About UsThe Alliance for California Traditional Arts strives to "ensure
California's future holds California's past" by providing programs
and services to support the state's diverse living cultural heritage.
The Alliance cultivates the growth of traditional arts and culture through
Stewardship, Services to Artists, and Connection-Making.More about us...Our Programs & Services
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Upcoming Events
Hatian Dance and Drum Conference
Sep 18 2009
Oakland, CA
Ode to Hope: A Melodic Epiphany
Sep 18 2009
San Diego, CA
Tamejavi Festival
Sep 19 2009
Fresno, CA
Oakland Chinatown Oral History Project
Sep 19 2009
Oakland, CA
18th Annual San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival
Sep 20 2009
San Jose, CA
Performing Diaspora: LA Work in Progress Showing
Sep 20 2009
Santa Monica, CA
Ode to Hope: A Melodic Epiphany
Sep 20 2009
Los Angeles, CA
Always Been a Rambler
Sep 25 2009
San Francisco, CA
5th Annual Garifuna Community Forum
Sep 26 2009
Los Angeles, CA
Learn to Make Thai Curry From Scratch
Sep 26 2009
Oakland, CA
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Current Exhibits
The World According to Joyce Gross: Quilts from the Dolph Briscoe Center
Aug 4 - Oct 25, 2009
San Jose, CA
American Masterpieces: The Artistic Legacy of California Indian Basketry
Mar 14 - Mar 14, 2010
Sacramento, CA
Japanese Papercraft: Miko Dolls
Oct 1 - Mar 1, 2010
Oakland, CA
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Funding Opportunities
Ford's Summer Partnership Program
Deadline: Sep 25
Arts & Communities Initiative
Deadline: Sep 25
CHIME: Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange
Deadline:
Oct 1
First Nations Composer Initiative: Common Ground
Deadline:
Oct 1
Creative Work Fund: Peforming Artists
Deadline:
Nov 6
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ACTA Launches New Website
 On August 31, 2009, the Alliance for California
Traditional Arts launched a renovation of its website. In ACTA's work to
"ensure California's future holds California's past," sharing information for
and about California's folk & traditional arts is a key to building a
stronger network of artists, cultural workers, funders, nonprofit leaders,
curators, educators, and supporters to nourish this field. The new content and
features of ACTA's website will enable the organization to distribute this
information effectively. ACTA's new website uses the popular web Drupal 2.0
platform, which is not only affordable, but allows many authors in different
locations to update content easily.
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A Banana Peel is Good For Headaches: Observations from the Traditional Arts Field
 Lily Kharrazi, program manager of
the Living Cultures Grants Program at the Alliance for California Traditional
Arts, was asked as one of several artists and commentators in the Bay Area to
think about "how rapidly changing demographics and/or evolving technologies
impact the ways in which artists and arts organizations across the region
connect with audiences." The article below was crafted in large part by her
experiences of meeting and working with many of the communities that ACTA
serves. Her essay was commissioned by The San Francisco
Foundation and Grants for the Arts/San Francisco
Hotel Tax Fund through support from The Wallace
Foundation.
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Three California Traditional Artists Receive Nation's Highest Honor
 Eleven master artists from around the country, representing eleven distinct folk and traditional arts, will be honored in Washington, D.C. the week of September 21st for events celebrating their receipt of a 2009 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The fellowship is the highest form of federal recognition of the folk and traditional arts. Representing a cross-section of cultures, including cowboy, South Asian, Appalachian, and West African, and preserving such diverse art forms as accordion-driven zydeco, willow basketry, and New England contra dance, these awardees were chosen for their artistic excellence and contributions to our nation's living cultural heritage. The fellowship includes a one-time award of $25,000.
The NEA National Heritage Fellowships public programs are made possible through the support of the Darden Restaurants Foundation and its family of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, and Seasons 52 restaurants.
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts congratulates California recipients Chitresh Das, "Queen" Ida Guillory and Sophiline Cheam Shapiro!
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An Apprenticeship in Danza Azteca Vestuario and Recortaje
 As the first acknowledged U.S.-born
female Capitana de la Danza, heading Danza Mixcoatl which she founded in 1992,
San Diego-based master artist Mary Lou Valencia participated in the 2009
Apprenticeship Program, working with two apprentices José Alvarez of San Diego,
and Maria Ramos from Vista. Both Alvarez and Ramos are apprenticing under
Valencia to focus on dance recortaje and vestuario-ceremonial dance regalia
which is an integral part of Aztec dance tradition and
observance.
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The Creative Work Fund Awards $670,000 in Grants for Collaborative Art Projects
2009 Awards Feature Media Artists and Traditional
Artists
 The Creative Work Fund has announced
17 new grant awards to Bay Area artists and nonprofit organizations for
collaborations leading to new art works. This year the Fund invited
applications from media artists and traditional artists, and the forms of the
finished works range from films, theater environments, Web sites, and sound
installations to new work for Rom brass band, a revival of Russian harvest
celebrations, and traditional Japanese
woodworking.
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