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Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade
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Celebrate International Creole Day!
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Celebrate the French-African culture of the Caribbean, the Americas, Africa and the world that gave us jazz
Celebrate The Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos
Sat-Mon, Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2020
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Remember Mictlancihuatl, Aztec Goddess of the Underworld
Sat-Mon, Oct 31-Nov 2, 2020 DAY OF THE DEAD
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The Whitney’s “Vida Americana” Exhibition is a Call to Arts
February 17, 2020 – January 31, 2021 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Meatpacking District, NYC
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September, October and November
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Mexican Marigold, Aztec Marigold, Cempasúchil are Day of the Dead flowers
October 31 – November 2 ~ Mexican Marigolds are a Central American flower with healing powers that attract spirits to visit their families on the Day of the Dead
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Mexico City Day of the Dead Parade Goes Virtual in 2020
VIRTUAL Saturday, October 31, 2020
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Remember Catrina La Calavera Garbancera, the Queen of the Day of the Dead
Sat-Mon, October 31 – Nov 2, 2020 DAY OF THE DEAD
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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
November UNITED STATES ~ We are the first Americans. We have always been here. We are still here from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego.
Celebrate Puerto Rican Heritage Month!
November UNITED STATES The Puerto Rican diaspora celebrates our heritage on the month when Columbus landed and claimed the island for Spain in 1493. ¡WEPA!
Remember Joe Arroyo, the Father of Salsa Colombiana
Sunday, November 1, 2020 CARTAGENA, Colombia The greatest Colombian salsa singer of all time was born on November 1, 1955. “Rebelión” (No le pegue a la negra), “En Barranquilla me quedo,” “La Noche”
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Celebrate All Saints Day!
Sunday, November 1, 2020
Enjoy the Met Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
[Anticipated] Mon, Nov 2, 2020 – Jan 3, 2021 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Upper East Side, Manhattan
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Celebrate Panamanian Separation Day!
Tuesday, November 3, 2020 CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN 🇵🇦 PANAMA CITY, Panama November 3, 1903
Remember Kristallnacht
Monday November 9, 2020 GERMANY Nazi paramilitary forces and civilians attacked Jewish communities on November 9-10, 1938
Remember Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Most Celebrated Novelist
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 🇲🇽 PANAMA CITY, Panama November 11, 1928
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Celebrate Diwali!
Saturday, November 14, 2020 LITTLE INDIA, LITTLE TRINIDAD, LITTLE GUYANA, LITTLE SURINAME
Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrivé!
Thursday, November 19, 2020 🇫🇷
Visit the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon Inflation
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 UPPER WEST SIDE, NYC ~ Kids love watching the balloons inflate around the American Museum of Natural History
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Remember the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 🇩🇴 SALCEDO, Dominican Republic November 25, 1960
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Enjoy Thanksgiving Weekend, the Start of NYC’s Holiday Season!
Thursday-Sunday, November 26-29, 2020 🇺🇸
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The 94th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2020 is Being Reimagined
Thursday, November 26, 2020 UPPER WEST SIDE to HERALD SQUARE, NYC
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Thursday, November 26, 2020 🇺🇸
Shop Till You Drop (but be Nice, not Naughty) on Black Friday!
Friday, November 27, 2020 Let’s go shopping for Latin fashion
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New York leads the country in bad times and good, so let’s get together and make Our City work for everyone. Together we help make the American Dream work for everyone too. Isn’t that why you’re here? We are #AllInNYC
New York City
NYC, New York, Nueva York, Nova York, whatever you call it, New York City has been Latin since the first immigrant, Juan Rodriguez, arrived in 1613. He was a multilingual African…
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New York is a city of parks. There are 10 national parks and more than…
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There are museums in NYC for just about anything you can imagine. Many of them…
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It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.”
Sonia Sotomayor, Bronx-born, New York Puerto Rican, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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To be Latin is to be mixed. In the Caribbean, South America and North America: Indigenous, European and African, but also Oceanic and Asian mixed into our Latin thing,…
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Things to do in NYC in November 2020
Native American Heritage Month Puerto Rican Heritage Month – 1-2 Celebrate Mexico Now Festival 1-4 TEFAF Design Fair 2 Day of the Dead (2) Met Christmas Tree 3 ELECTION DAY 3 Panama Separation Day – 11 VETERANS DAY 11 Veterans Day Parade 11-15 Puerto Rican Film Festival 11-19 DOC NYC film festival – 19 Latin…
Things to do in NYC in December 2020
1 Winter months 1 Giving Tuesday 7- 10-18 Hanukkah 11 Las Mañanitas 12 Our Lady of Guadalupe 14- 16-24 La Posada / La Novena 21- 21 Winter Solstice 24-25 Christmas Eve & Day 26 Boxing Day 26-1 Kwanzaa 28- 31 New Year’s Eve
Everyone Gathering Together in Peace
Colonizers (human slavers) feared the drum because they understood that rhythm talks. They were afraid we would use the drum to rise up, and do to them what they were doing to us.
To justify their own violence and thievery, colonizers dehumanized and demonized everything that wasn’t their own. They said we were not human, devil worshipers who practice magic and a bunch of other nonsense. Colonizer priests played along because it enriched them too. Politicians gained power. Hollywood made money. This colonial point of view got into our heads and became part of our American culture.
One of the things the colonizers didn’t realize is that there are no demons, only demonizers. To dehumanize others, you must dehumanize yourself first and that eats you from the inside. That’s the trouble in our country now. We’ve become the very demons that we so feared.
The colonizers got the drum wrong too. The drum is a healing instrument. It’s true that it talks, but “jembe,” the Malian word for drum, says “everyone gathering together in peace.”
Regardless of your heritage, it’s time to start the drum again. It’s time for everyone gathering together in peace.
Jembe”
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