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Latin Festivals
Browse feature articles on Latin festivals in New York City including: holidays, independence days, national days, and more.
Portugal Day is Portugal’s National Day
JUNE 10, 1580 🇵🇹
Portuguese Festival and Portugal Day Parade Celebrate Dia de Portugal Newark
NEWARK, New Jersey, Ironbound District 🇵🇹
On Yoruba New Year “E ku odun, eku iyedun”
JUNE 3 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬
Italian Republic Day is Italy’s National Day
JUNE 2, 1946 🇮🇹
NYC Pride Month is June!
JUNE 🏳️🌈
George Floyd Changed the World
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota
Toussaint L’Ouverture Was an Early Haitian Revolution Leader
CAP-HAITIAN, Haiti 🇭🇹
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Covers a Lot
MAY 🇺🇸
International Workers Day or Labor Day is a National Holiday in Much of the Latin World
MAY 1 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇬🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
We Are Still Here! at the Museum of the City of New York Celebrates Lenape Culture
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Cinco de Mayo Parade and Festival in Sunset Park is a Family Festival of Mexican Entertainment
SUNSET PARK, Sunset Park, Brooklyn 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽
Cinco de Mayo Parade NYC 2024 Marches Through Manhattan’s Upper West Side
CENTRAL PARK WEST, Upper West Side, Manhattan 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽
Earth Day Celebrates the Environmental Movement
APRIL 22 🌎
International Romani Day Celebrates the Community That Created Flamenco
APRIL 8
Arab American Heritage Month Celebrates a Great American and Latin Community
APRIL
Eid al-Fitr is the Feast that Ends Ramadan, “Eid al-Fitr Mubarak”
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Harlem Renaissance Reborn: Reimagining the Past, Igniting the Future Conference at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Feast of Saint Joseph Celebrates the Husband of Mary, and is Latin Father’s and Stepfather’s Day
MARCH 19 🇧🇴 🇭🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇿 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Palm Sunday Starts Holy Week
SPRING ✝️
World Poetry Day Breathes Life into Words
UNITED NATIONS ~ March 21 🇺🇳
Puerto Rico Emancipation Day is a Day to be Free
OLD SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ~ March 22, 1873 🇵🇷
Damballa is the Vodou Loa of the Masculine Side of Nature
March 17 🇭🇹 🇩🇴
Spring in New York City is Blooming
MARCH 19, 2024
Ghana Independence Day Celebrates the Beginning of the Decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa
KOFORIDUA, Ghana 🇬🇭
Santo Domingo Carnival 2024 is the Climax of Dominican Carnival
SANTO DOMINGO, Malecon, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Dominican Independence Day, ¡Quisqueya!
PUERTA DEL CONDE, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ~ February 7, 1844 🇩🇴
National Margarita Day Celebrates the Mexican Tequila Cocktail
February 22 🇲🇽
Lent is the Catholic Spiritual Preparation for Easter
Wednesday, February 22 – April 6, 2023
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Snow Moon is a Native American Name for the February Full Moon
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Lunar New Year Parade NYC Dances Dragons Through Manhattan Chinatown to the Lower East Side
CHINATOWN and LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
Ash Wednesday is the Beginning of Lent “From Dust to Dust”
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Grenada Independence Day
SAINT GEORGE’S, Grenada ~ February 7, 1974 🇬🇩
World Autism Awareness Day Shows That Love is the Answer
April 2 🇺🇳
Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival 2024 is a Blast
SARA D. ROOSEVELT PARK, Lower East Side / Manhattan Chinatown 🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸
Our Lady of Lourdes is the Patron Saint of Healing
LOURDES, France; February 11 🇫🇷
Maman Brigitte is the Haitian Loa of Death and Life
HAITI and NEW ORLEANS, United States ~ February 2 or November 2 🇭🇹 🇺🇸
Black History Month is American History Month
FEBRUARY 🇺🇸
Holocaust Remembrance Day, When Auschwitz-Birkenau was Liberated, Must Not Be Forgotten
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, Poland, January 27, 1945
Juan Pablo Duarte is the Founding Father of the Dominican Republic
JUAN PABLO DUARTE SQUARE, Hudson Square, Manhattan
ALTAR DE LA PATRIA, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Dominican Heritage Month New York is One Long Party
NEW YORK STATE 🇩🇴
Wolf Moon is the Algonquin Name for the January Full Moon
January
Teatro SEA Three Kings Day Festival Includes a Toy Giveaway
THE CLEMENTE, Lower East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇷
La Virgen de la Altagracia is the Patron Saint of the Dominican Republic
HIGÜEY, Dominican Republic ~ Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia. 🇩🇴
New Orleans Mardi Gras Carnival Starts on Kings Day January 6
NEW ORLEANS, Lousiana 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇺🇸
Las Octavitas Extend the Puerto Rican Christmas Season
PUERTO RICO and the Diaspora 🇵🇷
Solemnity of Mary Celebrates the Divinity of Mother and Child
January 1 🇮🇹
Emancipation Proclamation is 161 Years Old
January 1, 1863 🇺🇸
Kwanzaa is the African American Holiday Tradition. Habari Gani!
DECEMBER 26 to JANUARY 1 ~ Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity), Imani (Faith). 🇺🇸
“Cold Moon” is the Native American Name of the December Full Moon
December