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Muertos y Marigolds<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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community, art, and activism in the heart of Albuquerque's South Valley

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Join us for the 2025 South Valley D\u00eda de los Muertos Celebration and Marigold Procession<\/p>

Nov 2<\/p>

Celebration 12-4pm<\/p>

Procession 2pm\u00a0<\/p>

Westside Community Center (1250 Isleta Blvd SW, Albuquerque, NM 87105)<\/p>

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Muertos y Marigolds is excited to host it’s 33rd annual Dia de Los Muertos Procession, Celebration, Ofrenda Exhibit, and Workshop series. All of the workshops and events have material, artist, rental, equipment, and staffing costs that ultimately add up to be about $12,000 per year. We need your help and support to continue to share this longstanding series of events with the South Valley Community of Albuquerque, and to continue to empower the voices in our community through the arts with our programming.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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2025 Art Contest Winner:
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Statement<\/p>

The calavera, here as a symbol of the great equalizer, reminds us that no matter where we roam on this earth, our place is certain, sacred and free. In the face of greed, surveillance, forced separation, state violence and abduction, we are tasked with the responsibility to act, breaking chains with our very existence as Chicano\/Indigenous people, who have endured and will continue to flourish, despite all attempts at erasure from our homelands. This work serves to stand in solidarity with all peoples in this struggle; we are united and we relentlessly remain for love of land, community, our ancestors and our children.<\/p>

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Bio<\/p>

Tara Solt is a visual artist from the South Valley, Albuquerque NM. Born and raised in the forests of NE Pennsylvania, she came home to her maternal homeland of New Mexico in 1997. Growing up in a large family of creatively inclined siblings and mother, she began looking, listening, imagining and drawing from the age of 3. She earned a BFA from the University of New Mexico, in Painting and Drawing in 2017. Much of her work explores themes of creation, ancestry and the natural world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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2025 Art Contest Theme<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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“Papalotl Encadenada: Free Our People Now!<\/span>“<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We, Chicanos\/Mexicanos\/Mestizos etc, invoke the image of the chained mariposa (or Papalotl in the Mexica language of Nahuatl) to stand in solidarity with all Indigenous peoples who have and are actively being targeted and captured due to state violence and border surveillance. Indigenous peoples have migrated freely between the North and South of the so-called Americas for thousands of years. The phrase, \u201cWe didn\u2019t cross the border; the border crossed us!\u201d empowers us as we bear witness to the intentional destruction of our communities and separation of our families in the name of facism and white supremacy.<\/span><\/p>

No one is \u201c*illegal\u201d on stolen land and peoples have every right to migrate, just as the monarch butterfly, in a practice of fulfilling and sustaining their lifeways. The \u201cBracero Program\u201d that existed from 1942-1964 and \u201cOperation W*tback\u201d carried out in 1953-1954 are two sides of the same fascist coin that has sought to exploit our labor, our citizenship statuses, and our sense of belonging in the name of re-producing the myth of <\/span>American Exceptionalism<\/span><\/i> through our food systems and workforce. Particularly since the first Obama Administration in 2008, our families have been unlawfully abducted and detained in outrageous numbers to feed the military and prison industrial complexes as they profit off of Brown and Black captive bodies in ICE detention facilities or unjustly deport and even seek to disappear our people in the name of extraction. Though folks have been more active in protest during this newly emboldened white supremacist administration under Trump, we have long been fighting facism in detention and must continue to do so regardless of what party is in office. We call on our communities to show up in solidarity and make a statement that \u201caqu\u00ed estamos y no nos vamos\u201d and demonstrate support for all of our migrant siblings and all those Indigenous peoples impacted by Imperialism across the globe\u2013from Turtle Island to Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The South Valley D\u00eda de los Muertos Celebration and Marigold Parade receives in-kind support from Bernalillo County and some community organizations. Over the last few years, in-kind support and organizational support has diminished due to budget cuts adopted by the state government and other agencies.<\/p>

We, the organizers of these much loved South Valley events, must now rely more and more on your donations of time and finances. In addition to your direct support, we are also interested in other funding opportunities. If you would like to help, please us know by emailing us at info@muertosymarigolds.org.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Mission<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The mission the South Valley D\u00eda de los Muertos Celebration and Marigold Procession include:<\/p>

  • To exert cultural self-determination;<\/strong><\/li>
  • To strengthen community;<\/strong><\/li>
  • To promote cultural exchange through intergenerational learning<\/strong> and expression through art, music, food, dance and political satire;<\/li>
  • To promote pride in South Valley cultural identity<\/strong> through our grassroots, non-corporate organizing.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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