Community Altar

Alphabet Alliance of Color deeply values maintaining relationships with our transcestors. We make an effort to have a physical altar space at all of our major events to honor our community members that are no longer physically with us, but we wanted to create an inclusive and accessible digital space for folks to do the same virtually. In this interactive digital altar space, we encourage those in our AAoC community to honor those who have passed from wherever they are.

This digital altar space is interactive! Folks are encouraged to add photos of the individuals they’re honoring and place items such as flowers, incense, and candles on the altar. Using the comment function, you can also tell stories and respond to other people’s comments - this is a communal space. This altar is meant specifically for folks in our AAoC community to honor QTBIPOC that they have known and loved.

Altar
Guidelines

How to Use

Navigation

  • Use “command” or “control” + and - to zoom in and out, or your Mac track pad

  • Add elements (images, shapes), text, stickies, uploads via the side navigation bar in Canva, or what is already in the cabinets to add to the altar

  • Double click on the tv screen in the altar to listen to a song during your time in the altar space

Using altar items

  • Select an altar item

  • Move it to the altar

  • Change it as you need

  • If there’s something you want to add but can’t find it, comment and tag us in the altar space and we will try to add it

Altar maintenance

  • Create a space for your people and what they love - food, drink, items, etc.

  • Feel free to change out the flowers

  • If you want to tell stories about people, click on their photo and select “comment” and then type - you can respond to other people this way, too

  • If things are looking messy, you’re needing help with something, or generally have questions about our altar space, email us at info@alphabetalliance.org or tag us in a comment (using the comment feature on Canva and then typing @Karissa Masciel) and we will come clean things up or figure out how to help