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AUSTIN: Día de los Muertos: A Roots & Wings Festival Event

  • Red Salmon Arts 2000 Thrasher Lane Austin, TX, 78741 (map)

Presented by Red Salmon Arts, Casa de Resistencia Books

Join us for an evening of honoring our ancestors and cultura!

Bring the family to enjoy:

  • Live Music

  • Food & Drinks

  • BIPOC vendor market

  • Bilingual kid’s storytime

  • Kid’s crafting

  • Guided fungi UV night walk with Central Texas Mycology

  • Fruit Tree Giveaway from Central Texas Mycology

  • Making mariposa wings

  • Making seed balls

  • Painting paper mache skulls

Guests will hand pick flowers from the Resistencia Community Garden. Together, the community will build an altar to our ancestors with cempasuchiles, mano de leon, and amaranth flowers.

Everyone is encouraged to leave pictures (copies) and offerings for their loved ones!

Goodie bag giveaways include the books “Papá’s Magical Water-Jug Clock” and “Lotli,” native pollinator seed mixes, & cempasuchil flowers for family altars at home.

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7:00pm: Opening Ceremony

Guests can bring their ofrendas for the altar andcut fresh flowers from garden for altar

Goodie Bag Giveaway: children books, native pollinator seed mixes, and zines

7:30pm: Kids Bilingual Storytime (inside)

Lotli Illustrated Book about the origin of the Monarch Butterfly

Papá’s Magical Water-Jug Clock

8:00pm: Bilingual Fungi UV Night Walk guided by Central Texas Mycology Jesus Garcia

8:30pm: Open Mic poetry

9:00pm: Event Ends

Considering vending or tabling? Find information below!

Vendor Form

Community Partner Form

ABOUT ROOTS & WINGS FESTIVAL

The Roots & Wings Festival is an annual community-wide celebration of trees, pollinators, and all creatures.

The Festival is dedicated to celebrating nature in our neighborhoods. We embrace the fundamental concept that we are all connected to each other and to our local ecosystem. Growing these connections creates a stronger, more resilient and healthy community.

The Roots & Wings Festival is not one event, it is many, and it is led by the community in neighborhoods all over Austin. Community events feature celebrations of our urban forest ecosystem (trees, butterflies, plants, fungi, soil health, pollinators, birds, bats, and more)!

In 2023, the Roots & Wings Festival helped to support over 129 community-led events!