DANCE

• Sur Oeste “11:11” at LaGuardia Community College: A contemporary dance performance reflecting the anguish, frustration and impotence of the Mexican social, political and economic climate by Mexico-City based, independent arts collective, Sur Oeste. (Queens) 
• Armitage Gone! Dance at The National Sawdust: Known for her eclectic, collaborative and innovative works, contemporary dance choreographer Karole Armitage and her NYC-based company, Armitage Gone! Dance, presented “The Art of In-Between.” (Manhattan) 

FILM

• Bellas de Noche at Cinépolis Chelsea: Special screening of Bellas de Noche followed by a Q+A with the director Maria Jose Cuevas and stars of the film Princesa Yamal, and Olga Breeskin. Moderated by Carlos Gutiérrez, Executive Director, Cinema Tropical. (Manhattan) 
• 15th Morelia International Film Festival Short Winners at The School of Visual Arts: (Manhattan) 

La Proporción Aura by Mariano Murguía Sotomayor (Online)

La Palabra de la Cueva by Maria Sosa, Jorge Scobell & Noé Martínez (Sección Michoacana)

Vuelve a mí Daniel Alberto Nájera Betancourt (Fiction)

Cerulia by Sofía Carrillo (Animation)

Relato Familiar by Sumie García (Documentary)

GASTRONOMY

• Oaxaca, A Culinary Mixtec Experience at The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian: Olga Cabrera, chef at “Tierra Del Sol Casa Restaurant ” in Oaxaca, offered a demonstration and taste menu of the delicacies of her traditional Mixteca cuisine. (Manhattan) 

LITERATURE

• The 100th anniversary of Guadalupe (Pita) Amor, one of the most celebrated Mexican poets of the 20th century at Columbia University International Affairs Building: In this multidisciplinary event, Carmen Boullosa, Beatriz Espejo, Michael K. Schuessler, Jean Graham Jones and more guests shared anecdotes, images and, most importantly, some of Pita ‘s most acclaimed verses. (Manhattan) 

MULTIMEDIA

• Frida Kahlo, A Broken Feisty Heart at The Queens Library- Woodhaven: Claudia Norman, Celebrate Mexico Now Festival´s Producer and Executive Director offered a multimedia presentation of Frida Kahlo’s passionate and often devastating love life, which inspired some of her most famous and celebrated works.  (Queens) 
• Screening and Q&A of 68 Voces, 68 Corazones at King Juan Carlos of Spain I / NYU: A series of animated shorts that retell 68 indigenous stories narrated in their native tongues. Created by Gabriella Badillo under the premise that “no one can love what they do not know,” (Manhattan) 

MUSIC

• Arpa Jarocha at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Grammy-nominated performer, composer and educator Zacbe Pichardo performs on the Arpa Jarocha, a wooden harp typical of the Mexican Gulf coast, and a descendant of the 16th century Spanish harp. Program inspired by the Met’s Musical Instruments Collection and presented in the context of the Met’s encyclopedic collections and exhibitions. (Manhattan) 
• Diana Gameros & Renee Goust at The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center: A night of musical borderlands, celebrating a new generation of Mexican-American singer-songwriters with performances by Renee Goust and Diana Gameros. (Manhattan) 

VISUAL ARTS

• Water and Proximity – Mexican photographer exhibition at The Instituto Cervantes: Adel Buzali’s work explores how water, an element with charged history and symbolism, becomes, in fact, a connecting fluid that allows us to break normativity and experience a shared proximity. (Manhattan) 
• El Juego de las Transformaciones by Gabriela Galvan at Museum Of Food And Drink: To commemorate the 15th Anniversary of Celebrate Mexico Now Festival, visual artist Gabriela Galván devised a sensory food installation experience showcased at MOFAD. (Brooklyn)
• Fantasy, Dream, and Make Believe at Baxter st. Camera Club of New York: The opening of a photography and video exhibit presenting the work of three emerging Mexican photographers: Sergio Fonseca, Juan-Carlos Lopez Morales, and Roberto Tondopo. (Manhattan)