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West Indian Day Parade is the Climax of New York Carnival
Explore Caribbean culture at the climax of Caribbean Carnival.
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New York Carnival Celebrates Freedom Trinidad Style
New York Carnival 2023 celebrates Trinidad Caribbean traditions with Voice’s Long Live Soca Tour, SocaFest, Junior Carnival, Panorama, Sunrise Day Soiree, J’Ouvert, and the West Indian Day Parade.
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Trinidad Carnival 2023 is the Mother of Caribbean Carnival
Wednesday-Thursday, February 15 – 23, 2023
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Carnival 2023 is the World’s Biggest Latin Party
New York Latin festivals
New York Junior Carnival Parade 2022
Saturday, September 3, 2022
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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New York Carnival Steel Pan Competition 2022 is Back With A Minor Change
Saturday, September 3, 2022
BROOKLYN MUSEUM GROUNDS
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
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New York Carnival J’ouvert 2022 Paintopia is Going to Be Colorful, Wet and Happy
Sunday, September 4, 2022
BROOKLYN MUSEUM GROUNDS
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
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New York Carnival & West Indian Day Parade 2022 are Back in Brooklyn!
VIBES WITH VOICE Soca concert
Thursday, September 1, 2022
ISLAND 2 ISLAND Soca concert
Friday, September 2, 2022
JUNIOR CARNIVAL + PAN IN A MINOR
Saturday, September 3, 2022
PAINTOPIA J’OUVERT + AMNESIA Soca & Dancehall party
Sunday, September 4, 2022
WEST INDIAN DAY PARADE
Monday, September 5, 2022
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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West Indian Day Parade 2019
Thu-Mon, Aug 29-Sep 2, 2019
LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Reggae Afrobeats Soca
Summer Jam Youth Fest
BrassFest
Junior Carnival Parade
Panorama Steelband Championship
Dimanche Gras Carnival Sunday Party
VIP Breakfast
Parade
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn ~ The Brooklyn Museum and the Parade on Eastern Avenue turns the neighborhood into a Caribbean Carnival
West Indian Day Parade 2017
Eastern Parkway from Schenectady Ave to Grand Army Plaza
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Monday, September 4, 2017
Trinidadian Culture
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago are the two southernmost islands of the Lesser Antilles. They are close to the coast of Venezuela. We are Trinbagonian. Public Holidays in Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago’s public holidays reflect the country’s diversity.
Indian NYC
Indian NYC is NYC’s second biggest immigrant community. New York has many Little Indias. Most Indians don’t consider ourselves to be Latin, but in the English-speaking Caribbean we are. After abolition, we came as indentured servants. That’s where that all that good Caribbean curry comes from. In Trinidad, Indian descent is the largest group, though […]
Trinidadian NYC
Trinidadian NYC is centered in Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, & Flatbush, Brooklyn; South Ozone Park, Queens; and Nassau County, Long Island. Trinidad and Tobago are the southernmost islands in the Lesser Antilles. Trinidad is less than seven miles from the Venezuelan mainland. The correct term for people from Trinidad and Tobago is “Trinbagonian.” Most […]
Things To Do in NYC in September 2022
New York Carnival, Brazilian Day, J’ouvert, Mid-Autumn Festival, Feast of San Gennaro, Hispanic Heritage Month
ART Armory Week, Affordable Art Fair
DANCE NY City Ballet, Fall for Dance
FASHION Fashion Week, FDLA
FILM NY Latino Film Festival, NY Film Festival
INDEPENDENCE Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Chile
MUSIC Met Opera
PARADES West Indian, African American, Mexican
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Covers a Lot of Ground
Sunday, May 1-30, 2022
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Bed-Stuy
Bed-Stuy is Bedford-Stuyvesant, a residential neighborhood in north Brooklyn. Everybody calls it Bed-Stuy. It’s been one of New York City’s core African American neighborhoods since the 1930s. It’s very Caribbean too. South WilliamsburgClinton Hill | Bed-Stuy | BushwickCrown Heights Flushing AveClasson Ave | Bed-Stuy | BroadwayAtlantic Ave The neighborhood has a reputation from the bad […]
Dance Theatre of Harlem Premieres Geoffrey Holder’s Trinidadian Ballet “Dougla” Online
ONLINE Through August 2, 2020
PREMIERE Sat, July 25 at 8pm
TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Wed-Sat, July 22-25, 2020
DTH SOCIAL CHANNELS
Latin Festivals in New York City
Explore Latin Festivals in New York City, including: parades, street fairs, holidays, independence days, national days, and faith days.
