Photographs: Oakland Museum of California celebrates thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos

Colourful costumes and ofrendas greeted the numerous guests who got here to pay their respects to their ancestors throughout Sunday’s thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos celebration on the Oakland Museum of California.

Día de los Muertos Committee members led a procession and Aztec dancers opened the celebration, which included hands-on artwork actions, Mexican meals, dance, music and colourful ofrendas.

A bunch of visionary artists and neighborhood members approached OMCA in 1994 to arrange the primary community-based Día de los Muertos celebration. The occasion’s goal is to hyperlink a dwelling indigenous custom of recognizing those that got here earlier than us to reconnect our communities with our ancestors and their methods of being.

A various gathering of neighborhood members got here collectively for this annual therapeutic custom.

Tommy Marsden, of Martinez, sprinkles flower petals on an ofrenda (altar) in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) A adorned cranium, photographs and different objects on one of many many ofrendas (altars) in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) Guests try one of many many ofrendas (altar) in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) Laura Rifkin, of Emeryville, wears face paint in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) The Mariachi Bonitas carry out in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) Guests try one of many many ofrendas (altar) in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) A adorned skeleton in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) Guests try one of many many ofrendas (altars) in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) A adorned cranium in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) The Mexico Danza group performs in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) A adorned skeleton in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) Guests pose for a photograph in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) The Mexico Danza group performs in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) Reena Valvani, and her daughter Sanjana, 6, of Oakland, put on costumes in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) The Mexico Danza group waits to carry out in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) A customer checks out an ofrenda (altar) made by the Eastside Arts Alliance in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) The Mexico Danza group performs in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group) Guests try one of many many ofrendas (altars) in the course of the thirtieth annual Día de los Muertos neighborhood celebration on the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Jane Tyska/Bay Space Information Group)