Tuesday, July 7, 2020
UPPER AMAZON
Chocolate, made from cocoa, is native to Colombia and Venezuela, but was domesticated in Guatemala and Mexico. Spanish priests took it to Europe.
Day of the Dead ~ Día de los Muertos
Sat-Mon, Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2020
We remember deceased family members on Day of the Dead because you live as long as someone remembers you
Mictlancihuatl
Sat-Mon, Oct 31-Nov 2, 2020
Honor the Aztec goddess of the underworld
México City Day of the Dead Parade
Saturday, October 31, 2020
MEXICO CITY, Mexico ~ This parade was inspired by the movie parade in the James Bond film ‘Spectre’
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Saturday, December 12, 2020
MEXICO CITY, Mexico ~ There is a pilgrimage of about 10 million people to the basilica that houses the cloak of the Marian apparition who fused Aztec and Spanish traditions into the icon of Mexican identity on December 12, 1531
Las mañanitas a nuestra Virgen de Guadalupe
Fri, December 11, 2020
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC
Celebrate the Our Lady of Guadalupe’s birthday with Don Jaime Lucero of Casa Puebla, mariachi and folk dancers
Huitzilopochtli
Monday, December 21, 2020
MEXICO CITY, Mexico
Aztecs honor their national god Huitzilopochtli the sun god, on the winter solstice
Mano a Mano’s Day of the Dead celebration brings Mexican culture to life
Fri-Sun, October 25-27, 2019
EAST VILLAGE, NYC ~ Day of the Dead altar building, Mexican Marketplace, live music and Indigenous Aztec ceremony at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-bowery
Staten Island Day of the Dead Festival
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
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
New York City’s leading Mexican folkloric dance organization has a touring company, a dance school and does arts in education programs. This company is so good, they should be on Broadway.
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
National Museum of the American Indian
Daily
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC
This branch of the Smithsonian presents amazing bilingual exhibitions
FREE
Mexican Marigold, Aztec Marigold, Cempasúchil are Day of the Dead flowers
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
Battery Dance Festival 2018
ROBERT F. WAGNER JR. PARK, BATTERY PARK CITY & SCHIMMEL CENTER, FINANCIAL DISTRICT, Sun-Sat, August 12-18, 2018 ~ 25 companies from eight countries perform with the Statue of Liberty backstage. Includes African, French-Canadian, Italian, Jewish, Mexican and Spanish companies. FREE
Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture
July 13 – September 30, 2018
Closed Tuesdays
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Whitney Museum
Meatpacking District, Manhattan
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See how Indigenous cosmology suggests architecture which defines home and life itself
Tierra, the pre-Columbian Latin American landscape ~ Throckmorton
Vintage and historic photographs of the remains of Aztec, Maya and Inca cities in the Latin American landscape
Throckmorton Fine Art
Midtown East, Manhattan
June 28 – September 15, 2018
Josef Albers in Mexico shows his inspirations from Aztec, Maya, & Inca art
Nov 3, 2017 – Feb 18, 2018
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ The curator shows how Albers’ travel in Mexico profoundly influenced one of the great teachers of American contemporary artists, bringing Mayan motifs into contemporary art
Cerámica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed
April 18, 2015 – May 20, 2018
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National Museum of the American Indian
Financial District, Manhattan
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Central American heritage