JAVITS CENTER, Hudson Yards 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇪🇸 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
African American
Browse African American Culture in New York City including: blues, gospel, jazz, folk, rock, disco, funk, hip hop, house, tap, trap, Afro, and more.
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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Dizzy Gillespie Put the Latin Back in Jazz
Saturday, October 21, 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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NYC Pride Builds to a Climax at the NYC Pride Parade
The NYC Pride rally, brunch, youth festival, and dance parties climax with the march, street fair, and music festival headlined by Christina Aguilera.
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Drums Along the Hudson is a Native American & Multicultural Celebration of Drum, Song & Dance
A spectacular multicultural pow wow brings the old ways back to life. Everyone hears the call of the drum. 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇱🇰 🇺🇸
INWOOD HILL PARK
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Blue Note Jazz Festival 2023 Brings Latin Jazz Legends to NYC
A jazz festival with everything from the blues to Latin to hip-hop.
Hammerstein Ballroom, The Town Hall, Sony Hall, Blue Note NYC
May 31 – July 2, 2023
Grace Jones 🇯🇲
Chucho Valdés & Paquito D’Rivera 🇨🇺
Omara Portuondo 🇨🇺
Sergio Mendes 🇧🇷
Julius Rodriguez 🇺🇸
Human Rights Watch Film Festival Brings Global Problems into Focus
We have a lot of problems that we can only solve together, including war, women’s rights, transgender rights, health, environmental destruction, and press freedom.
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
May 31 – June 11, 2023
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On African Yoruba New Year 2023 E ku odun, eku iyedun!
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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DanceAfrica 2023 Celebrates Ghanaian and African Diaspora Culture at BAM
A choreographic and musical journey through ancestral and contemporary Ghanian culture, a big influence on Caribbean and African American culture.
BAM, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Friday-Monday, May 26-29, 2023
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The Little Mermaid 2023 Looks Like Me
Opens citywide
Friday, May 26, 2023
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Dance Parade NYC 2023 DanceFest Gets over 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Streets
DANCE PARADE
Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village
African, Afrobeat, Afro-Cuban, Bhangra, Bollywood, Bomba, Break Dancing, Caporales, Carnival, Dancehall, Flamenco, Folkloric, Hip-Hop, House, Jazz, Latin, Majorette, Mexican, Moko Jumbies, Reggae, Salay, Salsa, Samba, Soca, Street, Tammurriata, Tap, Tarrantella, Tinkus, and more. 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇹🇹
DANCEFEST Tompkins Square Park
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Saturday, May 20, 2023
Harlem International Film Festival 2023 Brings the Spotlight Uptown
Television and film world premieres, a red carpet gala, and lots of filmmakers.
AMC MAGIC JOHNSON
Harlem
Thursday-Sunday, May 18-21, 2023
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PEN World Voices Festival 2023 is Mightier Than the Sword
International writers gather to talk about protecting free expression and human rights through literature.
MULTIPLE VENUES
Wednesday-Saturday, May 10-13, 2023
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African Diaspora International Film Festival is a World Full of Music & Soul
This is an outstanding curation of excellent films that show the power and resilience of African Diaspora culture around the world. There are American, Brazilian, British, Cuban, French, Guadeloupean, Malian and Peruvian music films.
COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE
Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Friday-Sunday, April 28-30, 2023
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Black Arts Movement: Then & Now Conference
Angela Davis, Nona Hendryx, Toshi Reagon, Dafnis Prieto, Tavia Nyong’o, Vernon Reid
HARLEM STAGE
Manhattanville, West Harlem
Thu-Sat, May 18-20, 2023
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Dance Theatre of Harlem Bids Farewell to Artistic Director Virginia Johnson at New York City Center
NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇭🇹
The New York Opera Alliance NYOANext Brings Opera To and From The Bronx
Bronx Opera, International Brazilian Opera Company, Manhattan Opera Repertory Ensemble, Encompass New Opera Theatre, Little Opera Theatre of NY with Harlem Opera Theater, SAS Performing Arts Company, Opera Praktikos (deaf opera).
