Ofrendas Digital : Digital Offerings

Join us on November 5, 2026, for a workshop led by Concordia’s 2026–2027 Fulbright Scholar and IFRC Affiliate, Dominick Porras.

Digital Ofrendas is a photography-based workshop designed to participate in the spirit of constructing your own personalized Dia de los Muertos Ofrenda (offering). Within this 2-hour workshop, participants will engage in a brief presentation on the significance of Dia de los Muertos while printing with mobile app-based Polaroid technology printers and learn traditional hands-on Polaroid emulsion lifting processes. Participants are encouraged to bring in digital images on your personal mobile device, of loved ones or things for printing on Polaroid film. 
 
Within the Mexican/Latino Diáspora, Dia de los Muertos is recognized on Nov. 2 as a day of remembrance for those who have passed into the spiritual realms joining our ancestors. As a way to honor our loved ones, Ofrendas (offerings) are constructed physical gestures that emit gratitude and reverence.

🎟️  Space is limited, so please make sure register to attend.

 This workshop is open exclusively to members of the Concordia community. 

ABOUT DOMINICK PORRAS:

Dominick Porras is a lens-based artist and visiting Fulbright Scholar from Sacramento, California where he is a professor in new media, studio arts and Native American Studies.

Over the last five years Porras has returned to several analogue photographic printing processes such as Polaroid emulsion lifting. Porras’s photographic & new media works engage decolonial research methodologies with land, waterways and ecologies by interrogating colonial narratives and their legacies. 

📅  November 5, 2026 

⏱️ 5-7pm 

📍 Milieux MakerSpace EV 10.825  

By attending this event, you consent to being photographed, filmed, or recorded. These images may be used by Milieux Institute on its website, social media, or promotional materials.