2025 Celebration and Procession
Join us for the 2025 South Valley Día de los Muertos Celebration and Marigold Procession
Nov 2
Celebration 12-4pm
Procession 2pm
Location TBA
Join us for community art workshops every Saturday leading up to the event
Participation
Participate as an attendee
- RESPECT HOLIDAY, CULTURE, AND TRADITION:
This is a holiday with great cultural, spiritual, ancestral, and religious significance for many. Please be respectful of their beliefs and respect traditions and practices. Keep the event a safe space for all to celebrate with one another. - RESPECT PARADE MONITORS, SECURITY, EVENT STAFF, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT:
This event is staffed mainly by volunteers who have given many hours of their own time to ensure this is a safe and FUN event. It is important to follow our directions and maintain respectful communication. Parade monitors and event staff will have orange vests to be easily identified. PICK UP YOUR WASTE:
The parade is run by a small organizing committee and volunteers, the City and County do not provide waste pick up. It is everyone’s responsibility to pick up their own waste. If you come across potentially hazardous waste, please alert the Event Staff so they can handle it.BE MINDFUL OF YOUR POSSESSIONS AND CHILDREN:
The parade has minimal security. Please do not leave your possessions or children unattended.
Tradition
Day of the Dead / Día de Los Muertos is an ancient tradition rooted in Mexico, celebrating life and honoring those who have passed on.
Our particular celebration draws its influences from Jose Guadalupe Posada’s early 1900’s portrayal of personalities and professions as skeletons or Calaveras.
Posada depicted rich and poor alike as skeletons in ordinary and sometimes outrageous but tragic life settings. Printed sheets would circulate during Día De Los Muertos festivities where he would seize the opportunity for political satire and comedy. The Posada Calavera always seemed to be laughing, frolicking and up to some kind of mischief.
We want the public to laugh and perhaps cry but never abhor, they must never be made to feel that they just walked away from seeing something gory, ghoulish, foul or traumatizing.