Monday November 1, 2010
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Join us for the Center’s 15th annual Day of the Dead Celebration! This FREE event is a wonderful combination of energy and emotion while we morn those we have lost and acknowledge our own mortality. The Museum’s Sculpture court be transformed by Eloy Tarcisio’s installation, Muerte de Todod Ofrenda de Participacion (Death Comes to Everyone, a Participatory Offering.) Bring photos and keepsakes to decorate your own grave plot for someone or something you have lost.
The Center’s Education Studio’s will hold a plethora of art projects where you can decorate your own sugar skull, make papel picado [tissue paper flags to honor the dead], create your own paper skull masks and much more! In addition artists Daniel Martinez, Flor Kendall and Tomasito Wold will run creative workshops.
To top it off there will be performances by Ballet Folklorico Tierra Caliente and a reading by author John Phillip Santos in the Center Theatre. To fill your belly and quench your thirst enjoy complementary refreshments of Pan Dulce and Mexican Hot Chocolate. The Museum will be open free for this event from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
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