The Ofrenda – submit your contribution

Who would you like to remember? It could be someone you’ve lost recently or a bereavement from decades ago. It could be an ancestor or someone famous who’s died. We want to celebrate them.

WHAT IS AN OFRENDA: To celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in Mexico, people build ‘Ofrendas’ (Spanish for ‘offering’) to remember friends, family and people of significance. Often brightly coloured and ranging in scale, these offerings take the form of displays with treasured photographs, flowers, candles, food and significant objects to mark the complex and beautiful lives of those who have passed on from this world. The Grief Series have created a Ofrenda installation in the windows of CLAY Centre for Live Arts in Leeds, Regents street.

Submit a picture and a memory of a person or a pet that you have loved and lost with the form below and The Grief Series will add it to the Ofrenda. The Ofrenda will be updated once a week.

The Ofrenda is part of an ongoing collaboration between artists from Zion Studio in Mexico City and Ellie Harrison from The Grief Series in Leeds.

Your email

Please upload an image of the person you would like to remember. We will print your picture and display it in the Ofrenda (file size less than 10MB please).

The name of the person or pet you have loved and lost -you might want to write their full name, a nickname or just their initials (you can leave this blank if you would prefer for them to remain anonymous)

Your name (you can leave this blank if you would prefer to remain anonymous).

If you would like to include a memory or story, we will display it in the Ofrenda alongside your photograph.

We would like to keep you posted about future projects + events. Please let us know if you would like to be added to our mailing lists.

The Grief Series (Creators of The Ofrenda)Transform (Commissioners of The Ofrenda)CLAY (Host venue for The Ofrenda)

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