Dia de los Muertos: Young People's Ofrenda

Children everywhere are looking forward to Sunday's Halloween festivities. Trick or Treating, bobbing for apples or dressing up as your favorite princess are the standards. But, All Hallows Eve isn't the only celebration involving skulls and candy. Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead is huge holiday in Mexico and transplants to the Twin Cities are celebrating this pre-Colombian festivity. MN Original travels to El-Colegio Charter school and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to learn more about the Young People's Ofrenda project, celebrating ancestors that have passed on.

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• halloween
• dia
• de
• los
• muertos
• ofrenda
• art
• MIA
• Latino
• youth
• Mexican