Scholarship Application: Spring 2025
- Application available online HERE
- Submission Deadline: Monday, November 11 @ 5:00 pm
- Two (2) scholarships are typically awarded: one for AEP and one for ELP
- Award will cover $2600 towards intensive tuition for the Spring 2025 (15–week) session in either AEP or ELP.
Continuing Student Applications
- For Spring 2025
- Application available online HERE
- We would love to see you again!
Día de los Muertos
What is Día de los Muertos?
According to Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum, “Celebrated by Mexicans and Mexican Americans alike, as well as others in Latin America, Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead is an important religious and cultural event that synthesizes pre-Columbian traditions and Catholic Church practices. Originating in ancient Mexico, the annual celebration is increasingly observed in the United States as part of contemporary Latinx popular culture. Day of the Dead blends indigenous religious and cultural rituals with customs surrounding the Catholic holy days:
- November 1: All Saints’ Day (prayers said to saints and martyrs)
- November 1: Día de los Angelitos (Day of the Little Angels, dedicated to souls of deceased children)
- November 2: All Souls’ Day (prayers and offerings made to deceased relatives and friends, especially for souls in Purgatory)
During this yearly event, cemeteries are cleaned. Home and public altars or ofrendas (offerings) are built to honor the dead, who they attract with food, drink, candles, incense, marigold flowers, and objects once favored in their lives.”
Who is la Catrina? Why do people paint their face like skeletons?
The original image was created by artist Jose Guadalupe Posada in Mexico City in right before the Mexican Revolution. The Catrina is a well-dressed skeleton that pokes fun at the brevity of life, the futility of materialism, and is a commentary on both death impersonated and a historical embrace of the life/ death cycle that started in ancient Mexico.
Austin’s MACC: Day of the Dead Festival & MexAmeriCon Comic Con
- Saturday, November 2
- 2:00 – 8:00 pm
- Pan American Recreation Center, 2100 E. 3rd St.
- The MexAmeriCon and Day of the Dead events occur simultaneously outdoors under partial tent cover on the Pan Am Rec Center grassy “Hillside.”
- This double event is FREE and open to all ages, no RSVP or ticket required.
- Guests may bring chairs, water, and snacks. There will be multiple food trucks and vendors on site as well.
- MexAmeriCon is Austin’s first Mexican American and Latinx Comic Book Convention (Comic Con). Austin’s 7th annual Mexican-American Comic-Con will have over 60 artists presenting graphic novels, zines, manga, fan art, and a whole afternoon of programming! Come early to meet local artists and join the fun!
picture courtesy of ESB MACC. - Day of the Dead will welcome the memories of our loved ones with Day of the Dead altars, art installations, & activities that foster an appreciation for the sweetness and fragility of life. Discover the ESB MACC’s large-scale interactive sculptures by Las Piñatas ATX. There will be free sugar skull decorating and free face painting throughout the event. The collective outdoor ofrenda (altar) will be a gathering of memories that anyone can contribute to. You may bring notes or write one on-site to add to the altar.
- Live musical performances and MexAmeriCon programing on the outdoor Pan Am Hillside stage and tent from 2:00 – 8:00 pm.
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