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Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, is a Pan-Latin Family Celebration Whose Mexican Tradition Has Gone Global

Day of the Dead ~ Día de los Muertos (Amelia/Adobe)

OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 2 🇲🇽

Day of the Dead Parade in Mexico City was Founded After Tourists Showed up Looking for the Parade They Saw in James Bond “Spectre”

Day of the Dead Parade Mexico City Día de Muertos Desfile (Emilio Mujica/Dreamstime)

MEXICO CITY, Mexico 🇲🇽

Coco, Disney’s Mexican Day of the Dead Movie, is All About Family, the True Meaning of Día de Muertos

"Coco" 2017 (Walt Disney Studios)

THE TOWN HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇲🇽

Flor de Toloache, New York’s Female Mariachi, Plays Live for a Screening of Disney’s Day of the Dead Movie “Coco”

Flor de Toloache (Carnegie Hall)

THE TOWN HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇲🇽 + 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇨🇺

Day of the Dead, Día de Muertos, Comes to Life at Mano y Mano’s Community Altars

Mano a Mano NYC Day of the Dead Celebration (Juan Aguirre)

HISPANIC SOCIETY, Washington Heights, Manhattan 🇲🇽
ST. MARK’S CHURCH IN-THE-BOWERY, East Village, Manhattan 🇲🇽
DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇲🇽
FLATIRON NORTH PLAZA, Flatiron District, Manhattan 🇲🇽

Mexican Marigolds Attract Family Souls Visiting on Day of the Dead

Mexican Marigolds (Mariia Poliakova/Dreamstime)

October 31 – November 2
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Mexican Marigolds are a Central American flower with healing powers that attract spirits to visit their families on the Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead NYC 2022 Día de los Muertos is a Three-Day Family Celebration of Life

Day of the Dead with Adál Maldonado #AdalWasHere (Agcuesta/Dreamstime/Roberto Paradise)

OFRENDAS (Family Altars)
Monday, October 31, 2022

DÍA DE LOS INNOCENTES (Children’s Day)
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

DÍA DE MUERTOS (Day of the Dead)
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

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Staten Island Day of the Dead Festival

Day of the Dead altar (AGcuesta/Adobe)

Sunday, October 20, 2019
WEST BRIGHTON, Staten Island ~ Help build a communal ofrenda (altar) and learn Mexican Day of the Dead handicrafts for the entire family with teaching artists at Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Benedicta School

Mano a Mano Day of the Dead celebration 2017

Day of the Dead Ofrenda courtesy of Mano a Mano

St. Mark’s Church
131 East 10th St
at Second Ave
East Village, Manhattan
Friday – Sunday
October 27 – 29, 2017

NYC Parks Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead courtesy of NYC Parks

Saint Mary’s Park
Mott Haven, The Bronx
Saturday, October 28, 2017

Knickerbocker Avenue Puerto Rican Day Parade is Bushwick’s Puerto Rican Festival

Knickerbocker Avenue Puerto Rican Day Parade (RightFramePhotoVideo/Dreamstime)

KNICKERBOCKER AVENUE, Bushwick, Brooklyn 🇵🇷

National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2025 is America’s Biggest Cultural Celebration

National Puerto Rican Day Parade NYC (Suero Lopez/Dreamstime)

FIFTH AVENUE, Manhattan 🇵🇷 🇵🇷 🇵🇷

Christmas in New York City and The Holidays Too

Holidays in New York City (Apogeu/Adobe)

NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 🎄

All Souls Day is a Day to Tend Family Graves

All Souls Day is a day to remember deceased family. (Pixabay/Pexels)

NOVEMBER 2 ~ We remember our ancestors and tend family graves.

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All Saints Day, Día de los Inocentes, Honors All Saints and the Souls of Family Children

All Saints Day, Día de los Inocentes (Elena Nechiporenko/Dreamstime)

NOVEMBER 1 ~ The European festival of all saints known and unknown, is Día de los Inocentes in Mexico, the day during the Day of the Dead festival when souls of family children may visit, if they are invited.

