[R-G] On: "Chavez Foundation: Celebrate Dia de los Muertos: Nat. Chavez Cntr"

[james m nordlund]

Chavez Foundation to Celebrate Dia de los Muertos at National Chavez Center 
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:00:02 -0700     
 
 
We Invite You to Celebrate 
 
Dia de los Muertos
 
at the National Chavez Center
 
               
 
 
 
Who:           The Cesar E. Chavez Foundation
 
 
 

 
 
What:          Dia de los Muertos Celebration
 
 
 

 
 
When:         Sunday, November 7, 2004, 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
 
 
 

 
 
Where:        National Chavez Center, 29700 Woodford-Tehachapi Road, Keene, CA 93531
 
 
 

 
 
Why:           The Cesar E. Chavez Foundation welcomes everyone to take part in our Dia de los Muertos activities, paying homage to Cesar Chavez as well as other adored loved ones who have passed.   
 
 
 

 
 

Each year, Dia de los Muertos, a ritual to honor the dead, is celebrated in Mexico and in certain parts of the United States and Central America.  In the United States and in Mexicos larger cities, people build altars dedicated to the dead.  They surround these altars with incense, candles, flowers, food and pictures of the deceased. 
 
 
 
On Sunday, November 7, National Chavez Center guests will be invited to participate in art-related activities, such as decorating traditional calavera de azucar (sugar skulls), papel picado (bright tissue paper cut-outs) and calavera (skeleton) puppets.  Guests can take their art work home or use it for the community altar.  Chocolate, Atole (a warm porridge-like drink made thick with masa) and traditional Pan Dulce (dome-shaped sweet rolls with a sugar topping of vanilla, chocolate, or lemon etched into a shell design on top) will be available for guests.  In addition, a candlelight procession will be made to Cesar's gravesite.  Guests will then be invited into the Visitor Center to view an altar show and to decorate the community altar.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Directions 
 
 
 
>From Los Angeles, take the 405 N to the 5 N.  Take Hwy 14 N toward Lancaster (approximately 1 hours).  Go through Mojave to Hwy 58 West towards Bakersfield.  Exit Keene (approximately 11 miles from Tehachapi).  Make an immediate right at T in the road.  Follow signs one-half mile to entrance.  Watch for the large National Chavez Center sign on your left.  Take the driveway into La Paz, about mile to the Visitor Center. 
 

>From Sacramento, take 5 South to Bakersfield.  Exit Stockdale Hwy and go left.  Take Stockdale Hwy into Bakersfield (approximately 30 minutes).  Take 58 East toward Tehachapi (approximately 30 minutes).  Exit Keene (approximately 30 miles from Bakersfield) .  Make an immediate right at T in the road.  Follow signs one-half mile to entrance.  Watch for the large National Chavez Center sign on your left.  Take the driveway into La Paz, about mile to the Visitor Center. 
 
National Chavez Center 
 
chavezcenter at cecfmail.org 
 
http://chavezfoundation.org  
 
(661) 823-6134

		
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