Join us for a webinar to learn more about ACTA and its funding for folk and traditional artists through the Apprenticeship Program and Living Cultures Grants Program. Application deadline for both programs is July 15, 2015. WHEN:May 28 – English …
Sustain Arts Bay Area is an easy-to-use online tool tailored to meet the needs of arts administrators, arts funders, cultural policy makers, and individual artists in the Bay Area. At bayarea.sustainarts.org, users can find data on local cultural organizations, track funding connections between funders and grantees, view audience participation and…
Join us in kicking off this season of our Traditional Arts Roundtable Series (TARS) in Los Angeles! Meet with traditional and community-based artists and supporters to share practices of ritual and improvisation that help us heal, connect, and build relationships across cultures. Beginning in 2008, ACTA’s Traditional…
How do artists find balance between growing and sustaining the work within their communities of practice with the desire to share and “teach” a wider public? Join us for a dynamic conversation on cultural sustainability with Los Angeles-based artists and cultural leaders, including Lucumí priest and folklorist Ysamur…
The 50th anniversary celebration of Ohlone Park, to be held Saturday, June 1st, will salute citizen activists who founded the park in 1969 and honor the Native California Indians whose heritage, dating back thousands of years in the Bay Area, gave this treasured open space in Berkeley its name.
Queering the Bolero with Musician Mary Alfaro Velasco
A conversation on Drag and Community with the Imperial Court of Los Angeles and Hollywood
We grieve the loss of eight people, including six women of Asian descent, who were murdered in Atlanta on March 16. To the families and communities of Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez, Paul Andre Michels, Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, and…
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) will join the Southwest Folklife Alliance and the First Peoples Fund to strengthen the folk & traditional arts field through a new National Folklife Network. The Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA), a nonprofit organization affiliated with the University of…
