South San Francisco “Día De Los Muertos Fiesta” (2022)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

EL Día de los Muertos is here and we are ready to celebrate. We have planned many arts & crafts activities and will be showing the movie, Coco. Arts and Crafts activities will include coloring calavera masks and catrina balloons, creating cempasuchil tissue paper flowers, making buttons and so much more! (While Supplies Last).

All ages are welcome!

History: On the Mexican holiday known as the Day of the Dead (el Día de los Muertos), families welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives for a brief reunion that includes food, drink and celebration. A blend of Mesoamerican ritual, European religion and Spanish culture, the holiday is celebrated each year on November 1-2.

The roots of the Day of the Dead, celebrated in contemporary Mexico and among those of Mexican heritage in the United States and around the world, go back some 3,000 years, to the rituals honoring the dead in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The Aztecs and other Nahua people living in what is now central Mexico held a cyclical view of the universe, and saw death as an integral, ever-present part of life.

The roots of the Day of the Dead, celebrated in contemporary Mexico and among those of Mexican heritage in the United States and around the world, go back some 3,000 years, to the rituals honoring the dead in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The Aztecs and other Nahua people living in what is now central Mexico held a cyclical view of the universe, and saw death as an integral, ever-present part of life.

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