Come celebrate Día de Muertos with us at La Peña! This is an invitation to bring our community together to participate in a pre-hispanic ritual that helps us to grieve and celebrate our loved ones who have become ancestors. All ages are welcome, come with your family! THIS EVENT IS DONATION-BASED. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING PROGRAMS LIKE THIS!
The theme for our altar this year is “Honoring Victims of State Violence,” through which we seek to center the lives taken away by racist, colonial, imperial and extractivist systems of destruction. Let the souls of our ancestors rest in power and show us the path toward a life in harmony with the land and each other.
The night will offer:
- Participatory Altar Ceremony: if you would like to participate in the community altar, bring any offering of food, candles, pictures, etc. (Do not bring anything of value that you want to take home with you because this community altar is staying up all night)
- Aztec Dancers
- Activities for Kids
- Food by Los Cilantros Restaurant
- Handcrafted Goods for Sale
- Son Jarocho Presentation and Fandango to End the Night!
Event made in collaboration with Mayra Hernández and María De La Rosa.
“Harley Queen” (2019) is a documentary that portrays the double life of a woman who strives to find her identity through a supervillain, a dancer and a mother in Bajos de Mena, which is known as “Chile’s biggest ghetto” in Puente Alto, Santiago. It’s a film about aspirations, tensions, contradictions, and about the limits of film itself to reflect lives who are forced to navigate a system that thrives through marginalization and abandonment. It’s a lens through which to think about Chile today, politically, socially, and in relationship to a global landscape of pop references and -distant- opportunities.
Duo of filmmakers who have been working for more than 20 years immersed in various realities of current Chile. Known as the most daring, interesting and controversial directors working in Chile today. To date, they have made El Pejesapo (2007), Mitómana (2009), Crónica de un Comité (2014), Il Siciliano (2017) and Harley Queen (2019), films that have been screened at festivals such as Locarno, San Sebastián, BAFICI, among others. Retrospectives of their films have also taken place in Peru (Transcinema), Spain (Málaga Festival and Cineteca de Madrid) and France (Toulouse Festival). They are also founders of the FECISO Social and Antisocial Film Festival, which has been held for 14 years with 25 versions to its credit, and also of the first Popular Film School in Chile, which has been operating for 12 years in popular neighborhoods of Santiago.
