As part of a four-day celebration commemorating Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), the mariachi and folklorico groups from the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez (UACJ) will be performing at Western New Mexico University on October 31 and November 1.
Mariachi Canto A Mi Tierra will perform on Monday, October 31 at 7:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Theater. The UACJ ballet folklorico group will also perform. Free and open to the public, the performance will begin after a brief talk by Dr. Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, WNMU Scholar-in-Residence, who will discuss the important historical origins of the Dia De Los Muertos holiday.
On Tuesday, November 1, the UACJ mariachi group will perform at 4:00 p.m. in the courtyard of the Silver City Museum. Following the performance, an ofrenda procession will begin at the museum and make its way through downtown Silver city, ending at the Miller Library on the WNMU campus. Festivities will continue at the Miller Library from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and include ofrenda presentations and a performance by WNMU’s Mariachi Plata.
Dia De Los Muertos festivities will conclude on campus with a lecture and art exhibition opening by noted artist, Catalina Delgado Trunk, originally from Mexico City, on Wednesday, November 2 beginning at 6:30 p.m. Delgado Trunk was a recipient of the prestigious New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2015. The exhibition will include a community ofrenda display in McCray Gallery.
For more information, visit http://wnmu.edu/culture.