Side Busting -- on ABQ Dia De Los Muertos

Henry Morales side busted on Albuquerque's first downtown DIA DE LOS MUERTOS PARADE on November 9, 2024, 4 - 10 PM, to sell prints in the plaza at the Civic Center. So we side busted on Henry to make an EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print:

Henry Morales' print set-up

at the Dia De Los Muertos Parade

in downtown Albuquerque on November 9, 2024

This "inaugural" event was sponsored by Dia De Los Muertos USA and the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce, featuring almost exclusively corporate booths from businesses like Telemundo, Presbyterian Hospital, Blue Shield and Bank of America. However the more home grown MUERTOS Y MARIGOLDS PROCESSION AND CELEBRATION has been going on for over a decade in Albuquerque's South Valley.

We hand printed one EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print:

ARTISTS:

• Ellie Weadock
• Juan Wijngaard
• Gabriele Teich
• Ella York
• Virgil Velasquez
• Barbara Endicott

Albuquerque DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

Henry all set up at the beginning

about 4 PM

Henry inking to make an 

EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Print

Inked and ready-to-print

Hand printing

The Reveal!

Sundown

Someone in the background

holding the Henry print that they bought

The dancers were from 

Ballet Folklórico Santa Fe

Henry in the dark

The parade started at 7 PM

From the Albuquerque Consulado de Mexico

Everyone had packed up and left once the parade was over, before 8 PM, though the event was scheduled to go on until 10 PM.

MUERTOS Y MARIGOLDS

 PROCESSION AND CELEBRATION

The MUERTOS Y MARIGOLDS PROCESSION AND CELEBRATION went on the weekend before, November 3rd, 2024, which I blogged about.  This event has been going on in Albuquerque's South Valley for more than a decade:

Katie Morales, Henry Morales, and Ellie Weadock

selling prints during the MUERTOS Y MARIGOLDS celebration

on November 3rd, in Albuquerque's South Valley

The South Valley procession was larger than the parade

at the Albuquerque Civic Center 

a week later

Perhaps the most enduring gesture of the Muertos Y Marigolds celebration, was the vendor tent selling hot dogs and Cokes for only $1 apiece:

Hot dogs and Cokes

for only $1 apiece

ALL SOULS PROCESSION

Tucson

Previously I went to a lot of ALL SOULS PROCESSIONS in Tucson, Oaxaca, El Paso and elsewhere:

ALL SOULS PROCESSION

Tucson 2012