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African American Culture in New York City

The Town Hall is a Performing Arts Center at the Crossroads of Culture and History

“COCO” film with live score by The Sinfonietta and Flor de Toloache 🇲🇽
NEW YORK COMEDY FESTIVAL Ms. Pat, Justin Silva, JB Smoove, Tracy Morgan, Zarna Garg 🇺🇸 🇨🇻 🇮🇳

MIDTOWN, Manhattan

92nd Street Y, New York is a World-Class Cultural and Community Center That Serves All Communities From the Upper East Side

Boca Tuya: Puerto Rican contemporary dance 🇵🇷
Abdullah Ibrahim Trio South African jazz 🇿🇦
Ana Vidovic Paraguayan and Spanish guitar 🇭🇷 ~ 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇾 🇪🇸
Urban Bush Women: Black women’s contemporary dance 🇺🇸
Amber Iman tributes Nina Simone 🇺🇸
Nut/Cracked, The Bang Group’s tap, ballet, contemporary, disco Nutcracker 🇺🇸

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan

National Jazz Museum in Harlem Preserves, Promotes, and Presents America’s National Music

Salsa! art and music exhibition 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
John Benitez Quartet, Puerto Rican jazz 🇵🇷
Ivanna Cuesta Quartet, Dominican jazz 🇩🇴
Cocomama, women’s jazz and tap 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇬🇵 🇮🇱 🇲🇽
Brenda Navarette, Afro-Cuban jazz 🇨🇺
JCFI Music Ensemble, South African jazz 🇿🇦
Melvis Santa and Rafael Monteagudo Duo, Afro-Cuban jazz 🇨🇺

HARLEM, Manhattan

Film at Lincoln Center is One of New York City’s Leading Film Organizations

New York Film Festival 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇯 🇧🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇸 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇸🇳 🇿🇲
New York Jewish Film Festival ✡️
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 🇫🇷
New Directors / New Films
African Film Festival
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 🇮🇹

LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Madison Square Garden Presents Giants of Latin Music and Comedy

Carín León regional Mexican pop 🇲🇽
Stevie Wonder African American R&B 🇺🇸
Dave Matthews Band, alternative rock 🇿🇦
Pentatonix American pop 🇺🇸 🇬🇩 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇪🇸
Andrea Bocelli Italian pop opera holiday concert 🇮🇹 🎄

CHELSEA, Manhattan

Pioneer Works Art and Science Cultural Center in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Le’Andrra LeSeur “Monument Eternal,” African American art 🇺🇸
Alejandro García Contreras “¿Quién no ha intentado convertir una piedra en un recuerdo?,” Mexican art 🇲🇽
Gala

RED HOOK, Brooklyn

Brooklyn Museum Combines African, Indigenous, Asian, Islamic, and Women’s Art with Community

Elizabeth Catlett, African American Mexican artist and activist 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn

Metropolitan Museum of Art is an Encyclopedia of Art and Culture

MET FIFTH AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan:
Mexican Prints at the Vanguard 🇲🇽
Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson 🇺🇸
Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin 🇫🇷
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 🇮🇹
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1875-Now 🇪🇬

MET CLOISTERS, Fort Tryon Park, Hudson Heights, Upper Manhattan

Lincoln Center is New York City’s Main Performing Arts Center

Step Afrika! African American step dancing 🇺🇸
Esperanza Spalding African American and Slovak jazz 🇺🇸 🇸🇰

LINCOLN SQUARE, Upper West Side, Manhattan

New York Philharmonic is One of the World’s Great Symphony Orchestras

Season Opener: Tilson Thomas with Ax, Mozart and Mahler
Classical, Bebop & Ellington: Augusta Read Thomas World Premiere, and Ellington’s “Harlem” 🇺🇸
Opening Gala: vocalist Cynthia Erivo 🇺🇸

DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan

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

Fall for Dance Festival of international dance 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇪🇸
Fatherland play
Ragtime musical + Gala 🇺🇸
Dorrance Dance, The Nutcracker Suite tap dance 🇺🇸
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater choreographers influence by Ailey 🇺🇸

MIDTOWN, Manhattan

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! is BK’s Free Outdoor Summer Festival

Afropunk Black Music Festival ~ Erykah Badu, Larissa Luz 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇸🇩

LENA HORNE BANDSHELL, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) Promotes African Diaspora Culture

GRANT’S TOMB Afribembé A Great Day in Harlem

“EL BARRIO” EAST HARLEM, Manhattan

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Schomburg Center Literary Festival 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

HARLEM, Manhattan

Harlem Stage Develops Visionary Artists of Color

Camille A. Brown & Guests African American contemporary dance 🇺🇸

MANHATTANVILLE, West Harlem

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Summer Season Celebrates 50 Years of African American Modern Dance

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene 🇺🇸
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Jazz at Lincoln Center is the World’s Leading African American Jazz Institution

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Big Band Rhythms of India 🇺🇸 🇮🇳
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Blue Note Jazz Festival 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Manhattan

SummerStage 2024 is a Free Summer Performing Arts Festival in New York City Parks

It’s Showtime NYC, Maimouna Keita African Dance Company, Kash Gaines, African Diaspora dance 🇺🇸
Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) Latin music showcase, Fonseca Colombian pop, Israel Fernández Romani Spanish flamenco, Bruses Mexican pop 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
BRESH inclusive Buenos Aires street party 🇦🇷
SummerStage Bastille Day, IAM, Magic System, The Avener, Laurie Darmon, Femi the Scorpion 🇫🇷 🇪🇬 🇨🇮

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