• From November 1st to 3rd, the Sixth Day of the Dead Festival will be held on the nude beach.
• Cultural activities such as plays, music concerts, cinema functions, workshops and dance performances will be presented at the festival
• Cultural activities such as plays, music concerts, cinema functions, workshops and dance performances will be presented at the festival
Patricia Pacheco
The organizers explained that this is a free event and they do not have official support.
ZIPOLITE, POCHUTLA .- To promote culture, human values and generate an alternative to reactivate tourism, the next 1, 2 and 3 November will be held at Zipolite the Sixth Festival of Dia de Muertos 2017 .
Based on the initiative of a group of citizens who promote art and culture independently in this locality, known as the collective Calavera Social Club , and after five years of undertaking what they call "an adventure to stimulate human values and spiritual aspects of society "; the event is projected as a festival of culture in one of the most beautiful beaches with the coast of Oaxaca .
Service providers back event
At a press conference, organizers presented the program of artistic and cultural activities to be held in the area of the pavement, including theater, music, dance, cinema, story telling, workshops, practices of the discipline Falun Dafa and an artisan and gastronomic show.
The Day of the Dead Festival will be held with the support of the community and service providers, who will provide lodging and food to the artists, most coming from Mexico City and Oaxacan capital; these, in a show of solidarity and desire to share their art, will cover their transfers to Zipolite and give the functions, workshops and concerts without charge.
Theater and music, plates
"I discussed the project with artists from Mexico City, Oaxaca and other places, they have integrated very kindly and none are charging their presentations, all do it for free to know that the theme of the festival are human values, alternatives of life and stimulate the spirituality of people. They will also pay the cost of their transfers, "said Mario Julio Rodríguez Pérez , creator and promoter of the event.
Accompanied by Alfredo Torrentera and the agent Berenice Díaz Gómez, Mario Julio detailed that the theater companies 30 Arte are presented with the works "Trazos de mi alma", based on the life of Frida Khalo and Calaveras de la Revolución; Gang Theater with the piece "The Biggest Circus in the World" and CLOWNZIENTIZARTE, with Clowns and Stories.
Among the musical offerings are the Mafia Club Jazz Fusion, Mexican Sound Sistem, with hip hop, reggae and salsa, Guerilla Ban Ban and rock musicians Rogelio Martínez, troubadour Julio César García and the French Eva, with world music .
Rodríguez Pérez clarified that the event is free, familiar, free of alcohol and cigarette smoke, also clarified that it lacks the support of municipal authorities, and only the auxiliary representation will assume the payment of the sound and will ensure security of the event through the Police State Preventive.
Festival, a tourist enhancer
As for the possibility of the event becoming an economic and tourist enhancer as is the case of the Jazz Festival, which takes place in Mazunte, organizers lamented that most politicians are not interested in art and that kind of events are subject to the criteria of beer companies that sponsor them; however, they appealed to authorities that value what the Festival promotes and represents cultural and tourist and in the years to come, they support it to be an event that identifies and projects to Zipolite permanently.
