Beat of the Boroughs: NYC Online
BBNYCO supports NYC’s immigrant traditional artists through collaborative assistance, program design, and partnership building. The resulting online programs present a wide variety of performing arts traditions and artists’ experiences across the boroughs.
Yiddish New York
Be part of an amazing intergenerational Yiddish community, local and international. Programs for young, old and everyone in between!
Sri Lankan Dance Academy of NY
Sri Lankan Dance Academy of NY’s mission is to preserve the significant cultural and artistic heritage of Sri Lanka in America through both traditional and contemporary drumming and dancing.
Mariachi Academy
The Mariachi Academy of New York is devoted to preserving the rich heritage of Mariachi to youth in New York and performances for community-based and general audiences.
Latest News

Summer 2023 in Review: the Buryat Community’s Ayalga Cultural Festival
October 10, 2023
For the third year in a row, greater New York’s Buryat community congregated (and in-person!) at the My Way Education Center in Midwood, Brooklyn, on


Soorya Festival Celebrates Sri Lankan Culture in Staten Island!
October 10, 2023

Folk COLOMBIA’s Spring Graduation!
June 9, 2023

The Soorya Festival Returns in September 2023!
March 7, 2023
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Inner Asian Sustaining Cultures Initiative
New York City is home to a great number of immigrant communities large and small with intertwined roots in Inner Asia, a vast geographic region