The annual Dia de los Muertos festival was held in Oakland Sunday. The event was expected to bring 100,000 people to the city's Fruitvale neighborhood to commemorate the Mexican traditions around the Day of the Dead.
until SUN 5:00 PM PDT, North Bay interior valleys, Coastal North Bay including Point Reyes National Seashore, East Bay Interior Valleys, San Francisco Peninsula Coast, Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest, Southern Sacramento Valley in Yolo/Sacramento/Far Western Placer/Southern Sutter and Solano County below 1000 ft - excludes the Delta
Organizers said it's the second largest Dia de los Muertos celebration in the state, with more than 250 food, art and business vendors involved. It's a family-friendly event with soccer games, a Lowrider car show and music and dance performances. It's also free and open to all, even people who don't know much about the holiday. "The Dia de los Muertos celebration is a pre-Columbian tradition that dates back hundreds of thousands of years ago, and it is believed in our culture that from October 31 to November 2, the divine gates of heaven open and the souls of our loved ones come and visit us.
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