Bay Area Maya Festival 2025
This year’s theme was the creation of the universe. A celebration of the Maya culture through music, art, poetry, dancing, and food. Held at City College of San Francisco’s Mission Campus.
Program & Activites
| Time | Room | Activities / Workshops |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | Patio | Opening Ceremony, with Francisco Icala (*, **) |
| 109 | Community Information Tables (all day) | |
| ➢ Contemporary Maya Paintings from Guatemala exhibit, with Rita Moran of Maya Women in Art (*, **) ➢ Photographs of Yucatec Maya community in San Francisco by Karem Rodriguez (*, **) ➢ Making buttons with Maya symbology, SFPL (*, **) ➢ Know Your Rights with SFPL (*, **) ➢ Traditional Indigenous Recipes, Stories of the Indigenous and Latinx Community, with Carlos Izaguirre | ||
| 9:30 am | Workshop Session 1 | |
| 108 | Maya Poetry with César Love: Gerardo Pacheco, Fer de la Cruz, John Curl, Mary luit Puc, Ismael Chel, Edgar Salomón Sulu Dzul (*, **, ***) | |
| 211 | The Popol Vuh and the creation of the universe, with CCSF Art History Professor Edgar Torres, featuring The Transcendence of the Form with Giovanni Emmanuel Uribe, Pedro Uc Be, Haizel de la Cruz (*) | |
| 213 | From Zero to Xfinity: a history of Mayan mathematics and calendrical development with Javier Armas (*) | |
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:45 am | Workshop Session 2 | |
| 108 | The Word Turned Butterfly: Anthology of Maya Poetry with Alejandro Murguía and Pedro Uc Be (*, **, ***) | |
| 211 | The Digital Florentine Codex: Modern-Day Access to a 500-Year-Old Mexica (Aztec) Manuscript, with Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS) Professor Beatriz Herrera (*, **) | |
| 213 | El Popol Wuj from the Anthropocene, Fer de la Cruz (**) | |
| 11:45 am | Patio | Lunch |
| 12:00 pm | Patio | Singing with Francisco Icala (**, ***) Parade of Traditional Yucatec Maya Dress plus Jaranera Dances with Asociación Mayab (*, **, ***) |
| 1:30 pm | Patio | Closing Ceremony |
City College of San Francisco Mission Campus 1125 Valencia St.
- Saturday, October 4, 2025
- 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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