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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Upcoming Funding Opportunities
ACTA's Apprenticeship
Program
ACTA's Living
Cultures Grants Program
Deadline:
Jul 30
New Funding
Opportunity for Emerging Arts Leaders in California: Next Gen Arts
Initiative
Deadline:
Jul 31
NEA's Access to
Artistic Excellence
Deadline:
Aug 12
San Franicsco Art
Commission's
Cultural Equity Initiatives: Level 1
Deadline:
Aug 25
Composer Collaboration
Awards
Deadline:
Aug 26
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Upcoming Events
Cheker� Classes with Bobi Cespedes
Maculel� Brazilian Folk Dance Class
Through Aug 13, 2010
San Francisco
Children of Many Colors Powwow
Jul 16 - Jul 18, 2010
Moorpark
Gadung Kasturi Balinese
Dance & Music
Jul 16 - Jul 17, 2010
San Francisco
Khmer Arts Salon Series: Samba de Raiz
Jul 17 - Jul 17, 2010
Long Beach
Noche Cubana
Jul 17 - Jul 17, 2010
San Diego
National Day of the Cowboy and Cowgirl
Jul 24 - Jul 24, 2010
Los Angeles
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Current Exhibits
Three
Hawaiian Textiles at the San Jose Museum of Quilts
& Textiles
Through Aug 8, 2010
San Jose
The
Art of Native American Basketry: A Living Tradition at the Museum of the American West
Through Nov 7, 2010
Los Angeles
Viva M�xico!
Heroes and Artisans at the Mingei Museum
Though Jan 2, 2011
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Cultural Equity Dialogues: Media
Editor's Note: This is the third article
in ACTA's Cultural Equity Dialogues. Based on ACTA's
community forum, Building Cultural Equity Through the Traditional
Arts, held in Los Angeles in February 2010, the Cultural Equity
Dialogues are a series of online, interactive articles exploring topics
relating to cultural equity and folk & traditional arts. You
are invited to join this conversation by clicking the "Read More..." link below to post your own comments and
stories.
 How does media impact cultural equity? What are the issues -- the
portrayal of culturally specific traditions and communities? The
participation of people of color and underrepresented communities at
decision-making levels in broadcasting? Commercial vs. public
ownership?
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REMINDER!: Upcoming Deadlines for ACTA's Programs
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Upcoming Traditional Arts Roundtable Series: Work
Sample Laboratory for Traditional and Tradition-Based Artists
How do you best represent and document your work? To people who may
not be familiar with the complexities of a tradition? In merely a few
minutes?
Join us with other artists, presenters, and funders in conversation
about artist work samples (video, audio, images, etc.) which are often
required to accompany grant applications and proposals.Read more...
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The Dance of the High Spirit: An Apprenticeship in
Stilt Dancing
"The height of success is infinite." - Shaka Zulu
Mukudji, or stilt dance, is a form of West African cultural
expression responsible for maintaining and affirming a community's
values through ritual activities, festivals, and celebrations. Nyon
Kwuyos or Nyomokwuyas (stilt dancers) are extraordinarily skilled
dancers who perform spectacular stunts and movements to live drums. They are the mediums to the spirit world representing spirits that
protect villages. Stilt dancing is also found throughout the Caribbean,
but is known as Moko Jumbi, an unmasked version of Mukudji, and is done
primarily for entertainment. The form requires focus, agility,
dexterity, strength, stamina, power, grace, and most importantly
spiritual connectedness.Read more...
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Festival of Flamenco Arts & Traditions
A conversation regarding the guardianship of flamenco in its purest form
is one that is as dramatic as the art form itself. This past June, the
Bay Area Festival of Flamenco Arts and Traditions
presented legendary Gitano or gypsy flamenco artist Manuela Carrosco, in
concert and teaching workshops to an audience who largely seemed to
understand that what they were seeing in her clarity of form and
expressiveness is as close to the roots of a living tradition as one
mightRead more...
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Benjam�n C. Hern�ndez Retires after 40 Years
By Dr. Susan Cashion, Professor Emerita, Stanford University,
scholar in Mexican Dance
 One of the true treasures of our California Mexican dance community is
Benjam�n Hern�ndez, who has been an advocate and promoter in the
development of the folkl�rico movement in the Los Angeles area since
1968. His teaching ritual and regional folklorico dances focused on
traditional interpretations. This last spring he retired from the
PE/Dance program of East Los Angeles Community College after forty years
of teaching. Part of his legacy is turning a part-time appointment in
Mexican Dance into a full-time, tenured track position. To accomplish
this feat, Mr. Hern�ndez received an MA degree from the UCLA World Arts
and Culture Department in 1999.Read more...
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