ShowcaseOfrenda Altar and Chinese Buddhist Ancestral Altar Dedication
Workshop 2: Mexican Days of the Dead (Días de Los Muertos)
Workshop 1: Mexican Days of the Dead (Días de Los Muertos)
All Souls’ Day “Symbols, Stories and Trumpets” at Green-Wood Cemetery
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Ofrenda Altar and Chinese Buddhist Ancestral Altar Dedication
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Workshop 2: Mexican Days of the Dead (Días de Los Muertos)
ABOUT DODB This event is part of BAC Folk Arts' year-long project Days of the Dead in Brooklyn (DODB). The primary goal of DODB is to heighten public awareness of Brooklyn-based community and family ... more
Workshop 1: Mexican Days of the Dead (Días de Los Muertos)
ABOUT THE ARTISTS Workshop teachers Inés Larios and Margarita Larios are sisters who were born in Atlixco, Puebla. There they learned many of the material and culinary arts traditions of Days of the ... more
Click here to watch Sammy Lopez and Erhan Yildirim speak on funeral traditions in our video series Undertaking Death: Interviews with Brooklyn Funeral Directors.... more
All Souls’ Day “Symbols, Stories and Trumpets” at Green-Wood Cemetery
Tour Historic Green-Wood Cemetery with Steve Estroff, who will point out some of the many folk symbols in evidence at this beautiful landmark, and experience the Haitian rara band “Dja’rara,” led by L... more
