Oakland Museum: 30th Annual Día de los Muertos
The 30th Annual Día de los Muertos Community Celebration
October 27 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
1000 Oak Street, Oakland CA 94607
$10 Festival access. Buy $10 tickets here:
Buy your ticket for this year’s celebration; limited tickets will be available at the door. $10 for all-inclusive festival and gallery access. Children under 12 are free with advance reservations.
OMCA is excited to celebrate the 30th Annual Día de los Muertos Community Celebration! This year’s offrenda theme is Honoring Our Ancestors: Making a Promise for the Future. ✨️🌺💀🌺✨️
Join us at OMCA, on Sunday, October 27, and enjoy hands-on activities, tasty food, dance and music groups, colorful ofrendas, and ceremonia that bring the community together for this healing tradition.
View community-created ofrendas throughout the OMCA gardens paying homage to loved ones.
Visitors can also support local artisans by purchasing Día de los Muertos goods for your home altar at our Mercado.
For the past 29 years, we have transformed our campus into a sacred space for our annual community celebration each October. Stay tuned for this year’s celebration details, which will take place Sunday, October 27, 2024 from 11 am to 4 pm.
Join us as OMCA comes alive for the 30th annual community celebration honoring Day of the Dead traditions.
Craft activities, tasty food, dance and music groups, colorful ofrendas, and ceremonia bring the community together for this healing tradition. Browse Day of the Dead merchandise by local artisans for your home altar at our mercado.
Enjoy performances ranging from contemporary popular music to folkloric dance to mariachi. Join in a procession to open the celebration led by Days of the Dead committee members.
View community-created ofrendas throughout the OMCA gardens paying homage to loved ones lost.
Program Schedule [2 stages]:
Garden Stage*, Lower Level.
12:00–12:30 pm Performance by Monica Maria
1:00–1:30 pm Performance by Mariachi Bonitas
2:00–2:45 pm Performance by Mexico Danza
3:00–3:45 pm Performance by Banda 300
3:45–4 pm Closing Palabras and Four Directions
* If raining, performances will move to the James Moore Theater, Lower Level
Amphitheater **, Lower Level.
12:45–1:15 pm Poetry Readings by Aideed Medina, Sara Borjas, Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo
1:30–2:30 pm Salsa and Bachata Lesson with In Lak’ech Dance Academy
3:10–3:40 pm Performance by Diana Gameros.
** If raining, performances will move to the Lecture Hall, Lower Level.
