CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES

Xcaret Banda

The Xcaret Banda was created in the year 2000 under the guidance of Master Manuel Cervantes (+) with 30 musicians that will make you dance to their rhythm. Hear their tunes performed with instruments such as tuba, euphonium, trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, saxhorns, transversal flute, trombones, and percussions.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Paint Yourself as a Mején Pixán

Paint your face as life and death, with fine details and great skills! How about as a candy skull? Yes! That is what this Mexicant tradition is made of.

Potosino Selfies

On this occasion, show your head and make funny faces or reach with your arms in this beautiful offering for the souls that visit us from San Luis Potosí.

Move Their Teeth!

A fun game for the little ones that has a main character the teeth of a skinny skeleton!

Blow Away 'till Xibalbá!

A whole new challenge it will be,
for us to see how much you breathe
and to the underworld you’ll leave!
Nine stages you must blow through, to get Xibalbá into your dead man’s reach.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Gran Cruz Hill

A hill in the Hacienda courtyard guards the cross and its giant masks. At the foot of it, you can light up a candle to guide the souls of those who had departed.

Find the Little Devils

Open your ears and widen your eyes!
For what you are about to discover, is loved even by lice!
You must find from within a thousand Mexican toys, the little devils
like those of Xantolo.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

Little Cemetery

Funny tales about the Day of the Dead tradition based on the stories from Real de Catorce. Why do little boys and girls are guardians of this ancient town? Come meet them, and they will tell you why!

Mexican Cemetery

Located at the Mayan Village, this place is full of the aromas and shades of marigold flowers and candles that decorate the tombstones to receive the dead. Amidst smells, colors and epitaphs, both living and dead tour around this Bridge to Paradise.

Maya Paax

This band from Felipe Carrillo Puerto successfully transmits the feelings of a community, proud of their traditions. During festive days and as tradition demands, a band plays Maya Paax, where each tune has a precise moment to be performed.

Huasteco Huapango

Three women on an ensemble proudly perform the traditional Huasteco sounds. Together, they will make this musical show a delight for Huapango enthusiasts.

United for the Music

Enjoy the Huasteca tunes by a trio from San Luis Potosí which performs original rhymes in their native language: Tenek.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

Xantolitos Parade

Join the Xantolitos in a parade departing from the Voladores Pole to reach the Interactive Hacienda. Along traditional tunes, be part of this festivity which is typical at the Potosino Huasteca region.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

Bury Me with Huapango

Xcaret artists and the Chicamoles present this multidisciplinary show that relates the story of Juan el Muerto (John the dead), a man from the Huasteca region famous for his love for huapango tunes. The Potosino dances and the Huasteca rhymes are the best way to narrate the most renowned episodes of our protagonist’s life.

House of the 9 Spears

Pre-Hispanic dances that recreate the way the Maya performed their rituals to tribute death. We will see how the Maya people had self-sacrifice ceremonies and several dances to the Lord of Death, as well. This realistic performance includes characters wearing clothes and masks used on those times.

Matlachines Dance

Between the melodies of the violin and the drum beats, Matlachines wear elaborate and colorful clothing while dancing, pledging, celebrating their saints, and joining their beloved who passed away.

Xcaret Marimba

The marimba will cheer up the living, the dead, and the souls in the audience. The Marimba musicians will execute beautiful songs with enthusiasm along the tour to the Bridge to Paradise Mexican Cemetery at Xcaret.

Marigold, a Ritual to Tribute the Death

Ghost stories told by mysterious not-scary skeletons. The spirits of a driver, a teacher, and the Skull Duet will amuse us with tales from beyond.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

Tamaletóm Flyers

Attend the Flight Ceremony by the Teenek of Tamaletom, also known as the Sparrow Hawks Dance. Courageous, brave men of kind heart execute a beautiful ancestral ritual to contact their gods and ensure the future of their people. These deities include Muxi which is the Lord of the Seas, Maamla the Lord of Thunder, and Miim Tsabaal, our Mother Earth.

Fantastic Stories

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is a poet escaping from his own death for 149 years as he refuses not to be in this world. Convinced that creativity and poetry lets us travel in time, Bécquer will ask for children’s help since all kids are poets, according to him. Together, they will start a dizzy journey in time through three of his works. Only this way, he will be able to leave this world and let his legacy live along with everybody that went on this adventure with him.

Salma Screwed Up... With a Pixán

Just like every other year, Salma Salomé wants to have a reunion at her house to celebrate the Day of the Dead along with her relatives, friends, and neighbors. However, Salma does not know about the two death sisters that have taken her home in order to keep away the living souls and have a great party full of Pixanes.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Music and Dance for Warriors

To preserve and spread the Jonaz Chichimeca legacy, this ensemble will recreate pre-Hispanic dances performed along the music from typical instruments as Huéhuetl, the Teponaztle, and clay flutes.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

The Brides of My Village

Quinto Sol folk group and the Felipe Carrillo Puerto Polifacetic Orchestra get together to perform this story of the brides at the Yucatan Peninsula. A wedding and a party where both living and dead are special guests.

