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Intersecciones Presentation: Día de los Muertos Ofrenda at Park & Market
November 1, 2024 - November 2, 2024
FREEAbout this event
Join us in celebrating the Mexican tradition of Día de los Muertos with a vibrant Ofrenda—a memorial altar honoring departed loved ones. Filled with colorful flowers, ornaments, food, and light, the Ofrenda is a tribute to family ties and cherished memories. Open to the public, visitors are encouraged to add a photo of someone they wish to commemorate to our shared altar.
At Park & Market’s Central Staircase between the first and second floor.
About the Artist:
Dzaya Castillo – Graduated in singing from the Higher School of Music of the National Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico. She has a postgraduate diploma in Mexican Ethnomusicology and studied in the Voce in Tempore Choral Conducting Diploma.
From 2014 to 2023, she served as coordinator of the Choirs “Redes 2025” from the Community Orchestras and Choirs Program of the BC Musical Arts Center. In this year, she continues her work as director of the Coros Redes now as part of the State Music System of the Baja California Institute of Culture. She also directs the Wa-Kuatay Choir of the Rosarito State Arts Center and the Choir of the Tijuana Security Center of the Mexican Social Security Institute. In 2018, together with choral directors from the region, she created and directed the Coralifornia International Festival. A Song without Borders, which in 2023 already celebrated its fifth edition.
She is the delegate of Baja California to the National Network of Choir Directors in Mexico. She has been assistant facilitator of doctors Andre de Quadros and Emilie Amrein in working with the Empowering Song! Methodology in Migrant shelters in Tijuana, Baja California. From November 2010 to December 2013 she was the academic head of the Trainers of Trainers of Ah, Que la Canción! Mexican Music in the Community of the RedeseArte Culture of Peace Program in the cities: Ciudad Juárez, Nogales, Tapachula and San Luis Potosí. Collaborator in the publication of the Activities Guide Ah, that song! Coordinated by Doctor Lucina Jiménez; which links the songs of the Mexican music songbook prepared by CONARTE with the thematic axes of the elementary school curriculum; In addition to guiding classroom teachers in vocal work and song assembly, she teaches classes on the History of Mexican Music and singing for the bachelor’s degrees at the Musical Arts Center.
She belonged to the cast of the National Children’s Program “Alas y Raíces” of CONACULTA and for 11 years to the artistic cast of the “Música a la Escuela” program of the Secretary of Public Education in Mexico City, where she has performed countless concerts for children and youth people in México.