CDMX is ready to honor the dead this season! And you need to know the Day of the Dead in San Angel, San Angel Inn and Tlacopac will be celebrated in style with a cultural program that you can enjoy from October 24 to November 10.
What’s in store for you? Family workshops, contests, tours and traditional ofrendas that will pay tribute to different Mexican characters such as María Félix, Jorge Negrete, José Zorrilla, the Heroic Battalion of San Patricio, Isidro Fabela, the Carrillo Gil family and more.
This area of the city will be filled with vibrant colors and aromas that commemorate one of Mexico’s most beautiful traditions.
The Unión de Colonos of these three neighborhoods has collaborated with museums and cultural centers in the area to create an unmissable cultural program. The participating venues?
- El Carmen Museum
- Casa del Risco
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo House Studio
- Carrillo Gil Art Museum
- Soumaya Museum Plaza Loreto
- Plaza Loreto Cultural and Commercial Center
- Tocamadera Gallery
Ofrendas to visit this Day of the Dead in San Angel, San Angel Inn and Tlacopac
- El Carmen Museum
You can visit this ofrenda starting October 24 at 7:00 pm. This year the altar will be dedicated to Maria Felix.
You can enjoy workshops, literary skull contest, painting your own skull, visits and tours with catrinas, movies, dance and many other activities.
- Casa del Risco Museum
Starting October 30 you can visit the ofrenda dedicated to José Zorrilla, author of DonJuan Tenorio. You will also find an offering in honor of the Heroic Battalion of San Patricio and one more in memory of Don Isidro Fabela, the last owner of the Casa del Risco.
You can also enjoy outdoor movie screenings, tasting of pan de muerto and chocolate, sale of alfeñique sweets, workshops, theater performances and more.
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Home-Studio Museum
This altar could not be dedicated to anyone else but Frida Kahlo, who lived in this space between 1934 and 1939, and in the framework of her 70th death anniversary. You can visit it starting October 24.
Here you will find workshops to make papel picado garlands to complete your Day of the Dead ofrenda.
- Carrillo Gil Art Museum
This altar will be dedicated to the Carrillo Gil family and can be visited starting October 30. Here you can enjoy interesting workshops to make pre-Hispanic sculptures with the traditional technique of alfeñique.
- Soumaya Museum Plaza Loreto
From October 25 you can visit the offering dedicated to Marysole Wörner Baz, a Mexican artist from the late fifties.
The Soumaya Museum will have workshops to make alfeñique skulls, catrinas masks, papel picado, paper flowers and portrait frames.
- Loreto Commercial and Cultural Plaza
This ofrenda will be dedicated to the seven levels of Mictlán and will consist of catrinas and figures made by artists from the glass workshop of the Unidad Independencia IMSS.
- Tocadamadera Gallery
Here you will find an ofrenda dedicated to Jorge Negrete, a great exponent of Mexican golden cinema.