We are giving away a pair of tickets to the 2012 Portland Dia De Los Muertos celebration at Holocene on Thursday, November 1, 2012. To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed Thursday, November 1.
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From our sponsors at Holocene:
Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
Thursday, November 1, 2012
6:30 p.m. | $5 | All Ages until 9 p.m.
Holocene
1001 Southeast Morrison Street Portland, OR 97214
(503) 239-7639 | More Info: www.holocene.org
Performed live at the event, the play “THE ANCESTORS” is about a family burying their dead on their property, in the cornfields. The whole family gathers at the funeral of Uncle Octavio. Uncle Octavio awakens in the world of the ancestors creating the typical family drama. Gloria, the smallest of the family in the living world comes in contact with the ancestors, helping them to pay the debts left on earth.
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I would like tickets pretty please!
Wow this seems like an awesome place to have this too!
I’d like to go because the school I work at has prohibited any Halloween-like celebration, but is doing Thanksgiving and Christmas stuff, lame!
win
I’m dressing up as a sugar skull for Halloween and I love Holocene!!!!
Because American culture is, at best, devoid of the rich, sacred traditions that many countries around the world celebrate. Our stifled and subdued versions of venerating the dead pale in comparison to the radiant and transcendent rites of dia de los Muertos – I would love to experience this festival to learn from another heritage’s tradition, to partake as a member of realm of the living, by bestowing life’s greatest pleasures upon our ancestors, as we too indulge in their memory – incandescent light, resounding music, decadent cakes and joyful dance- I would love to come and share in the beauty and joy of this celebration of life and death to commemorate those who have gone before us.
This event seems wonderfull. Time to embrace the new beginning we call death, to honor the blood and roots that came before us and paved the path. I would be very very great full and excited to win a pair of tickets. <3
oh my lawd,
CUMBIA.
CUMBIA!!!!
if other towns could only be so lucky.
This is a great concept for a rainy portland weekend!!
This sounds like a great cultural event. Heck it can’t hurt to play with the dead… Can it?
this would give me a really great excuse to do the sugar skull make up I’ve been dying to do!
Día de los Muertos! Would love to hit this up!
I went last year and it was the first time I had danced in so long, Loved it! And I am from AZ and to think I never celebrated, I did not know what I was missing. I am thinking about going tonight but not sure, If I had free tickets I would definately go, reminds me of Home!!
Día de los Muertos!
I would love to go because I have lost a dear one this June and would like the opportunity to learn more about how a culture other than mine handles grief and death. Please pick me!
Would love to go
horale, amigos! pick me, eh!
because it sounds lovely
I’m late to the party but I was “dead” from the weekend
tickets because I would love to go…and never win the damn tickets.
Porque soy muerto y oy es mi Día.
who won? did i win? did i win?
I would love to attend, what a fun event, ive done stage makeup at school and so it would be a great way to try out my makeup skills with doing a day of the dead face on myself and husband.
Also being I am Australian, this is something new for me, I would love to learn all about this event and hopefully teach others about it. I love day of the dead, I can’t wait, I am so excited to attend this, soon, but not soon enough to my liking!