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Where Hispanic Heritage Month is Every Day

“E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, la-la-la-a…” Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 to October 15. We celebrate the great mix of Americans with Indigenous, European, African, or Asian heritage, because we are all that.

Just this year, we’ve seen a shocking level of meanness directed at people of color, and especially Latinos. It’s a sad part of human nature to blame “others” for our own problems, but these are not some “others.” They are our families, friends, neighbors, and coworkers; our fellow Americans. If they aren’t safe, neither are we. That’s why we invite all New Yorkers to join Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations this year. You don’t have to be Hispanic. United we stand, divided we fall. Let’s stand together as New Yorkers.

Things To Do in NYC This Weekend

New York Film Festival (Alexander/Adobe)

New York Film Festival Screens the Year’s Most Anticipated Films at Lincoln Center and In The Boroughs

More Things to do in NYC this weekend
Rosh Hashanah in New York City (Roman Yanushevsky/Adobe)

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

Some of America’s Best Spanish Flamenco at Lincoln Center

Siudy Garrido Flamenco (courtesy)

Siudy Garrido Makes Her Lincoln Center Debut with the Latest Edition of Her Latin Grammy-Nominated Flamenco Show “BAILAORA” 🇻🇪 🇪🇸

Things to do in NYC (AboutLife/Adobe)

Latin Things To Do in NYC

January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

Latin Art

Independent 20th Century Contemporary Art Fair Highlights Installations, Self-Taught, Arab Women and Latin American Artists

CASA CIPRIANI, Financial District, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇻🇪

Art on Paper New York is a Contemporary Art Fair of Art Made On or From Paper

PIER 36, Lower East Side, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇪🇸 🇿🇦

Armory Show Brings Latin Galleries to New York City

JAVITS CENTER, Hudson Yards, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇿🇦 🇪🇸

Latin Books

PEN World Voices Festival 2025 Celebrates International Literature

GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan

Nuyorican Poets Cafe Hosts the Nuyorican Poetry Slam and Other Events Offsite and Online While Under Nuyorican-struction

BOWERY POETRY CLUB, NoHo, Manhattan ~ Nuyorican Bowery Slam 🇵🇷
PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan ~ Poetry Grand Slam 🇵🇷

EAST VILLAGE, Loisaida, Manhattan

Langston Hughes was a Harlem Renaissance Jazz Poet Who Spoke of Rivers

JOPLIN, Missouri, February 1, 1902 🇺🇸

Latin Comedy

Gabriel Iglesias, the Fluffy Guy Makes Brooklyn Laugh Again

KINGS THEATRE, Flatbush, Brooklyn 🇲🇽

New York Comedy Festival Makes America Laugh Again

IT’S ALL OVER Chelsea, Midtown, Times Square Theater District, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Washington Heights, Manhattan
Flatbush, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇨🇻 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Kings Theatre is a Concert Hall in a Restored Brooklyn Movie Palace

Majah Hype Caribbean Comedy
Fluffy, New York Comedy Festival 🇲🇽

FLATBUSH, Brooklyn

Latin Dance

New York International Salsa Congress is NYC’s Labor Day Weekend Salsa and Bachata Dance Festival

NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS, Times Square Theater District, and offsite venues in Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

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

NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇩 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇵🇭

Battery Dance Festival Connects the World Through Dance

ROBERT F. WAGNER PARK and ROCKEFELLER PARK, Battery Park City, Manhattan

Latin Fashion

Metropolitan Museum of Art Reopens Galleries of African, Indigenous, and Oceanic Art

Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Reopening, African, Indigenous, Oceanic art 🇧🇯 🇨🇲 🇨🇴 🇨🇩 🇪🇨 🇪🇹 🇬🇦 🇲🇱 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇸🇳
Iba Ndiaye: Between Latitude and Longitude, Senegalese contemporary art 🇸🇳
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, Black dandy men’s fashion

MET FIFTH AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan

New York Fashion Week February 2025 Shows Women’s Fall Winter Collections

WEST EDGE, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇭 🇪🇸

Fashion Designers of Latin America (FDLA) 2025 are the Latin Side of New York Fashion Week

CANOE STUDIOS, Starrett-Lehigh Building, Chelsea, Manhattan
UNITED PALACE, Washington Heights, Manhattan
INNSiDE NEW YORK NOMAD, Chelsea, Manhattan
🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪

Latin Festivals

Obatalá, the Yoruba Orisha Who Made the World and People, Stands for Peace

September 24 🇨🇺 🇵🇷

Queens Hispanic Parade Desfile Hispano de Queens

37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇶 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

African American Day Parade Celebrates Black Culture in Harlem

ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR. BLVD, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Latin Film

Brasil Summerfest Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Film and Dance to New York City

Os Clavelitos
BROOKLYN: Archway, DUMBO
QUEENS: Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
🇧🇷

