Día de los Muertos Workshop Series

Friends, here's a series of workshops that I absolutely do not want you to miss! 

The Artes de la Rosa Cultural Center has partnered with local museums in Fort Worth, TX, and is hosting several online Día de los Muertos Workshops. All of them will be conducted on their Facebook page via Facebook LIVE. 

NOTE: If you live in the DFW area, they will make free kits available for pickup prior to each workshop!

The first one is TOMORROW. If you have an opportunity tomorrow, Saturday, October 31st at 12 pm CT, join the virtual event that is hosted in partnership with the Amon Carter Museum, who will be showing you how to make TWO pieces of art:

1. a José Guadalupe Posada-inspired print, and
2. a Justin Favela-inspired piñata

The event is FREE and will be presented in both English and Spanish. Here is a list of the materials you'll need for the projects. 

Here's a peek at the instructors and the projects:

The second one is on Saturday, Nov 7th from 12pm to 1pm CT in partnership with the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. In this workshop, you'll learn all about Monarch Butterflies. They will talk about their life cycle, how to attract them to your gardens, as well as their interesting and mysterious migration. Participants will get to make a monarch glider as part of this class. Printed templets and pennies will be provided for this activity.

And the final one is on Saturday, Nov 14th from 12pm to 1pm CT. In this workshop, the Kimbell Art Museum will teach two 30-minute workshops that explore art, family ancestry, and our favorite delicious foods! They’ll begin with a storybook reading and discussion about what our names mean to us, followed by a mixed-media painting activity celebrating the story of our names!

The second session, inspired by ofrendas and family cooking, takes a closer look at tasty treats in Kimbell still life paintings with a related bookmaking activity to help you start your own collection of family recipes.

**To ensure that you don't miss any of these, click the links above to be taken to the Facebook page where you can click on "Interested" so you'll receive notification reminders.

Free Girl Scouts Online Event Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

 

Here's another awesome free online event for you guys to catch! This Saturday, Saturday October 3, 2020, 10 a.m. – noon CT, the Girl Scouts of Central Texas (GSCTX) is hosting a virtual event in which they explore a series of cultural activities from different Latin American countries.

From their FB even page:

"Our virtual celebration will feature live demonstrations, including:

• Peruvian Baking class from James Beard and Award semi-finalist Chef Maribel Rivero (@CocinaMaribel) https://www.cocinamaribel.com/
• A Latin dance class
• Guatemalan kite making
• Panel of local Girl Scouts discussing what it's like growing up Latina


About our presenters:

Chef Maribel Rivero
Food is a constant topic that always goes back to home cooking for James Beard Award semi-finalist Chef Maribel Rivero. Cooking to her is about sharing life experiences and traditions with food. She is motivated by the stories behind cooking and expressing that story into the flavor of the Latin cuisine. In 2017, she and her brother created Yuyo Peruano restaurant as a celebration of the culinary immersion found throughout South America, where she connected with the people and the culinary community from Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, and Uruguay. Chef Maribel now continues to do Zoom cooking classes that showcases those award winning Latin flavors.

Keyler Maguilbray
Keyler loves dancing and loves to teach different styles of dance such as salsa, bachata, cumbia , merengue , salsa casino and more. She started teaching in Venezuela before deciding to come to the US. During her first year in the United States she had the opportunity to teach a bachata team and group classes with Impulso Dance Academy, Inspired Movement Studio and even performed at the Harlem Globetrotters game.

She enjoyed teaching so much that she decided to start traveling to different cities and perform with a dance partner. In 2018 and 2019 she was teaching and performing at dance congresses in Dallas , New Orleans, Houston and all over Austin."

If you have a girl scout in your home or simply want to join in the fun, register for free here. A patch is available for purchase ($3) during registration. It will be mailed to you.

Kid Writers Live with Lulu Delacre TONIGHT

What a wonderful opportunity! Don't miss this live event with the most wonderful author, Lulu Delacre. I've worked with her before on various projects and she is simply the loveliest person. And SO great with children. Her books are treasures that should be in every Hispanic family's home library. 

TONIGHT!

Join children's author and illustrator Lulu Delacre tonight (Monday, Sept 28th) at 6 pm ET as she answers 10 questions with a story, anecdote, book reading, visual demonstration, and/or a look around her studio.

From the event page:

Three-time Pura Belpré Award honoree Lulu Delacre has been writing and illustrating children's books since 1980. The New York Times Bestselling artist was born and raised in Puerto Rico to Argentinean parents. Delacre says her Latino heritage and her life experiences inform her work. Her 42 titles include Arroz con Leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes from Latin America, a Horn Book Fanfare Book in print for over 30 years. Her bilingual picture book ¡Olinguito, de la A a la Z! Descubriendo el bosque nublado; Olinguito, from A to Z! Unveiling the Cloud Forest and her story collection Us, in Progress: Short Stories About Young Latinos have received multiple starred reviews and awards. Among her latest works are the art of Turning Pages by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Luci Soars. Delacre has lectured internationally and served as a juror for the National Book Awards. She has exhibited at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, The Original Art Show at the Society of Illustrators in New York, the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, and the Zimmerli Art Museum among other venues. Reading is Fundamental honored her with a Champion of Children’s Literacy Award. For more visit her at www.luludelacre.com. Find her @luludelacre.

This online event is hosted by Enoch Pratt Free Library, Carroll County Public Library, Prince George's County Memorial Library System, and Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County. 

How to access it:

Visit the Facebook event page to find the link and register for this FREE event.

Enjoy!