Concerts, dance, races, theater and more to celebrate the Dead in Edomex

Live a great experience in Edomex at the Festival de las Almas 2022 in Valle de Bravo. We tell you all the details and how to get there.

Talking about the celebration of the Day of the Dead in Mexico represents a trip to our traditions and culture; where all the spaces of social coexistence are dressed in color and filled with unique aromas coming from the cempasúchil flower.

In the State of Mexico, this tradition in which spirituality predominates, is also exalted through a cultural festival full of magic and mysticism.

We are talking about the Festival of Souls 2022, organized by the state Ministry of Culture and Tourism, which offers quality activities that will take place for nine days (from October 28 to November 5) in the Magical Town of Valle de Bravo.

This festival, which was born 20 years ago, aims to preserve ancestral customs that, as a millenary legacy, allows hearts to be filled with pride for belonging to Mexican land.

For this 2022, the aim is for young people and children to feel part of this party and to know that they are the soul that gives life and essence to this meeting.

In addition, the public will be able to enjoy the most representative of music, theater, dance, literature, cinema, plastic arts, crafts, sculptures and, to reaffirm the exchange of creativity and thought between the five indigenous ethnic groups of the entity and contemporary society, it also rescues rites, gastronomy, dances and beliefs that have forged our history.

This year’s billboard includes more than 100 activities and shows. Photo: festivaldelasalmas.com.

The “famous” singers and groups that will perform at the Valle de Bravo 2022 Souls Festival are the following:

October 28

11:00 a.m. Steam boat.
12:00 noon Xoloitzcuintles exhibition: pre-Hispanic companions.
3:00 pm “The dream of the mara’akame”.
4:00 p.m. Literary Calaveritas, Workshop for children.
4:00 p.m. Crafts skull bags.
5:00 p.m. La Tría in concert, Trova. Live broadcast by @CulturaEdomex.
6:00 p.m. Work “La Llorona”.
18:00 hours Divertimento, Vocal Octet of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
7:00 p.m. 14 ways to put on the jacket, Juan Córdova.
8:00 p.m. Elvis Presley Symphony, Symphony Orchestra of the State of Mexico. Live broadcast by @CulturaEdomex.

October 29th

11:00 am The Tales of Han Christian Andersen, Juglaría and the Camerata de Puebla.
12:00 pm “The Cosmos and time”, Yvonne Domenge.
12:00 hours Clay Skull Workshop
1:00 p.m. Movie “The Golden Cage”.
1:00 p.m. Mexican Altars Workshop.
4:00 pm Workshop Portrait of paper skulls.
5:00 pm “Divas” Tribute, 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s, Beth Tavella.
5:00 p.m. Coco The Musical: Theater.
6:00 p.m. Organ concert, Víctor Urban.
7:00 p.m. Expanded Poetry/Sounds, Rocío Cerón.
8:00 p.m. 14 ways to put on the jacket, Juan Córdova.
8:00 p.m. Temporalities, Mexiquense Company of Regional Dances.

30th of October

11:00 a.m. Work Tears of the Cihuacóatl.
12:00 noon Performance Monologues set to music.
12:00 hours Clay Skull Workshop.
1:00 p.m. Movie “La tirisia”.
1:00 p.m. Work “Quixote conquering himself”.
1:00 p.m. Mexican Altars Workshop.
1:00 p.m. Catrines and catrinas, face painting.
5:00 p.m. Hurricane.
5:00 p.m. Play “The stories of Gregoria La Grande”.
5:00 p.m. “500 years of French culture in Mexico”, Minuche Suberville.
6:00 p.m. Romances without fear, Duet Voice between strings.
6:00 p.m. Coco The Musical, Theater.
7:00 p.m. String Quintet, COMEM.
8:00 p.m. “El Juntacadaveres”, Mexico Tour 2022.

31 October

11:00 a.m. “The colloquium of the bitches”.
1:00 p.m. Movie “Pan-American Machinery”.
3:00 p.m. Coco cardboard musical instruments workshop.
4:00 p.m. Workshop “The Mysterious Skull”.
4:00 p.m. Workshop “La Calaca Tilica y Flaca”.
5:00 p.m. Play “The Worst Lady in the World”.
6:00 p.m. Fausto Palma, Petra Group.
7:00 p.m. Movie “Delicious”.
8:00 p.m. Elephant, Tour 2022.
8:00 p.m. Works “Don Juan Tenorio”.