Harlem Stage Develops Visionary Artists of Color

When We Dance, The Son Also Rises: Black Men in Dance 🇺🇸
Nova Frontier Film Festival, African Diaspora, Middle Eastern, and Latin American film 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇷 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇸🇳 🇪🇸 🇹🇷

MANHATTANVILLE, West Harlem, Manhattan

Nova Frontier Film Festival Screens Films of the African Diaspora, Middle East, and Latin America with Talk, Live Music and Community at Harlem Stage

HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇬🇳 🇮🇷 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇸🇳 🇪🇸 🇹🇷 🇨🇴

Latin Food

National Pisco Day Celebrates the Spirit of Peru

JULY 24 🇵🇪

NYC Restaurant Week is a Great Time to Try Latin Restaurants with Family and Friends

Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island

Bronx Week 2025 Features the Bronx Ball, Bronx Parade, Bronx Food & Arts Festival, Bronx Week Concert, and More

THE BRONX 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

Latin Music

Miguel Zenón and The Jazz Gallery All-Stars Play the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, East Village, Manhattan 🇵🇷
VILLAGE VANGUARD, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇵🇷

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at NYC SummerStage Makes August Swing

MARCUS GARVEY PARK, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇰🇷

Afropunk BLKTOPIA Weekend Flexes More Style Than an Entire Fashion Week

🇺🇸

Latin Parades

African American Day Parade Celebrates Black Culture in Harlem

ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR. BLVD, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Queens Hispanic Parade Desfile Hispano de Queens

37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇶 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

Mexican Day Parade NYC is An American Celebration of Mexican Independence

MADISON AVENUE, Murray Hill to NoMad, Manhattan 🇲🇽

Latin Sports

Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is One of the World’s Largest Tennis Complexes

US Open Tennis Championship 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇹🇼

FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens

US Open Tennis Championship is the Place to See and Be Seen at the End of Summer

USTA BILLIE JEAN KING NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇮 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇹🇼

Real Madrid in New York City

PLAYWRIGHT IRISH PUB, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇪🇸

Latin Theatre

Repertorio Español is New York’s Busiest Spanish-Language Theater

“Los Soles Truncos” 🇵🇷
“La Ternura” comedy 🇪🇸

KIPS BAY, Manhattan

Public Works by the Public Theater Produces “Pericles”

CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Shakespeare in the Park Returns to the Delacorte Theater with Saheem Ali’s “Twelfth Night” Starring Lupita Nyong’o

DELACORTE THEATER, Central Park, Manhattan 🇰🇪

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Harlem Stage Develops Visionary Artists of Color

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Melvis Santa Afro-Cuban Jazz For The Ancestors

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Metropolitan Opera is One of the World’s Great Opera Companies

National Indigenous Peoples of the Americans Parade NYC (Wirestock/Dreamstime)

National Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Parade Unites All First Nations and Friends

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New York City Center is One of NYC’s Premiere Homes for Dance and Theatre

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RISE Theatre Directory Joins Diverse Theatre Professionals With Top Employers

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Robert Browning Associates is a World Music Pioneer

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Siudy Garrido Makes Her Lincoln Center Debut with Latin Grammy-Nominated Dance Theatre “BAILAORA” Flamenco Reimagined

Teatro Real, Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra Gala Musical Fantasy From Spain (Teatro Real)

Teatro Real, the Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra, Plays a Gala Musical Fantasy From Spain Featuring Violinist María Dueñas, Soprano Saioa Hernández, and Conductor David Afkham

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Latin, Latino, Latine, Latim ~ Tout Moun se Moun

Keith Widyolar in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2023
Getting ready for a teteo in Capotillo 42, the cradle of dembow in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; after leaving Puerto Rico 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇩🇴

¿KLK? Dime a ver. Editor Iroko “Kíko” Keith aquí con todos ustedes. Vamos a gozar la vida Neoyorquino juntos. ¡Ay bendito! Tú lo sabe.

What’s up? “Kíko” Keith Widyolar, the creator of New York Latin Culture Magazine, here. Everywhere I go, except New York City, people tell me, “you’re not from here.” Claro que si. I’m a multigenerational native-born American of the United States who chooses to live in Spanish. My point of view is also Caribbean and Yoruba. ¡Aché!

Yo soy Boricua (de corazón) pa que tú lo sepa. In the Caribbean, Cubans and Dominicans say I am “aplatanado,” a foreigner who has adopted local customs. The Magazine is my way of supporting the Argentine, French, Colombian, Puerto Rican, and Afro-Dominican families in my life’s journey.

What I learned on the road is that we are far more African and Indigenous, and Latin culture is a far bigger part of American culture, than most of us have been taught.

So over nearly 20 years, my concept of Latin has grown from the traditional Caribbean, North and South American; into the great mix of Indigenous peoples of the Americas plus our mother cultures in Africa and Europe, with Jewish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Irish, and even German influences.

