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Paquito D’Rivera Celebrates 70+ Years of Making Jazz and Classical Music History

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Columbus Circle, Manhattan 🇨🇺 + 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇵🇪 🇻🇮

Passover, the Jewish Spring Festival, Celebrates Freedom from Slavery

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Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Play Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos”

CARNEGIE HALL “Nuestros sonidos,” Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇺
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇨🇺 🇮🇱

Purim Celebrates Deliverance as Told in the Book of Esther

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DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival Screens Films That Make You Think About What’s Going On All Around Us Right Now

IFC CENTER, SVA THEATRE, VILLAGE EAST BY ANGELIKA, West Village, Chelsea, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇮🇱 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇸🇩

New York City Wine and Food Festival (NYCWFF) Fundraises for God’s Love We Deliver Out of Brooklyn This Year, Oy Vey

BROOKLYN
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Caribe 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇯🇲 🇵🇷 🇹🇹
South 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Africa 🇬🇭 🇪🇹 🇲🇦 🇿🇦
Asia 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇱🇧 🇯🇵 🇵🇭

Sukkot is the Jewish Fruit Harvest Festival

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Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement, “Yom Tov”

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Rosh Hashanah is Jewish New Year and the Start of the High Holy Days

Shanah tovah ✡️

Fall For Dance at City Center Brings the World of Dance to New York

NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇪🇸

Jazz in July is One of Summer’s Hottest New York Jazz Festivals

92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇲 🇹🇹

Museum Mile Festival is a Fifth Avenue Museum Open House Block Party

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie, Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Jewish Museum, Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, Africa Center

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan

Photoville, the Outdoor Photo Exhibition in All Five Boroughs, Captures New York City’s Diverse International Spirit

BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK, Brooklyn Heights 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇻🇪

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. 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇺🇸

Holocaust Remembrance Day, When Auschwitz-Birkenau was Liberated, Must Not Be Forgotten

AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, Poland, January 27, 1945

Giving Tuesday is a Good Day to Support the Arts

TUESDAY after Thanksgiving

Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights

GRAND ARMY PLAZA, Central Park, Manhattan 🕎
GRAND ARMY PLAZA, Prospect Park, Brooklyn 🕎

We can’t let Kristallnacht Happen Again

November 9, 1938 ~ A pogrom in Germany was a sign of terrible things to come. It’s not a nice thing to remember, but if we forget, it can happen again.

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. 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇮🇱

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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New York’s 2023 Celebrate Israel Parade Marches to Renew the Hope

This year’s theme is Israel @ 75: Renewing the Hope.

FIFTH AVENUE
Midtown to the Upper East Side
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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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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Isabel Allende Reads From and Discusses Her New Book “The Wind Knows My Name” with Alicia Menendez

92ND STREET Y, NEW YORK
Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇮🇱 🇸🇻

Banda Iroko Will Make You Want to Dance Like You’re Madly in Love

Banda Iroko is Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen and Nuyorican conguero-vocalist Abraham Rodriguez Jr’s Nuyorican jazz project.

It’s the perfect blend of singing bass and singing drum.

BLUE NOTE
Greenwich Village
Tuesday-Sunday, April 25-30, 2023

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Future Dance Festival Propels Dance Forward

92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇮🇱 🇲🇽

Parade Broadway 2023 is a Musical Love Story about Truly Seeing Each Other, Starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond

March 16 – August 6, 2023
JACOBS THEATRE
Times Square Theater District

Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival 2023 Presents New Ways of Seeing

Wednesday, January 4-22, 2023
PUBLIC THEATER, CHELSEA FACTORY, NYU SKIRBALL CENTER
NoHo, Chelsea, Greenwich Village
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New York Jewish Film Festival 2023 Screens the World at Film at Lincoln Center

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Lincoln Square 🇮🇱 ~ 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇬🇹 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇿🇦

New York Marathon 2022 is Fun to Run and Fun to Watch

Sunday, November 6, 2022
Staten Island > Brooklyn > Queens
> Manhattan > The Bronx > Manhattan
CENTRAL PARK
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Bushwick Film Festival 2022 Features Over 100 Independent Films from Brooklyn and the World

RED CARPET RECEPTION
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Lot 45
Bushwick, Brooklyn

SCREENINGS
Williamsburg Cinemas
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

AWARDS
Monday, November 7, 2022
Lot 45
Bushwick, Brooklyn
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Jorge Drexler, Philosopher King of Latin Pop, Plays The Town Hall

Tuesday, November 1, 2022
THE TOWN HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
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The Celebrate Israel Parade 2022 Brings Us Together Again!

Sunday, May 22, 2022
FIFTH AVENUE
Midtown – Upper East Side🇮🇱

25th New York International Children’s Film Festival 2022 Screens Great Latin Films at SVA Theatre

Friday-Sunday, March 4-19, 2022
SVA THEATRE
Chelsea, Manhattan
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Hi-Ho Puppet Fringe NYC is Here, Yaaaay!

THE CLEMENTE
Lower East Side
Wednesday-Sunday, August 11-15, 2021

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
El Barrio, East Harlem
Thursday, August 12, 2021

VIRTUAL
August 16-31, 2021

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Catalina Chervin Practices Catharsis Argentine Style

HUTCHINSON MODERN
Upper East Side
April 22 – June 13, 2021
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Playing for Peace Creates Champions Through Tolerance and Acceptance

kickingandscreening.com 🇮🇱🎞 Wednesday, March 31, 2021

PaleyFest 2021 Goes Behind-the-Scenes With the Biggest Stars on TV

Tuesday, March 30, 2021
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Frédéric Zaavy

February 26, 2021 🇫🇷🎨📚 Photographers John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler on their newest art book “Stardust: The Work and Life of Jeweler Extraordinaire: Frédéric Zaavy”

You’ll Love this Virtual Valentine to Benefit LongHouse Reserve Sculpture Garden

Sunday, February 14, 2021 💝🎁

The 2021 New York Jewish Film Festival Explores Jewish Life Around the World Virtually

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan ~ 🇮🇱

NYC’s 2020 Celebrate Israel Parade thanks frontline workers. Todah!

Sunday, June 21, 2020 🇮🇱

West Side Story is one of the Great Love Stories

March 12, 2020
BROADWAY THEATRE
Times Square Theater District, NYC

La Celestina Renews the Classic Spanish Tragicomedy

March 12, 2020
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL
Kips Bay, NYC

Oscars 2020 Academy Awards

Sunday, February 9, 2020
ABC, DOLBY THEATRE
Hollywood, California
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“Parasite” makes history as the first non-English language film to win Best Picture. Puerto Rico-born Joaquin Phoenix wins Best Actor.
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Latin connections to this year’s nominees are Argentine, Brazilian, Creole, Cuban, French, Italian, Jewish, Malian, Mexican, Nigerian, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Spanish and Trinidadian.

Winter JazzFest 2020

January 9-18, 2020
BROOKLYN Marathon
Friday, January 17, 2020
MANHATTAN Marathon
Friday-Saturday January 9-10, 2020
Concerts and marathons for jazz lovers and APAP booking agents

Bergdorf Goodman

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MIDTOWN, NYC
New York’s most luxurious department store sells Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, French, Italian, Spanish and Venezuelan designers

Shearith Israel is the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue

UPPER WEST SIDE, September 1654 ~ The first Jewish group arrived in New Amsterdam fleeing the Spanish Inquisition which had followed them to Recife in Dutch Brazil. They formed Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, America’s first Jewish congregation.
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