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Things To Do in NYC This Week May 29 – June 4, 2023

Things to do in NYC this week, May 29 – June 4, 2023 include: Ballet Hispánico, Memorial Day, Manhattanhenge, Blue Note Jazz Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Celebrate Israel Parade, Drums Along the Hudson and Queens Pride Parade.

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Latin Things To Do in NYC

Monday is the Memorial Day national holiday.

Latin Dance

  • Ballet Hispánico ❤️
  • Central Park Tango 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
  • DanceAfrica
  • Drums Along the Hudson 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇱🇰 🇺🇸
  • Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach

Latin Festivals

  •  African Yoruba New Year 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬
  • Italian Republic Day, Festa della Republica 🇮🇹

Latin Film

  • Brooklyn Film Festival 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇩 🇨🇬 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇰🇪 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇱🇨 🇪🇸
  • Human Rights Watch Film Festival 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇷 🇮🇹 🇺🇬
  • Open Roads New Italian Cinema 🇮🇹

Latin Music

  • American Composers Orchestra SONiC Festival with Miguel Zenón and Angélica Negrón 🇵🇷 🇨🇴 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 ❤️
  • Blue Note Jazz Festival 🇯🇲 🇨🇺 🇧🇷 🇺🇸
  • Merengueras Dominicanas 🇩🇴 ❤️

Latin Parades

  • Celebrate Israel Parade 🇮🇱
  • Philippine Independence Day Parade 🇵🇭
  • New Queens Pride Parade 🏳️‍🌈

Latin Sports

  • New York Red Bulls vs Orlando

Monday, May 29, 2023
(Memorial Day)

Memorial Day, on Monday, May 29, 2023, is an African Diaspora tradition started after our Civil War in 1865 to honor soldiers who gave their lives to end human slavery in our country. 🇺🇸

Happy Birthday Fonseca! The Latin pop singer was born in Bogotá, Colombia on May 29, 1979. 🇨🇴

The Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade is Monday, May 29, 2023 at 11am. brooklynmemorialdayparade.com 🇺🇸

The Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade is Monday, May 29, 2023 at 2pm. lndmemorialday.org 🇺🇸

46th DanceAfrica 2023 celebrates Ghanian and African Diaspora dance; at BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Monday, May 29, 2023 at 3pm. From $25. 🇬🇭 🇺🇸

Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, is one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties with salsa, cha-cha-cha, and more; at Taj in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷, 🇵🇦, 🇨🇴 🇵🇪 🇻🇪

Watch Neil Tyson’s “Manhattanhenge” half sun solar alignment at 79th, 57th, 42nd, 34th, 23rd, or 14th St in Manhattan; on Monday, May 29, 2023 at 8:13pm. FREE!

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

It’s Salsa Tuesdays with live bands for dancing at Mamajuana Cafe Bronx, a Dominican restaurant in Pelham Bay, The Bronx from 8-11pm. No cover. 🇩🇴

Things to do in NYC this weekend June 2-4, 2023 (Mihai Andritoiu/Dreamstime)
Things to do in NYC this weekend June 2-4, 2023 (Mihai Andritoiu/Dreamstime)

Watch Neil Tyson’s “Manhattanhenge” full sun solar alignment at 79th, 57th, 42nd, 34th, 23rd, or 14th St in Manhattan; on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 8:12pm. FREE!

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Remember the Tulsa Race Massacre of May 31 – June 1, 1921 when one of America’s most prosperous African American communities, a community known as “Black Wall Street,” was attacked by race mobs, bombed by private aircraft, and burned to the ground. 🇺🇸

The 34th Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2023 brings global problems into focus at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center in the West Village, May 31 – June 11, 2023. $15. 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇷 🇮🇹 🇺🇬

The 52nd UEFA Europa League Final 2023 is at Puskás Aréna Park in Budapest, Hungary; on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.

It’s Amateur Night at The Apollo, at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $29. “Be Good or Be Gone!” 🇺🇸

BLUE NOTE JAZZ FESTIVAL ~ OPENING NIGHT
Disco and pop legend Grace Jones opens the Blue Note Jazz Festival at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Hell’s Kitchen; on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 8pm. From $199. The festival with Chucho Valdés & Paquito D’Rivera, Omara Portuondo, and Sergio Mendes runs to July 2. 🇯🇲

Dance Argentine tango nuevo with younger dancers at the Tango Café milonga; at You Should Be Dancing in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC; on Wednesdays from 8-12pm. From $18. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

Thursday, June 1, 2023

June is NYC Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

The Open Roads New Italian Cinema 2023 film festival brings Italian film veterans and rising talent to Film at Lincoln Center; from June 1-8, 2023. 🇮🇹

