Cultural Event
Opening Artist Ritual for Songs and Sorrows: Días de los Muertos
Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA, United StatesKick off this year’s Días de los Muertos festivities by joining participating artists from the past two decades of the Days of the Dead exhibition at OMCA, as well as new artists represented for the first time in 2014, for this informal ceremony in Oak Street Plaza
Dia de los Muertos Community Ofrenda
Museum of Art and History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesVisit the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s Annual Community Ofrenda in the Museum Atrium. Each year community members are asked to remember and honor loved ones who have passed on by bringing a photograph, memento or special object to place on the altar.
Death Salon San Francisco
Fleet Room, Fort Mason Center 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn the spirit of the eighteenth-century salon - informal gatherings of intellectuals - Death Salon encourages conversations on mortality and mourning and their resonating effects on our culture and history.
Enchanted Village Faire
Stone Bridge School 1680 Los Carneros Avenue, Napa, CA, United StatesStone Bridge School’s annual Enchanted Village Faire is part Renaissance fair, part school fundraiser and is open to the whole community.
Ohlone Day
Deer Hollow Farm in Rancho San Antonio County Park, Cristo Rey Drive, Los Altos, CA, United StatesCome with children, grandchildren, and friends to learn about Ohlone tools and weapons, taste Yerba Buena tea, paint faces, drill holes, grind acorns, braid cordage, dance, play games, see flintknapping, experiment with cooking stones, and watch Keith Gutierrez start fire.
Sugar Skulls Workshop
Museum of Art and History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this traditional Mexican Folk Art workshop, participants will have the opportunity to make and decorate sugar skulls to bring home or leave on display upon our community altar.
Oktoberfest at Craneway
Craneway Pavilion 1414 Harbour Way South, Richmond, CA, United StatesYour ticket gets you access to the event and music, a commemorative tasting glass to use for the day, a number of tasting tickets to try a variety of German and local beers, one full beer of your choice!
Bella Gaia Ensemble: Cosmic World Music Immersive Theater
Marin Center 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, CA, United StatesBella Gaia is an unprecedented audiovisual experience that combines NASA satellite imagery of Earth, time lapse nature photography, and cultural heritage footage with stirring live performances of dynamic music and exquisite dance from around the world.
Maafa Commemoration Ceremony
Ocean Beach Great Highway at Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThe Maafa ritual, October 12, 2014, is an honoring of our past and a prayer for our future. All black people are invited to come and share in this time of remembrance. We ask for this one event, those who support the well-being of black people respect our desires about the commemoration ceremony and mourning ritual.
Dia de los Muertos Community Ofrenda
Museum of Art and History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesVisit the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s Annual Community Ofrenda in the Museum Atrium. Each year community members are asked to remember and honor loved ones who have passed on by bringing a photograph, memento or special object to place on the altar.