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Mēxico Now Festival is New York City's 1st—& only—annual festival of contemporary Mexican arts & culture. More info: www.mexiconowfestival.org

Celebrate Mexico Now is New York City’s first, and only, arts festival spotlighting contemporary Mexico. Every year, from uptown to
downtown, New Yorkers are immersed in the vanguard of Mexican music, dance, film, literature, theater, visual art, architecture, and cuisine. With performances, screenings, exhibitions, and discussions, this annual festival imports an authentic experience of what’s going
on in Mexico—right now. Since its debut in 2004, Celebrate Mexico Now has brought over 300 groundbreaking artists and projects to 60 of New
York’s leading cultural venues. Celebrate Mexico Now is produced by Claudia Norman and her consulting firm, CN Management, and is a not-for-profit project sponsored by The Field.

10/01/2026

🌊 Water, wind, rhythm, and sound run through every part of this season, elements that shape not just the art we're presenting, but how you'll experience it.

México Now Festival's 23rd season brings four days of panel conversations, dynamic book and sonic presentations, and a bold musical performance to NYC, starting 11/17. Every event is FREE!

🔗 Link in bio for the full lineup and RSVPs

09/29/2026

IT'S HERE: the full México Now Festival lineup! 🎉

Our 23rd season brings four days of film, panels, literature, and music across NYC, 11/17–11/20. And every event is free!
¡Sí, todos los eventos son gratuitos! 🎟️

Here's what's on:

TUES, 11/17 | 7:00 PM
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez - documentary screening + Q&A with director David Alvarado
📍 CUNY Graduate Center

WED, 11/18 | 6:00 PM
Fábrica de Agua / Mexico City: New Futures - a panel on water, design, and the future of cities
📍 NYU Silver Center

THURS, 11/19 | 6:00 PM
33 1/3: Re - a conversation on Café Tacvba's genre-defying classic
📍 Center for Fiction

THURS, 11/19 | 7:30 PM
Beginning, Middle, End - Valeria Luiselli's sonic novel experience
📍 Center for Fiction

FRI, 11/20 | 7:00 PM
Patricia Brennan Trio - an evening of boundary-pushing jazz improvisation
📍 Americas Society

🔗 Visit our website for full details and to register.
¡Nos vemos pronto!

07/10/2026

A summer to remember ☀️✨

Thank you to everyone who joined us for México Now Festival’s first-ever summer activation as part of Summer for the City at Lincoln Center!

From the poetry and storytelling of La Casita to the high-energy sounds of Orkesta Mendoza, we celebrated the artists, traditions, and communities that make our city so vibrant.

🎥 Relive the highlights from this summer celebration!

And this was just the beginning. We can’t wait to welcome you back for México Now Festival 2026, happening November 18–20! 💃🏽

07/07/2026

June 20th, 2026
Summer for the City. Lincoln Center
Orkesta Mendoza

07/07/2026

June 20th 2026
Summer for the City. Lincoln Center

06/20/2026

Today's the day! 🎉

For the first time ever, the México Now Festival brings a special summer activation to Lincoln Center.

Join us for a free evening of poetry, music, and movement featuring:

✨ La Casita | 6PM

✨ Orkesta Mendoza | 8PM

🗓 Saturday, June 20
📍 Lincoln Center
🎟 Free and open to all
🔗 Learn more at mexiconowfestival.org

See you tonight! 💃🏽

05/22/2026

Join us for an unforgettable evening of poetry ✨

La Casita returns to Lincoln Center with a program that builds on its 25+ year history celebrating the vitality of artistic communities and oral traditions across New York City’s five boroughs. The México Now Festival is honored to present q***r Black Mexican American poet Irene Vázquez.

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Irene Vázquez, Poet & Editor, Levine Querido

Born in New Orleans, raised in Houston, & now living in Manhattan, Irene Vázquez is a q***r Black Mexican American poet, translator, and journalist who writes at the intersection of Black cultural work, placemaking and the environment. Irene's debut chapbook Take Me To the Water was released by Bloof Books. Their poetry also appears in When Language Broke Open: Q***r and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent (University of Arizona Press 2023) and Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press 2025). Irene is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet.

Irene completed a B.A. in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and English at Yale. In 2021, with the support of the Pulitzer Center, Irene reported on environmental justice advocacy and healing in Black and Indigenous communities on the Louisiana coast.

🗓 Sat 6/20
🕕 6PM
📍 Hearst Plaza
🎟 Free!
🔗 Learn more at mexiconowfestival.org

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