(How Do We Live With Death? Weekend) at Southbank Centre
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Throughout 2017, Southbank Centre a presents a new festival which explores what it means to be human. Belief and Beyond Belief explores the music, art, culture, science, philosophy, ritual and traditions that have risen out of religion in its many guises. |
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The festival looks at the broader questions of what it means to be human and asks which aspects of religious belief can be useful to the world in the 21st century. The program include a wide range of performances, lectures, debates, and literary events. As part of this year long festival, the How Do We Live With Death? weekend (3rd and 4th march 2017) looks at different cultures, attitudes and traditions around death and the afterlife. The Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico is one of the most representative cultural expressions around the world and it shows a very peculiar way Mexicans interact with life and death. Two of the most distinctive traditions of this wonderful cultural festivity are:
• Traditional Day of the Dead Altar (Shrine)
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• Mexican Calavera Poetry Literary calaveras are traditional Mexican Day of the Dead poems, intended to humorously criticise the living while reminding them of their mortality. Write a humorous commemoration for someone you love – while they are here to hear it. Where? When? |
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