Arribeno Huapango

Let’s dance with the traditional Arribeno Huapango from the Huasteca region in San Luis Potosí. Delight with music by violins, jarana, and the quinta huapanguera instrument!

Traditional Charanga

The traditional Charanga music represents a cultural identity among the Maya communities in our state. A great number of ensembles play during social and religious activities at the Yucatan Peninsula. This music is one of the contemporary Maya culture expressions and an icon of the region.

Xantolo San Luis Potosí Ensemble

Join the most famous characters from the Huehues: the Death, the Devil, and the Grandpas. Discover how the traditional Potosino dances approach the living and the dead through a satire.

Bicycle Stories

A suitcase full of secrets and a bicycle are enough for a fantastic trip to the iconic sites and characters in San Luis Potosí. Discover astounding places such as Real de Catorce, the Witches Route, La Yusca, and much more in this journey where imagination meets the charm of a Mexican story.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

Xempa

Among little devils, skulls, and Catrinas, Maria will experience the struggle to survive along alebrijes that will help her to face death.
Through acrobatics, this story shows the Mexican vision on death and its joyful and mysterious celebration full of contrasts that get us in touch with our roots.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

The Souls of the Hangmen

Maya people at Quintana Roo know that at Tihosuco town there was a time when settlers, both men and women, hanged themselves to end their lives. The way to end with this fatal choice was to whip the person 13 times to keep the devil from taking their souls with him. Tihosuco Theater Group shares the Day of the Dead stories and traditions.

Maya Paax

This band from Felipe Carrillo Puerto successfully transmits the feelings of a community, proud of their traditions. During festive days and as tradition demands, a band plays Maya Paax, where each tune has a precise moment to be performed.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

Tracks from Beyond Jazz

Listen to traditional Mexican music that includes jazz elements and a bit of Jarocho and Istmeño tunes, plus Northern huapango, and bolero arrangements. An astounding musical proposal with contemporary pieces for jazz enthusiasts plays with sounds of piano, vocals, and double bass.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

Xcaret Marimba

The marimba will cheer up the living, the dead, and the souls in the audience. The Marimba musicians will execute beautiful songs with enthusiasm along the tour to the Bridge to Paradise Mexican Cemetery at Xcaret.

Huasteco Huapango

Three women on an ensemble proudly perform the traditional Huasteco sounds. Together, they will make this musical show a delight for Huapango enthusiasts.

Topada

Witness the most representative musical-poetry band battle from the Huasteca region between two huapango arribeño representatives. Delight with the great musicians’ improvisations that will be unforgettable.

Bicycle Stories

A suitcase full of secrets and a bicycle are enough for a fantastic trip to the iconic sites and characters in San Luis Potosí. Discover astounding places such as Real de Catorce, the Witches Route, La Yusca, and much more in this journey where imagination meets the charm of a Mexican story.

The Tune of a Street Vendor

The street market is a microcosm and a metaphor of the country’s social reality: nowadays divided and with violence, where everything is for sale. A vendor and her bruised tomatoes, a cilantro branch to keep bullets away, and the indifference of a nation where nothing happens at all. A drama which is played along with Huasteca huapango tunes narrated by the street vendors of the Tangamanga market that will strike you with reality.

With the Alwa Tam Trio as special guest.

The Funeral: Music and Theater

A band of gypsy musicians invites the audience to join the funeral of their grandfather Dimitri. An easygoing plot will grow into a mess full of unbelievable situations. This funeral will be an unforgettable party along with explosive characters, musical virtuosity, and interaction with the audience.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

Tamaletóm Flyers

Attend the Flight Ceremony by the Teenek of Tamaletom, also known as the Sparrow Hawks Dance. Courageous, brave men of kind heart execute a beautiful ancestral ritual to contact their gods and ensure the future of their people. These deities include Muxi which is the Lord of the Seas, Maamla the Lord of Thunder, and Miim Tsabaal, our Mother Earth.

Marigold, a Ritual to Tribute the Death

Ghost stories told by mysterious not-scary skeletons. The spirits of a driver, a teacher, and the Skull Duet will amuse us with tales from beyond.

Pals

An artist collective at a traveling circus just had a terrible loss: one of the members has passed away. To get along with his absence and mourn him as a group, their fellow artists will offer a tribute of different contemporary circus performances using a carousel that symbolizes change and the everlasting life’s transformation.

Music and Dance for Warriors

To preserve and spread the Jonaz Chichimeca legacy, this ensemble will recreate pre-Hispanic dances performed along the music from typical instruments as Huéhuetl, the Teponaztle, and clay flutes.

