The dead live on in memory at the Moravida Festival
Dancers with Danzas Multiculturales perform in traditional costume and skull face paint at the Moravida Festival Saturday at the Grant County Fairgrounds.
JOEL MARTIN/COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD
Crystal Hitt, left, and Vira Ortiz visit an ofrenda at the Moravida festival Saturday at the Grant County Fairgrounds. The ofrendas are shrines set up to remember family members who have passed on in the traditional Mexican Día de Muertos celebration.
Julie Whitworth and her children Elle, 7 and Everett, 4, look over an ofrenda at the Moravida Festival Saturday. Many children came to the event in their Halloween costumes.
Singer Mari Vela performs at the Moravida Festival Saturday.
The communal altar at the Moravida Festival held flowers, candles and photos of the deceased.
MOSES LAKE — This world and the next came together Saturday at the Moravida Festival at the Grant County Fairgrounds.
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