Our Growing Network

Our organizations are key to serving the city’s diverse cultural landscape, and we are committed to advocating for funding equity in arts and culture. Together, we can transform the historical underfunding of Latinx arts, advocate for the equity-driven missions of our cultural institutions, and steward our hard-fought legacies into the future. 

LxNY Map:

 

    • EMERGENYC

    • En Foco, Inc.

    • The Latinx Playwrights Circle

    • The Sol Project

    • The Interior Beauty Salon

    • Salsa Stories

    • Latin Reel

    • Los Herederos

    • Mujeristas Collective

    • PEPATIÁN

    • BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

    • BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange

    • Bronx Music Heritage Center

    • Bronx Documentary Center

    • La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña

    • Caribbean Cultural Center and African Diaspora Institute

    • Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Education Center

    • Cool Culture

    • El Museo del Barrio

    • El Puente

    • BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange

    • Flushing Town Hall

    • Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture

    • Loisaida Inc.

    • Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders

    • Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA)

    • People’s Theatre Project

    • Pachamama Peruvian Arts

    • Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

    • Calpulli Mexican Dance Company

    • R.Evolución Latina

    • Salsa Stories

    • Pachamama Peruvian Arts

    • Celebrate México Now

    • Conch Shell International Film Fest

    • 21 Islands International Short Film Fest (Pregones/PRTT)

    • Centro Cultural Barco de Papel

    • Dominican Writers Association

    • Word Up

    • Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Education Center

    • El Museo del Barrio

    • En Foco Inc

    • Flushing Town Hall

    • Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture

    • Latinx Project at NYU

    • Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

    • Bronx Music Heritage Center

    • Flushing Town Hall

    • Los Pleneros de la 21

    • Pachamama Peruvian Arts

    • Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater (FELT)

    • ID Studio Theater

    • IATI Theater

    • INTAR Theatre

    • People’s Theatre Project

    • Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

    • Repertorio Español

    • Teatro Círculo

    • Teatro LATEA

    • Teatro SEA

    • Thalia Spanish Theatre​

    • CENTRO, Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College

    • Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture (CUNY)

    • The Latinx Project at NYU

 

Network Members:

 

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.

(📍The Bronx)

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange

Founded in 1991, BAX is a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process through education, residencies, and performance at the intersection of arts and social justice. BAX houses EmergeNYC, a Latinx-led incubator and network for BIPOC, migrant, and LGBTQIA+ artist-activists.

(📍Brooklyn)

Bronx Music Heritage Center

Created by WHEDco, the BMHC is committed to preserving and promoting Bronx music, cultivating Bronx artists, spurring neighborhood revival, and providing free cultural programs for the community. The BMHC will be permanently located in Bronx Commons.

(📍The Bronx)

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.

(📍The Bronx)

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company

Founded in 2003 in New York City, Calpulli celebrates the rich diversity of Mexican and Mexican-American cultural heritage through dance-based programming, including performances, live music, arts in education, and community outreach.

(📍Queens)

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.

(📍Manhattan, East Harlem)

Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education

Casita Maria is a youth, family and community serving arts, culture and education organization in the Hunts Point/Longwood section of the South Bronx. For 90 years, Casita Maria has expanded its population base to serve all people of color and continues to serve as an oasis, safe haven, and gathering place for hope and enrichment through arts, culture, education, and recreation.

(📍The Bronx, Hunts Point/Longwood)

Celebrate México Now

Celebrate México Now has been the only independent arts festival spotlighting contemporary Mexico in New York City. Every year, they disrupt the often-narrow definitions of Mexican arts and culture by exploring the way creators are reshaping and reflecting on their identity in the ever-changing global context.

(📍Itinerant)

Centro Cultural Barco de Papel

Since its inception in 2003, Barco de Papel’s mission has been to strengthen the identity of the Latino community in New York City through increased cultural and artistic activities, with emphasis on literature that embraces multiple forms of expression.

(📍Queens, Elmhurst)

CENTRO, Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College

CENTRO, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.

(📍Manhattan, Midtown)

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.

(📍Manhattan, LES)

Conch Shell Productions

At Conch Shell Productions (CSP), our mission is to infuse new Caribbean-American and Caribbean Diaspora voices into the American theater and film industry. To do so, we create a space to develop, workshop and produce new plays and screenplays.

(📍Virtual)

Cool Culture

Cool Culture’s mission is to amplify the voices of families and to strengthen the power of historically marginalized communities through art and culture, both within cultural institutions and beyond.

