(upbeat music) - Oaxaca en Utah's Dia de los Muertos event brings together tradition, remembrance, and community.

Christina Myers and Sofia Clara Mora join us to share how this celebration honors the lives of loved ones through music, alters, and cultural expression.

Christina and Sofia, welcome!

You ladies look absolutely fabulous, and I feel very underdressed.

(people laughing) Christina, we'll start with you.

Let's talk about this year's event, and it's actually going to be at a cemetery.

- Yes.

- So let's talk about it.

- Truly, this is our third year that we will be partnering with Oaxaca en Utah for Myers Mortuary & Evergreen Memorial Park.

And the event should be originally, as they celebrated in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, held at a cemetery, where people come together to honor, to remember their loved ones that have passed on.

It's a beautiful, light celebration for you to gather as a family and with your loved ones and to share those memories and never forget them.

They will always live on in our memory.

- Wonderful.

Okay, and Sofia, and you are the reigning royalty of the Guelaguetza, I see.

So tell us what people will see there, the ofrendas and other things.

- So they will see, like, ofrendas, and which h in English we call them alters.

And then there's cempasúchil, which is pronounced marigolds.

And so you mostly see like, ofrendas.

You can bring a photo of a loved one to help and put in the community ofrenda.

And so then you can like dress also in catrinas, catrina styles if you want to, and yeah.

- All right, and they can learn from you two how they can paint their faces for this.

Anyway, you look absolutely fabulous.

This sounds like a wonderful event, and thank you both so much for coming.

Thank you.

And if you'd like to know more about this celebration of Dia de los Muertos with Oaxaca en Utah and Myers Mortuary, it will be November 1st from four to nine at Evergreen Memorial Park in Ogden.

Go to oaxacaenutah.org, oaxacaenutah.org.

I'm Mary Dickson.

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