Día de Muertos: Interdisciplinary Embodiment Workshop

Name: Día de Muertos: Interdisciplinary Embodiment Workshop
Start: 2025-11-03T13:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-03T15:30:00-08:00
Location: Canucks Family Education Centre

Schedule

Mon Nov 03 2025 at 01:30 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Canucks Family Education Centre | Vancouver, BC

Facilitator Carla Alcántara leads us through a workshop that is a unique celebration of Mexican culture and a heartfelt tribute to our deceased loved ones. Through a dynamic, interdisciplinary approach, participants will explore movement and dance cues accompanied by live music. Together, we will weave a collective ofrenda (shrine) using provided crafts and materials, honouring the traditions that unite us.
Embracing the essence of Día de Muertos, the workshop reflects on death as both a remembrance and a celebration of life—inviting us to engage with personal griefs, the passage of time, and the ritual of honouring the memory of our beloved ones. Participants will also connect with the symbolic elements of earth, air, fire, and water as we create an embodied ofrenda, honouring both our ancestors and life’s constant transformations.
This gathering offers a meaningful space for the Latin community to reconnect with its roots and traditions, while warmly inviting the wider public to share in the beauty of celebrating the cycles of life and death through this important tradition.
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Carla Alcántara is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist, emerging choreographer, photographer, videographer, and educator, gratefully living and working as a guest of the ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples or so-called Vancouver since 2021. Her artistic interests currently focus on building community through creative collaborations, performance, and education through contemporary dance and visual arts. She believes that dance is a powerful tool for self-discovery that deepens our human connection and that can support building stronger communities.
Carla is the founder and artistic co-director of TEMPO Dance & Visual Art. She has performed and participated in the creative processes of artists, choreographers, and companies internationally, including Mexico, USA, Canada, Brazil, and Malaysia. Nowadays, she gratefully teaches dance at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and is a guest choreographer for both their youth and adult companies, as well as occasional workshops with different communities throughout Metro Vancouver.
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In partnership with the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre and TEMPO Dance & Visual Art.
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Registration is required, please use the link in the event listing to register. Open to 16 years + and no previous dance experience is necessary.
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***Please note this event takes place at the Canucks Family Education Centre (CFEC) which operates out of Britannia Secondary School at 1001 Cotton Drive (above the childcare).