Things To Do in NYC in November 2024

Things To Do in NYC in November 2024 include: Day of the Dead celebrations, Veterans Day Parade, DOC NYC documentary film festival, Thanksgiving Day Parade, and more.

New York City prepares for the holiday season and by Thanksgiving Week, the holidays are in full swing.

National holidays include Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Native American Heritage Day.

November is Native American Heritage Month, Puerto Rican Heritage Month, and Hip-Hop History Month.

November weather is late fall. Average temperatures range from 42° to 54°F, so it is cool. Scarfs, hats, and gloves enable you adjust for the weather.

NOVEMBER 2024
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MONTH

• Native American Heritage Month 🇺🇸
• Puerto Rican Heritage Month 🇵🇷

NATIONAL DAYS

• Veterans Day, Nov 11 🇺🇸
• Thanksgiving, Nov 28, 2024 🇺🇸
• Native American Heritage Day, Nov 29, 2024 🇺🇸
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Mirabal Sisters), Nov 25 🇺🇳 🇩🇴

FESTIVALS

• Day of the Dead, Día de Muertos Mexico Oct 31 – Nov 2 🇲🇽
• NYC Public Schools Diwali, Nov 1, 2024 🪔
• Fèt Gede, Nov 1-2 🇭🇹
• Mano a Mano Day of the Dead / Día de Muertos 2024 is a series of community ofrendas (altars) through which we remember family members who have passed away, at:
  David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Manhattan; from October 31 – November 2, 2024, from 3-7pm.
  Flatiron North Plaza in Manhattan’s Flatiron District; on November 1, 2024, from 3-7pm.
• Our Lady of Providence, Nov 19. 🇵🇷

CHRISTMAS & HOLIDAYS

• Winter Village Bryant Park in Midtown, Manhattan runs October 25, 2024 to March 2, 2025.
• Black Friday shopping day, Nov 29, 2024 🇺🇸

TRAVEL

• Day of the Dead Parade, Mexico City, Nov 2 🇲🇽

ART

Art Fair

The 36th edition of The Art Show 2024, by the ADAA (Art Dealers Association of America), the art fair of America’s top galleries, opens with a Benefit Preview for the Henry Street Settlement at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Tuesday, October 29, 2024; followed by the public show, Wednesday-Saturday, October 29 – November 2, 2024. Benefit from $200. General Admission $30.

Haitian Art

One Vision, Many Hands is an exhibition of Haitian art and culture, at Mon Reve Events Venue in Floral Park, Long Island; on Saturday-Sunday, November 2-3, 2024. 🇭🇹

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

Classical Ballet

American Ballet Theatre Fall 2024 Season features World Premieres of Helen Pickett’s “Crime and Punishment,” Gemma Bond and Kyle Abraham; plus classics by Balanchine, Lander, Tharp, and Makarova; at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; from October 16 – November 3, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸

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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

FILM

Midtown, Manhattan

Flor De Toloache, NYC’s all-female mariachi, joins The Sinfonietta for a screening of Disney’s Day of the Dead movie “Coco” with live music; at The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, November 1, 2024, at 8pm. From $56. 🇲🇽

MUSIC

Beninese Afrobeats

Angélique Kidjo, with the Color of Noize Orchestra conducted by Derrick Hodge, celebrates 40 years of music and JOY; on the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 8pm. From $23.50. Hurry she always sells out, and if you want to be uplifted, you’ve got to go see Angélique. carnegiehall.org 🇧🇯 🇫🇷

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. 🇨🇺

PARADES & STREET FAIRS

Light Up Liberty Avenue is a parade of cars decorated with lights produced by the Divya Jyoti Association of New York; at Liberty Avenue and Lefferts Blvd, in Little Guyana, South Ozone Park, Queens; on Saturday, November 2, 2024, from 3-8pm.  diwalimotorcade.com 🪔

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. 🇭🇹

FESTIVALS

NYC Public Schools are closed for Diwali on Friday, November 1, 2024. 🪔

Diwali Celebration at the Seaport Museum offers diya lighting, Diwali Puppet Storytime, “A Kids Book About Diwali” reading, an interactive dance workshop, and more on the 1885 tall ship Wavertree in Seaport, Manhattan; on Friday, November 1, 2024, from 11am – 6pm. Free with rsvp.  southstreetseaportmuseum.org 🪔

