South Florida Day of the Dead Celebration Video
The fourth installment of the ever popular and very spirited festival of remembrance and revelry 11.2.13 in Downtown Fort Lauderdale was awe inspiring. With just 750 attendees in 2010, the event swelled to venue capacity of over 6700 participants in 2012. Rooted in community, this event embraced a universe of ideas from a legion of talented skull inspired artists, mariachi musicians, painted performers and enthusiastic skeleton clad revelers.
Save the date, Saturday, November 2nd, 2013 for the fourth installment of this ever popular and very spirited festival of remembrance and revelry. With just 750 attendees in 2010, the event swelled to venue capacity of over 6700 participants in 2012. The event is a creative spectacle honoring Mexican traditions while generating modern interpretations that connects with a broad spectrum of demographics. Rooted in community, this event embraces a universe of ideas from a legion of talented skull inspired artists, mariachi musicians, painted performers and enthusiastic skeleton clad revelers.
Because of our ever-expanding event size, this skeleton-inspired event has expanded to include the Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale and various venues throughout downtown Fort Lauderdale.
The Event opens at the NSU’s Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale at 2pm with a Family Day/Dia de los Muertos with puppet shows, art workshops and more for the kids alongside cultural lectures and film for teens and adults. New for this year, the community will gather at 6pm in Huizenga Park. At 6:15, the costumed revelers will be led by Event Founder Jim Hammond from Puppet Network and his giant puppets as they follow the Riverwalk toward the America’s Backyard/Green Room entertainment complex. Downtown will be teaming with a wide range of spectacles and activities for a diverse audience. There will be Mexican Ofrenda altars for loved ones, indie crafts for sale in the Craft Crypt, live modern music on the Boneyard Bandstand and our newest venue… the Folklorico Stage where Mariachi and Dancers spotlight cultural performing art traditions. Craft projects and face painting will be available for children in Los Angelitos Kids Zone until 9:30pm. Interspersed throughout there will be mariachi bands, skeleton painted ponies, art installations, mask making workshops, a hearse & low rider meet up, Latin American food trucks and interactive street performers by Circus Basura and Puppet Guild of South Florida. Every skeleton may also compete in costume contests with special prizes from our sponsors.
The City of Fort Lauderdale has been named one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live by Livability.com, a national website that ranks quality of life amenities of America’s small and mid-sized cities. Fort Lauderdale ranked number 24 on the list nationwide and number 3 in the state.
To produce its inaugural list of Top 100 Best Places to Live, Livability.com partnered with Richard Florida’s Martin Prosperity Institute, the world’s leading think tank on the role of location, place, and city-regions in global economic prosperity. Together, a study was conducted of more than 1,700 U.S. cities and the factors that make them the best places to live, work and play. Researchers narrowed their field to cities with populations between 20,000 and 350,000 before collecting data from a wide range of sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, Walkscore and GreatSchools.com.
The data collected for the ranking was weighted based on an exclusive survey conducted for Livability by Ipsos Public Affairs, a leading global market research firm. Respondents were asked about factors that make their communities better places to live, as well as the factors they would consider in selecting another city. Those factors were narrowed down to eight categories – economics, housing, amenities, infrastructure, demographics, social and civic capital, education and healthcare – that were used to determine each city’s LivScore. Fort Lauderdale ranked high for amenities, education, healthcare and infrastructure.
For more information on the Top 100 Best Places to Live, please visit www.livability.com/top-100-
Riverwalk and Winterfest share a long history together, and we are proud to feature their poster as the cover of our magazine. Our November issue features the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade’s Passport to Paradise poster by artist Pat Anderson. Winterfest is not just a pretty parade, check out the feature article on their economic impact to our community in our digital magazine here.
BC Surf & Sport | Broward B-Cycle |Broward Dance Academy |Broward Health Wellness Center |Cycle Party |enCore Pilates | Ft. Lauderdale Strikers | Funderdome | Intense Fitness | JNJ, Inc,- Kangoo Jumps | Man Van provided by Broward Health Imperial Point | Orangetheory Fitness | Precision Paddleboards | Rip Tide Crossfit | Ronin Taiko Wadaiko Academy Drummers | Veggie Xpress Food Truck
“Half-Way To St Patty’s Day !” Venues Include: MsSorley’s | Waxy O’Connors | Stout | The Dubliner | The Briny | Sly Fox | The Parrot. Please note that this Bus Loop involves a longer Bus Loop route than typical so frequency of trolley arrivals may be longer than usual. Call 954-574-6000 for more information.
Check-Ins at The Briny On 2nd (220 SW 2nd St) or Stout (3491 Andrews Ave).
Prepay at www.BusLoop.org
All Proceeds benefit Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Covenant House Florida, Jack & Jill Childrens Center, Jessica June Childrens Cancer Foundation, Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale and Broward County Gator Club Scholarship Fund. See Facebook event HERE.
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| $1,000, Includes: | Your marketing investment as a Presenting Sponsor will give your company great exposure on the chamber website, your logo in all promotional materials and an 8 ft table in prominent visual display space at the event with high signage and electricity. You will have 2 minutes at the podium to talk about your company. In addition you will receive a one month tile ad on the chamber site, and a full page ad in the event passport book. You will have 8 passes for the event for your staff and guests. | |||
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| $450, Includes | Your marketing investment as an Event Sponsor will give your company exposure on the chamber website, your logo displayed on all promotional materials and an 8 ft table on the perimeter of the main hall for high signage and electricity and a half page ad in the event passport book. You will also receive 4 passes to the event for your staff and guests. |
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| $300, Includes 2 tickets to event Features: High signage, electricity, Marketing: Listing on event e-mails, website and passport booklet. |
$225, Includes 2 tickets to event Features: High signage, electricity, Marketing: Listing on event e-mails, website and passport booklet. |
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| $175, Includes 2 tickets to event Features: Marketing: Listing on event e-mails, website and passport booklet. |
$150, Includes 2 tickets to event Features: High signage, electricity, Marketing: Listing on event e-mails, website and passport booklet. |
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