Nov 3rd, Free Thursday, Artwalk, & Day of the Dead Festivities

[butterflydreaming]

I'd love to see you all at the Artwalk downtown, next Thursday. The Seattle Art Museum is having a Dia De Los Muertos celebration. I'm thinking of heading over to Fado for boxty potatoes afterward (around 7:30)... who's in? I'll look for you.

From SAM's event schedule

"Annual
'El Día de los Muertos' (The Day of the Dead) Celebration"
2001-10-30 until 2001-11-04
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA, USA

The annual Mexican, Día de los Muertos rite will be celebrated at the Seattle Art Museum. For this traditional observance two installations will be on view at the downtown Seattle Art Museum.

The installations in Brotman Hall will be an ornate altar honoring the deceased surrounded by traditional Mexican sand painting tapeta, from Oaxaca, Mexico. The altar and tapeta are designed by artists Fulgencio
Lazo-Amaya and Issac Hernandez and created with other local artists. The installations are co-sponsored by the Seattle Art Museum and the Mexican Consulate.

Known in English as The Day of the Dead, this historic celebration spans centuries, combining ancient and New World traditions, folk customs and spiritual beliefs. Observed in Mexican and Mexican-American communities on Nov. 1 and 2, El Día de los Muertos is a powerful, symbolic celebration in honor of relatives and friends who have died.

During this time, families assemble altars (ofrendas) laden with offerings of food and drink to nourish the spirits. Flowers, candles, clay figurines that make light of death, sugar skeletons embroidered with the names of the deceased, and personal messages to the spirits are placed on the altar. In this manner, the altar is presented to the community to celebrate loved ones who have passed away and the ideas they imparted in life.

Comments

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

You do fun stuff, and I always want to join you, but going into Seattle on a work-day evening (particularly not a Friday) always scares me off :(

(And, like, NaNoing.)

[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

I'll be NaNo-ing, too. The events are part of my "research", as a matter of fact, and will be incorporated.

I suppose that I shall see you at Sam's on the 11th?

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

Research is acceptable! RIN is set in Seattle, and when I was being mildly touristy over the summer, places I visited kept appearing in the story. *laughs*

Yes, you will definitely see me then! Are you also part of the retreat?

[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

RIN isn't fantasy? Or is it urban? I'm not participating in the conference but I may show up on Friday with vegan, all natural, organic crisped rice treats. It's a way to celebrate finding marshmallows without gelatin.

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

RIN is urban fantasy, set in Seattle, though RIN 2 might have some visits into San Fransisco and possibly Asia. But I think those are later stories, not this one.

[amheriksha.livejournal.com]

Gah! I'm going to be at SAM Thursday on a field trip too! :P During the day though. Wish I could join ya'll!

[ironymaiden]

yes, C and i would like to go. lets make a plan.