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Thursday, November 2, 2017

Dia De Muertos Festival en Zipolite -Nov 1 2017 -Day 1

Yesterday we celebrated the Dia de Muertos, also known as Dia los Angelitos.
Here is Mexico it is a 3 day celebration. It is a very ancient tradition about love and respect and honoring your loved ones that have passed on to the spiritual world. It has nothing to do with Halloween. It is the opposite in so many ways.

"Scholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl. The holiday has spread throughout the world, being absorbed into other deep traditions in honor of the dead." read more here

Frances Ann Day summarizes the three-day celebration, the Day of the Dead:

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On October 31, All Hallows Eve, the children make a children's altar to invite the angelitos (spirits of dead children) to come back for a visit. November 1 is All Saints Day, and the adult spirits will come to visit. November 2 is All Souls Day, when families go to the cemetery to decorate the graves and tombs of their relatives. The three-day fiesta is filled with marigolds, the flowers of the dead; muertos (the bread of the dead); sugar skulls; cardboard skeletons; tissue paper decorations; fruit and nuts; incense, and other traditional foods and decorations.

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— Latina and Latino Voices in Literature^[4]

Here are some of the things we did and saw!
We had hot chocolate and pan de muerte with our amiga and then we went to the Dia de Muertos Festival at the Calavera Social Club for the 6th Annual Dia de Muertos Festival.

"Por una conciencia viva a través de la muerte"

Calavera Social Club colectivo conciente te invita a participar en el 6to festival cultural de día de los muertos en Zipolite (Playa de los muertos) Oaxaca.

Los días 1,2 y 3 de noviembre teatro, danza, cuento y música unidos en el festival. Este festival tiene como fin preservar una de las tradiciones mas bonitas y coloridas de nuestro México además de proyectar a Zipolite como un sitio de turismo alternativo único en el país. Este es un festival es totalmente independiente y el contenido tiene el objetivo de estimular el crecimiento espiritual de cada persona a través de las artes y de los valores humanos y nuevas alternativas de vida.

We also visited amigos and saw the beautiful altars/arcos they made. It's a very special time. Sadly one of Zipolite's beloved members passed away and so the town was grieving. I send love and light and my deepest condolences to all the family and friends and to all those that are missing loved ones.

Calavera Social Club

Related Links :
Pochutla, Mercado, Dia de Muertos y mas
My Altar for Dia De Los Muertos
Honoring my dad today- Dia de los Muertos
Dia de los Muertos Videos in Oaxaca 2012

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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

My Altar for Dia De Los Muertos

Dia de los Muertos Making my alter #DiaDeLosMuertos #DiaDeMuertos #Zipolite #Oaxaca #Mexico Still need to add pan (bread) fruit, chocolate and afew things Stay tuned for more #AdventurezInMexico

A post shared by Zipolita aka Tina Winterlik (@zipolita) on Oct 31, 2017 at 8:55pm PDT

Here's some photos I posted on Instragram. I will take some more later, when I finish it, I still need to add bread, chocolate, fruit and light the candles and the copal.

Pochutla, Mercado, Dia de Muertos y mas

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Honoring my dad today- Dia de los Muertos

Dia de los Muertos is on Nov 1, 2, 3 here in Zipolite and Oaxaca City and all over Mexico

Today I am honoring my dad online today on the day of his passing but this next week I will go to Pochutla and gather the flowers and little clay pot to hold the copal and create a little alter for him and put some fruit and bread and a drink there and chocolate.

He passed away when I was just a little girl of eleven. Every year I shocked at how much time has passed. Forty four years. 44 years. That is along time not to have a dad/father in your life.

Do you know something else? I have been telling everyone recently I am 56...ha! ha! I just realized I am only 55. Go figure. Ha! I just gained a year! Well that's a nice surprise, I guess. Silly me.

Anyways, I just wanted to post a little bit about what Dia de los Muertos is about. Here in Mexico the relationship with death is so different. And it starts at the beginning of life. People talk about it. In the so called Canadian culture it is much different...and I am not talking about Indigenous cultures because those cultures are thousands of years old, and I talking about the last 150 years that Canada so proudly claims (puke...but that's another story)

There they have Halloween and it is COMPLETELY different than Dia de los Muertos. I read about some trolley ride and it was to go to the old morgue and other gross things. There it is about haunted houses and scary gross often violent things, like Fright nights and negative energy.

