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nora chipaumire “ShebeenDUB” World Premiere Tryptich Nehanda Radio Opera, ShebeenDUB Performance, and DUB Dance Party at Harlem Stage

HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇿🇼 🇺🇸

Harlem International Film Festival 2024 Brings the Spotlight Uptown

THE FORUM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇼 🇸🇷

DanceAfrica 2024, America’s Largest African and Diasporic Dance Festival, Celebrates the Culture of Cameroon

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene, Brooklyn 🇨🇲 🇺🇸

Dance Parade 2024 Gets 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Street

SIXTH AVE, 8TH ST, TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village, Manhattan
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Lulada Club, Women’s Salsa Orchestra, Plays a Women’s Health Services Benefit at SOB’s

SOB’s Sounds of Brazil, Hudson, Square, Manhattan 🇨🇴 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

Independent New York “15×15: Independent 2010-2024” Looks Back Over 15 Years

SPRING STUDIOS, Tribeca, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇯🇲 🇰🇪 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇸🇴

New York African Film Festival 2024 Sees the Convergence of Time

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan
MAYSLES DOCUMENTARY CENTER, Harlem, Manhattan
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene, Brooklyn
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Shows African and African Diaspora Art

STARRETT-LEGHIGH BUILDING, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇲🇦 🇳🇬 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇬

Christie’s New York’s May Art Auctions Include the Rosa de la Cruz Collection, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Julie Mehretu

CHRISTIE’S Rockefeller Center, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇷

Bryant Park Dance Party 2024 Free Dance Lessons and Live Music for Dancing Salsa, R&B, Hustle, Bachata, Swing, and Motown

BRYANT PARK, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

ABT Studio Company Steps Into the Future of Dance and Choreography at The Joyce Theater

JOYCE THEATER, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇯🇵 🇵🇭 🇰🇷 🇻🇪

African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 Caribbean Film Series Screens at Teachers College, Columbia University

TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🇸🇷 🇹🇹

Anthony Blackwell Casa de Tango Explores the African Origins of Argentine Tango at the New Bronx Music Hall

BRONX MUSIC HALL ~ Tango’s African and Spanish Flamenco connections 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇪🇸

BALANCE ARTS CENTER, Chelsea, Manhattan, Tuesdays and 4th Saturdays

CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan ~ Casa de Tango, June-September Thursdays

Black Comic Book Festival Brings Creatives and Blerds Together with a Fun Cosplay Showcase

SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Summer for the City Brings the World to Lincoln Center with Free or Pay-What-You-Wish Concerts

LINCOLN CENTER, Upper West Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇦🇺 🇧🇷 🇰🇾 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇮🇶 🇮🇹 🇨🇮 🇯🇲 🇯🇴 🇲🇱 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇸🇩 🇹🇹 🇻🇪 🇿🇼

Jackie Robinson Day Celebrates the Day He Broke Major League Baseball’s Color Barrier

APRIL 15 🇺🇸

Ensemble Modern Plays International New Chamber Music Curated by Tania León at Carnegie Hall

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇩🇪 ~ 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇿🇦

Harlem Renaissance Reborn: Reimagining the Past, Igniting the Future Conference at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine

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

Conzo: A Look Back at The Bronx, 1977-84 Hip Hop and Salsa at Bronx Documentary Center

BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER, Melrose, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

Carlos Henriquez Directs the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in a Journey Through Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Bebop, and Nuyorican Jazz

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Columbus Circle, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇵🇷

Alonzo King LINES Ballet Presents “Deep River”

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Lincoln Square, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Ballet Hispánico at the 92nd Street Y Reimagines Flamenco, plus New York’s and Havana’s Latin Club Scenes

92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇸

Frederick Douglass Brought the Meaning of the U.S. Constitution to Life

TALBOT COUNTY, Maryland ~ February 14, 1817 or 1818 🇺🇸

Dancing the 92nd Street Y Brings Modern Dance Companies Limón, Martha Graham, and Ailey II Back Home

92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇷

Joe Bataan, “The King of Latin Soul,” Plays a ¡Vaya! Dance Party at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center

DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM at Lincoln Center 🇵🇭 🇺🇸

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

JOPLIN, Missouri, February 1, 1902 🇺🇸

Our Lady of Candelaria is the Patron Saint of Tenerife, Canary Islands; Miners; and the African Diaspora

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS, Spain ~ February 2 🇪🇸
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Rosa Parks Kept Her Cool Which Made Her the Mother of the Freedom Movement

TUSKEGEE, Alabama, February 4, 1913 🇺🇸

Black History Month is American History Month

FEBRUARY 🇺🇸

globalFEST is a World Music Showcase at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center

DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan ~ alternative, bomba, folk, R&B, rock, world music. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇦

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Taught Us to Love All People

ATLANTA, Georgia ~ January 15, 1929 🇺🇸

New Orleans Mardi Gras Carnival Starts on Kings Day January 6

NEW ORLEANS, Lousiana 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇺🇸

Emancipation Proclamation is 161 Years Old

January 1, 1863 🇺🇸

Kwanzaa is the African American Holiday Tradition. Habari Gani!

DECEMBER 26 to JANUARY 1 ~ Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity), Imani (Faith). 🇺🇸

“In the Valley of Coming Forth” is an Afrofuturist Funk Ritual Play with Cosplay and a DJ After Party at Weeksville Heritage Center

WEEKSVILLE HERITAGE CENTER, Crown Heights, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇭🇹

Complexions Contemporary Ballet Dances Peck, Amarante, Freeman, and Rhoden at The Joyce

JOYCE THEATER, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇮🇹

Sotheby’s Emily Fisher Landau Collection Auction is this Season’s Star Auction

SOTHEBY’S, Upper East Side ~ One of the collections that defined 20th-century art narratives comes to market. 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Big Band Holidays with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis features Dominican Vocalist Ashley Pezzotti

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Columbus Circle ~ A New York holiday tradition with something nice for everyone. 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇮🇱

The IFPDA Print Fair is Exhibiting Indigenous, European, and African Diaspora Fine Art at Javits Center

JAVITS CENTER, Hudson Yards 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇪🇸 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Dizzy Gillespie Put the Latin Back in Jazz

Saturday, October 21, 2023
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The Birth of Hip-Hop, and You Don’t Stop!

Hip-hop roots go way back, but what is generally considered hip-hop’s birthday was Clive and Cindy Campbell’s “Back to School Jam” block party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in Morris Heights, The Bronx, on August 11, 1973.

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NYC Pride Builds to a Climax at the NYC Pride Parade

The NYC Pride rally, brunch, youth festival, and dance parties climax with the march, street fair, and music festival headlined by Christina Aguilera.

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The Little Mermaid 2023 Looks Like Me

Opens citywide
Friday, May 26, 2023
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Dance Parade NYC 2023 DanceFest Gets over 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Streets

DANCE PARADE
Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village

African, Afrobeat, Afro-Cuban, Bhangra, Bollywood, Bomba, Break Dancing, Caporales, Carnival, Dancehall, Flamenco, Folkloric, Hip-Hop, House, Jazz, Latin, Majorette, Mexican, Moko Jumbies, Reggae, Salay, Salsa, Samba, Soca, Street, Tammurriata, Tap, Tarrantella, Tinkus, and more. 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇹🇹

DANCEFEST Tompkins Square Park
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Saturday, May 20, 2023