09/11/2026
We invite our community to the 2026 Bay Area Maya Festival, where our Mayan Voices team will present our "Museo Mam" exhibit!
What: Bay Area Maya Festival!
Where: CCSF Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street!
When: Saturday, October 3, 2026, 9 AM to 1:30 PM!
Free and open to the public! Music, dance, poetry, art, discussions, food!
The Bay Area Maya Festival, a single-day festival on the Mission Campus of CCSF, shares the ancient knowledge and the contemporary concerns of the Maya community.
It is the only event in the Bay Area that brings together Maya people across various Maya regions, languages, and traditions. The festival aims to unify people across Maya traditionsy and educate the community.
The festival not only offers workshops on Maya history and mythology, but also includes presentations on contemporary poetry and arts, and discussions on today’s pressing issues, including immigrant rights. This year’s festival is especially focused on the creation of the Maya universe and the Maya world view.
The theme for this year’s festival will be aj tz’ib, and is centered on Maya writers and writing in the largest sense of the words possible. Aj tz’ib intersects with many sub-themes: poetry, fiction, history, art, painting, weaving, pattern-making, the recording of and representation of knowledge, the preservation of the past, the imagining of the future.
As Paul Worley and Rita Palacios will be discussing in their book presentation at the festival, the concept of ts’íib, or tz’ib, is connected to: tsikbal, which has to do with narrative, dialogue, interaction, and agency; k’anel, which has to do with love, connection, and approval; cha’anil, which deals with enjoyment and interaction; and cholel, which connects with place and one’s relationship with time and space.
The festival is scheduled for Saturday October 3, 2026, and includes readings by noted poets, writers, professors, as well as a parade of traditional clothing from various Maya villages, an exhibit of Maya art, photography, and more!
Festival events are open to the Bay Area community, from children to adults!
What: Bay Area Maya Festival!
Where: CCSF Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street!
When: Saturday, October 3, 2026, 9 AM to 1:30 PM!
Free and open to the public! Music, dance, poetry, art, discussions, food!
The Bay Area Maya Festival, a single-day festival on the Mission Campus of CCSF, shares the ancient knowledge and the contemporary concerns of the Maya community. It is the only event in the Bay Area that brings together Maya people across various Maya regions, languages, and traditions. The festival aims to unify people across Maya traditionsy and educate the community. The festival not only offers workshops on Maya history and mythology, but also includes presentations on contemporary poetry and arts, and discussions on today’s pressing issues, including immigrant rights. This year’s festival is especially focused on the creation of the Maya universe and the Maya world view.
The theme for this year’s festival will be aj tz’ib, and is centered on Maya writers and writing in the largest sense of the words possible. Aj tz’ib intersects with many sub-themes: poetry, fiction, history, art, painting, weaving, pattern-making, the recording of and representation of knowledge, the preservation of the past, the imagining of the future. As Paul Worley and Rita Palacios will be discussing in their book presentation at the festival, the concept of ts’íib, or tz’ib, is connected to: tsikbal, which has to do with narrative, dialogue, interaction, and agency; k’anel, which has to do with love, connection, and approval; cha’anil, which deals with enjoyment and interaction; and cholel, which connects with place and one’s relationship with time and space.
The festival is scheduled for Saturday October 3, 2026, and includes readings by noted poets, writers, professors, as well as a parade of traditional clothing from various Maya villages, an exhibit of Maya art, photography, and more! Festival events are open to the Bay Area community, from children to adults!
See you there!
