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Day of the Dead NYC 2022 Día de los Muertos is a Three-Day Family Celebration of Life

Day of the Dead with Adál Maldonado #AdalWasHere (Agcuesta/Dreamstime/Roberto Paradise)

OFRENDAS (Family Altars)
Monday, October 31, 2022

DÍA DE LOS INNOCENTES (Children’s Day)
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

DÍA DE MUERTOS (Day of the Dead)
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

🇧🇷🇲🇽🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇹🇵🇭🇪🇸

The Great Spirit of the Lenape 1st New Yorkers Invites all 1st Nations and Allies to the 1st NYC Indigenous Peoples Day Parade!

Indigenous Taíno Dominican Republic (Oskanov-Dreamstime)

MADISON SQUARE PARK & BROADWAY, Nomad and the Flatiron District ~ Learn about Indigenous culture, storytelling, singing, drumming, dancing, and traditional clothing. It’s a great opportunity for New York photographers. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇷

“Sturgeon Moon” is the Native American Name for the August Full Moon

The Sturgeon Moon rises over the old South Street Seaport (Stuart Monk/Adobe)

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Summer For the City 2022 Brings NYC Together at Lincoln Center

Summer For The City 2022 (Sachyn Mital/Lincoln Center)

May 14 – August 14, 2022
Dance, Film, Music, Words
Afrobeats, Brazilian Funk, Salsa, Voguing
LINCOLN CENTER
🌍🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈🇵🇪🇵🇷🇺🇸

BAAND Together Dance Festival 2022 Brings Ailey, ABT, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and City Ballet to Lincoln Center for Free!

BAAND Together Dance Festival 2022: Ballet Hispánico, NY City Ballet, ABT, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Dan Jackson/Lincoln Center)

LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

Grupo Rebolú Plays Afro-Colombian Caribbean Dance Music at Esplanade Plaza

Grupo Rebolú is Morris Canate, Ronald Polo & Johanna Castaneda (Diana Bejarano/GR)

Saturday, July 23, 2022
ESPLANADE PLAZA
Battery Park City, Manhattan
🇨🇴

Jarana Beat Does the Mexican Fandango at Terraza 7

Jarana Beat is a fun New York Fandango collective (courtesy the artists)

Friday, May 13, 2022
TERRAZA 7
Elmhurst, Queens
🇲🇽

Lila Downs

Lila Downs "Al Chile" (the artist)

SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District 🇲🇽

Crown of the Andes and the Atahualpa Emerald are at the Met Museum

Crown of the Andes (Public Domain/Met Museum)

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇨🇴 🇪🇨

Aurelio Martínez & The Garifuna Soul Band Sing Folkloric Jazz for the World Music Institute at Le Poisson Rouge

Aurelio Martínez (Tillyer York/the artist)

LE POISSON ROUGE Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇭🇳 ~ 🇧🇿 🇬🇹 🇳🇮 🇺🇸

Héctor Méndez Caratini Discusses a Life Photographing Indigenous and African Spirituality in the Caribbean

Cuban Santería altar (Héctor Méndez Caratini)

🇵🇷📸
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

A still from Neighboring Scenes 2021 "All the Dead Ones" by Gotardo & Dutra (Cinema Tropical)

filmlinc.org 🎞🎪 Wednesday, March 31 – April 12, 2021 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇺🇬🇹🇬🇹🇲🇽🇵🇦🇵🇪

New York International Children’s Film Festival 2021 is Virtual Nationwide

New York International Children's Film Festival (Iakov Filmimonov/Dreamstime)

Friday, March 5-14, 2021
nyicff.org

Univision’s Premio Lo Nuestro 2021 Latin Music Awards Show & Winners

The Premio Lo Nuestro Latin music awards are hot! (Misha/Adobe)

Thursday, February 18, 2021 🎵🏆 🇨🇴🇩🇴🇲🇽🇵🇦🇵🇷

World Music Institute, Flushing Town Hall & the NY Gypsy Festival Join the Global Music Month World Music Festival

Global Music Month (Oblachko/Dreamstime)

Saturday, August 29 – October 1, 2020
globalmusicmonth.org
🇦🇴 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇲 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇱 🇲🇽 🇺🇸

Gaucho are the Cowboys of the South American Pampas

Gaucho (MartinSeb/Adobe)

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
–
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

Pedro Lemebel in "Lemebel" (Joanna Reposi Garibaldi/Film at Lincoln Center)

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

Redhawk Native American Arts Council (RHNAAC)

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn

The Met Sees the Caribbean for the First Time in Arte del Mar

Taíno Zemí Cohoba Stand from Arte del Mar: Artistic Exchange in the Caribbean (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇧🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇷

Staten Island Day of the Dead Festival

Day of the Dead altar (AGcuesta/Adobe)

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

Indigenous People Day celebration on Randalls Island, NYC. (Redhawk Native American Arts Council)

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

'Access Grove, Soft Stand' by Gabriela Salazar (2019) for the Socrates Annual. Courtesy the artist.

October 5, 2019 – March 8, 2020
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK,
Astoria, Queens

AfriBembé Festival 2019

Vejigante de Ponce at the Afribembe Festival (CCCADI)

Sunday, August 18, 2019
EAST HARLEM ART PARK, NYC
🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇬🇳 🇭🇳 🇲🇱 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

Summer Streets 2019

https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/summerstreets/html/route/activities.shtml

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

Garifuna Collective & Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theater. Courtesy the artists.

