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Claudia Pacheco
Danza Azteca/Mexica
California Traditional Artist Plaza
Makeda Kumasi
Culture Bearer, Spoken Word Artist, West African Dance and Music, Kora Player
Mexican arts and culture
Moving the Traditional Arts Online
West African dance and music
Indian classical music
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Crispulo Atillo
Crispulo Atillo is a Grandmaster of eskrima, a non-aggressive, weapons-based martial art rooted in Filipino history and culture. Great Grandmaster Atillo began studying eskrima as a teenager with his father and with Great Grandmaster Teodoro Saavedra. He was a master artist in ACTA’s Apprenticeship Program in 2006 with apprentice, Red Dagum. *** From…
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Tejidos Purépecha
The origins of Tejidos Purépecha project began in the Eastern Coachella Valley as a collaboration with the residents, ACTA, and Building Healthy Communities (a project of the California Endowment). In an effort to promote health and well-being, an on the ground approach employed by ACTA asked the indigenous Purépecha, whose…
