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Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a lively Mexican celebration dating back thousands of years bringing family and friends together to joyfully pray, honor and remember ancestors through food, music and colorful traditions like ofrendas (alters), calaveras (decorative skulls), marigolds and papel picado (cut paper decorations). Let's celebrate with this list of family friendly Bay Area events. It's going to be awesome!
Honor a loved one by bringing a small photo to glue/decorate a paper frame with or write their name on a butterfly.
Celebrate Día de los Muertos and Halloween at Mission Community Market on Thursday, October 31. Stock up on fall produce, support local farms and food businesses, and join us in celebrating our Mission community. The market will be extra festive with family activities, live music, and more.
The Bolinas Community center will host a Dia de los Muertos. Please come down and join us !
Create colorful skulls to place on your altar using air dry clay.
Sunset Mercantile’s annual Día de los Muertos is a night full of food, music, dance, and culture.
This fall’s biggest film is headed to the biggest screen in San Francisco over Halloween weekend. Join us at Oracle Park on Friday, November 1 (“Day of the Dead”) for a special screening of the Warner Bros. film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Lights, Camera, Music!: Watch favorite films on the big screen at Davies Symphony Hall as the scores are performed live by the SF Symphony.
Come learn about the traditional foods, art activities, and participate in a fire ceremony.
Experience the magical sound of over 100 poets calling for justice and the balance of our planet.
Join us for this joyful family celebration that honors the lives of departed ancestors and loved ones!
Raíces invites you to celebrate Día de los Muertos on November 2nd, from 1-5 PM at Bloomhouse. Enjoy altars, live music, performances, family activities, food, and more!
Join a local mariachi youth the Mariachi Voces del Valle youth band from Castro Valley for a musical enlivened exaltation in the park!
Join us for a celebration of Latin American music and culture featuring lobby installations by local artists.
Join us at Magical Bridge Playground in Morgan Hill to celebrate Day of the Dead with face painting, balloon animals, art projects, performances, and a parade.
Our free community celebration will be continuing the traditions including a car procession through San Rafael, and altars in downtown San Rafael storefronts.
Reflect on the Day of the Dead with meditative Spanish polyphony for four, five, and six voices by Victoria, Morales, Franco, and Vasquez
Take part in displaying your own personal altar while enjoying live dance and musical performances, youth crafts, food options from local markets & businesses, face painting, a Catrina contest, and much more!
Come honor and celebrate loved ones who are no longer with us by contributing to our community ofrenda, festive crafts, delicious food, and vibrant music.
Every November 2nd, Marigold Project produces the Dia de Los Muertos, Festival of Altars. Please join us on November 2nd at 5:00 pm PST for the Opening Ritual at the Festival of Altars.
On Saturday, November 2, Avenida de Altares will transform La Plaza into a stunning Día de Los Muertos celebration.
As the capstone to a month of community programming and in celebration of this time-honored Mexican tradition, the Center’s Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) will take place on Saturday, November 2.
Oakland Día de los Muertos Festival has welcomed tens of thousands of visitors to the vibrant, culturally-rich Fruitvale neighborhood for a free, outdoor, family-friendly event taking place to commemorate the Mexican traditions around the Día de los Muertos.
Casa Círculo Cultural and the San Mateo County History Museum and in collaboration with the Redwood City Parks & Arts Foundation, are proud to bring to Redwood City a Día de los Muertos Celebration.
Join The Lawrence On-The-Go at Oakland’s annual Dia de los Muertos celebration!
Join The Lawrence On-The-Go at Oakland’s annual Dia de los Muertos celebration!
Authentic dance procession. Free tamales for the first 100 people!
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Luna Mexicana is one of the Bay Area’s most elaborate and inclusive Dia de los Muertos events.