Día de los Muertos parade

1 p.m. | Welcome & Crafts Enjoy a selection of hands-on, wearable art making activities to prepare for the parade. 2 p.m. | Día de los Muertos Parade Join the parade and celebrate Día de los Muertos with us! Led by Son Pecadores musicians and dancers as well as Mascara Viva’s larger-than-life puppets—La Catrina, skeletons, and monarch butterflies—you can follow the music together in this joyful procession. 2:30 p.m. | Performance by MAZarte Daffodil Hill Main Stage After the parade, take a seat and enjoy a lively performance by MAZarte Dance Company, featuring traditional Mexican music and dance from Veracruz. 3:15 p.m. | Cumbia Sonidera Dance Class with CoolMarx Daffodil Hill Main Stage Learn basic cumbia sonidera steps with dance instructor CoolMarx and dancers Kacia and Cinthya. Though cumbia originated in Colombia, it has found a home in Mexico as well, where local musicians adapted the genre and created the distinctive rhythms and sounds of Mexican cumbia and its DJs, known as sonideros. Born and raised in Queens and now based in Brooklyn, Mark Saldana, a.k.a. CoolMarx, embraces all regional variations of cumbia in his community-based dance lessons—from cumbia sonidera and colombiana to ecuadoriana, peruana, and mexicana.