Sat 10/29 @ 11AM-10PM
Dia de Muertos — The Day of the Dead — returns to Cleveland Public Theatre for another daylong revelry to celebrate the ancestors and the Latin culture the event sprang from.
Taking place throughout the CPT area, it features altar installations, a folk art market, live entertainment, Latin food and of course, the popular “Skulls and Skeletons” procession which wends its way down Detroit Avenue from 3:30-4:14pm.
Before and after, you can stop by the Church at CPT to see official altars by eight artists and the adjoining cemetery installations. Performances will be going on all day at Parish Hall starting at 12:30pm with Dueto Maravilla doing romantic Mexican popular tunes, followed by the duo of viola player Jerry Lou Lugo and violinist Izzy Donovan 1:30-2:30pm), Danza Azteca Guadalupana(4:40-5pm), guitarist Rodrigo Lara Alonso and violinist Marcelo Rebuffi (5:15-6pm) the Rice and Beans Latin Jazz Band (6:30-8pm) and “free form music (8:30-10pm).
The procession will leave CPT’s main lot, led by Grand Marshall Rey Arturo Esparza, front banner by Olga Rosado and the Mariachi Santa Cecilia band, stop at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and the Craciun Berry Funeral Home before returning to CPT. Anyone can join in but participants are required to register at the event.
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