• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Search
  • Things To Do in NYC
  • Art
  • Dance
  • Festivals
  • Film
  • Music
  • Sports
  • Theatre
New York Latin Culture Magazine®

New York Latin Culture Magazine®

World-class Indigenous, European & African Culture since 2012

  • New York
  • Latin
  • Culture
  • Magazine
  • Subscribe
  • Sponsor

Latin Festivals

Browse feature articles on Latin festivals in New York City including: holidays, independence days, national days, and more.

Latin Festival News

Haitian Flag Day Celebrates the Unity of Africans and Creoles

Haitian Flag Day (Dlrz4114/Dreamstime)

ARCAHAIE, Ouest, Haiti ~ MAY 18, 1803 🇭🇹

Dance Parade 2025 is Once Again About Reclaiming the Freedom to Be Yourself

Dance Parade NYC (RightFramePhotovideo/Dreamstime)

SIXTH AVE, 8TH ST, TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village, Manhattan
🇺🇸 🇦🇴 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇩 🇨🇬 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇭🇹 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 🇰🇷 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇾 🇵🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇸 🇹🇼 🇹🇭 🇹🇹

Bronx Week 2025 Features the Bronx Ball, Bronx Parade, Bronx Food & Arts Festival, Bronx Week Concert, and More

Bronx Week (Edward Samuel/Adobe)

THE BRONX 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

Mother’s Day in New York City and Around the World Started as a Celebration of Peace

Mother's Day in New York City (David Castillo/Dreamstime)

SECOND SUNDAY IN MAY 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇺🇪🇨🇭🇳🇮🇹🇵🇪🇵🇷🇺🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

Cinco de Mayo in New York City 2025

Cinco de Mayo in New York City (Emilija Randjelovic/Dreamstime)

MAY 5 🇲🇽

Easter is the Christian Spring Festival

Easter Lilies (Dmitry Naumov/Dreamstime)

SPRING ✝️

Good Friday is a Christian Commemoration of the Crucifixion of Christ

Good Friday in Aksum Ethiopia (Zaramira/Dreamstime)

FRIDAY before Easter ✝️

Malbec World Day Celebrates the Argentine Wine with French Roots

Malbec World Day (Gustavo Frazao/Adobe)

APRIL 17 🇦🇷

Chavela Vargas Didn’t Just Sing Rancheras, She Lived Them

Chavela Vargas from the movie "Chavela" (Maj Lindstom/Aubin Pictures)

SAN JOAQUÍN FLORES, Heredia, Costa Rica ~ April 17, 1919 🇲🇽

Easter Parade NYC 2025 is a Spring Spectacle

Easter Parade NYC ( Lei Xu/Dreamstime)

FIFTH AVENUE, Midtown, Midtown East, Manhattan

National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2025 is America’s Biggest Cultural Celebration

National Puerto Rican Day Parade NYC (Suero Lopez/Dreamstime)

FIFTH AVENUE, Manhattan 🇵🇷 🇵🇷 🇵🇷

Holy Week (Semana Santa) is the Christian Spring Festival

Holy Week (StockPhotoAstur/Dreamstime)

SPRING ✝️

Passover, the Jewish Spring Festival, Celebrates Freedom from Slavery

Passover matzo (Inna/Adobe)

✡️

NYC Immigrant Heritage Week Celebrates When the Most Immigrants Passed Through Ellis Island in 1907

NYC Immigrant Heritage Week (Everett Collection/Adobe)

WEEK OF APRIL 17 🗽

Annunciation is a Christian Festival Celebrating the Biblical Story of an Angel Telling the Virgin Mary She Would Give Birth

Annunciation, El Greco c1590-1503 (Ohara Museum/Wikimedia)

MARCH 25 🇮🇹

Laylat al-Qadr is a Night to Focus on Your Future

Laylat al-Qadr in New York City (shock/Adobe)

☪️

Purim Celebrates Deliverance as Told in the Book of Esther

Purim (Anton Vierietin/Dreamstime)

WORLDWIDE ✡️

Worm Moon is an Algonquin Native American Name for the March Full Moon

Worm Moon, March full moon (Lindrik/Dreamstime)

MARCH

Holi, the Hindu Spring Festival of Colors, is All About Loving

Holi in New York City (Anniwalz/Dreamstime)

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 🇮🇳

International Women’s Day 2025 Remember That a Woman of Conscience Was the First to Call Out America’s McCarthy Fever

