Dia de Los Muertos & Hispanic Heritage Month Celebrations Happening in the Community
Click to learn about the Free Community Event hosted by the Creative District.
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Haga clic para conocer el evento comunitario gratuito organizado por el Distrito Creativo.
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¡CELEBREMOS!
A Celebration of Latinx Music & Culture Featuring Special Musical Guest Alfredo Rodríguez
10/13, 7:30pm
UNC Campus Commons Performance Hall & Online
(1051 22nd St. Greeley)
Join the University of Northern Colorado as they kick off homecoming weekend and celebrate the launch of their Bachelor of Arts in Latinx Music degree program! Be a part of the excitement with a vibrant showcase of Latin American culture, including delectable cuisine, enchanting mariachi music, engaging art-making activities and more, both inside and outside Campus Commons. Afterward, don’t miss the sensational Latinx concert featuring UNC’s talented students and faculty, alongside the renowned Alfredo Rodríguez Quintet. Their extraordinary fusion of Latin, African, jazz, and classical melodies will electrify the concert hall, leaving you captivated and wanting more!
Event Schedule:
5:00pm - 7:30pm: Arts Market, Mexican Lager & South American Wine Tasting, Print Making & More!
Beer and Wine tasting is free with the purchase of an adult concert ticket. Participating Artisans/Businesses: Art by Jae, Hecho x B, Kiara Espinoza O., Mario Santacruz Martinez, Frida Azul, Flor Leos, La Familia Vintage, Alma de Arte, TodoxSelenas, Eye of Erik, Teresa Castro5:15pm - 7:00pm: Mariachi Performances
5:15pm - Mariachi del Rio
5:45pm - Mariachi Salida del Sol
6:00pm - Mariachi los Mensajeros
6:45pm - Colorado Youth Mariachi Program
7:05pm - Armando Contreras, Baritone
7:30pm - 9:30pm: Concert featuring Latin Jazz pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, the Compass Jazz Orchestra, the UNC Symphony Orchestra, and more!
Grief and Alters with MiraSoul Healing
10/16, 6pm
UC MT Evans Ballroom
This will be an interactive and creative session. Together, we will create nichos, a small artistic way to honor or memorialize a person or pet that can be added to an altar for Dia de los Muertos. We will talk about altars, and how they can be used to make offerings to our ancestors, but also how they can be used to make offerings to ourselves in times of need. Together through art and community conversation, we will explore how grief shows up not only when we lose a loved one, but also when we experience big life transitions. Together, we will explore the power of altars and offerings to self and ancestors
El Reino de los Muertos: Realm of the Dead
Paralelos: Colección de impresiones inspiradas por poemas
Artist Talk: 10/19, 5pm
Exhibition Dates: 10/20 - 11/23
UNC Campus Commons
(1051 22nd St. Greeley)
Artist: Cal Duran
“We are not alone. We are all on the same journey as the ones before us; death is the universal tie that connects us all. Enter the realm of the non-forgotten. As the visceral microcosm lays parallel within our realm, step into the realm of the dead, a realm where we can honor and remember the vast celestial weaves of our ancestors."
Día de los Muertos Shawl
10/21, 2-4pm
(adults/adultos)
LINC Library / Biblioteca LINC
(501 8th Ave, Greeley)
registration required
inscripción requerida
Looking for something to wear on Dia de los Muertos? Come join us, we will be working on a crochet pattern that will produce a beautiful shawl with skulls to honor the dead that celebrates their memory. The time put in to making it also highlights the respect we have for those who are no longer with us on such an important night of the Hispanic Culture. We encourage you to bring your children along for a Dia de los Muertos story time and craft.
¿Buscas algo que ponerte en el Día de los Muertos? Únase a nosotros, trabajaremos en un patrón de crochet que producirá un hermoso chal con calaveras para honrar a los muertos y celebrar su memoria. El tiempo empleado en realizarlo también resalta el respeto que tenemos por quienes ya no están con nosotros en una noche tan importante de la Cultura Hispana. Le recomendamos que traigan a sus hijos para disfrutar de unos cuento y manualidades del Día de los Muertos.
¡LA FIESTA!
10/28, 7-9pm
UNC Campus Commons
(1051 22nd St. Greeley)
Explore rhythms and colors of Hispanic culture with the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra, including celebratory music by Hispanic composers Genaro Codina, Arturo Marquez, and Jose Pablo Moncayo.
From the Salon to Mass to Carnival celebrations, these orchestral arrangements of traditional Mexican folk tunes and original pieces will have you dancing in your seat!
Prior to the concert, explore an expo in the Campus Commons lobby designed to celebrate and promote existing resources around the Hispanic community of Greeley. Expo will be open beginning at 4:00 p.m. Colorado Dance Collective will present original dances at 5:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. Las Catrinas Food Truck will be onsite.
Calaveras & Papel Picado & Marigolds, Oh My!
10/30, 3-5pm
(all ages/todas las edades)
LINC Library / Biblioteca LINC
(501 8th Ave, Greeley)
registration required | inscripción requerida
Create your own Dia de Los Muertos decorations and learn a little about the holiday in the process! Try your hand at decorating your own sugar skulls or cutting your personal designs into papel picado. You don’t have to celebrate the holiday to participate!
(photo by Arturo Ochoa)
Free Community Celebration & Art Exhibition
11/2, 5-7pm
LINC Library / Biblioteca LINC
(501 8th Ave, Greeley)
11/2, 7-9pm
Tointon Gallery / Galería Tointon
(651 10th Ave, Greeley)
Enjoy live performances by the Colorado Dance Collective, Azanet Rodriguez, La Danza Guadalupana and Gii Astorga, tasty bites, a craft presented by the Community Grief Center and the opportunity to contribute to a community ofrenda. Bring photos and objects that you would like to donate to the community display—NO valuables, food or items that you would like returned please.
Then at 7pm, we will walk by candlelight over to the Tointon Gallery to see the accompanying art exhibition and to hear from the artists.
This fine art exhibition features a sampling of local artists who are tied to Día de Los Muertos by their heritage. Día de Los Muertos is a unique holiday, started in Mexico by overlapping beliefs of the ancient indigenous Zapotec and Aztec cultures with Colonial Christian beliefs. Present day, the holiday is a true celebration of the dead, both lively and humorous, as well as somber, as graves and altars or ofrendas are decorated to pay homage to those lost. The artists in this show have each been influenced by the traditions, colors, festivities, ceremonies, metaphors and symbols involved in this unique holiday.
Día de Los Muertos Celebration
Organized by College of Humanities & Social Sciences
11/2, 5-8pm
UNC Campus Commons
(1051 22nd St. Greeley)
Join UNC's Department of Chicana/o and Latinx Studies and UNC's Latinx community for an evening dedicated to El Día de Los Muertos/Day of the Dead!
The evening will feature student presentations of altars, legend storytelling, a literary Calaveritas contest, live music, food, and more!
For more information, contact Jonathan Alcantar.
Free Community Celebration
11/4, 5-8pm
Rodarte Community Center
(920 A Street)
Honor and remember loved ones who have passed with singing, dancing, traditional food and crafts.
Live music from Hector Y Su Destino.
Performances by Brentwood LULAC and Dos Rios Dance Club
The first 200 guests will receive a traditional meal from El Mero Mero Restaurant
Best dressed Catrina or Catrin win a prize
Sugar skull decorating
Altar displays