On the Westside, MujerArtes Hosts Its 31st Annual Día de Muertos on Sunday: More Than 20 Community Altars at the Rinconcito de Esperanza
The Esperanza Peace & Justice Center's artist cooperative marks 31 years of Día de Muertos on Sunday, November 1 from 4 to 10 p.m. at 816 S. Colorado Street — community altars, live music, a Westside procession, art for sale and calavera readings by Teatro Esperanza.
One of San Antonio's longest-running Día de los Muertos observances belongs to the Westside. MujerArtes Cooperativa de Esperanza, the artist cooperative of the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, hosts its 31st annual Día de Muertos celebration on Sunday, November 1, from 4 to 10 p.m. at the Rinconcito de Esperanza, 816 S. Colorado Street, according to San Antonio Magazine's Halloween-weekend guide, read in full this cycle.
The celebration includes a display of more than 20 unique community altars, live music, a procession through the Westside, art for sale and calavera readings by Teatro Esperanza, the magazine's listing says. Where the weekend's larger festivals gather crowds downtown and at Pearl, the Rinconcito's observance is the neighborhood's own — built, altar by altar, by the community it honors, and now in its fourth decade.
It closes the city's Día weekend on the Westside: Sunday's calendar also carries the main Día de los Muertos celebration at Pearl (5 to 9 p.m., covered by this station as SQ-20261031-014) and the Calaveras de Azucar Festival's second day at Market Square (covered as SQ-20261031-061). The Rinconcito gathering runs latest of the three, until 10 p.m.
