Son jarocho workshop with local music collective MILPA Musica: Photo: Courtesy of the Garcia Center.

The Garcia Center for the Arts/San Bernardino Valley Concert Association

Inland Empire San Bernardino County Latino/a/x Foodways Music Visual/Craft/Material Arts Afro-Latino Oaxacan
The Garcia Center for the Arts offers a diverse number of classes which are designed to be affordable, making the joy of creating and experimenting in a supportive community environment accessible. Our classes include ceramics, printmaking, figure drawing, painting, textiles, music, gardening and soon, glassblowing! Many free concerts and performances are held at the Garcia Center auditorium on a regular basis, currently offering weekly music and dance classes in capoeira Angola and son jarocho, introducing and reconnecting people with Afro-Indigenous roots.

Living Cultures Grant

2023

Afro-Latino Celebration

Funding will support an Afro-Latino Celebration at The Garcia Center For the Arts in San Bernardino, California working with local San Bernardino artists of Oaxacan descent: Cesar Omar Garcia, Alexa Vazquez, and Pavel Acevedo.

 

Jorge Osvaldo Heredia, (909) 888-6400, [email protected], www.sbvca.org

Ceramics Class at the Garcia Center Studio. Photo: Courtesy of the Garcia Center

Jazz concert performance at the Garcia Center. Photo: Jorge Osvaldo Heredia

Traditional dance ceremony wearing Oaxacan inspired costume. Photo: Michael Segura

Community Gallery organized by The Garcia Center for the Arts at The Cheech Marin Museum of Chicano Art. Photo: Courtesy of The Cheech Marin Museum of Chicano Art

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