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Fèt Gede is the Beautiful Haitian Festival of the Dead

Fèt Gede, Grand Cimetiere, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (airmaria/Adobe)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti 🇭🇹

Columbus Day Stopped Southerners from Lynching Italian Americans, but the Evil Man Unleashed The Apocalypse on the World

Columbus Day

2nd October Monday 🇪🇸 🇺🇸

Indigenous Peoples Day in New York City

Indigenous Peoples Day in New York City (Topshots/Adobe)

Second Monday in October 🇺🇸

Yewá, the Yoruba Orisha of the Cemetery, Dances with the Dead to Help Them Move On

Yewá in pink watches over the Old San Juan cemetery (Ajitha/Adobe)

AUGUST 11 🇧🇯 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

Afribembé Festival, by the CCCADI, Joins Harlem Week’s A Great Day in Harlem

CCCADI Afribembé Festival (Mirmoor/Dreamstime)

GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL MEMORIAL, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇵🇷

Feast of Saint Joseph Celebrates the Husband of Mary, and is Latin Father’s and Stepfather’s Day

"Saint Joseph with the Christ Child" by Guido Reni, 1625-30 (Public Domain/Wikimedia)

MARCH 19 🇧🇴 🇭🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇿 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Native American Heritage Day is a U.S. National Holiday on the Day After Thanksgiving!

Celebrate Native American Heritage Day (alfa27/Adobe)

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Mictēcacihuātl is the Mesoamerican Goddess of the Underworld, Which is a Paradise

Mictlancihuatl, Aztec goddess of the underworld (Borgia Codex/Wikimedia)

DAY OF THE DEAD
Thursday, November 2, 2023
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Catrina La Calavera Garbancera is the Modern Mictēcacihuātl

Catrina La Calavera Garbancera by José Guadalupe Posada (c 1910-13) (Wikimedia)

DAY OF THE DEAD, DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS
Thursday, November 2, 2023
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Ofrendas are Altars That Invite Family Souls to Visit

Day of the Dead Ofrenda #AdalLives (Agcuesta/Dreamstime)

On or before October 31, we build ofrendas to invite family souls to visit us on the Day of the Holy Innocents (November 1) and the Day of the Dead (November 2).

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Things to do in NYC in November 2019

Things to do in New York in November 2019. Courtesy Nicholas Santasier.

Puerto Rican Heritage Month
National Native American Heritage Month
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1 Auction exhibitions open
1-5 TEFAF antiques fair
1 Day of the Holy Innocents|All Saints Day
2 Day of the Dead | All Souls Day
3 Panamanian Separation Day
3 New York City Marathon
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5 Election Day
6-15 DOC NYC
8-11 VETERANS DAY WEEKEND
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10-11 Impressionist & Modern auctions
11 Veterans Day Parade
12 Beaver Moon
12-16 Django Reinhardt Festival
13 Puerto Rican Film Festival
13-14 Contemporary Art auctions
14 Salon Art + Design fair
14 Latin Grammys
16 Latin American Art auction exhibition
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20-21 Latin American Art auction
21 Macy’s Holiday Windows
21 Beaujolais Nouveau Day
23 Puerto Rican Artisans Fair
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25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
27-1 THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
27 Thanksgiving Parade Balloon Inflation
28 Panamanian Independence Day
28 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
29 Black Friday
29 New York City Ballet ‘Nutcracker’

NYC Parks Life and Death Celebration: Día de los Muertos

Saturday, October 26, 2019
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn ~ NYC Parks holds a family celebration of Day of the Dead and Fall traditions at Hattie Carthan Community Market

Calpulli “Día de los Muertos”

Día de los Muertos | courtesy of Calpulli Mexican Dance Company

Thursday, October 26, 2017
COUNT BASIE THEATRE
Red Bank, New Jersey
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Sunday, October 29, 2017
QUEENS THEATRE
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
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Saturday, November 4, 2017
THE TOWN HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
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This Day of the Dead story is so good it should be on Broadway

Metropolitan Museum of Art Reopens Galleries of African, Indigenous, and Oceanic Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art (Suzanne6288/Adobe)

Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Reopening, African, Indigenous, Oceanic art 🇧🇯 🇨🇲 🇨🇴 🇨🇩 🇪🇨 🇪🇹 🇬🇦 🇲🇱 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇸🇳
Iba Ndiaye: Between Latitude and Longitude, Senegalese contemporary art 🇸🇳
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, Black dandy men’s fashion

MET FIFTH AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan

DanceAfrica, America’s Largest African and Diasporic Dance Festival, Celebrates the Culture of Mozambique

DanceAfrica (Nate Palmer/Brooklyn Academy of Music)

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM), Fort Greene, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇨🇲 🇸🇳

Ballet Nepantla Dances Mexican Ballet Folklórico For Los Tigres del Norte at Madison Square Garden

Ballet Nepantla "Valentina" (Marty Infante)

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Chelsea, Manhattan: Los Tigres del Norte 🇲🇽

Westminster Dog Show 2026 Celebrates 150 Years of Best in Show

Westminster Dog Show (Dwong19/Dreamstime)

JAVITS CENTER, Hudson Yards, Manhattan
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Chelsea, Manhattan
2024 ~ 🇨🇩 🇨🇬 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇿🇼

