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The California Arts Council (CAC) and the Fund for Folk Culture have entered into a contractual agreement by which the Fund for Folk Culture administers the recruitment and dissemination of applications, and reviews and recommends the grants of the California Arts Council's Traditional Folk Arts Program. All recommendations are subject to approval by the California Arts Council.
Performance, Presentation and Exhibition
Ainahau o Keleponi Hawaiian Civic Club
Support for program development, planning and presentation of public programs perpetuating Hawaiian cultural arts practices and language through a variety of activities and projects throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego Counties for Native Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders and interested public audiences. These Na Mea (Things of Hawaii) projects included but are not limited to music, a capella choral chant and singing, storytelling and dance performances and several material-visual arts projects including fiber arts such as tapa-making/designing with native plants. They are oriented toward the senior community as well as children and provide special opportunities for persons with visual and physical disabilities.
Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Art and Culture
Support for the presentation of the traditional folk arts component of the 2000 Ninth Annual Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture. The Festival, scheduled for September 9-10, provides the opportunity for area residents to learn about the arts and cultures of the Filipino people. Included in the festival will be demonstrations of saronggola and sipa making and an interactive workshop on rice planting by Hospicio Dulnanan. Folk music and dance of different regions of the Philippines as well as several traditional oral art forms will also be featured.
Barangay Dance Company
Support for musicians, singer and narrator for the revival of the Barangay Dance Company's annual fall concert, a two-hour cultural showcase of Philippine folk dances and music. The concert will include Mana…Legacy, a tribute to Francisca Reyes Aquino, the legendary mother of Philippine folk dancing, and her dance style which Barangay aims to reconstruct and present to contemporary audiences. The performance will be held September 16 at the McKenna Theater at San Francisco State University. Mana also will develop the troupe's current artistic programming, enriching the company's repertoire with newly researched and choreographed Philippine folk dances.
California Indian Storytelling Association
Support for The Sixth Annual California Indian Storytelling Symposium and Festival of California in fall 2000, This project will bring together Native storytellers/oral historians, performing artists and tradition bearers from a diversity of tribes in California. The result will be a broadening of awareness of American Indian cultures and of the rich variety and critical knowledge and ancient artistry held within Indian oral traditions, for people of all cultures and ages.
Celebrating Culture and Community
Support for production of The Languages of Sound and Movement, three parts of a longer series on the music and dance traditions of the ethnic communities found in the Bay Area and West Contra Costa County. CC&C will create three episodes in the series which record dance and music traditions, with performers explaining what they are doing and why. The episodes will be aired on CCTV, which has over 20,000 subscribers.
Cell Space
Support for the construction of the thirteen ritual standards that will lead the Dia de los Muertos Ritual Procession in San Francisco on November 2, 2000. An estimated 20,000 participants attend the procession every year. Mater folk artists will hold teacher and student workshops to introduce traditional paper cutting and crafting technique in preparation for the Day of the Dead celebration and construaction of the children's altar in Garfield Park as part of the ritual preparation
Chaksam-Pa Tibetan Dance and Opera Company
Support for Chaksam-Pa's second annual Tibetan Arts Festival, which will take place at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center in September 2000. The Festival will include Saturday afternoon master classes in traditional Tibetan dance and music. A Saturday evening performance at 450-seat Cowell Theater will feature Chaksam-Pa's five-member ensemble performing several traditional Tibetan opera and dance pieces. A folklorist will open and close the performance with a brief cultural introduction and a closing statement regarding Tibetan cultural survival. Educational materials developed prior to the festival will be available in the community before the event.
Ensembles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco
Suppport for Solatria Mexicana: Rescate de lo no visto (Solatria Mexicana: Rescue of the Unseen), a series of four traditional dance performances over three days at the ODC Theater in San Francisco. Preceding the featured regional dances of Chiapas, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Puebla will be an audio-visual presentation of images and musical pieces, instrumental and vocal to educate the audience on each of the regional cultures from which the dances derive.
