Celebrate Day of the Dead, Snohomish County style
For those who celebrate Día de los Muertos, skulls and souls are the opposite of spooky when the holiday comes around.
In the days after Halloween, communities around the Puget Sound will celebrate with poetry, music and art as part of a joyful tradition to commemorate the lives of departed loved ones.
Día de los Muertos, known in English as the Day of the Dead, is a Mexican holiday traditionally celebrated on Nov. 1 or 2. Families honor the dead with offerings of food, flowers and drinks on lavishly decorated altars called ofrendas, and some dress up as catrinas, or skeletons, mirroring the brightly colored sugar skulls that often adorn an ofrenda.
In Lynnwood, the WAGRO Foundation will celebrate the holiday early with a massive gathering at the Lynnwood Convention Center, 3711 196th St SW, on Saturday. The event is free and open to the public. It will run from noon to 5:30 p.m.
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