International Women's Day in New York City (Zhukovsky/Dreamstime)

March 8

Carnival, Carnaval, Carnevale is the World’s Biggest Latin Party

Carnival, Carnaval, Carnevale is the world's biggest Latin party (Natalya Erofeeva/Dreamstime)

Worldwide

Ramadan is the Muslim Sacred Month of Faith, Family, Community, and Charity

Ramadan in New York City (Lightfield Studios/Adobe)

EVERYWHERE YOU CAN SEE THE MOON ☪️

Women’s History Month Celebrates the Guardians of Culture

Women's History Month (Artem Varnitsin/Dreamstime)

March
🇺🇸

Valentines Day in New York City Celebrates Romantic Love ~ or Freedom From It

Valentines Day in New York City (Roman Chazov/Dreamstime)

February 14 🇮🇹

Our Lady of Candelaria is the Patron Saint of the African Diaspora; Tenerife, Canary Islands; and Miners

Our Lady of Candelaria (Marco Gallo/Dreamstime)

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS, Spain 🇪🇸 > 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇬🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷

Yemayá is the Yoruba Great Mother Orisha of the Sea

Yemayá, Yoruba orisha of motherhood and the sea (Audrey Kuzmin/Adobe)

February 2 🇧🇷 🇺🇾
September 7 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
December 31 🇧🇷

Oyá is the Yoruba Orisha of Great Storms with Wind and Lightning that Bring Death and Rebirth

Oyá (neonshot/Adobe)

February 2 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
October 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬

Lunar New Year in New York City 2025 is the Year of the Snake

Lunar New Year NYC (Julie Feinstein/Dreamstime)

East Asian and Southeast Asian Diaspora Communities 🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Taught Us to Love All People

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in 1964 (Dick DeMarsico/Library of Congress)

ATLANTA, Georgia ~ January 15, 1929 🇺🇸

Haitian Independence Day Marks One of the Great Humanitarian Achievements of All Time

Haitian Independence Day, "Le Negre Marron" by Albert Magones, 1968-69 makes the call. (Glenda Powers/Adobe)

January 1, 1804 🇭🇹

Three Kings Day in New York City 2025

Three Kings Day NYC (Iakov Filimonov/Dreamstime)

January 6 🇩🇴 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇺🇾 ~ 🇮🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸

Three Kings Day Parade NYC 2025 Marches Through El Barrio

Three Kings Day Parade NYC (Fotoimp/Adobe)

“El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇵🇷

New Year’s Eve 2025 in New York City

New Year's Eve in New York City (Wirestock/Dreamstime)

DECEMBER 31 🇫🇷

Virgin of Guadalupe is the Patron Saint of Mexico and Multiracial People

The Virgin of Guadalupe (Jesus Eloy Ramos Lara/Dreamstime)

BASILICA OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, Cerro del Tepeyac, México City, México 🇲🇽

Día de las Velitas is the Colombian Festival of Lights

Día de las Velitas in Colombia

December 7 🇨🇴

Mirabal Sisters, “Las Mariposas,” Inspired the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Remember the Mirabal Sisters "Las Mariposas" (Diegobib/Adobe)

NOVEMBER 25, 1960 🇩🇴

Portugal Restoration of Independence Day Ended the Iberian Union

Portugal Restoration of Independence Day (Olgacov/Dreamstime)

December 1, 1640 🇵🇹

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Latin Stars Include Dora the Explorer, Spider-Man, Natti Natasha, and Sebastián Yatra

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Dora the Explorer (Gary718/Dreamstime)

UPPER WEST SIDE, MIDTOWN, HERALD SQUARE 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷 🇬🇧 🇻🇪

Saint Cecilia is the Patron Saint of Musicians

Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians (Zatletic/Dreamstime)

November 22 🇮🇹

Our Lady of Providence is the Patron Saint of Puerto Rico

Our Lady of Providence in San Juan Bautista Cathedral, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

November 19 🇵🇷

Thanksgiving in New York City is Family Time

Thanksgiving in New York City (George Sheldon/Dreamstime)

4th November Thursday through the weekend 🇺🇸

Veterans Day in New York City

Veterans Day in New York City (Alberto Jorrin Rodriguez/Dreamstime)

NOVEMBER 11, 1918 🇺🇸

Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, is a Pan-Latin Family Celebration Whose Mexican Tradition Has Gone Global

Day of the Dead ~ Día de los Muertos (Amelia/Adobe)

OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 2 🇲🇽

Day of the Dead Parade in Mexico City was Founded After Tourists Showed up Looking for the Parade They Saw in James Bond “Spectre”

Day of the Dead Parade Mexico City Día de Muertos Desfile (Emilio Mujica/Dreamstime)

MEXICO CITY, Mexico 🇲🇽

All Souls Day is a Day to Tend Family Graves

All Souls Day is a day to remember deceased family. (Pixabay/Pexels)

NOVEMBER 2 ~ We remember our ancestors and tend family graves.

🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽

All Saints Day, Día de los Inocentes, Honors All Saints and the Souls of Family Children

All Saints Day, Día de los Inocentes (Elena Nechiporenko/Dreamstime)

NOVEMBER 1 ~ The European festival of all saints known and unknown, is Día de los Inocentes in Mexico, the day during the Day of the Dead festival when souls of family children may visit, if they are invited.

🇮🇹

Native American Heritage Month is November, and We Are Still Here

Native American Heritage Month is November (Sonneberg Shots/Dreamstime)

NOVEMBER 🇺🇸

Fèt Gede is the Beautiful Haitian Festival of the Dead

Fèt Gede, Grand Cimetiere, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (airmaria/Adobe)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti 🇭🇹

Diwali is Celebrated in NYC’s South Asian and West Indian Communities

Diwali NYC is celebrated in West Indian and South Asian communities. (Avisheck Das/Dreamstime)

HK HALL, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan
ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER, Financial District, Manhattan
NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SEAPORT MUSEUM, Seaport, Manhattan
FLUSHING TOWN HALL, Flushing, Queens
LIBERTY AVE, South Ozone Park, Queens
🪔 🇬🇾 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🗽 🇸🇷 🇹🇹

Jackson Heights Halloween Parade is Fun for Young Children

Jackson Heights Halloween Parade (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🎃

  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 7
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Things to Do in NYC

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Cuban Funk

Cimafunk in 2024 (Carnegie Hall)

Cimafunk “Pa’ Tu Cuerpa Tour” Has “The James Brown of Cuba” Getting Funky for Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos” Festival of Latin Culture

Spanish Classical Music

Teatro Real, Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra Gala Musical Fantasy From Spain (Teatro Real)

Teatro Real, the Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra, Plays a Gala Musical Fantasy From Spain Featuring Violinist María Dueñas, Soprano Saioa Hernández, and Conductor David Afkham

Nuestros Sonidos Latin Culture

Nuestros Sonidos at Carnegie Hall (Sol Cotti)

Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos” (Our Sounds) Festival of Latin Culture

Theatre Professionals ~ Employers Network

Find your next project. Discover your next team. Do it on RISE.

Sponsored By The Best Of New York

92nd Street Y, New York

Capulli Mexican Dance Company 🇲🇽

Brooklyn Museum

Carnegie Hall

Harlem Stage

Hostos Center

Melvis Santa & Jazz Orishas 🇨🇺

Metropolitan Opera

National Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Parade 🇺🇸

New York City Center

NYU Skirball Center

RISE Theatre Directory

Teatro Real ~ Royal Opera of Madrid 🇪🇸

World Music Institute

Footer

Search

Things to do in NYC

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

New York City

Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island ~ New Jersey

Latin Music and Dance

Bachata, Ballet, Cumbia, Classical, Flamenco, Hip Hop, House, Jazz, Merengue, Modern Dance, Opera, Pop, Reggaeton, Regional Mexican, Rock, Salsa, Samba, Tango, World Music

North American

African American, Honduran, Indigenous, Jewish, Mexican

Caribbean

Cuban, Dominican, Haitian, Puerto Rican, Trinidadian

South American

Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Venezuelan

African

African American, Nigerian, South African

European

French, Portuguese, Spanish

Follow

X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Threads, YouTube, TikTok

Subscribe

Get New York Latin Culture Magazine in your email

advertise

Sponsor

Details

Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Cookies Policy

New York Latin Culture Magazine® and Tango Beat® are registered trademarks, and New York Latin Culture™ is a trademark of Keith Widyolar. Other marks are the property of their respective holders.

Copyright © 2012–2025 New York Latin Culture Magazine®. All Rights Reserved.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we assume you are ok with it.Ok