Sugar Skull

Name: Sugar Skull
Start: 2024-11-01T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-01T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre

Schedule

Fri Nov 01 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre | Red Bank, NJ

Sugar skulls are beautifully decorated and colorful skulls that are seen everywhere in Día de los Muertos celebrations. They are usually placed on altars, but people also decorate their own faces to look like sugar skulls. What exactly is the history behind them and what do they represent?
Lately, I’ve noticed the growing popularity of skulls and sugar skulls in Western culture – you can find them in all shapes and sizes plastered all over t-shirts, as ornaments in jewelry, illustrated in graffiti or tattooed on someone’s arm. Yes, skulls are definitely gaining mainstream popularity but have you ever though about the origins of sugar skulls or what exactly do they represent? I’m thinking not, as I highly doubt that half the people who have them printed on a piece of clothing have ever bothered to do some simple research into this fascinating subject.Within the Western culture, skulls usually depict the dark, macabre and gruesome death. However sugar skulls’ origin (or calaveras de azucar) spring
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