TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🇸🇷 🇹🇹
Cuban Culture
Browse features on Cuban Culture in New York City, including Cuban art, comedy, dance, fashion, festivals, film, food, music, sports, and theatre.
Dance Theatre of Harlem “Harlem Mouse/Country Mouse,” an Aesop Story Ballet at the Apollo Theater
APOLLO THEATER, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇮🇹
David Virelles Nosotros Ensemble featuring Dafnis Prieto Plays Cuban Jazz and Classical New Music Curated by Tania León at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇺 🇨🇺
Havana Film Festival New York 2024 Screens Latin Films You Won’t See Anywhere Else
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, Hempstead, Long Island
QUAD CINEMA, Greenwich Village
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ReelAbilities Film Festival New York is a Festival of Disability, Love, and Sharing the Joy of Life
MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN, Upper West Side, and venues all over town. 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇺🇸
New York Yankees vs Tampa Bay Rays, Major League Baseball at Yankee Stadium
YANKEE STADIUM, Concourse, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Leyenda Plays Latin Pop Classics with Bridget Kibbey harp, Samuel Torres percussion, and Louis Arques clarinet; for Carnegie Hall Citywide at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE, Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church, Hudson Heights, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
Paquito D’Rivera Plays Classical Latin Jazz with the New Jersey Symphony at New Jersey Performing Arts Center
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇨🇺 ~ 🇦🇷 🇲🇽 🇺🇸
Ensemble Modern Plays International New Chamber Music Curated by Tania León at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇩🇪 ~ 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇿🇦
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 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
Teatro Fest NYC is a Festival of Hispanic Theatre
IATI THEATER, East Village, Manhattan 🇻🇪
INTAR Theatre, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇨🇺
PREGONES/PRTT, Mott Haven, The Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇵🇷
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL, Kips Bay, Manhattan 🇨🇺
TEATRO CIRCULO, East Village, Manhattan 🇵🇷
TEATRO LATEA, Lower East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇷
TEATRO SEA, Lower East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇷
THALIA SPANISH THEATER, Sunnyside, Queens 🇪🇸
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. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇸
NYC Off-Broadway Week Winter 2024 Offers 2-for-1 Tickets
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL, Kips Bay, Manhattan ~ “La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Oscar Wao,” “Eva Luna,” “La Golondrina,” “Radojka” 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇺🇾
NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan ~ “Brooklyn Laundry” 🇦🇷 🇵🇷
Oyá is the Yoruba Orisha of Great Storms with Wind and Lightning that Bring Death and Rebirth
February 2 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
Latin Mondays at Taj, by Talia Castro-Pozo, is One of New York’s Most Popular Salsa Dance Parties
TAJ II, Flatiron District, Manhattan ~ One of New York City’s most popular salsa parties for more than fifteen years. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Eleguá ~ Papa Legba ~ Elegbara ~ Eshu is the Orisha of the Crossroads of Destiny
CUBA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, PUERTO RICO, COLOMBIA 🇨🇺
Babalú-Ayé is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Sickness and Healing
DECEMBER 17 🇨🇺
Mexican Opera “Florencia en el Amazonas” Stars Ailyn Pérez in Spanish at the Metropolitan Opera
METROPOLITAN OPERA, Lincoln Center 🇲🇽 🇧🇷 ~ 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇮🇨 🇨🇺 🇬🇹 🇮🇹 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇪🇸
Changó is the Yoruba Orisha of Music, Drumming, and Dancing
DECEMBER 4 🇨🇺
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. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇸🇳 🇺🇾
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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Salute Tito Puente el Mambo Diablo, Celia Cruz, and La Lupe, with Family, Friends, and his Mambo Legends Orchestra, at Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ Go if you love mambo, salsa, and bolero by Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, La Lupe, Vicentico Valdes, Santos Colon, and well you know.
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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. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇮🇳 🇮🇹 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇷🇼 🇻🇪
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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Flor de Toloache, New York’s Female Mariachi, Plays Harlem Stage for Carnegie Hall Citywide
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE at HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem ~ These Latin Grammy winners play tradition and fusions with their Caribbean heritage. Even if you don’t like mariachi, you’ll love Toloache. 🇲🇽 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇨🇺
Inle is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Medical Workers and Fishers
October 24 🇨🇺
2023 NYCWFF New York City Wine and Food Festival Features a Latin Night
MANHATTAN
Thursday-Sunday, October 12-15, 2023
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Hispanic Day Parade is New York’s Big Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
New York City’s big Hispanic Heritage Month celebration.
