The Nationwide Dominican Day Parade 2022 is a celebration of Dominican tradition. The fortieth Nationwide Dominican Day Parade 2022 marches up Sixth Avenue (Manhattan, NYC) on Sunday, August 14, 2022. It’s also streaming from abc7ny.com at 1pm.
One of many parade’s core missions is to sponsor scholarships with mentoring for People of Dominican descent. It has raised and donated nearly 1,000,000 {dollars} of scholarships since 2015. For Scholarship Functions for 2023, go to natddp.org. Functions are normally open from January to early April. [. . .]
The parade is an opportunity to show our youngsters about their heritage and our civic responsibility. It additionally connects NYC’s Dominican, political, and enterprise communities. Oh, and it’s enjoyable! [. . .]
What to Search for on the Parade: This yr’s Grand Marshal is NYC Division of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez.
Dominican Tradition
There will likely be Merengue and Bachata dancers.
There are Dominican Carnival characters. Carnival falls round Dominican Independence, so we celebration your entire month of February, and each little city has its distinctive specialty:
- El Diablo Cojuelo, from La Vega, are the well-known limping devils.
- Los Lechones, from Santiago, characterize piglets.
- Roba La Gallina is a rooster thief (normally in drag) who offers sweet to youngsters.
- Los Taimáscaros, from Puerto Plata, characterize la Republica’s Indigenous Taínos.
- Guloyas, from San Pedro de Macorís, characterize the African Diaspora.
- Los Pintaos, from Barahona, are splashed with colour to characterize Maroons, the Africans who freed themselves by escaping to the mountains.
- Los Alí Babá put on oriental costumes.
For extra data, see https://www.newyorklatinculture.com/national-dominican-day-parade-2022/ and natddp.org