Fresno Arts Council
Support for production expenses for the exhibition, "Entren, Santos Peregrinos…": Devotional Arts and Celebrations. This photographic exhibition documents contemporary Mexican American devotional arts and celebrations surrounding the birth of Christ in the Los Angeles area and San Joaquin Valley. Images begin with sacred community expressions on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Dec. 12), and continue through el Dia de la Candelaria (Feb. 2). Forty color photographs depict altars, nacimientos (nativity scenes) and diverse religious and social traditions during the holidays, such as matachin dance, mariachi music and processions.
Grand Performances
Support for the presentation of an East Indian music and dance festival. Grand Performances has presented numerous Indian musicians in the past and will be collaborating with The Music Circle's president, Harihar Rao, to bring the classical music and dance of India to Los Angeles on Indian Independence Day, August 15. Along with the musical performances, there will be demonstrations of Indian puppeteering and sari wrapping. Musicians and dancers will include Rama Bharadwaj, Anjani Ambegaokar, Nandita Behra and Rajiv Tranth and Mala Gangully.
Maria Hetherton
Support for development of curriculum bringing local traditional musicians into East Bay schools and establishing a relationship between the schools and the traditional music archival and recording resources of the El Cerrito-based Arhoolie Foundation. Each school will host performers from two local traditions: Cajun Zydeco and Mexican American Corrido. Zydeco artists will be Danny Pullard's ensemble and corrido artists will be Los Cenzontles. The project will also include guest speakers and teachers of these traditional musical forms and incorporation of Arhoolie's extensive archives into the curriculum. The project will cover one school year and serve two area schools.
Native American History Project, Inc.
Support for a cultural program focusing upon traditional arts and the dynamism of contemporary culture change among the Pomo Indian people for a general public audience in Mendocino County. The event, entitled, "Cha'Ya Traditions alive in the New Millennium" will increase awareness of Pomo folk traditions in the 20th century. The half-day event will be held at Mendocino College in Ukiah on Saturday, October 14, 200 and will be composed of a program with singers, dancers and speakers, a reception with traditional foods and an exhibition of 19th and 20th century photographs of Pomo people, traditional artifacts and contemporary interpretations of traditional and ritual objects by Native artists.
Oriki Theater
Support for an Africa music and dance festival, BUWA, a three-ay celebration of the people,dance, drama, poetry, music, folk stories and chants of Africa. The festival will begin October 4, 200, with daily school presentations for k-12 students and teachers. It will culminate in an evening performance by locally and internationally known African performance troupes at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. CAC funding will support technical fees and production expenses.
Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble
Support for two concerts of traditional Philippine kulintang music and dance at Balboa High School in San Francisco and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. The concert project will include kulintang classes at the high school in the fall semester, 2000 and performances by the trained ensemble at the high school in October and at OACC in March.
Slavonic Cultural Center
Support for a February 2001 concert that will present four traditional ensembles demonstrating Croatian, Greek and Italian mandolin music styles that have been preserved in the San Francisco Bay Area. The concert will feature musical forms that have been preserved in California by community orchestras and ensembles including the Slavonian Traveling Band, the Silver Strings Orchestra, the Aurora Ensemble and a Greek mandolin ensemble from the Greek Orthodox Church in Belmont. CAC funds will support the participating ensembles' fees, a folklorist, a videographer and the printed program.
Trinity County Arts Council
Support to bring National Heritage Fellow Mick Moloney, an internationally known Irish American traditional musician, to Trinity County for a one-day series of performances in the county's schools and to participate in a major traditional music event at the daylong "Trinity Salmon Festival" to be held at Lee Fong Park in Weaverville in the fall of 2000. Funds will support expenses for Moloney and his accompanists for the two days of events.
Instruction, Workshops and Demonstrations
City of San Fernando
Support for the San Fernando Mariachi Master-Apprentice program. Funding will retain Sergio Alonso and Juan Raymundo Halcon as instructors. The program brings together world-class mariachi masters with talented youth who are ready to advance their skills in this musical form. It will provide instruction for advanced instrument, arrangement and performance skills for approximately 40 students between the ages of 11 and 19. Youth will be selected based on previous experience and skill level. The classes will meet for twelve weeks in the fall and twelve weeks in the spring, with two workshops to follow.