The Souls of the Hangmen

Maya people at Quintana Roo know that at Tihosuco town there was a time when settlers, both men and women, hanged themselves to end their lives. The way to end with this fatal choice was to whip the person 13 times to keep the devil from taking their souls with him. Tihosuco Theater Group shares the Day of the Dead stories and traditions.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Fantastic Stories

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is a poet escaping from his own death for 149 years as he refuses not to be in this world. Convinced that creativity and poetry lets us travel in time, Bécquer will ask for children’s help since all kids are poets, according to him. Together, they will start a dizzy journey in time through three of his works. Only this way, he will be able to leave this world and let his legacy live along with everybody that went on this adventure with him.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

Traditional Charanga

The traditional Charanga music represents a cultural identity among the Maya communities in our state. A great number of ensembles play during social and religious activities at the Yucatan Peninsula. This music is one of the contemporary Maya culture expressions and an icon of the region.

Topada

Witness the most representative musical-poetry band battle from the Huasteca region between two huapango arribeño representatives. Delight with the great musicians’ improvisations that will be unforgettable.

Fusion Blues

A band from the Huasteca Potosina that mixes blues with other musical genres such as jazz and cumbia, plus the typical style of the region, the huapango.

Bicycle Stories

A suitcase full of secrets and a bicycle are enough for a fantastic trip to the iconic sites and characters in San Luis Potosí. Discover astounding places such as Real de Catorce, the Witches Route, La Yusca, and much more in this journey where imagination meets the charm of a Mexican story.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

Maya Paax

This band from Felipe Carrillo Puerto successfully transmits the feelings of a community, proud of their traditions. During festive days and as tradition demands, a band plays Maya Paax, where each tune has a precise moment to be performed.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

The Brides of My Village

Quinto Sol folk group and the Felipe Carrillo Puerto Polifacetic Orchestra get together to perform this story of the brides at the Yucatan Peninsula. A wedding and a party where both living and dead are special guests.

Potosino Tradition and Celebration

A typical dance depicts the Huasteca and Middle regions from San Luis Potosí that makes us experience their traditions, rituals, celebrations, and dances.

Matlachines Dance

Between the melodies of the violin and the drum beats, Matlachines wear elaborate and colorful clothing while dancing, pledging, celebrating their saints, and joining their beloved who passed away.

You Like It & You Know It

A musical show from the northern region of San Luis Potosí, which is a blend between jazz and Norteño. Since the Northwest is also Mexico, and Mexico is also at the North, join us!

Huasteco Huapango

Three women on an ensemble proudly perform the traditional Huasteco sounds. Together, they will make this musical show a delight for Huapango enthusiasts.

Xantolo Ensemble

Stroll the Xcaret streets along with the Huehues and their traditional Potosino dances that join together both the living and the dead through a satire dance.

The Tune of a Street Vendor

The street market is a microcosm and a metaphor of the country’s social reality: nowadays divided and with violence, where everything is for sale. A vendor and her bruised tomatoes, a cilantro branch to keep bullets away, and the indifference of a nation where nothing happens at all. A drama which is played along with Huasteca huapango tunes narrated by the street vendors of the Tangamanga market that will strike you with reality.

With the Alwa Tam Trio as special guest.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

Tracks from Beyond Jazz

Listen to traditional Mexican music that includes jazz elements and a bit of Jarocho and Istmeño tunes, plus Northern huapango, and bolero arrangements. An astounding musical proposal with contemporary pieces for jazz enthusiasts plays with sounds of piano, vocals, and double bass.

Charlotte Catrina

Wearing the gala dress of the Imperial portrait, the spirit of Charlotte “Empress of Mexico” return from beyond as a Catrina, looking for her beloved Maximilian I. Help her to find him and listen to the love letters, thoughts and craziness that need to be delivered before her time is done.

Bicycle Stories

A suitcase full of secrets and a bicycle are enough for a fantastic trip to the iconic sites and characters in San Luis Potosí. Discover astounding places such as Real de Catorce, the Witches Route, La Yusca, and much more in this journey where imagination meets the charm of a Mexican story.

Pals

An artist collective at a traveling circus just had a terrible loss: one of the members has passed away. To get along with his absence and mourn him as a group, their fellow artists will offer a tribute of different contemporary circus performances using a carousel that symbolizes change and the everlasting life’s transformation.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

Arribeno Huapango

Let’s dance with the traditional Arribeno Huapango from the Huasteca region in San Luis Potosí. Delight with music by violins, jarana, and the quinta huapanguera instrument!

Xcaret Marimba

The marimba will cheer up the living, the dead, and the souls in the audience. The Marimba musicians will execute beautiful songs with enthusiasm along the tour to the Bridge to Paradise Mexican Cemetery at Xcaret.

