Bradford’s own take on Mexico’s Day of the Dead

    Photo Credit - Bradford Museums and Galleries

    People in Bradford are being encouraged to embrace a peculiar Mexican festival.

    Cecil Green Arts, based on Darley Street, is hosting artist Ellie Harrisson and a number of Mexican artists from a group called The Faro, which created the Day of the Dead sculptures seen in the iconic opening scene of the last James Bond film, Spectre.

    Since Wednesday 1 May people have been invited to drop into art sessions where they can create their own skull masks, shrines to people they have lost and other artwork representing death and the afterlife.

    After the artwork leaves Bradford it will go on temporary display in the Merrion Centre in Leeds as part of Leeds International Festival.

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