22/09/2026
El arte mexicano en Australia, compartiendo la muy particular cosmovisión de la celebración de ***os
OFRENDA 2026 Amor y Memoria
30 October – 3 November 2026
Fish Lane Arts Precinct, QPAC’s Melbourne Street Green, and Merivale Studios
🏵OFRENDA 2026 Amor y Memoria is a transformative Mexican arts and cultural event celebrating Día de Mu***os (Day of the Dead).
Join in celebration of rich and diverse Mexican cultures, where ancestral memory and contemporary artistic practices are woven together. Visual art, storytelling, music, performance, workshops, and traditional cuisine unite around an ‘ofrenda’ (altar/offering) at the centre of festivities.
During Día de Mu***os, ofrendas are created to honour, remember, and welcome home the souls of our loved ones who have departed, keeping their memory alive through photographs, flowers, food, and personal offerings.
🏵OFRENDA 2026’s theme, ‘Amor y Memoria’ (Love and Memory), invites us into a space between two worlds, a liminal place where we can reflect on how love and memory sustain our connection with those who have departed and keep our shared traditions alive.
🏵OFRENDA provides an opportunity for Brisbane/Meanjin’s Mexican diaspora to connect around tradition and for the wider community to appreciate Día de Mu***os as a vibrant, living celebration of contemporary cultural identity rooted in Indigenous cultures.
Photo: ᴀɴɢᴇ ᴄᴏsᴛᴇs ᴘʜᴏᴛᴏɢʀᴀᴘʜʏ
Presented by and BEMAC, in collaboration with the Meanjin Mexican Community. Supported by Explore Fish Lane QPAC merivalestudios OFRENDA takes place on Yuggera and Turrbul Country.
BEMAC is a subsidiary of SSI and supported by Arts Queensland
As visitors, migrants, and immigrants, we acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded Aboriginal lands, and pay our respects to the custodians of Country as the first artists of these lands. Always was, always will be.
