![]() What is most important, they said, is the process and the care you put into building one that will help you connect with your loved ones. Carlos Avila Gonzalez, Staff / SFCįirst things first, traditionalists say your altar does not have to be as large and extravagant as the ones seen in films or at festivals. Here’s how you can create your own altar at home, according to altar-making experts:Ī decorated sugar skull sits on the main altar at the Oakland Museum of California’s “Laughing Bones/Weeping Hearts: Día De Los Muertos 2006” event. Families and residents will get to participate in building a community altar or create their own. In San Francisco will return to in-person activities this year after being online-only for the last two years of the pandemic. They are an “invitation for the ancestor to come through” and be reunited with their families, she said. “An altar is your portal to the unseen world,” explained De Anda, adding that the holiday is a celebration of life. Pan de muertos and foods and beverages are left on It is believed that the spirits of the dead are reunited with their living loved ones. Brontë Wittpenn, photographer / The ChronicleĪre altars that are decorated with a photos or portraits of one or multiple people being remembered,Īnd other foods and objects that are unique to the people being honored. ![]() San Francisco Day of the Dead Festival of Altars.Īn ofrenda, or altar, brings awareness to young victims of school shootings during the 28th annual Día de los Muertos celebration at the Oakland Museum of California. ![]() Ofrenda, said Rosa De Anda, founder and director of the One of the most traditional ways to commemorate the dead is by building an Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, also historically home to large populations of Mexicans, Central Americans and Indigenous communities. In the Bay Area, artists like the lateĪn elder of the Bay Area Chicano arts movement and co-founder of Galería de la Raza, helped introduce Día de los Muertos to San Francisco’s Mission District and the United StatesĪnother well-known Bay Area celebration takes place in Over the years, people of Mexican and Latin American descent brought the tradition to the United States. Children and adults had their own separate celebrations, he said. It originated in pre-Hispanic Mexico, where many Indigenous communities commemorated their loved ones in separate months, depending on the age of the dead person, said Ernesto Hernandez Olmos, an Oakland artist from Oaxaca, Mexico, who leads Brontë Wittpenn, photographer / The Chronicle Show More Show Lessįamilies in Mexico and throughout Latin America gather to honor their deceased loved ones with joyous celebrations that include parades, Indigenous cultural dances and perhaps the most common tradition: building colorfulĪnd worldwide, the Day of the Dead, traditionally observed Nov. Lola Faulkner, 15, points to a framed image on an altar while with her mom, Chandra, during the 28th annual Día de los Muertos celebration at the Oakland Museum of California. Brontë Wittpenn, photographer / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 4 of4 Brontë Wittpenn, photographer / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of4Īn ofrenda, or altar, at the 28th annual Día de los Muertos celebration at the Oakland Museum of California. Brontë Wittpenn, photographer / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of4Īn altar, known as an ofrenda, brings awareness to young victims of school shootings during the 28th annual Día de los Muertos celebration at the Oakland Museum of California. An altar made by Queer Healing Arts Center brings awareness to LGBTQ youth suicide during the 28th annual Día de los Muertos celebration at the Oakland Museum of California.
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