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The Lunar New Year Parade NYC 2023 Has Dragons Dance Through Manhattan Chinatown to the Lower East Side

The Lunar New Year Parade NYC 2023 is an old Chinese and East Asian tradition. The dragon dances through the streets to ward off evil spirits. The dancers pick up tips from businesses on the route. It's a Chinese tradition that is celebrated by the Chinese Diaspora throughout East Asia, Southeast Asia, and wherever there are chinatowns. 25th Lunar New Year Parade NYC … [Read more...] about The Lunar New Year Parade NYC 2023 Has Dragons Dance Through Manhattan Chinatown to the Lower East Side

Lunar New Year 2023 in New York, Year of the Rabbit

Lunar New Year 2023 in New York, sometimes called Chinese New Year, is an important spring festival celebrated across East and SouthEast Asia. It is the big family festival in the Asian world with family gatherings, house cleanings, gift-giving and firecrackers to scare away evil spirits. Today Lunar New Year is one of the great human migrations because everyone who can … [Read more...] about Lunar New Year 2023 in New York, Year of the Rabbit

Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival 2023

New York's Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival 2023 is a firecracker lighting ceremony with Chinese dance, culture, and food in Manhattan, Chinatown. At Lunar New Year, we light firecrackers to scare away bad spirits. We don't just light single firecrackers, we light strings and walls of firecrackers. You've never seen anything quite like this. … [Read more...] about Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival 2023

New York Spring Flowers

Spring is a time when the cycle of life renews itself. Trees and flowers bud and bloom. Life takes advantage of the warmer days and a better food supply to make babies and raise them before the next winter sets in. Seasons are caused by the tilt in the Earth's axis as it travels around the sun every year. When a hemisphere is tilted towards the sun, the days lengthen into … [Read more...] about New York Spring Flowers

Celebrate Al-Hijra, Muslim New Year

Al-Hijra, Muslim New Year, marks the beginning of Islam using a lunar calendar. It's not a major holiday. There are no special rules to follow. It's more a cultural day than a religious day, but it is a public holiday in many Islamic countries. Some Muslims ponder new year's resolutions, just like everybody else does at their new year's. It's a moment to reflect, … [Read more...] about Celebrate Al-Hijra, Muslim New Year

Latin Parades

Latin Parades in New York City Latin Parades in New York City Parades originated as religious and military processions. Latin parades are influenced by Carnival, patron saint festivals, New Orleans funeral processions, and Cuban Guaracha musical theatre traditions which would carry on into the streets Guaracha was a naughty Cuban theater tradition that was often … [Read more...] about Latin Parades

Lower East Side NYC

Lower East Side News January 2023 Sueño de Reyes – Dream of Kings; children’s theater that imagines the Three Kings arriving in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico instead of Bethlehem; is at Teatro SEA in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; Saturday-Sunday, December 10-11 & 17-18, 2022 at 3pm; Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 7pm; and Saturday-Sunday, January 7-8 at 3pm. $20 adults/$15 … [Read more...] about Lower East Side NYC

Celebrate Maman Brigitte, the Haitian Loa of Death and Life

Maman Brigitte (Mother Brigitte) is the female loa of life and death in Haitian Vodou. She is the partner of Baron Samedi (Mr. Saturday), the male loa of life and death. The unending cycle of life and death, and death and life, is the essential mystery which is the original source of most human culture. Maman Brigitte The European diaspora fears her, but Caribbeans … [Read more...] about Celebrate Maman Brigitte, the Haitian Loa of Death and Life

Things To Do in NYC in January 2023

Happy New Year! Many Latin families are preparing for Three Kings Day, Friday, January 6, the Hispanic gift-giving day at the end of Christmas Season. 🇵🇷🇪🇸 After that, we start preparing for traditional Carnival, and the cultural year begins with showcases for the APAP convention of presenters and booking agents including: The PBR Buck Off professional bull rider's … [Read more...] about Things To Do in NYC in January 2023

Chinese NYC

Chinese NYC is the biggest population of Chinese descent outside of Asia. NYC has many Chinatowns now, but the original Manhattan Chinatown was formed by the workforce that built the western end of the Transcontinental Railroad (1863-1869). Chinese are Latin through the Caribbean. We were the first to understand what was done to the African Diaspora because we received the … [Read more...] about Chinese NYC

Flushing, Queens

Flushing, Queens is a mostly Asian neighborhood. It has one of New York City's biggest Chinatowns, and one of the oldest Little Indias. It has Hispanic communities too. Without the parking signs, it may be hard to guess that this is New York City. Isn't it great? Cultural Venues in Flushing Latin Culture in Flushing, Queens January 2023 The Lunar … [Read more...] about Flushing, Queens

Celebrate Diwali, the West Indian and South Asian Festival of Lights

Diwali, the West Indian and South Asian festival of lights, is a five-day festival that celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. The tradition is celebrated in Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh communities of South Asia and the Diaspora. It is a national holiday in many countries. South Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, … [Read more...] about Celebrate Diwali, the West Indian and South Asian Festival of Lights

Celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Most Sacred Muslim Holiday!

Eid al-Adha, the Festival of the Sacrifice, is an important Muslim holiday that commemorates God's test of Ibrahim's faith with his son Ishmael. The day marks the end of the Hajj, the Muslim religious pilgrimage. The holiday celebration is traditionally shared with non-Muslims to increase understanding of Muslim culture. Similar traditions (stories of Abraham and Isaac) are … [Read more...] about Celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Most Sacred Muslim Holiday!

Celebrate Laylat al-Qadr, the Muslim Night of Power!

Laylat al-Qadr is celebrated in NYC on the night of Friday, April 29, 2022. The Muslim calendar is a lunar calendar so the date changes every year. What is Laylat al-Qadr? The Muslim festival commemorates the night when the Qur'an began to be revealed to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel. The historic event took place on one of the last ten nights of … [Read more...] about Celebrate Laylat al-Qadr, the Muslim Night of Power!