The Bakalarte Festival was first held in 2016, celebrating art and poetry in the town of Bacalar, one of Mexico’s “Pueblos Mágicos” (Magic Towns) and namesake of the renowned Lagoon of Seven Colors. Following its staging almost every year since (minus exceptions during the COVID-19 pandemic), its main legacy for the town has been over 100 murals and other pieces of street art, which have now come to define it almost as much as the lagoon. Tania Sol Portillo, of the “Una Luz Para Mi País” (A Light for My Country)…
