Monday, July 3, 2023
Indigenous
Explore Indigenous culture in New York City and the Americas, including famous people, cultural events, festivals, and more.
“Sturgeon Moon” is the Native American Name for the August Full Moon
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Native American Algonquins Called the January Full Moon the “Wolf Moon”
Friday, January 6, 2023
Frida Kahlo is an Icon of Mexico, Women, Indigenous Peoples, and LGBTQ+ Communities
Thursday, July 6, 2023
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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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Summer For the City 2022 Brings NYC Together at Lincoln Center
May 14 – August 14, 2022
Dance, Film, Music, Words
Afrobeats, Brazilian Funk, Salsa, Voguing
LINCOLN CENTER
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BAAND Together Dance Festival 2022 Brings Ailey, ABT, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and City Ballet to Lincoln Center for Free!
LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
Grupo Rebolú Plays Afro-Colombian Caribbean Dance Music at Esplanade Plaza
Saturday, July 23, 2022
ESPLANADE PLAZA
Battery Park City, Manhattan
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Drums Along the Hudson Celebrates Native American and Global Drum Traditions
Sunday, June 5, 2022
INWOOD HILLS PARK
Inwood, Manhattan
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Jarana Beat Does the Mexican Fandango at Terraza 7
Friday, May 13, 2022
TERRAZA 7
Elmhurst, Queens
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Lila Downs
SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District 🇲🇽
Crown of the Andes and the Atahualpa Emerald are at the Met Museum
Ongoing
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Upper East Side, Manhattan
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Aurelio Martínez & The Garifuna Soul Band Sing Folkloric Jazz for the World Music Institute at Le Poisson Rouge
LE POISSON ROUGE Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇭🇳 ~ 🇧🇿 🇬🇹 🇳🇮 🇺🇸
Edmar Castaneda Celebrates “Family” Album Release at Dizzy’s Club
DIZZY’S CLUB AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Columbus Circle, Manhattan 🇨🇴
Join the Indigenous Peoples Day NYC 2021 Pow Wow
Sunday-Monday, October 10-11, 2021
RANDALL’S ISLAND PARK
Manhattan
Battery Dance Festival 2021 Brings the World of Dance to NYC
VIRTUAL
Thursday-Saturday, August 12-14, 2021
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LIVE
ROBERT F. WAGNER PARK
Battery Park City
Sunday-Friday, August 15-20, 2021
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Héctor Méndez Caratini Discusses a Life Photographing Indigenous and African Spirituality in the Caribbean
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Instituto de Historia (Madrid)
Facebook Live
@BibliotecaPineroUAGM
Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 11am ET/AT
FREE
The Neighboring Scenes 2021 Film Festival Puts Latin America on Your Screen
filmlinc.org 🎞🎪 Wednesday, March 31 – April 12, 2021 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇺🇬🇹🇬🇹🇲🇽🇵🇦🇵🇪
New York International Children’s Film Festival 2021 is Virtual Nationwide
Friday, March 5-14, 2021
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Univision’s Premio Lo Nuestro 2021 Latin Music Awards Show & Winners
Thursday, February 18, 2021 🎵🏆 🇨🇴🇩🇴🇲🇽🇵🇦🇵🇷
World Music Institute, Flushing Town Hall & the NY Gypsy Festival Join the Global Music Month World Music Festival
Saturday, August 29 – October 1, 2020
globalmusicmonth.org
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The 39th Battery Dance Festival goes Virtual for 2020
Friday, August 14-22, 2020
YOUTUBE
FREE
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African, Indian, Middle Eastern, Romanian, French, Greek, Japanese, Women’s, LGBT, Indigenous, Mexican and Disability dance
Gaucho are the Cowboys of the South American Pampas
ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, BRAZIL, PARAGUAY
ADAA The Art Show 2020
GALA PREVIEW
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
FAIR
Thu-Sun, February 27 – March 1, 2020
PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Upper East Side, NYC
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The top U.S. art dealer association’s art fair is showing Argentine, Brazilian, French, Indigenous, Italian, Mexican and Venezuelan artists.
Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 2020
Friday-Tuesday, February 14-18, 2020
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
Upper West Side, NYC
Cinema Tropical co-produces one of New York City’s most important Latin film festivals. This year’s films are Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Indigenous, LGBT, Mexican and Peruvian.
