Please register for Events with an RSVP link, so we have enough supplies! For the rest, just show up!
| Baile Folkórico ~ Practice your Baile Folklorico or start fresh with these fun traditional dances! This workshop will lead to a presentation on the night of the Procession, so please be sure you are able to join most if not all of the practices: |
| Fridays (5:30 – 7pm), Saturdays (4-6pm), and Sundays (12:30-2:30pm) @ Forest Basement Sign up here for more information |
| Calavera Face Painting ~ Come learn how to create your own traditional Calavera face painting design for the Procession! (THEATRE) |
| Saturday, October 14 @ 2-4pm @ Wright Theatre dressing room (lower level) materials provided ~ RSVP here |
| Alebrijes Painting ~ Join JUNTOS for a fun workshop painting Alebrijes, sculptures of blended non-human beings that represent spirit guides. |
| Friday, October 20 @ 5-6:30pm @ Spanish House ~ RSVP here |
| Painting Picture Frames for the Ofrenda ~ The Día de muertos altar is a thing of beauty! Join ALIANZA in creating special frames to beautifully celebrate your dead! |
| Saturday, October 21 @ 1-3pm @ AXN 103 RSVP here |
| Giant Calavera Puppets ~ Join HEARTHUNDER ART COLLECTIVE for a collaborative 2-part workshop to build a unique papier mâché Calavera sculpture for the Día de los muertos Procession! |
| Sunday, October 22 from 2-4pm @ MAC 221 OPEN to the Public RSVP here |
| Mask Making ~ Create your own mask that you can wear on Día de muertos for years to come! Hosted by PALANA |
| Wednesday, October 25 @ 5pm @ AFC RSVP here |
| How to Build An Ofrenda ~ come learn some of the traditions of building an altar to welcome your loved ones home at the time of year when the veil between the living and the dead is the thinnest. With Olga Sanchez Saltveit (Theatre) |
| Wednesday, October 25 @ 6pm @ AFC |
| Appreciation vs. Appropriation ~ let’s talk about this! With Nikolina Dobreva (Film), Roberto Lint-Sagarena (American Studies) & Olga Sanchez Saltveit (Theatre) |
| Friday, October 27 @ 1pm @ AFC |
| BOOK OF LIFE free screening of this modern classic, animated film, introduced by Nikolina Dobreva (Film). Book of Life is a funny, irreverent, touching story of heroes, lovers, life, and after life… |
| Friday, October 27 @ 7pm @ Dana Auditorium OPEN to the Public |
| Papel Picado Making ~ Join Summer Lee Jack (Theatre) in creating beautiful and delicate cut-out tissue paper banners to hang by your ofrenda. It’s said they wave when spirits are near… |
| Saturday, October 28 @ noon-2pm @ MAC 221 RSVP here |
| Paper Marigold Making ~ Fill your ofrenda with paper cempasuchitl, the flowers that draw the spirits near. Join CAT for a peaceful afternoon of creative growth! |
| Saturday, October 28 @ 2-4pm @ AXN 219 RSVP here |
| Giant Calavera Puppets with HEARTHUNDER ART COLLECTIVE for part II of building a unique papier mâché Calavera sculpture for the Día de los muertos Procession! Today we assemble & paint! |
| Sunday, October 29 from 2-4pm @ MAC 221 OPEN to the Public RSVP here |
| Pan de muerto Baking ~ come learn to bake this traditional sweet bread with Isbeth Bustos. Pan de muerto is placed on the ofrenda to share with your dead loved ones |
| Wednesday, November 1 @ 3-5pm @ CCE RSVP here |
| Misa en español para el día de los muertos ~ Spanish language mass, all are welcome. |
| Thursday, November 2 @ 7pm @ St. Mary’s Church OPEN to the Public |
| Campus Wide Procession ~ bring along a memento of your loved one, a photo, favorite food, an object to honor your dead on the Procession… |
| Thursday, November 2 @ 7:30pm @ AFC OPEN to the Public |
Updates & more events confirmed soon, please visit this page again!