Salma Screwed Up... With a Pixán

Just like every other year, Salma Salomé wants to have a reunion at her house to celebrate the Day of the Dead along with her relatives, friends, and neighbors. However, Salma does not know about the two death sisters that have taken her home in order to keep away the living souls and have a great party full of Pixanes.

Xempa

Among little devils, skulls, and Catrinas, Maria will experience the struggle to survive along alebrijes that will help her to face death.
Through acrobatics, this story shows the Mexican vision on death and its joyful and mysterious celebration full of contrasts that get us in touch with our roots.

Maya Paax

This band from Felipe Carrillo Puerto successfully transmits the feelings of a community, proud of their traditions. During festive days and as tradition demands, a band plays Maya Paax, where each tune has a precise moment to be performed.

Potosino Aquarela

A Symphonic Concert that will take you through a musical journey across different regions of San Luis Potosí while taking the most representative elements of each. Musicians will play the memorable tunes that made history in both music and literature.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Bury Me with Huapango

Xcaret artists and the Chicamoles present this multidisciplinary show that relates the story of Juan el Muerto (John the dead), a man from the Huasteca region famous for his love for huapango tunes. The Potosino dances and the Huasteca rhymes are the best way to narrate the most renowned episodes of our protagonist’s life.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

House of the 9 Spears

Pre-Hispanic dances that recreate the way the Maya performed their rituals to tribute death. We will see how the Maya people had self-sacrifice ceremonies and several dances to the Lord of Death, as well. This realistic performance includes characters wearing clothes and masks used on those times.

Traditional Charanga

The traditional Charanga music represents a cultural identity among the Maya communities in our state. A great number of ensembles play during social and religious activities at the Yucatan Peninsula. This music is one of the contemporary Maya culture expressions and an icon of the region.

Xantolo Ensemble

Stroll the Xcaret streets along with the Huehues and their traditional Potosino dances that join together both the living and the dead through a satire dance.

Catrina, the Faithful Bride

Death appears dressed as a bride full of details and decorative elements. In this tragic-comedy monologue, the Catrina will tell us about personal relationships, engagement, and marriage, plus how we care for our beloved and the grief upon loss. Everything to make the audience remember those who left this world already but will never be forgotten.

Bicycle Stories

A suitcase full of secrets and a bicycle are enough for a fantastic trip to the iconic sites and characters in San Luis Potosí. Discover astounding places such as Real de Catorce, the Witches Route, La Yusca, and much more in this journey where imagination meets the charm of a Mexican story.

Xcaret Banda

The Xcaret Banda was created in the year 2000 under the guidance of Master Manuel Cervantes (+) with 30 musicians that will make you dance to their rhythm. Hear their tunes performed with instruments such as tuba, euphonium, trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, saxhorns, transversal flute, trombones, and percussions.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Paint Yourself as a Mején Pixán

Paint your face as life and death, with fine details and great skills! How about as a candy skull? Yes! That is what this Mexicant tradition is made of.

Potosino Selfies

On this occasion, show your head and make funny faces or reach with your arms in this beautiful offering for the souls that visit us from San Luis Potosí.

Move Their Teeth!

A fun game for the little ones that has a main character the teeth of a skinny skeleton!

Blow Away 'till Xibalbá!

A whole new challenge it will be,
for us to see how much you breathe
and to the underworld you’ll leave!
Nine stages you must blow through, to get Xibalbá into your dead man’s reach.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Gran Cruz Hill

A hill in the Hacienda courtyard guards the cross and its giant masks. At the foot of it, you can light up a candle to guide the souls of those who had departed.

Find the Little Devils

Open your ears and widen your eyes!
For what you are about to discover, is loved even by lice!
You must find from within a thousand Mexican toys, the little devils
like those of Xantolo.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

Little Cemetery

Funny tales about the Day of the Dead tradition based on the stories from Real de Catorce. Why do little boys and girls are guardians of this ancient town? Come meet them, and they will tell you why!

Mexican Cemetery

Located at the Mayan Village, this place is full of the aromas and shades of marigold flowers and candles that decorate the tombstones to receive the dead. Amidst smells, colors and epitaphs, both living and dead tour around this Bridge to Paradise.

Maya Paax

This band from Felipe Carrillo Puerto successfully transmits the feelings of a community, proud of their traditions. During festive days and as tradition demands, a band plays Maya Paax, where each tune has a precise moment to be performed.

Huasteco Huapango

Three women on an ensemble proudly perform the traditional Huasteco sounds. Together, they will make this musical show a delight for Huapango enthusiasts.

United for the Music

Enjoy the Huasteca tunes by a trio from San Luis Potosí which performs original rhymes in their native language: Tenek.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

Xantolitos Parade

Join the Xantolitos in a parade departing from the Voladores Pole to reach the Interactive Hacienda. Along traditional tunes, be part of this festivity which is typical at the Potosino Huasteca region.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

Bury Me with Huapango

Xcaret artists and the Chicamoles present this multidisciplinary show that relates the story of Juan el Muerto (John the dead), a man from the Huasteca region famous for his love for huapango tunes. The Potosino dances and the Huasteca rhymes are the best way to narrate the most renowned episodes of our protagonist’s life.

