Day: October 15, 2017

Dia de los Muertos celebration at Pearl

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Pearl will be having its first annual Dia de los Muertos event on Wednesday November 1 and Thursday November 2. Photo: Pearl, used with permission.

Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a Mexican holiday celebrated in Mexico mostly in the Central and Southern regions. During this multi-day holiday, family and friends gather to pray for and remember those who have died and to support their spiritual journey. It includes private altars that feature calaveras, Aztec marigolds and the favorite food and drinks of the deceased and visits to graves with these gifts. Children and infants on remembered on November 1 and adults on November 2.

This year the Pearl will be hold the first annual Día de los Muertos event on Wednesday November 1 and Thursday November 2. This two-day celebration will consist of a community altar, a community procession, altars created by local artists, traditional contemporary music, theatre performances, children’s crafts and programming and collaborations with traditional food vendors. Pearl will transform the grounds to reflect traditions of the Mexican holiday, which pays homage to deceased family and friends. Decorations will include customary flowers, installations and papel picado unique to Día de los Muertos as well as ofrendas, live mariachi music, a formal procession and sugar skull making. Guests are encouraged to bring a photo or memento and participate in the community altars on both days. (Pearl, 2017)

Planned events:
Wednesday, November 1 from 4p.m. to 7p.m.
There will be children’s workshops and performances where kids can enjoy calavera face painting by Hippy’s FX, crafts by Southwest School of Art and Magik Theatre and milkshakes from Honeysuckle Tea Time. On stage, literary artist Carmen Tafolla will read and serve as emcee followed by readings from Erica Prosper Nirenberg and Jonah Nirenberg. Mexican musical performers include Los Inocentes and Conjunto Taller. Bertha Sandoval, ‘La Catrina de Mexico,’ will speak about the rich Mexican tradition at Hotel Emma library.

Thursday, November 2 from 5p.m. to 9p.m.
Altar artists will be on site to discuss their work from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Kristin Forrester will kick off the performance program with a reading and will serve as emcee. At 6 p.m., the community is invited to join in on a formal procession around the Pearl campus. Live music will be by the all-female mariachi group Las Coronelas followed by San Antonio native and Latin roots rocker, Patricia Vonne. Complimentary paletas will be available courtesy of La Paleteria and Panifico, a favorite local Mexican bakery, will be selling pan de muerto.

Pearl
312 Pearl Pkwy
San Antonio, TX 78215
(210) 212-726

Movie adaptation: ‘The Snowman’ by Jo Nesbo

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The movie adaption of ‘The Snowman’ by Jo Nesbo will be out in theaters on Friday October 20.

Jo Nesbø is a Norwegian writer, musician, former economist and reporter. His books have sold more than 3 million copies in Norway and his work has been translated into over 40 languages and have sold 30 million copies worldwide. He has written several stand-alone novels and the Doctor Proctor series of children’s books but he is best known for his crime novels about Inspector Harry Hole. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel. “The Snowman” is the seventh book in the Harry Hole series and the movie adaptation will be released in theaters on Friday October 20, 2017. It stars J.K. Simmons, Val Kilmer, Rebecca Ferguson and Michael Fassbender as Detective Harry Hole.

According to Amazon, in “The Snowman,” Inspector Harry Hole tracks a Norwegian serial killer in a case that will test him to the very limits of his sanity. Harry is a brilliant and driven detective with the Oslo Crime Squad. His methods are unorthodox methods and that has made him a loose cannon in the police force. This case involves the murder of a woman whose son wakes up one day and discovers that she has disappeared. The only thing left behind is the pink scarf that he gave her as a Christmas present and the snowman that mysteriously appeared in their front yard is now wearing it. As Harry investigates, he uncovers a pattern over the past decade where eleven women have vanished all on the day of the first snow. All killed by someone who makes his own rules and is willing to break his pattern just to keep things interesting.