COBACH – Dia de los Muertos Concurso de Altares
Photos by Shandra Keesecker-Rivero Oct. 25, 2013
Day of the Dead fiesta revisited
By Shandra Keesecker-Rivero A painter, a poet, railroad workers, and artists from Mexico’s silver screen, Peñasco’s first Mayor, a welder, a revolutionary, and a musician, all waiting to be seen at altars boasting pictures, salt, flowers, ash, and candles water, food, cerveza, tequila, pan de muerto on the mantle. Palm fronds in an arch, coins, and […]
Day of the Dead Weekend Rundown 11/2 – 11/5
This weekend we celebrate Life and Death in Puerto Peñasco! Nov. 1st and 2nd mark traditional Day of the Dead events throughout Mexico, and in spots across town (and individual homes) you may come across elaborate altars celebrating the life of a loved one who has passed on. In further celebrating life, or preserving the […]
La Catrina – The woman of Mexico
By MoKa Hammeken “La Catrina” is a key element within Mexican culture. Originally she was created as a satire of Mexican aristocracy in the pre-revolutionary era. The original name of this celebrated figure, with 100% Mexican roots, was “Calavera Garbancera,” as “garbancera” was the nickname at that time given to people of indigenous ancestry who […]
Literary Calaveras
By MoKa Hammeken In Mexico, the celebration of Day of the Dead is an entire multidisciplinary cultural fiesta with music, food, handcrafts, the creation of altars and tracing of drawings with flowers and seeds, and there are also letters. Typical literature at Day of Dead is known as Calaveras, which are mischievous and humorous writings in […]
Day of the Dead altar contest honors Mexican traditions
Press Release Bulletin 0067 Oct. 23. With the objective of enhancing Mexican traditions surrounding the Day of the Dead, the XXI City Government of Puerto Peñasco, through its office on Civil and Cultural Affairs (ACC) has organized an Altar and Literary Calaveras contest. (Calaveras Literarias are meant to be humoristic, satirical epitaphs). Jesús Romero Chagoyan, […]
Jesús Romero Chagoyán, sempiterno cowboy urbano
In Puerto Peñasco there lives a thinker along the border who is between tradition and vanguard…he signs his graphic design illustration art as ANTIU for marketing purposes and his name is Jesús Romero Chagoyán (Mexicali, 1980), an everlasting Urban Cowboy. 2012 has been a mixture of opportunities for Chagoyán, from exhibitions of his graphic design […]
Celebrating life ~ Day of the Dead in Rocky Point
Beginning on the evening of Nov. 1st, colorful altars commemorating deceased loved ones began to appear across Puerto Peñasco. The local office of Civic Action and Culture even held a contest for schools to display their most creative altars in honor of Day of the Dead. Though I missed the contest on the evening of […]