{"id":1316317,"date":"2019-10-31T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/dia-de-los-muertos-springs-to-life-on-first-friday\/"},"modified":"2019-11-01T07:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T13:05:33","slug":"dia-de-los-muertos-springs-to-life-on-first-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/dia-de-los-muertos-springs-to-life-on-first-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Dia de los Muertos springs to life on First Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Main Street in downtown Carbondale overflows with people as the procession for Dia De Los Muertos makes its way to Thunder River Theatre on Nov. 2, 2018.<\/strong>
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Don\u2019t be spooked if you see a couple hundred skeletons walking down Carbondale\u2019s Main Street Friday night \u2014 it\u2019s just this year\u2019s iteration of Carbondale Arts\u2019 Dia de los Muertos festivities, which will coincide with the town\u2019s First Friday.<\/p>\n

The procession of \u201cCatrinas\u201d is just one of the planned festivities for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), the traditional Mexican holiday that brings together family and friends to pray for and remember loved ones who have died, and to support them on their spiritual journey.<\/p>\n

The festivities will begin at 5 p.m. in Carbondale\u2019s Third Street Center Round Room, which already has filled up with altars that include photos and memorabilia of the departed that are intended to encourage visits by the souls, so the souls will hear the prayers and the comments of the living directed to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll have face painters there who will paint people\u2019s faces in \u2018La Catrina\u2019 style,\u201d said Carbondale Arts Director Amy Kimberly. \u201cWe\u2019ll also have tamales and hot chocolate, and the Waldorf kids will be singing some songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Third Street Center portion of the festivities will conclude at 6 p.m. with the Que Viva tradition of people shouting out the name of someone who has passed and everyone else responding \u201cQue Viva!\u201d (That they shall live!).<\/p>\n

At 6:15 p.m. the procession will move down Third Street to Main Street and then to the Thunder River Theater, where Aspen Santa Fe Folklorio will give free performances at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe procession is huge, and anyone can be in it,\u201d Kimberly said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been doing this for 15 years, and it\u2019s a very integrated festival.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dance of the Sacred Fire and an aerial silk performance will also occur in Fourth Street Plaza at 8 p.m. and there will also be a Catrina costume contest, the winner of which will receive a $100 cash prize from Alpine Bank.<\/p>\n

jbear@postindependent.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Main Street in downtown Carbondale overflows with people as the procession for Dia De Los Muertos makes its way to Thunder River Theatre on Nov. 2, 2018.Post Independent file Don\u2019t be spooked if you see a couple hundred skeletons walking down Carbondale\u2019s Main Street Friday night \u2014 it\u2019s just this year\u2019s iteration of Carbondale Arts\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1316317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 12:33:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316324,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316317\/revisions\/1316324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}