In This Issue:
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
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
CA$H Grants: Theater
Deadline: Sep 7
New Stages for Dance
Deadline:
Sep 15
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture's Fund for the Arts
Deadline:
Sep 24
CA$H Grants: Dance
Deadline: Sep 27
Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange
Deadline:
Oct 1
California Documentary Project
Deadline:
Nov 1
Call for Applicants: World Festival of Sacred Music 2011
Deadline:
Jan 10
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Upcoming Events
Maculelê Brazilian Folk Dance Class
Through Aug 13, 2010
San Francisco
North American Guqin Association Guqin Workshops
Through Aug 15, 2010
Union City
Guatemala in My Heart
Aug 8, 2010
Berkeley
Jazz at the Bowl
Aug 11, 2010
Hollywood
Shasta Taiko at the Fairs
Aug 13, 2010
Yreka
List your event or exhibit
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Current Exhibits
Sacramento
The
Art of Native American Basketry: A Living Tradition at the Museum of the American West
Through Nov 7, 2010
Los Angeles
Viva México!
Heroes and Artisans at the Mingei Museum
Though Jan 2, 2011
San Diego
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Cultural Equity Dialogues: Sustainability
Editor's Note: This is the fourth 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 do you as individuals sustain the work you
do to perpetuate cultural equity -- advocacy, activism, and policy
change? What are strategies for institutionalizing cultural equity policies?
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Promise Fulfilled
By Amy Uyeki
Chapter Seven: In Despair by Amy Uyeki | After the death of her mother, Shizue Harada, Aiko Uyeki made a
pledge to herself that she would put together a collection of her
mother's poetry during her own lifetime. Shizue Harada died in 1997 and
wrote under the pen name Sanae, a name given to her by her poetry
teacher. Sanae wrote poems in Japanese that were often mistaken for the
popular poem form, haiku, but are actually called senryu.
Supported in part by a grant from ACTA's Living Cultures Grants Program, Aiko Uyeki fulfilled her promise this year with the publication of Sanae, Senryu Poet Her Life in 5-7-5. Complementing the poems in this collection is the artwork of Amy Uyeki, Sanae's
granddaughter.Read more...
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Fiddle
Tunes Names Suzy Thompson Next Artistic Director
The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes has named California's
Suzy Thompson as its new Artistic Director.
Suzy will begin her duties at Fiddle Tunes this fall, working with
program manager Peter McCracken to select artists and curate the Fiddle Tunes
festival experience, now in its 34th year.
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Dance/USA Seeks Executive Director
Dance/USA, a
national service organization for professional dance, seeks a visionary
energetic communicator and manager as Executive Director to lead it in
its next decade of development. The Executive Director reports to the
Board of Trustees and is charged with setting strategic direction in
conjunction with the Trustees and implementing the organization's vision
with complete authority and oversight responsibility for operations.
The successful candidate will combine passion, vision, leadership, and
communication skills to represent the broad and diverse constituencies
that Dance/USA serves and engaging them in building consensus in this
transformational time.Read more...
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