Dia de los Muertos is about LOVE! It is about honoring the people who have passed on to the next place but are with you in spirit. I carry all the people I love in my heart. They are always with me whether here in this world or the next.

Dia de los Muertos is a mix of indigenous and christianity but it is a personal thing. Honoring those you loved and still love. It's about not forgetting them. It is about showing respect and cherishing their memories.

So Daddy, I love you. I miss you. I wish you could have physically have been in my life much longer. I know you are near and in this last year I have learned how to reach out to you and ask for help, when I call on my ancestors for help, I always ask for yours. I want to thank you, thank you for all your love and support and protection.

That is the garage my dad built, he was really great at building, and making things. I remember he made me a merry go round and a little swimming pool. He was a great gardener, he was a good farmer and we had a small hobby farm when I was growing up and we ate very well. He was a good provider. He had a hard life. He was the youngest of 11 children (that survived. 2 died) of Bohemian Immigrants/Settlers and I know he tried many professions like fishing and farming and he built homes for his mom in Sooke I believe and one in Vancouver...that had a bay window but it's gone and I didn't get to see it. He built a nice home in Surrey for us.

He worked for 20 years at BCTel until they went on strike and he decide to try his hand at a business but he had no training and the timing just was not right although, he was a visionary like me. He knew the highway would get bigger and more traffic would come.

He tried so hard to make this restaurant, garage and camp ground work. He worked himself to death.

My mom and him and my brother tried to make it go 24 hours a day. It was too much. They were all sleep deprived. My father drank to deal with the sadness. He refused to go on welfare and couldn't get help anyways. The doctors just gave him pills do deal with the stress. In the end it was to much and he took his life. And since he took his life there was no life insurance and so my mom was left with an awful mess of raising 3 teens alone and dealing with debt collectors and many difficult things.

It was alot like that movie Ya Ya Sisterhood. Have you ever watched that? Not so violent but yes there was a lot of anger and stress and depression. But there was love. He loved us all so much.

He was also raised Catholic and well that is too big of an issue to discuss here but there just wasn't any help for him.

What happened to us left a legacy that I have learned to deal with and in the last year in my class in Carving and Reconciliation I dealt with a lot of the grief and the carving really helped me grieve. Art has really helped me so much.

So I will use art to build a beautiful little alter for Dia de los Muertos and honor him and my mom and all the beautifuls souls who have passed and whom I carry in my heart.

My dad is why I became a photographer. He left us all these great home movies and my mom and I made them into Vhs and then I put them on the computer and made this little video. It's about 30 minutes so get some tea and treat and watch. You may find it very interesting and you may want to do the same with your own home movies that your parents made.

This 5 years ago at the end of a fabulous night of celebrating Dia de los Muerots.

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Dia de los Muertos Videos in Oaxaca 2012

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos in Mexico

So it's October and I remember seeing videos of Dia de Los Muertos and wanting to go to Oaxaca so bad and there were lots of things that almost stopped us but we made it and I have all these wonderful video of the event. If you look back through the blog posts you will see most detailed info relating to our time there.

Interesting how our perspectives change as we learn more. Right now I am learning about Cultural Appreciation and Cultural Appropriation and have posted info here https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/09/cultural-appropriation.html.

I was never familiar with these terms Cultural Appreciation and Cultural Appropriation I have for many years since some of my first visits to Mexico tried very hard never to take advantage or to be disrespectful.

There are more and more celebrations, events, movies that emulate Dia de los Muertos and I felt it is important to address it in this post. I want to point out I am not an expert on this and I am sharing this information for you to consider.

