This weekend we visited MECA in Houston (Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts) for their annual Día de los Muertos exhibit and celebration. Here is a slideshow of what we saw. Look for:
- Ofrendas (the altars families made for their loved ones)
- Food & water left for the visiting spirits (calabaza en tacha, pan de muerto, mole) because they are hungry and thirsy from their journey
- “Favorite items” from hobbies, vices, activities
- Photos, poems, prayers and memories
- Lots of skeletons and skulls
- Cempasuchitl (“flor de muerto“= marigold flowers)
- Candles and incense to light the way
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Have you ever been to a Day of the Dead celebration?
What a nice tribute to family and friends! I’ve been to The Mexican Fine Arts Museum in Chicago that has a wonderful Day of the Dead exhibit. There were hands on activities for kids, and people were making the sugar skulls right in front of us. If you live in the Chicago area, you have to see it!