Bachata in New York City
Discover Bachata in New York City including bachata artists, concerts, festivals, venues, dances, and more.
Byenveni “Lakay se Lakay” is a Haitian Diasporic Art Exhibition On the Idea that Home is Home at the CCCADI
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI), “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇹
Things To Do in NYC in September 2024
Hispanic Heritage Month
Things To Do in NYC in May 2024
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Things To Do in NYC in March 2024
Women’s History Month
NYC Parades
Celia Cruz, “The Queen of Salsa,” Popularized Latin Music Around the World
HAVANA, Cuba, October 21, 1925 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in September 2023
Things to do in NYC in September 2023 include: New York Carnival, J’ouvert, and the West Indian Day Parade; New York Fashion Week and Fashion Designers of Latin America; Feast of San Gennaro, African American Day Parade; and Mexican Day Parade. The September holiday is Labor Day on Monday, September 4, 2023. Hispanic Heritage Month […]
Dance Parade NYC 2023 DanceFest Gets over 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Streets
DANCE PARADE
Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village
African, Afrobeat, Afro-Cuban, Bhangra, Bollywood, Bomba, Break Dancing, Caporales, Carnival, Dancehall, Flamenco, Folkloric, Hip-Hop, House, Jazz, Latin, Majorette, Mexican, Moko Jumbies, Reggae, Salay, Salsa, Samba, Soca, Street, Tammurriata, Tap, Tarrantella, Tinkus, and more. 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇹🇹
DANCEFEST Tompkins Square Park
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Saturday, May 20, 2023
Cuban Culture in New York City
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Things To Do in NYC in February 2023
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Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Latin comedy, festivals, music, parades, sports
Bolivian NYC
Bolivian NYC is centered in Queens and Paterson, New Jersey. Bolivia has Andes and Amazon regions. It was part of the Inca Empire. Spanish colonizers stole the Bolivian silver mountain at Potosí. Bolivians speak Spanish, Quechua, Aymara and other Indigenous languages. Indigenous culture remains strong. Indigenous colonial Mestizo Baroque art is quite beautiful. There is […]
St John’s Eve, La Noche de San Juan or Festa Junina, is the Latin Midsummer / Midwinter Festival
Friday, June 23, 2023
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SummerStage 2022 Brings Latin Culture to NYC Parks
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
RUMSEY PLAYFIELD
Central Park, Manhattan
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2022 SEASON
June 11 – September 22, 2022
NEW YORK CITY PARKS
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico really is the island of enchantment. Famous for some of the world’s best beaches, the mountain heartland is even more beautiful. We are both contemporary and conservative. Old ways survive, especially in the mountains. The drum is alive in Puerto Rico. The island is so many things you never imagined. It is famously […]
Johnny Pacheco was La Salsa!
Thursday, March 25, 2022
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Things to do in NYC in September 2020
1-24 US Open Tennis (ESPN)
2 Corn Moon
3 Whitney Museum reopens
4-7 Labor Day Weekend
4 NY Carnival Brass Fest 🇹🇹
5 Morgan Library reopens
6 Roberto Clemente Day 🇵🇷
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7 Labor Day
7 NY Carnival Virtual Road 🇹🇹
7 Brazilian Independence 🇧🇷
9 American Museum of Natural History reopens
11 Remember 9/11
11-16 FDLA Fashion Designers of Latin America 🇩🇴
12 El Museo del Barrio reopens
12 Brooklyn Museum reopens
13-16 RUNWAY360 (NYFW) 🇨🇱 🇻🇪
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15-15 Hispanic Heritage Month
15 Independence of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua 🇨🇷 🇸🇻 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇳🇮
16 Mexican Independence 🇲🇽
17 MoMA PS1 reopens
18 Chilean Independence 🇨🇱
18-28 High Holidays 🇮🇱
18-20 Rosh Hashanah 🇮🇱
19 Procession of San Gennaro 🇮🇹
20 African American Parade
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25-11 NY Film Festival
26 NY Carnival Panology 🇹🇹
27-28 Yom Kippur 🇮🇱
Things to do in NYC in May 2020
1 International Workers Day
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(3) Cinco de Mayo Parade
4 Met Gala
(4-10) Pen World Voices Festival
5 CINCO DE MAYO
