![]() ![]() In a few months, the preparations will begin again to create another year of experiences that just can’t happen anywhere else but on the streets of Tucson in early November. The procession comes to an end, with hugs, tears, and prayers. Then, as the contents of the urn are set ablaze, the messages and thoughts it once contained rise up as well, with a crane lifting the urn 30 feet up for all to see. Performance art group Flam Chen lit up the night sky with flames and acrobatics, with over 100 dancers, drummers, and musicians filling the stage and the air above it. If you’re feeling loss, this is an opportunity to join those feeling it as well. That isn’t to say there isn’t a celebration involved as well and that’s seen best in the finale of the Procession, held on the west side of Tucson’s downtown area, next to the Mercado San Agustin and basically the spiritual home of our city. A pipe-and-drum band, sporting a likely unique combination of kilts and Calavera face-paint, performing “Amazing Grace.” A man walking down the street in a suit, a shrine contained within a backpack following him.Ī group might be walking for a deceased co-worker or for an endangered animal. ![]() People show up to experience the procession in countless ways, in street clothes or fully in costume. Enjoy " Día de Los Muertos – A Celebration of Life," by Tim Vanderpool, a story about a Tucson tradition with south-of-the-border roots and the cross-section of revelers it attracts during All Souls Procession every year. For the past two days, people in Mexico and other Latin American countries have been celebrating Día de Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, paying homage to. ![]() Discover authentic Tucson and the freedom to be yourself. ![]()
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