Yesterday and today, at the Cultural Arts Center on Davie Street, Casa Azul of Greensboro is featuring a fabulous Day of the Dead exhibit. Casa Azul promotes Latin American art and culture in Greensboro through projects, partnerships and fabulous displays like the one featured above. The above altar is about 1/8 of the whole exhibit. We featured this display because it shows so many elements of the holiday: A cross for Christianity, a picture of the deceased loved one, flowers, the loved one's favorite foods, candles, papel picado, and skulls.
The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday in which families celebrate the lives of their loved ones who are no longer on earth. While it is always sad for loved ones to be deceased, the Day of Dead is a time to remember them fondly by building an altar and visiting their graves. Casa Azul does so much to promote Latin American art and culture and to educate the local community about our neighbors from Mexico to Argentina and Peru and everywhere in between. Stop down today from 11:00 am-3:00pm to see their fabulous exhibit. In case you don't, we're featuring some more photos below. Finally, you can also see the animated movie "The Book of Life" (currently in theatres) if you are interested in the topic.
Thanks for capturing all these beautiful pictures. I'll share with my FB friends!
Posted by: Katja Brown | Sunday, November 02, 2014 at 09:24 AM
Why hasn't this holiday caught on in the States? We are so into family. I wonder.
Posted by: Birdman | Sunday, November 02, 2014 at 11:23 AM
You're not the only one featuring Day of the Dead today. The concept's quite out of my cultural experience. If there's a tradition to it here among the Hispanic community, they certainly don't go public with it.
Posted by: William Kendall | Sunday, November 02, 2014 at 05:04 PM