GALLERY: Viva Los Muertos Day of the Dead Festival

Exodis Ward, Contributor • November 19, 2019

El Paso Punk Rock Flea Market hosted the “Viva Los Muertos Day of the Dead Festival” Saturday, Nov. 16 at El Maida Shrine auditorium.

In a post, coordinators described the event as “A sacred thing for us and we want to share this amazing, vibrant, cultural experience.”

The family-friendly festival included food trucks, workshops, community altars and more than 90 local artists and vendors from 2 to 10 p.m.

Attendees could also to get their faces painted as a Catrina and win prizes.

El Paso Punk Rock Flea Market will host another holiday event in December called “F*ck The Mall Holiday Market” at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 at the Undisputed Craft House.

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Exodis Ward

Exodis Ward is a Multimedia Journalism major, English Rhetoric minor at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is Entertainment editor at The Prospector, UTEP’s student newspaper. Though Ward is a writer by nature, she enjoys photography and aspires to be a Jack-of-all-trades. When she’s not writing, she enjoys taking ballet classes, reading a good book or playing video games.