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
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.
Black Comic Book Festival Brings Creatives and Blerds Together with a Fun Cosplay Showcase
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Summer for the City Brings the World to Lincoln Center with Free or Pay-What-You-Wish Concerts
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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇸
Frederick Douglass Brought the Meaning of the U.S. Constitution to Life
TALBOT COUNTY, Maryland ~ February 14, 1817 or 1818 🇺🇸
Dancing the 92nd Street Y Brings Modern Dance Companies Limón, Martha Graham, and Ailey II Back Home
92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Joe Bataan, “The King of Latin Soul,” Plays a ¡Vaya! Dance Party at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center
DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM at Lincoln Center 🇵🇭 🇺🇸
Langston Hughes was a Harlem Renaissance Jazz Poet Who Spoke of Rivers
JOPLIN, Missouri, February 1, 1902 🇺🇸
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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Rosa Parks Kept Her Cool Which Made Her the Mother of the Freedom Movement
TUSKEGEE, Alabama, February 4, 1913 🇺🇸
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. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇦
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Taught Us to Love All People
ATLANTA, Georgia ~ January 15, 1929 🇺🇸
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). 🇺🇸
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 in New York City 2024
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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Mariah Carey “Merry Christmas One and All” is at Madison Square Garden
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Chelsea, Manhattan ~ The singer of the most popular Christmas album of all time comes home for the holidays. 🇻🇪
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 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇪🇸 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
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
🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇪🇹 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇬🇭 🇬🇾 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇹🇹 🇻🇪
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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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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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
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
HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