TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🇸🇷 🇹🇹
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Browse African American Culture in New York City including: blues, gospel, jazz, folk, rock, disco, funk, hip hop, house, tap, trap, Afro, and more.
Anthony Blackwell Casa de Tango Explores the African Origins of Argentine Tango at the New Bronx Music Hall
BRONX MUSIC HALL ~ Tango’s African and Spanish Flamenco connections 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇪🇸
BALANCE ARTS CENTER, Chelsea, Manhattan, Tuesdays and 4th Saturdays
CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan ~ Casa de Tango, June-September Thursdays
Black Comic Book Festival Brings Creatives and Blerds Together with a Fun Cosplay Showcase
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
nora chipaumire “ShebeenDUB” World Premiere Tryptich Radio Opera, Dance Performance, and DUB Dance Party at Harlem Stage
HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇿🇼 🇺🇸
New York City Ballet Celebrates 75 Years By Dancing into the Future at Lincoln Center
DAVID H. KOCH THEATER, Lincoln Center 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇷 🇪🇸
Dance Theatre of Harlem “Harlem Mouse/Country Mouse,” an Aesop Story Ballet at the Apollo Theater
APOLLO THEATER, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇮🇹
Summer for the City 2024 Invites the Whole World to Lincoln Center
LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇦🇺 🇧🇷 🇰🇾 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇮🇶 🇮🇹 🇨🇮 🇯🇲 🇯🇴 🇲🇱 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇸🇩 🇹🇹 🇻🇪 🇿🇼
Jackie Robinson Day Celebrates the Day He Broke Major League Baseball’s Color Barrier
APRIL 15 🇺🇸
Ensemble Modern Plays International New Chamber Music Curated by Tania León at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇩🇪 ~ 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇿🇦
Harlem Renaissance Reborn: Reimagining the Past, Igniting the Future Conference at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Lulada Club Plays All-Women Salsa with the Brass Queens and Sunny Cheeba on Decks at Brooklyn Bowl
BROOKLYN BOWL, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 🇨🇴 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
Tania León Curates New Music at Carnegie Hall
TANIA LEÓN CURATES NEW MUSIC
Alarm Will Sound 🇨🇺 🇵🇷 🇰🇷 🇺🇸
Tania León and Mitsuko Uchida timeless music today 🇨🇺 🇯🇵
Ensemble Modern 🇩🇪 ~ 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇿🇦
David Virelles Nosotros Ensemble with Dafnis Prieto Cuban jazz 🇨🇺
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan
Conzo: A Look Back at The Bronx, 1977-84 Hip Hop and Salsa at Bronx Documentary Center
BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER, Melrose, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
Carlos Henriquez Directs the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in a Journey Through Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Bebop, and Nuyorican Jazz
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Columbus Circle, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
Alonzo King LINES Ballet Presents “Deep River”
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Lincoln Square, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Ballet Hispánico at the 92nd Street Y Reimagines Flamenco, plus New York’s and Havana’s Latin Club Scenes
92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan ~ Three Latin dances by world-class choreographers salute the 92nd Street Y’s role in developing modern and contemporary dance in New York City. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇸
Dancing the 92nd Street Y Brings Modern Dance Companies Limón, Martha Graham, and Ailey II Back Home
92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan ~ Legendary modern dance companies dance legacy works and new choreographers Omar Román De Jesús, Jamar Roberts, and Hope Boykin. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Our Lady of Candelaria is the Patron Saint of Tenerife, Canary Islands; Miners; and the African Diaspora
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS, Spain ~ February 2 🇪🇸
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Black History Month is American History Month
FEBRUARY 🇺🇸
globalFEST is a World Music Showcase at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center
DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan ~ alternative, bomba, folk, R&B, rock, world music. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇦
NYC Broadway Week Winter 2024 2-for-1 Tickets to Latin Broadway Shows
“Chicago,” “Hamilton,” “Moulin Rouge,” “Six,” and more. 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇹 ✡️ 🇵🇷
New Orleans Mardi Gras Carnival Starts on Kings Day January 6
NEW ORLEANS, Lousiana 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇺🇸
Emancipation Proclamation is 161 Years Old
January 1, 1863 🇺🇸
Kwanzaa is the African American Holiday Tradition. Habari Gani!
