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Latin Festivals
Browse feature articles on Latin festivals in New York City including: holidays, independence days, national days, and more.
Summer Solstice is the Longest Day of the Year in the Northern Hemisphere
JUNE 20, 2024
Eleguá ~ Papa Legba ~ Elegbara ~ Eshu is the Yoruba Orisha of the Crossroads of Destiny
Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Benin, Togo 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬
Father’s Day in New York City
THIRD JUNE SUNDAY 🇺🇸
Juneteenth Parade and Street Fair in Harlem Celebrates All American Freedom Day
116TH STREET, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Juneteenth Celebrates Freedom for All Americans
JUNE 19, 1865 🇺🇸
Knickerbocker Avenue Puerto Rican Day Parade ~ “Yo Soy Boricua…”
KNICKERBOCKER AVENUE, Bushwick, Brooklyn 🇵🇷
Sunset Park Puerto Rican Parade and Festival ~ “Yo Soy Boricua…”
SUNSET PARK, Brooklyn 🇵🇷
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 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬
National Puerto Rican Day Parade is America’s Largest Cultural Celebration ~ “Yo soy Boricua…”
FIFTH AVENUE, Midtown, Midtown East, Central Park, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇷 🇵🇷 🇵🇷
Italian Republic Day is Italy’s National Day
JUNE 2, 1946 🇮🇹
NYC Pride Month is June!
JUNE 🏳️🌈
South Bronx Cultural Festival Celebrates Casita Maria’s 90th Anniversary with Arturo O’Farrill, Eddie Palmieri, Bobby Sanabria, Grandwizzard Theodore, and Lots More
FATHER GIGANTE PLAZA, Longwood, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Watch Neil Tyson’s Manhattanhenge Solar Alignment 2024
MANHATTAN 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, 57th, and 79th St
152nd Street Cultural Festival 2024 Kicks Off the National Puerto Rican Day Parade
LONGWOOD, The Bronx 🇵🇷
Loisaida Festival 2024 Kicks Off Summer in Alphabet City “Loisaida”
AVENUE C, East Village, Manhattan 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Bronx Week 2024 Features Bronx Walk of Fame Inductions, a Gala, Parade, Food Festival, and Concert
THE BRONX 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇯🇲 🇵🇷
George Floyd Changed the World
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota
Toussaint L’Ouverture Was an Early Haitian Revolution Leader
CAP-HAITIAN, Haiti 🇭🇹
Dance Parade 2024 Gets 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Street
SIXTH AVE, 8TH ST, TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village, Manhattan
🇺🇸 🇲🇽, 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇵🇷 🇹🇹, 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇵🇪. 🇨🇩 🇨🇬 🇪🇬, 🏴 🇪🇸, 🇰🇭 🇨🇳 🇭🇰 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇲🇴 🇹🇼 🇸🇬 🇹🇭
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 🇺🇸
Haitian Flag Day Celebrates the Unity of Africans and Creoles
ARCAHAIE, Ouest, Haiti ~ MAY 18, 1803 🇭🇹
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 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽
Cinco de Mayo in New York City 2024
MAY 5 ~ ¡Viva México! 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽
Passover is the Jewish Spring Festival
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Earth Day Celebrates the Environmental Movement
APRIL 22 🌎
Malbec World Day Celebrates the Argentine Wine with French Roots
APRIL 17 🇦🇷
NYC Immigrant Heritage Week Celebrates the Day the Most Immigrants Passed Through Ellis Island in 1907
WEEK OF APRIL 17 🗽
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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Annunciation Celebrates Archangel Gabriel Telling Mary She Was Pregnant
MARCH 25 🇮🇹
Holi is the Hindu Spring Festival of Colors and Love
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 🇮🇳
Worm Moon is a Native American Name for the March Full Moon
MARCH
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 🇺🇸
Purim Celebrates Deliverance as Told in the Book of Esther
WORLDWIDE ✡️
Feast of Saint Joseph Celebrates the Husband of Mary, and is Latin Father’s and Stepfather’s Day
MARCH 19 🇧🇴 🇭🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇿 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Holy Week (Semana Santa) is the Christian Spring Festival
SPRING ✝️
Palm Sunday Starts Holy Week
SPRING ✝️
Easter is the Christian Spring Festival
SPRING ✝️
Good Friday is a Christian Commemoration of the Crucifixion of Christ
FRIDAY before Easter ✝️
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