Festival-of-the-Souls-2022-Valle-de-Bravo — **The great parade of Animas is one of the most anticipated events. Photo: festivaldelasalmas.com.**

November 1st

11:00 a.m. Sweet Madness of the Soul, Dance.
11:00 a.m. Play “El Guardagujas”.
12:00 noon La Bohemia Fresca, Malinalli.
1:00 p.m. Movie “Cría Puercos”.
3:00 p.m. Crafts Workshop, decoration for the Day of the Dead.
4:00 p.m. Play La Bruja, School of Performing Arts.
4:00 p.m. Tribute to Jorge Negrete and José Alfredo Jiménez, José Antonio Nava.
4:00 p.m. Watercolor Crafts: The Mysterious Skull.
5:00 p.m. Carmina Burana, Orchestra and Choir of the Conservatory of Music of the State of Mexico.
6:00 pm From Baroque to Tango, Morgan Szymanski and Latin American Quartet.
6:00 p.m. San Marcos Folkloric Dance Company.
7:00 p.m. Movie “The Last Life of Simón”.
7:00 p.m. Callejoneada Tuna Real University.
8:00 p.m. “Dance Pedro Páramo or Los Murmullos”.

November 2

10:00 am “La Chorcha de las Calacas”, Children’s Theater.
12:00 pm What the dead tell, Storytellers.
1:00 p.m. Work The contradictions of time.
3:00 p.m. Workshop Chocolate Popsicles, figures and skulls.
4:00 p.m. Parade Vagary, Batucada.
4:00 p.m. Spitze String Quartet.
4:00 p.m. Crafts Workshop: Calacas chopped paper.
5:00 p.m. Dream adventure: alebrijes, Dance.
5:00 p.m., Catrineando, Parade, Start: Plaza Calle Joaquín Arcadio Pagaza, ends in the Central Garden.
7:00 p.m. “Film Someone, Somewhere”.
8:00 p.m. “On the Day of the Dead”, Mexiquense Philharmonic Orchestra.

November 3

12:00 pm Breath Ensemble, COMEM.
2:00 p.m. Tucumpa Party, Pim Pau.
3:00 pm Earth you are, earth I am, Valle de Bravo Community Choir.
3:00 p.m. Literary Calaveritas Workshop.
4:00 p.m. Watercolor Workshop: masks and catrinas.
5:00 p.m. Eurojazz Austria, David Helbock’s, Random Control.
5:00 p.m. Crafts Workshop: Mascaraclaca.
6:00 p.m. Clarinet Quartet “Méndez”.
6:00 p.m. Work Messengers.
6:00 p.m. “Natalia Makarova” Dance Academy.
7:00 p.m. Movie “Jaws”.
7:00 p.m. Work Pantheon of loves.
8:00 p.m. Beny Ibarra.

How to get to Valle de Bravo?

If you travel by public transport, go to the TAPO terminal (next to the San Lázaro metro) and take a bus to Almoloya de Juárez, which takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes with an estimated price of 160 pesos. Then from there take a taxi to Valle de Bravo with an estimated price of 330 pesos. A total average of 500 pesos and with an estimated time of arrival of two hours.

If you go by car, head south west, either along Paseo de la Reforma Avenue, Constituyentes Avenue or the Supervía, until the junction with the Mexico-Toluca Highway. Follow this path and you will reach Lerma; just at kilometer 20 you will see the bypass exit to avoid entering Toluca, thus saving you travel time.

Now you must go to your right, to the north, taking the deviation to Guadalajara-Morelia, a colonial jewel. At kilometer 26 you will find the Xonacatlán booth, which you must cross following the Atlacomulco-Temoaya direction. Already at kilometer 66 you will see the next booth, that of La Hortaliza, continue straight and take the lane that indicates the Zitácuaro-Valle de Bravo-Avándaro direction.

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At kilometer 87 you will arrive at the last booth of your route, which will indicate that you are close to your destination. From that point you will only have to advance about 35 minutes more along a winding road with beautiful natural landscapes that will lead you directly to the Magical Town.

If you want to know more about the festival, visit the site: https://festivaldelasalmas.com/es/.