The bilingual community film offers a cinematic portrait of the city's annual Día de los Muertos celebration held the first Saturday in November honoring the centuries-old Mexican tradition. It is produced by Carla Zarate of SolArt Gallery & Design. (Read OC Latino Link's recent SolArt profile by Stephanie Rivera here.)
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Noche de Altares will be shown continuously throughout the art
event, from 7 to 10 p.m. DVDs will also be made available starting
Saturday for $5 at the store to help raise funds for this year's event, organized by El Centro Cultural de México and Calacas. It will take place on Nov. 5th on the corner of Fourth and Birch in Santa Ana.
Watch a preview/trailer of the film to see what it's all about:
Calacas is located at 324 W. Fourth St., Ste. B, Santa Ana.
Gabriel San Román is from Anacrime. He’s a journalist, subversive historian and the tallest Mexican in OC. He also once stood falsely accused of writing articles on Turkish politics in exchange for free food from DönerG’s!