SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 Hundreds of people gathered at the County Administration Center in downtown San Diego on Saturday for the annual Dia de Muertos celebration.<\/p>\n
The free event brought together community members, artists and local leaders for an afternoon of live music, dance, art and remembrance, including community-built altars, or ofrendas.<\/p>\n
County District 1 Supervisor Paloma Aguirre said holding the celebration on county grounds sends an important message.<\/p>\n
\u201cCelebrating Dia de Muertos here at the County of San Diego is deeply meaningful. San Diego is a diverse border community whose history and culture are inextricably tied to our binational roots. By holding this event in county space, we are making a clear statement: our rich cultural heritage is an integral part of San Diego County’s identity, and everyone in our community belongs here,\u201d Aguirre said.<\/p>\n
The event also featured performances by youth groups and concluded with a community dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 Hundreds of people gathered at the County Administration Center in downtown San Diego on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-507852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}