Day of the Dead Community Event 2011 program

Saturday October 29Th “Free”

""Altar exhibition and face painting ""

Evolved Body Art: Andy Ringo, Joe Schmoe Chris Borchik, Marah Stein,

Oliver Martinez, Chad Allison, Mike Prickett and Joe Stevens.

12:00pm Opening Independent Artist Angela Morales Artwork
12:00pm Independent Artist Santos Gonzalez will show how he brings old wood furniture alive by recycling and painting them.
12:00pm Center for Latin Hope Paper Skull's kids artwork exhibition
12:00pm First Unitarian Universal Church of Columbus
Learn who to make Sugar Skulls Work-shop .

6:00pm Music by Lindsay-Marie Yates
6:45pm Music by Ryan Skinner
7:30pm Poetry by Guillermo Arango, Daniel Montoly and Juan Armando Rojas
8:30pm Art of hosing The Circle of Life, by Ruben Castilla Herrera

Altar exhibition by: Margarita Revilla, Angela Morales, Julia Neal Morales, Maritza, Leticia Vazquez-Smith, Roxane Karppala & Jolinda Stephens.

Every day from October 29TH-November 5TH

Day of the Dead Community Event 2011 program

Sunday October 30Th “Free”

Altar exhibition, Paper Skulls and Sugar Skull’s exhibition

12:00pm Independent Artist Santos Gonzalez Artwork Exhibition
6-8pm Columbus International Program presentation
How do we honor the dead around the world by
Patrizia Kasik, Sonja Arnold, Luka Sydstol, Caratina Widmark,
Emmerentianna Ndeke, Maria Fatima Sylva Leyva.

Day of the Dead Community Event 2011 program

Monday October 31st “Free”

Altar exhibition, Paper Skull’s exhibition, Pumpkin Carving, Music

Day of the Dead Community Event 2011 program

Tuesday November 1st “Free”

Altar exhibition, Paper Skulls and Sugar Skull’s exhibition

5:00pm Independent Artist Santos Gonzalez Artwork Exhibition
6:00pm Erika Hernandez will teach us how to make paper flowers.
7:00pm “What is the day of the dead about?” invitation to general
public to bring portraits or flowers to honor their friends and family,
people are welcome to write a message and place it at the community
Altar.

Day of the Dead Community Event 2011 program

Wednesday November 2nd “Free”

Altar exhibition, Paper Skulls & Sugar Skull’s exhibition, face painting

6:00pm Erika Hernandez will teach us how to make paper flowers.
6:00pm Music by Lindsay-Marie Yates
6:30pm Musical performance Rodolfo Vazquez
7:30pm Perception of Death and Healing by Darsy Amaya
8:00pm Art of hosing , The Circle of Life by Ruben Castilla Herrera
Traditional Food: Tamales, pan de muerto.

Day of the Dead Community Event 2011 program

Thursday November 3rd Free
Altar exhibition ,Paper Skulls and Sugar Skull’s exhibition

Day of the Dead Community Event 2011 program

Friday November 4Th
Bolivia Orphanage Project Fundraiser


Tickets are $5.00 children 10 & under free . Your support benefits
“The Ayni Children's Foundation and Orphanage Project”, in Bolivia.
Enjoy traditional food; Tamales, “Pan de Muerto”, and Food from
Earth’s Crust, Veggielicious, Azteca Catering, Global Gallery’s Global
Kitchen, Hot Pita, Local Beer & Local Hot Cider,
Altar exhibition, Face painting , silent auction.

4:00 pm What is the day of the dead about?”
5:00pm Perception of Death and Healing by Darsy Amaya
6:00pm Poetry and Music by Enrique Infante
7:30pm Ryan Skinner “Kora performance”
9:00pm Will Dudley Jazz Guitar

Day of the Dead Community Event 2011 program

Saturday November 5Th
Bolivia Orphanage Project Fundraiser

$5.00 Tickets Altar exhibition Paper Skulls and Sugar Skull’s exhibition
Enjoy Music, Global Gallery’s Global Kitchen, Local Beer & Hot Cider.

