one solo show in New York and never in an art fair; at Spring Studios in Tribeca, Manhattan; with a vernissage on Thursday, May 8; and the public fair from Friday-Sunday, May 9-11, 2025. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇷🇴 🇪🇸

African & Diaspora Art Fair

The 11th 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2025 presents 30 galleries of contemporary African and Diasporic; at The Halo at 28 Liberty St in Manhattan’s Financial District; during Frieze Week, with a VIP Preview on Thursday, May 8, 2025 for $100, and public hours from Friday-Sunday, May 9-11, 2025. $38. 🇧🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇩 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇳🇬 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

African American Contemporary Dance

Bebe Miller Company “Indifferent Forest” premiere uses the wisdom of the forest to find interdependent ways to dance on shared ground. The show includes performances of “Rain” (1989) and “Rhythm Studies” (1999); at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan; on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at 7pm. $25. 🇺🇸

Creole Birthday

Remember Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the Creole composer who notated the rhythms of the Caribbean at Congo Square, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 8, 1829. 🇺🇸

Friday, May 9, 2025

Park Avenue Armory

The 11th TEFAF New York 2025 antiques and design fair; is at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; from Friday-Tuesday, May 9-13, 2025. $60. 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Happy Mother’s Day! 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇺🇪🇨🇭🇳🇮🇹🇵🇪🇵🇷🇺🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

Things To Do in NYC May 12-18, 2025

Monday, May 12, 2025

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Modern Art Auction

Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction, including works by Cuban artist Lam, Mexican artist Tamayo, and Mexican artist Varo; goes on view at Sotheby’s showroom in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, May 2, 2025, for auction on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 7pm. 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Italian Art Auction

Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts, an auction of mostly Italian masterworks from the collection of Israeli art dealer Daniella Luxembourg; goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, May 2, 2025; for auction on Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 7pm. 🇮🇹

Contemporary and Now Art Auction

Sotheby’s The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction, including work by Basquiat goes on view at Sotheby’s showroom in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, May 2, 2025, for auction on Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 7:30pm. 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇵🇷 🇷🇴

Friday, May 16, 2025

Argentine Tango Ballet

Analia Farfan’s International American Ballet Astor Piazzolla Extravaganza is a world premiere gala performance of an Argentine tango ballet, featuring star dancers Guillermina Quiroga, Mariano Logiudice, Gabriela Estrada, Misa Mochizuki, and Teryn Trent, with vocals by Mariela Marco and Fernando Pirez, backed by the Tango Bardo orchestra. It’s at St. Jean’s Theater in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, on May 16, 2025. From $40. internationalamericanballet.com 🇦🇷

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Bronx Gala

Bronx Week’s 53rd Bronx Ball celebrates Bronx Walk of Fame inductees, with black-tie cocktails, dinner, music, and dancing at Hutchinson Metro Center in The Bronx; on Saturday, May 17, 2025, from 6-11pm. 🇺🇸

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Bronx Parade

Bronx Week’s Bronx Parade is on Mosholu Parkway on Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 10am. FREE.

Bronx Food Festival

Bronx Week’s Bronx Food and Arts Festival is on the southbound lanes of Mosholu Parkway at Van Cortlandt Avenue East; on Sunday, May 18, 2025, from 12-6pm. Free with purchase options.

Bronx Music

The Bronx Week Concert is on Mosholu Parkway and Bainbridge Avenue on Sunday, May 18, 2025, from 12-6pm. Free

Things To Do in NYC May 19-25, 2025

Monday, May 19, 2025

The Harlem Stage 2025 Gala is on Monday, May 19, 2025 at 7pm. From $1,500. 🇺🇸

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Cimafunk in 2024 (Carnegie Hall)
Cimafunk in 2024 (Carnegie Hall)

Afro-Cuban Funk

Cimafunk & La Tribu “Pa Tu Cuerpa” Tour with a special guest, gets funky at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall; on Thursday, May 22, 2025, at 7:30pm. From $55. 🇨🇺

Get Tickets (carnegiehall.org)

Friday, May 23, 2025

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Things To Do in NYC May 26 – June 1, 2025

Monday, May 26, 2025

Tuesday, May 17, 2025

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Christian Festival

The Feast of the Ascension is a Catholic celebration of the tradition that Jesus ascended to heaven. This year, it’s on Thursday, May 29, 2025. ✝️

Friday, May 30, 2025

Saturday, May 31, 2025

2024

May 4

Emerging Contemporary Art Fair

The 10th NADA New York 2024 emerging contemporary art fair; is at 548 West 22nd St (the former Dia building); on Saturday, May 4, 2024 from 11am – 7pm. From $55. 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