Redhawk Native American Arts Council Teaching Artists
BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn
The Met Sees the Caribbean for the First Time in Arte del Mar
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Central Park
December 16, 2019 – June 27, 2021
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Staten Island Day of the Dead Festival
Sunday, October 20, 2019
WEST BRIGHTON, Staten Island ~ Help build a communal ofrenda (altar) and learn Mexican Day of the Dead handicrafts for the entire family with teaching artists at Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Benedicta School
Redhawk Indigenous People Day Pow Wow
Sun-Mon, Oct 13-14, 2019
RANDALLS ISLAND ~ The Redhawk Native American Arts Council’s annual Indigenous People Day pow wow celebration in front of Icahn Stadium in Randall’s Island Park
Socrates Annual 2019
October 5, 2019 – March 8, 2020
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK,
Astoria, Queens
DOC NYC 2019
November 6-15, 2019
WEST VILLAGE & CHELSEA, NYC ~ The biggest documentary film festival in the U.S. is at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea
AfriBembé Festival 2019
Sunday, August 18, 2019
EAST HARLEM ART PARK, NYC
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Summer Streets 2019
Sat, August 3, 10 & 17, 2019
MANHATTAN ~ Seven miles of city streets become a long pedestrian mall with rest stops that offer free African, Brazilian, Disability, French, Indigenous, Mexican, Peruvian and Puerto Rican entertainment and family activities
Garifuna Collective & Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theater
Friday, August 2, 2019
CROTONA PARK, The Bronx ~ If you never danced African drum, you never lived. Indigenous Honduran Garifuna shake things up for SummerStage at the Crotona Park Amphitheater
Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2019
Wednesday-Sunday, July 24 – August 11, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER & CONCOURSE, THE BRONX ~ Lincoln Center’s summer festival includes African, Cuban, Dominican, Honduran, Indigenous, Jewish, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, & Spanish music, dance, film and word for FREE
Holman Trio plays Indigenous Chilean Jazz at Lincoln Center
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Live music Indigenous Chilean jazz
LINCOLN CENTER ~ Ancestral Chilean rhythms, cueca (Chilean national dance) and traditional jazz. FREE
Quechua, the Inca Language of the Indigenous Andes
QUEENS, NEW YORK
PATERSON, NEW JERSEY
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PERU, ECUADOR, BOLIVIA
PARTS OF CHILE & ARGENTINA
May Sumak Film Festival 2019
June 14-16, 2019
Friday-Sunday
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC & CORONA, Queens ~ Annual film festival of movies in Indigenous Quechua languages of the central Andes, that screens in New York City and Quito, Ecuador
Children’s Festival of Taíno culture
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC | Sat-Sun, May 18-19, 2019 | Children’s festival | Taíno arts and crafts, dancing and storytelling for the family
Dance Parade New York 2019
FLATIRON, UNION SQUARE, EAST VILLAGE, NYC | Sat, May 18, 2019 | Dance parade & festival | African, Bolivian, Brazilian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Mexican, Panamanian, Puerto Rican & Spanish dances
Whitney Biennial 2019 shows the diversity of American art today
May 17 – Sep 22, 2019, Closed Tuesdays
MEATPACKING DISTRICT, NYC ~ The survey of the latest developments in U.S. art includes work by artists with an Argentine, Colombian, French, Indigenous, Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage
PEN World Voices Festival 2019
May 6-14 & 19, 2019 | International literary festival | The world’s writers and thinkers gather in New York City to talk and read and perform
Tribeca Film Festival 2019
TRIBECA, NYC | Daily Apr 24 – May 5, 2019 | Film festival | Argentine, Bolivian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Honduran, Indigenous, Mayan, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Spanish and more stories
Melissa Misla’s APT 9D is Nuyorican art in two places at once
QUEENS COLLEGE, KEW GARDENS HILLS; Apr 9-13, 2019; New York Puerto Rican Indigenous Taíno art exhibition ~ RECEPTIONS Tue, Apr 9 & Sat, Apr 13
Graciela Iturbide 50 Years of Mexican Photography
March 28 – May 18, 2019
THROCKMORTON FINE ART
Midtown East, NYC
New York International Children’s Film Festival 2019
MANHATTAN, BROOKLYN & QUEENS, Weekends, Feb 22 – Mar 17, 2019 ~ Children’s movies from Andorra, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, France, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Portugal and Spain
Doc Fortnight 2019
MIDTOWN, daily Feb 21-28, 2019, international documentary film festival ~ Argentine, Brazilian, Indigenous and Peruvian documentaries screened at the home of one of the world’s great film collections
“Birds of Passage” Made the 2019 Oscar Shortlist
FILM FORUM, Hudson Square, NYC 🇨🇴🎞 February 14 – April 11, 2019
Oscar Nominations for African, Indigenous, Italian & Mexican movies
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, Tue, Jan 22, 2019 ~ Roma, Green Book, A Star is Born, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Hale County, This Morning, This Evening, and Mother are recognized.
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DOC NYC 2018 ~ America’s biggest documentary film festival
November 8 – 15, 2018
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IFC Center, SVA Theatre & Cinepolis
West Village & Chelsea, Manhattan
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America’s largest documentary film festival presents over 300 films and events with 42 world premieres and 17 U.S. premieres
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African – American, Brazilian, Honduran, Indigenous, Italian, Jamaican, Jewish, Mexican, Puerto Rican and Spanish films