Tips for Zozobra Newbies
Be cool. “The first thing is, go with a positive attitude,” says Ray Sandoval, Zozobra event chair. “You’re there to get rid of negative energy. Don’t bring negative energy with you.” Be prepared…
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Turn Your Glooms into Smoke
➤ Please burn cancer. ➤ I want to forget my military memories and be happy in my civilian life. ➤ My negativity, needing more money, not being able to do more, my not wanting to travel, not being able…
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ZozoFest Gets the Party Going
IT’S THE PARTY BEFORE THE PARTY. ZozoFest, which takes place annually the weekend before the Burning of Zozobra, provides a first look at Old Man Gloom, a chance to stuff glooms into the puppet, and…
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Meet Zozobra's Keeper
IT’S MIDMORNING IN THE FIRST WEEK OF JUNE, in a mostly empty room next to the Boot Barn at Santa Fe Place Mall. Jacob Romero, Zozobra construction chair, oversees a small crew as the creation of Old…
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Burn, Zozobra, Burn!
THE WOMAN APPROACHED the “gloom” table flanked by two boys, perhaps seven or eight years old. They advanced quietly—at least compared with the melee of people feverishly jotting down their glooms and…
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Las Golondrinas Volunteers Get in Character
“WE COULDN'T DO IT without them,” says Laura Gonzales, Las Golondrinas’s director of education and volunteer services. She’s talking about the approximately 130 volunteers who bring the museum to life…
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Las Golondrinas Brings the Past to Life
THE REVEREND LARRY BRITO sprinkles holy water on the fields at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, the echoes of traditional hymns sung earlier by the Caballeros de Vargas still reverberating in the air on…
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