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🦋💀 DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS | HONOR • REMEMBER • CELEBRATE 💀🦋

We’re excited to welcome Aztec Parrot as one of our guest poets for our upcoming Día de los Muertos Workshop Experience! ❤️

In this video, Aztec Parrot shares why Día de los Muertos is so meaningful to our cultura, our traditions, and the importance of remembering those who came before us.

Join us in Boyle Heights for an evening of art, poetry, storytelling, and community as we celebrate the lives and memories of those we love. 🕯️🌼

🎨 Create with us!
🦋 Decorate a little monarch butterfly piñata to honor a loved one.
💀 Create your own calavera skull mask to celebrate this beautiful tradition.

📅 Friday, October 30, 2026
⏰ 6–9 PM
📍 Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

🎟️ Only a few seats remain!
Get your tickets at MyLittlePinatas.com
🔗 Link in bio!

A special GRACIAS to Aztec Parrot for sharing his poetry, voice, and passion for our cultura. We’re grateful to have you join this meaningful celebration! 🙏🏽❤️

Come make something beautiful. Share a memory. Honor someone you love.

Celebrating art and culture, one little piñata at a time!

✨ BE THE VERB! ✨

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💀🦋 MAKE • REMEMBER • WALK 🦋💀

The power of poetry, storytelling, and community! ❤️

Here’s a little preview of Aztec Parrot sharing his words at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights!

Join us on Friday, October 30, as Aztec Parrot returns alongside poet Monica Salazar for a special Día de los Muertos gathering celebrating life, love, memory, and the people who live forever in our hearts.

🎨 CREATE • HONOR • REMEMBER

Come make your own Monarch Butterfly Little Piñata 🦋 or Calavera Skull Mask 💀 as we honor someone we love who is no longer with us.

Through art, poetry, storytelling, and community, we’ll come together to celebrate our traditions and keep their memories alive.

📅 Friday, October 30
⏰ 6–9 PM
📍 First & Boyle | Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

🎟️ SEATS ARE LIMITED! Reserve yours while they’re still available!

🔗 MyLittlePinatas.com

Bring your creativity, your stories, and your corazón. ❤️ I’d love to see you there!

Be the Verb!

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💀🦋 MAKE • REMEMBER • WALK 🦋💀

Greetings from Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights! Here I am with one of my handmade calavera masks, reminding you about a very special Día de los Muertos gathering coming up!

🗓 Friday, October 30
⏰ 6–9 PM
📍 First & Boyle | Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

Join us for an evening of art, culture, community, and remembrance. ❤️

🎨 Create your own Monarch Butterfly Little Piñata or Calavera Skull Mask as we come together to honor and celebrate the lives of those we love who are no longer with us.

Bring a memory, share a story, and help us keep their spirits alive through creativity and connection.

🎟️ LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE! Get yours while you can!

🔗 MyLittlePinatas.com

I’d love to see you there! Come create something meaningful, celebrate our traditions, and honor someone special this Día de los Muertos.

Be the Verb! ❤️

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🎙️ Listen to the new eXtra Episode of RAMA Blueprints!

Dr. Sal Nuñez, licensed psychologist and founder of CCSF's Community Mental Health Certificate Program, reflects on our live episode "Nuestra Sagrada Salud: Community Mental Health." He explores La Cultura Cura, ancestral healing practices, and what it means to stay rooted in culture and community amid today's mental health challenges. 🌿

🎧 Listen now at CARECENSF.org or wherever you get your podcasts

Support the project with a donation at CARECENSF.org 💛

And remember,
TO LISTEN IS TO HEAL

#RAMABlueprints #LaCulturaCura #CommunityHealing #MentalHealthMatters

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Migration c/s: Calaveras — Máscaras de Memoria

This Día de los Muertos exhibition brings together my handmade calavera masks and monarch butterfly piñatas to explore remembrance, migration, transformation, and the enduring connection between the living and our ancestors.

Inspired by Mexica culture and the powerful presence of skull imagery within our ancestral history, the masks reflect on death not simply as an ending, but as part of the continuing cycle of life. The monarch butterflies represent traveling spirits, transformation, and the memories that migrate with us across borders, communities, and generations.

Through this work, I honor the people we love who are no longer physically with us but remain present in our stories, traditions, and hearts. This exhibition is dedicated to my mother, Irene Dolores Rodríguez, and my sisters, Emilia María Rodríguez and Mary Magdalene Rodríguez.

