dia de muertos – Paper Flower Making Workshop

Join us for a two hour flower making workshop, to be held in the lead up to Dia de Muertos, 2026, at Coburg library. The event is designed to facilitate reflection, community connection and discussion around themes of life, death, love, memory and culture as participants create paper cempoaxochitl (marigolds) that can be contributed to the community altar or taken home.

Event details:
When: Friday 23 October, 6pm – 8pm
Where: Coburg Library (Meeting room)
Cost: Free. Bookings required.
All materials supplied.

About the artists:
Cempoaxochitl is a Nahuatl (First Nations people of Central Mexico) word, translating to what is commonly known as the Flor de Muerto (Flower of the dead/Mexican marigold). The word itself, cempoa (20 or many) and xochitl (flower), or ‘flower of many petals’ epitomises the spirit of community collaboration. The workshop will be led by Nisa Yam Richy of Cempoaxochitl Arts Collective (CAC).

Nisa (she/her) is a Queer Yucatec Maaya, Mexican, Crimean Tatar and Southern European artisan, arts worker and researcher, currently living in Naarm on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation. Having grown up in so-called ‘Australia’, her work focuses on cultural connection and celebration through art, Indigenous research methodologies, and community collaboration. CAC is a Meanjin/Brisbane based Mexican artists collective who create art and cultural events, facilitating cultural exchange and storytelling across so-called Australia and Mexico.

Image credit: Image supplied by Nisa Yam Richy.