Join Red Salmon Arts/ Casa de Resistencia Books for a Roots & Wings Festival Event Series!

Oct. 5th, 8:30am-11:30am: "Café Librito & Garden Daze", a bilingual interactive program, where we will plant a mushroom trail on the land at Red Salmon Arts, watch a movie, and make mini zines! Together we will prepare the land, plants, and fungi for our UV night walk for "Cafe Librito: 2024 Dia de los Muertos Festival". No experience needed! Come learn with us! After planting, volunteers are welcome to our Cine Resistenica where we will watch a film about the intersection of pollinator plants, monarch butterflies, and Dia de los Muertos! Don't miss our mini zine workshop where we will create bilingual mini zines about fungi, native pollinators, and Dia De Los Muertos to inform our communities about the importance of pollinators and our cultural traditions!

October 26th 7pm- 9pm (Rain date: 11/2): "Cafe Librito: 2024 Dia de los Muertos Festival" Join us for an evening of honoring our ancestors and cultura! Bring the family to enjoy:

• live music food & drinks

• BIPOC vendor market

• bilingual kid’s storytime

• kid’s crafting

• guided fungi UV night walk with Central Texas Mycology

Guests will hand pick flowers from our very own Resistencia Community Garden. Together, the community will build an altar to our ancestors with cempasuchiles, mano de leon, and amaranth flowers.

Everyone is encouraged to leave pictures (copies) and offerings for their loved ones! Goodie bag giveaways include the books, “Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock” and “Lotli”, native pollinator seed mixes, & cempasuchil flowers for family altars at home.

• 7:00pm: Opening Ceremony

  • Guests can bring their ofrendas for the altar andcut fresh flowers from garden for altar

  • Goodie Bag Giveaway: children books, native pollinator seed mixes, and zines

• 7:30pm: Kids Bilingual Storytime (inside) with Lotli Illustrated Book about the origin of the Monarch Butterfly & Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock

• 8:00pm: Bilingual Fungi UV Night Walk guided by Central Texas Mycology Jesus Garcia

• 8:30pm: Open Mic poetry

• 9:00pm: Event Ends

Ongoing Activities!

• BIPOC Vendor Market

• Live Music

• Arts & Crafts Tables

• Making mariposa wings

• Making seed balls

• Painting paper mache skulls

November 2nd, 8:30am-11:30am: During Native American heritage month, our Native Roots program activities will center around The Three Sisters/Milpa, (currently growing in our Resistencia Community Garden). We will intertwine indigenous storytelling centering, celebrating corn, harvest songs, and craft corn husk dolls in partnership with Central Texas Cherokee Township!