Institute of Urban Homesteading Day of the Dead

Saturday, November 1, 3:00-7:00PM

Dover Street Park, 5707 Dover Street, Oakland

Free

http://iuhoakland.com/events.html#dod

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dover-Street-Park/126951537387171

“On this evening, as the summer garden is fully waning and green turns to brown,  the veil between the worlds grows thin… the ancestors cross over to visit the living and the living cross over to visit the dead.  It is a time of celebration and reunion as the season wanes.  A time to revisit and take stock, a time of letting go of the old and clearing out what is not needed in hopes of spring renewal.   Join with friends new and old in a celebration of the season.

3:00-6:00PM: Altars, mandala, facepainting, hot chocolate, music, performance and social

4:45-6:00PM: Procession and blessing

6:00-7:00PM: Candlelight Dinner

Performances

3:00-3:30PM: Jane Colman and Nicholas Brown, flute and guitar duet

3:35 -4:10PM: Jenny Holland and Crew youth pop music

4:15-4:45PM: The Dead Crow Show – Performance by the Oakland Improv Collective

4:45-6:00PM: Sons and Daughters of Orpheus

5:00-5:30PM: (in the park) Mud Fence, old time music

6:00-7:00PM: Con Permiso Mariachi

Procession

4:45-5:00PM: gathering in park

5:00-5:30PM: procession

5:30-5:45PM: gathering for big circle in park

5:45-6:00PM: Blessing

Facepainting: Audette Sophia

Mandala: Ruby Blume

Altars: IUH central altar (Alexa Davis & Diane Driscoll), Animal altar. (Jenny Holland) and others in the works.

Hot Chocolate by Maria and friends from http://josephine.com

Dinner: Seth Peterson and Others, Kitchen Crew Chief: Mik Jew”