Cultural Committee/Quechan Tribal Museum
Support for The Quechan: Reweaving Our Past, a project to re-introduce basket weaving on the Quechan Reservation. The project will involve community elders who have some memory of the tradition, as well as basket weavers from sister tribes still actively engaged in making baskets. The program will include the use of traditional indigenous desert plants. Classes will run year-round with intensive courses in Fall and Spring, and will be held at the museum.
Dehcontee Liberian Dance Company
Support for the Summer Dance Program, instituted in 1996. The program consists of classes in ethnic Liberian dances and includes cultural contexts for the lessons. Participants will receive free group lessons to introduce them to a variety of dance styles and techniques. The programs serve children ages 5 through 18. It will run from July 1 to August 31 at the Mosswood Recreational Center and will culminate in a free one-hour dance performance open to the public. The program is expected to serve 200 youth.
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Support for purchase of two sets of African drums and finger pianos for use in educational outreach programs, in particular, the Living the Mission project. The latter is a series of classes and workshops for children and youth at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, including African drumming classes with master Congolese drummer, Malonga Casquelourd.
Institute of Native Knowledge
Support for The Songs of the Earth, a self-directed program committed to applying Native knowledge and tradition in the initiation of a group of Native men, women and youth into the traditional role of pakuriihvaan (singer). Initiates will learn the mythic history, folklore, customs and beliefs governing "singing" as practiced by the Hupa, Karuk, Wiyot andYrok tribal groups. A series of gatherings with mastersinger Julian Lang will be convened to discuss culture, teach native languages pertinent to singing and learn singing techniques and songs.
Inyo Council for the Arts
Support for a project to plan activities along known portions of the Northern Paiute and Shoshone trails in the Easter Sierra Nevada. Through the Toiyabe Indian Health Project, the Inyo Council for the Arts has sought out the elders, teachers and tradition bearers who will, through the project, pass on knowledge and traditions initiated along these paths, including cradleboard making, pine needle basketry, willow basketry, traditional dress making, collar beading and winnowing basketry. The project's workshops are designed to be in-group experiences, providing the opportunity and materials for practitioners to share skills and knowledge with other tribal members, particularly tribal youth.
Kiyaruna
Support for the development of an Andean folkloric dance troop to perform, exhibit and teach the native ritual dances of the Anden region of South America. Efforts will focus on the largest Andean Carnaval in the United States, to be held in San Fernando Valley in February, 2001. Funds from CAC would be used to acquire eight full-dress ceremonial costumes of the Bolivian Pujllay dance and for fees to instructors and dancers.
Koncepts Cultural Gallery
Support for the presentation of the African Percussion Experience in Oakland schools as part of the BEAT IS… curriculum for 2000-2001. The African Percussion Experience involves three specific African folk art components: Carnaval arts, West African percussion and Central African percussion. The project will directly benefit 500 students in 10 schools; a community audience of approximately 5,000 will be indirect beneficiaries.
Yves Marton
Support for the Capoeira Angola Workshop with Grandmaster Joao Grande. Grande would come to Los Angeles with an assistant teacher in September, 2000, for a Capoeira Angola workshop. The two-day workshop will include the practice of Capoeira Angola movements, musical instruments, songs, a question and answer session and a roda (capoeira demonstration) at the conclusion of each day's sessions.
Naa Vura Yee Shiip Program, Karuk Tribe of California
Support for Karuk female youth to prepare for the Karuk Ihuk Ceremony, also known as the Flower Dance. Program staff, consultants and volunteers will assist and teach the program participants traditional dress making, harvesting materials, Karuk spiritual stories conveying traditional morals and values in preparation for the Ihuk Ceremony. The preparation will take place throughout the year leading up to next spring's ceremony.
