Name: OCC Day at the DIA
Start: 2022-10-04T13:30:00-04:00
End: 2022-10-04T16:30:00-04:00
Location: Oakland Community College - Royal Oak Campus

OCC Day at the DIA

With five campuses throughout Oakland County, OCC offers degrees and certificates in approximately 100 career fields as well as university transfer degrees in business, science and liberal arts. The College provides academic and developmental experiences allowing each student to reach their full potential and enhance the communities they serve. More than 45,000 students annually attend OCC; more than a million students have enrolled in the College since it opened in 1965.Learn more atoaklandcc.edu

Oakland Community College

Join us at the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of our celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Oakland Community College - Royal Oak Campus

OCC students and colleagues travel to the DIA in celebration of Dia de Muertos to explore a community exhibition of ofrenda altars. In Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Day of the Dead is the time of the year to celebrate the lives of close relatives, friends or community members who have passed away. Objects important to lost loved ones, such as favorites foods, drinks, mementos and pictures, are collected and incorporated into elaborate displays that include pan de muerto (bread of the dead), sugar skulls, candles, flowers, papel picado (paper cutouts) and other decorations.Chartered bus service will be offered for the first 40 people to register to ride the bus<ul><li>Park your vehicle in the college&#x27;s Parking structure across the street from the campus</li><li>Meet at the parking lot off of 7th street by 1:15pm to load the bus</li><li>The bus will depart promptly from the Royal Oak campus at 1:30 p.m.</li><li>The bus will leave the DIA at 4:00 p.m. to return to campus by 4:30 p.m. </li></ul>

For those not riding the bus<ul><li>DIA address is 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202</li><li>Parking available behind the DIA on John R St for $7</li></ul>

For more information about this event contact Kristina Marshall at kmmarsha@oaklandcc.edu

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