Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The annual Pinkster Festival at Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow, NY will take ...

BROOKLYN (WABC) -- The period was the 17th Century - 21 years after the first enslaved Africans were brought to North America. The celebration of Pinkster began in 1640. "When Dutch went to church to ...

Pinkster was originally a Dutch Pentecostal holiday, but enslaved Africans in New York and New Jersey adopted the tradition and it was considered as a Black holiday from the 1800s on. As Juneteenth ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — TRANSART’s Pinkster 2025: Joy is an Act of Resistance Festival will take place in Uptown on Sunday, June 8, from noon to 5 p.m. The Afro-Dutch tradition born in the Hudson Valley ...

NEW YORK – Cheyney McKnight waited years to celebrate Pinkster. On a scorching Saturday morning in May, McKnight put on her tailor-made 18th-century Malian mud cloth dress and trekked 7 miles with a ...

Each spring in 18th-century New York, Dutch colonists and their African slaves discarded their roles for a few days to observe a cross-cultural holiday. Next Sunday, visitors to Philipsburg Manor can ...

Photos: Pinkster festival in Kingston, N.Y., on Sunday, June 8, 2025. An African dancing and drumming performance during Pinkster festivities outside Old Dutch Church in Kingston, N.Y, on Sunday, June ...

RANSART & Cultural Services (TRANSART) has announced its second annual Pinkster celebration with a week-long, family-friendly series of free events in Ulster County, New York. Known as Pinkster: Joy ...

Lavada Nahon of Peekskill conducts a hearth cooking demonstration during the Pinkster celebration at Fort Crailo state historic site Saturday, April 22, 2017, in Rensselaer, N.Y. Juneteenth became a ...