May 5

Classical, Neoclassical, & Contemporary Ballet

ABT Studio Company dances Program A with a Brady Farrar World Premiere, and New York Premieres by James Whiteside and Amy Hall Garner; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, May5, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $27. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇯🇵 🇵🇭 🇰🇷 🇻🇪

Things To Do in NYC May 6-12, 2024

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Bachata Dance Party

Bryant Park Dance Party Bachata and the City is a free traditional bachata dance party with live music by Judy Santos; at Bryant Park in Midtown, Manhattan; on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Free Lesson at 6pm. Dancing at 7pm. 🇩🇴

Puerto Rican Mother’s Day Salsa

La India sings salsa for Mother’s Day at Lehman Center in Jerome Park, The Bronx; on Saturday May 11, 2024 at 8pm. From $58. 🇵🇷

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Swing Dance Party

Bryant Park Dance Party Swing Fling is a free Lindy Hop dance party with live music by Charles Turner & Uptown Swing; at Bryant Park in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Free Lesson at 6pm. Dancing at 7pm. 🇺🇸

Friday, May 10, 2024

Famous Tango Birthday

Remember Roberto Firpo, the early Argentine tango pianist, orchestra leader, and composer; who was born in Flores, Buenos Aires on May 10, 1884. 🇦🇷

Saturday, May 11, 2024

Famous Artist Birthday

Remember Salvador Dalí. The Spanish surrealist was born in Figueres, Spain on May 11, 1904. 🇪🇸

Puerto Rican Festival

Los Pleneros de la 21 celebrate the Puerto Rican Las Fiestas de Cruz, at Julia de Burgos Cultural Center in “El Barrio” East Harlem; on Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 7pm. 🇵🇷

Cinco de Mayo Cumbia Sonidera Dance Party

The BRIC House Party features hellotones “El Hijo de PueblaYork” and special guests spinning Mexican cumbia sonidera (electro cumbia) for dancing; at the BRIC House in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Saturday, May 11, 2024, from 9pm – 2am. $26. bricartsmedia.org 🇲🇽

Sunday, May 12, 2024

African American Modern Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre performs modern and contemporary dance; in Prudential Hall at New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey; on Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 3pm. From $25. 🇺🇸

Monday, May 13, 2024

Latin Festival

The Feast of Our Lady of Fátima celebrates a famous Marian apparition who first appeared to three peasant children in Fátima, Portugal, on May 13, 1917. 🇵🇹

Contemporary Art Auctions

Sotheby’s The Now Evening Auction goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, May 3, 2024; for auction on Monday, May 13, 2024 at 6:30pm.

Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, May 3, 2024, for auction on Monday, May 13, 2024 at 7pm.

Modern Dance

Paul Taylor Dance Company celebrates the 92nd Street Y’s 150th Anniversary with a reimagining of works premiered on its stage, “Seven New Dances” with special guests, a preview of new work by Resident Choreographer Lauren Lovette, and the Taylor masterpiece “Esplanade” (1975) which was influenced by “Seven New Dances.” It’s in the Kaufmann Concert Hall and online at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Monday, May 13, 2024 at 8pm. From $20. 🇺🇸 🇧🇲

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Fine Art Antiques Fair

African and African Diaspora Film

The 31st New York African Film Festival screens more than 90 African and Diaspora films from 30 countries on the theme “Convergence of Time;” at Film at Lincoln Center in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, from Wednesday-Tuesday, May 8-14, 2024. $17. Continues through May 14, at Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, May 17-19, and as FilmAfrica at the DanceAfrica festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 🇧🇷 🇨🇬 🇨🇩 🇪🇬 🇫🇷 🇬🇭 🇮🇳 🇰🇪 🇳🇦 🇳🇬 🇷🇼 🇸🇳 🇸🇱 🇿🇦 🇹🇿 🇺🇸 🇿🇼

Contemporary Art Auction

Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale of masterworks from the 1980s to present, is led by Haitian Puerto Rican art star Basquiat’s 1982 stretcher bar painting and a monumental Ethiopian American Julie Mehretu abstract. The auction exhibition goes on view at Christie’s Rockefeller Center showroom on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 10am, for auction on May 14, 2024 at 8pm. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇪🇹 🇭🇹 🇵🇷

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Motown Dance Party

Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, May 3, 2024, for auction on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 7pm.

