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Día de los Muertos with SOHO
September/October 2020
 Photo courtesy artelexia.com |
In 2010, SOHO founded the first Old Town San Diego community-wide Día de los Muertos celebration. The holiday, known also as Day of the Dead, is observed annually on November 1 and 2, and celebrates the unity of life and death, and is considered by many to be the most important holiday of the year in Mexico and throughout Latin America. It is also observed in Portugal, Spain, Philippines, Italy, France, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Croatia, Austria, and Germany, just to name a few!
This holiday is deeply meaningful in any year, but in this time of COVID, with an inconceivable number of lives lost globally, it is absolutely essential that people know of multiple ways to grieve and also to commemorate the lives of deceased loved ones. The spirits of beloved ancestors and friends who have died return to earth for one night to celebrate their essence and connections with friends and family, who create individual altars in their honor.
So, SOHO has put together a wide-ranging and comprehensive array of resources for you and your family, for homeschooling, and for online educators to celebrate Día de los Muertos virtually this year. These museum-from-home packets include the history and culture, traditional foods and recipes, and a robust section on arts and crafts materials for teachers and students of all ages.
We include how to build an altar and the meaning of the items displayed on it. Family craft activities, such as papel picado making, skull face painting, paper flower and paper mask making, and other styles of mask making, sugar and plaster skull decorating, hat decorating, and more. We offer traditional recipes you can make at home and share on the altar and with each other.
Explore SOHO's Día de los Muertos pages HERE.
If you want to take part or help promote this wonderful celebration, it's easy to share and spread the word! Join our Whaley House Facebook page, too, and show us your home altars, share your original or family recipes, and other vivid ways you mark this meaningful, memorable holiday.
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