DECEMBER 26 to JANUARY 1 ~ Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity), Imani (Faith). 🇺🇸
Orchestra of St Luke’s is a Chamber Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra That Plays New Music, Including for Dance
J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio 🇨🇦
St Luke’s Chamber Ensemble Vivaldi 🇮🇹
African American women composers 🇺🇸
“Carmina Burana” choral 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨
Valerie Coleman’s “Portraits of Josephine” 🇺🇸 🇫🇷
DIMENNA CENTER, Hudson Yards
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx
SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER, Staten Island
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, Prospect Park
FLUSHING TOWN HALL, Flushing, Queens
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, Lincoln Center
Alvin Ailey at New York City Center Dances Garner, Roxas-Dobrish, Brown, King, Roberts, Van Manen, and Ailey Classics
NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan
African Diaspora International Film Festival Brings the Many Faces of Mother Africa To New York City
TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Morningside Heights, Manhattan and other venues. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇸🇳 🇺🇾
“In the Valley of Coming Forth” is an Afrofuturist Funk Ritual Play with Cosplay and a DJ After Party at Weeksville Heritage Center
WEEKSVILLE HERITAGE CENTER, Crown Heights, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇭🇹
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Stars Balloons, Floats, Marching Bands, Jon Batiste, Cher, and Santa
UPPER WEST SIDE, MIDTOWN, MIDTOWN SOUTH, HERALD SQUARE
Thanksgiving Looks Very Different From the Other Side of the Table
The Thanksgiving stories we used to be taught as Americans were a whitewash of what really happened. 🇺🇸
Complexions Contemporary Ballet Dances Peck, Amarante, Freeman, and Rhoden at The Joyce
JOYCE THEATER, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇮🇹
Sotheby’s Emily Fisher Landau Collection Auction is this Season’s Star Auction
SOTHEBY’S, Upper East Side ~ One of the collections that defined 20th-century art narratives comes to market. 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival Brings the World to New York
IFC CENTER, SVA THEATRE, VILLAGE EAST BY ANGELIKA, BAR VELOCE, West Village, Greenwich Village, East Village ~ To see another world with your own eyes is a great gift.
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The New York Comedy Festival Will Make You Laugh at Yourself
IT’S ALL OVER ~ Funny people come out of the woodwork from NYC and across America. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇮🇳 🇮🇹 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇷🇼 🇻🇪
Big Band Holidays with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis features Dominican Vocalist Ashley Pezzotti
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Columbus Circle ~ A New York holiday tradition with something nice for everyone. 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇮🇱
The Art Show Brings America’s Top Galleries to the Park Avenue Armory
PARK AVENUE ARMORY, Upper East Side. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇲🇽
World Ballet Day 2023 Takes You Behind the Scenes at the World’s Leading Ballet Companies
STREAMING, November 1, 2023 ~ See some of the world’s most famous dancers, in the world’s most famous ballet companies, backstage at some of the world’s most famous theaters.
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The IFPDA Print Fair is Exhibiting Indigenous, European, and African Diaspora Fine Art at Javits Center
JAVITS CENTER, Hudson Yards ~ Over 90 exhibitors show many Latin fine art prints and editions. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇪🇸 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Bushwick Film Festival is Coming of Age with a Diverse Crew of Emerging Filmmakers
WILLIAMSBURG CINEMAS, Williamsburg, Brooklyn ~ One of New York City’s most diverse film festivals.
Wednesday-Sunday, October 25-29, 2023
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American Ballet Theatre’s Fall Season is a Grand Tour of Recent Ballet History
DAVID H. KOCH THEATER at LINCOLN CENTER ~ Seven ballets in three programs that provide an epic tour of periods in ballet history.
October 18-29, 2023
GALA Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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International Creole Day, Jounen Kwéyòl
A celebration of our Caribbean French African/Indigenous heritage.
Friday-Sunday, October 27-29, 2023
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The Sphinx Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Showcases the Diversity of Classical Music at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL in Midtown, Manhattan ~ Black and Latin artists play classical music by Black and Latin composers. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇿🇦 🇪🇸
2023 NYCWFF New York City Wine and Food Festival Features a Latin Night
MANHATTAN
Thursday-Sunday, October 12-15, 2023
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Fall For Dance Festival 2023 Celebrates 20 Years at New York City Center
Five programs of three international dance companies for $20 + fees at one of New York’s leading dance theaters.
NEW YORK CITY CENTER in Midtown, Manhattan
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Global Citizen Festival Latin Headliners Include Anitta, D-Nice, Lauryn Hill and Sofia Carson
Great artists support ending extreme poverty.
GREAT LAWN
Central Park
Saturday, September 23, 2023
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Harlem’s African American Day Parade Celebrates African American Culture
One of New York’s big festivals of African American culture.
HARLEM
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Independent 20th Century Art Fair Looks Deeper Into the Recent Past
The Independent 20th Century 2023 art fair recasts the recent past with a New York state of mind. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇹🇹
NYC Broadway Week Summer 2023 Offers 2-for-1 Tickets to Great Latin Broadway
Chicago the Musical, Hamilton, Here Lies Love, JaJa’s African Hair Braiding, The Lion King, Moulin Rouge, and more.
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The Birth of Hip-Hop, and You Don’t Stop!
Hip-hop roots go way back, but what is generally considered hip-hop’s birthday was Clive and Cindy Campbell’s “Back to School Jam” block party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in Morris Heights, The Bronx, on August 11, 1973.
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American Ballet Theatre’s 2023 Spring Season Features Like Water For Chocolate, Giselle, Swan Lake, & Romeo and Juliet
New artistic director Susan Jaffe makes her mark with a series of ballets about passion.
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