TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🇸🇷 🇹🇹
Dominican Culture
Browse Dominican culture in New York City including Dominican alternative, carnival, merengue, bachata, son Dominicano, salsa, reggaeton, and dem bow.
National Dominican Day Parade 2024 Kick-Off Celebrates Bronx Dominican Heritage
SIXTH AVENUE, Midtown, Manhattan 🇩🇴
Summer for the City 2024 Invites the Whole World to Lincoln Center
LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇦🇺 🇧🇷 🇰🇾 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇮🇶 🇮🇹 🇨🇮 🇯🇲 🇯🇴 🇲🇱 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇸🇩 🇹🇹 🇻🇪 🇿🇼
New York Mets vs Pittsburgh Pirates, Major League Baseball at Citi Field
CITI FIELD, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪
New York Yankees vs Tampa Bay Rays, Major League Baseball at Yankee Stadium
YANKEE STADIUM, Concourse, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Damballa is the Vodou Loa of the Masculine Side of Nature
March 17 🇭🇹 🇩🇴
Whitney Biennial 2024 is Even Better Than the Real Thing
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Meatpacking District, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇸🇻 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇹🇹
Aventura and Romeo Santos Play One Last Round of Urban Bachata
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇩🇴
PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇩🇴
UBS ARENA, Elmont, Long Island 🇩🇴
Santo Domingo Carnival 2024 is the Climax of Dominican Carnival
SANTO DOMINGO, Malecon, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Dominican Yorks is a New York Dominican Art Exhibit in Conversation with the Collection at Hispanic Society
HISPANIC SOCIETY, Washington Heights, Manhattan
Dominican Independence Day, ¡Quisqueya!
PUERTA DEL CONDE, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ~ February 7, 1844 🇩🇴
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” 🇦🇷 🇵🇷
Dominican Heritage Month New York is One Long Party
NEW YORK STATE 🇩🇴
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. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Yasser Tejeda Plays Afro-Dominican Alternative for globalFEST at Lincoln Center
DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan ~ globalFEST world music showcase. 🇩🇴
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. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇦
Dominican Restoration Day Commemorates “El Grito de Capotillo” which Finally led to Independence
August 16, 1863 🇩🇴
La Virgen de la Altagracia is the Patron Saint of the Dominican Republic
HIGÜEY, Dominican Republic ~ Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia. 🇩🇴
Three Kings Day is the Hispanic Gift-Giving Day at the End of Christmas Season
JANUARY 6 🇩🇴 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇺🇾 ~ 🇮🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸
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. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇸🇳 🇺🇾
Mirabal Sisters, “Las Mariposas,” Inspired the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
NOVEMBER 25, 1960 🇩🇴
Romeo Santos Brings His “Formula Vol. 3 Tour” to Barclays Center
BARCLAYS CENTER, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn ~ The “King of Bachata” created urban bachata and popularized it around the world. 🇩🇴
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. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇮🇳 🇮🇹 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇷🇼 🇻🇪
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. 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇮🇱
Dominican Film Festival New York Gets to the Heart of What it Means to Be Quisqueuyan
Great new films made in the Dominican Republic and by the Dominican Diaspora.
UNITED PALACE in Washington Heights
REGAL E-WALK in the Times Square Theater District
Thursday-Sunday, November 2-5, 2023
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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. 🇲🇽 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇨🇺
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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NYC Off-Broadway Week Fall 2023 Offers 2-for-1 Tickets to Select Latin Shows
La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Oscar Wao, La Golondrina, Radojka at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay. Bite Me at WP Theater in the Upper West Side.
On-Sale Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Performances October 3-15, 2023
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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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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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José Alberto “El Canario” Sings Salsa for SummerStage at the Coney Island Amphitheater
A superstar Dominican salsa singer known for his charismatic whistling.
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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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The Bronx Dominican Parade 2023 Marches Down Grand Concourse
Fordham and Concourse, The Bronx
Sunday, July 30, 2023
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
New York Salsa Festival 2023 Features Willie Colón, El Gran Combo, Victor Manuelle, Oscar D’Leon and Merengueros Oro Solido
Willie Colón, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Victor Manuelle, Grupo Niche, Oscar de Leon, Jerry Rivera, Tony Vega, Edgar Joel, merengueros Oro Sólido backed merengueros Oro Sólido, backed by a great salsa band directed by Bobby Allende and Marc Quiñones. 🇵🇷 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪
BARCLAYS CENTER: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Saturday, June 10, 2023
Merengueras Dominicanas: Ninoshka, Lidia de la Rosa, & Indira Rubiera Bring Quisqueya to Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ Three legendary women play their own flavors of Dominican merengue. 🇩🇴
Bronx Week 2023 Climaxes with the Bronx Week Parade, Food and Arts Festival and Concert
Bronx Week includes a silent disco, skate party, Bronx Walk of Fame induction, parade, food and arts festival, and a concert.
THE BRONX
May 12-21, 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
The Future Fair 2023 Brings Diversity to the Art-Industrial Complex
A contemporary art fair that works to bring diverse crop of emerging artists and art galleries into the art-industrial complex.
CHELSEA INDUSTRIAL
Thursday-Saturday, May 11-13, 2023
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Bryant Park Dance Party 2023 gives Free Dance Lessons Followed by Live Music for Dancing!
Talia Castro-Pozo hosts bachata, cumbia, salsa, swing, and tango dance lessons followed by live music for dancing. FREE!
La Excelencia salsa, Wed, May 3
Pedro Giraudo tango, Thu, May 4
Afro-Andean Funk cumbia, Wed, May 10
Charenee Wade’s Band of Swing, Thu, May 11
Valerio bachata, Wed, May 17
Santiago y la Orquesta salsa, Thu, May 18
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Chosen Memories at MoMA Finds the Needle in the Haystack of Contemporary Latin American Art
The Cisneros Institute show the power of giving.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Midtown, Manhattan
April 30 – September 9, 2023
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International Workers Day or Labor Day is a National Holiday in Much of the Latin World
This ancient European spring holiday became associated with the labor movement. The U.S. downplays it, but it’s a major holiday in the Latin world.
Monday, May 1, 2023
Xiomara Fortuna, the Queen of Afro-Caribbean Fusion, Plays Hostos Center
Saturday, April 1, 2023
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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La Vega Carnival 2023 Carnaval Vegano, is the Big Dominican Republic Carnival
Sundays, February 5, 12, 19, 2023
Sunday-Monday, February 26-27, 2023
LA VEGA, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Fashion Designers of Latin America 2023 Fall Winter Collections are the Latin Part of New York Fashion Week
Monday, February 13, 2023
NEW YORK CITY
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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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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. 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇷