From the 20th to the 24th, cosplayers will invade Mercat with their best costumes and plenty of music to accompany a night that will continue with the Halloween party along with the live performance of the nikkei duo Kamikaze.
Sunday, November 2nd: Kids' Halloween. To wrap up the weekend, Sunday will be for the little ones, from 14 to 20 years old are all invited to join in with their costumes and visit the shops at Mercat to ask for candy and find surprise gifts.
The Halloween celebrations have arrived in the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and at Mercat Villa Crespo (Thames 747), the party multiplies.
From Friday, October 31st, to Sunday, November 2nd, the market that brings together gastronomic proposals with entertainment will be the meeting point for fun for all ages. Three days with proposals where costumes and horror will mix with gifts for the little ones, contests, music, and Japanese spirit.
Friday, October 31st: Rock & costumes night. From 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM, there will be a costume party and celebration of the influencer @cachorrosabroso's birthday, which pays homage to the epic day of his birth, Halloween with the Cachoween, a celebration where there will be no shortage of music with DJs and a live band, makeup artists to accompany the most terrifying outfits, and a Mercat that will also get dressed up for the occasion.
Saturday, November 1st: Cosplayers and Japanese night. Additionally, there will be guest cosplayers and artistic makeup to accompany an afternoon of family celebration and joy.
Three traditions together Between the end of October and the beginning of November, Halloween, All Saints' Day, and the Day of the Dead intertwine on the calendar. Although the traditions are different, they all share the same purpose: to honor the dead and mark the passage from the end to the beginning of a new cycle.
Since the 1970s, cinema and television popularized the custom of dressing up and asking for candy with the phrase "Trick or treat?", extending its practice to numerous countries.
The festival known as Halloween has its origins over 3,000 years ago in the ancient Celtic peoples of Northern Europe. According to the University of Oxford, the Celts celebrated Samhain, a ceremony that marked the end of the harvest and the beginning of the new Celtic year. During this celebration, it was believed that the spirits of the dead returned to visit the world of the living. Therefore, bonfires were lit, offerings were left at the doors, and costumes made of animal skins were worn to confuse the ghosts, according to the American Folklife Center of the U.S. Library of Congress.
With the expansion of the Roman Empire and later Christianity, Samhain mixed with Roman festivals and later with the eve of All Saints' Day, known in English as 'All Hallows’ Eve', from which the term Halloween originates.
In the 19th century, Irish immigrants brought the tradition to the United States and Canada, where it took on its current form.
On November 1st, the Catholic Church celebrates All Saints' Day, established to honor all martyrs and saints, known or anonymous. Its origin dates back to Antioch, present-day Turkey, where martyrs were commemorated collectively on the Sunday before Pentecost.
