Based in Los Angeles, the Garifuna American Heritage Foundation United (GAHFU) is an organization whose use of internet technology is galvanizing the renaissance of its cultural riches.  You can now watch some of GAHFU's language and cultural offerings on their newly launched YouTube channel.  GAHFU's YouTube videos compliment their free weekly language and culture classes.  The lessons are also made available online, making it possible for tens of thousands of worldwide listeners to join the GAHFU's Los Angeles classroom.  A grant from ACTA's Living Cultures Grants Program helps to support GAHFU's language and culture classes.

By Amy Uyeki

After the death of her mother, Shizue Harada, Aiko Uyeki made a pledge to herself that she would put together a collection of her mother’s poetry during her own lifetime.  Shizue Harada died in 1997 and wrote under the pen name, Sanae, a name given to her by her poetry teacher.  Sanae wrote poems in Japanese that were often mistaken for the popular poem form, haiku, but are actually called senryu.  (Haiku’s subject matter is spiritual, seasonal, and often deals with nature and man’s relationship to it.  Senryu, haiku’s lesser-known cousin, draws from everyday experiences and explores the human condition.)

Dance/USA, a national service organization for professional dance, seeks a visionary energetic communicator and manager as Executive Director to lead it in its next decade of development. The Executive Director reports to the Board of Trustees and is charged with setting strategic direction in conjunction with the Trustees and implementing the organization’s vision with complete authority and oversight responsibility for operations. The successful candidate will combine passion, vision, leadership, and communication skills to represent the broad and diverse constituencies that Dance/USA serves and engaging them in building consensus in this transformational time.