"Guelaguetza" is a word in the Zapotec language that means to share or to give. Oaxaca Tierra del Sol needs your support to fund the cultural preservation of Indigenous Oaxacan artists in Sonoma County!

Please consider making a donation to ensure this year's event on July 27 in Healdsburg can be FREE for our community, while we pay artists, dancers, and culture bearers a dignified honorarium for their participation.

Who We Are

Oaxaca Tierra del Sol is a grassroots non-profit organization created and run by Indigenous Oaxacan community leaders across Northern California. Our mission is to advance, defend and carry on our Oaxacan cultural traditions in Northern California. Oaxaca Tierra del Sol has been organizing the Guelaguetza of Sonoma County since 2013.

This year, our goal is to provide this event for free, because we believe the Guelaguetza is a tool of cultural resistance that should be available and accessible to all – especially migrant and working families. In Oaxaca, the Guelaguetza has been transformed into an exclusive paid experience for tourists, and many Oaxacan Indigenous communities are excluded from accessing our culture.

All profits generated from the Guelaguetza event are used to continue supporting cultural groups and Indigenous communities to continue creating their cultural work. We are proud to have engaged generations of young people in their cultural heritage and distribute resources equitably to our culture bearers who provide cultural dance, art, music offerings every year at our festival. We are proud to celebrate a decade of our organization's history under the leadership of our first woman director.

Guelaguetza Oaxaca Tierra del Sol has representation from:

The Muxe Community (LGBTQ+) (Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, Santa Cruz.)
The Afro-Oaxacan Community (The Third Mexican Root) (Madera, Fresno, and Los Angeles).
The Triqui Community (Healdsburg, Windsor, Santa Rosa, Grandfield,)
The Mixtec Community (Healdsburg, Windsor, Santa Rosa, Napa, Solano, Madera, Contra Costa, Santa Cruz,)
The Mixe Community (Sacramento).

We diligently work in coalition with communities outside of Oaxaca, including Indigenous communities from Turtle Island and communities of color across California.

About the Guelaguetza

The Guelaguetza is a family-friendly festival begins with a small parade that we call Calenda, it is an opening ceremony that invites all of the participants of the event. Then every Indigenous community representing presents themselves in their language, followed by dances representing the eight regions of Oaxaca with live music. We will have food stalls representing gastronomy and traditional foods throughout Oaxaca, crafts and artisans, as well as information from local community-based organizations who give Know Your Rights resources and community connection.

Guelaguetza Oaxaca Tierra del Sol 2025 in Healdsburg

By Oaxaca Tierra Delsol

Guelaguetza Oaxaca Tierra del Sol 2025 in Healdsburg

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