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Obon Festival is celebrated every year in many Japanese communities all over Brazil, as Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan. São Paulo is the main city of the Japanese community in Brazil, and also features the major festival in Brazil, with street odori dancing and matsuri dance.
The following are public holidays in Haiti. [1] Many Vodou holidays are also celebrated, but are not considered public holidays. The two most important holidays for Haitian Americans are Haitian Independence Day and Haitian Flag Day. [2]
It is the culmination of the Obon festival on August 16, in which five giant bonfires are lit on mountains surrounding the city. It signifies the moment when the spirits of deceased family members, who are said to visit this world during Obon, are believed to be returning to the spirit world—thus the name Okuribi (送り火, roughly "send-off ...
Topographical map of Haiti Haiti forms the western three-eighths of Hispaniola , the second largest island in the Greater Antilles . At 27,750 km 2 (10,710 sq mi) Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean behind Cuba and the Dominican Republic , the latter sharing a 360-kilometer (224 mi) border with Haiti.
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What makes communities like Little Haiti special is the people. And the people are worth celebrating. May is Haitian Heritage Month and this is the latest installment of Arts Notes, the Herald’s ...
The images explore the Little Haiti in Transition: Race, Risk, Resilience series launched earlier this year. From noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday, and the exhibit will be up until August.
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