Please note, some of these repeat a bit as they were edited, remade, shortened etc from the original postings while in Oaxaca and then later on.

http://youtu.be/Sxp-h-L10X8 Halloween in Oaxaca

http://youtu.be/2KcfvqjWZWE Día de los Angelitos - Morning

http://youtu.be/ZV5gNG2BJDo Día de los Angelitos - Complete Version

http://youtu.be/g0Ki6T1k_uI Día de los Angelitos-Nov 1 2012- Part 1

http://youtu.be/_NeubaH_s8w Día de los Angelitos -Nov 1 2012- Part 2

http://youtu.be/q2dEXQf13d4 Dia de Los Muertos in Oaxaca City 2012- Part 2

http://youtu.be/4g6sr2EUAlk Dia de Los Muertos in Oaxaca City 2012- Part 3

http://youtu.be/pjYcvcKOxMA Las Catrinas-Dia de Los Muertos-2012

http://youtu.be/iqmHNVcClXA Musicians de Oaxaca- Dia de Los Muertos

So please enjoy these post but I hope you will watch this too

Now looking back at this, is it Cultural Appreciation or does it have elements of Cultural Appropriation. I never made any money from these..although Youtube has...by putting ads on it.

Anyways I am aware and doing my best to learn, share and change if necessary. We are supposed to attend the Stanley Park http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/ghost-train.aspx

I was thinking it would be so fun to dress up as Catrinas. But this year Angel doesn't want to dress up, whether it is because she's 14, maybe this teenager/ high school thing or maybe deep down she knows maybe it's not quite right...I am not sure. After watching the video...about Cultural Appreciation and Appropriation has me questioning whether it's right to actually dress as a Catrina if one is outside of Mexico. Definitely something to give thought to and have conversations about.

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Dia de Los Muertos - OAXACA 2012

Okay here's a few videos (LOL)
http://youtu.be/iqmHNVcClXA Musicians de Oaxaca- Dia de Los Muertos
http://youtu.be/pjYcvcKOxMA Las Catrinas-Dia de Los Muertos-2012
http://youtu.be/4g6sr2EUAlk Dia de Los Muertos in Oaxaca City 2012- Part 3
http://youtu.be/q2dEXQf13d4 Dia de Los Muertos in Oaxaca City 2012- Part 2
http://youtu.be/_NeubaH_s8w Día de los Angelitos -Nov 1 2012- Part 2
http://youtu.be/g0Ki6T1k_uI Día de los Angelitos-Nov 1 2012- Part 1
http://youtu.be/ZV5gNG2BJDo Día de los Angelitos - Complete Version
http://youtu.be/2KcfvqjWZWE Día de los Angelitos - Morning
http://youtu.be/Sxp-h-L10X8 Halloween in Oaxaca

Friday, November 1, 2013

Dia de Los Angelitos 2012 Oaxca City

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Today they celebrate a very special day in Mexico. It is a very sad day but people who celebrate Dia del Los Angelitos remember the child who have passed on in a very beautiful loving way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead

Toys are brought for dead children (los angelitos, or "the little angels"), and bottles of tequila, mezcal or pulque or jars of atole for adults. Families will also offer trinkets or the deceased's favorite candies on the grave. Ofrendas are also put in homes, usually with foods such as candied pumpkin, pan de muerto ("bread of dead"), and sugar skulls and beverages such as atole. The ofrendas are left out in the homes as a welcoming gesture for the deceased.^[4] Some people believe the spirits of the dead eat the "spiritual essence" of the ofrendas food, so though the celebrators eat the food after the festivities, they believe it lacks nutritional value. Pillows and blankets are left out so the deceased can rest after their long journey. In some parts of Mexico such as the towns of Mixquic, Pátzcuaro and Janitzio, people spend all night beside the graves of their relatives. In many places people have picnics at the grave site, as well.
Some families build altars or small shrines in their homes;^[4] these usually have the Christian cross, statues or pictures of the Blessed Virgin Mary, pictures of deceased relatives and other persons, scores of candles and an ofrenda. Traditionally, families spend some time around the altar, praying and telling anecdotes about the deceased. In some locations celebrants wear shells on their clothing, so when they dance, the noise will wake up the dead; some will also dress up as the deceased.
Public schools at all levels build altars with ofrendas, usually omitting the religious symbols. Government offices usually have at least a small altar, as this holiday is seen as important to the Mexican heritage