Institute of Urban Homesteading Day of the Dead

Dover Park Mandala, Altars, Kid’s Activities, Procession, and a meal.

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Barry and Maya Spector’s Day of the Dead Ritual

We will take a full day to help each other remember our ancestors and our personal and collective losses. This will be a day of mourning and remembrance, but also of great beauty and celebration. There will be poetry, storytelling, drumming, altar-building and chanting from African, Celtic, Mexican and other traditions.”

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Herbs of the Ancestors

Yeshe Rabbit will offer a catalogue of herbal funerary practices and methods of marking someone’s passing, and together we will create an incense offering and perform a ceremony to connect with ancient spirits of the land, our blood ancestors, or the exemplars and heroes who have influenced us positively.

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