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 ...

Chief Baba Niel Clarke - a Brooklyn-born, internationally renowned master percussionist called to bring widespread awareness about Pinkster, the oldest African American tradition.

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

Pinkster (Dutch for Pentecost) marked the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Jesus Christ’s disciples. The religious celebration was a little-known African American holiday with roots in 17th ...

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 Va… ...

PINKSTER CELEBRATION, FOUNDED IN THE 1600S, STARTS MAY 27, 2023 IN KINGSTON, NY. KINGSTON, N.Y., May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TRANSART & Cultural Services (TRANSART) announces its second annual ...