(l-r): Jose Montoya (Director Emeritus), Marie Acosta (Executive Director) & Juanishi Orosco celebrate our Sacramento Arts and Business Council Arts Management Excellence Award win.
It is with a slight twinge of jealousy that we’re sending our beloved Executive Director Marie Acosta on her much deserved vacation this Sunday. For the two weeks upcoming, she’ll be somewhere at once out of reach of cell phones, emails & faxes and equally within reach of a beach, a good book & a strong margarita. But don’t fret your pretty little heads, even though she’s taking a break, we’re not!
In fact, we’ve got so much October programming that it’s nearly impossible to list it all!
but don’t you worry, i’m going to…
Opening the 7th of October is the Altar de la Familia Bermudez/The Bermudez Family Altar:
“Every November, the Monarch butterflies end their long migration in Mexico and carry with them the spirits of the dead. Altar de las Mariposas commemorates and welcomes the beloved souls of the Bermudez & Preston family home. Monarchs hover over the altar full of handmade candy skulls, calaveras, dazzling papier mâché masks, and marigolds in a celebration for the homecoming of Dia de Los Muertos.”
- The Bermudez Family
This touching tribute will be on display throughout the month of October.
Opening the 15th of October (which is right around the corner, truly!) is Nichos de la Ventana/Nichos in the Window, our staff, board and community created collection of cigar box nichos that will also be on display through the month of October and into November. We’ve still got two cigar boxes left, if you’d like to participate and if you’ve got a cigar box, time to get working, huh?
On top of all of that, we’ve got lions and tigers and bears, oh my! …well, more like film screenings, lectures, poetry readings and workshops, but still!
FILM SCREENINGS:
Thursday, October 22
La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead (1988) 7pm
Dr. Joyce Bishop, curator, Sacred & Shared, will lecture following the film.
Saturday, October 31
Macario (1959) 7pm
Introduction by Dr. Fred Dobb, LRGP film curator.
LECTURE/PRESENTATION:
Saturday, October 17
“The Ocotepec Mestizo Tradition: La Novenaria, Nine Days of Fire Works and Rosaries” 7pm
illustrator of The Toltec I Ching and lecturer at UCLA.
Space is limited for this very special presentation.
POETRY/READINGS:
Friday, October 23
Escritores del Nuevo Sol Reading: Sacramento writers read from their Dia de los Muertos works. 7pm
Wednesday, November 4
Artistas del Capitolio - Staffers by day, Artists by night: Angelica Salceda - Poetista 6pm
WORKSHOPS:
Make your own personalized sugar skulls and original masks!
Saturday, October 24 & 31
Mask Making Workshops with Amar Azucena Cid. 10am - 12pm
Sunday, October 18 & 25
Sugar Skull Workshops with Mari Arreola. 10am - 12pm
donation$$$$, by the way, are gladly accepted for every event...
And if that isn’t enough, we’ll still be open from 11-6, Tuesday-Saturday. Of course, by we, I mean me, Michael, who’ll be here in the fishbowl for all your glass-tapping amusement. There’s also a Second Saturday coming up, but I’ll blog about that later, okay?
So come visit us … err … me, or whatever, for the next couple weeks, yeah? yeah? yeah!
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