Well-loved children’s festival Vivos y Muertos in San Miguel de Allende celebrates its 10th anniversary this year

hace 1 día 5

San Miguel de Allende’s beloved Festival de Vivos y Muertos volition observe its 10th day this year. The full household tin articulation successful the amusive connected Sunday, October 26, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. After respective years astatine the Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramírez “El Nigromante” (Bellas Artes), this twelvemonth Vivos y Muertos is returning to its roots successful San Miguel’s beauteous Parque Juárez. As always, it is escaped and unfastened to everyone.

At the festival, children are invited to hole for el Día de Muertos by creating artworks for their families’ ofrendas, with a fantastic assortment of creation materials astatine their disposal. For example, they tin overgarment ceramic skulls, trade puppets, marque bracelets and decorate papier-mache sculptures, moving betwixt makers’ stations passim the day. Each year, respective 100 children enactment implicit the people of the day.

Enjoy 10th Anniversary surprises astatine this year’s festival

Kids besides bask different amusive activities, including look painting, storytelling, a puppet show, the crafting of a ample assemblage ofrenda, and the always-popular endowment show, which is unfastened to kids 16 and under. This year’s amusement volition instrumentality spot astatine 2:30 p.m. Sign up connected the time of the event.

Co-founders Tina Bueche and Fernando Tovar envisioned the festival arsenic a accidental to connection the children of San Miguel de Allende a amusive and profoundly meaningful time of originative expression. The lawsuit is community-oriented and intentionally non-commercial.

This year’s variation volition diagnostic breathtaking surprises and peculiar activities successful grant of the anniversary, including a reunion of endowment amusement participants from passim the festival’s ten-year history.

Volunteers welcome: get involved!

Volunteers are presently collecting and preparing a wide assortment of arts and trade supplies for children to usage astatine the festival. The organizers are ever unfastened to further volunteers and donations of creation supplies. Please interaction Tina Bueche astatine [email protected] for much information.

While preparing to retrieve and grant the household members who person gone earlier them, these kids get to walk a free, amusive time exploring their ain creator talents and enjoying galore methods of originative expression. This inclusive, community-building festival, which has grown organically implicit the years, is simply a fantastic acquisition to the children of San Miguel de Allende and the assemblage arsenic a whole.

Based successful San Miguel de Allende, Ann Marie Jackson is simply a writer and NGO person who antecedently worked for the U.S. Department of State. Her award-winning caller “The Broken Hummingbird,” which is acceptable successful San Miguel de Allende, came retired successful October 2023. Ann Marie tin beryllium reached done her website, annmariejacksonauthor.com.

Leer el artículo completo