About Us:
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts promotes and supports ways for cultural traditions to thrive now
and into the future by providing advocacy, resources, and connections for folk and
traditional artists and their communities.
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Funding Opportunities
Native American Arts and Cultural Traditions Grants (NAACT)
Deadline: Feb 3
CAC's Creating Public Value
Deadline: Feb 11
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Ongoing Funding Opportunities
ACTA's Traditional Arts Development Program
The Guitar Center Music Foundation
The Creative Capacity Fund
National Geographic All Roads Film Project Offers Seed Grants for Indigenous Storyteller
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Upcoming Events
ACTA's Traditional Arts Roundtable Series: Small Business Development for Traditional Artists
Jan 26, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Specialized California CDP Training for Dance Organizations
Jan 26, 2010
Shujaat Kahn, sitar and Abhiman Kaushal, tabla
Feb 6, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
The San Francisco Tam Fest - A Celebration of Tamburitza Music
Feb 13 - Feb 14, 2010
Berkeley and San Francisco, CA
Congolese Dance & Drum Workshop in Maui
Feb 26 - Mar 8, 2010
Maui, HI
Regeneracion: Ricardo Flores-Magon and the Mexican Revolution of 1910
Mar 5 - Mar 13, 2010
Fresno and Clovis
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Current Exhibits
American Masterpieces: The Artistic Legacy of California Indian BasketryThrough Mar 14, 2010 Sacramento, CA Japanese Papercraft: Miko DollsThrough Mar 1, 2010 Oakland, CA "A Project Documenting Fading Traditions"Through Mar 6, 2010 Fresno, CA Textiles From OaxacaThrough Mar 6, 2010 Fresno
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23 Teams of Master Artists and Apprentices Begin Intensive Learning Cycle
 ACTA welcomes 23 master artist-apprentice pairs to its Apprenticeship Program. Now entering
its tenth cycle, ACTA's Apprenticeship Program encourages the
continuation of the state's living cultural heritage by contracting
exemplary master artists to offer intensive training to qualified
apprentices. Each contract will support a period of concentrated
learning between six to twelve months for individuals who demonstrate
commitment to and talent for a specific artistic tradition. Contracts
of $3,000 are made with California-based master artists to cover master
artist's fees, supplies and travel. Participants work closely with
ACTA staff to develop and document the apprenticeships, culminating in
opportunities to publicly share results of the apprenticeship.
The 2010 Apprenticeship Program cohort of 46 artists reflects
California's breadth of cultural diversity and intergenerational
learning, ranging from octogenarian master artists to teenage
apprentices, spanning from Shasta to San Diego Counties. Thriving
traditions supported through these apprenticeships reflect indigenous
California cultural practices including Mono and Ohlone basketry,
California saddlemaking, and art forms which have taken root in the
United States hailing from regions including Cuba, Tibet, Republic of
Congo, the Balkans, Cambodia, Japan, Armenia and Iran, India and China.
ACTA's Apprenticeship Program is supported
by the Columbia Foundation; the Walter & Elise Haas Fund; the James Irvine
Foundation; the Metabolic Studio, a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg
Foundation led by artist Lauren Bon; and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by the California
Arts Council, the California Community Foundation, and the San Francisco
Foundation.
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ACTA Announces 2010 Living Cultures Grants Program Grantees
 This month ACTA welcomes 43 grantees to its Living Cultures Grants Program. ACTA's Living Cultures Grants Program funds nonprofit organizations to support exemplary projects in folk and traditional
arts. Forty-three grants, totaling $296,000, represent a diversity of
community-based traditional arts including Native Californian Mono
basketry in Madera and Fresno counties; an annual Dragon Boat Festival
in San Diego; traditional taiko music at festivals in Shasta and
Siskiyou counties; a Cambodian New Year celebration in San Bernardino;
traditional African and African-influenced dance, drumming and song in
San Francisco; and the celebration of Japanese culture in Santa Cruz.
ACTA's funding partners for the Living Cultures Grants Program include the Walter and
Elise Haas Fund; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the Metabolic
Studio, a direct chartable activity of the Annenberg Foundation led by artist
Lauren Bon; and the James Irvine Foundation.
ACTA is supported by the California Arts Council and is its statewide partner
in serving the folk & traditional arts field.
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An Apprenticeship in Uzbek Doira
 Abbos Kosimov has been a participant with dancer and apprentice Tara Catherine Pandeya in ACTA's 2009 Apprenticeship Program in an apprenticeship in Uzbek doira. Their apprenticeship focused on doira rhythms, reinforcing the connection between Uzbek percussion and dance, and allowed Pandeya to develop proficiency in interpreting doira rhythms and understanding Uzbek music composition and improvisation.
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Upcoming Event: ACTA's Traditional Arts Roundtable Series
ACTA launches its Traditional Arts Roundtable Series in 2010 with a session entitled Small Business Development for Traditional Artists on January 26, 2010, presented in partnership with WISE and The San Francisco Foundation.
ACTA's Traditional Arts Roundtable Series strengthens San Francisco Bay Area intercultural traditional arts networks and leadership, and offers opportunities for traditional artists and arts advocates to learn from one another through intimate discussion, technical assistance, networking, and sharing community-based arts and culture.
ACTA's Traditional Arts Roundtable Series is presented with the generous support of The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission.Read more...
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ACTA Amongst New Cohort of Community Leadership Project Grantees
 Last month, The Packard, Irvine and Hewlett Foundations announced $4.25
million in a second and final round of grants for the Community
Leadership Project. This round of grants brings to $10 million the
Packard, Irvine, and Hewlett foundations' total contributions to this
important work, $2 million more than was originally envisioned when
this project to bolster grassroots groups led by or serving low-income
people and communities of color was launched in spring 2009.Read more... |
Application Available for California Arts Council's Creating Public Value Program
 The California Arts Council is pleased to announce the availability of its Creating Public Value Program (CPV) application. Deadline is February 11, 2010.
Through Creating Public Value,
the California Arts Council will partner with small California arts
organizations in rural and underserved communities to support new or
expanded projects to highlight the fact that the arts are of benefit to
all Californians and are worthy of state and federal investment. The
California Arts Council defines public value as making a positive
contribution to the individual and collective lives of all Californians
through the arts.Read more... |
Survey: Free Seminar for Bay Area Musicians and Composers
The East Bay Community Foundation and The San Francisco Foundation are
in the midst of planning a free seminar slated for May for musicians
and composers and they would like to hear from you about how best to
address your needs on that day. Please take 15 minutes to fill out a survey answering some questions and offering your input. Please respond by February 1, 2010.
The goal of the workshop is to provide an event that presents
information about topical issues from new business models to the music
policy that shapes how musicians get paid and reach audiences. In
addition to presenting timely, relevant and informative sessions, there
will be networking opportunities for attendees with speakers and other
attendees. The Future of Music Coalition has been engaged to design and present the day.
The confirmed date of the seminar will be posted after the responses to the survey are received.
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Call for Papers: Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies
The third tri-annual interdisciplinary Southeast Asians in the Diaspora
conference -- Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies - Memories
& Visions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow -- will take place on
March 10-11, 2011, at San Francisco State University. The San
Francisco Bay Area is home to sizable populations of Burmese,
Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Lao, Malaysian, Singaporean,
Thai, and Vietnamese Americans. This conference will foreground the
large Southeast Asian American communities of the Bay Area, Silicon
Valley, and the Pacific Northwest, as well as continue to build
momentum and grow just as the Southeast Asian American demographics
increase in size and visibility here in the U.S. and in particular, on
the West Coast.Read more...
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