House of the 9 Spears

Pre-Hispanic dances that recreate the way the Maya performed their rituals to tribute death. We will see how the Maya people had self-sacrifice ceremonies and several dances to the Lord of Death, as well. This realistic performance includes characters wearing clothes and masks used on those times.

Matlachines Dance

Between the melodies of the violin and the drum beats, Matlachines wear elaborate and colorful clothing while dancing, pledging, celebrating their saints, and joining their beloved who passed away.

Xcaret Marimba

The marimba will cheer up the living, the dead, and the souls in the audience. The Marimba musicians will execute beautiful songs with enthusiasm along the tour to the Bridge to Paradise Mexican Cemetery at Xcaret.

Marigold, a Ritual to Tribute the Death

Ghost stories told by mysterious not-scary skeletons. The spirits of a driver, a teacher, and the Skull Duet will amuse us with tales from beyond.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

All Saints' Catholic Mass

A traditional Mexican Catholic mass to celebrate All Saints’ Day, lead by his Most Reverend Excellency, Monsignor Pedro Pablo Elizondo, Bishop of the Cancun – Chetumal Prelature, and by his Reverend, P. Fernando Rodríguez Martínez.

Tamaletóm Flyers

Attend the Flight Ceremony by the Teenek of Tamaletom, also known as the Sparrow Hawks Dance. Courageous, brave men of kind heart execute a beautiful ancestral ritual to contact their gods and ensure the future of their people. These deities include Muxi which is the Lord of the Seas, Maamla the Lord of Thunder, and Miim Tsabaal, our Mother Earth.

Fantastic Stories

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is a poet escaping from his own death for 149 years as he refuses not to be in this world. Convinced that creativity and poetry lets us travel in time, Bécquer will ask for children’s help since all kids are poets, according to him. Together, they will start a dizzy journey in time through three of his works. Only this way, he will be able to leave this world and let his legacy live along with everybody that went on this adventure with him.

Salma Screwed Up... With a Pixán

Just like every other year, Salma Salomé wants to have a reunion at her house to celebrate the Day of the Dead along with her relatives, friends, and neighbors. However, Salma does not know about the two death sisters that have taken her home in order to keep away the living souls and have a great party full of Pixanes.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Music and Dance for Warriors

To preserve and spread the Jonaz Chichimeca legacy, this ensemble will recreate pre-Hispanic dances performed along the music from typical instruments as Huéhuetl, the Teponaztle, and clay flutes.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

Nor Sea or Death Can't Separate Us

Tumben Lol folk group from Felipe Carrillo Puerto will tell us, through dance, the story of two hearts and how there are no obstacles that can tear them apart. This love story features the Trova tunes from the states of Yucatan, Quintana Roo, and Campeche.

Arribeno Huapango

Let’s dance with the traditional Arribeno Huapango from the Huasteca region in San Luis Potosí. Delight with music by violins, jarana, and the quinta huapanguera instrument!

Traditional Charanga

The traditional Charanga music represents a cultural identity among the Maya communities in our state. A great number of ensembles play during social and religious activities at the Yucatan Peninsula. This music is one of the contemporary Maya culture expressions and an icon of the region.

Bicycle Stories

A suitcase full of secrets and a bicycle are enough for a fantastic trip to the iconic sites and characters in San Luis Potosí. Discover astounding places such as Real de Catorce, the Witches Route, La Yusca, and much more in this journey where imagination meets the charm of a Mexican story.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

Xempa

Among little devils, skulls, and Catrinas, Maria will experience the struggle to survive along alebrijes that will help her to face death.
Through acrobatics, this story shows the Mexican vision on death and its joyful and mysterious celebration full of contrasts that get us in touch with our roots.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

Xantolo San Luis Potosí Ensemble

Join the most famous characters from the Huehues: the Death, the Devil, and the Grandpas. Discover how the traditional Potosino dances approach the living and the dead through a satire.

Among Pixanes, Altars and Rituals

At the town of Kantunilkín, Mrs. Lina and her closest friends are getting ready for the arrival of the All Souls’ Day. However, her husband Casimiro, who does not believe in these traditions, will get a valuable lesson when the souls come to visit him, leaving him face to face with the Catrina. In order to save him, Mrs. Lina will need the guidance of a witch doctor who will help her find him.

