"But certainly it is at the heart of it, at the core of it, it is providing this idea of life and death and just sort of a celebration of life. "It's not as beautiful as having children walk through the museum galleries and hearing their reactions," he says. Moreno says that despite the show being entirely virtual, the tours are from all over the country, which feels, in a way, that they've "reached a little bit further." The pandemic has had an outsize impact on Latinx people in the United States, who are hospitalized from COVID-19 at four times the rate of white Americans. The annual Dia de los Muertos Art Festival in the heart of Downey is an all-day family affair. As the artistic focal point and the first thing you see as you enter from the Firestone side, the Downey Community Altar, Ofrenda a la comunidad de Downey, sits in the newly designed plaza that fronts the Downey Theatre, labeled for the day the Plaza of Memories, or, Plaza de Recuerdos. This year, though, like so many other celebrations, the coronavirus pandemic has thwarted the way Día de los Muertos can be celebrated. DOWNEY A giant altar of marigolds greeted festival patrons at this year’s Dia de los Muertos Festival. It's really important that we keep saying their names, we keep telling their stories, and we pass these ideas on to the next generation." You also put their photographs out, you share stories about them, and it really becomes a time to memorialize these individuals. "So if somebody had a specific food that they liked, you would place that out on the altar as an ofrenda.
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"We remember them by remembering what they enjoyed while they were here on Earth," Moreno says. Halloween Festivals and Events Downey Pumpkin Patch Columbia Space Center Spooky Science Night Downey Dia De Los Muertos Subscribe to our newsletter Get. Michael Tropea/National Museum of Mexican Art Sin título (Untitled) by Alfonso Castillo Orta (1944-2009) of Izúcar de Matamoros, Mexico, undated, polychrome ceramic and wire.
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