World-Class Latin Culture & Global Roots
South Bronx Culture Festival ~ Dream Big, Stay Rooted
Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education celebrates the best of the South Bronx, one of NYC’s most important cultural forges.
Experience Mambo Legends Orchestra, Bronx Banda with Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Telmary, Berta Moreno & La Troupe, Kalí Rodríguez-Peña & Mélange, Maria Raquel, and more…
New York Latin Culture Brings NYC Together
BAAND Together Dance Festival Five Iconic NYC Dance Companies at Lincoln Center
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York City Ballet
South Bronx Culture Festival 2026: Dream Big, Stay Rooted
Mambo Legends Orchestra, Bronx Banda with Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Telmary, Berta Moreno & La Troupe, Kalí Rodríguez-Peña & Mélange, Maria Raquel
In Shakespeare in the Park, Romeo & Juliet's Love Language is Spanish
An iconic love story with a message for us all
New York African Film Festival is "As the Stars Sow the Earth"
“Promised Sky,” “The Eyes of Ghana, “Dust to Dreams”
Drom World Music Night Club
FlamenKora, Nick Corredor’s La Herencia, Los Corners (Charly García Tribute), World Cup Music Fest
Bronx Week Parade, Festival, and Concert Finale
Walk of Fame, Bronx Ball, Parade, Food Festival, Finale Concert
South Bronx Culture Festival 2026: Dream Big, Stay Rooted
Mambo Legends Orchestra, Bronx Banda with Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Telmary, Berta Moreno & La Troupe, Kalí Rodríguez-Peña & Mélange, Maria Raquel
George Floyd Changed the World
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota
Toussaint L'Ouverture Led the Haitian Revolution
CAP-HAITIAN, Haiti 🇭🇹
“I am Large, I Contain Multitudes”
Walt Whitman, the poet of New York, in “Leaves of Grass” (1855)
Iroko “Kíko” Keith Widyolar
Founder, Editor, Cacique, Mayimbe, Oba, Bobo, Whateveryouare
¿KLK? I’m an American, a 20-year New Yorker who lives, loves, and works in the Latin world with my Afro-Indigenous Dominican Taíno family.
I build brands and businesses, but my life’s purpose is to bring people together through culture. Maferefún Eleguá.
I’ve been looking for the roots of Latin culture since 2006. They reach around the world, but the literal root has been right in front of me the entire time. It’s the yuca.
Raw yuca root is poisonous. Indigenous Amazonians developed the technology to make it safe to eat. There are no primitive humans, only people highly adapted to regional ecosystems.
Taíno brought yuca to the Caribbean because it’s nutritious and didn’t spoil on long sea voyages.
On the islands, Taíno developed advanced farming techniques and mass-produced casabe flatbread. Yuca was so important, they named the great father Yúcahu.
In the Caribbean, we still eat boiled yuca with garlic and oil, bitter orange sauce, and sauteed onions for any meal. It’s inexpensive, filling, and delicious.
The colonizers recognized yuca’s power and took it to Africa and Asia.
In Mother Afrika, it’s called “cassava,” “manioc” (French for the Brazilian Tupi-Guarani word “mandioca”) or “muhogo.” In West Africa it can be used to make fufu.
In the Pacific, yuca is called some version of “tapioca” or “manioka” and has become the main starch of the islands.
In Asia, yuca is often called “tapioca,” or “cassava.” It is used to make sweets, including the tapioca balls in your favorite Taiwanese Boba Tea.
My father’s Thailand is now one of the world’s major yuca producers. That’s where I first tasted it as a child.
I just figured out that those tapioca balls and the boiled yuca I now love are the same Amazonian Caribbean super food.
So come with me and Yúcahu. Let’s explore the Latin side of New York, la Ciudad del Encanto. Mwen sèvi Ginen. Adál was here. ¡Ay bendito!
¡WEPA! “E-le-le, le-le-le…” ¡Foforó Elegba! ¡Aché!