Day of the Dead San Francisco
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.
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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.
Reflect on the Day of the Dead with meditative Spanish polyphony for four, five, and six voices by Victoria, Morales, Franco, and Vasquez
Join us for a celebration of Latin American music and culture featuring lobby installations by local artists.
Experience the magical sound of over 100 poets calling for justice and the balance of our planet.
Come learn about the traditional foods, art activities, and participate in a fire ceremony.
Lights, Camera, Music!: Watch favorite films on the big screen at Davies Symphony Hall as the scores are performed live by the SF Symphony.
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.
Sunset Mercantile’s annual Día de los Muertos is a night full of food, music, dance, and culture.
Create colorful skulls to place on your altar using air dry clay.
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.
You will learn about the significance of candles in the realm of Day of the Dead's culture and ritual.
Learn the significance of the cempasúchil (marigold) in Dia de los Muertos celebrations and create your own paper flowers.
Calixto Robles, San Francisco artist and activist, leads a community altar creation and René y Familia brings the music.
Ven y únete a nosotros para crear tu propio Ojo de Dios en nuestra fiesta de Halloween Craft & Learn. ¡No te lo pierdas!
Colorful and overflowing with offerings, the Día de los Muertos ofrenda (altar) is a celebration of those who have passed on.
Learn how to use the online software Tinkercad to create simple 3-dimensional models.
Experience the magical sound of over 100 poets calling for justice and the balance of our planet.
Craft colorful flowers and add to your families' ofrenda to celebrate Dia de los Muertos.
You will learn about the significance of flower crowns in the realm of Day of the Dead's culture and ritual.
Learn about Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, and decorate your own sugar skull cookie.
Make your own paper Dia de Los Muertos altar. For children and their families.
Design and make colorful tin repujado hearts for Dia de los Muertos. For ages 9 and older.
Calixto Robles, San Francisco artist and activist, leads a community altar creation, and Alil Blum will lead all age friendly printmaking craft.
Watch Coco, have a snack and do a craft to celebrate Día de los Muertos.
Make your own Day of the Dead headpiece with marigolds, or cempasúchil, and other traditional elements.
Create a community altar with your neighbors, and learn how to make your own at home. Colorful and overflowing with offerings, the Día de los Muertos altar is a celebration of those who have passed on.
Rituals honoring the dead vary across cultures but share sacred significance as rites of passage. Celebrate and learn how the the Bay Area's Latino and Filipino communities commemorate lost loved ones and share your own tokens of remembrance with a day of collaborative Día de Los Muertos altar-making at KQED and poetry created in partnership with Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts and the Filipino Service Providers Network.
A young boy who loves music accidentally unleashes a family curse and her must venture into the Land of the Dead to make things right.
Learn the significance of the cempasúchil (marigold) in Dia de los Muertos celebrations and create your own paper flowers. For children ages 5 and older.
Celebrate VIVA and Dia de los Muertos by creating colorful skulls to place on your altar using air dry clay. For ages 12-18.
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