Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead altar.
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS/ DAY OF THE DEAD CELEBRATION Saturday, Oct. 27 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Honor the ancestors in a day full of activities for the entire family including hands-on workshops, music and dance.
FILM + VIDEO
DAILY SCREENINGS The Screening Room, Second Floor Through Sunday, Oct. 21
Comanche family, early 1900s. Part of the exhibit, Indivisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas.
EVERYBODY DANCE! Daily at 10:30 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. and on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. This program of a dozen short films celebrates the variety and power of Native dance in the Western hemisphere. Among the dances, both traditional and contempo- rary, at the heart of each film are the hula from Hawaii, the Ute Bear Dance, the fancy dance, and dances from the Heiltsuk of the Northwest Pacific Coast and the Tontonac of Mexico. Shown in conjunction with the exhibition Circle of Dance.
Monday, Oct. 22 – Sunday, Nov. 4
Spooky Tales Daily at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. and on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. Most works have English subtitles.
The City (2007, 8 min.) Canada. Abraham Cote (Anishnabe). Produced by Wapikoni Mobile. A man from the ancient past has pre- monitions of the urban chaos that will invade the pristine wilderness surrounding him.
Las de Blanco/Dressed in White (2008, 6 min.) Mexico. Aida Salas Estrada. Produced by the Center of Indigenous Arts, Vera Cruz. Unexpected visitors join a family in northern Veracruz, gathered together after many years to celebrate the Day of the Dead.
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PHOTO COURTESY SAM DEVENNEY
PHOTO BY KATHERINE FOGDEN
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