Marigold Project Inc.

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Dearest Community -

Each year for the past 30 years, the Marigold Project has put on the Day of the Dead - Festival of Altars in San Francisco, CA.

It has been our great honor to provide this free and inclusive community event that bridges life and death, joy and grief, the cycles of life, and the world of the Ancestors.

And it is our goal to do it again this year, in-person and live-streamed, and to create a documentary with this year's footage.

We humbly request your help in raising funds to produce this event and provide our beloved dead and Ancestors with the ceremony they deserve.

Your donation will go directly to funding the artists and educational programs that are the bedrock of this event.

We have partnered with Bryant Elementary School, adjacent to Potrero Del Sol/La Raza Park, funding the supplies and educational resources to empower students to build the stage altar.

It is these amazing artists and students who make this the magical event it is, generating the field of energy that welcomes the Ancestors in.

This year, we honor Coatlicue (Nahuatl for “Serpent Skirt”), the Aztec earth goddess, symbol of the earth as both creator and destroyer, and mother of the gods and mortals. Coatlicue is an iteration of Tonantzin and embodies the Virgin of Guadalupe. Today, we revere the Virgin of Guadalupe in the way the ancients revered Coatlicue.

We honor Coatlicue with this year’s Festival of Altars to acknowledge and fight against all of the challenges women face today all over the world.

We hope to raise $7,000 to cover the following event costs:

We aim to create both physical and virtual spaces where our global community can be in dance, prayer, and poetry to help the world evolve, with kindness. We will raise our voices in song, move our bodies in danza, and speak our words of love to honor those that came before us. We will lay flowers down as a path to remembrance.

We hope that you can help us manifest this vision. We know that times are difficult for many, but if you have some to share please consider a donation to our event.

Tlazocamati. Gracias. Thank you.

Join us for Day of the Dead - Festival of Altars 2022:

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Last year for Day of the Dead - Festival of Altars 2021, we featured each direction with an altar dedicated to each phase of life. We invited dancers, poets, and musicians to share their talents to honor our Ancestors and our beloved dead. We honored the children lost to COVID-19, the youth lost in meaningless violence, the women lost to femicide, and the Black Trans lives lost too soon. We shared messages of hope to our communities that were hit so hard during the pandemic.

And we were able to extend all of this beyond the Mission, taking our event global to remind us that we are all united in breath, life, and death.

Watch: Virtual Day of the Dead SF Festival of Altars from Nov 2, 2021

Please enjoy images from past in-person Day of the Dead - Festival of Altars: