Dia de Los Muertos Block Party

Inspired Moments, REFORMA de Nuevo Mexico and NWNMAC 1st annual Dia De Los Muertos celebration 📣 this amazing event is taking place Friday November 1st!

Here is a little information. Community Ofrenda
this is already taking place, we are accepting photos, there is a mailbox outside our front door where u can leave your photos, we will hang them up and honor your passed loved ones with the upmost love and respect on our community ofrenda!

Block party: this is a free event to the public, we will have costume contests, face painters, kids activities, lowriders, dancers, live music, vendors, and the movie Acequias playing at the Torah theatre at 6pm. We are still looking for performers, story tellers, dancers, etc!!!!

Please please if you would like to participate in this txt info will be below!

Vendors: this is a free event we are not charging a booth fee it will be just a come and set up event.

Vendors are responsible for their space needs, (tables, canopies, power etc) vendors will be set up along the sidewalk only between the block of Berhend, and Locke. I will still need to know your planning on coming so please please make sure you sign up by simply txting me, I will send out a mass txt of set up time information and schematics of where your allowed to set up with out interference of the lowriders, stage, etc!

If you would like to sign up to perform or be a vendor please make sure you send me a txt message. There are no other persons taking sign up information so I will not know if I don’t hear from you. 505-860-3988

New Mexico Arts, a Division of Cultural Affairs

Dia de Los Muertos and Community Ofrenda and "Acequias" -

Hispanic Heritage Month & Dia de Los Muertos

National Hispanic Heritage Month celebrated by locals

Dia Timeline, Mora Award and First Book and "The Remembering Day, Dia de Los Muertos!"

A Timeline for Día's 20 Years We're still celebrating Día's 20th year--with an Evolving Día Timeline! Día connects us daily and especially during April for the culminating celebrations of sharing bookjoy--all children, all cultures, all languages. Let's each, individually and collectively, urge libraries, schools and school districts, universities and colleges, early literacy programs, presses and literacy organizations to collaborate, to work together for the good of their community, state and our nation. Literacy is essential in our democracy. Congratulations to the 2016 Mora Award Winners! Sonia M. Sotomayor Early College High School in Pharr, Texas, will receive the 2016 Estela and Raúl Mora Award, an honor given by Pat and her sister in partnership with First Book. The award will provide $1,000 in credits to the First Book Marketplace. This year there were two Mora Award honor winners that will receive $500 in credit to the First Book Marketplace. Broward County Public Schools in Hollywood, Fla., and Brownsville Independent School District (BISD) Library and Media Services in Brownsville, Texas were also recognized for innovative Día celebrations, which reached a combined 187 elementary schools and 200 early education providers. The Remembering Day/ El día de los muertos In this special bilingual picture book for children, [author] Pat [Mora] creates an origin myth in which she imagines how the Mexican custom of remembering deceased loved ones—El día de los muertos or the Day of the Dead—came to be. With tender illustrations by Robert Casilla that depict Bella and Mamá Alma’s loving relationship, this book will encourage children to honor loved ones, whether by writing stories and poems or creating their own remembering place. The Evolving Día Timeline celebrates the people and organizations that have helped to grow Día and share bookjoy these many years.   This year, First Book coordinated the judging for the Mora Award which recognized schools and libraries that plan exemplary literacy activities during the month of April in celebration of Día.  Nearly 75 schools and educational programs submitted entries to this year’s award process. Read First Book’s press release.   "This delicate subject matter is masterfully handled by Mora, a storyteller of unparalleled sensibility."—NBC News

Remembering the Day/El dia de los muertos

New Release from Author, Pat Mora

Long, long, long ago, Bella and her grandmother Mamá Alma admired their vegetable garden. They liked gardening together. They grew sunflowers and lilies too, and chatted with lizards and hummingbirds. They walked around the flowers and vegetables holding hands, something they had done frequently since Bella was a baby. As her grandmother aged, Bella helped her to walk. “Every year, I need your help more and more,” said Mamá Alma.

In this special bilingual picture book for children, author Pat Mora creates an origin myth in which she imagines how the Mexican custom of remembering deceased loved ones—El día de los muertos or the Day of the Dead—came to be. With tender illustrations by Robert Casilla that depict Bella and Mamá Alma’s loving relationship, this book will encourage children to honor loved ones, whether by writing stories and poems or creating their own remembering place.  Pre-order from Amazon

Dia de Los Muertos

Artist and political cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) is best known for his calavera caricatures, in particular, Calavera Garbancera, more commonly known as “La Catrina.”

La Catrina was meant as mockery of Mexico’s high society and a protest of the Porfiriato, the regime of Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz, whose repressive ways led to the Mexican Revolution commanded by Emiliano Zapata... and Francisco Villa. Posada was ridiculing Mexicans, who like Díaz, shunned their own Indianness for the Victorian styles of the day. Díaz was eventually exiled to France, and the demands of Zapata and Villa were incorporated into the Mexican Constitution.

Posada’s many other calavera caricatures depicted the daily lives of campesinos and common folk, which endeared him to many. His work inspired generations of Mexicans. From Orozco and Rivera, to a countless number of contemporary artists, Posada’s influence is still felt.  In recent years, Posada’s calavera caricatures have been incorporated intoMexico’s Día de Muertos celebrations.  Special thanks to ENLACE for volunteering their time for the Downtown celebration in Farmington on Saturday, November 1!

Dia de Los Muertos

Come make sugar skulls with us on Friday night during the downtown Art Walk!
Thank you, Farmington Daily Times for the wonderful article!