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Salsa Dance Party

Bryant Park Dance Party Latin Festival is a free charanga, Cuban salsa, cha-cha-cha, and salsa dura dance party with live music by La Charanga Pacha and Jimmy Bosch Salsa Masters; at Bryant Park in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, May 16, 2024. Free Lesson at 6pm with dancing to live music until 10pm. 🇨🇺 🇵🇷

Colombian Film Festival

The 11th Colombian International Film Festival New York 2024 opens with a screen of “El Viaje de la Marimba” at 6pm, followed by an Opening Night Party at 8:30pm; at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, on Thursday, May 16, 2024. Continues through Sunday. Opening night film $30. Film & Party $60. Others from $14. 🇨🇴

20th Century Art Auction

Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale of modern, post-war, and contemporary art; features abstract expressionists, American visionaries, and modernism leaders such as Giacometti, Picasso, and Magritte. The auction is led by Van Gogh’s seminal masterwork “Coin de Jardin avec papillons” (1887), Monet’s “Moulin de Limetz” and David Hockney’s “A Lawn Being Sprinkled.” The auction exhibition goes on view at Christie’s Rockefeller Center showroom on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 10am, for auction on May 16, 2024 at 7pm. 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹

Limón Dance Company brings the Mexican modern dance pioneer’s company to the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on May 17, 2024 at 7pm. From $13. 🇲🇽

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Haitian National Day

Haitian Flag Day celebrates the creation of the Haitian flag after the union of Africans and Haitian Creoles on May 18, 1803. 🇭🇹

African and African Diaspora Film

The 31st New York African Film Festival screens African and Diaspora films on the theme “Convergence of Time;” at Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, May 17-19, and as FilmAfrica at the DanceAfrica festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 🇧🇷 🇨🇬 🇨🇩 🇪🇬 🇫🇷 🇬🇭 🇮🇳 🇰🇪 🇳🇦 🇳🇬 🇷🇼 🇸🇳 🇸🇱 🇿🇦 🇹🇿 🇺🇸 🇿🇼

Colombian Film Festival

The 11th Colombian International Film Festival New York 2024 screens films of Colombia and the Diaspora; at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, on Friday, May 16, 2024 starting at 12noon. From $14. 🇨🇴

Dance Parade

The 18th Dance Parade NYC 2024 dances from Sixth Avenue at 17th St in Chelsea, Manhattan; to DanceFest at Tompkins Square Park in the East Village; on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Dance Parade from 12noon – 3pm. DanceFest from 3-7pm. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽, 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇵🇷 🇹🇹, 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇵🇪. 🇨🇩 🇨🇬 🇪🇬, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇸, 🇰🇭 🇨🇳 🇭🇰 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇲🇴 🇹🇼 🇸🇬 🇹🇭

African and Diaspora Dance Festival

DanceAfrica Community Day, the DanceAfrica Festival kickoff, presents the Billie Holiday Theatre’s Youth Arts Academy for the 27th year; in Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza; on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 1pm. FREE. 🇨🇲 🇺🇸

Sunday, May 19, 2024

New York African Festival

Pinkster was a New York African festival during the Dutch colonial period, when Africans enslaved by the Dutch were allowed to celebrate their own traditions while Dutch New Yorkers celebrated Pentecost. It was celebrated from 1626 to the mid 1800s.

Latin Festival

Pentecost is considered the beginning of the Christian Church when by tradition, the Holy Spirit entered the disciples of Jesus who went forth and spread the word.

African and African Diaspora Film

The 31st New York African Film Festival screens African and Diaspora films on the theme “Convergence of Time;” at Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, May 17-19, and as FilmAfrica at the DanceAfrica festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 🇧🇷 🇨🇬 🇨🇩 🇪🇬 🇫🇷 🇬🇭 🇮🇳 🇰🇪 🇳🇦 🇳🇬 🇷🇼 🇸🇳 🇸🇱 🇿🇦 🇹🇿 🇺🇸 🇿🇼

Colombian Film Festival

The 11th Colombian International Film Festival New York 2024 screens films of Colombia and the Diaspora; at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, on Sunday, May 19, 2024 starting at 12noon. From $14. 🇨🇴

Monday, May 20, 2024

Cuban Independence Day

Cuban Independence Day on May 20 celebrates the end of the U.S. occupation of Cuba on May 20, 1902. 🇨🇺

Haitian Founding Father Birthday

Remember Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian Revolution leader who was born in Cap-Haitien, Haiti on May 20, 1743. 🇭🇹

Afro Dance Party

Midtown Dance teaches Afro Fusion with Sekou McMiller; in Greeley Square Park near Herald Square, Manhattan; on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, from 6-7pm. FREE.

Friday, May 24, 2024

It’s Memorial Day Weekend! Remember those who fought and died in war. We need to stop all wars. They never solve anything. Think of the children first.

Saturday, May 25, 2024

National Day

Celebrate Africa Day and the foundation of the Organization of African Unity on May 25, 1963. Isn’t it strange how George Floyd changed the world on Africa Day?

