Volume 11, No. 3                                                              September 13, 2013
What's New
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ACTA's Roundtable Series Presents Food is Good for You: Foodways from a Cultural Perspective
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Come to the traditional arts table!  We will meet on Sunday, October 13, at Urban Adamah, a farm in the middle of Berkeley whose practices are guided by Jewish agricultural values, and where 90% of the food is given away.  We will tour the farm and think about the centrality of food in our lives from a cultural perspective.  How is food a portal to memory?  How does it figure into storytelling?  How is it used in a sacred way?  How do foodways and indigenous knowledge intersect?  And who is not seated at the proverbial table of nutritious food because of access issues? 
 
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Sharing the Spirit of the Ancestors
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By Karen Mack, Executive Director, LA Commons
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On June 18, 2013, an Emirates plane traveling from Lagos, Nigeria, via Dubai arrived in Los Angeles.  The passenger roster included the seven women of the singing group, Adunni and Nefretiti, who arrived to participate in the third annual Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks in Leimert Park Village.  The women were coming to collaborate with Najite Agindotan, the master drummer and disciple of Fela Kuti, who envisioned performing the Yoruba rite from the villages of West Africa in the cultural center of the African-American community in Los Angeles.

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2013 NEA National Heritage Fellows to Perform in Free Concert
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For one night each year, the National Endowment for the Arts invites the recipients of the nation's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts to share their art forms with the public at the NEA National Heritage Fellowships Concert in Washington D.C. The performance is also streamed live at arts.gov and an archive will be available afterwards. The 2013 concert will be held on Friday, September 27, at 8 p.m. EDT, and will feature art forms as diverse as Irish fiddling, traditional gypsy music, and Native American storytelling, among others. California-based Fellow Ramon "Chunky" Sanchez will be among the honorees.

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Featured Events
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The Alliance for California Traditional Arts is the California Arts Council's official partner in serving the state's folk and traditional arts field.