The 2024 Day of the Dead Celebration by the ESB MACC will be on November 2, 2024 at Pan American Recreation Center. Save the date! For details about the event, email maccevents@austintexas.gov.
Day of the Dead 2023 (past event details!)
Day of the Dead Festival & Mexamericon Comic Con
Saturday, November 2
5:00-9:00pm
LOCATION: Oswaldo AB Cantu Pan American Park
The MACC’s 17th annual Day of the Dead festival is pairing up again with MexAmericon! This celebration of life will take place at the Pan American Recreation Center. This will be a community-building family-friendly event. Guests can enjoy hands-on children’s activities, art activations, vendors, food trucks, and a collective community altar.
Welcome the Day of the Dead with music performances, altars, art installations, and activities that foster an appreciation for the sweetness and fragility of life.
The MACC’s education department offers free sugar skull decorating and face painting. The collective outdoor ofrenda (altar) will be a gathering of memories that grows larger throughout the evening as guests contribute names and notes to it.
Discover the MACC’s large-scale interactive sculptures by Las Piñatas ATX!
The MexAmeriCon and Day of the Dead events all occur outdoors and under tent cover on the Pan Am grassy “Hillside”.
This double event is free to attend and open to all ages. Guests may bring their own folding chairs, blankets, and water/ water bottles. Alcohol-free.
November 4th will include these FREE activities:
- Graphic Artists, Interactive Board Games by Mexamericon
- Sugar Skull Decorating by MACC Education Department
- Large-Scale Art Installations by Las Pinatas ATX
- Loteria (live bingo game) by MexAmeriCon
- Facepainting
- The list of activities will grow, stay tuned on social media for more!
Ways the public can participate:
- Attend the festival on November 2nd and invite your friends! Follow @ESBMACC!
- To be a vendor or volunteer, please email Estrella. Deleon@austintexas.gov.
- Bring your photographs & flowers to add to one of the community altars. No perishables or valuables please!
- Wear your MexAmeriCon cosplay to participate in a costume contest!
- Does your workplace or school want to build an ofrenda? Email Olivia.Tamzarian@austintexas.gov