Families celebrate lost loves ones at Dia de los Muertos festival

Anaheim Indoor Marketplace will host its second annual Dia de los Muertos celebration featuring folklorico dancers, kids’ activities and more.

Now Garza lives in Texas, where she passes down the tradition to her own children.

Dia de los Muertos is observed in Mexico, and around the world, for families to gather and remember loved ones who have died, share stories and celebrate them. The altar is an offering of prayer for all those who passed, recent or many years ago. San Angelo celebrated the Mexican tradition Thursday night at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts.

Marigold flowers abound in keeping with the Dia de Los Muertos tradition.

All events are free and open to everyone. The cultural holiday, which originated in Mexico, is celebrated in a variety of ways, from community gatherings and setting up altars to creating art and visiting grave sites.

Professor Kris Pilon, who is in charge of the screen-printing part of the Graphic Communications Department, said the club has participated in the event for five years.

“In the past this event has been very intimate”. “And we’re central and we’re surrounded by a lot of Mexican-American families”. “We wanted to bring more creativity to the event this year”.

Last semester while panning the event, Richards said she wanted to incorporate LASO.

PCC’s Graphadena club also formed part of the event.

DSU Assistant Professor Luis Arevalo said this provides students with a chance to know how other cultures honor the memory of their ancestors, adding it’s also an opportunity to compare and better understand the traditions between various cultures.

The Silver City Dias de los Muertos will conclude with a procession, including blessing of the ofrendas, from 4 to 6 p.m. And it was a table and it was usually covered with a pretty lace table cloth, and you set up family pictures of dearly departed, family members, saints, holy water. The stereotypes they express certainly don’t represent how everyone in the country views us as a whole, but the fact that these kinds of ideas can be displayed so prominently in the media shows that we are far from being fully accepted, or even respected.

A good celebration needs food and Day of the Dead is no exception.

Food and drink will be for sale. “They will use these things to carry on in their after lives”.

Richards said she was honoring many people she cherished, including her aunt, who passed away from breast cancer.

Valentin said she was honoring her grandfather, Cruz Valentin.

“I think the imagery is very popular among artists and art galleries”, said Artist Kyllan Maney. The students learned the origins of the celebration which traces back to the indigenous peoples of Latin America. After all, Dia de los Muertos unites both worlds to commemorate and celebrate life and death.