Kids and families: Artist Marta Sanchez brings the Mexican tradition of Cascarones to the community! In San Antonio, Texas, cascarones are decorative confetti filled eggs that are used during festive times and celebrations. Participants will decorate eggshells filled with confetti with paint, markers, and glitter to create their own cascarones. Bring them home and enjoy the fun tradition of cracking the eggs over others' heads, a tradition that believes that as the confetti spills out from the eggshells, the cascarones will bring good luck.

Texas native Marta Sanchez has spent over 35 years in the Philadelphia community making art and teaching studio art. She is the founder of Cascarones Por La Vida/For Life, a grassroots organization that creates community hand painted confetti filled eggs to assist  families affected by HIV/AIDS.  www.artedemarta.com

This program is part of a month-long series of free arts programs in libraries, presented by the Philadelphia Folklore Project. To learn more, visit www.folkloreproject.org

This project is made possible in part by federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Office of Commonwealth Libraries. 

This program was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.