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Day of the Dead Festival Columbus

A virtual celebration on November the 1st 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

By Robertha Fersan from Day of The Dead Festival Columbus October 22, 2020


Day of the Dead Festival Columbus is an educational, cultural, and family event where you can find offering and altar displays, calaveritas, poetry reading, live music, art exhibition, Kids’ activities, crafts, and food vendors.

The festival takes place every year at the Greenlawn Cemetery. This year due to the pandemic it will be a virtual celebration on November the 1st from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Please visit our Facebook and Instagram pages for more information about this year's celebrations.

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/TheDayoftheDeadCommunityEvent/

Instagram

https://instagram.com/dayofthedeadcolumbus?r=nametag

You can pick up Free Educational Art Activities Kits for children on Sunday, October 25th, 12 pm-2 pm at Diamonds Ice Cream (5461 Bethel Sawmill Center, Columbus, Ohio 43235)  and on Saturday, October 31st, 3 pm-5 pm at 400 W Rich Studios (400 W Rich St. Columbus, Ohio 43215)




History

Day of the Dead / Dia de los Muertos is an ancestral Celebration and had been ongoing for more than 3,000 years.

The celebration of the Day of the dead is one of the most sacred and revered days in the Mexican and Central American cycle of feasts.

It stems from the ancient pre-Columbian belief that as long as one was remembered by family and friends, one continued to live. In celebrating the dead, they were kept alive.

Day of the dead was proclaimed in 2003 and inscribed in 2008 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

During the Day of the dead festivities, family and friends will make an offering in the honor of somebody that has passed away. The offering more likely will include seven levels that represent the 7 steps to go across the underworld before reaching the final rest, The Mictlan.

Modern ofrendas include portraits, food, flowers, water, personal items, candles, copal, cempasuchitl flowers (marigold) this flower is very important in the offering, they represent life/Sun and also death and rebirth.