Visitors will be able to experience and purchase original masks and butterfly artworks. Each piece may be dedicated to a loved one, and participants will have the opportunity to share a name, photograph, or memory through the online Migration c/s project. Those who purchase a mask will also be invited to join a community Día de los Muertos gathering where we will come together to remember, create, share stories, and speak the names of those we continue to carry with us.

Grateful for the art space:
Rizo Gallery
Curated by Anna P. Sutton
Artist • Curator • Art Director

@rizocorpgallery
@anita_la_santita

More exhibition details are coming soon.

Remember. Create. Share. Carry them with you.

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Join My Little Piñatas for a special Día de los Muertos Mask + Little Monarch Butterfly Piñata Workshop on Friday, October 30, from 6–9 PM in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.

Choose to create a handmade calavera mask or little monarch butterfly piñata as we come together to make, remember and create in honor of those we love. The evening will be hosted by Isaías Rodríguez, host artist and artist/educator, with special guest artists and performers Monica Salazar, poet and singer, and Aztec Parrot, poet and author, sharing their talents during our remembrance gathering. Participants are welcome to bring a photograph or small object connected to someone they wish to honor.

A heartfelt shout-out and thank-you to El Pavo Bakery @elpavobakery for making a special contribution to this community event. Space is limited. For tickets and more information, visit MyLittlePiñatas.com.

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Today is a BE THE VERB kind of day. ✨

I’m out and about making things happen:

🪅 First stop: Silver Lake Farmer’s Market to deliver a BIG piñata to Café Alegria! And yes — you’ll be able to pick up a little piñata version of this design soon!

🛍️ Then I’m heading over to Supernova Thrift to connect with Elvis & Yvonne, talk about our upcoming workshop, and work on some social media magic.

🎳 After that, it’s time to celebrate! I’m connecting with the Rediscover crew for a little bowling action to celebrate the end of summer camps and all the work that went into it.

🦜 Then I’m linking up with Aztec Parrot and heading over to Grand Performances for an AMAZING night of Cumbia!

So yeah… today is about making, connecting, celebrating, supporting, creating, and MOVING.

Come find me at the Silver Lake Flea Market.
Come dance with us at Grand Performances.
Come be part of the movement.

BE THE VERB.

Make something.
Go somewhere.
Connect with somebody.
Have a beautiful day. ❤️

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Rest in peace to our highly esteemed, irreplaceable Elders ✊🏼

We are missing many more in this post, but wanted to honor our hermano and mentor, our elder John Sermeno. Rest in Power carnal. Thank you for your service to our Chicano Movimiento and for making waves. The ripples are felt and we are so grateful for the priceless Palabra that was passed down. Forever in our hearts now and always en la Lucha!!

May all of our kind hearted, Guerrero/a Elders rest in paradise and power! ✊🏼💯 #restinpeace #tlazocamati #Brownberets #chicanomovement

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FREE TICKETS still available. Use the QR code or go to Eventbrite to RSVP and secure your seats.

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RAMA Blueprints presents Tres Generacíones/3 Voices live podcast series on Thursday, August 27 at 6:30 PM at the Brava Women for the Arts' Cabaret in San Francisco's Mission District.

Featured Panelists:

- Alejandro Murguía (Author & San Francisco Poet Laureate Emeritus)
- Jose Carrasco (Co-Founder of Loco Bloco)
- Lucía Gonzalez Ippolito (Mission District Artist & Muralist)

This live production brings together community elders, cultural workers, and emerging leaders to reflect on the historic and ongoing cultural arts movement within San Francisco's Mission District. Anchored in the spirit of "Past, Present, and Future," the evening explores how historical artivism and community-based organizations laid the groundwork for today's grassroots movements, non-profit sustainability, and cultural preservation efforts. Join us for a lively intergenerational dialogue among local movement leaders, artists, and organizers who have navigated treacherous fiscal challenges, shifting political climates, and complex external pressures.

Founded in 2021, RAMA Blueprints is the premier podcast documenting the history of the Real Alternatives Program (RAP) in San Francisco (1967–2003) and its ongoing impact on community empowerment. Please join us to celebrate RAP’s historical legacy project and participate in this vital community gathering.

RSVP link in bio

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