African American Who Changed the World

Remember George Floyd who was lynched by Minneapolis, Minnesota police on May 25, 2020. It’s hard to believe that still happens in the United States, but Floyd did not die in vain. His death shocked America and the world. It was the catalyst for what we call the Harlem Renaissance 3.0, another flowering of African Diaspora culture, and in fact the cultures of all people of color. George Floyd RIP. Very few people change the world, but you did. 🇺🇸

Argentine History

Remember the May Revolution of 1810 which launched the Argentine War of Independence on May 25, 1810. It was the first South American independence movement to succeed, and the beginning of the decolonization of the Americas. 🇦🇷

Puerto Rican Cultural Festival

The 152nd Street Cultural Festival is a family-friendly street fair of Puerto Rican music, culture, food, and activities for little Boricuas; on 152nd St between Jackson and Tinton Avenue in Longwood, The Bronx; over Memorial Day Weekend on Saturday, May 25, 2024 from 12-5pm. FREE. 🇵🇷

Major League Baseball

Sunday, May 26, 2024

Guyanese National Day

Guyanese Independence Day is May 26, 1966. 🇬🇾

Loisaida Street Fair (Alphabet City)

The 37th Loisaida Festival, “A Cultural Mosaic,” features a community parade, live music, theatre, food, artisanal crafts, and lots of family entertainment, on Loisaida Ave (Avenue C) in “Loisaida” Alphabet City, East Village, Manhattan; on Memorial Day Weekend Sunday, May 26, 2024, from 12-5pm, rain or shine. FREE. 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

Salsa Dance Party Outdoors

Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2024 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷

American Festival

On Memorial Day, we remember all those who fought in America’s wars. May there be no more war. 🇺🇸

Salsa and Bachata Dance Festival

BIG Salsa Festival New York 2024 is a salsa and bachata dance festival with workshops, dance parties, master classes, and bootcamps; at the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan; over Memorial Day Weekend, Friday-Monday, May 24-27, 2024. Full pass (workshops and parties) from $275. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

African and African Diaspora Film

FilmAfrica, part of the New York African Film Festival, screens and talks films from and about Cameroon at BAM Rose Cinemas in the Peter Jay Sharp Building at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, (BAM), in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; from May 24-30, 2024. $17.50. 🇨🇲 🇺🇸

African and Diaspora Dance Festival

DanceAfrica 2024 celebrates the dance and music of Cameroon with “The Origin of Communities / A Calabash of Cultures,” featuring the DanceAfrica Spirit Walkers, Billies Youth Arts Academy Dance Ensemble, and the Women of The Calabash singers; at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; from Monday, May 27, 2024 at 3pm. From $25. 🇨🇲 🇺🇸

Free Memorial Day Classical Music

The New York Philharmonic Free Memorial Day Concert conducted by Jaap van Zweden; plays Wagner, Copland, and Brahms; at the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine; in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Monday, May 27, 2023 at 7pm. FREE.

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, May 28, 2024

African and African Diaspora Film

FilmAfrica, part of the New York African Film Festival, screens and talks films from and about Cameroon at BAM Rose Cinemas in the Peter Jay Sharp Building at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, (BAM), in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; from May 24-30, 2024. $17.50. 🇨🇲 🇺🇸

Manhattanhenge

The year’s first half-sun Manhattanhenge sunset is Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at 8:13pm.

African Social Dance Party

Midtown Dance teaches African Social Dances with Judith McCarty; in Greeley Square Park near Herald Square, Manhattan; on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, from 6-7pm. FREE.

Manhattanhenge

The year’s first full-sun Manhattanhenge sunset is Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 8:12pm.

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Latin Food

International Potato Day is May 30. Potatoes were domesticated in southern Peru and northwestern Bolivia between 8,000 and 5,000 BCE, and possibly before. They arrived in Spain around 1570. 🇵🇪 🇧🇴

African and African Diaspora Film

FilmAfrica, part of the New York African Film Festival, screens and talks films from and about Cameroon at BAM Rose Cinemas in the Peter Jay Sharp Building at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, (BAM), in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; from May 24-30, 2024. $17.50. 🇨🇲 🇺🇸

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, May 31, 2024

Film Festival

The Brooklyn Film Festival 2024 opens with a screening of Indigenous French Canadian film “Soleils atikamekw” (Atikamekw Suns) at 7pm followed by an after party. The festival celebrates immersion at Windmill Studios in Greenpoint from May 31 to June 9, 2024; and the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg from June 1-9, 2024. Screenings. $18. Full Pass including the Opening Night screening and party is $100. 🇺🇸 🇩🇿 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇬 🇫🇷 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇸 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

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, May 31, 2024 at 10pm. From $25. 🇵🇷

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