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By Lily Kharrazi, Living Culture Grants Program Manager, Photos by Kutay Kugay
Floating calligraphy, precise and lilting, sits on a backdrop of color. It has been created with careful exactitude to express concepts as ephemeral as love. Divine love.
A scroll of words from... |
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This month ACTA announces the availability of new guidelines for its core programs. |
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Join ACTA staff for a free informational meeting or a webinar to learn more about our funding for folk & traditional artists and organizations.
Meetings will be held in:... |
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By Josie S. Talamantez
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The California Arts Council is in the process of creating a new Strategic Plan. To do so, they need your input! |
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By David Roche
Editor's Note: This month, ACTA acknowledges the recent passing of two musical giants of Indian classic music who died within a month of one another. Ravi Shankar and Harihar Rao were... |
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As the past five years have proven to be difficult for funding in the arts, especially in folk and traditional arts, ACTA has had to reevaluate our own ways of thinking about funding sources. ... |
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By Russell Rodríguez, Apprenticeship Program Manager
In the Northern Philippines on the island of Luzon in the Cordillera administrative sector is a region referred to as Kalinga, where the cultural group with the same name, Kalinga, reside. The... |
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By Russell Rodríguez
In 1997, I saw the band Quetzal for the first time at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. I was playing in a band that opened for this group. My impression of the members of Quetzal when I met them... |
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Text and photos by Lily Kharrazi, Living Cultures Grants Program
"You have the middle section of the fish, where’s your head? Where’s your tail? Where is your past? Where’s your future?" |
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Text and photos by Russell Rodríguez, Apprenticeship Program Manager
Language continues to be one of the most wonderful indicators of culture at the same time that it solidifies certain barriers between groups and peoples. ACTA has recognized this conundrum... |
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The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) is pleased to announce that it is awarding $367,000 in grants to California nonprofit organizations to support exemplary projects in folk and... |
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Since 1999, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts’ (ACTA’s) Apprenticeship Program has supported California’s cultural traditions with 240 contracts to outstanding folk and traditional artists... |
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Dear Friends of ACTA:
Si se pudo! ~ Yes we did it! Thanks to the more than eighty friends who contributed to our Apprenticeship Program Campaign we surpassed our $6,000 goal and raised $6,220! The... |
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by Julie Dick Tex, Mandy Marine, and Carly Tex
We at ACTA are saddened by the passing of traditional basket weaver Avis Punkin who was a two-time master artist in ACTA’s Apprenticeship Program, first in 2003 with grand daughter-apprentice artist... |
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Three weeks ago we informed you that ACTA has been forced to reduce the number of awards for the Apprenticeship Program from 24 in 2009 to 17 in 2012 and possibly as few as 15 in 2013. We... |
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By Quetzal Flores, Program Manager
In continuing our collaborative work with The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities, ACTA facilitated another community cultural asset mapping effort in the Eastern Coachella... |
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Last month, the City of San Fernando's Master Apprentice Mariachi Program received the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award, awarded at the White House by First Lady Michelle Obama.... |
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This month, United States Artists announced Mexican folk musician Eugene Rodriguez as one of its 2012 Fellows. United States Artists, a national grantmaking and advocacy organization, honors 50... |
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Friends of ACTA’s Apprenticeship Program:
As you know, our economy puts increased stress on our ability to support traditional art forms, often the last to be considered in private and public arts... |
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By Russell Rodríguez, Apprenticeship Program Manager
The Alliance for CA Traditional Arts (ACTA) is part of a professional organization known as Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA), which annually convenes to discuss issues of philanthropy and service to the... |
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By Lily Kharrazi, Living Cultures Grants Program Manager
"Without knowing the past, the present cannot be as deep and rich an experience. For the Cambodian community that is awakening from the trauma of a culture that was almost destroyed, the Living... |
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By Kirin Macapugay, Kalingas North America Network and BIBAK San Diego
The Philippines is a collection of 7,000+ islands comprised of multiracial people speaking 171 various languages. Igorots, meaning "people of the mountain," are one of the recognized indigenous... |
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By Cesar Castro
Editor's Note: This year, Fandango sin Fronteras received a grant from ACTA's Living Culture Grants Program to work with master Son Jarocho musician and luthier Cesar Castro to document the... |
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Propositions 30 and 38 provide urgently needed funding for California's schools. Without the funding they provide, the results for education as a whole and arts education will be dire.
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