(📍Brooklyn, Prospect Heights)

Dominican Writers Association

Dominican Writers Association is a platform dedicated to supporting and promoting the works by creative writers of Dominican descent (more specifically Dominican-American) in the genres of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

(📍Manhattan, Washington Heights)

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.

(📍Manhattan, East Harlem)

El Puente

Founded in 1982 and located in Williamsburg and Greenpoint n Brooklyn, El Puente’s initiatives fight for a wide variety of social justice issues. As a renowned Latinx art's and cultural institution, El Puente does most of its activism through various visual and performative art forms.

(📍Brooklyn, Williamsburg)

En Foco, Inc.

Founded in 1974, En Foco makes their work visible to the art world, yet remains accessible to under-serviced communities. Through exhibitions, workshops, events, and publications, it provides professional recognition, honoraria, and assistance to photographers as they grow into different stages of their careers.

(📍The Bronx, South Bronx)

Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater (FELT)

The Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater, Inc. was founded in 1994. Our mission is to strengthen and develop artistic and cultural awareness of Latinos in New York City through theater productions, emerging playwright development, and youth programs.

(📍Manhattan, LES)

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.

(📍Queens, Flushing)

HOLA

The Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA) is an arts service and advocacy organization dedicated to expanding the presence of Latinx Hispanic artists in entertainment and media through the development cultivation, education and empowerment of emerging and established artists.

(📍Manhattan, LES)

Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture

An integral part of Hostos Community College / CUNY since 1982, the Center for the Arts & Culture is a resource for students and faculty in addition to serving the cultural needs of South Bronx residents and neighboring communities.

(📍The Bronx, Melrose)

IATI Theater

Based in the East Village, IATI is a bilingual Latinx theater Company that provokes introspection through cutting-edge performing arts. We support multicultural, diverse and underserved communities while harnessing and empowering unique voices.

(📍Manhattan, East Village)

INTAR Theatre

INTAR is an organization committed since 1966 to the development of “theater arts without borders.” For decades INTAR has produced workshops and world premieres of plays, stage works and adaptations created by Latin playwrights and artists.

(📍Manhattan, Hell’s Kitchen)

ID Studio Theater

ID Studio Theater is committed to the cultural enrichment of immigrant communities through performance arts while creating new audiences and training performers among these communities. Since our founding in 2001, ID Studio’s projects have been shown at a wide range of venues, from international theater festivals to schools and community spaces.

(📍The Bronx, Mott Haven)

The Interior Beauty Salon

The Interior Beauty Salon was conceived by Nicolás (A.K.A. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo) in 2017 in The Bronx, NY, to serve as a space where that which is not necessarily seen or manifested in tangible ways, is seeded, nurtured and given room to grow safely. This includes processes melding art, ritual, ceremony, rites of passage, and healing.

(📍The Bronx/Virtual)

La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña

La Casa provides essential structural support for cultural and educational activities, serves youth and their families, students, professional and emerging artists, and works in collaboration with educational and non-educational institutions, and other community groups.

(📍Manhattan, East Harlem)

Latin Reel

Latin Reel is a year-round social impact initiative in the intersection of social justice and film. Developed to foster understanding, inspire cross-cultural discussions, and generating long-lasting change throughout New York City and beyond.

(📍Virtual/Itinerant)

The Latinx Playwrights Circle

The Latinx Playwrights Circle aim to build a network of Latinx/é Playwrights nationwide in order to promote, develop and elevate their work in order to make their plays accessible to theater-makers looking to find the next generation of American Storytellers.

(📍Manhattan, LES)

Latinx Project at NYU

The Latinx Project at New York University explores and promotes U.S. Latinx Art, Culture and Scholarship through creative and interdisciplinary programs. Founded in 2018, it serves as a platform to foster critical public programming and for hosting artists and scholars.

(📍Manhattan, Greenwich Village)

Loisaida Inc.

Loisaida, Inc. began as a grassroots movement in the Lower East Side (LES) led by Puerto Rican activists and Hispanic residents in the mid 1970’s to combat the effects of rampant violence, drugs, gangs, and poverty facing neighborhood children, youth and families. Loisaida, Inc. is now an Affiliate of the Acacia Network, a premier health, housing, and economic development organization.

(📍Manhattan, LES)

Los Herederos

Los Herederos is a grassroots, media-folk arts organization dedicated to inheriting culture in the digital age. We engage in research-based documentation for public consumption to produce projects, programs & services that address the realities of local culture, evolving communities, & an increasingly diasporadical immigrant experience.

(📍Queens & Virtual/Itinerant)

LAZO

LAZO (in Spanish meaning ‘tie’ or ‘link’) is an online and itinerant exhibition platform that brings together artists and related practitioners who are of Latin American & Caribbean descent and those whose research ties to these communities.

