Brazilian Culture in New York City is mostly in architecture, baile funk, bossa nova, forró, música popular brasileira (MPB), sertanejo, and soccer
New York City Ballet “The Nutcracker” Turned an Obscure Ballet into the World’s Most Popular Ballet
DAVID H. KOCH THEATER, Lincoln Center 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇪🇸
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 Football Club (NYCFC) Makes the MLS Cup Eastern Semi-Final a New York Derby
CITI FIELD, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇵🇷 🇸🇱 🇺🇾
Pelé Made Soccer The Beautiful Game with His Ginga Style
TRÊS CORAÇOES, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL, October 23, 1940 🇧🇷
American Ballet Theatre Fall 2024 Features World Premieres of Helen Pickett’s “Crime and Punishment,” Gemma Bond, and Kyle Abraham
STREAMING World Ballet Day
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇫🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
New York Film Festival Screens the Year’s Most Anticipated Films at Lincoln Center and In The Boroughs
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE Cinema, Staten Island
BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS, Concourse Village, The Bronx
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, Astoria, Queens
Global Citizen Festival Features ALOK, Doja Cat, Rauw Alejandro, Raye and More
GREAT LAWN, Central Park 🇧🇷 🇬🇭 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇰🇷
New York Latino Film Festival Brings Latin Creatives and the Film Industry Together
THE CENTER, West Village, Manhattan
MINETTA LANE THEATRE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
REGAL UNION SQUARE, Union Square, Manhattan
QUISQUEYA PLAZA, Inwood, Manhattan
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Eliane Elias, the Grammy-winning Brazilian Jazz Pianist, Starts Her “Time and Again Tour”
BIRDLAND, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇧🇷
Brazilian Independence Day is Sete de Setembro
IPIRANGA BROOK, São Paulo, Brazil, September 7, 1822 🇧🇷
Yemayá is the Yoruba Great Mother Orisha of the Sea
February 2 🇧🇷 🇺🇾
September 7 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
December 31 🇧🇷
Independent 20th Century Contemporary Art Fair Highlights Previously Unrecognized Black, Indigenous, Latin, and Women Artists
CASA CIPRIANI, Financial District, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇵🇾
New York Brazilian News
Brazilian New York City
New York City’s Brazilian communities are centered in Midtown and Astoria, Queens. Metro New York’s biggest Brazilian community is in Newark, New Jersey.
New York City’s “Little Brazil” is 46th St between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Midtown, Manhattan.
The Brazilian Consulate is in Murray Hill, Manhattan.
Brazilian Architecture in NYC
The main United Nations architect was Oscar Niemeyer, the renowned modernist who also designed the Brazilian capital Brasília.
Brazilian Art in NYC
Mendes Wood DM gallery
Nara Roesler gallery
United Nations campus lead architect was Oscar Niemeyer. He also designed the Brazilian capital, Brasilia.
Marguerita Bornstein was a famous Brazilian illustrator and cartoonist living in Brooklyn.
Brazilian Dance in NYC
Capoeira is a traditional Brazilian dance/martial art. When the colonizers said we couldn’t practice fighting, we said, we’re just dancing.
Dance Theatre of Harlem has some great Brazilian ballet dancers.
Brazilian Fashion in NYC
Geova makes incredible handmade fashion in the East Village. When you walk into the room in Geova, everyone turns and looks at you. @geova208
Brazilian Festivals in NYC
Brazilian Day is produced by João De Matos.
Brasil Summerfest is the biggest Brazilian music festival, outside of Brazil.
Brazilian Food in NYC
- Brigadeiro Bakery
- Casa
- Churrascaria Plataforma
- Emporium Brasil
- Fogo de Chão
- Ipanema
- Via Brasil
Rio Market is a Brazilian market in Astoria, Queens.
Brazilian Music in NYC
Nublu is a night club in the East Village owned by a Brazilian.
SOB’s Sounds of Brazil is a night club in Hudson Square that presents some Brazilian music.
Azul NYC is a samba drum line.
Batalá New York is a samba reggae drum line.
Bebel Gilberto lives part of the time in New York City.
Forró in the Dark is a New York forró fusion band.
Brazilian Culture
Brazilian Culture in New York City is a reflection of Brazil’s Indigenous, Portuguese, and African Diaspora cultures.
Traditional Brazilian culture includes Candomblé, capoeira, carnival, choro, and samba.
Contemporary Brazilian culture includes bossa nova, música popular brasileira (MPB), forró, sertanejo, baile funk, and soccer.
Candomblé is one of the African Diaspora religions that rooted in the Americas. It sprouted samba, bossa nova, and jazz.
Quilombos were free African towns in the countryside.
Brazilian telenovelas are popular throughout Latin America.
Samba
Brazilian Classical Music
The most famous Latin American classical music composer, is the Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Popular Celebrations in Brazil
- Dia dos Enamorados, Brazilian Valentines Day, is June 9.
- Festa de São João (Festa Junina) celebrates the birth of St John the Baptist on the eve of June 24. In Europe, it’s a midsummer festival. In Brazil, it’s a midwinter festival. Both traditions celebrate by lighting bonfires and jumping over them as a cleansing ritual.
Brazil
Brazil is South America’s biggest country. It has the world’s largest African Diaspora population.
Public Holidays in Brazil
Public holidays say something about each country’s character.
- New Year’s Day is January 1.
- Carnival Tuesday is a public holiday. The date varies.
- Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Christ. The date varies.
- Easter is the Christian spring festival. The date varies.
- Tiradentes Day commemorates the execution of Brazilian national hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier on April 21, 1792. He led the first major revolt against Portuguese rule. He was a dentist. That’s why the holiday is called “tooth-puller” day.
- Labour Day (International Workers Day) is May 1.
- Corpus Christi celebrates the Catholic tradition of symbolically eating God’s body and drinking his blood.
- Brazilian Independence Day is September 7, 1822.
- Our Lady of Aparecida Day celebrates Brazil’s patron saint with a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady Aparecida in Aparecida, São Paulo, Brazil, on October 12.
- All Soul’s Day, the Catholic tradition of tending family graves, is blended with Indigenous and African traditions, on November 2.
- Republic Day celebrates the coup d’état that established the Brazilian Republic on November 15, 1889.
- Christmas Day is the Christian solstice celebration on December 25.