Family Friendly

The Plaza de la Raza’s annual Día de los Muertos Festival is a family-friendly celebration of art, music, dance, and tradition. The event includes art exhibitions and ofrendas by local artists, mainstage performances, hands-on workshops, local food booths, craft vendors, and more. All guests are welcome to add photos or items of their loved ones to our main community altar. There will be a beloved pet altar as well.

Lincoln Heights Youth Arts Center presents the 7th Annual Día de los Muertos Days of Remembrance from Wednesday, October 30 to Saturday, November 2, 2024! Bring your family and friends and participate in creative activities centered in traditions that honor the Día de los Muertos holiday. Everyone is welcomed to honor their loved ones in our public Community Altar. Offerings of remembrance  can be brought to LHYAC from Wednesday to Friday between 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The program is free and open to the public!

Program Schedule:

🔥Bonfire with Camazotz and the Ancestors

Wednesday, October 30, 2024, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

💀3D Skull Masks

Thursday, October 31, 2024, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

🖼️Screen Printing

Friday, November 1, 2024, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

🌼Papel Picado and Flower Crowns

Saturday, November 2, 2024, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Questions? Please, contact (323) 224-0928 or email dca.lhyac@lacity.org

Commemorate your loved ones (pets included) and learn about the sacred tradition of Día de los Muertos at Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore, from Thursday, October 17 to Friday, November 1, 2024. This DCA-Sponsored program offers workshops in Sugar Skull Making to Tamale making to Community Altar Building. Reservations are required. Please visit Tía Chucha’s event page to register!

This interactive and educational permanent exhibition invites families to explore the sights, sounds and smells of downtown Los Angeles during the 1920s. Calle Principal is an immersive recreation of Main Street, the one-time heart of Los Angeles’s Mexican, Mexican-American, and immigrant communities—and the street where LA Plaza sits on today.

Used as a teaching tool, pottery is one of the most enduring indicators of culture. We at the American Museum of Ceramic Art are celebrating the rich and enduring history of Latinx and Indigenous pottery this  Latino Heritage Month. Bring our Mud Mobile outreach program to your school or event. Led by our teaching artists, this educational art experience allows students to interact with artwork from our Mata Ortiz and Pueblo pottery collections and create their air-dry clay projects.

In 2019, Lawson answered more than 1,000 questions in his Story File so that future generations can continue conversing with him to learn about his legacy. What would you like to ask Lawson?

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.,
Thursday, 12:00 noon – 8:00 p.m.
Adults – $16, Seniors and Youth – $9, Members and Children under 5 – Free