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Southwest Holiday Fest Welcomes Visitors with Holiday Cheer Despite Freezing Temps

EL CENTRAL by EL CENTRAL
December 18, 2025
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Although the temperatures were in the teens on Saturday, December 13, the 11th annual Southwest Holiday Fest brought warmth to the neighbors and visitors alike. Southwest Holiday Fest began in 2013 to showcase and celebrate the rich culture, creative arts, and neighborly hospitality of Southwest Detroit’s Hubbard-Richard and Mexicantown Neighborhoods.  This year was no exception.  

Plaza del Sol was packed with families decorating Christmas cookies, drinking Ponche Navideño, and visiting Pancho Claus.  Matrix Theatre hosted standing room only shows of Flying Cardboard Theater’s puppet show “There’s Snow Business like Snow Business” and opened up the floor for audience members to tell stories of holiday snow catastrophes and watch the Matrix Playback Theatre Troupe reenact a car breaking down, a water line burst, and being introduced to the family for the first time in chaos.   

Southwest Fest in Southwest Detroit on Saturday, December 13, 2025.

Across the street, We the People opened their doors for a clothing swap where folks could trade old for new treasures. Music and merriment filled the Mexicantown CDC Mercado all day as attendees shopped local vendors, moved to the sounds of local Grammy-nominated pianist and arranger Alina Morr and Urban Tropical, and kids tried their best to break Piñatas. Corpus Arts studio opened its doors for ornament making.  Hubbard Richard Neighborhood Association offered a chestnut-roasting tutorial and S’more kits.  

In addition to these neighborhood institutions, this year, The Brooke, Detroit City Football Club, and Greening of Detroit joined the Southwest Holiday Fest.

Despite the frigid temperatures, people were excited to line up for horse-and-carriage rides down Bagley Avenue. The night ended with dozens of people participating in a traditional Posada procession stopping at some of the can’t-miss restaurants, bakeries and markets in Detroit’s Hubbard Richard and Mexicantown neighborhoods: Mexicantown Restaurant, Los Galanes, El Pope Market, Taqueria El Rey, La Gloria Bakery, Xochimilco, Lupita’s, Honey Bee Market, and Tamalera Nuevo Leon.  Later in the evening, people warmed up at Blitzen’s on Bagley, which gave out free candy canes, and Southwest Detroit’s Neighborhood Bar, Donavan’s.

Southwest Fest in Southwest Detroit on Saturday, December 13, 2025.

The event was organized by Matrix Theatre Company, Mexicantown CDC, and Plaza del Sol, with generous donations from The Brooke, The Ideal Group, Shaun and Wes Nethercott, and Lee Stille, along with contributions from Prince Valley, Greening of Detroit, Detroit Master Class, and photographer Josh Boland.

El Southwest Holiday Fest recibe a los visitantes con alegría navideña a pesar de las temperaturas bajo cero

A pesar de que las temperaturas rondaban los -10 grados Celsius el sábado 13 de diciembre, el 11.º Southwest Holiday Fest brindó calidez tanto a los vecinos como a los visitantes. El Festival Navideño del Suroeste comenzó en el 2013 para mostrar y celebrar la rica cultura, las artes creativas y la hospitalidad de los barrios de Hubbard-Richard y Mexicantown en el suroeste de Detroit. Este año no fue la excepción. 

La Plaza del Sol estaba repleta de familias decorando galletas navideñas, bebiendo ponche navideño y visitando a Pancho Claus. El Teatro Matrix presentó funciones con aforo completo del espectáculo de marionetas “There’s Snow Business like Snow Business” del Flying Cardboard Theatre, y también abrió el escenario para que el público contara historias de desastres navideños relacionados con la nieve y viera al grupo de teatro Matrix Playback Theatre Troupe recrear la avería de un coche, la rotura de una tubería de agua y conocer por primera vez a una familia en medio del caos. 

Southwest Fest in Southwest Detroit on Saturday, December 13, 2025.

Al otro lado de la calle, We the People abrió sus puertas para un intercambio de ropa donde la gente podía cambiar prendas viejas por nuevos tesoros. Música y alegría llenaron el Mercado de Mexicantown CDC durante todo el día, mientras los asistentes compraban a vendedores locales, bailaban al ritmo de la pianista y arreglista local nominada al Grammy, Alina Morr, y Urban Tropical, y los niños se divertían al intentar romper las piñatas. El estudio Corpus Arts abrió sus puertas para la elaboración de adornos navideños. La Asociación de Vecinos de Hubbard Richard ofreció una bolsa de castañas para asarlas y kits para asar malvaviscos.

Además de estas instituciones en Hubbard-Richard y Mexicantown, este año se unieron al Southwest Holiday Fest, The Brooke, Detroit City Football Club y Greening of Detroit. A pesar de las bajas temperaturas, la gente hacía fila con entusiasmo para dar paseos en carruaje por la calle Bagley. La noche terminó con docenas de personas participando en una procesión tradicional de Posada, haciendo paradas en algunos de los restaurantes, panaderías y mercados imperdibles de Hubbard Richard y Mexicantown en Detroit: Mexicantown Restaurant, Los Galanes, El Pope Market, Taqueria El Rey,  panadería La Gloria, Xochimilco, Lupita’s, Honey Bee Market y Tamalera Nuevo Leon. Más tarde, la gente se fue a Blitzen’s en Bagley, en donde regalaron bastones de caramelo, y en el bar del barrio del suroeste de Detroit, Donavan’s.

Southwest Fest in Southwest Detroit on Saturday, December 13, 2025.

 

El evento fue organizado por Matrix Theatre Company, MexicantownCDC y Plaza del Sol, con donaciones generosas de The Brooke, The Ideal Group, Shaun y Wes Nethercott y Lee Stille, además de las contribuciones de Prince Valley, Greening of Detroit, Detroit Master Class y el fotógrafo Josh Boland.

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