What’s on in November in Mexico City?

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They’re here! Our beloved departed person yet travel location aft a twelvemonth of waiting. Every November 1, pursuing a centuries-old tradition, the souls of our departed household members instrumentality connected Day of the Dead for conscionable 1 nighttime to bask a banquet with us, their surviving relatives.

Although Día de Muertos steals the spotlight each November, Mexico City is besides acceptable to bask its “orange season,” dressed successful her cempasúchil gown and bathed with autumn’s soft, aureate sunlight. Here’s a look astatine what to bash successful the superior successful November.

Enjoy CDMX’s spookiest puppet show

Three puppeteers run respective achromatic papier-mâché skeleton puppets (calacas) of assorted sizes down a achromatic stage, with a elephantine skeletal limb suspended supra them.

The Centro Cultural La Titeria is hosting “La chorcha de las calacas,” a children’s puppet amusement featuring stories from Mexican folklore.

In Mexican slang, chorcha means “chit-chat.” The amusement is rather virtually that: a amusive speech betwixt skeleton puppets, accompanied by songs and euphony by corrido creator Eduardo López, wherever kids volition larn astir Mexico done stories and puppetry.

Designed to beryllium enjoyed by children and adults alike, performances are moving from present done Day of the Dead connected Saturdays and Sundays astatine 1 p.m., with a peculiar spooky amusement connected Oct. 31.

Dates: Through Nov. 2
Location: Centro Cultural La Titeria, Vicente Guerrero 7, Del Carmen, Coyoacán.
Cost: 150-350 pesos.

‘Alien Queen’ grounds by Manuela Solano

An acrylic coating of a menacing achromatic alien creature, resembling a Xenomorph, with a ample caput crest and a wide, toothy grin, acceptable against a dark, concern background.

Mexican creator Manuela Solano mislaid her show astatine the property of 26, “due to an HIV-related corruption that was treated negligently,” arsenic she recalled at the inauguration of her latest grounds astatine Museo Tamayo: “Alien Queen/Strange Paradise.”

In 30 large-format self-portraits that were 7 years successful the making, Solano explores “identity arsenic an enactment of some endurance and subversion.” Solano portrays herself done iconic monsters from popular and people civilization alike — from Britney Spears to the evil mermaid Ursula — arsenic an enactment of self-inquiry and kitsch rebelliousness.

Dates: Through Jan. 4
Location: Museo Tamayo, Paseo de la Reforma 51, Polanco, Miguel Hidalgo.
Cost: 90 pesos.

A Journey to Mictlán

A idiosyncratic with elaborate calavera constitution and colorful assemblage overgarment stands wrong a modern, immersive creation installation of glowing greenish acrylic panels.

“Mictlán means eternal resting spot of the dead,” Ayaotekatl, a typical of the Tepanec people successful Azcapotzalco, erstwhile told UNAM’s Gaceta magazine. Both people and popular civilization successful Mexico person adopted this mythical spot arsenic portion of their Day of the Dead celebrations.

A large illustration of this is Fantasy Lab’s “Un viaje al Mictlán” (A Journey to Mictlán) immersive exhibit, moving present done mid-November, wherever visitors tin to research the 9 levels of the Mexica underworld.

The thought is to simulate the travel that the Mexica believed the psyche undertakes to get astatine its eternal resting place.

Dates: Through Nov. 17
Location: Av. Patriotismo 229, San Pedro de los Pinos, Benito Juárez.
Cost: Tickets start astatine 390 pesos.

‘Sobrenatural’: Witchcraft from Xochomilco

A promotional poster for the "Sobrenatural" fearfulness lawsuit successful Xochimilco, titled "El Origen del Mal" (The Origin of Evil) and "Ritos Siniestros de las Brujas de Xochimilco." The dark, scary poster features a demonic reddish oculus and lists amusement dates successful October and November astatine the Embarcadero Salitre, Xochimilco, Mexico City

No November is implicit without a trajinera thrust crossed the Xochimilco canals —and its ominous legends, of course. Every year, radical successful Mexico City await the accidental to ticker theatre straight from a trajinera, similar Sobrenatural: Ritos siniestros de las brujas de Xochimilco. Folk stories and nocturnal mysticism travel unneurotic in theatrical performances mounted connected trajineras, Xochilmilco’s accepted boats.

Collected from Mexico’s National Archives, these stories represent the fantastical (and demonic) lives of section sorceresses and witches successful 1750, immoderate of whom were judged by the Inquisition successful assemblage Mexico.

Note: This accumulation whitethorn beryllium a spot scary for small ones. Watch their promotional video connected the Sobrenatural website earlier you book.

Dates: Oct. 24–Nov. 8
Location: Embarcadero Salitre (Salitre Pier) successful San Cristóbal neighborhood, Xochimilco.
Cost: Tickets commencement astatine 300 pesos.

Ofrenda monument astatine the Zócalo

Workers acceptable up the mega ofrenda astatine Mexico City's Zocalo, which is simply a insubstantial maiche larger-than beingness accepted calavera skeleton.

November successful Mexico City is not implicit without the yearly mega-ofrenda monument astatine Mexico City’s main square, the Zócalo, the taxable selected via a nationalist poll.

This year’s monument portrays the Mexica (better known arsenic Aztec) root story, which the Mexica believed progressive a travel from the mythical determination of Aztlan to the tract wherever they built Mexico-Tenochtitlán, their gleaming capital.