Day of the Dead celebration is not a paganism celebration, it actually celebrates LIFE

The cult to the death was one of the basic elements in the religion of Mexican ancient. They believed death and life constitute a unity. For the pre-Columbian people death was not the end of the existence, it was a transitional way toward something better.

Day of the Dead Community Event 2011

October 29Th-November 5Th

3535 N. High St.

Day of the Dead Community Event.

The Day of the Dead is an ancient tradition celebrated in Mexico and other Latin American countries. It is a holiday linked to the Aztec agricultural calendar from Pre-Spanish invasion, ancient times and it is a special time dedicated to the remembrance of deceased loved ones. Five hundred years ago, when the Spanish Conquistadors first arrived Mexico, they encountered natives practicing a ritual that seemed to mock death. Although the ritual has since been merged with some Christian traditions, it still maintains the basic principles of the Aztec ritual. Unlike the Spaniards, who viewed death as the end of life, the natives viewed it as the continuation of life. Instead of fearing death, they embraced it. To them, life was a dream and only in death did they become fully awake.

Latino Arts for Humanity is dedicated to preserving this unique Mexican festivity in Columbus, maintaining its cultural importance within the local community for future Hispanic generations to embrace. Our goal is to educate the local community on this celebration through explanatory history, altar exhibits, original art, interactive projects, colorful visual arts, poetry readings, music, dance, Mexican folk traditions and authentic Mexican food. We wish to share with the community the cultural background of The Day of the Dead celebration providing the opportunity to observe a different perception of the “life-death” duality.

This festivity is celebrated differently all throughout South and Central America, but Latino Arts for Humanity focuses primarily on the Mexican Traditions. In Mexico, they celebrate with the creation of altar exhibitions dedicated to their deceased ancestors. An altar is an offering made in honor of somebody that has passed away. On their altars, they often place portraits or personal items. They place candles to represent the light needed to guide the spirit of the departed to the offering, incense to clean the air where the offering is set up, water because they will be thirsty after their long journey back and the Cempazuchitl flower, the yellow marigold flower, to symbolize death.

Day of the Dead Community Event 2011 October 29Th-November 5Th

Day of the Dead Community Event 2011

Come and celebrate with us Day of the Dead it is a time to share, remember and honoring the love ones who have died.

From October 29Th- November 5Th

Day of the Dead Community Event 2011 "Honoring the September 11 Souls"

Location: Global Gallery Clintonville
3535 N High St. Columbus OH

PROGRAM:


Saturday October 29Th “Free”

Altar exhibition and face painting

"Featuring Artwork from Evolved Body Art "Artist: Andy Ringo, Joe Schmoe Chris Borchik, Marah

Stein, Oliver Martinez, Chad Allison and Joe Stevens.

Independent Artist Santos Gonzalez will show how he brings old wood furniture alive by recycling and painting them.

Center for Latin Hope Paper Skull's exhibition

First Unitarian Universal Church of Columbus Sugar Skulls

6:30pm Musical performance (Rodolfo Vazquez)

7:30pm Poetry reading by Guillermo Arango, Daniel Montoly and Juan Armando Rojas

8:00pm Arat Infante Violin performance

8:30pm Art of hosing "The Circle of Life"by Ruben Castilla Herrera



Sunday October 30Th “Free”

Altar exhibition,

Independent Artist Santos Gonzalez Artwork Exhibition

6-8pm Columbus International Program presentation

"How do we honor the dead around the world"
by Patrizia Kasik, Sonja Arnold, Luka Sydstol, Caratina Widmark, Emmerentianna Ndeke, Maria Fatima Sylva Leyva.


