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Salsa! art and music exhibition 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
John Benitez Quartet, Puerto Rican jazz 🇵🇷
Ivanna Cuesta Quartet, Dominican jazz 🇩🇴
Cocomama, women’s jazz and tap 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇬🇵 🇮🇱 🇲🇽
Brenda Navarette, Afro-Cuban jazz 🇨🇺
JCFI Music Ensemble, South African jazz 🇿🇦
Melvis Santa and Rafael Monteagudo Duo, Afro-Cuban jazz 🇨🇺
HARLEM, Manhattan
New York Film Festival 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇯 🇧🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇸 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇸🇳 🇿🇲
New York Jewish Film Festival ✡️
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 🇫🇷
New Directors / New Films
African Film Festival
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 🇮🇹
LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Carín León regional Mexican pop 🇲🇽
Stevie Wonder African American R&B 🇺🇸
Dave Matthews Band, alternative rock 🇿🇦
Pentatonix American pop 🇺🇸 🇬🇩 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇪🇸
Andrea Bocelli Italian pop opera holiday concert 🇮🇹 🎄
CHELSEA, Manhattan
Le’Andrra LeSeur “Monument Eternal,” African American art 🇺🇸
Alejandro García Contreras “¿Quién no ha intentado convertir una piedra en un recuerdo?,” Mexican art 🇲🇽
Gala
RED HOOK, Brooklyn
Elizabeth Catlett, African American Mexican artist and activist 🇺🇸 🇲🇽
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn
MET FIFTH AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan:
Mexican Prints at the Vanguard 🇲🇽
Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson 🇺🇸
Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin 🇫🇷
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 🇮🇹
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1875-Now 🇪🇬
MET CLOISTERS, Fort Tryon Park, Hudson Heights, Upper Manhattan
Step Afrika! African American step dancing 🇺🇸
Esperanza Spalding African American and Slovak jazz 🇺🇸 🇸🇰
LINCOLN SQUARE, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Season Opener: Tilson Thomas with Ax, Mozart and Mahler
Classical, Bebop & Ellington: Augusta Read Thomas World Premiere, and Ellington’s “Harlem” 🇺🇸
Opening Gala: vocalist Cynthia Erivo 🇺🇸
DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan
100 Years of Solitude: online course on one of the greatest works of Latin American literature 🇨🇴
Actress Eva Mendes talks up her debut picture book “Desi, Mami, and the Never-Ending Worries” 🇨🇺
Batsheva Ensemble: immersive Israeli contemporary dance 🇮🇱
Boca Tuya: Puerto Rican contemporary dance 🇵🇷
Urban Bush Women: Black women’s contemporary dance 🇺🇸
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
Fall for Dance Festival of international dance 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇪🇸
Fatherland play
Ragtime musical + Gala 🇺🇸
Dorrance Dance, The Nutcracker Suite tap dance 🇺🇸
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater choreographers influence by Ailey 🇺🇸
MIDTOWN, Manhattan
Afropunk Black Music Festival ~ Erykah Badu, Larissa Luz 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇸🇩
LENA HORNE BANDSHELL, Prospect Park, Brooklyn
GRANT’S TOMB Afribembé A Great Day in Harlem
“EL BARRIO” EAST HARLEM, Manhattan
Schomburg Center Literary Festival 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
HARLEM, Manhattan
Camille A. Brown & Guests African American contemporary dance 🇺🇸
MANHATTANVILLE, West Harlem
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene 🇺🇸
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Big Band Rhythms of India 🇺🇸 🇮🇳
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Blue Note Jazz Festival 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Manhattan
It’s Showtime NYC, Maimouna Keita African Dance Company, Kash Gaines, African Diaspora dance 🇺🇸
Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) Latin music showcase, Fonseca Colombian pop, Israel Fernández Romani Spanish flamenco, Bruses Mexican pop 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
BRESH inclusive Buenos Aires street party 🇦🇷
SummerStage Bastille Day, IAM, Magic System, The Avener, Laurie Darmon, Femi the Scorpion 🇫🇷 🇪🇬 🇨🇮
ALL FIVE BOROUGHS
Caetano Veloso Brazilian MPB 🇧🇷
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater modern and contemporary dance 🇺🇸
Paquito D’Rivera New Jersey Symphony Cuban, Argentine, Jewish, Mexican classical jazz 🇨🇺 ~ 🇦🇷 🇲🇽 🇺🇸
Franco Escamilla “1995” Mexican comedy in Spanish 🇲🇽
NEWARK, New Jersey
JEROME PARK, The Bronx
Whitney Biennial 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇸🇻 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇹🇹
Edges of Ailey art of Alvin Ailey 🇺🇸
MEATPACKING DISTRICT, Manhattan
By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection ~ the zeitgeist’s impact on art 🇺🇸 🇮🇹
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930 ~ Parisian abstraction’s impact on the arts 🇫🇷 🇵🇹
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
Silvestre Dangond ‘Ta Malo Colombian vallenato 🇨🇴
Tony Touch “The Piece Maker Concert” Puerto Rican hip hop 🇵🇷
Hombres G 40 Aniversario Spanish pop rock 🇪🇸
ROCKEFELLER CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan
“Hell’s Kitchen” by Alicia Keys 🇺🇸
“Manahatta” by Mary Kathryn Nagle 🇺🇸
“The Ally” by Itamar Moses 🇮🇱
“Sally & Tom” by Suzan-Lori Parks 🇺🇸
“Jordans” by Ife Olujobi 🇳🇬
Shakespeare in the Park
NOHO, Manhattan