Maya Paax

This band from Felipe Carrillo Puerto successfully transmits the feelings of a community, proud of their traditions. During festive days and as tradition demands, a band plays Maya Paax, where each tune has a precise moment to be performed.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

Tracks from Beyond Jazz

Listen to traditional Mexican music that includes jazz elements and a bit of Jarocho and Istmeño tunes, plus Northern huapango, and bolero arrangements. An astounding musical proposal with contemporary pieces for jazz enthusiasts plays with sounds of piano, vocals, and double bass.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

Xcaret Marimba

The marimba will cheer up the living, the dead, and the souls in the audience. The Marimba musicians will execute beautiful songs with enthusiasm along the tour to the Bridge to Paradise Mexican Cemetery at Xcaret.

Huasteco Huapango

Three women on an ensemble proudly perform the traditional Huasteco sounds. Together, they will make this musical show a delight for Huapango enthusiasts.

Bicycle Stories

A suitcase full of secrets and a bicycle are enough for a fantastic trip to the iconic sites and characters in San Luis Potosí. Discover astounding places such as Real de Catorce, the Witches Route, La Yusca, and much more in this journey where imagination meets the charm of a Mexican story.

The Tune of a Street Vendor

The street market is a microcosm and a metaphor of the country’s social reality: nowadays divided and with violence, where everything is for sale. A vendor and her bruised tomatoes, a cilantro branch to keep bullets away, and the indifference of a nation where nothing happens at all. A drama which is played along with Huasteca huapango tunes narrated by the street vendors of the Tangamanga market that will strike you with reality.

With the Alwa Tam Trio as special guest.

The Funeral: Music and Theater

A band of gypsy musicians invites the audience to join the funeral of their grandfather Dimitri. An easygoing plot will grow into a mess full of unbelievable situations. This funeral will be an unforgettable party along with explosive characters, musical virtuosity, and interaction with the audience.

Topada

Witness the most representative musical-poetry band battle from the Huasteca region between two huapango arribeño representatives. Delight with the great musicians’ improvisations that will be unforgettable.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

Tamaletóm Flyers

Attend the Flight Ceremony by the Teenek of Tamaletom, also known as the Sparrow Hawks Dance. Courageous, brave men of kind heart execute a beautiful ancestral ritual to contact their gods and ensure the future of their people. These deities include Muxi which is the Lord of the Seas, Maamla the Lord of Thunder, and Miim Tsabaal, our Mother Earth.

Marigold, a Ritual to Tribute the Death

Ghost stories told by mysterious not-scary skeletons. The spirits of a driver, a teacher, and the Skull Duet will amuse us with tales from beyond.

Music and Dance for Warriors

To preserve and spread the Jonaz Chichimeca legacy, this ensemble will recreate pre-Hispanic dances performed along the music from typical instruments as Huéhuetl, the Teponaztle, and clay flutes.

Among Pixanes, Altars and Rituals

At the town of Kantunilkín, Mrs. Lina and her closest friends are getting ready for the arrival of the All Souls’ Day. However, her husband Casimiro, who does not believe in these traditions, will get a valuable lesson when the souls come to visit him, leaving him face to face with the Catrina. In order to save him, Mrs. Lina will need the guidance of a witch doctor who will help her find him.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Fantastic Stories

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is a poet escaping from his own death for 149 years as he refuses not to be in this world. Convinced that creativity and poetry lets us travel in time, Bécquer will ask for children’s help since all kids are poets, according to him. Together, they will start a dizzy journey in time through three of his works. Only this way, he will be able to leave this world and let his legacy live along with everybody that went on this adventure with him.

Pals

An artist collective at a traveling circus just had a terrible loss: one of the members has passed away. To get along with his absence and mourn him as a group, their fellow artists will offer a tribute of different contemporary circus performances using a carousel that symbolizes change and the everlasting life’s transformation.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

Traditional Charanga

The traditional Charanga music represents a cultural identity among the Maya communities in our state. A great number of ensembles play during social and religious activities at the Yucatan Peninsula. This music is one of the contemporary Maya culture expressions and an icon of the region.

Topada

Witness the most representative musical-poetry band battle from the Huasteca region between two huapango arribeño representatives. Delight with the great musicians’ improvisations that will be unforgettable.

Fusion Blues

A band from the Huasteca Potosina that mixes blues with other musical genres such as jazz and cumbia, plus the typical style of the region, the huapango.

Bicycle Stories

A suitcase full of secrets and a bicycle are enough for a fantastic trip to the iconic sites and characters in San Luis Potosí. Discover astounding places such as Real de Catorce, the Witches Route, La Yusca, and much more in this journey where imagination meets the charm of a Mexican story.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

The Atole Creator

Surrealist tales from San Luis Potosí related by the Atole Inventor herself, a beautiful figure created by the artist Leonora Carrington and performed by a great narrator. Who was this woman that creates death and dreams? Where did she live? What did she do? Where are her several art pieces?