Ballet Hispánico "Club Havana" (Rachel Neville/New York City Center)

OPENING NIGHT LEGACY GALA PERFORMANCE
Ballet Hispánico leaps into the top tier of American dance companies with a Gala Performance of a Forsythe ballet duet, new work by Michelle Manzanales, and a company classic by Pedro Ruiz; at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 6:30pm. From $35. The show is followed by a Legacy Gala Dinner honoring The Miranda Family and featuring the Spanish Harlem Orchestra. nycitycenter.org 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇻🇪

Dance traditional Argentine Tango at Tango La Nacional; at La Nacional in Chelsea, NYC; Thursdays from 8pm – 2am. Performances around 11pm. $25. 🇦🇷

Friday, June 2, 2023

Celebrate Italian Republic Day, Festa della Republica, when the people of Italy voted for a republic instead of a monarchy on June 2, 1946. 🇮🇹

The Brooklyn Film Festival 2023 is at Windmill Studios in Greenpoint and the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg; from June 2-11, 2023. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇩 🇨🇬 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇰🇪 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇱🇨 🇪🇸

Ballet Hispánico New York City Center Spring 2023, Forsythe "New Sleep" (Rachel Neville)

Ballet Hispánico leaps into the top tier of American dance companies with a Forsythe ballet duet, new works by Michelle Manzanales and Omar Román de Jesús, and a company classic by Pedro Ruiz; at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, June 2, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $35. nycitycenter.org 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Merengueras Dominicanas: Ninoshka, Lidia de la Rosa, Indira Rubiera (Hostos)

Three legendary Merengueras Dominicanas: Ninoshka, Lidia de la Rosa, and Indira Rubiera whip up the stage with Dominican merengue; in the Repertory Theater at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Friday, June 2, 2023 at 8pm. From $25. Students & under 18, $5. hostos.cuny.edu 🇩🇴

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Ballet Hispánico Spring 2023 New York City Center (Rachel Neville/Ballet Hispánico)

Ballet Hispánico leaps into the top tier of American dance companies with a Forsythe ballet duet, new works by Michelle Manzanales and Omar Román de Jesús, and a company classic by Pedro Ruiz; at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, June 3, 2023 at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $35. nycitycenter.org 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

OPENING DAY
Dance Argentine tango at Central Park Tango, every Saturday in June through September. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

New York Red Bulls vs Orlando is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, June 3, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $34. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇯🇲 | 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 | 🇮🇹 | 🇨🇲 🇺🇬

Sunday, June 4, 2023

Celebrate African Yoruba New Year 10,065 in Yorubaland on June 4, 2023 (Nigera, Benin, Togo)! 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬

The National Puerto Rican Day Parade Mass is at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown, Manhattan. 🇵🇷

The Celebrate Israel Parade 2023 marches to renew the hope on Israel’s 75th anniversary, in the parade up Fifth Avenue from 57th to 73rd St in the Upper East Side; on Sunday, June 4, 2023, from 11am – 4pm. 🇮🇱

The Philippine Independence Day Parade NYC 2023 marches down Madison Avenue from Murray Hill to a street fair and cultural festival next to Madison Square Park in NoMad, on Sunday, June 4, 2023, from 12-2pm. The complete celebration runs from 8am – 6pm. FREE! 🇵🇭

Drums Along the Hudson 2023, a Native American and multicultural pow wow of drum, song, and dance, is in Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan; on Sunday, June 4, 2023 from 11am – 6pm, rain or shine. FREE! 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇱🇰 🇺🇸

The New Queens Pride Parade 2023 marches down 37th Avenue from 89th St to 75th St, then to the Pride Stage on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens; on Sunday, June 4, 2023, from 12noon – 6pm. FREE! 🏳️‍🌈

Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach reopens for the season in Orchard Beach Parking Section 5, in Orchard Beach, The Bronx from ~ 12-5pm. FREE 🇵🇷

ACO Sonic Festival with Miguel Zenón & Angélica Negrón (Herminio/Catalina Kulczar/Hostos)
ACO Sonic Festival with Miguel Zenón & Angélica Negrón (Herminio/Catalina Kulczar/Hostos)

The ACO SONiC Festival with Miguel Zenón & Angélica Negrón creates new Latin classical music with the American Composers Orchestra featuring Ahmed Alom, Raquel Acevedo Klein, Victor Pablo, Darian Thomas; in the Repertory Theater at Hostos Center; on Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 4pm. From $25. Student ID ($5). 🇵🇷

Dance Argentine tango with some of New York’s best dancers at the El Destino milonga; at Solas bar in the East Village; on Sundays from 6-11pm. $20 + 1 drink. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾

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. 🇨🇺

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Published May 29, 2023 | Updated August 31, 2023.

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