In CDMX, the vast Day of the Dead festive offering extends

The Day of the Dead, one of the most important commemorations in Mexico, extends the celebration beyond the first and 2nd of November, and incorporates dozens of institutions and venues with cultural and artistic proposals starting this weekend.

In Mexico City, the 2024 Day of the Dead Grand Parade will take place this Saturday starting at 2 p.m. It will begin at the Puerta de los Leones until reaching the capital’s Zócalo, passing through Reforma, Juárez and 5 de Mayo avenues.

Almost 6 thousand people participate in it, more than 600 catrinas and catrines and 37 contingents, among which are seven floats, 16 musical troupes and eight groups with mojigangas.

As part of the 27th Day of the Dead University Festival, the Megaoffering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is set up, which will remain until November 3 on the esplanade of the Universum Museum of Sciences.

This year’s theme is Mexico seen through the lens, with which it is proposed to pay tribute to Mexican cinema, its great works and all the people who have participated in its production. The complete schedule can be found on the site https://megaofrenda.unam.mx/

Tomorrow the cultural day will take place In the navel of the Moon, with a sawdust mat and the traditional Day of the Dead offering, an open-air concert, workshops and a cultural treat Where community flourishes, stories for childhood by Alas y Raíces. It will be at the Living Arts Forum in the Community Culture Pavilion (Constituciónntes 270, second section of the Bosque de Chapultepec).

The Memory and Tolerance Museum will make its offering to evoke those who went ahead along the way, especially the unidentified people in mass graves in Mexico. It was installed on October 24 and will remain until November 10 in Plaza Juárez, in the Historic Center of the capital. Thus, the institution calls to recognize those stories that have remained in darkness.

The National Literature Coordination will hold at its headquarters (Republic of Brazil 37, Historic Center) the Festival of Offerings and Floral Arrangements of the Historic Center, organized by the Historic Center Authority, with an offering that can be visited until this Sunday.

The traditional altar of the Franco-Mexican Lyceum will be dedicated to the journalist Cristina Pacheco, who died last December. The installation will be on November 4 in the median of Homero Avenue, between Plinio and Sofocles, in Polanco. It will also be a tribute to the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé.

The National Institute of Anthropology and History organizes conferences, concerts, exhibitions, workshops, night tours, a xoloitzcuintle walk and a picnic with dancing, among other activities, related to the anniversary, in archaeological sites and areas of the country.

At the National Museum of World Cultures (Moneda 13, Historic Center) the workshops The underworld according to Greek mythology, The legend of Mictlán and The art of papel picado in Mexico were taught.

Since October 28, the National School of Archeology and History has hosted the series Archeothanatology: A focus on mortuary behaviors of the past, at 1 p.m. in the Román Piña Chan auditorium (Periférico Sur and Zapote, Isidro Fabela neighborhood). Concludes this Sunday.

The El Carmen Museum inaugurated the temporary exhibition last Thursday Offering of the dead to María Félix in San Ángel. On October 30, the second Bailongo de Calacas and Cultural Picnic was held in the Cloister and Patio de la Cocina, where tomorrow the night tour will also take place. Catrinas by Daniela Alcalá, at 7 p.m. To attend you must register by email: [email protected]..

The Papalote Children’s Museum exhibits Offering Of the future? collaboration between the venue and Pictoline. It consists of a monumental installation about the eight Mexican species at risk of extinction. In addition, recreational activities are taking place at its Day of the Dead Fest, from yesterday until November 2; there are storytelling, workshops and the exhibition MexicoSkull, with the support of the J. García López funeral services company.

The third edition of the Pan de Muerto and Chocolate Festival takes place simultaneously from today until Sunday at the UNAM Palace of Autonomy and at Doméstico (Nuevo León Avenue 80, Hipódromo neighborhood), with a gastronomic offer of flavors and customs from Mexico.

In other states, the Community Culture program, of the federal Ministry of Culture, has an extensive offer of Day of the Dead activities, with the main purpose of disseminating and extolling traditions in each region of the country. The Espanto Film Fest, an exhibition of 19 short films made by girls, boys and young people, began yesterday in Pachuca, Hidalgo. Later, these productions will arrive at the Miguel Alemán House of the Los Pinos Cultural Complex.

In Chihuahua, an altar of the dead dedicated to the Mexican singer and composer Juan Gabriel is presented today, as well as a reading aloud of literary skulls. That day, Gómez Palacio’s Placita Mayagoitia will have a circus production created from legends, stories and stories related to the Day of the Dead.

Yesterday, the Colima Center of the National Institute of Anthropology and History developed a walk of 20 xoloitzcuintles, which walked on a representation of the road to Mictlán, outside the Regional Museum of History, as part of the exhibition Xolos, travel companions.

At the La Quemada Site Museum, in the archaeological zone of the same name in Zacatecas, the Tzompantli clay workshop takes place today, tomorrow and Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Area of ​​Archaeological Monuments of Xochicalco invites you to the exhibition of offerings that was mounted at the Site Museum (Xochicalco-Tetlama federal highway, Xochicalco neighborhood, Miacatlán, Morelos); It can be visited from 10 in the morning and will remain until November 4.