Bike Ofrenda Workshop and Caravan with Sandra de la Loza

We Are the Altars! Ofrenda Bike Ride 2021

We invite you on a  bike ride to honor the ancestors of this land: it’s people, flora, fauna, cosmos.  We will be sowing ancestral seeds of gratitude and resilience with surprise guests as we  honor our ancestors  at various stops. This 8-mile moderate ride will begin and end at Self Help Graphics.  We invite you to turn your body and your bicycle into a mobile altar! 

Organizers: Pauletta Pierce, Rio Oxas, Miguel Ramos, Sandra de la Loza, Alejandra Reyes.

Be safe, fun and respectful- Bring your mask and any offerings.  

We embodied other ways of knowing and navigating the city as we communed and regenerated with each other and safely practiced social distancing. 

When: November 6th

Where: Begin and end at Self Help Graphics

Time:

• 2:00-3:30 p.m.– Altar Making Workshop 

• 3:30 p.m.– Meet and Greet (Safety talk and Bike Altar final prep and check)

• 4:30 p.m. – Roll out!

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Los Angeles-based artist Sandra de la Loza will guide participants to convert their bike into a mobile ofrenda in the spirit of Día de los Muertos so they can ride around town and honor their ancestors. The free, easy and family-friendly workshop will begin at 2:00 p.m. and provide individuals and families the opportunity to create hands-on paper calacas (skulls), decorate their wheels with handmade spokes, and create altars for handlebars or a cargo rack. Participants will depart from SHG at 4:00 p.m. to different community altars and experience poetry and onsite performances.

Registration is required, all ages welcome, bring your own bike to participate. Register here to participate.

Check our Facebook Page to see the entire list of workshops at https://www.facebook.com/selfhelpgraphics.