Maya Paax

This band from Felipe Carrillo Puerto successfully transmits the feelings of a community, proud of their traditions. During festive days and as tradition demands, a band plays Maya Paax, where each tune has a precise moment to be performed.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

Potosino Tradition and Celebration

A typical dance depicts the Huasteca and Middle regions from San Luis Potosí that makes us experience their traditions, rituals, celebrations, and dances.

Matlachines Dance

Between the melodies of the violin and the drum beats, Matlachines wear elaborate and colorful clothing while dancing, pledging, celebrating their saints, and joining their beloved who passed away.

You Like It & You Know It

A musical show from the northern region of San Luis Potosí, which is a blend between jazz and Norteño. Since the Northwest is also Mexico, and Mexico is also at the North, join us!

Huasteco Huapango

Three women on an ensemble proudly perform the traditional Huasteco sounds. Together, they will make this musical show a delight for Huapango enthusiasts.

Xantolo Ensemble

Stroll the Xcaret streets along with the Huehues and their traditional Potosino dances that join together both the living and the dead through a satire dance.

The Tune of a Street Vendor

The street market is a microcosm and a metaphor of the country’s social reality: nowadays divided and with violence, where everything is for sale. A vendor and her bruised tomatoes, a cilantro branch to keep bullets away, and the indifference of a nation where nothing happens at all. A drama which is played along with Huasteca huapango tunes narrated by the street vendors of the Tangamanga market that will strike you with reality.

With the Alwa Tam Trio as special guest.

Nor Sea or Death Can't Separate Us

Tumben Lol folk group from Felipe Carrillo Puerto will tell us, through dance, the story of two hearts and how there are no obstacles that can tear them apart. This love story features the Trova tunes from the states of Yucatan, Quintana Roo, and Campeche.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

Tracks from Beyond Jazz

Listen to traditional Mexican music that includes jazz elements and a bit of Jarocho and Istmeño tunes, plus Northern huapango, and bolero arrangements. An astounding musical proposal with contemporary pieces for jazz enthusiasts plays with sounds of piano, vocals, and double bass.

Charlotte Catrina

Wearing the gala dress of the Imperial portrait, the spirit of Charlotte “Empress of Mexico” return from beyond as a Catrina, looking for her beloved Maximilian I. Help her to find him and listen to the love letters, thoughts and craziness that need to be delivered before her time is done.

Bicycle Stories

A suitcase full of secrets and a bicycle are enough for a fantastic trip to the iconic sites and characters in San Luis Potosí. Discover astounding places such as Real de Catorce, the Witches Route, La Yusca, and much more in this journey where imagination meets the charm of a Mexican story.

Pals

An artist collective at a traveling circus just had a terrible loss: one of the members has passed away. To get along with his absence and mourn him as a group, their fellow artists will offer a tribute of different contemporary circus performances using a carousel that symbolizes change and the everlasting life’s transformation.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Weave it, Knit it!

From the beautiful village of Santa María del Río, artisans will teach how they produce shawls. Watch how they weave threads and the right way to use one. Meet some of the best young artisans in the country that will teach you to knit a shawl.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.

Arribeno Huapango

Let’s dance with the traditional Arribeno Huapango from the Huasteca region in San Luis Potosí. Delight with music by violins, jarana, and the quinta huapanguera instrument!

Xcaret Marimba

The marimba will cheer up the living, the dead, and the souls in the audience. The Marimba musicians will execute beautiful songs with enthusiasm along the tour to the Bridge to Paradise Mexican Cemetery at Xcaret.

Salma Screwed Up... With a Pixán

Just like every other year, Salma Salomé wants to have a reunion at her house to celebrate the Day of the Dead along with her relatives, friends, and neighbors. However, Salma does not know about the two death sisters that have taken her home in order to keep away the living souls and have a great party full of Pixanes.

Xempa

Among little devils, skulls, and Catrinas, Maria will experience the struggle to survive along alebrijes that will help her to face death.
Through acrobatics, this story shows the Mexican vision on death and its joyful and mysterious celebration full of contrasts that get us in touch with our roots.

Maya Paax

This band from Felipe Carrillo Puerto successfully transmits the feelings of a community, proud of their traditions. During festive days and as tradition demands, a band plays Maya Paax, where each tune has a precise moment to be performed.

El Jergas and The Catorce

Discover the secret of the mines in the semidesert zone of San Luis Potosí. Have you ever heard the legend of “El Jergas”? Do you know which secrets he keeps? Why is this mining town called Real de Catorce?

For Your Potosino Altar

We all have some hidden creative ability which will be put to the test while creating flowers for your offering. Patiently, young and old will be able to elaborate their own Potosina flowers.

Bury Me with Huapango

Xcaret artists and the Chicamoles present this multidisciplinary show that relates the story of Juan el Muerto (John the dead), a man from the Huasteca region famous for his love for huapango tunes. The Potosino dances and the Huasteca rhymes are the best way to narrate the most renowned episodes of our protagonist’s life.

