Event Calendar

Listed here are festivals, demonstrations, presentations, and other events featuring folk & traditional art and artists. Individual artists featured below are participants in ACTA's California Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.

October

Third Annual Autry Museum Western Music, Cowboy Poetry Gathering, and Old West Fest

October 25, 2003 , 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 midnight
Wells Fargo Theatre and South Lawn

In the Wells Fargo Theatre enjoy music and poetry with the Third Annual Western Music and Cowboy Poetry Gathering featuring over 30 acts from across the nation. Johnny Western, R.W. Hampton, New West, Les Buffham, Deanna McCall, Andy Hedges, Trudy Fair, The Texas Trailhands, Dave Stamey and others will perform.

Admission for each show in the Wells Fargo Theatre is $10.00 for members, $15.00 for nonmembers. Full Festival Passes are $45.00 for members, $65.00 for non-members. The day will conclude with a dance featuring the music of the Lucky Stars. Tickets for the dance are $5.00 for museum members; nonmembers are $10.00.

For information: http://www.autry-museum.org .

November

Southern California Indian Basketweavers Gathering

Fall 2003—Nex´wetem
November 7—9, 2003
Ribbonwood Campground

Save the date for the Fall 2003 Southern California Indian Basketweavers Gathering, which will include basketweaving workshops, demonstrations and camping. Extended event details will be made available soon.

For more information: (909) 276-6719 or email: nextwetem@aol.com

Los Angeles World Storytelling Festival

November 15, 2003
9:00 a.m. — 9:30 p.m.
USC's Davidson Conference Center

The Second Los Angeles World Storytelling Festival will create a global village where 25 diverse California storytellers will share their tales and their traditions.

The wide range of performances will include Celtic folktales, Chumash creation myths, Japanese legends with Taiko drumming, classical East Indian story-dance, and more.

For more information: www.lastoryfestival.com or (310) 677-8099

County & Regional Calendars

For weekly public programs and a calendar of ethnic events in Northern California, see the Traditional Arts Program at the California Academy of Science, Golden Gate Park, in San Francisco.

A calendar of Festivals and Celebrations in San Diego is available from the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.

Let us know if you have special information that should be posted here.

To update information or submit an event for the calendar,
please email ACTA.

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