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Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 is More Relevant Than Ever

Fri-Thu, May 20-26, 2022
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
Lincoln Center
IFC CENTER
Greenwich Village
STREAMING
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Youssou N’Dour, Africa’s Most Famous Singer Plays Carnegie Hall

Friday, May 13, 2022
CARNEGIE HALL
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Midtown
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The Metropolitan Opera Premieres a New “Lucia de Lammermoor” with Nadine Sierra & Javier Camarena

Saturday, April 23, 2022
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
Lincoln Center
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SEASON
September 27, 2021 – June 11, 2022
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Neighboring Scenes 2022 Latin American Film Festival is at Film at Lincoln Center

Thu-Mon, February 24-28, 2022
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
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Berta Rojas, One of the World’s Best Classical Guitarists, Tributes Pioneering Female Artists at the 92nd Street Y

92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇾 ~ 🇦🇷🇫🇷

92Y Harkness Future Dance Festival 2021 Finalists Perform at The Joyce

Saturday, October 30, 2021
JOYCE THEATER
Chelsea, Manhattan

The AfriBembé Festival 2021 Celebrates the African Diaspora in El Barrio East Harlem

HARLEM ART PARK
El Barrio, East Harlem
Saturday, August 21, 2021
FREE
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Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute Launches “On Protest and Mourning” Exhibition and Student Curriculum

onprotestandmourning.digital
Ends June 30, 2021
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Netflix’s “Selena: The Series” Cast & Producers Talk About Making the Show

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92nd Street Y
livestream.com
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

New Directors/New Films 2021 Screens the Future

April 28 – May 8, 2021
NEWDIRECTORS.ORG
(Reader discounts)
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NYC Arts Workers Rally for NYC’s Cultural Voices to be Heard

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FOLEY SQUARE Civic Center, NYC
Saturday, May 8, 2021

The Neighboring Scenes 2021 Film Festival Puts Latin America on Your Screen

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

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

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan ~ 🇮🇱

Follow Your Own Light at the Art of the Real 2020 Documentary Film Festival

FILMLINC.ORG | November 13-26, 2020 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇲🇽

AfriBembé Festival Honors Oshún Virtually

Saturday, September 19, 2020 from 2-8pm
CCCADI.ORG
FREE
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Dance on Camera Festival 2020 moves through France, Argentina, Italy and Africa

Friday-Monday, July 17-20, 2020

Learn with Carnegie Hall: Jazz, Bomba & Plena, and Brazilian

Wednesday, June 17, 2020
FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM

Caribbean Cultural Center teaches Afro-Cuban Plant and Herb Traditions

Thursdays, April 16, 23, 30 & May 7, 2020
ZOOM
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE
El Barrio, East Harlem
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Oba Frank Bell leads a webinar on Integral Plants & Herbs in Afro-Cuban Orisha & Palo Traditions. FREE

Buika is the Spanish Queen of Flamenco Soul

March 12, 2020
CARNEGIE HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
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Sponsored by
Carnegie Hall

Maluca Mala, Dominican Hip-Hop

March 12, 2020
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, NYC
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Sponsored by
Carnegie Hall

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.

Aisha Syed is Dominican Classical Violin Virtuoso

Thursday, October 10, 2019
CARNEGIE HALL
Midtown, NYC

AfriBembé Festival 2019

Sunday, August 18, 2019
EAST HARLEM ART PARK, NYC
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Vicente Amigo’s “Tauromagia” is One of the Classic Flamenco Albums

March, 4, 2016
THE TOWN HALL
Midtown, NYC
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Original Sponsor
Carnegie Hall

New Directors/New Films 2019

LINCOLN CENTER & MIDTOWN; daily, Mar 27 – April 7, 2019; Film festival ~ New Argentine, Brazilian, Colombian, French & Mexican filmmakers curated by NYC’s most respected film presenters

Curtis Brothers & Circa ’95 Play Uptown Nights at Harlem Stage

Saturday, March 23, 2019
HARLEM, NYC ~ The Curtis Brothers map the rhythms of the slave trade. Circa ’95 raps in Spanglish about what happened once we landed in El Barrio. For the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) and Carnegie Hall’s Migrations: the Making of America festival. At Harlem Stage