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.
September 2003
Ethnic Events in Northern California Calendar
The Traditional Arts Program of the California Academy of Sciences maintains a monthly calendar of ethnic events in Northern California. View September’s Calendar to find events and festivals listed by ethnicity ranging from African American Blues Festivals to Chinese Moon Festivals to Mexican Independence Day celebrations.
Art of Rice Traveling Theater
Saturday, September 27 at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, September 28 at 2:00 p.m.
The George and Sakaye Aratani/Japan America Theatre
The Art of Rice Traveling Theater is a rare performance created by world renowned musicians, dancers, actors and shadow puppeteers from Asia and the USA. Join them on a dramatic journey of many different lives, memories and legends that explore the value of "RICE".
A project of the UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance & Presented by the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center.
For more information, visit their website or for tickets, call 213.680.3700
October
2003 NEA National Heritage Fellow Manoochehr Sadeghi Concert
October 4, 2003 , 7:30 p.m.
Japan America Theater
244 S. San Pedro Street in Little Tokyo , Downtown Los Angeles
The concert will be Mr. Sadeghi's first full-length concert given in Los Angeles since winning the National Heritage Fellowship. The concert will feature performances of Persian classical music, Persian sufic music, and new pieces, including performances with master sitar player Imrat Khan and tabla player Shafaatullah Khan.
Tickets: $25 - $55
For information: (213) 212-4100 or email info@santur.com
Japan America Theater box office: (213) 680-3700.
Danza Floricanto USA and Kayamanan Ng Lahi dance companies present: From Acapulco to Manila: An Untold Pacific Rim Story
Saturday, October 4, 2003 , 8:00 p.m.
The Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex
Cal State L.A. , 5151 State University Drive , Los Angeles , CA 90032
Two of L.A. 's premier world-dance companies, known for their spirited expression of folk traditions and breathtaking costuming, discover mutual cultural connections in a program entitled "From Acapulco to Manila : An Untold Pacific Rim Story." For nearly three centuries of Spanish trade, the cultures of Mexico and the Philippines intermingled. Danza Floricanto/USA, Los Angeles' oldest professional Mexican folkloric troupe, and Kayamanan Ng Lahi, the area's most critically acclaimed Filipino dance company, explore this cultural crossover with the joyful expression of dances and music that are distinct as well as similar between their cultures. " Acapulco to Manila " weaves works from the repertory of both companies with live accompaniment by Rondalla Club of Los Angeles and Quetzal, the much acclaimed Chicano band.
Tickets: $20-$30
Box office: (323) 343-6600 or Ticketmaster: (213) 365-3500
For more information: http://www.luckmanfineartscomplex.org
Musical Traditions of Tibet Featuring Tsering Wangmo
Saturday, October 18, 2003 , at 1:00 p.m.
California Academy of Sciences
55 Concourse Drive Golden Gate Park
San Francisco , CA 94118-4599
Musician and dancer Tsering Wangmo leads a group of Tibetan performing artists in a sampling of traditional arts from Tibet . Her sister and apprentice, Tsering “Chucki” Dickyi will be among the performers. Selections may include a scene from Tibetan opera, drinking songs, a foot-stamping dance, as well as repertoire for the lute, fiddle, hammered dulcimer, and other Tibetan folk instruments. More information
Classical Indian & Folk Music
Featuring Pandit Radha Prasad
Presented by Shree Ramkabir Mandir and Radha Prasad School of Music
Saturday, October 18, 2003 at 7:30 p.m.
Shree Ramkabir Mandir
530 E. 231 Street, Carson , CA 90745
The concert will also feature Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri on the Tabla and
Veena Pani Rastogi on vocals.
For further information, please contact:
Veena Pani Rastogi 310-316-7599
Vallabhbhai G. Bhakta 310-635-4041
Bharatbhai K. Bhakta 310-924-0029
Donation: $10 per person
The 9th Annual California Indian Storytelling Festival
Bridging the Pacific with Native Voices
Presented by
The California Indian Storytelling Association
October 18-19, 2003
San Leandro Library Theater
300 Estudillo Ave., San Leandro, CA
(San Francisco Bay Area)
This event is a special celebration and cultural exchange between Native California Indian and Hawaiian storytellers at the 9th California Indian Storytelling Festival: Bridging the Pacific with Native Voices . On both days Native storytellers from California and Hawaii will present storytelling performances, panel discussions, and other presentations on indigenous oral traditions, folklore and storytelling. Saturday evening will feature California Indian and Hawaiian music in the "Story As Song" performance.
The festival will be held in the San Leandro Library Theater Center . The workshops are recommended for adults and teens, ages 15 and up. The storytelling and music performances are recommended for adults and children ages 8 and up.
Suggested donations for admission: Day programs (each day) adults $10.00, Elders/students/children 8-17 $6.00; Evening “Story as Song” program, $10.00.
Program times: Saturday, October 18th , 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
(Story As Song), Sunday, October 19th , 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
For information call: ( 510) 651-6414 or (510) 794-7253
e mail : cistory@cistory.org
www.cistory.org/festival
For information email or call (510) 651-6414 or (510) 794-7253
2003 NEA National Heritage Fellow Carmencristina Moreno Concert Featuring guest artist: Lalo Guerrero
October 19, 2003 , 3:00 p.m.
Tower Theater, Fresno , CA
Carmencristina Moreno is a traditional Mexican musician in the ranchera and corrido traditions and a composer of songs in various genres. Her NEA National Heritage Fellowship, is for the special Bess Lomax Hawes Award as “having a major beneficial effect on the traditional arts of the United States .” The concert in Fresno will also feature Lalo Guerrero, a legend in Mexican musical history and former recipient of the National Heritage award, along with local dancers and musicians.
Tickets: $10-$25
For more information and tickets: (559) 485-9050
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 .
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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