Mark your calendars; the date for this year’s Festival Tipico de Guatemala de New Bedford – the Guatemalan Kite Festival – has been announced. Like year’s wildly successful fest, it will once again be held in Riverside Park off Belleville Avenue in #NorthEndNB. The date will be Saturday, September 21. But this year, you can […]
“Immigrants and Refugees,” a topic explored in an episode of W. Kamau Bell’s CNN series, ”United Shades of America,” was the basis of a talk Wednesday evening, March 20 just #OffTheAve at the Global Learning Public Charter School. The screening and panel discussion was part of the New Bedford Lyceum’s expanded programming around its 2019 […]
Day 4 of the Feast of the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament features a parade right down Acushnet Avenue to the official Feast grounds just #offtheave. For over 100 years, the City of New Bedford has hosted the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament – and it has become the largest Portuguese festival in the world. […]
A new festival exploded onto the North End scene during 2018 – Fiesta Tipica Con Barriletes – the Guatemalan Cultural and Kite Festival. Held in New Bedford’s Riverside Park just #offtheave on Belleville Avenue, Fiesta Tipica Con Barriletes grew from a small event in 2017 to a region-wide festival on Saturday, September 22, 2018. These […]
As we continue our look back at the last year, we discover that a little rain didn’t dampen the fun at the 2018 Feast of the Blessed Sacrament. All photos on this page by Josh Souza for the New Bedford Economic Development Council. They were shot on Saturday, August 4, 2018 during the largest Portuguese […]
The Feast of the Blessed Sacrament just off The Ave in New Bedford’s North End isn’t just the largest Portuguese festival in the world – it’s also an intensely neighborhood event. Love The Ave’s Community Media Manager, Steven Froias also writes for the daily Standard-Times newspaper, and in 2018 he filed this feature story looking […]
The Feast of the Blessed Sacrament is a signature North End event. The annual, four day feast – or festa, as it’s known locally – is the largest Portuguese feast in the world. It takes places the first weekend of August every year, running from Thursday to Sunday. It was founded in 1915 by four […]