Flushing Town Hall’s 10th Annual Diwali Festival features family workshops on block printing, rangoli making (patterns drawn with ground rice), Indian cooking, henna tattoos, and Hindi calligraphy; plus a ance performance of “Navadurga” about the female divine by Abha Roy, Srijan Dance Company, ADDA, and Dr. Santa R Nandi; plus a dance party with DJ Rekha; and Indian food for sale; at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens; on Saturday, November 2, 2024, from 12-4pm. $20/children free. 🪔

Latin countries around the world celebrate Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, a time when we remember family ancestors and tend their graves if we can.

ART

French Modern Art

OPENING DAY
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930 explores the impact of the vibrant abstract art movement on the other arts; at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; from November 8, 2024 to March 9, 2025. $30. 🇫🇷 🇵🇹

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 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

Art Auctions

Sotheby’s November featured collection is The Collection of Sydell Miller, the modern art collection of painting, sculpture, and design built by the beauty industry mogul of Ardell false eyelashes and Matrix Essentials salon products, who died in 2024. Her innovations included easy to apply false eyelashes, and cream hair colors that enabled hairstylists to paint color on hair. Auction highlights include Monet’s “Nymphéas” (1914-17), a water lily painting that represented his shift to monumental canvases; Henry Moore’s “Reclining Mother and Child” (1975-76), and Picasso’s “La Statuaire” (1925) which blended Cubism with Neo-Classical figurative forms. auction exhibition goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, November 8, 2024, for auction on Monday, November 18, 2024, at 6pm. 🇫🇷 🇪🇸

Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction Latin highlights include British-Mexican Leonora Carrington’s painted wooden sculpture “La Grand Dame” (1951), and Mexican painter Remedios Varo’s surrealist painting “Los caminos tortuosos” (1958). The auction exhibition goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, November 8, 2024, for auction on Monday, November 18, 2024 at 7pm. 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Sotheby’s Now and Contemporary Evening Auction features abstraction, pop art, and Maurizio Cattelan’s scandalous “Comedian.” The banana duct-taped to a canvas achieved viral fame in 2019. It’s Cattelan’s sly commentary on art and the art industrial complex. You may remember his “America,” a functioning solid gold toilet, installed at the Guggenheim Museum in 2011. There is also a Fernando Botero “Horse” (1992). The auction exhibition goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, November 8, 2024, for auction on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 7pm. 🇨🇴 🇮🇹

COMEDY

Caribbean Comedy

Maha Hype “TikTok vs Instagram” brings the “King of Caribbean Comedy” to Kings Theatre in Flatbush, Brooklyn; on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 8pm (6:30pm doors).

Comedy Festival

The 20th New York Comedy Festival 2024 is all over town; from November 7-17, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇻 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Bodega Chat Live With Michelladonna is at Chelsea Music Hall in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, November 8, 2024 at 6pm. From $20. 🇩🇴

Ms. Pat “The Hot & Flashy Tour” is at The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, November 8, 2024 at 7pm. From $42. 🇺🇸

Sommore plays the Hard Rock Hotel NY in the Times Square Theater District; on Friday, November 8, 2024 at 7pm. From $60. 🇺🇸

Edward Farrell & Alexis Carabano play the Williamsburg Comedy Club in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 8pm. 🇨🇴

Justin Silva plays The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 9:45pm. From $42. 🇨🇻

Sophie Santos is Codependent at the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy club in Manhattan’s East Village; on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 10pm. 🇵🇭 🇪🇸

Carlos Sanchez and Friends (The Stand Up Comedy King in the Dominican Republic) play Chelsea Music Hall in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 6:30pm. ¡Ay mi madre! 🇩🇴

DANCE THEATRE

Mexican Modern Dance

Limón Dance Company’s 78th season includes Doris Humphrey’s solo “Two Ecstatic Themes,” Limon’s “The Traitor,” the return of his drumming quartet “Scherzo” after 45 years, his “Missa Brevis” about the destruction of war, and a Kayla Farrish world premiere that reimagines two lost Limón works. It’s at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; from November 5-10, 2024. 🇲🇽

