El Museo del Barrio Celebrates El Día de Los Muertos at Super Sábado, 10/20

Join us for a special Super Sábado! as we celebrate Mexico's beloved 3,000 year-old tradition commemorating friends and relatives who have passed away. El Museo del Barrio's strives to celebrate the diversity of Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean cultures, has been bringing el Día de Los Muertos to El Barrio for more than a decade.

Día de Los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, is typically celebrated on November 1^st and 2^nd with traditions such as building and decorating private altars with sugar skulls and marigolds, and visiting cemeteries. El Museo will build upon these traditional festivities by adding some contemporary flavor. Pop-up and street altars commonly seen on New York streets, such as a white ghost bike altar memorializing bikers who have been killed on the road, will be on display, as well as an altar dedicated to the late singer Chavela Vargas. La Catrina, an iconic Día de Los Muertos image of a skeletal Mistress By artist Jose Guadalupe Posada, will be revamped by artist Michelle Melo. We will have a large altar, designed by artists Meyoltzin Abrajan, Xochiquetzal, and Susana García Farcier, dedicated to domestic abuse victims.

Super Sábado!: Día de Los Muertos Celebration features myriad events for your entire familia! View a vivid and vivacious procession led by Danza Group Calpulli Tletl-Papalotzin as it parades through Central Park ending at El Museo's doorstep. At El Museo, Children can get their faces painted like calaveras, or sugar skull. The festivities culminate in a rousing mariachi performance by the Mariachi Academy of New York and Mariachi Flor de Toloache.

Super Sábado!, Free Third Saturdays at El Museo is sponsored by Target©.

Visit http://www.elmuseo.org/en/event/super-sabado-dia-de-los-muertos-celebration-0 for more details.