(📍Virtual/Itinerant)

Los Pleneros de la 21

Los Pleneros de la 21 (LP21) was founded in 1983 by Juan J. ‘Juango’ Gutiérrez and the legendary Master Plenero, Marcial Reyes Arvelo. This organization aims to present accessible public traditional music programming; expose and encourage the participation of inner city youth and others to the cultural heritage of Puerto Rico.

(📍Manhattan, East Harlem)

Mujeristas Collective

The Mujeristas Collective is an art collective and platform for the voices of Latinas and women of color based in Queens, NY. We publish zines showcasing contemporary art and writings from women around the world, and hold community events centering on Mujerismo and art.

(📍Queens)

Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders

Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders is a New York-based non-profit organization 501(c)(3) dedicated to celebrating Mexican culture and promoting the understanding of Mexican traditions through arts, culture, humanities, and annual celebrations of holidays, festivals, concerts, performances, processions, installations, and seminars.

(📍Manhattan, Hamilton Heights/Harlem)

Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance

The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) is a non-profit arts service organization whose mission is to cultivate, support and promote the works of artists and arts organizations in northern Manhattan.

(📍Manhattan, Washington Heights)

Pachamama Peruvian Arts

Based in Jackson Heights, Pachamama Peruvian Arts seeks to strengthen the practice of traditional Peruvian music and dance, promote cultural interchange and mutual understanding, and empower New York’s Peruvian community with pride.

(📍Queens)

New Latin Wave

Dedicated to celebrating the most current and compelling Latinx voices, New Latin Wave is a multidisciplinary platform for Latinx arts and culture that seeks to open conversations about Latinx contributions and identity in the US.

(📍Virtual/Itinerant)

People’s Theatre Project

Rooted in Upper Manhattan, People's Theatre Project (PTP) is a social justice arts organization that creates ensemble-based theatre with and for immigrant communities to develop the next generation of diverse, socially-engaged artists and leaders.

(📍Manhattan, Washington Heights/nwood)

PEPATIÁN

Founded in 1983 as an artists’ collective, PEPATIÁN: Bronx Arts ColLABorative is a South Bronx-based organization dedicated to creating, producing and supporting contemporary multi-disciplinary art by Latinx and Bronx-based artists.

(📍The Bronx)

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.

(📍The Bronx)

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.

(📍Manhattan, East 27th)

R.Evolución Latina

R.Evolución Latina is an organization that activates individual and collective human growth through artistic experiences for transformation and social change. A Revolution of Evolution, making a difference through the Arts.

(📍Manhattan, Midtown)

Salsa Stories

SALSA STORIES engages a diverse audience and combats misconceptions about public spaces in historically underprivileged neighborhoods, SALSA STORIES casts these locations as cultural incubators, restoring old local street traditions such as shared music and dance parties, as a vital part of New York City’s cultural heritage.

(📍Itinerant)

Teatro Círculo

Founded in 1994, Teatro Círculo aims to introduce the public to the best works of Spanish and Pan Latino playwrights, both contemporary and classical and to foster an appreciation of the richness of Latin American and Iberian cultures in the context of the pluralism that characterizes New York City.

(📍Manhattan, East Village)

Teatro LATEA

LATEA is a performing arts theater company that has been a Latino cultural staple for over 30 years. Through multicultural and multidisciplinary initiatives at The Clemente, which it helped establish, LATEA assiduously promotes and produces Latino performing arts to and for Latinos and multicultural audiences.

(📍Manhattan, LES)

Teatro SEA

Established in 1985, SEA is the premiere Bilingual Arts-in-Education Organization and Latino Children’s Theatre in the United States. Teatro SEA has its performance space at The Clemente and has offices in San Juan, New York, and Florida.

(📍Manhattan, LES)

Thalia Spanish Theatre

Founded in 1977, Thalia is the first and only bilingual theatre in Queens. Our mission is to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of Spanish and Latin American culture with unique productions of plays, musicals and dance.

(📍Queens)

The Sol Project

The Sol Project is a national theater initiative dedicated to amplifying the voices of Latiné playwrights in NYC and beyond. Guided by the values of advocacy, collaboration, and joy, The Sol Project works in partnership with leading theaters to produce the work of Latiné playwrights and nurture a growing community of Latiné theater artists. 

(📍Itinerant)

Word Up

Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria is a multilingual, collectively operated bookshop & arts space in Washington Heights, committed to co-creating a place where residents support each other to live better informed & more expressive lives.

(📍Manhattan, Washington Heights)