Modern Dance

Paul Taylor Dance Company presents World Premieres by Robert Battle and resident choreographer Lauren Lovette, Taylor classics, Jody Sperling tributes to Loïe Fuller, plus Lovette’s “Echo,” Dove’s “Vespers,” and Keigwin’s “Rush Hour;” with live music by Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Grammy-winning trio “Time for Three” joins special performances. It’s at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, from November 5-24, 2024. From $10. 🇺🇸 🇧🇲

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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

FILM

Latin Short Film Festival

20th Corto Circuito, the Latin short film festival (under 28 minutes), opens at Instituto Cervantes in Midtown East, Manhattan on Wednesday, November 6-7, 2024 and closes at King Juan Carlos Center at NYU in Greenwich Village on Friday, November 8, 2024. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

Dominican Film Festival

The 13th Dominican Film Festival New York 2024 opens with a red carpet World Premiere of “La Grande” by Tito Rodríguez, the story of Dominican merengue legend Fefita La Grande (she’ll be there and so will Lumy Lizardo who plays her); at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on November 6, 2024, at 8pm. The festival continues at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Symphony Space in the Upper West Side, Aaron Davis Hall in West Harlem, and Alianza Dominicana in Washington Heights; through November 13. From $34. 🇩🇴

MUSIC

Cuban Rumba Jazz

Pedrito Martinez Group plays Cuban jazz, timba, and rumba; at the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Monday, November 4, 2024, at 8pm and 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors). From $32 + minimums. 🇨🇺

Rítmicas: Women in Jazz and Percussion ~ Afro Cuban

Melvis Santa and Rafael Monteagudo Duo play Afro Cuban jazz at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Manhattan; on Veterans Day, Tuesday, November 5, 2024, from 7-9pm. FREE. 🇨🇺

Puerto Rican Jazz

Eddie Palmieri, the salsa and Latin jazz legend, plays the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; from Tuesday-Wednesday, November 5-6, 2024, at 8pm and 10:30pm (6pm and 10pm doors). From $44 + minimums. 🇵🇷

Puerto Rican Salsa

Marc Anthony “Historia Tour” brings Puerto Rican salsa to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on November 7, 2024, at 8pm. From $83. 🇵🇷

Cuban, Argentine, Jewish, Mexican Classical Jazz

Paquito D’Rivera with the New Jersey Symphony play D’Rivera’s “Medley for Jazz Quintet and Orchestra” of Gershwin hits; Argentine composer Daniel Freiberg “Latin American Chronicles;” Mexican composer Carlos Chavez “Symphony No. 2;” Jewish composer Aaron Copland “El Salón México,” Mexican composer Arturo Márquez “Danzón No. 2,” and Mexican composer José Pablo Moncayo “Huapango;” at New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey; on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, November 7, 8, and 10, 2024 at 1:30pm, 8pm and 3pm respectively. On sale August 5. 🇨🇺 ~ 🇦🇷 🇲🇽 🇺🇸

Dominican Bachata

Luis Vargas, “El Rey Supremo” sings Dominican bachata at Salsa Con Fuego restaurant and lounge, in Fordham Manor, The Bronx; on November 8, 2024, doors 9pm. From $20. 🇩🇴

Cuban, Brazilian, Uruguayan Jazz

Dayramir González plays Cuban jazz piano solo, in a performance with violinist Concetta Abbate and Uruguayan-Brazilian pianist Santiago Beis, followed by conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner Tania León and Composers Now; at the Queens Public Library at Central, in Jamaica, Queens; on Saturday, November 9, 2024, at 2pm. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇺🇾

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. 🇭🇹

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 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

Art Auctions

Sotheby’s November featured collection is The Collection of Sydell Miller, the modern art collection of painting, sculpture, and design built by the beauty industry mogul of Ardell false eyelashes and Matrix Essentials salon products, who died in 2024. Her innovations included easy to apply false eyelashes, and cream hair colors that enabled hairstylists to paint color on hair. Auction highlights include Monet’s “Nymphéas” (1914-17), a water lily painting that represented his shift to monumental canvases; Henry Moore’s “Reclining Mother and Child” (1975-76), and Picasso’s “La Statuaire” (1925) which blended Cubism with Neo-Classical figurative forms. auction exhibition goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, November 8, 2024, for auction on Monday, November 18, 2024, at 6pm. 🇫🇷 🇪🇸

Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction Latin highlights include British-Mexican Leonora Carrington’s painted wooden sculpture “La Grand Dame” (1951), and Mexican painter Remedios Varo’s surrealist painting “Los caminos tortuosos” (1958). The auction exhibition goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, November 8, 2024, for auction on Monday, November 18, 2024 at 7pm. 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Sotheby’s Now and Contemporary Evening Auction features abstraction, pop art, and Maurizio Cattelan’s scandalous “Comedian.” The banana duct-taped to a canvas achieved viral fame in 2019. It’s Cattelan’s sly commentary on art and the art industrial complex. You may remember his “America,” a functioning solid gold toilet, installed at the Guggenheim Museum in 2011. There is also a Fernando Botero “Horse” (1992). The auction exhibition goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, November 8, 2024, for auction on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 7pm. 🇨🇴 🇮🇹

COMEDY

Comedy Festival

The 20th New York Comedy Festival 2024 is all over town; from November 7-17, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇻 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Saul Trujillo and Friends play Rodney’s comedy club in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Veterans Day, Monday, November 11, 2024 at 7:30pm. @saulcomedy 🇲🇽

Natalie Ortega is Funny Girl; at Chelsea Music Hall in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Veterans Day, Monday, November 11, 2024 at 8:30pm. From $25.

Pedro Gonzalez Does An Hour in Spanish; at the Tiny Cupboard comedy club in Bushwick, Brooklyn; on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 8pm. @pedrosjokes 🇨🇴

Aida Rodriguez (Last Comic Standing) plays the Chelsea Music Hall in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 6:30pm. @funnyaida 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

JB Smoove plays The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at 7pm. From $46. @ohsnapjbsmoove 🇺🇸

Jaboukie Young-White plays the Hard Rock Hotel NY in Manhattan’s Times Square Theater District; on Thursday-Saturday, November 14-16, 2024 at 7pm. From $37. @jaboukie 🇯🇲

Chismosa Comedy plays the West Side Comedy Club in Manhattan’s Upper West Side; on Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 9pm. @chismosacomedy

Angelo Colina is En Español at the New York Comedy Club in Manhattan’s Upper West Side; on Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 9:30pm. @angelocolina 🇻🇪

Tracy Morgan plays The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, November 15, 2024 at 7pm. @tracymorgan 🇺🇸

Gabriel Iglesias “Don’t Worry Be Fluffy Tour” is at Kings Theatre in Flatbush, Brooklyn; on Friday, November 15, 2024 at 8pm. From $55. @fluffyguy 🇲🇽

Glorelys Mora and Sasha Merci bring “Una Noche de Comedia con Morir Soñando;” to the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 7pm. From $25. @glorelysmora @sashmerci 🇩🇴

Zarna Garg “Practical People Win” plays The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 7pm. From $48. @zarnagarg 🇮🇳

DANCE THEATRE

Puerto Rican Contemporary Dance

Boca Tuya, led by Omar Román De Jesús, performs three contemporary dances: “Caress them in a way that hurts a little” about love, “Like those playground kids at midnight” about individuality, and “Los Perros del Barrio Colosal;” in Buttenwieser Hall at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Thursday-Friday, November 14-15, 2024, at 7pm. From $40. 🇵🇷

Modern Dance

Paul Taylor Dance Company presents World Premieres by Robert Battle and resident choreographer Lauren Lovette, Taylor classics, Jody Sperling tributes to Loïe Fuller, plus Lovette’s “Echo,” Dove’s “Vespers,” and Keigwin’s “Rush Hour;” with live music by Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Grammy-winning trio “Time for Three” joins special performances. It’s at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, from November 5-24, 2024. From $10. 🇺🇸 🇧🇲

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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

FILM

Dominican Film Festival

The 13th Dominican Film Festival New York 2024 continues at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Symphony Space in the Upper West Side, Aaron Davis Hall in West Harlem, and Alianza Dominicana in Washington Heights; through November 13. From $34. 🇩🇴

The Closing Night film is “Freddy,” the life story of Dominican comedian and TV producer Freddy Beras-Goico; at Aaron Davis Hall at City College in Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan; on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at 8pm. From $18. 🇩🇴

