Calpulli Tonalehqueh hosts the largest Azteca Mexica New Year Ceremony & Celebration in the nation.
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Everyone is invited to attend on the weekend of March 14 - 15, 2020 at Emma Prusch Park in the City of San Jose. Our goal is to make it educational, sustainable and environmentally friendly.
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The ceremony is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit event, that is free and open to the public. Drugs and alcohol are strictly prohibited to maintain a safe and welcoming environment to families in attendance.
Sunrise Ceremony
Danza Azteca
Native Dancers
Food
Kids Activities
Live Music
Arts & Crafts
DonationS
Your tax-deductible donation to Calpulli Tonalehqueh makes it possible to continue our quality of programming and classes as well as making improvements to our services.
We greatly appreciate your support!
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Tlazo Camati (Thank you)
Meet The Maestros at Mexica New Year
Each year we have a series of Maestros visits from Mexico and Latino America sharing their knowledge and wisdom through lectures and workshops.
Maestro Acamapixtli is a living witness to resurgene of the Mexicayotl movement.
The Mexicayotl Movement came about in 1059's by various scholars and professionals in Mexico City who formed an alliance to bring out our native Mexican culture including language, Philosophy, Calendar and Mathematics.
The Temachtiani Ocelocoatl Ramirez is one of the guardians of the oral tradition.
Nahuatlaca by birth has dedicated his life to the defense and dissemination of ancestral knowledge, exposing his knowledge in Mexico, the United States, Canada and Europe.
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He is the Tlahtoani of the calpulli Tetzahuitl Tezcatlipoca in the city of Mexico calpulli where he teaches Mexican history and philosophy, and where he also teaches nahuatl, dance, and huehuetl.
Acamapixlti
El Temachtiani Ocelocoatl Ramirez
• Member of the Tezhauitl Tezcatlipoca center, carrier of the fire, charge of Zihuatlcoatl
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• Has been a member for over 20 years in the Calpulli Tezhauitl Tezcatlipoca and has participated in all its facets as a dancer, bearer of words, fire, elaboration of the offerings
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• Member of the women's council
Araceli Granados Texcalxaya
Elder
Sr. Cobb
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Xavier Quijas Yxayotl, is a prominent world music flutist, composer and instrument maker. He is known for his Aztec and Mayan recreations from the Pre-Columbian Americas. Xavier is also honored to have had 6 of his 7 CD releases nominated at the Native American Music Awards—two of them for Flutist of the Year!
Xavier Quijas Yxayotl
Dancers | Danzantes
Represents the planets orbiting the Sun
The Door | La Puerta
Represents the Entry Point to the Ceremonial Cypher
Danza Azteca
Aztec Dance represents man's eternal search for cosmic harmony and integration of body and spirit. A form of prayer, but also a complete way of life and connection with what is most important to the people.
Drums | Huehuétl and Teponaztle
Represent the heartbeat of our Ancestors
and the Sun.
Altar | Momoztli
Represents the Belly Botton of Mother Earth
The meaning behind The New Year
Acatl is Reed in English. It symbolizes heat and energy, encounters and firmness. Its glyph is presented in various forms in diverse codices (Ancient Aztec books). In some cases, its presented as a reed plant sprouting from an irrigation ditch, while in others a tie of reeds, as others as arrows tied together. In all cases, its related to heat and the celestial energy that comes to us like darts and which also reflects back from the earth to the cosmos.
This year symbol is also a day symbol and is tightly linked to Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, the intelligence and memory, of analysis and observation, of the encounter and firmness of constructive links. This is also a good year for crucial decisions, the direction in life, heat, and energy combined with justice. Chicome, the number seven represents restlessness and transformation. It is related to our mental activity with the influences of the phases of the moon. The number seven is ¼ of a moon cycle of 28 days.
Meet the artist behind the glyph design 7 Reed
Jesse Hernandez (@UrbanAztec) is a visual artist born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, most widely recognized for his street art murals, vinyl toys, and diverse Illustration work. His style is known as Urban Aztec, a combination of graffiti and ancient indigenous culture.
Hernandez’s artwork has been featured by Warner Bros., the San Jose Sharks, the Oakland Museum, DC Comics, Rockstar energy drink, Rolling Stone magazine, Juxtapoz, Gears of War 4, X-Box, Playstation, Oakland Athletics, and the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas. To learn more about the many talents of UrbanAztec, visit his website.
Website: www.Urbanaztec.com
Instagram: @Urbanaztec
Twitter: @Urbanaztec
Together We Create will be hosting a large group of artists at Mexica New Year varying in age and experience. Starting with the newcomers to well- established graffiti artist, TWC will be facilitating an educational experience through hands-on practice with the students from local High Schools. TWC takes pride in exposing the youth to real-life problem-solving skills through the arts. Together We Create are educators; artists, and recognize the need for quality art.
Join us as TWC produces 16+ finished 8'x8' murals in the span of two days. Spectators can't help but be captivated by watching the process of having an empty wall transform into a stunning and colorful masterpiece in just hours. As the artists collectively complete these pieces, everyone is welcomed to watch, learn, and even take pictures as these soon become backdrops for some unique photo opportunities.
To learn more about Together We Create, visit:
San Jose Community Artists Empowering Youth
Gomez Henao works with different mediums like painting, installation, ceramics and
performance to explore with humor and a bit of sarcasm the materialistic and
sometimes irrational aspects of the self.
ERIKA GOMEZ HENAO
A self taught artist. Who advocates the promotion of practicing art with the youth and adults to acquire and develop principles towards character development.
His style is graffiti based, heavily influenced by comic art, the Chicano culture, and his faith in God.
WISPER
Sacramento, CA
CARMEN JULIE
VELASCO
Is a local artist born in Mexico and raised in San Jose California. He is a self-taught artist in search of realism, hyperrealism, abstract, and all other forms of Art. He's also completed multiple murals across San Jose
FRANCISCO RAMIREZ
Illustrator / Graphic Designer living in San Jose, currently Illustrating a graphic novel.
ROBERTO ROMO
EASE US
MESNGR
Illustrator and Educator
I live for the process.
Creating from personal experience and finding inspiration in the various materials Elba is exposed to, her work is full of pattern, nature, and mystical rhythm