BACK
Flyer for UCLA’s Día de los Muertos event. Text reads: ‘11.1.25, 11AM–1PM, UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden. Día de los Muertos. Mourning and Remembering Through Ecological Change. Altars, speakers, performances, pastries, drinks.’ Design shows a monarch butterfly, tree-ring pattern behind the text, and vibrant Día de los Muertos imagery: a skeleton figure in an ornate black dress with floral headpiece, surrounded by colorful marigolds, pink and red blossoms, sugar skulls, butterflies, and cactus.

Special Event

Día de los Muertos

Mourning & Remembering through Ecological Change. Altars, live music, guest speakers & traditional food in a community celebration of memory & ecology

-

UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden

Event Overview

Join us at the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden for a community celebration of Día de los Muertos: Mourning and Remembering through Ecological Change. The event will feature altars, speakers, live performances, traditional pastries and drinks. This event is free and open to the public.

Saturday, November 1, 2025
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PST
UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden

About the Event

Día de los Muertos is a time to mourn, remember and celebrate those who have passed. This year’s gathering focuses on the intersections of memory, ecology and community, creating space to honor traditions while reflecting on environmental change.

If you are interested in contributing an ofrenda, art or your time to this event, please email Elijah Catalan (elijahcatalan@g.ucla.edu) and Olivia Simon (oliviameyers@g.ucla.edu) with a short description of how you would like to be involved. Please include “Día de los Muertos: Request to Participate” in the subject line.

This event is co-sponsored by the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, the Radical Imagination Coalition, the Center for Developing Leadership in Science, the Environmental Humanities Reading Group, the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and the UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden.

Flyer for UCLA event ‘Día de los Muertos: Mourning and Remembering Through Ecological Change.’ Event details: November 1, 2025, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden. Hosted by The Environmental Humanities Research Group at UCLA English, Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), Climate Justice Collective, and Center for Developing Leadership in Science. Text at bottom: Altars, speakers, performances, pastries, drinks. Design features include an illustrated monarch butterfly, oak leaves with acorns, marigold flowers, a sugar skull, and a black-and-white bear outlined and shaded with orange marigold petals. A light tree-ring pattern circles the event title in the background.
Cartel para el evento de UCLA ‘Día de los Muertos: Luto y recuerdo a través del cambio ecológico.’ Detalles del evento: 1 de noviembre de 2025, de 11 a.m. a 1 p.m., Jardín Botánico Mathias de UCLA. Organizado por The Environmental Humanities Research Group at UCLA English, Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), Climate Justice Collective y Center for Developing Leadership in Science. Texto en la parte inferior: Ofrendas, música, presentaciones, comida y bebida tradicionales. El diseño incluye una mariposa monarca ilustrada, hojas de roble con bellotas, flores de cempasúchil, una calavera de azúcar y un oso en blanco y negro delineado con pétalos de cempasúchil anaranjados. Un patrón claro de anillos de árbol rodea el título del evento en el fondo.

EVENT DETAILS

WHEN


-

Location

UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden