The West Indian Day Parade 2023 is the climax of New York Carnival. The parade follows Trinidadian Carnival traditions, but includes the cultures of including: Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Barbados, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and Granada, Guyana, Suriname, and Belize. West Indian Day Parade 2023 The West Indian Day Parade 2023 marches on Eastern Parkway … [Read more...] about West Indian Day Parade is the Climax of New York Carnival
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New York Carnival Celebrates Freedom Trinidad Style
New York Carnival 2023 gets Brooklyn jumping up from the kickoff on August 10, through Voicey's Long Live Soca Tour, SocaFest, Junior Carnival, Panorama, Sunrise Day Soiree, J'ouvert, many fêtes, to a big climax at the West Indian Day Parade on Labor Day, Monday, September 4, 2023. 🇹🇹 The festival draws on many Caribbean traditions including: Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, … [Read more...] about New York Carnival Celebrates Freedom Trinidad Style
Brooklyn Film Festival 2023 Screens Stories About Life & Those Who Live It
The Brooklyn Film Festival 2023 is an international film festival with an independent focus. It's Brooklyn! 26th Brooklyn Film Festival 2023 This year's festival focuses on stories about life and those who live it, or more succinctly "human times." Pretty much everyone walking around Brooklyn qualifies for that. Manhattan is dead. Long live Brooklyn! And Brooklynites … [Read more...] about Brooklyn Film Festival 2023 Screens Stories About Life & Those Who Live It
Happy Mother’s Day NYC 2023!
Our world is changing, but everyone still has a mom. Mother's Day in New York City 2023 The Latin way would be that everyone goes to Mom's house or a kid's house and we cook, eat, drink, talk, maybe dance a little, and that's about it. We just have a house party. But there are some things that your Mom might enjoy this year in New York City. Spanish Harlem … [Read more...] about Happy Mother’s Day NYC 2023!
Bushwick Film Festival 2022 Features Over 100 Independent Films from Brooklyn and the World
The Bushwick Film Festival 2022 was founded by Liberia-born, NYU Steinhardt graduate, Kweighbaye Kotee in 2007 to provide opportunities to Brooklyn filmmakers of color. There are feature narrative and documentary films, plus many shorts. It's like other film festivals with actors and directors, premieres, networking and Q&As. But it also has a strong community … [Read more...] about Bushwick Film Festival 2022 Features Over 100 Independent Films from Brooklyn and the World
Celebrate International Creole Day, Jounen Kwéyòl!
Creole Day, Jounen Kwéyòl on October 28, is a day to celebrate French Afro-Caribbean Creole culture around the world. Creole We are many different mixes of African-French in the Caribbean, Africa and the Indian Ocean. In the Caribbean, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was the richest colony, the richest French colony, and the first nation founded from a slave revolt. The … [Read more...] about Celebrate International Creole Day, Jounen Kwéyòl!
The Creole Food Festival NYC 2022 is at Serafina In The Sky
The Creole Food Festival 2022 is an annual showcase of Black and Brown chefs from Mother Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. It's all about Creole food and drink. In our world, "Creole" means good. You may notice that Creole cooking is the root of a lot of American cooking. It's one of the proof points of how African we are as Americans - regardless of our personal … [Read more...] about The Creole Food Festival NYC 2022 is at Serafina In The Sky