What Are Your Audio Ofrendas for Día de los Muertos?

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dia de los Muertos gives us a yearly opportunity to remember loved ones who have passed away. In honor of the holiday, we provide our listeners with a radio altar. It’s a chance to call in and share testimonials – or audio ofrendas – for those who’ve left us. Have you recently lost a family member, a neighbor, a friend or even a celebrity you admired? Tell us what they meant to you. Guests: Martina Ayala, executive director, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Antonieta Mercado, professor and director of the Program in Latin American Studies, University of San Diego Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.5	Thank you, ED. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Leslie McLaring in today for Mina Kim.
1:08.9	Coming up on forum, a live radio, Ofrienda.
1:12.2	Today we're creating what you might call an audio altar,
1:15.4	inspired by Dia de los Mueros, the Mexican holiday that invites us to remember and honor those who are no longer with us.
1:22.9	We'll be taking your calls to hear about the people who've touched your lives,
1:27.0	whether they were a family member, community figure whose impact maybe still resonates, or artists and performers whose work changed how you see the world.
1:35.3	We'll explore how our memories keep these connections alive and how sharing stories can help us process loss.
1:42.2	Join us after this news.
1:51.1	Thank you. stories can help us process loss. Join us after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Leslie McClurg. I'm in today for Mina Kim. And this year, I created my first, O'Frenda for Diadesuelos, the altars in my dining room.
1:58.2	And it's pretty simple. I just laid down a Mexican blanket on a table,
2:01.8	arranged a bunch of photos of relatives who have passed, and then my five-year-old daughter
2:06.0	added fruit and water and flowers. And it's so sweet because nearly every day she asks a question
2:12.5	about her great Aunt Dede or her great-grandmother Vera. And the experience has been so powerful on so many levels.
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