Community Celebration
Friday November 1, 5pm – 7pm
Oppenheimer Park, 488 Powell
Latin Americans everywhere celebrate Day Of The Dead with pageantry, music, love and humour. We throw a party and invite the dead to join us for a couple hours before returning to “the other side.” At 5pm latin guitarist Alfredo Flores will lead us on a procession around Oppenheimer Park to visit community shrines and to honour the lives lost on our streets. We’ll end the walk back at the Field House for hot chocolate, music and celebration. Bring flowers, candles, and photographs for the ofrenda (altar), noisemakers, costumes or musical instruments. At 6pm we will share poetry and song with our host Lady Die, the thoughtful and passionate Stephen Lytton, flowstream wordsmith Robyn Livingstone, and neighbourhood sweetheart Mexican folklorista Isabel Ramirez. Everyone welcome. Free