Cempasúchil*: Caring for Community is a West Side block party and everyone is welcome.
It's a healing space to connect with our neighbors, celebrate, dance, eat, and build power.
It's a day to celebrate and call for justice for our neighbor, Gabriel "Dino" Mendoza, who was tragically killed in October of last year.
It's a free gathering to share ideas about honoring loved ones we've lost, about Día de los Muertos and the use of marigolds, and also about ways we can heal and care for each other, both through community connection and through medicinal herbs and body work.
We'll have live music, DJs, food trucks, mural painting, a breakdancing competition, and healing arts like reiki, massage, and more.
*Cempasúchil is an indigenous that means "marigold" in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs.
Click here to download the event flier
Performers
4:30 p.m. Japanese drumming with TaikoArts Midwest
5:30 p.m. Bomba drumming with Maria Isa
6:30 p.m. Hip hop performance by Selah Jacoway
7:00 p.m. Emo trash rock performance by Virginia's Basement
4:30 - 7:30 DJ Jae Myth
Healing and Honoring Space
Calling for Justice for Gabriel "Dino" Mendoza
Community ofrenda building Dia de los Muertos: bring a photo of a loved one to add
HealHouse - tarot and reiki
Terra Sura - herbal salt blend station
Vital Ground Farm- chair massage
Honoring, Releasing, Remembering station in the Garden of Good Hearts
More
Dia de los Muertos cookie decorating with Youth Farm
Books with Riverview Library (books about healing, crossing over, grieving, and medicinal plants)
and more!
RSVP below for updates.
WHEN
October 08, 2023 at 4:30pm - 7:30pm
WHERE
Congress St. E. near Wabasha
CONTACT
Katrina Mendoza
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