Colectivo Zion Art Studio, which designed the monument for 2025, has created a afloat immersive experience. With 4 pedestrian entrances, visitors volition spot an ofrenda that simulates “the accomplishment of the heirs of the Mexica culture” to Mexico City’s historical center, wherever the arrogant Mexica metropolis of Tenochtitlán erstwhile stood.

Dates: Oct. 25–Nov. 2
Location: Plaza de la Constitución, Centro Histórico (the Zócalo).
Cost: Free.

Calaveritas Run

person with teal hairsbreadth and elaborate skull look overgarment poses for the camera during a Día de los Muertos celebration, wearing a gothic-style outfit and a tiny crown with skulls and marigolds.

Mexico City conscionable can’t unrecorded without her runners — not adjacent successful the midst of the Day of the Dead festivities. Proof affirmative is AS Deporte’s nighttime contention crossed the archetypal conception of Bosque de Chapultepec, called the Calveritas Run.

Scheduled for November 1, the contention honors the season’s aesthetics by requiring participants to deterioration their champion Mexican skull makeup. For racers who are not precisely constitution artists, determination volition beryllium ‘calaverita’ stands onsite wherever 1 tin get one’s look painted.

The official route covers 10 kilometers. However, participants tin besides triumph prizes if they implicit fractional the route.

Date: Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Bosque de Chapaultepec, First Section, Miguel Hidalgo.
Cost: Entrance fees commencement astatine 450 pesos for children and 700 pesos for adults.

Ofrenda contention astatine Chapultepec Park

Woman successful a accepted Mexican people formal wearing a crown of flowers and a white-painted look similar a Catrina, emblematic for Day of the Dead festivities successful Mexico City successful November.

Art collectives, students and solo artists volition showcase their plan skills crossed Paseo de los Compositores successful Chapultepec Park this November, with lone 40 winning designs to beryllium selected for the city’s authoritative Ofrenda Contest, hosted by parkland authorities and promoted by the Tourism Ministry.

Using biodegradable materials, contestants are expected to dedicate their ofrendas “to [Mexican] composers who, with their music, shaped the country’s dependable identity,” said tourism authorities successful a statement. You tin spot the winning entries connected show passim the archetypal week of November, framed by Chapultepec Park’s awesome forest.

Dates: Oct. 28 to Nov. 3
Location: Chapultepec Park, Second Section of Environmental Area, Miguel Hidalgo.
Cost: Free.

CDMX Day of the Dead parade

Giant skeleton figures (calacas), including 1 shaped similar a guitar, operation implicit a ample assemblage successful Mexico City's Zócalo square, with the National Palace successful the background, during a Day of the Dead celebration.

Even though immoderate radical privation to judge otherwise, the Day of the Dead parade is not truly a contented successful Mexico — not until recently, astatine least.

Ever since the James Bond movie “Spectre” (2015) created the parade connected Mexico City’s streets for an enactment country successful the film, radical person flocked to the superior each twelvemonth for this monolithic parade — successful which Catrinas, Catrines, marching bands and floats with monumental papier-maché sculptures marque their mode down Paseo de la Reforma. City officials are expecting 5 cardinal visitors this year, according to section media sources.

If you’re successful Mexico City, this spectacle of color, euphony and, yes, Mexican contented is worthy seeing astatine slightest erstwhile successful your life. You’ll ne'er hide it.

Date: Nov. 1, starting astatine 2 p.m. astatine the Lions’ Gate (the main entrance) astatine Bosque de Chapultepec, Av. P.º de la Reforma 132, Cuauhtémoc, Miguel Hidalgo.
Location: The parade starts astatine the Lions’ Gate successful Chapultepec and ends astatine the Zócalo.
Cost: Free.

‘Giselle’ performances astatine Palacio de Bellas Artes

A ballerina successful a achromatic tutu performs a expansive jeté crossed a acheronian stage, with a tombstone marked "Giselle" disposable successful the background.

For the archetypal clip successful 5 years, the world-famous ballet “Giselle” volition again beryllium staged astatine Palacio de Bellas Artes. Choreographed by Russian dancer Svetlana Ballester, this tragic ballet classical volition beryllium interpreted by Mexico’s National Dance Company.

Of course, this show could not beryllium implicit without euphony from the Orquesta del Teatro de Bellas Artes.

Dates: Nov. 4–23
Location: Palacio de Bellas Artes. Av. Juárez S/N, Centro Histórico, Cuauhtémoc.
Cost: Tickets start astatine 165 pesos. Buy them either done the Palacio de Bellas Artes container bureau (where the elderly, students and teachers tin get a discount with valid credentials) oregon done Ticketmaster connected the Palacio de Bellas Artes website.

Gotham City Circus

Complimentary drinks and circus acts dependable similar a program designed by The Joker himself, no? Don’t worry, though. The Gotham City Circus — a character-inspired immersive acquisition featuring good cuisine, mixology samples (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and circus acts — is perfectly safe.

Aztlán Parque Urbano volition alteration into the iconic Gotham City of “Batman” fame, wherever its villain, the Joker, volition instrumentality his maestro plan.

Date: Nov. 15, 6 p.m.–11:59 p.m.
Location: Aztlán Parque Urbano. Av. de los Compositores s/n, Bosque de Chapultepec, Miguel Hidalgo.
Cost: Tickets commencement astatine 500 pesos.

Andrea Fischer is an exertion for Mexico News Daily. She has edited and written for National Geographic en Español and Muy Interesante México, and continues to advocator for thing that screams science. Or yoga. Or both.

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