Dia de los Muertos: Cultural Arts Center exhibits community altar

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ
Staff Writer
reporter@sbnewspaper.com

San Benito News photo by Francisco E. Jimenez Enriqueta Lopez Ramos of the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center Writers’ Forum is shown (right) consoling Ann Perez, whose twin sister Mary Perez died on Christmas Eve 2011. Ann placed a picture of Mary at a community altar located at the Center in San Benito, where Ramos encourages the public to bring personal items in observance of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).

San Benito News photo by Francisco E. Jimenez
Enriqueta Lopez Ramos of the Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center Writers’ Forum is shown (right) consoling Ann Perez, whose twin sister Mary Perez died on Christmas Eve 2011. Ann placed a picture of Mary at a community altar located at the Center in San Benito, where Ramos encourages the public to bring personal items in observance of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).

The Narciso Martinez Cultural Arts Center will be hosting an event to commemorate Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2.

Members of the community are invited to bring photos and mementos of loved ones who have died—this to be a part of the Center’s community altar.

The Center is located at 225 E. Stenger St. in San Benito.

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