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Puebla: The Story of Cinco de Mayo” Shows the Origins of America’s Celebration of Mexican Culture

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company "Puebla: The Story of Cinco de Mayo" (Julieta Cervantes/Calpulli)

COUNT BASIE CENTER, Red Bank, New Jersey 🇲🇽
QUEENS THEATRE, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens 🇲🇽
COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND 🇲🇽

Mexican Culture in New York City

Mexican Culture in New York City (Lei Xu/Dreamstime)

Explore Mexican Culture in New York City including: Mexican culture, Mexican News from presenters, Mexican New York City, and more. 🇲🇽

Festivals in New York City

Latin Festivals in New York City (Ruan Jordaan/Adobe)

Explore Latin Festivals in New York City, including: parades, street fairs, holidays, independence days, national days, and faith days.

Things To Do in NYC

Things to do in NYC (AboutLife/Adobe)

There are more than 8 million things to do in NYC. The magic of New York is that it can process all these different intentions at the same time, and still function. January February March April May June July August September October November December Things to do in NYC in January JanArtsNYC APAP Performing Arts […]

Adál Maldonado Is a Great Puerto Rican Surrealist Photographer and New York Latin Culture Magazine’s Padrino Boricua

Adál Maldonado "Coconauts in Space" 1988 (Estate/Roberto Paradise)

UTUADO, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Things To Do in NYC in November 2024

Things to do in NYC in November 2024, Native American Heritage Month (Julian/Adobe)

Native American Heritage Month

The Town Hall is a Performing Arts Center at the Crossroads of Culture and History

The Town Hall (courtesy)

“COCO” film with live score by The Sinfonietta and Flor de Toloache 🇲🇽
NEW YORK COMEDY FESTIVAL Ms. Pat, Justin Silva, JB Smoove, Tracy Morgan, Zarna Garg 🇺🇸 🇨🇻 🇮🇳

MIDTOWN, Manhattan

Jackson Heights Halloween Parade is Fun for Young Children

Jackson Heights Halloween Parade (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🎃

Things To Do in NYC in September 2024

Things to do in NYC in September 2024, Hispanic Heritage Month (LuneVA-PeopleImages.com/Adobe)

Hispanic Heritage Month
Labor Day

Symphony Space Performing Arts Center in Manhattan’s Upper West Side

Symphony Space NYC (Aerogondo/Dreamstime)

Dayramir González, Cuban jazz pianist 🇨🇺

UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan

Mexican Prints at the Vanguard Explores the Use of Art to Address Social and Political Issues, and Create a National Identity

Mexican Prints at the Vanguard Unidentified Mexican artist, Exhibition of works by José Guadalupe Posada at the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City, 1943. Printed by Talleres Gráficos de la Nación, Mexico, D.F. Lithograph The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Walter Pach, 1944 (44.88)

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇲🇽

Travel the Latin World

Travel Tips Many Americans start out noticing our differences, but end up seeing our similarities. You may come home with lifelong friendships, or you might not come back at all (meaning you become a traveler). We live and work from the road. Traveling in the Latin world is more complicated than traveling in the United […]

Things To Do in NYC in October 2024

Things to do in NYC in October 2024, Hispanic Heritage Month (PintoArt/Adobe)

Hispanic Heritage Month

El Museo del Barrio is New York’s Puerto Rican and Latin American Art Museum

El Museo del Barrio (courtesy)

Ocama Aracoel, Indigenous Taíno art 🇵🇷
Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, Chicana artist 🇲🇽
Cuerpo: Carlos Martiel, Cuban performance artist 🇨🇺
Caña Dulce y Caña Brava Mexican son jarocho 🇲🇽

“EL BARRIO” EAST HARLEM, Manhattan

Merengue in New York City

Merengue in New York City (Aleksandr Rybalko/Dreamstime)

Discover Merengue in New York City at arenas, performing arts centers, theaters, night clubs, bars, parades, and summer festivals. 🇩🇴

Maman Brigitte is the Haitian Loa of Death and Life

Maman Brigitte is represented by a Black chicken (Geza Farkas/Dreamstime)

HAITI and NEW ORLEANS, United States ~ February 2 or November 2 🇭🇹 🇺🇸

Las Posadas are the Mexican Christmas Caroling Tradition

La Posada (Marcos Castillo/Adobe)

DECEMBER 16-24 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽

Dzul Dance Performs “Crossing Thresholds;” Contemporary dance with Aerial arts, Contortion, and Acrobatics; at the Ailey Citigroup Theater

Dzul Dance "Maya" (Matthew Smith)

AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER, Hells Kitchen, Manhattan 🇲🇽

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