Cultural Equity Dialogues: Sustainability
Editor’s Note: Sustainability 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 posting your own comments and stories below.
Jerry Yoshitomi, Meaning Matters LLC
How do you as individuals sustain the work you do to perpetuating cultural equity – advocacy, activism, and policy change? What are strategies for institutionalizing cultural equity policies?
Promise Fulfilled
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. (Haiku’s subject matter is spiritual, seasonal, and often deals with nature and man’s relationship to it. Senryu, haiku’s lesser-known cousin, draws from everyday experiences and explores the human condition.)
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.
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.
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 posting your own comments and stories below.
Jerry Yoshitomi, Meaning Matters LLC
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?
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 on July 17, 2010, 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.
