Piñata Making Workshop with Francisco Berlanga

Join us on Saturday November 23rd for a pop-up workshop led by artist Francisco Berlanga!

During this free, all ages workshop participants will create a traditional 7 point Piñata. With various supplied materials, participants will have the chance to decorate and piece together their own Piñata using a premade papier mâché sphere. Francisco will discuss how a Piñata is traditionally broken and we will then all break a Piñata together and enjoy its gifts!

Francisco Berlanga is a Vancouver based textile artist whose practice reflects on his relationship to his Mexican identity as a second-generation immigrant through the lens of Craft. He attempts to understand how one can inhabit a culture while being partially absent from it. He engages in discourse with his own identity through the creation of traditional Mexican “manualidades” or crafts. His practice engages with concepts of inaccessibility attempting to bridge the gaps between his personal and cultural identities by forcing connections between them and trying to understand the limitations that these identities impose upon each other. Histories of repetition often produce apparitions of motifs that haunt his works. 

Where: Fort Langley Community Hall (9167 Glover Road, Langley).

When: Saturday, November 23, 3-5pm.

This workshop is appropriate for all skill levels and all ages, no art experience required. Children under 16 must be accompanied by a guardian.

Photographs and/or video will be taken at this event. They may be used in Fort Gallery's social media sites. If you do not wish to be photographed, please inform us at the beginning of the workshop.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia.

Host or Publisher Fort Gallery