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? 

Our current government shutdown -- which has closed the doors of federally-funded museums, parks, zoos, and delayed the distribution of National Endowment for the Arts grants that enrich our communities --  is only a snapshot of what a proposed 49% budget cut to the NEA could mean for our communities.  The Alliance for California Traditional Arts and Americans for the Arts invite you to sign a petition telling Congress you oppose the drastic cut to the NEA.  Please sign the petition by October 31, 2013, and help us protect the arts in America.