{"id":25829,"date":"2025-10-29T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25829\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:35:10","slug":"celebrate-dia-de-los-muertos-in-el-paso-with-music-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25829\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Dia de los Muertos in El Paso with music, art"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 The community is invited this weekend to the 2025 Dia de los Muertos Festival and Desfile, led by the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC).<\/p>\n

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The celebration will take place from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, in the Downtown Arts District.<\/p>\n

The festival will feature free arts and cultural programming for the whole family, centered at San Jacinto Plaza and Cleveland Square Park. according to the City of El Paso in a news release.<\/p>\n

The city said the MACC, the El Paso Museum of Archaeology, the El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), and the El Paso Museum of History (EPMH) will host hands-on activities centered on this year\u2019s theme of\u00a0\u201calebrijes,\u201d brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures.<\/p>\n

The Dia de los Muertos Desfile, or parade, begins at 4 p.m. The parade will kick off with a dance performance and includes over 40 groups featuring\u00a0alebrijes, animals, live music, and\u00a0decorated floats.<\/p>\n

Featured activities include the following:<\/p>\n

Featured Activities:<\/p>\n

Parade through Downtown beginning at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

El Mercadito\u00a0by The Market EP at San Jacinto Plaza (50 artisan vendors & food trucks), 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

Music stage at San Jacinto Plaza, with headliner Frontera Bugal\u00fa at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Entre Mundos, an immersive Chihuahuan\u00a0Desert-themed experience at the MACC, Noon-9 p.m.<\/p>\n

Curated Community Altars at the MACC<\/p>\n

Hands-on activities at the MACC, EPMH, EPMA, La Nube, Downtown Visitor Information Center, and Cleveland Square Park<\/p>\n

Ballet Folklorico Paso\u00a0del Norte performances at the MACC, 1 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

CODEX MIQUIZTLI story hour sessions at the MACC, 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

Coco\u00a0film screening at the MACC, 11 a.m.<\/p>\n

In addition, the El Paso Museum of Archaeology will be closed on Saturday, Nov. 1, to allow museum staff to participate in the Downtown event.<\/p>\n

All MCAD sites (EPMArch, EPMA, EPMH, and the MACC) will be closed on Sunday, Nov. 2.<\/p>\n

For more information about this event, visit the\u00a0MACC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 The community is invited this weekend to the 2025 Dia de los Muertos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3933,138,140,139,18114,8833,18113],"class_list":["post-25829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-dia-de-los-muertos","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-epma","tag-mexican-american-cultural-center","tag-san-jacinto-plaza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}