Consul General of News

Building on the great success of last year’s inaugural Japan Parade, the 2nd annual Japan Parade in New York City will be held on Saturday, May 13, beginning at 1PM.

On Saturday, May 6, Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College will present its inaugural Cinco De Mayo family celebration “Viva El Cinco De Mayo: Festival Del Son” at the 2,000-seat Colden Auditorium.

The Colburn School's Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices,  a unique Colburn resource that encourages greater awareness and more frequent performances of music by composers whose careers and lives were destroyed by the Nazi regime, brings important repertory back to life through four upcoming performances that feature the works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schreker, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Herbert Zipper.

Rabbi David Baron announced that the Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts at the Saban Theatre will present a Pre-Passover Shared Heritage of Freedom Shabbat Service featuring Special Guests, the Apage International and Global Choir under the direction of Marianne Lewis and Sinan Kuzam, Consul General of Türkiye in Los Angeles.  

Teatro Grattacielo, in partnership with the Consulate General of Greece in New York, will present an intimate showing of select arias from the repertoire of Maria Callas on Friday, March 17, 2023. 'The 10 Faces of Maria Callas' is Teatro Grattacielo's first event of the 2023 opera season, and it will celebrate the 100th birthday of the legendary Greek-American soprano.

Origin Theatre Company presented the Closing Ceremony of Origin 1st Irish 2023, at the Irish Arts Center, 726 11th Avenue, on Monday January 30.  Go inside the ceremony in new photos.

The Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia in New York, Mr. Winanto Adi, hosted the official announcement that Asa Pentas Mahakarya Academy will be presenting Camp Broadway® in their new home in Jakarta, Indonesia, beginning in 2023.

In fall 2023, New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will launch its first exhibition developed for elementary school-aged students. Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark will commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of the most effective episodes of mass resistance in modern history. 

The Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia in New York, Mr. Winanto Adi, hosted the official announcement that Asa Pentas Mahakarya Academy will be presenting Camp Broadway® in their new home in Jakarta, Indonesia, beginning in 2023.

Actor-Producer Malik Yoba and Playwright David Heron are celebrating the success of their recent staged reading production of Heron's award winning courtroom drama Against His Will, held at the world famous Apollo Soundstage in New York on Monday, November 7.

In recognition of the cultural contributions Ukraine has made to the world throughout its history, Art on theMART is hosting an eight-day showing of Shchedryk - Carol of The Bells: Unwrap the Holiday Magic, a holiday-themed projection spotlighting the work of Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych, who arranged the melody of “Carol of The Bells” in 1916.

The 23rd annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) will present the largest celebration of Irish Cinema in North America during its eight-day run (Oct. 13-20, 2022) in Southern California. Highlights include an Irish Showcase event, red carpet premieres, 10 Irish feature-length films, the U.S. premiere of Ireland's foreign Oscar submission, 13 Irish short films and the participation of Irish filmmakers and dignitaries.

Turkish celebrity chef and entrepreneur Jale Balcı has revealed the secrets of the magical olive with the launch of her new book Riches From Deep Roots: Olives & Olive Oil at an exclusive event held at the residence of the Consul General of Turkey in Los Angeles on October 6, 2022.

In its 12th year, The Outstanding Filipino American Awards (TOFA), founded by journalist Elton Lugay, were still brimming with historic firsts. From the Carnegie Hall on 56th Street, TOFA’s venue has moved down 13 streets to the Town Hall. TOFA has also launched its newest sets of excellence in leadership awards: the Lifetime Achievement Awards, endorsed by President Joe Biden, and the Global Awards. Remarkably, it was also the first time an incumbent mayor of the city has physically graced a Fil-Am event.

Classic Stage Company has announced its full programming for Classic Perspectives, a series of post-show conversations inspired by A Man of No Importance by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens.

South Street Seaport Museum, in partnership with the Consul General of Chile in New York, announces Fiestas Patrias, A Chilean Independence Day Celebration on Sunday, September 18, 2022 aboard tall ship Wavertree at Pier 16 (Fulton and South Streets).

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity welcomes two new Governors to its Board. Bob Dhillon and Gregorio Oberti were appointed by the Minister of Advanced Education in Alberta by Order in Council as per the Post Secondary Learning Act.

Irish Repertory Theatre and Fishamble: The New Play Company announced today their first collaboration, the 2022 Transatlantic Commissions Program, an endeavor that aims to address head-on the historical inequalities in representation that have existed in the theatrical canon.

Anne Kaplan, Joffrey Board Chair, and Greg Cameron, President and CEO of The Joffrey Ballet, are pleased to announce the appointment of Marc DeMoss, Chip Flannagan, Lashana Jackson, Jim Kirk, and Richard McDonald to the Joffrey Board of Directors, effective immediately, for the 2022–2025 term. 

Members of New York City Opera and National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene will participate in the public reading of names of the Jews deported from Italy and the Italian territories, on Thursday, January 27.