Documentary Film Festival

The 15th DOC NYC 2024, America’s largest documentary film festival, screens over 300 films at IFC Center in Manhattan’s West Village, SVA Theatre in Chelsea, and Village East by Angelika in the East Village; from Wednesday, November 13-21, 2024. It continues online until December 1. From $22. Passes available. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇮🇱 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇸🇩

MUSIC

Afro-Cuban Jazz

Melvis Santa & Jazz Orishas play jazz for the ancestors; at Bar Lunático in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 7pm & 10:15pm. Suggested donation $10 🇨🇺

Cuban, French, Mexican Classical Songs

Cuban American soprano Elena Villalón and Grammy-winning pianist and accompanist Craig Terry perform songs by Russian composer Rachmaninoff, French composer Olivier Messiaen, Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, Mexican composer María Grever, and more; in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $50. 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽

Latin Grammys

The 25th Latin Grammys are broadcast live from Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida; on Thursday, November 14, 2024.

Puerto Rican Jazz

Miguel Zenón plays the New York Premiere of his latest jazz album, “Golden City,” a history of San Francisco; at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at 7:30pm. From $20. 🇵🇷

Mexican Chicano Rock and Alternative

Grammy winners Quetzal and La Santa Cecilia play Chicano rock and alternative; in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, November 15, 2024, at 7:30pm. From $65. 🇲🇽

Jamaican Dancehall

Buju Banton “The Overcomer Tour” brings Jamaican dancehall and reggae to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on November 17, 2024, at 8pm. $94. 🇯🇲

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. 🇨🇺

PARADES & STREET FAIRS

Veterans Day Parade Marches Up Fifth Avenue on Veterans Day, Monday, November 11, 2024. 🇺🇸

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. 🇭🇹

NATIONAL DAYS

On Veterans Day, November 11, thank you for your service. 🇺🇸

ART

Art Auctions

Sotheby’s November featured collection is The Collection of Sydell Miller, the modern art collection of painting, sculpture, and design built by the beauty industry mogul of Ardell false eyelashes and Matrix Essentials salon products, who died in 2024. Her innovations included easy to apply false eyelashes, and cream hair colors that enabled hairstylists to paint color on hair. Auction highlights include Monet’s “Nymphéas” (1914-17), a water lily painting that represented his shift to monumental canvases; Henry Moore’s “Reclining Mother and Child” (1975-76), and Picasso’s “La Statuaire” (1925) which blended Cubism with Neo-Classical figurative forms. auction exhibition goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, November 8, 2024, for auction on Monday, November 18, 2024, at 6pm. 🇫🇷 🇪🇸

Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction Latin highlights include British-Mexican Leonora Carrington’s painted wooden sculpture “La Grand Dame” (1951), and Mexican painter Remedios Varo’s surrealist painting “Los caminos tortuosos” (1958). The auction exhibition goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, November 8, 2024, for auction on Monday, November 18, 2024 at 7pm. 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Sotheby’s Now and Contemporary Evening Auction features abstraction, pop art, and Maurizio Cattelan’s scandalous “Comedian.” The banana duct-taped to a canvas achieved viral fame in 2019. It’s Cattelan’s sly commentary on art and the art industrial complex. You may remember his “America,” a functioning solid gold toilet, installed at the Guggenheim Museum in 2011. There is also a Fernando Botero “Horse” (1992). The auction exhibition goes on view at Sotheby’s in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, November 8, 2024, for auction on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 7pm. 🇨🇴 🇮🇹

Mexican Drone Photography

México Now Festival ~ Patrimonio with Santiago Arau, a book presentation of the drone photographer’s work on Anáhuac, the Valley of Mexico, home of Aztecs and México City, is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 6:30pm. Free with rsvp. 🇲🇽

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

Modern Dance

Paul Taylor Dance Company presents World Premieres by Robert Battle and resident choreographer Lauren Lovette, Taylor classics, Jody Sperling tributes to Loïe Fuller, plus Lovette’s “Echo,” Dove’s “Vespers,” and Keigwin’s “Rush Hour;” with live music by Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Grammy-winning trio “Time for Three” joins special performances. It’s at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, from November 5-24, 2024. From $10. 🇺🇸 🇧🇲

Mexican Fandango (Zapateado)