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

Holman Trio plays Indigenous Chilean Jazz at Lincoln Center

Holman Trio. Courtesy the artists / 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

Indigenous woman and child in Sacred Valley, Peru. Courtesy quinet.

QUEENS, NEW YORK
PATERSON, NEW JERSEY
–
PERU, ECUADOR, BOLIVIA
PARTS OF CHILE & ARGENTINA

May Sumak Film Festival 2019

May Sumak Film Festival (Courtesy MSFF)

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

Taíno Children's Festival. Photo Peter Figen. Mask Yolanda Franjul.

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

Las Nietas De Nonó, "Ilustraciones de la Mecánica," (2016-18). Courtesy the artists.

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

Melissa Misla’s APT 9D is Nuyorican art in two places at once

APT 9D (2019). Courtesy Melissa Misla.

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

'Lady of the Iguanas' by Graciela Iturbide (1979) detail. (Artist)

March 28 – May 18, 2019
THROCKMORTON FINE ART
Midtown East, NYC

New York International Children’s Film Festival 2019

Tepulpai & Naïra in 'Pachamama.' Courtesy Juan Antin.

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

A still from 'The Offering' screening at Doc Fortnight 2019. Courtesy Guille Isa and Bill Silva.

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

A scene from 'Birds of Passage' (2018). Courtesy of Orchard Films.

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.
# awards african indigenous italian mexican spanish

Queens Bolivian Day Parade 2018 Desfile Boliviano

Sunday, October 21, 2018
JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens ~ Celebrate our Indigenous heritage and freedom from slavery with our folkloric dances: Caporales, La Diablada, Morenada, Tinku and more on 37th Avenue

Socrates Annual 2018 at Socrates Sculpture Park

Joe Riley & Audrey Snyder "Into the ground" (2018). Courtesy of the artists / Socrates Annual.

Daily, October 7, 2018 to March 24, 2019
Dominican French Peruvian & Puerto Rican sculpture
ASTORIA, Queens ~ Annual outdoor sculpture show in the NYC park. FREE

Mile-Long Opera, a biography of 7 o’clock, 1,000 singers, 100 stories

Mile-Long Opera. Courtesy of Liz Ligon / David Lang and Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

MEATPACKING & CHELSEA; Wed-Mon, Oct 3-8, 2018; Contemporary opera live music ~ An incredible participatory experience

Taste Peru at the Peru to the World Expo 2018

Peru to the World Expo 2018 ~ World's Best Ceviche Chef Javier Wong

Sunday, September 23, 2018 ~ Peruvian tastings, Pisco cocktails and entertainment. World’s Best Ceviche Chef Javier Wong will be there !
~
Metropolitan West
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan

Marguerite Humeau: Birth Canal

Marguerite Humeau, 35000 A.C (Sphinx Death Mask), 2018. Bronze, 18 1/8 × 8 1/4 × 18 1/8 in (46 × 21 × 46 cm). Courtesy the artist and CLEARING New York/Brussels.

NEW MUSEUM, LOWER EAST SIDE, Tue-Sun, September 4, 2018 to January 6, 2019 ~ French artist channels the Goddess of prehistoric Venus figurines
#FRENCH #CONTEMPORARY #SCULPTOR

La Casita Sings the Poetry and Music of Our Communities

La Casita. Courtesy of Lincoln Center.

LINCOLN CENTER & PREGONES THEATER, Sat-Sun, Aug 4-5, 2018 ~ La Casita gives voice to the poetry and music of our communities

Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean

Woman from a Taíno community in Cuba (1919). (Mark Raymond Harrington/NMAI)

July 28, 2018 – Nov 12, 2019
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC ~ This art exhibition examines the renaissance of Indigenous Taíno identity in Caribbean communities. FREE

Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture

Clarissa Tossin "Ch'u Mayaa." Courtesy of the artist / Whitney Museum.

July 13 – September 30, 2018
Closed Tuesdays
~
Whitney Museum
Meatpacking District, Manhattan
~
See how Indigenous cosmology suggests architecture which defines home and life itself

Systema Solar is a Hot Colombian Electro-Cumbia Dance Collective

Systema Solar. Courtesy of the artists.

SummerStage
Queensbridge Park
Queensbridge, Queens
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Tierra, the pre-Columbian Latin American Landscape

Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mayan Child of Tulum, 1974. Courtesy of Throckmorton Fine Art.

June 28 – September 15, 2018
THROCKMORTON FINE ART
Midtown East, NYC

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: The House at Kawinal at the New Museum

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: The House at Kawinal. Courtesy of the artist / New Museum.

Literature, folklore, magic and childhood memories in this Guatemalan performance art installation and sculpture exhibition.
New Museum
Lower East Side, Manhattan
June 6 – September 9, 2018
Closed Mondays

Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu, Indigenous Chilean art

Ceclia Vicuña 'Skyscraper Quipu' 2006. Photo by Matthew Hermann. Courtesy of the artist / Lehmann Maupin.

Wed-Sun, May 18-November 25, 2018
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn ~ Chilean artist resurrects an ancient Indigenous Andean knotted cord writing and reading system at the Brooklyn Museum

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