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Dia de los Muertos Festival at Mesa Arts Center

Mesa, AZ · Holiday

When

October 24–25, 2026

Where

Mesa Arts Center · Mesa · AZ

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Mesa Arts Center's Day of the Dead festival brings altar displays, folklorico dance, and Latin American food vendors to downtown Mesa each October. A community altar lets visitors honor loved ones who have passed. The festival has run for nearly two decades.

The history within reach

• Dia de los Muertos Festival at Mesa Arts Centersame spot

  Mesa Arts Center's Day of the Dead festival brings altar displays, folklorico dance, and Latin American food vendors to downtown Mesa each October.

• Mesa Music Festivalsame spot

  The City of Mesa's free downtown music festival showcases emerging artists across genres on Main Street each October, now in its 8th year.

• The Mesa Arts Center, the largest arts campus in Arizona0.1 mi

  Mesa spent $95 million on a downtown arts complex of more than 210,000 square feet, finished in 2005.

• The only natural history museum in metropolitan Phoenix0.2 mi

  Downtown Mesa keeps the only natural history museum in the Phoenix metro area, opened as the Mesa Southwest Museum and renamed later.

• Fifty-three women charter the Woman's Club of Mesa0.4 mi

  Fifty-three women chartered the club in March 1917 and started raising money for a building the next year.