Program 2015 - Dia de los Muertos

PROGRAM
ORGANIZED BY:
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:
Ilhuícatl-Tetlalíloc
(Main Space)
CELEBRACIÓN DEL
DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS
Smudging opening celebration with
Mayan kiche Elder Tata Bartolo
4:00 – 4:25 Ojibwe Drum Circle
DAY OF THE DEAD
SPONSORS:
4:25 – 5:00 Ollin Tonatiuh Aztec Dance
Saturday, October 31, 2015
4 pm–10 pm
5:00 – 5:05 MC Mictlancíhuatl Welcoming
5:05 – 5:25 Tonatiuh Mexican Folk Dance Group
5:30 – 6:15 Café con Pan (Son Jarocho/Music
from southern Veracruz)
Artscape, Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street, Toronto
6:20 – 6:30 Funeral Band
6:35 – 6:50 Procession to the cemetery/Mictlán
6:55 – 7:05 Funeral Band - Closing
7:10 – 7:20 Tlacuatzin (sones de costumbre/ceremonial music) at the tianguis
7:20 – 7:45 Spirit Wind (Women’s Hand Drum Group)
7:50 – 8:35 Tlacuatzin (Sones Huastecos y de
Xantolo/Music from the Huasteca region)
8:40 – 9:25 Cecilia Guerrero & Mariachi Viva México
9:30 – 9:55 Aztec Dance
9:55 – 10:00 MC Mictlancíhuatl Closing Ceremony
CELEBRATION
WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
The Día de Los Muertos Collective is a nonprofit that
coordinates the efforts of Toronto´s Mexican community
to bring a celebration that honors the dead, delights the
living, promotes artistic creation and foster community
development through tradition.
For more information please visit:
www.diadelosmuertosto.org
Chalupa
Cuicacalli
Information booth
Free space for those who would like to offer a song, poetry,
painting or any expression of art for their deceased loved ones.
(First set: 5:10 – 6:40, Second set: 7:20 - 7:50)
Itacatl
(Food vendors)
Rincón Mexicano, Latin World, Pancho’s Bakery, Rebozos,
Pancho y Emiliano, Maizal
Expresarte (Dance), Erez Sussman (Music), Kalli Niño (Music and
Poetry), Quinto Sol (Music), Jesús Maya (Poetry) and more.
Limbo / Ayotzinapa
Tianguis
Arts and Crafts Vendors (All day)
WORKSHOPS by Red Pepper & Erick Agsoven (All day)
Mictlán
Cemetery
Altars made by the community, Justice for Migrant Workers,
Lucha T.O, Juan Poot Novelo and Teresa Medina.
Ceremony of muh vi pollo by Juan Poot Novelo
This section is dedicated to the missing people and their families
who have not confirmed their transition to the afterlife. Installation for the 43 missing students abducted in a crime in which the
Mexican government is implicated.
Tzompantli / Communal Grave
Tzompantlis in Mesoamerica were large racks for the display of
skulls near temples or at other locations. Most of the skulls at a
Tzompantli were those of war captives or sacrificial victims.
Grave created by the community. Participate and create a sand skull
dedicated to those that have suffered a violent death.
Cuatlicue / Ice Sculpture by Frederick Marquina
(Nahuatl: “Serpent Skirt”) symbol of the earth as both creator and
destroyer, mother of the gods and mortals the one who gave birth
to the moon and stars. The dualism that she embodies is powerfully represented by her image.
ARTISTS & COLLECTIVE
Jesús Mora
Luis Rojas
Fabiola Ferrusquia
Luz A Castillo
Alejandro Monsiváis
Paco Castillo
Alec Dempster
Rodolfo Peña
Silvia Méndez
Guillermo López
Sara Rodríguez
Gabriella Carusso
Giselle Navaroli
Alejandra Higuera
Tania Tonantzin
Mery Pérez
Manuel Romero
Mariana Bolaños
Daniela Arango
Rosalba Silva
Reyna Murillo
Martín Castillo
Carmen Guerrero
Jerónimo Casas
Patricia A Casas
Juan Pablo Pinto
Osvaldo Escalante
Surya Cortés
Andrea Valencia
Benjamín Hermann
Alma Roussy
Lalo Porto
Oscar Ocelotl
Photographers projection
Xoloitzcuintle / Mexican dog
The dog's missions was to accompany the dead in their journey
into eternity.
Nicolás Cardenas Reyes “Tempach”
Aideé Balderas Medina
Silvia González de León.
Special Thanks to all the volunteers and
the community in Toronto.