Photos: 25th Dia de San Juan Fiesta
The 25th fiesta to celebrate the upcoming monsoon on the feast day of San Jaun Bautista, at Mission Garden, Tucson, Ariz., June 24, 2023.
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Josefina Lizarraga helps tie down the statue of San Juan in the face of a breezy evening for the 25th Dia de San Juan Fiesta at Mission Garden, Tucson, Ariz., June 24, 2023. The annual festival, put on by the Menlo Park Neighborhood Association, celebrates the coming of monsoon rains on the feast day of San Juan, the patron saint of water.
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Isabella Jimenez Ballesteros administers the telling blow on the celebratory piñata at the Dia de San Juan Fiesta at Mission Garden, Tucson, Ariz., June 24, 2023.
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Rodney Higby Smith decorates his rain stick/light saber at one of the children’s crafts tables for the Dia de San Juan Fiesta at Mission Garden, Tucson, Ariz., June 24, 2023. The night also featured music by Mariachi Luz de Luna, food trucks and dozens of vendors and service provider tables
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Festival goers stroll the grounds of Mission Garden near one of the irrigation channels as sun sets on the 25th Dia de San Juan Fiesta, Tucson, Ariz., June 24, 2023.
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Customers line up outside Sumaj Bolivian Street Food truck, one of a string of cuisine options for the Dia de San Juan Fiesta at Mission Garden, Tucson, Ariz., June 24, 2023.
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Part of the night’s entertainment, DJ Dirtyverbs, Logan Phillips, spins disks for the crowd for the Dia de San Juan Fiesta at Mission Garden, Tucson, Ariz., June 24, 2023.
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