Wednesday, November 2, 2011 • 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Citrus College Owl Fountain
1000 W. Foothill Blvd., Glendora • www.citruscollege.edu
Join us in celebration of Dia De Los Muertos:
• Historical Overview of Dia De Los Muertos
• Live Entertainment
• Altar Displays in memory of loved ones, family and friends
• Food and drinks will be available to purchase
• Read more about Dia De Los Muertos, on the reverse side of this flyer
THIS IS A FREE EVENT FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF AND THE COMMUNITY
Parking is $5
For more information call Natalie Paredes at 626.914.8555
Sponsored by: LLN, LUSA , ASCC,
AGS, HOPE and Veterans Club
What is Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead)?
Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is celebrated November 1-2
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festivity
when Mexican
families
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the holidays
activities consist
of families
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back
theirthe
ties consist
of families
(1) welcoming
their loved
ones back
into theirtheir
homes,
(2)into
visiting
homes
and
visiting
the
graves
of
their
close
kin.
At
the
cemetery,
family
members
graves of their close kin. At the cemetery, family members engage in sprucing up the gravesite, decin sprucing
up the
decorating
withinteracting
flowers, setting
out
andother
enjoying
oratingengage
it with flowers,
setting
out gravesite,
and enjoying
a picnic,itand
socially
with
family and
a
picnic,
and
interacting
socially
with
other
family
and
community
members
who
gather
community members who gather there. In both cases, celebrants believe that the souls of the dead
same
occasion.
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both cases,
celebrants
believe that
the souls
of the
dead
returnfor
andthe
are
all around
them.
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the departed
by telling
stories
about
them. The
andfor
arethese
all around
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the departed
telling
about
mealsreturn
prepared
picnicsthem.
are sumptuous,
usually featuring
meat by
dishes
in stories
spicy sauces,
them.
The
meal
prepared
for
these
picnics
are
sumptuous,
usually
featuring
meat
dishes
chocolate beverages, cookies, sugary confections in a variety of animal or skull shapes, and
a spein
spicy
sauces,
chocolate
beverages,
cookies,
sugary
confections
in
a
variety
of
animal
cial egg-batter bread ("pan de muerto," or bread of the dead). Gravesites and family altars are proskull shapes,
and a special
egg-batter
bread
calledsuch
“panasdemarigolds
muerto” (and
bread of the
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decorated
with flowers
(primarily
large, bright
flowers
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and family
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profusely
decorated
with flowers,
primarily and alchrysanthemums),
and adorned
with altars
religious
and
with offerings
of food, cigarettes
large,
bright flowers
such
as marigolds
and
chrysanthemums,
and adorned
withthe
religious
coholic
beverages.
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of this
warm social
environment,
the colorful
setting, and
abunamulets
and
with
offerings
of
food,
cigarettes
and
alcoholic
beverages.
dance of food, drink and good company, this commemoration of the dead has pleasant overtones
for the observers, in spite of the open fatalism exhibited by all participants, whose festive interaction
In homes,
observant
create
an altar
and ritual
decorate
it with
that they
with both
the living
and the families
dead in an
important
social
is a way
of items
recognizing
thebelieve
cycle of life
are beautiful and attractive to the souls of their departed ones. Such items include
and death that is human existence.
offerings of flowers and food, but also things that will remind the living of the departed
such as their photographs, a diploma, or an article of clothing, and the things that the
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ful and attractive to the souls of their departed ones. Such items include offerings of flowers and
that their souls actually return to take part in the remembrance.
food, but also things that will remind the living of the departed (such as their photographs, a
diploma, or an article of clothing), and the things that the dead prized and enjoyed while they lived.
The traditional observance calls for departed children to be remembered during the first
This isday
done
to entice the
and assure
souls
take part (Day
in theofremem(November
1) ofdead
the festivity
andthat
it is their
referred
toactually
as “Dia return
de losto
Angelitos”
brance.
very Angels),
traditional
settings,
typically
only in native
the path from
theInLittle
and
for adults
to befound
remembered
on thecommunities,
second day (November
2).the
street to the altar is actually strewn with petals to guide the returning soul to its altar and the bosom
of the Because
family.Theoftraditional
calls for departed
children
to and
be remembered
during
this warmobservance
social environment,
the colorful
setting,
the abundance
of the first
day offood,
the festivity
(the
Day
of
the
Little
Angels,
"Día
de
los
Angelitos"),
and
for
adults
to
be
rememdrinks, and good company, this commemoration of the dead has pleasant
bered overtones
on the second
day.
Traditionally,
this of
is accompanied
by aexhibited
feast during
the early morning
for the
observers,
in spite
the open fatalism
by participants.
The
hours festive
of November
the
2nd,
the
Day
of
the
Dead
proper,
though
modern
urban
Mexican
families
interaction with both the living and the dead is an important social ritual and is a
usually
observe
the Day ofthe
thecycle
Dead
onlydeath
a special
supper
featuring the bread of the
way of recognizing
ofwith
life and
thatfamily
is human
existence.
dead.