Monday October 31st “Free”

Altar exhibition, Paper Skull’s exhibition by CEL



Tuesday November 1st “Free”

Altar exhibition,

Artist Santos Gonzalez Artwork Exhibition

6:00pm Erika Hernandez will teach us how to make paper flowers. “Come to learn and enjoy this activity”

7:00pm “What is the day of the dead about?” invitation to general public to bring portraits or flowers to honor their friends and family, people are welcome to write a message and place it at the community Altar.

Traditional Food: Tamales, pan de muerto.



Wednesday November 2nd “Free”

Altar exhibition, face painting.

6:00pm Erika Hernandez will teach us how to make paper flowers. “Come to learn and enjoy this activity”

6:30pm Musical performance Rodolfo Vazquez

7:30 Perception of Death and Healing by Darsy Amaya

8:00pm Art of hosing "The Circle of Life"by Ruben Castilla Herrera

Traditional Food: Tamales, pan de muerto.


Thursday November 3rd

Altar exhibition “Free”

"""""Friday November 4Th""""

Bolivia Orphanage Project Fundraiser

Tickets are $5.00 per adult, children under 10 year old free Your support goes to improve “The AyniChildren's Foundation and Orphanage”, in Bolivia.

Enjoy traditional food; Tamales, “Pan de Muerto”, Pastries paired with local hot apple cider & local beer.

Altar exhibition, Face painting and Gift certificates raffle.

4:00 pm What is the day of the dead about?”

5:00 Perception of Death and Healing by Darsy Amaya

6:00pm Poetry and Music by Enrique Infante

7:30pm Will Dudley Jazz Guitar



Saturday November 5Th

Altar exhibition “Free”

Enjoy traditional food paired with local hot apple cider, local beer and Music.



"The belief that death and life constitute a unity"

Mexican Day of the Dead event a way to remember loved ones

By Suzanne Hoholik
The Columbus Dispatch Sunday November 1, 2009 6:12 AM


Leticia Vazquez-Smith of the Latino Arts for Humanity, sponsor of the event, lights a candle at an altar.
The rice pudding, mole sauce, bread, fruits and vegetables on the altar are not for guests.

The food is for the souls of the dead women whose pictures were on the altar as part of the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

Ancient indigenous people of Mexico believed the souls of dead loved ones come back to roam the earth for a short time. When the souls return, they need incense to cleanse the area of bad spirits, water because they're thirsty from their journey, candles to guide them, flowers to make them happy and their favorite food dishes.

All these things and more are placed on altars honoring family members and friends who have died.

"The celebration of the day of the dead is the celebration of life itself," said Leticia Vazquez-Smith of the Latino Arts for Humanity, which sponsored a local Day of the Dead festival.

The two-day event was Friday and yesterday at the Columbus Music Hall in the Olde Towne East neighborhood on the Near East Side.

Seven altars honored people who had died. There were poetry readings, movies, music, food and conversations about death.

"People shared stories of people they loved who had died, and they felt closer to them," Vazquez-Smith said.

Dawn Rondot brought her husband and three children to the event to learn more about the Latino culture. She teaches Spanish at Indianola Middle School.

"I think it has value for them to see other cultures," she said of her children. "This gives them exposure to other cultures without getting it from a book."

The holiday formerly was in August to coincide with the harvest in Mexico. But after the Spanish conquest, it blended with All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day, Nov. 1 and Nov. 2.

Rondot's 16-year-old daughter, Victoria, is studying Spanish. She spent yesterday morning researching the Day of the Dead online before going to the local event.

She liked the colorful altars packed full of figurines, pictures, food and candles.

"I like that the altar is devoted to specific people," Victoria said.

"It's really kind of cool how they honor their dead."

Day of the Dead Community Event meeting

Day of the Dead Community Event
Meeting October 20Th at 7PM
3535 S High St
Global Gallery meeting space

This will be our last meeting before we set the Altars and Art work (October 28Th)
Please come and share with us your final work.

Thank you and see you there.