Day of the Dead Celebrations | Conversation & Blessings with Rubí Tsanda Huerta

Day of the Dead Celebrations | Conversation and Blessing with El Centro students

By Rubí Tsanda Huerta

Rubí is an internationally recognized writer, poet, historian, Indigenous interpreter, and emerging actress from the P’urhépecha community of Santo Tomás in the municipality of Chilchota, Michoacán. She is the author of three bilingual poetry collections in Spanish and P’urhépecha. Her most recent publication appeared in the anthology La voluntad de la tierra, edited by UNAM and the Instituto Cervantes de España.

Rubí will be hosted at the Stanford Humanities Center and will lead a series of events in the context of the Day of the Dead.

 

Nov 2, 2 pm: What do altars and dead mean for P’urhépecha communities? Intimate conversation with students and members of the Queer Student Resource Center.

Nov 3, 4-5pm: Conversation and Blessing with El Centro students.

Nov 5, 5 – 6:30 pm: Lecture, Dead and Life Celebrations in P’urhépecha Communities at the Native American Cultural Center.