6-10 Frieze New York
8-12 TEFAF New York
(8-17) Bronx Week
10 MOTHER’S DAY
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11 American Ballet Theatre
16 Dance Parade
(17) Cuban Parade
19 Laylat al-Qadr
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22-25 MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
22-25 Big Salsa Festival
(23) 152nd St Cultural Festival
23 Eid al-Fitr
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25 Memorial Day
Things to do in NYC in September 2019
1 Brazilian Day
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2 LABOR DAY
2 West Indian Day Parade
3-16 NYC Broadway Week
5 Socrates Annual
6-14 New York Fashion Week
7 New York City Labor Day Parade
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11 New York Philharmonic Opening Night ~ ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’
12 Jazz at Lincoln Center Season Opener
12 Crossing the Line festival
12-22 Feast of San Gennaro
15 Hispanic Heritage Month
15 Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran Independence Day
15 African American Day Parade
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16 Mexican Independence Day
17-30 UN General Assembly
17-13 New York City Ballet Fall Season
22 Queens Hispanic Day Parade
22 Peru to the World Expo
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23-6 NYC Off-Broadway Week
23 Met Opera Opening Night Gala ~ ‘Porgy and Bess’
27 New York Film Festival
29-1 Rosh Hashanah
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J’Ouvert Parade 2019
Monday, September 2, 2019
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn ~ The J’Ouvert Parade forms at Grand Army Plaza, marches through the Park, to Empire, and down Nostrand to Midwood St
Things to do in NYC in August 2019
2-4 Carnaval del Barrio Street Fair
3 Summer Streets
4 Ecuadorian Parade
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10 Ecuadorian Independence Day
10 Eid al-Adha
10 Summer Streets
11 Dominican Day Parade
11 Battery Dance Festival
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12-18 New York Latino Film Festival
16 Dominican Restoration Day
17 Summer Streets
18 Ecuadorian Festival
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24-25 Afropunk
25 Uruguayan Independence Day
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26-8 US Open Tennis
29-2 NY Salsa Congress
30-2 LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Electric Zoo 2019 features Bennie Benassi & Boombox Cartel
Fri-Sun, Aug 30 – Sep 1, 2019
RANDALL’S ISLAND ~ Bennie Benassi (Italy) and BoomBox Cartel (Texas/Mexico) will make you dance at Randall’s Island Park
Battery Dance Festival 2019
Sun-Fri, August 11-16, 2019
ROBERT F. WAGNER PARK
Battery Park City, NYC
This international dance festival is bringing Argentine, French and Mexican dance companies NYC’s most stunning stage. FREE
SummerStage 2019
June – October, 2019
NYC PARKS
African, Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Creole, Cuban, Dominican, French, Garifuna, Haitian, Indigenous, Italian, Jewish, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Spanish culture and more. FREE
Things to do in NYC in May 2019
1 May Day
1 Old Masters auction
2-5 Frieze New York
2-5 Art New York
2-5 Context New York
3-7 TEFAF New York Spring
5 CINCO DE MAYO
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13 Art of Africa, Oceania & the Americas auction
13-14 Impressionist & Modern Art auctions
13-6 American Ballet Theatre
15-16 Post-War & Contemporary Art auction
18 Dance Parade
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21 Shakespeare in the Park ~ Much Ado About Nothing
24-27 Memorial Day Weekend
24-26 Big Salsa Festival
25 152nd St Cultural Festival
27 MEMORIAL DAY
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28 Midsummer Night’s Dream
29-2 Limón Dance Company
30 New York African Film Festival
31-2 African Diaspora International Film Festival
Things to do in NYC in March 2019
MARCH
National Women’s History Month
3 Major League Soccer
5 Mardi Gras
5-11 Spring Break Art Show
6 Ash Wednesday
6-10 Volta art fair
7-10 Armory Show
7-10 Scope art fair
7-10 Flamenco Festival
8 International Women’s Day
17 St Patrick’s Day
20 Spring
26-31 Ballet Hispánico
27-7 New Directors/New Films
28-31 Colombian Film Festival
28 Major League Baseball
30 Malena & Lena Burke
NYC Halloween Parade 2018
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
SOHO TO CHELSEA ~ All you need to join this fabulous, friendly New York City Parade is to show up in costume