Now in its fifth year, Gathering the Embers brings the spirit of Día de los Muertos to the stage and is part of SOMArts’ annual Day of the Dead exhibition and accompanying public programming. Gathering the Embers, Friday, October 23, 7–9:30pm, is an opportunity for artists to openly pay tribute to love, life, loss and resiliency.
The evening’s curators, Amanda and Natalia Vigil, encouraged emerging and established writers, interdisciplinary performing artists, media makers and musicians ...
Now in its fifth year, Gathering the Embers brings the spirit of Día de los Muertos to the stage and is part of SOMArts’ annual Day of the Dead exhibition and accompanying public programming. Gathering the Embers, Friday, October 23, 7–9:30pm, is an opportunity for artists to openly pay tribute to love, life, loss and resiliency.
The evening’s curators, Amanda and Natalia Vigil, encouraged emerging and established writers, interdisciplinary performing artists, media makers and musicians to create tribute pieces centering around this year’s Day of the Dead exhibition theme, Today is the Shadow of Tomorrow. The theme is a call to respond to institutional racism and violence, inviting artists and visitors to honor those who have unnecessarily lost their lives and to look toward the future we want to make for ourselves.
Amanda and Natalia grew up in San Francisco as part of a vibrant Chicano arts community and learned after their father’s passing that mourning crosses many boundaries. It is with this understanding that they are honored to curate this intentionally multi-racial/cultural event. For them, Gathering the Embers is a family project, a way to engage their San Francisco community, and to celebrate their Mexican heritage.
Guests may wish to arrive early to spend time with the altars and installations in Today is the Shadow of Tomorrow: Dia de los Muertos 2015. Inspired by cherished relationships, current events, and personal and collective histories, the free exhibition features more than 25 altars by over 50 participating Día de los Muertos artists to build a dense environment of creativity that makes way for meaningful reflection.
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Alzara & Brotherspellbinder
Jeremy Christensen
Lyndsey Ellis
Mason J.
Mayra Lopez
Tricia Jameson-Rainwater
Danny Robles
Nina Reyes Rosenberg
Cassandra Rockwood-Rice
Amanda Vigil
Natalia Vigil
More info: http://www.somarts.org/gathering2015/