Dia de los Muertos Festival
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BARE HANDS GALLERY'S
Seventh Annual Dia de los Muertos Festival
(Day of Remembrance for the Dead)
Monday, November 2, 2009
3 - 10 pm

$10.00 at the Gate

T-shirts and art will be available for purchase

Festival Entrance tba

Bare Hands Gallery’s Day of the Dead Festival is a one-day celebration honoring the Hispanic, primarily Mexican, celebration known as Dia de los Muertos (Day of Remembrance for the Dead).  The annual commemoration at Bare Hands combines community art installation and procession with remembrance, creativity, performance, music and food to highlight rich cultural tradition yielding an exquisite downtown arts and cultural event.  The art installations inside the gallery and courtyard will remain on display until November 14 for viewing, photographing and review free of charge to schools and the general public. 

This event has become the gallery’s biggest community outreach project.  It exists to

• increase cultural understanding between the Hispanic and Non-Hispanic communities of north and central Alabama
• educate adults, as well as children, about the history, tradition, and art of Day of the Dead
• facilitate true community art installation by allowing visual artists and the general public to work side by side in the creation of public art

Festival Sponsors & Community Partners: Alabama Power Company, Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham Weekly, Birmingham Budweiser, Supreme Beverage, Homewood Gourmet, Sol y Luna, Cantina, The Golden Temple, La Cocina, Brad Morton, FOOTMAD, Lucy's Coffee, Do Dah Day, Sloss Realty, Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, Jones Valley Urban Farm, The Literacy Council, Sojourns, Advanced Automotive, Davis Transmission, and a community of volunteers! 

Media Links

"Day of the Dead, The sixth annual Dia de los Muertos festival" by David Pelfrey, Diversions, Black & White, Birmingham's City Paper, Oct.16 - 29
http://www.bwcitypaper.com/Articles-i-2008-10-16-224634.113121_Day_of_the_Dead.html

Birmingham Weekly Day of the Dead Cover and Cover Story- Dead and Merry: Bare Hands Gallery Celebrates Sixth Annual Dia de los Muertos
http://www.bhamweekly.com/ 

WBHM Tapestry - Greg Bass Interviews Flaco Jimenez- Headliner for the Sixth Annual Day of the Dead Festival
http://www.wbhm.org/Tapestry/index.html 

UAB Kaleidoscope
http://www.uab.edu/kscope/kaleidoscope-article-909.html

Birmngham News, City Scene 10/31/08:12 to Boo: Mary Colurso offers a dozen ghoulish ways to spend your time this week.
http://www.al.com/cityscene/

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Image used for background was created by Alexander Henry.