Dia De Los Muertos
Join us for our Season Closing Event!
We come together to create a pillar of light for our ancestors—both personal and global. We honor our bloodlines and all those who gave their lives to the sacred struggle for liberation across time and cultures. Día de los Muertos, celebrate the weaving together Indigenous Mexican roots and African resilience in a sacred gathering for all ancestors—especially the warriors lost to wars, oppression, and genocide. We honor traditions birthed in the fires of resistance: from the Danza de los Diablos dances of Afro-Mexican freed communities to the mountain palenques of Gaspar Yanga, who founded the Americas’ first free Black settlement in 1609.
🗓️ Sunday, November 1st from
🕦 1pm
You are welcome to bring:
📜 The names or letters to your ancestors
🎁 Offerings for our communal tree altar (flowers, notes, etc.)
🍪 Goodies to share in community
💀 Your face decorated as a sugar skull, or come early to decorate yourself!
Your Facilitators:
Chicava is a Universal Healing Tao Instructor and Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi instructor. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College in sacred sexuality, spirituality performance art, and women of color in burlesque heritage. Her arts and spiritual studies converge through her school, Sacred Chrysalis, the space where the sacred sexuality of Taoist Womanly Arts, burlesque, and sistering community meet. She received my MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College in sacred sexuality, spirituality performance art, and women of color in burlesque heritage.
Ishkara Heqwabti is a Vocal Sound Mystic, 4th generation musician, Certified Sound Healer, and Certified Kemetic Yoga Instructor. She earned her BM in Sound Synthesis and Vocal Performance from Berklee College of Music. Rooted in her own deep spiritual practice and reverence for the healing power of sound, she founded The Inner Ish to help you realign with your true Self and restore connection to Ancestral wisdom. Through immersive, multi-sensory sound journeys, Ishkara takes you through identifying and releasing stored trauma and limiting beliefs—guiding you back to balance and activating your inner light which opens the way for self-actualization. Her work is anchored in the reclamation of her Kemetic/Ancient Egyptian spiritual roots, which now serve as the foundation for her transformative offerings. “My path is to help others achieve happiness and elevation through sacred sound.” You can find Ishkara on IG and Youtube @ishkaraheqwabti or www.theinnerish.com
Sunday, November 1st, 2026
1:00 PM
DuYe Moves
405A Colonels Row,
New York, NY, 11231 (map)
$20 Suggested Donation
$20 Suggested Donation
Directions
By Subway
1 Train to South Ferry Station
R/W Train to Whitehall St. Station
4 and 5 Train to Bowling Green Street
Head towards the Staten Island Ferry to the left you'll see the sign for...
Governors Island Ferry
The ferry leaves every half hour - Click for Schedule
The Ferry is FREE:
Before 10:30am
Older Adults 65 and over
Children 12 and under
Residents of NYCHA housing
IDNYC holders
Military servicemembers (former and active)
Directions to Colonel's Row in House 405
~ Take a right at the top of the hill.
~ Left turn after after passing QCNY Spa.
~ Walk down Colonel's Row until you see House 405A.