Cultural Diversity & Inclusivity Calendar
January
- New Year's Day
- I’ll Make Me a World in Iowa
- Guru Gobind Singh's Birthday
- Lohri
- Religious Freedom Day
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
February
- During National Black History Month the Fort Des Moines Museum honors the U.S. Army's first officer candidate class for African American men in 1917, and the establishment of the first Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) in 1942
- Chinese New Year
- Rosa Parks Birth Anniversary
- Purim
- NAACP
March
- Women's History month
- Deaf History Month
- Greek-American Heritage Month
- Irish-American Heritage Month
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Purim
- Naw Ruz
April
- National Tartan Day Scottish Heritage
- Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints
- Passover
- Vesak
- Easter
- St. George’s Day
May
June
- 19th Juneteenth
- Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
- Martyrdom Day of Guru Arjan
- Martyrdom of Joseph & Hyrum Smith
- Stonewall Rebellion Day
- The Battle of Little Big Horn
July
August
- Ramadan
- The Eighth Annual White Eagle Pow Wow at Jester Park near Saylorville Lake , Iowa
- Iowa Women's Hall of Fame Ceremony
- Women's Equality Day
- March on Washington Anniversary (40th Anniversary)
September
- Deaf Awareness Week and the Annual Deaf Walk-A-Thon
- Latino Heritage Festival
- Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience (PDF) — The display highlights the challenges faced by African-American baseball players as they sought equal opportunities in their sport beginning in the post-Civil War era. It features colorful freestanding panels with photographs of teams, players, original documents and artifacts in the collections of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and in other institutions and collections across the U.S.
- Laying Claim to Our Spirit-African American Conference in Cedar Rapids
- Rosh Hashanah
- Yom Kippur
October
- Strengthening and Valuing the Latino Community Conference (PDF)
- Bucksbaum Lecture Series at Drake University - An evening with Maya Angelou
- World Food Festival, Des Moines' East Village
- Mosaic Diversity Conference
- 'Shattering the Silence'. The sculpture recognizes Iowa court decisions as well as Iowans who refused to remain silent in the face of injustice.
- Reggie's Sleep Out
- German American Heritage Month
- Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual history Month
- National Italian American Heritage Month
- Polish American Heritage Month
- National Diversity Day
- Hispanic Heritage Month
- National Coming Out Day
November
- Dias de los Muertos, The Des Moines Art Center
- All Saints Day
- National AIDS Awareness Month
- Birthday of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i)
- Eid al-adha – the Festival of sacrifice
- American Indian Movement
- National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
- Native American Heritage Month
December
- World AIDS Day
- Kwanza
- "Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon" Smithsonian exhibit on Vietnamese-American history at the Iowa Historical Building
- Universal Human Rights Month
- St. Nicholas Day (International)
- Bodhi Day - Buddha's Enlightenment (Buddhist)
- Hanukkah (Jewish)
- Virgin of Guadalupe (Mexico)
- Santa Lucia Day (Sweden)
- Los Posadas(Mexico)
- Christmas the second-greatest feast day after Easter Sunday celebrates the nativity, or birth, of Jesus Christ
