LxNY: Latinx Arts Consortium of New York is a network of Latinx-serving cultural organizations based in New York City. Our mission is to foster knowledge exchange, resource-sharing, and collective action towards systemic change.

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We envision a New York City where Latinx arts and culture are fully funded, deeply valued, and celebrated as an integral part of the city’s diverse and vibrant cultural fabric.

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Founding Partners

 

BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

BAAD! creates, produces, presents, and supports the development of cutting-edge and challenging works in contemporary dance and all creative disciplines that are empowering to women, Latinos and people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community.

Bronx Documentary Center

The Bronx Documentary Center uses community-based documentary practice and education to explore vital issues, stimulate critical thought, and drive social change.

Caribbean Cultural Center and African Diaspora Institute

CCCADI is an arts, culture, education and media organization that advances cultural equity, racial and social justice for African descendant communities.

Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Education Center

The Clemente is a Puerto Rican/Latinx multi-arts cultural staple rooted in NYC’s Lower East Side/Loisaida, and the pulpit where countless New York based Latinx, BIPOC, local LES, and international partners create contemporary work and co-productions in a collaborative environment.

 

El Museo del Barrio

The mission of El Museo del Barrio is to present and preserve the art and culture of Puerto Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States.

Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

Pregones/PRTT is a multigenerational performing ensemble, multidiscipline arts presenter, and owner/steward of bilingual arts facilities in The Bronx and Manhattan

Flushing Town Hall

Flushing Town Hall presents multi-disciplinary global arts that engage and educate the global communities of Queens, New York and New York City, New York, in order to foster mutual appreciation.

Repertorio Español

Repertorio Español was founded in 1968 to introduce the best of Latinx, Spanish and Hispanic-American theatre in distinctive, quality productions, and to bring theatre to a broad audience in New York City and across the country, including seniors, students and Hispanics of all national backgrounds.

What is Latinx?

Latinx refers to anyone in the United States who is part of the Latin American and Caribbean cultures and diaspora, regardless of place of birth or immigration/citizenship status. This term embraces the diversity of races, genders, sexes, languages, histories, colonialism, and indigeneity that make up the Latinx experience.

What is Latinx for LxNY?

While we acknowledge the many representations of Latina/e/o/x, LxNY deploys the Latinx marker to contextually name the lived intersections of Latin American and Caribbean cultures in conversation and collaboration with the cultural fabric of New York City and the communities we serve.

Statement by the LxNY’s Steering Committee