May 11th, 2024 | 7pm

1680 Lexington Avenue

1st floor

NY, NY 10029

The Feast of the Holy Cross is a special annual event. The popular celebration of chanted rosaries is based on a Catholic tradition in honor of the Cross that Puerto Ricans inherited from Spain. The celebration became further ingrained on the island by survivors of an earthquake that struck many years ago.

Because Las Fiestas de Cruz is a long-standing testament to key cultural expressions of Puerto Rico, and is still practiced by the Puerto Rican community in East Harlem, LP21 has consistently made it a point to celebrate. This event has primarily been used to strengthen family and community ties through communal rejoicing, and has been celebrated to ensure that these oral and community traditions thrive in the Puerto Rican Diaspora and for generations to come – ¡QUE VIVAN LAS FIESTAS DE CRUZ!