Editing San Juan, Puerto Rico (section)

=== Entertainment and performing arts ===
[[File:San Sebastian Parade Dancers 2013 (8418487044).jpg|thumb|[[San Sebastián Street Festival]]]]
San Juan is host to numerous annual festivals and celebrations. While the official [[patronal festival]] of the city is the summertime [[Saint John's Eve|Feast of Saint John]] (''Fiestas de San Juan''), the most famous event is the [[San Sebastián Street Festival]] (''Fiestas de la Calle de San Sebastián''), celebrated yearly during the third weekend of January in Old San Juan. The event, originally a community festival coinciding with the feast day of [[Saint Sebastian]], has become an important part of Puerto Rican popular culture, being unofficially considered to mark the end of the [[Christmas and holiday season]] in the island. It is now one of the most popular and largest festivals in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, drawing around 200,000 visitors each year. Other annual festivals and events in San Juan include the Puerto Rico Heineken JazzFest in March, the [[Casals Festival|Casals Festivals]] in April, Puerto Rico Comic Con in May, San Juan [[Fashion week|Fashion Week]] in September, Puerto Rican Music Festival (''Festival de la Música Puertorriqueña'') in November, the city-wide events and activities of Christmas in San Juan (''Navidad en San Juan'') in December, and the New Year's Eve celebrations in [[Distrito T-Mobile]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Festival |url=https://www.puertoricotravel.guide/blog/puerto-rico-heineken-jazz-festival/ |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=PuertoRico Travel Guide |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=CASALS FESTIVAL — Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico |url=https://www.ospr.pr.gov/casalsfestival |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico |language=es-PR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=#PRCOMICCON2024 |url=https://www.prcomiccon.com/ |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=#PRCOMICCON2024 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Perez |first=Andrea |date=2025-01-01 |title=Todos los festivales en Puerto Rico para disfrutar este 2025 |url=https://www.plateapr.com/festivales-puerto-rico/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=PlateaPR |language=es}}</ref>

The [[Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center]] (Spanish: ''Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré'') hosts some of the most important musical and artistic events in Puerto Rico. It is home to the [[Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra]] (PRSO) and hosts the [[Casals Festival]], the most important classical music festival in the Caribbean. The venue also hosts theater and musical performances such as [[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton]], which it hosted in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jones|first=Chris|title='Hamilton' opens in Puerto Rico with emotional performance by Lin-Manuel Miranda: 'I just love this island so much'|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-ent-hamilton-puerto-rico-0113-story.html|access-date=2021-09-23|website=chicagotribune.com|date=January 12, 2019 }}</ref>  The Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico is a public music conservatory that hosts Puerto Rican and international students has a longstanding relationship with the classical music movement in the island. The {{Lang|es|[[Ateneo Puertorriqueño]]|italic=no}} and the theater of the [[University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus|University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras]] also host important music events.