Banquets and binges in informal cemeteries, La Paz, Bolivia. The traditional “Day of the Dead” and “All Saints” festivals celebrated each year in the cemeteries of Bolivia gain a unique character in the hundreds of clandestine cemeteries that can be found throughout the city of La Paz and El Alto. The city hillsides are invaded by thousands of people who visit their forefathers in a festive ritual in which music is offered and people are invited to take fruit, bread, drinks or coca that have been laid out to receive the souls of the departed. The landscape city is populated with the aesthetics of an accumulation with the same origin as informal markets. The proliferation of the event creates a new distribution of the urban space. A festival in which families get together and in which music, binges, lamentations, prayers and food are combined to remember, weep and honour the dead. Informal markets are set up between graves and children’s games appear where prayers are swapped for food and drink. In the city all planning is transformed by its use and appropriation. Conditions are not established, they are built over time and are variable and mobile. The city contracts as the informal organisations grow. Real organisations are established more than the established, the established and the spontaneous lose their fixed meaning.