Holidays
Holidays in New York City carry the weight of centuries, arriving from every corner of the Latin world’s mother cultures. Here, Catholic feast days blend with Indigenous ceremony, African diasporic devotion, and celebrations that predate all of them, tracking the sun and seasons themselves. This category gathers the sacred and the seasonal side by side, covering the religious observances and nature-marked occasions that bring NYC’s Latin, African, Indigenous, European, and global roots communities together throughout the year.
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Virgen del Carmen: a Marian Devotion that Unites Latin America’s Indigenous, African, and European Roots
From Mount Carmel to the Canaries, to Chile and Paucartambo, Peru…Dios te salve Maria…
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Mother’s Day is a Celebration of Peace
Bahamian, Barbadian, Belizean, Brazilian, Chadian, Chilean, Chinese, Colombian, Congo Kinshasa, Cuban, Ecuadorian, Equatorial Guinean, Ethiopian, Filipino, French Canadian, Ghanaian, Grenadian, Guyanese NYC, Holidays, Honduran NYC, Indian, Italian, Ivorian, Jamaican, Kenyan, May, Mother’s Day NYC, Peruvian, Saint Lucian, South African, Taiwanese, Tanzanian, Trinidadian, Uruguayan, Venezuelan, Vincentian, ZimbabweanSECOND SUNDAY IN MAY 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇺🇪🇨🇭🇳🇮🇹🇵🇪🇵🇷🇺🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪
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International Workers Day or Labor Day is a National Holiday in Much of the Latin World
Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Costa Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Filipino, French, Guatemalan NYC, Haitian, Holidays, Honduran NYC, Italian, May, Mexican, Panamanian, Paraguayan NYC, Peruvian, Portuguese, Romanian, Salvadoran, Spanish, Uruguayan, VenezuelanMAY 1 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇬🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