Pilgrimage in Search of an Exquisite Corpse

A theatrical tour where you become a pilgrim traveling north to south by magic territories and along with benefactor spirits, warriors, talking jars, and excentric millionaires.

House of the 9 Spears

Pre-Hispanic dances that recreate the way the Maya performed their rituals to tribute death. We will see how the Maya people had self-sacrifice ceremonies and several dances to the Lord of Death, as well. This realistic performance includes characters wearing clothes and masks used on those times.

Traditional Charanga

The traditional Charanga music represents a cultural identity among the Maya communities in our state. A great number of ensembles play during social and religious activities at the Yucatan Peninsula. This music is one of the contemporary Maya culture expressions and an icon of the region.

Xantolo Ensemble

Stroll the Xcaret streets along with the Huehues and their traditional Potosino dances that join together both the living and the dead through a satire dance.

The Funeral: Music and Theater

A band of gypsy musicians invites the audience to join the funeral of their grandfather Dimitri. An easygoing plot will grow into a mess full of unbelievable situations. This funeral will be an unforgettable party along with explosive characters, musical virtuosity, and interaction with the audience.

Catrina, the Faithful Bride

Death appears dressed as a bride full of details and decorative elements. In this tragic-comedy monologue, the Catrina will tell us about personal relationships, engagement, and marriage, plus how we care for our beloved and the grief upon loss. Everything to make the audience remember those who left this world already but will never be forgotten.

Bicycle Stories

A suitcase full of secrets and a bicycle are enough for a fantastic trip to the iconic sites and characters in San Luis Potosí. Discover astounding places such as Real de Catorce, the Witches Route, La Yusca, and much more in this journey where imagination meets the charm of a Mexican story.

Los Ángeles Azules

Many believe that the pathway to heaven is through dance. Los Ángeles Azules is a cumbia-style band founded by four out of the eight siblings of the Mejía Avante family. Since 1983, this band grew popular in several Latin American countries and large areas of the United States. They have recorded with over 200 artists such as Natalia Lafourcade, Fito Páez, Aleks Syntek, and Miguel Bosé, among others.

Xcaret Banda

The Xcaret Banda was created in the year 2000 under the guidance of Master Manuel Cervantes (+) with 30 musicians that will make you dance to their rhythm. Hear their tunes performed with instruments such as tuba, euphonium, trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, saxhorns, transversal flute, trombones, and percussions.

Alegres Alebrijes  

Discover the fascinating world of alebrijes full of colors and shapes that seemed to be out of a dream.

Paint Yourself as a Mején Pixán

Paint your face as life and death, with fine details and great skills! How about as a candy skull? Yes! That is what this Mexicant tradition is made of.

Potosino Selfies

On this occasion, show your head and make funny faces or reach with your arms in this beautiful offering for the souls that visit us from San Luis Potosí.

Move Their Teeth!

A fun game for the little ones that has a main character the teeth of a skinny skeleton!

Blow Away 'till Xibalbá!

A whole new challenge it will be,
for us to see how much you breathe
and to the underworld you’ll leave!
Nine stages you must blow through, to get Xibalbá into your dead man’s reach.

Weeping Women and Cry-Babies...

The visitors will take part in a mortuary ritual starring a shawl. Through different movements inspired in the work by painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, the enthusiastic participants will end up dancing to a collective ritual choreography in front of the tomb of his little soul, all accompany by Potosina music.

Gran Cruz Hill

A hill in the Hacienda courtyard guards the cross and its giant masks. At the foot of it, you can light up a candle to guide the souls of those who had departed.

Find the Little Devils

Open your ears and widen your eyes!
For what you are about to discover, is loved even by lice!
You must find from within a thousand Mexican toys, the little devils
like those of Xantolo.

Between Basements and Swallows

At San Luis Potosí Huasteca, you may find large flocks of swallows and macaws, but also bats! How is this possible? Play and learn about these natural and fantastic places.

Masks and Cardboards

We’ll be painting our own Huehue mask for the Xantolo Potosino party. With lots of paper and color, you’ll become an artist and creator of this emblematic and unique masks.

Give Me Your Shawl!

Come watch how to start weaving a shawl with an original technique. Artisans will teach you how to knit one for your Mején Pixán altar.

Xantolitos

Xantolos refer to saints, and during the Day of the Dead celebration, dances and masks are made. Create your mask and be part of a troupe! Discover a story remarkably different from the rest in Mexico.

Rhyme Battle

A Potosino Huasteca tradition is to create rhymable lines. Come with your family or friends and become a Huapango rhymer. Enter the Rhyme Battle and be part of Xantolo, the famous San Luis Potosí celebration.

The San Luis Sevillanas Sweets

Did you know that this tasty and famous recipe of caramel wafers is from San Luis Potosí? Come and prepare these Mexican sweets for the little souls that will be visiting your Day of the Dead altar.