Saint Paul Awards Nearly $1.3 Million in Funding to 66 Arts and Cultural Organizations.
CULTURE & COMMUNITYYour Weekend Guide: Twin Cities film fest, a Latinx music festival, and a celebration of hip-hop culture Union Depot in St. Paul will host a Day of the Dead celebration featuring music, dance, puppetry, and more. By Myah Goff October 19, 2023
CULTURE & COMMUNITYYour Weekend Guide: Celebrate Native American Heritage Month and Día de los Muertos
Embrace a weekend filled with Indigenous multimedia art, local and international Latino music, and a mariachi opera. By Myah Goff November 3, 2023
VidaySabor October 18, 2023
Festival de las Calaveras Celebrates Life, Death, and CommunityIn the shadow of Halloween, and often wrongly conflated with the spooky celebration, Dia de los Muertos has finally been given a different spotlight on a much larger stage. This year the State Capitol hosted a community altar for the first time, and the Twin Cities has seen different events pop up honoring the holiday.
La Voz Latina
La celebración del Día de Muertos que el grupo Artes Tlalnepantla ha organizado desde hace una década se ha convertido ya en una tradición, abrazada no solo por la comunidad latina de las Ciudades Gemelas sino también por otros grupos étnicos.
Artists’ colorful creations ready to lift spirits for Día de MuertosMinnesota Public Radio
Supporters hope Sunday festival brings joy to south Minneapolis after tough year.
It’s a Thursday night and for several weeks local artists and community members have gathered to prepare for the upcoming Día de Muertos celebration on Lake Street in Minneapolis.
Grito de los Ancestros celebration in MinneapolisStar Tribune
El Grito de los Ancestros Procession led by the Asinganaak Singers featured more than 30 twin cities artists and organizations including the Mexica Yolotle dance troupe.Co-presented by BareBones and Festival de las Calaveras, this year’s event gathered people from multiple communities to honor ancestors, remember the dead and celebrate the Cycles of Life.
VidaySabor
El evento es una nueva asociación entre BareBones Puppets y el Festival de las Calaveras, que brinda un espacio para el dolor colectivo, la pérdida y la muerte y fomenta la unidad comunitaria en las Ciudades Gemelas en celebración de los Ciclos de la Vida.
At Festival de las Calaveras, Latinx Minnesotans ‘remember, reflect, and connect with our ancestors’MinnPost
For three hours at CLUES, a few hundred people expressed, in a burst of artful ways, their love for their Latinx community and gone-not-gone loved ones, and about the thin lines between this world and the afterworld.
