2012 Moctoberfest performers, courtesy of Karel Moonen

MoCtober Festival 2013
www.moctoberfest.com

A Spring Carnival & Fundraiser for Many Mouths One Stomach (MMOS)

MoctoberFest is an April Fool’s Carnival, Beer festival, and Community Arts Fundraiser for All Souls Procession curators Many Mouths One Stomach. (Last year we raised nearly $2500 which paid for ASP2011 TPD support & fence/barricades. Thank YOU for your attendance & support! We would like to continue the fun and celebration again this year.

A full line up of live music, DJs, entertainment, informative & interactive workshops, magicians, aerial stunts, artisan food-trucks, and vending by local crafters.

What: 2nd Annual MoctoberFest – April Fool’s Carnival – www.moctoberfest.com

When: March 30st

Time: 2pm to 2am

Where: Mercado San Agustin, 100 S. Avenida del Convento,1/4 mile West of I-10 on Congress

Cost: $5 for an all-day pass. Re-entry is permitted.

All ages, 21 & up w/ID, children 10 & under permitted until 10pm & free with paying adult

Featured Entertainment:

Flam Chen, the Missing Parts, Tucson Circus Arts instructor Katherine Celeste & Aerial Crew, aerial acts by Air Loom, Salvador Duran, Mamaxé, Planet Djembe, the Circus Electric -Tesla Coil stunts with Carl Nagual & Co., DJ Carl Hanni, magicians Kenny Stewart & Nate Anderson’s are the Brothers Macabre!, Richard Noel of Sticks n Fingers, dunking booth, a giant swing, Black Ginger, Tygel Pinto, the Bennu, DJ Joshua Pocolips, Orbital Evolution, Flight School, secret Burlesque Cabaret, STWTS DJ Matthew Cassidy, Open Fire Circle, and more TBA.

Afternoon Workshops With:

Flight School (Partner Yoga),Mamaxe (West Aftrican Dance), Saguaro Stompers (American clog dance), Orbital Evolution (hula hoops), Tucson Circus Arts (aerial silks and various circus arts demos), Fire Mecca & Morning Fyre -PHX (poi and glow/flow/fire-spinning arts), and more TBA.

OPEN FIRE JAM CIRCLE – AT YOUR OWN RISK

We would like to invite fire dancers/performers to bring their gear and sign up to show their moves, commune and share, with like minded people. We will provide fuel.

Continuing with the MMOS mission of creating festival culture Moctoberfest invites everyone down for a good time, to meet old & new friends, converge and share, collaborate and create, dance and play together in public space.

The people in Tucson come from the broadest range of interests, cultural experience, generations, yet we live, work and play together. MoctoberFest is another playground to let loose, make fun of ourselves, and transform our tolerance into acceptance and to learn to be accepted… to be ourselves… to each create our own “flag” and wave it! We have lined up some of the best local talent in Tucson for a full day of entertainment and interactivity!

We encourage locals to come dressed up…Dress your best, dress like a fool… show us how you do it when you do it when you don’t care who cares… We may even have a fashion show and ask you to be a part of it. We will have a ”beach-side” photo studio for your pleasure and archives.

We are calling out to Volunteers and helpers for the event. Earn a free pass to get in and get on the behind the scenes crew and help us create this event. OR if you have an act you would like to bring to the main stage or Cabaret.

WE ARE ALSO CALLING OUT DUNKEES… If you’re a Tucson Celebrity, your fans would LOVE to dunk you. Volunteer or nominate someone that you want to see dropped into a tub of water!

For more information, contact: Ruben Palma, email: moctoberfest@gmail.com

www.mercadosanagustin.com

www.manymouths.org

www.allsoulsprocession.org

www.flamchen.com

Gather at 5:00pm on Nov. 4th
registration area on Toole Ave just West of Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress St.

Procession Begins 6pm
GRAND FINALE
Mercado San Agustín on West Congress (west of I-10), 100 S. Avenida del Convento

We will be initiating our new finale site on West Congress and with the help of Gadsden Company we will be investing in a new Festival Grounds that will be developed over the next few years-look for more details soon!
Flam Chen and a multitude of other performers TBA, The Community Spirit Group, and
with this years musical guests: SORIAH, Richard Noel from Sticks and Fingers and David Galleher, Danza Azteca Calpulli Tonantzin, Tucson Arts Brigade, Odaiko Sonora, Mourning Frye, de Dar a Luz, and more.

Map of new route is below (The change must be due to construction on 4th Avenue as the previous route used to start at Epic Cafe at University Blvd. and go through the 4th Avenue Underpass to downtown). The new route now starts near Hotel Congress:

This wildly popular procession is in its 23rd year and there must be 20,000 or more people now walking the route. For more information on other events leading up El Dia de Los Muertos and this All Souls Procession, go to their website: http://www.allsoulsprocession.org/

Hope you enjoyed Halloween last night, and it’s time to get ready for All Souls on Sunday. Raices Taller art gallery will be hosting a Dia de los Muertos community event on Friday November 2nd, from 6 to 8 p.m. It is their “annual homage to Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead with a cultural celebration in the tradition of the Hispanic Southwest. Community groups, guest artists and gallery members pay personal tribute to Dia de los Muertos with altars, ofrendas (offerings), paintings and sculpture. All events are free and open to the public, donations appreciated!”They are located at 218 E. 6th Street, 520-881-5335 or raicestaller222@aol.com.

Flor de Muertos

One showing only! Thursday, Oct 25th 2012 at 7:30pm
Loft Theater, 3233 E. Speedway

General Admission: $8 • Loft Members: $6

Get ready for this year’s All Souls Procession with a special screening of the Tucson-made documentary Flor de Muertos, starring Calexico!

Flor de Muertos (Flower of the Dead) examines the cross-cultural collisions regarding death along the US and Mexico border, commencing with the Mexican celebration of the Dia de los Muertos and ending with the All Souls Procession when 20,000 locals turn out in skull face to rattle through the streets of downtown Tucson, Arizona, to remember, honor, and dance with the dead.

Flor de Muertos – the Aztec Marigold, ‘Cempasuchil’- the scent of marigolds forms a path the souls of the dead can follow back to the living on the annual Day of the Dead. Part documentary, part concert film, Flor de Muertos features acclaimed Americana/alternative band Calexico, playing a concert in Tucson’s historic Rialto Theater to their hometown audience.

Desert rat journalist Charles Bowden, who has roamed the borderlands in search of an elusive truth for decades, author Margaret Regan, artist Salvador Duran and others comment on the insanity of American immigration policies.

Locally made film about our very own All Souls Procession (in which my husband and I have walked, with calaveras/skulls on our heads in the past). I recognized all the names mentioned above who will be in this documentary. Enjoy Tucson and get ready for All Souls on November 4th.