Bonesbare Nashville

Presented by Core Project Chicago

November 6 & 7

Thursday and Friday

7:00 pm

This may be your last chance, before the solstice,

to see an evening this creatively collaborative!

Dance - Poetry - Visual Art

$10 Students/Seniors/Advance Tickets

$15 General Admission at door

FEATURING WORKS BY:

Ben Burr

Janelle Bonfour-Mikes

Carrie Gant

Celia Rose

-and more-

una noche enmascarada

         The colorful holiday of Los Días de los Muertos, The Days of the Dead, is celebrated in Mexico to honor those family members or loved ones who have died. These two days, November 1 and 2, are also the Catholic holidays of All Saints Day and All Souls Day. Altars are created in homes and feature portraits, favorite foods and personal items such as reading glasses and hats.  The cemeteries are filled with family members gathered together lighting candles and adorning the tombs with Marigolds and Cockscombs. In the streets there are often parades and fairs, music and dancing. During many of the traditional performances the dancers wear masks that represent old men, death, animals and other characters to better tell their story.  The dances are comprised of steps passed down over the years along with other traditions such as making sugar skulls and hanging decorations like banners of papel picado, cut paper, to make the fiesta more colorful and bright. Los Días de los Muertos are vibrant and lively days focused on the precious memories rather than the fear and gore focused Halloween holiday that we in the US typically celebrate.  

Celia Rose recently relocated to Nashville from Guanajuato, Mexico. Unlike the mountainous desert town where she had been living for the past three years, there are few opportunities to enjoy the outdoors in Tennessee without either the mosquitoes, the humidity or the bitter chill driving you back inside.  Not wanting to miss the chance to spend a night under the stars, Celia Rose organized an evening of art and music to celebrate Los Muertos at Mas Tacos Por Favor, a taco shop in East Nashville known for their tasty tacos and delicious soups, for Los Muertos.  

 Paper mâché and horchata were among the supplies scattered across the tables Thursday night while the first round of mask-making got under way.  Among the many artists were a mother and son team, and one boyfriend who surprised his girlfriend on her spooky birthday. Friday night, the taco truck was posted up outside of the East Nashville location of Mas Tacos and kept cranking out pork and vegetarian tamales while local bands New Pleasure  and Promised Land entertained the ever-growing crowd that was gathered outside.

Among the confetti and paint, and behind the masks, there was a beautiful combination of cultures and traditions.  The left over jack-o-lanterns smiled on the table next to the sugar skulls as the last of the spirits slipped away into the night. No matter the tradition or the language, the turning of the seasons seems to spark that sense of nostalgia in all of us.

casitas de elote

TONIGHT

5 - 9 pm

Día de los Muertos

celebrate at Mas Tacos Por Favor!!!

This afternoon, we will finish up the

 Maverick Mask-making Workshop

Then, around 5:30... 

come to see Celia Rose's 

drawings of the houses on West Eastland Avenue

~casitas de elote~

MUSICA EN VIVO

 New Pleasure and Promised Land

La Lotería at East Park

Today Maverick Radar is visiting East Park Community Center  to spend some time learning about La Lotería, a traditional Mexican board game similar to BINGO.
While playing the game, we will look at the drawings and talk about the words in Spanish. 

Each person will be able to design their own cards and game boards for a personalized version of La Lotería. 

The finished paintings will be displayed in the lobby of the EPCC.  Two participants will be invited to take the Maverick Mask-Making workshop at Mas Tacos Por Favor on the Friday of Los días de los Muertos.  More information about the masks can be found at The Skillery.

art show and sale

CASITAS DE ELOTE

drawings and paintings by Celia Rose

part of the días de los muertos celebration

at Mas Tacos Por Favor

This is the Celia Rose's premiere show in 

Nashville featuring drawings of each of the 

West Eastland Avenue homes.

Friday, November 2

6:00 - 9:00 pm

---música en vivo---
New Pleasure
Promised Land

byob

more information and links
casitas de elote
maverick facebook
maverick tumblr
maverick etsy
The Skillery

mask makers, unite!!!

Come create on los días de los muertos!

Mask-making workshop with Celia Rose

at Mas Tacos Por Favor!

November 1 and 2 

4:00 - 6:00

For más information and to register
check out The Skillery. 

Tickets are limited, so don't wait!

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bio with words

starlight star bright
i once had to sneeze
and ended up among a plethora
of strawberries

in the morrow maybe
diez y siete ominous indians kidnapped me
and tied me to the mesa de noche
i enjoyed the trip

but they told me that i was a transplant
i must endlessly travel
i used the scissors they fed me for breakfast
yet could not fit into the chimenea

breathe deep
seek peace

the belly of the mississippi
isn't so immense
your hermanos are down there
waiting

from trash to treasure

I present the 28th edition of Revista Cultural Alternativas, a free online magazine published monthly in León, Mexico. In this edition, the focus is on ecology, design, art and recycling.  I invite you to flip through the magazine and pause for a moment, if you will, on pages 24 and 25.  I am proud to share with you a brief article about Guanajuato-based group Editorial EnComa, a collaboration of artists, photographers, poets, writers, designers, movers and shakers. We are dedicated to creating artesian books out of recycled materials while including a wide range of topics and interests.

Open publication - Free publishing - More alternativas

"Forget the quarrel!"

Pollyanna paid no heed.


--- a     wonderful discovery
     soon flew up   her nose,

     swept past   another

one --- after that
forget     your pride and
my   leisure

skipped       low under her

   days

quanax