Monday, January 28, 2008

my contribution to art!


OLOR A MUERTOS….
El 27 de Octubre fui nuevamente al Centro Cultural Hispano porque iban a tener diversas actividades relacionadas al Dia de Muertos, Iba yo a ver a Cynthia a las 12 pero como tenia que depender de las corridas de los autobuses, decidi salir antes y llegué a las 11 de la mañana. a nice altar
one more altar
Ahi conoci a un muchacho que estaba haciendo un diseño de la “Catrina” que asemejaria un enorme papel picado asi que solo se necesitaba carbon y gis blanco … ya que contaba con mucho tiempo antes de que Cynthia llegara y para sacar un poco de estres me ofreci como voluntaria para ayudarle, y para cuando Cynthia llegó ya se le veia forma asi que las dos entramos al edificio donde algunos de sus amigos estaban conduciendo algunos de los talleres: las familias estaban aprendiendo como hacer coronas con papel de china naranja simulando flor de muerto, como decorar calaveritas de azucar, como hacer papel picado y como hacer otrs flores . tambien habia algunos articulos a la venta y alguinos altars hechos por escuelas del area y otras personas a quienes les gusta preserver esta tradicion. Ah! Tambien aqui escuchamos una platica sobre las festividades. Cybnthia compro una pintura muy creative para regalarsela a su novio Alan y que nos gusto a ambas. Fue asi como inicie la celebracion del dia de los muertoslas coronas
decorando calaveras
mi papel picado

On October 27th I went to the Hispanic Cultural Center because they were having different family activities related to the Dia de Muertos, I was going to see Cynthia at 12 but since I had to depend on the bus schedule I decided to leave earlier and was there by 11 am. There I met a guy who was making the design of a “Catrina” that was supposed to be a cut out paper, so only coal and white chalk was needed… since I had a lot of time before Cynthia arrived, and to get ride of some stress, I volunteered to help, and by the time Cynthia arrived we had made a lot of progress, then Cynthia and I went inside the building where some of her friends were leading some of the workshops: the families were learning How to make a wreath with orange tissue paper resembling marigold flowers, how to decorate sugar skulls, how to make paper cuts and how to make flowers. There were also some items on sale and some altars made by schools of the area and other people who like to preserve this tradition. Oh! We also listened to a talk about the festivity there. Cynthia bought a very nice drawing for her boyfriend which we both liked. I started to celebrate the “day of the dead” this way.


one more altar
I decorated a sugar skull
Tha Catrina almost completed

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