FIFTH AVENUE Midtown/Midtown East, Central Park/Upper East Side
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Junta Hispana 2023 is a Family Festival of Latin Culture in Queens
Around a quarter million people enjoy this casual festival of Latin food, music, dance, beauty, and folklore from 20 Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas.
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK
Queens
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Queens Hispanic Parade is a Grand Community Celebration
A festival of the diversity, traditions, folklore and unity of the Queens Hispanic community.
Sunday, September 24, 2023
37TH AVENUE
Jackson Heights, Queens
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Obatalá is the Yoruba Orisha Who Made the World and People
September 24
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Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 Isn’t About Spanish Culture Any More
A meditation on what it means to be “Hispanic” in America today.
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Celebrate Our Lady of Charity (La Caridad del Cobre), Patron Saint of Cuba!
September 8
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
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Oshun is the Yoruba Orisha of Fresh Water, Fertility and Love
September 8 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
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. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇹🇹
Virgin of Regla
There is a famed procession in Regla, Cuba on September 7. 🇨🇺 🇵🇭 🇪🇸
Yemayá is the Yoruba Great Mother Orisha of the Sea
February 2 🇧🇷 🇺🇾
September 7 🇨🇺
December 31 🇧🇷
Yewá, Yoruba Orisha of the Cemetery Dances with the Dead to Help them Move On
The Cuban Yoruba orisha of fertility, chastity, loneliness, and death; helps us through the last step in life’s journey.
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Celebrate Ogun, the Warrior Orisha of Metals, Technology, Drivers and Rum. ¡Aguanile!
June 29
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Tribeca Film Festival 2023 is Screening Some Latin Films That are Deep Dives into Latin Culture
New York’s big spring film festival stretches genre boundaries with great Latin films, TV, audio storytelling, talks, games, immersive, and music.
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MULTIPLE VENUES
June 7-18, 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 🇺🇸
ACO SONiC Festival with Miguel Zenón and Angélica Negrón Creates Avant-Garde Puerto Rican Classical Music at Hostos
A primer on some of the young Latin artists who are doing incredible work stretching the jazz and classical music canon in New York City.
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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The BIG Salsa Festival New York 2023 is a Long Memorial Day Weekend Salsa & Bachata Party
Salsa and bachata workshops, dance parties, master classes, a bootcamp and the Pro-Am Yamulee Challenge.
NEW YORK HILTON MIDTOWN
Memorial Day Weekend
Friday-Monday, May 26-29, 2023
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Ballet Hispánico Dances an Iconic Ballet Pas de Deux, New Commissions and a Latin Classic at New York City Center
NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan ~ Ballet Hispánico takes the stage with a Forsythe ballet duet, new work by Michelle Manzanales and Omar Román de Jesús, and a company classic by Pedro Ruiz. 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇨🇺 🇻🇪
Ballet Hispánico Legacy Gala Hosted by Ana Navarro with Sergio Trujillo Tributes The Miranda Family at The Plaza
Ana Navarro (The View) with Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, On Your Feet!) lead a star-filled tribute to The Miranda Family with dancing to the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
THE PLAZA
Midtown, Manhattan
Thursday, June 1, 2023
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
Isabel Allende Reads From and Discusses Her New Book “The Wind Knows My Name” with Alicia Menendez
One of the world’s most influential Latinas, and widely-read Spanish-language authors, discusses her new book about children in migration, “The Wind Knows My Name,” with MSNBC anchor and “Latina to Latina” podcast host Alicia Menendez.
92ND STREET Y, NEW YORK
Upper East Side, Manhattan
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
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Ballet Hispánico Makes its Mark as America’s Largest Latinx Cultural Organization
Ballet Hispánico takes center stage with an iconic Forsythe ballet pas de deux that is danced on a diagonal, a literal Latinx.
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Thursday-Saturday, June 1-3, 2023
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Ballet Hispánico Leaps into the Top Tier of American Dance Companies
Ballet Hispánico takes the stage with a Forsythe ballet duet, new work by Michelle Manzanales and Omar Román de Jesús, and a company classic by Pedro Ruiz.
The opening night Legacy Gala honors The Miranda Family and features dancing to the Spanish Harlem Orchestra at The Plaza Hotel.
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Thursday-Saturday, June 1-3, 2023
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Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 14, 2023
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