Santa Ana’s Calacas store has announced an opening reception for a new Day of the Dead art exhibit coming up this Saturday, Oct. 3, from 7 pm to 10 pm. The festivities will include an appearance by “La Catrina.” The exhibit will run through October 7.
Calacas is located at 324 W. 4th St., in downtown Santa Ana. There is free parking at the structure at 3rd and Birch. You can find out more about this event by calling Calacas at 714-662-2002 or by visiting their website. Continue reading
Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido’s wife, Laura Saari, is an accomplished freelance writer, and her latest article should be of interest to our readers. Saari has written an article about Dia de los Muertos, in Orange Coast Magazine. Here are a few excerpts from her article:
Halloween in Orange County is all about the drama: too much Disney with cleavage, too many Glinda the Good Witches, too much rented imagination. Needing respite—and recovering from a party that found me dancing with three gay guys in burqas—I headed to the Santa Ana Artists Village.
It was about 10 p.m. during the First Saturday Artwalk, but as I turned the corner onto the Second Street Promenade, High Mass rose up to meet me. Hundreds of flickering candles lighted the old brick street outside the Grand Central Art Center. Frankincense choked the air. Everyone seemed to be murmuring. The street was quiet, everyone reverent. An art installation, I thought. Then I saw a few skeletons on a display, and it finally clicked: I’d just stumbled into my first Day of the Dead. Continue reading