2009

"First Mexican Piñata Workshop and Exhibition"

Mexican Piñata Workshop and Exhibition

at the Bourse Building

December, 2009

Here are some pictures of the piñata workshop so you can see how the piñatas were made.

Aquí están algunas fotos del taller de piñatas para que vean como fueron hechas.

 

Prizes were awarded to the 3 best Piñatas

The MCC invited all kids from 6 to 13 years old to the 1st Mexican Piñata workshop. Kids join us and had fun and learned more about this holiday tradition.

El CCM invitó a todos los niños entre 6 y 13 años a participar en el 1er Taller de Piñatas Mexicanas. Los niños participaron y aprendieron de esta tradición.

"Day of the Dead altar at the Philadelphia Art Museum"

Exhibit

Sunday, November 1, 2009   10:30 AM -3:00PM

Cesar Viveros has been invited to create a Day of the Dead altar at the Philadelphia Art Museum; he will display an altar that could give us an idea of how an altar would have looked like 500 years ago. He got the idea when he was looking at the stairs in the entrance of the museum and it reminded him of the now extinct shape of the "Templo Mayor" in Mexico CIty, a main pyramid at the heart of the great Tenochtitlan  (cem- anahuac tlalliyolotl/El corazon del Unico mundo) which among other things, featured two temples, one  dedicated to the ancient Rain God "Tlaloc" and another one  with a "Tzompantli" facade. .That was his inspiration to do this altar on which we welcome our ancestors, the departed ones...

It will be so much fun for the family:
10:30 am -2:00p.m. Day of the dead altar presentation
10:30 am   Aztec procession ("Fuego Nuevo pre-Columbian Culture")
10:30 am- 2:00p.m.make-and-take workshop
11:30 am- and 1:30p.m. Latin dance performance
noon -2:30p.m family Latin dance lessons, drawing together and much more!!!

  "DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR  AT THE BOURSE BUILDING"

October 31st - November 3rd 2009
111 S. Independence Mall E. Philadelphia, PA

The Mexican Cultural Center is honored to announce its annual "Ofrenda" (Spanish for offering) to commemorate the Day of the Dead. This year, Priscila Noemi Hernandez, an art student at Camden College is creating the Ofrenda at the Bourse Building on Friday, October 31. You can see the ofrenda from October 30th to November 3nd.

"SAN MATEO CARNAVALERO - CINCO DE MAYO Celebration"

April 26, 2009 11 AM   

Sacks Park - Washington Avenue and 4th Street, South Philadelphia