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The annual Boca de Oro Festival of Literary, Visual & Performing Arts is typically held in Downtown Santa Ana as a free event bringing together local and regional artists, poets and authors. With large in-person events discouraged this year because of COVID-19, the festival will continue its celebration online and through other avenues.
The Boca de Oro Festival will hold online sessions March 5 from 6-9 p.m., and March 6 and 7 from 2-6 p.m. For those interested in attending, registration is required and can be found on its website.
"We work very hard to foster as much local artists' participation to make Santa Ana a literary hub. And we speak about literacies, like their artistic literacies," said Robyn MacNair, co-founder of the Boca de Oro Festival.
Each year, the festival has a theme, and so far, each theme has related to ancient Greek culture. This year's theme is "Historic Memory, Vision and Dreams" and is dedicated to Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory in Greek mythology. Mnemosyne is the mother of the nine muses, who represent epic poetry, history, love poetry, music, tragedy, sacred poetry, dance and comedy. Last year's Boca de Oro Festival was dedicated to the nine muses.
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