México Now Festival ~ Fandango Jarocho Newyorkino is a traditional Mexican fandango; a community gathering with music, zapateados dancing, poetry, theater and more; at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, November 22, 2024, at 6:30pm. Free with rsvp. 🇲🇽

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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

FILM

Documentary Film Festival

The 15th DOC NYC 2024, America’s largest documentary film festival, screens over 300 films at IFC Center in Manhattan’s West Village, SVA Theatre in Chelsea, and Village East by Angelika in the East Village; from Wednesday, November 13-21, 2024. It continues online until December 1. From $22. Passes available. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇮🇱 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇸🇩

Mexican Film

México Now Festival ~ Selected shorts from the Morelia International Film Festival in Morelia, Mochoacán, México; at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, September 21, 2024, at 7pm. Free with rsvp. 🇲🇽

MUSIC

Puerto Rican Reggaeton

Ivy Queen La Diva, the “Queen of Reggaeton,” makes her Carnegie Hall debut; on the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage in Midtown, Manhattan; on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 8pm. From $42. 🇵🇷

Puerto Rican Reggaeton

Rauw Alejandro celebrates his “Costa Nuestra” album release at the Brooklyn Paramount; in Downtown, Brooklyn; on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 6pm. From $399. It’s also live streaming on YouTube at 9pm. 🇵🇷

African American Jazz

Melvis Santa joins Kenny Garrett at the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Thursday-Sunday, November 21-24, 2024 at 8pm & 10pm. From $38. 🇨🇺

Puerto Rican Pop

Chayanne “Bailemos Otra Vez Tour” brings Puerto Rican pop to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on Wednesday, November 20 and Friday, November 22, 2024 at 8pm. On sale March 8. 🇵🇷

South African Alternative Rock

Dave Matthews Band plays alternative rock at Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday-Saturday, November 22-23, 2024, at 7:30pm. From $123. 🇿🇦

Mexican Cardenchado Chorus

México Now Festival ~ Coro Acardenchado is a choral performance of freestyle improvisation and body percussion inspired by the a cappella trios of Durango, México. These community choruses are so beautiful, they will make your hair stand up. It’s at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 7pm. Free with rsvp. 🇲🇽

Afro-Dominican Alternative

Afro Dominicano plays Dominican alternative for DJ Ultra Violet’s Bodega Jams dance party at House of Yes in Bushwick, Brooklyn; on Sunday, November 24, 2024 at 4pm. 🇩🇴

Mexican Sonic Essay

México Now Festival ~ Echoes from the Borderlands is an hour-long excerpt from a 24-hour sonic essay of the sounds of despair and hope that mark the borderlands. This collaboration of author Valeria Luiselli, composer Leonardo Heilblum, and multimedia artist Ricardo Giraldo is at Chelsea Factory in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, November 24, 2024 at 5pm. Free with rsvp. If you have never spent time in the deserts of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, you have no idea how hauntingly beautiful they are. 🇲🇽

American A Cappella Pop

Pentatonix “Hallelujah! It’s A Christmas Tour” brings the holidays to Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Tuesday, November 24, 2024, at 7:30pm. From $55. 🇺🇸 🇬🇩 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇪🇸

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. 🇨🇺

SPORTS

Major League Soccer Eastern Semi-Final is a New York Derby

New York City Football Club (NYCFC) vs New York Red Bulls is an MLS Cup Eastern Semi-Final, and New York Derby, at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 5:30pm. From $91. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇵🇷 🇸🇱 🇺🇾 vs 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇻🇪

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. 🇭🇹

FESTIVALS

The Catholic Feast of Our Lady of Providence, patron saint of Puerto Rico, is November 19. 🇵🇷

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Latin Stars Include Dora the Explorer, Spider-Man, Natti Natasha, and Sebastián Yatra 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇬🇧 🇻🇪 🦃

Search

Mirabal Sisters, “Las Mariposas,” Inspired the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 🇩🇴

Thanksgiving in New York City is Family Time 🦃

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

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. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

DANCE THEATRE

The Nutcracker

New York City Ballet “The Nutcracker” is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; from November 29, 2024 through January 4, 2025. From $112. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

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. 🇨🇺

PARADES & STREET FAIRS

SPORTS

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. 🇭🇹

FESTIVALS

Thanksgiving is family time. 🦃