OFRENDA 2026 Amor y Memoria

OFRENDA 2026 Amor y Memoria is a transformative Mexican arts and cultural event celebrating Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead). 

Join us 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 Muertos, 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 Muertos as a vibrant, living celebration of contemporary cultural identity rooted in Indigenous cultures.

30 October – 3 November 2026
Fish Lane Arts Precinct, QPAC’s Melbourne Street Green, and Merivale Studios

Photo: Ange Costes Photography

Presented by Cempoalxochitl Arts Collective and BEMAC, in collaboration with Meanjin Mexican Community. Supported by Fish Lane Arts Precinct, QPAC, and Merivale Studios. OFRENDA takes place on Yuggera and Turrbul Country. 

BEMAC is a subsidiary of SSI and supported by the Queensland Government through 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.