There are Peruvian NYC communities in Paterson, New Jersey and Jackson Heights, Queens. The Peruvian Parade and Festival in Paterson and the Peru to the World Expo in Manhattan are New York City’s big Peruvian celebrations.
Peruvian Festivals in NYC
New York City’s big Peruvian festivals include the Peruvian Parade, May Sumak Film Festival and the food festival Peru to the World Expo.
Peruvian Parade 2019 ~ Desfile Peruano
PAGEANT, Sun, July 7, 2019 GALA Thu, July 25, 2019 MASS & FLAG, Sat, July 27 PARADE & STREET FAIR Sunday, July 28, 2019 PASSAIC, New Jersey ~ The Peruvian Parade and Festival in Passaic, New Jersey is Metro New York’s big Peruvian independence celebration
Junta Hispana 2019
Sunday, July 21, 2019 FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens ~ Family entertainment, games, food and kiosks from twenty Hispanic countries. FREE ~ CANCELLED DUE TO NYC’S DANGEROUS HEAT ADVISORY
May Sumak Film Festival 2019
June 14-16, 2019 Friday-Sunday GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC & CORONA, Queens ~ Annual film festival of movies in Indigenous Quechua languages of the central Andes, that screens in New York City and Quito, Ecuador
Taste Peru at the Peru to the World Expo 2018
Sunday, September 23, 2018 ~ Peruvian tastings, Pisco cocktails and entertainment. World’s Best Ceviche Chef Javier Wong will be there ! ~ Metropolitan West Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
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Peruvian New York City
The Peruvian Consulate is in Midtown East.
Metropolitan New York’s “Little Lima” is in Paterson, New Jersey. Paterson is the heart of the Peruvian diaspora in the United States.
The best Peruvian restaurant in New York City used to be our client Raymi, but it’s been closed for a while. Pio Pio grilled chicken restaurants are popular. There are Chinese-Peruvian Flor de Mayo Restaurants in the Upper West Side.
The Crown of the Andes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is Colombian, but the big emerald in the crown is said to be the legendary Atahualpa Emerald from the last Inca ruler. The crown is human sized. The emerald is enormous.
You can find Peruvian culture in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum and Queens Museum. You can find Peruvian jazz at Terraza 7 in Elmhurst, Queens; Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn; and SOB’s in Hudson Square, Manhattan.
Peruvian New Yorkers
Melvi Davilla produces the wonderful Peru to the World Expo food festival.
Gabriel Alegría is one of New York City’s leading Peruvian jazz musicians.
Efraín Rozas, the Peruvian musician and technologist, fronts psychedelic salsa rockers La Mecánica Popular and will be in residence at The Kitchen in 2021.
William Cordova is a major Peruvian artist. He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins.
Chicha Libre isn’t very active now, and they are not Peruvian, but they play cumbia based on Peruvian Chica music which is pretty cool. It’s sort of cumbia-surf-rock.
Many of the Andean flute players in New York City subways are Peruvian. Support the arts.
Renowned poet Rina Soldevilla to read at Peruvian-American Association
A master of enchanting stories set in the Inca heartland. Peruvian-American Association Midtown East, Manhattan Thursday, April 12, 2018
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Surgeons of Hope Art Exhibition & Benefit, World Trade Center auction
Help Surgeons of Hope provide free heart surgery to children with heart disease in developing countries. New York Academy of Sciences World Trade Center Financial District, Manhattan Thursday, April 12, 2018
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William Cordova
April 7 – May 13, 2017 ~ Sikkema Jenkins & Co Chelsea, Manhattan ~ Peruvian – American artist creates art that speaks to Indigenous human rights
Chicha Libre
Monday, September 24, 2012 BARBÈS Park Slope, Brooklyn One of the early Peruvian psychedelic cumbia bands in the Brooklyn home of psychedelic cumbia
Peruvian-Americans and Peruvians
Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa is often in New York.
Peruvian-born Tony Succar is based in Miami. He won Latin Grammy Awards for Salsa Album and Producer of the Year in 2019.
Tony Succar
If you like Michael Jackson and Salsa, you will love this.
Mario Vargas Llosa
March 28, 1936 ~ LLosa was born in Arequipa, Peru. CELEBRATE Thursday, March 28, 2019
Peruvian Culture
We are famous for ceviche and pisco. The two go together perfectly. [Ceviche and pisco changed my life once.] We are also famous for our Andean flutes.
Celebrate National Ceviche Day
Monday, June 28, 2021 JUNE 28
Quechua, the Inca Language of the Indigenous Andes
QUEENS, NEW YORK PATERSON, NEW JERSEY – PERU, ECUADOR, BOLIVIA PARTS OF CHILE & ARGENTINA
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Peru
Peru is defined by the Andes mountains with a dry coast on one side and Amazonian jungle on the other.
Cusco was the capital of the Inca, one of the great civilizations of South America. Spanish colonizers first controlled South America from Lima.
We still have a strong Indigenous culture. We also have Afro-Peruvian culture along the coast. While long suspected, DNA studies have recently proven that South Americans have an Oceanic heritage too. We also have vibrant Japanese Peruvian and Chinese Peruvian communities.
Celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Candelaria, Patron Saint of Tenerife and Cartagena
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Spain
Celebrate Inti Raymi, Inca New Year
Thursday, June 24, 2021 CUZCO, Peru
Celebrate Pachamama, the Andean Mother Earth
Sunday, August 1, 2021 Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Andean Chile, Argentina and the Diaspora
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Celebrate Peruvian Independence Day, 28 de Julio
Wednesday-Thursday, July 28-29, 2021 – LIMA, Peru July 28, 1821
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Peru
The ancient Inca sanctuary city of Machu Picchu is an icon of Peru, but we have many World Heritage Sites. These include:
- Arequipa, a colonial city with Indigenous influences
- Caral-Supe, an ancient sacred city of the Norte Chico civilization
- Chan Chan, the ancient capital of the Chimú culture
- Chavín de Huantar, an ancient Andean city
- Cusco, the ancient Inca capital
- Huascarán National Park, high Andean mountains around Peru’s tallest peak
- Lima City Center, the colonial city center founded in 1535
- Manú National Park, a biosphere preserve
- Nazca Lines, the famous earth drawings (400-650) that can only be seen from the air
- Qhapaq Ñan Andean Road System, these ancient Inca roads run from Colombia to Chile/Argentina.
- Río Abiseo National Park, a rainforest park with many pre-Columbian sites
There is a lot to see and do in Peru.
Sulpayki
(Thank you in Quechua)