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Tulsa Creates Together
A site-specific art grant program presented by Living Arts of Tulsa in partnership with the George Kaiser Family Foundation. This project aims to encourage collaboration between artists and the community, culminating in projects sprawling across our city!
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Champagne & Chocolate
Name a better pairing than Champagne & Chocolate! Each February we open our gallery doors and renew souls with a signature event like no other. Guests will be welcomed with sweet libations and seductive chocolate souvenirs as we prepare for an evening full of explosive energy.
We are bringing together a powerful fusion of art and fashion. To accomplish this, we have enlisted both established and emerging artists across various media. Our quest is to showcase and outline the incredible voices and talent in Tulsa.
DAY OF THE DEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Day of the Dead Arts Festival
Living Arts of Tulsa, in partnership with Casa de la Cultura and Guthrie Green hosts Tulsa’s annual Día de los Muertos Arts Festival each year in November. Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a celebration of the Latinx heritage honoring loved ones who have passed away. The festival will be held in-person and will also have virtual elements available for the public.Day of the Dead Arts Festival
Living Arts of Tulsa, in partnership with Casa de la Cultura and Guthrie Green hosts Tulsa’s annual Día de los Muertos Arts Festival each year in November. Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a celebration of the Latinx heritage honoring loved ones who have passed away. The festival will be held in-person and will also have virtual elements available for the public.What is Day of the Dead?
Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a celebration held in Mexico and in Central American countries where family members commemorate their ancestors in a way that is different from customs in the United States. This important holiday is held on November 1 and November 2. It is a holiday that mixes parts of Roman Catholicism with Native American traditions that pre-date the arrival of the Spanish in the Americas.
Families often set up offerings or altars called ofrendas, either at home or at the cemetery. Throughout the Dia de los Muertos the living will remember their ancestors by honoring their memory, by feasting on foods (such as pan de muerto or calaveras de azucar), and playing or singing the songs which were favored by their ancestors. Some ofrendas are also decorated with marigolds and calaveras made of papier-mache.
The Altars of Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead celebrations is based on the belief that the souls of the ones gone can come back to this world on these days. The Day of the Dead altars is the most prominent feature in the celebration because they show the souls the way to their home. Altars make the souls (animas) feel welcomed and show them they have not been forgotten.
A traditional altar has some form of the following.
- Picture – A picture of the evoked relative is placed in the altar to make him present and revive his image.
- Flowers – The altar is decorated with fresh flowers as it is believed that their scent will make the returning souls feel welcomed and happy.
- Different Levels – In some areas altars are made with two levels that symbolize heaven and earth; in others they are made with three levels for heaven, purgatory, and earth; and there are places where altars with seven levels are placed, each of these levels represents the steps a soul has to make to get to heaven.
- An Arch – Symbolizes the entrance to the world of the dead. In the places where it’s set, it can be made with flowers.
- Day of the Dead Bread – or pan de muertos is different in every region of the country and one of the most important elements in the altar as it is a fraternal offering to the souls in the Catholic sense.
- Candy Skulls – Sugar, chocolate or amaranth seed skulls represent the death and its every moment presence.
- Candies – Alfeñique (almonds paste) fruits, donkeys, angels and skeletons and all kind of homemade candies are set to treat the children’s souls.
- Ornaments– Candleholders, incense burners, papier mache or clay figurines such as skulls or skeletons doing a certain activity or animals. In some areas, a clay Xoloitzcuintli dog is set in the altar to make the children souls feel good in their arrival to the fete.
Festival de Artes del Día de los Muertos
Living Arts de Tulsa, en colaboración con Casa de la Cultura y Guthrie Green, va a presentar el festival anual del Día de los Muertos en noviembre. El Día de Los Muertos es una celebración de origen latino para honrar a los queridos que han fallecido. El festival tomará lugar en persona y también tendrá elementos virtuales disponibles al público.
¿Qué es el Día de Muertos?
Dia de los muertos es una occasio celebrada en México y en países de América Central miembros familiares conmemoran a sus ancestros en una manera diferente de lo que se acostumbra an en los Estados Unidos. Este día festivo importante se celebra del Noviembre 1 hasta Noviembre 2. Es un día festivo que mezcla partes del catolicismo romano y tradiciones nativo americanas que preceden la llegada de Españoles en las Américas.
Las familias por lo regular ponen ofrendas en altares, en el hogar o en el cementerio. Durante el día de los muertos la gente recuerda a sus ancestros conmemorando su memoria, comiendo (comidas especiales como el pan de muerto o calaveras de azúcar), y tocando/ cantando canciones que eran favorecidas por sus ancestros. También es común decorar altares con flores de cempasúchil y calaveras hechas de papel mache.
Los Altares Del Día de los Muertos
Las celebraciones del día de los muertos están basadas en la creencia que las almas de nuestros queridos fallecidos pueden regresar al mundo algún día. Los Altares del día de los muertos son la característica más prominente del festival porque le demuestran a las almas el camino para llegar a su hogar.
Un altar traditional contiene estas cosas:
- Fotografía – Una foto del difunto es puesta sobre el altar para que sea presente y para revivir su imagen
- Flores – El altar es decorado con flores frescas por que es creído que su aroma va hacer que la las almas se sientan felices y bienvenidas
- Múltiples Niveles – En algunos sitios los altares son construidos en dos niveles que simbolizan la tierra y el cielo. En otros lugares utilizan tres niveles para simbolizar la tierra, el cielo y el purgatorio. Y otros lugares hacen sus altares con siete niveles para simbolizar los pasos que una alma tiene que tomar para llegar al cielo.
- Un Arco – Simbolizan la entrada al mundo de los muertos. En lugares donde utilizan arca e hacen con flores regularmente
- Pan de Muertos – Pan de muertos es diferente en cada región del país y es uno de los elementos más importantes de un altar. El pan es una ofrenda para las almas y tiene raíces católicas.
- Calaveras de azúcar – las calaveras hechas con varios dulces representan la muerte y su presencia que se encuentra por todos lados.
- Dulces – Alfeñique, frutas, y muchos tipos de dulces hechos en hogar son puestos en los altares para las almas de los niños.
Ornamentos – velas, incienso, figuras de papel maché o cerámica ( como calaveras, esqueletos y animales). En algunas áreas figuras de Xoloitzcuintle son puestas en altares para que las almas de niños se sientan bien en sus viajes.
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Performace
Mary Prescott
(New York, NY) — TidaTida is an evening-length performance about intergenerational cultural identity through a Thai American woman’s maternal lineage. Integrating music, movement, and word, Prescott investigates her mother’s undocumented Thai ancestry and her experience as a Southeast Asian immigrant raising biracial and bicultural children in America and the resulting impact. The Development Fund will support the purchase of high-quality audiovisual equipment, electronic music equipment, and related software, as well as training and an artist fee to pay the artist for her time in learning the new equipment and software. Beyond being used to develop integral project content, these skills and equipment will open new pathways for the artist’s scope and exploration, creating a lasting impact on her overall arts practice.