ARTS and CULTURE
The Children of Mother Earth: Carnaval in ‘Ecuayork’
Ariel Goodman, Dion Balfoort and Sammie Leermakers |
Far from the mountains of the Ecuadorian Andes, families from the region gathered recently to celebrate Carnaval at Sisa Pakari, an Ecuadorian cultural center in the heart of Queens, which is commonly referred to as “Ecuayork” for the fact that Ecuadorian immigrants comprise the largest Latino group in the borough.