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Creole Food Festival NYC Shines Cuisines of the American South, Mother Africa, The Caribbean, and Latin America

EMILY ROEBLING PLAZA, Brooklyn Bridge 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇬🇵 🇨🇮 🇬🇫 🇻🇪
ARTFULL WALLS GALLERY, Harlem 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸

Global Citizen Festival Goes Latin with Shakira, Cardi B, Tyla, Ayra Starr, Camilo, Laurie Hernandez, Danai Gurira, and More

GREAT LAWN, Central Park 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇳🇿 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇰🇷 🇿🇼

African American Day Parade Celebrates Black Culture in Harlem

ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR. BLVD, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Independent 20th Century Contemporary Art Fair Highlights Installations, Self-Taught, Arab Women and Latin American Artists

CASA CIPRIANI, Financial District, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇻🇪

Armory Show Brings Latin Galleries to New York City

JAVITS CENTER, Hudson Yards, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇿🇦 🇪🇸

Public Works by the Public Theater Produces “Pericles”

CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Fall For Dance Festival at New York City Center Brings the World of Dance to NYC

NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇩 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇵🇭

US Open Tennis Championship is the Place to See and Be Seen at the End of Summer

USTA BILLIE JEAN KING NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇹🇼

NYC Broadway Week Offers 2-for-1 Tickets to Popular Broadway Shows

TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇮🇹

Afropunk BLKTOPIA Weekend Flexes More Style Than an Entire Fashion Week

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Battery Dance Festival Connects the World Through Dance

ROBERT F. WAGNER PARK and ROCKEFELLER PARK, Battery Park City, Manhattan

Black August is a Celebration of Freedom

AUGUST 🇺🇸

Harlem Week Celebrates Black Culture in the Home of the Harlem Renaissance Which Defined American Culture

HARLEM, CENTRAL PARK, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Manhattan 🇺🇸

BAAND Together Dance Festival Brings Alvin Ailey, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and New York City Ballet to Summer For the City at Lincoln Center

DAVID H. KOCH THEATER, Lincoln Center, Manhattan

Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y Features African American, Puerto Rican, and Spanish Jazz

92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

NYO Jazz Features Sean Jones with Vocalist Luciana Souza Highlighting Brazilian Composers and New Dafnis Prieto

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺

Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Returns to the Brooklyn Bridge and East River

MANHATTAN Financial District, Two Bridges, Lower East Side
BROOKLYN Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO
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Summer for the City Brings the World to Lincoln Center with Free or Pay-What-You-Wish Concerts

La Casita, Latin spoken word and music 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇬🇹 🇵🇷
Missy D French and English hip hop for families 🇨🇦 🇨🇮 🇷🇼 🇿🇼
NADELI, South African jazz 🇿🇦

LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Juneteenth Celebrates Freedom for All Americans

JUNE 19, 1865 🇺🇸

Drums Along the Hudson is a Native American Powwow and Multicultural Celebration of Drum, Song, & Dance

INWOOD HILL PARK, Inwood, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇱🇰

South Bronx Cultural Festival Celebrates Casita Maria’s 91st Anniversary with an Eddie Palmieri Tribute, Nelson González All Star Band, Bronx Banda featuring Arturo O’Farrill and Lots More

FATHER GIGANTE PLAZA, Longwood, The Bronx 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇵🇷

Nova Frontier Film Festival Screens Films of the African Diaspora, Middle East, and Latin America with Talk, Live Music and Community at Harlem Stage

HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇬🇳 🇮🇷 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇸🇳 🇪🇸 🇹🇷 🇨🇴

Blue Note Jazz Festival New York Presents Some Great Latin Artists

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan
SUMMERSTAGE Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan
National Sawdust, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

DanceAfrica, America’s Largest African and Diasporic Dance Festival, Celebrates the Culture of Mozambique

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇨🇲 🇸🇳

Loisaida Festival Kicks Off Summer in Alphabet City AKA “Loisaida”

AVENUE C, Alphabet City, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🇵🇷

New York City Football Club (NYCFC) Hosts the Hudson River Derby

YANKEE STADIUM, Concourse, The Bronx
CITI FIELD, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED STADIUM, Harrison, New Jersey
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Dance Parade 2025 is Once Again About Reclaiming the Freedom to Be Yourself

SIXTH AVE, 8TH ST, TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village, Manhattan
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New York African Film Festival 2025 Celebrates Fluid Horizons in Films from Mother Afrika

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan
MAYSLES DOCUMENTARY CENTER, Harlem, Manhattan
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene, Brooklyn
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