{"id":429,"date":"2011-10-28T22:34:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galeriaatelier.com\/wp\/?p=429"},"modified":"2017-08-11T09:29:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T09:29:18","slug":"day-of-the-dead-special-day-of-the-dead-festival-brings-life-to-la-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Day of the Dead Special\u2014Day of the Dead Festival brings life to La Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maestra Margarita Fick standing in front of the altar she dedicated to Capulina.<\/p><\/div>\n

D\u00eda de Muertos has to be one of the most fantastic and colorful times of the year to be in Mexico and for the artist community and businesses at the F\u00e1brica La Aurora it is a great excuse to really dress the place up and invite the community to enjoy and perhaps learn more about the timeless Mexican tradition. As per usual at the Aurora celebration, the F\u00e1brica has chosen a non-profit to benefit and to champion their importance during the party and this year that honor goes to the ever-needed and desperately underfunded Mexican Red Cross who struggles valiantly daily to serve the growing San Miguel community. The pertinence to the celebration should be fairly obvious- if you don\u2019t give, next year\u2019s altar may be dedicated to you.<\/p>\n

Every year for the festival no expense is spared in the entertainment department. Upon arrival there will be marimba in the entrance patio. Then as the marimba starts to fade out you will catch the mariachi band further in and by the end of the night, you will surely be swinging your partner to the sweet sounds of Trio Los Rom\u00e1nticos or Trio Los Compadres, who will be rolling out the nostalgia.<\/p>\n

It is also customary during this event for each studio and gallery to present its own unique altar dedicated to the deceased of their choosing. What is an altar you ask? Well, it is a fantastic and often elaborate offering to entice the dead to come back to be amongst the living. Be on the lookout for a beautiful multi-tiered, colorful assembled altar covered in bright colorful hand-cut tissue papers, full of the favorite food, booze and trinkets of the deceased being summoned. Make sure to visit each gallery and artist studio to see each of their personal altars.<\/p>\n

The main altar in the entrance patio will be a very special altar staged by the master cut paper artist Margarita Fick with the help of the lovely staff of Galer\u00eda\/Atelier and will be dedicated to the great Mexican comedian Capulina who passed away just a few weeks ago after a successful career entertaining three generations of Mexican families. If you don\u2019t know Capulina, look up \u201cEl Santo vs Capulina\u201d for some real \u201cold school\u201d Mexican cinema. Another altar in honor of the also recently deceased surrealist artist Leonora Carrington will be located near the caf\u00e9 and will be created by local artist James Harvey. Expect an altar as surreal as the art of the artist. The final altar will be located in Section C of the F\u00e1brica and will be built by Mary Breneman and Jim Corcoran in honor of the long dead Mexican Master David Alfaro Siquieros.<\/p>\n

A few special exhibits will also happen for this special occasion. Galer\u00eda Alebrije is presenting a special collection of oil on canvas in celebration of the Day of the Dead, which includes paintings by Guadalajara Artist; Mario Oliva and Australian Artist, Rossmore James Campbell. Both Artists are based in SMA and will exhibit themed paintings of the Mexican Death culture from ancient Aztec goddesses to the more contemporary Catrina. Galer\u00eda-Estudio Rolando Garc\u00eda will be celebrating the closing of the exhibit for local etching artista Adolfo Garc\u00eda. At Galer\u00eda\/Atelier don\u2019t miss the assemblage show by French artist, Claude Mathey. There are wonderful stories being told there. Also they will be showing new work by papel picado and San Miguel\u2019s favorite new artist in town, Margarita Fick.<\/p>\n

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D\u00eda de Muertos has to be one of the most fantastic and colorful times of the year to be in Mexico and for the artist community and businesses at the F\u00e1brica La Aurora it is a great excuse to really dress the place up and invite the community to enjoy and perhaps learn more about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24,23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-day-of-the-dead","category-fabrica-la-aurora","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}