“Tout moun se moun” is Haitian Kreyòl for “All People Are People.” There is only one human race and Afrika is Mother. “If you are not African, you are not human.” Please quote me on that.

Appearance is a false flag. We are all mixed, and when you learn to love and respect all peoples, your world grows exponentially. Mine has. ¡Mi Gente, Ustedes!

Puerto Rican NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri (vaya con Dios) defined Latin in the Americas and the Latin influence on American culture in the simplest way:

The Spaniard brought the African
The African put everyone to dance
In the States, they took away the drum,

and we got the blues“

Eddie Palmieri at the 92nd Street Y in 2016 🇵🇷

The blues is the root of most American (and some Caribbean) popular music and dance, including: jazz, rhythm and blues, country, rock, reggae, soul, funk, disco, house, hip hop, reggaeton, and trap. Even American country music originates in Mother Afrika.

Together, the Latin family has created music and dance that is uniquely American, and loved around the world. Latin culture brings people together and turns the blues into joy. ¡Aguanilé!

The Kalûnga Line (Andreykuzmin)

Oye, you are crossing the Kalûnga

The Kalûnga is the border of the realms of the living and the dead in the traditional Kongo culture of Central Africa. It is the horizon in the Dikenga Cross or Yowa, the Kongolese cosmological diagram which represents the spiritual journey through the stages of life and death. Psychology texts use similar diagrams to describe psychological development. La Altagracia taught me this. ¡Mmm!

The Atlantic Ocean is the Kalûnga in life. Kongolese knew that anyone taken away across the ocean, never came back. It was believed to be a terrifying journey to the land of the dead. But it turns out there was life on the other side. More or less, that is the mix of Indigenous, European, African, and Asian peoples in the Americas, that we call Latin.

La Llamada de los Tambores
(The Call of The Drum)

A TV reenactment of traditional Bomba Puertorriqueña in Loíza Aldea, the Puerto Rican town with the strongest African Diasporic culture. 🇵🇷

Bienvenido a el areíto en el batéy del pueblo Latino. Somos uno en el tambor.
Escucha la llamada. La rumba ya se forma en el solar.
Yo prendo una vela.

(Welcome to the community gathering in the sacred circle of the Latin people.
We are one in the drum. Listen to the call. The party is starting in the patio. I lit a candle.)

Bom, bom, bom
ba-ta-ba-ta, ba, ta-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba

This call of the drum is Bomba Puertorriqueña Sicá.

“E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, le-le-le“
Loíza Aldea, Loíza, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

La salsa begins with the “Diana,” the call to prayer that asks for spiritual connection before we dance;
because by tradition, dance is how we pray.

“E-le, le-le, le-le-le-le“
La Marina, Matanzas, Cuba 🇨🇺

Rumba is what the first Africans in Cuba did, as soon as their hands were free.

“Yo Soy Ogun Balenyo”
Villa Mella, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana 🇩🇴

Palo, even more than merengue, is the root music of La República Dominicana.

“Diki riki riki riki, Diki riki riki riki, Diki riki riki riki, Di, Diki ri”
Capotillo 42, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana 🇩🇴

Dembow is the sound of the streets in La República Dominicana.

“Ay, ay, Ay-ay“
San Juan de Ulúa, Veracruz, México 🇲🇽

“Canta y no llores…”

“Aí aí aí“
San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar, Colombia 🇨🇴

“Ajai, al son de los tambores…”

“Bim Bom, Bim Bim, Bom Bom“
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷

“O meu coração pediu assim, só…”

“I like to be in América“
San Juan Hill, New York City 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇱

“Okay, buy me in América,
Everything free in América
For a small fee in América…”

¡ A-G-U-A-N-I-L-É !
El Barrio, Loisaida, Bushwick, y El Bronx 🇵🇷

“Aguanilé” is a healing prayer to Ogun.

Who answers the call? The community responds!

Latin is family and community.

¿Oye Cómo Va?

playingforchange.com Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman, Tito Puente, Jr, Al Harban Brothers, André Siqueira, Andreus Valdés Torres, Chouloute Minouche, Cory Henry, Estevinson Padilla Valdés, José Valdés Terán, Karl Perazzo, and more.

We are Indigenous, European, African, Jewish, Arab, South Asian, East Asian, and everything in between.

“¿Oye cómo va? Mi ritmo, bueno pa’ bailar, mulata.”

Hey, how’s it going? My rhythm is good for dancing, Latina.

“Andando, andando, andando…”

(Walking, walking, walking…)

“Yo me tiro pa’l solar”

(I throw myself into the field)

Dios te bendiga

(God bless you)

¡Ashé!

(Amen)

“E-le-le, le-le-le…”

(We start and end the dance with a call to Eleguá, God’s messenger)

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