OPEN AUDITIONS
Bronx Music Heritage Center
Melrose, The Bronx
Thursday, April 20, 2023
PERFORMANCES
Bronx House
Pelham Parkway, The Bronx
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Bronx Music Heritage Center
Melrose, The Bronx
Sunday, April 23, 2023
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Future Dance Festival 2023 is Propelling Dance Forward
92nd Street Y
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Performances by finalists in this open competition for choreographers, produced by the Harkness Dance Center.
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The 11th Black Comic Book Festival 2023 is a Creative Gathering of Comic, Graphic Novel & Cosplay Families
SCHOMBURG CENTER in East Harlem
April 14-15, 2023
The SchomCom brings together animators, Blerds, bloggers, illustrators, publishers and writers in a family celebration of Black comic books and graphic novels, with a cosplay showcase.
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Ayodele Casel Artists at the Center Showcases the Next Generation of Tap Dance Stars
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Thursday-Saturday, April 13-15, 2023
Star tappers: Brinae Ali, Gerson Lanza, Caleb Teicher, Naomi Funaki, Jared Alexander, Tomoe “Beasty” Carr, Amanda Castro and Ayodele Casel; dance six world premieres that show what tap dance can be.
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Rhythm, Bass And Place: Through the Lens Photography Exhibition Shows Music & Dance as the Heartbeat of Latin New York at the CCCADI
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI) East Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Sou Sou Saturdays Celebrates Hip-Hop’s Femme Pioneers with Your Family at CCCADI
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI) “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇯🇲 🇵🇦 🇵🇷
NYICFF 2023 New York International Children’s Film Festival is Live Again With Great Latin Films
March 3-19, 2023
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island
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Latin Roots of New York Fashion Week 2023 Fall Winter Collections
Thursday-Wednesday, February 9-15, 2023
SPRING STUDIOS Tribeca, NYC
AND around town
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Arturo Schomburg was a Puerto Rican Harlem Renaissance Man
Tuesday, January 24, 2022
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Between Riverside and Crazy Goes to Broadway
HAYES THEATER, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan ~ Pulitzer Prize-winning New York playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis (“The Get Down”) has New York City in his veins. 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇷
Chicago is the Longest-Running American Musical
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Open Run
AMBASSADOR THEATRE
Times Square Theater District
globalFEST 2023 Brings Global Music to David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center
Sunday, January 15, 2023
DAVID GEFFEN HALL
Lincoln Center
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American Dance Platform Brings African American Dance to The Joyce Theater
JOYCE THEATER, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Chadwick Boseman “Black Panther” Passed on the Day of the “I Have a Dream” Speech
LOS ANGELES, California ~ August 28, 2023. 🇺🇸
New Year’s Eve NYC 2023
Saturday, December 31, 2022
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 2022 Fall Season Looks Back and Looks Forward at New York City Center
November 30 – December 24, 2022
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Midtown, Manhattan
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DOC NYC 2022
Wednesday, November 9-17, 2022
IFC CENTER, SVA THEATRE, CINÉPOLIS CHELSEA
West Village, Chelsea, Manhattan
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Bushwick Film Festival 2022 Features Over 100 Independent Films from Brooklyn and the World
RED CARPET RECEPTION
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Lot 45
Bushwick, Brooklyn
SCREENINGS
Williamsburg Cinemas
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
AWARDS
Monday, November 7, 2022
Lot 45
Bushwick, Brooklyn
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NYC Village Halloween Parade 2022 Celebrates Freedom!
HALLOWEEN
Monday, October 31, 2022
SIXTH AVENUE
Hudson Square/SoHo, Greenwich Village, Chelsea
World Ballet Day 2022 Takes You Behind the Scenes at the World’s Leading Ballet Companies
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
STREAMING
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We Have the Same Dream As You Rev. Dr. King
Sunday, August 28, 2022
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The Latin Roots of New York Fashion Week September 2022: Spring/Summer 2023 Collections
Friday-Wednesday, September 9-14, 2022
SPRING STUDIOS
Tribeca, Manhattan
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NYC’s African American Day Parade 2022 Celebrates in Harlem
Sunday, September 18, 2022
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR BLVD
Harlem, Manhattan
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SummerStage 2022 Brings Latin Culture to NYC Parks
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
RUMSEY PLAYFIELD
Central Park, Manhattan
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2022 SEASON
June 11 – September 22, 2022
NEW YORK CITY PARKS
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island
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