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Latin Festival News

Summer Streets NYC 2022 is on Park Avenue

Saturday, August 6, 13 & 20, 2022
CENTRE ST, LAFAYETTE, PARK AVE
Financial District, Chinatown, NoHo, Union Square, Gramercy Park, Kips Bay, Murray Hill, Midtown East, Upper East Side, and “El Barrio” East Harlem
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Afro-Latino Festival NYC 2022

Wednesday, June 29, 2022
ONLINE

Thursday, June 30, 2022
RESTORATION PLAZA
Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
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Hispanic Heritage Month 2021

Thursday, September 15 – October 15, 2022 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

Hi-Ho Puppet Fringe NYC is Here, Yaaaay!

THE CLEMENTE
Lower East Side
Wednesday-Sunday, August 11-15, 2021

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
El Barrio, East Harlem
Thursday, August 12, 2021

VIRTUAL
August 16-31, 2021

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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2019

Thu, November 28, 2019
UPPER WEST SIDE TO HERALD SQUARE, NYC ~ The Parade marks the start of the Christmas season, the world’s most popular Latin holiday. The parade is on, but the NYPD decides Thursday morning whether the big balloons can fly in the wind.

World Ballet Day 2019

Wed, October 23, 2019
The world’s leading ballet companies take you behind the scenes to see a day in the life of a professional ballet dancer on Facebook Live

Staten Island Day of the Dead Festival

Sunday, October 20, 2019
WEST BRIGHTON, Staten Island ~ Help build a communal ofrenda (altar) and learn Mexican Day of the Dead handicrafts for the entire family with teaching artists at Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Benedicta School

Redhawk Indigenous People Day Pow Wow

Sun-Mon, Oct 13-14, 2019
RANDALLS ISLAND ~ The Redhawk Native American Arts Council’s annual Indigenous People Day pow wow celebration in front of Icahn Stadium in Randall’s Island Park

Fall for Dance Festival 2019

October 1-13, 2019
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ Four world-class companies / choreographers / dancers a night for just $15 is the best deal in dance at New York City Center

Medieval Festival 2019 in Fort Tryon Park

Sunday, September 29, 2019
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NYC ~ A family celebration of all things medieval including knights, ladies, minstrels, magicians, jesters and jousting at Fort Tryon Park. FREE

J’Ouvert Parade 2019

Monday, September 2, 2019
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn ~ The J’Ouvert Parade forms at Grand Army Plaza, marches through the Park, to Empire, and down Nostrand to Midwood St

Brazilian Day New York 2019

Sunday, September 1, 2019
LITTLE BRAZIL, NYC ~ Celebrate Brazilian Independence with food, drink, live music and lots of Brazilians on Sixth Avenue at 46th St.

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

Dance Parade New York 2019

FLATIRON, UNION SQUARE, EAST VILLAGE, NYC | Sat, May 18, 2019 | Dance parade & festival | African, Bolivian, Brazilian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Mexican, Panamanian, Puerto Rican & Spanish dances