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By Armando Vazquez / Guest contributor
On Oct. 30, the Acuña Art Gallery @ Café is honored to host our Mixteco brothers and sisters as they prepare their altar. They will be working on the altar and celebrating el Dia del los Muertos from 2 to 9 p.m.
Come by lend a hand and celebrate with us.
The Acuña Art Gallery @ Café is at 438 S. A St., Oxnard.
At the same time the Acuña Rainbow Arts for Social Justice Coalition will be working on our own altar and we will proceed to work on the altar through Friday, the 31st from about 4 p.m. on.
The Acuña Gallery celebrates Life, and we honor our community and those that have moved on. There is no template for our altar. It will be eclectic, universal and above full of love.
This year we honor and celebrate the artistic friendship we had with Magu, Jose Dela Pena, Mark Lareva, Litlle Micheal de KC and other that have moved on. We will never forget the young brothers of Chiques who have been cut down in the prime of their lives. This altar is dedicate to these young men as well.
Bring a picture of a love one that has move on to the other world, bring a candle and we shall light in their honor, join in reverent celebration of the universal circle: life to death and then again.
As an added treat, the Acuña Gallery currently has one of the great ceramics exhibits, bringing together for the first — and perhaps — only time, 16 master ceramists from Oxnard and the local communities. All art is for sale. Early Christmas shopping and your support of the local arts community — what could be better.
… One Love, Armando and Debbie.
— Armando Vazquez, M.Ed., is the executive director of The KEYS Leadership Academy@ Café on A in Oxnard.
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