BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK, Brooklyn Heights 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇻🇪
African American
Browse African American Culture in New York City including: blues, gospel, jazz, folk, rock, disco, funk, hip hop, house, tap, trap, Afro, and more.
South Bronx Cultural Festival Celebrates Casita Maria’s 90th Anniversary with Arturo O’Farrill, Eddie Palmieri, Bobby Sanabria, Grandwizzard Theodore, and Lots More
FATHER GIGANTE PLAZA, Longwood, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Blue Note Jazz Festival Kicks Off Summer in New York City
BLUE NOTE Greenwich Village, Manhattan
BROOKLYN BOWL, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
SUMMERSTAGE Rumsey Playfield, Central Park
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER Columbus Circle, Manhattan
SONY HALL Times Square Theater District, Manhattan
THE TOWN HALL Midtown, Manhattan
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Midtown Dance 2024 Free Dance Lessons Outdoors in Greeley Square Plaza
GREELEY SQUARE PARK, Koreatown, Manhattan 🇧🇷 🇵🇷
George Floyd Changed the World
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota
BAAND Together Dance Festival 2024 Brings Alvin Ailey, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and New York City Ballet to Summer For the City at Lincoln Center
DAVID H. KOCH THEATER, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇸🇻 🇭🇹 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪
Dance Theatre of Harlem Dances Classical Ballet with JOY
APOLLO THEATER, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇮🇹
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
🇺🇸 🇲🇽, 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇵🇷 🇹🇹, 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇵🇪. 🇨🇩 🇨🇬 🇪🇬, 🏴 🇪🇸, 🇰🇭 🇨🇳 🇭🇰 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇲🇴 🇹🇼 🇸🇬 🇹🇭
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 🇵🇭 🇺🇸
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. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇦
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
PEN World Voices Festival 2023 is Mightier Than the Sword
International writers gather to talk about protecting free expression and human rights through literature.
MULTIPLE VENUES
Wednesday-Saturday, May 10-13, 2023
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African Diaspora International Film Festival is a World Full of Music & Soul
This is an outstanding curation of excellent films that show the power and resilience of African Diaspora culture around the world. There are American, Brazilian, British, Cuban, French, Guadeloupean, Malian and Peruvian music films.
COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE
Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Friday-Sunday, April 28-30, 2023
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