{"id":319,"date":"2026-02-14T11:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayareamayafest.org\/?page_id=319"},"modified":"2026-05-24T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:46:13","slug":"past-festivals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bayareamayafest.org\/es\/past-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bay Area Maya Festival 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Program & Activites<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time<\/th>Room<\/th>Activities \/ Workshops<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
9:00 am<\/strong><\/td>Patio<\/td>Opening Ceremony, with Francisco Icala (*, **)<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>109<\/td>Community Information Tables (all day)<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>\u27a2 Contemporary Maya Paintings from Guatemala exhibit, with Rita Moran of Maya Women in Art (*, **)
\u27a2 Photographs of Yucatec Maya community in San Francisco by Karem Rodriguez (*, **)
\u27a2 Making buttons with Maya symbology, SFPL (*, **)
\u27a2 Know Your Rights with SFPL (*, **)
\u27a2 Traditional Indigenous Recipes, Stories of the Indigenous and Latinx Community, with Carlos Izaguirre <\/td><\/tr>
9:30 am<\/strong><\/td><\/td>Workshop Session 1<\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>108<\/td>Maya Poetry with C\u00e9sar Love: Gerardo Pacheco, Fer de la Cruz, John Curl, Mary luit Puc, Ismael Chel, Edgar Salom\u00f3n
Sulu Dzul (*, **, ***)<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>211<\/td>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 (*)<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>213<\/td>From Zero to Xfinity: a history of Mayan mathematics and calendrical development with Javier Armas (*)<\/td><\/tr>
10:30<\/strong> am<\/strong><\/td><\/td>Break<\/strong><\/em><\/td><\/tr>
10:45<\/strong> am<\/strong><\/td><\/td>Workshop Session <\/em>2<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>108<\/td>The Word Turned Butterfly: Anthology of Maya Poetry with Alejandro Murgu\u00eda and Pedro Uc Be (*, **, ***)<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>211<\/td>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 (*, **)<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>213<\/td>El Popol Wuj from the Anthropocene, Fer de la Cruz (**)<\/td><\/tr>
11:45<\/strong> am<\/strong><\/td>Patio<\/td>Lunch<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
12:00 pm<\/strong><\/td>Patio<\/td>Singing with Francisco Icala (**, ***)
Parade of Traditional Yucatec Maya Dress plus Jaranera Dances with Asociaci\u00f3n Mayab (*, **, ***)<\/td><\/tr>
1:30<\/strong> pm<\/strong><\/td>Patio<\/td>Closing Ceremony<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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City College of San Francisco Mission Campus 1125 Valencia St.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n