Dia de los Muertos Piñata Art & Poetry Workshop
Arts- When
- Sun, Nov 1 · 11 AM - 4 PM
- Where
- Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver), Denver
- Price
- Free workshop with museum admission ($15 CO resident / $18 non-resident, free for 12 and under)
Denver's Dia de los Muertos observances usually mean building a personal altar. MCA Denver's version flips that: on November 1, the museum turns a gallery over to visitors building one shared memorial sculpture together, a life-sized calavera piñata that stands in for the whole room's dead rather than any single family's.
Visual artist Cipriano Ortega leads the piñata construction and decoration, while poet and wellness guide Nancy Levenson walks participants through writing short memory poems for people they've lost. Those poems go inside the piñata before it's finished, so the finished object literally carries what each visitor brought to it.
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The workshop runs 11 AM to 4 PM on Sunday, November 1, and is included with regular museum admission ($15 for Colorado residents, $18 for everyone else, free for visitors 12 and under). The museum's event page lists no separate ticket or RSVP requirement beyond paying to get in the door.
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