Dennis Newsome
Support for a Master/Aprentice collaboration with Dennis Newsome, master in the American-Caribbean art of Calinda (stick fight/dance). The apprenticeship will involve learning the music, dance, fighting techniques, song and oral history connected with Calinda. The twelve-month program seeks to preserve the vanishing Calinda (Kalenda) aft form. Four styles once existed in the Untied States, but only the long staf style taught by Newsome remains. Two two-hour sessions with three apprentices will be held on a weekly basis.
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Support for the Traditional Chinese Dragon Dance Training Program at the OACC. The program includes an ongoing Dragon Dance class taught by local martial artists and Dragon Dance instructor Corey Chan, public performances, including annual Lunar New Year celebrations in Oakland and San Francisco, as well as conservation, up keep and transportation of the Dragon itself, which was made by craftspeople from Canton province in southern China and commissioned by David Lei in 1999. Student participants in the program will include Asian high school youth. Twelve students are currently involved, with plans underway to expand this group in order to rotate performers during performance and develop a substantial corps of trained dancers.
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
Support for the Gospel Music Workshop and Musical, to take place in March, 2001. The event is a vital project in Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir's community outreach program. Music Director Terrence Kelly and other respected local gospel ad cultural artists will conduct classes in voice, rhythm, choir directing, gospel soloing and praise singing. Additionally, there will be mass choir practice sessions in the afternoons. The evening musical will feature a workshop choir singing songs learned in the after noon workshops. The program will also include a variety of guest choirs. Scholarships will be available to students unable to afford the $25 tuition. The evening concerts are open to the public free of charge.
Ohlone Dance Group
Support for the development of a performance of reconstructed Ohlone dances based on research by Linda Yamane and other members of the Ohlone Dance Group. Central to the development of this performance will be the reconstruction of authentic dance regalia. Grant funds will be used to purchase raw materials. Norm Kidder will teach construction of the regalia items. In addition, the project will be videographed by Ohlone documentarian Marie Wainscoat. The project will also involve teaching the dances to other Ohlone tribal members.
Plaza de la Raza
Support for Plaza de la Raza's ongoing Student Mariachi Program. Bi-weekly mariachi workshops are offered to local children, youth and adults as part of the School of Performing and Visual Arts Program. The project will also include a two-day series of specialized workshops in performance technique as well as special lecture demonstrations held throughout Plaza's facilities in the fall of 2000. Fermin Herrera, Juan Jose Almaguer, Regino Almaguer, Arturo Salgado, Eric Jimenez, Francisco Garibai, and Arturo Guerst will conduct the workshops.
Redwood Valley Little River Band of Pomo Indians
Support for the second series of Pomo cradle basket making workshops. These workshops will focus on making full-sized cradle baskets. the project has as its major goals, the advancement of basketweaving skills among young Pomo artists, documentation of instructional sessions, training of cultural demonstrators and continuation of plans for the Pomo Basketweaving Center.
The Seventh Generation Fund
Support for master canoe-builder George Blake for his participation in the Canoe Project. A community-based project that encompasses partnerships of Seventh Generation Fund, Northern California indigenous elders, local California Native leaders, non-Native representatives and Native youth, the Canoe Project will provide opportunities to ensure that this important skill is preserved. Eight redwood dugout canoes, used traditionally by Yurok, Karuk and Hupa peoples, will be built collaboratively over a period of months by elders and young tribal members under George Blake's supervision in a hands-on educational process. ten young tribal members will be trained in traditional protocol relating to the preparation, construction and maintenance of the traditional canoes.
Fieldwork, Research, Recording and Preservation
Arte Americas
Support for the documentation and preservation of the music of Los Morenos, a popular husband and wife traditional music dueto in California during the 1950s and 1960s. Los Morrenos (Luis and Carmen Moreno) performed traditional Mexican ranchera style music for over 22 years, and their repertoire included many original compositions recorded by leading Mexican musicians of the day. The project will be undertaken the Morenos' daughter, Carmencristina, a musician and composer in her own right. The project includes research and the creation of four master tapes at recording studios in Los Angeles, where the dueto recorded. Carmencristina will produce a CD of her parents' music, including her own renditions of some of the songs.
Chhandham School of Kathak Dance &
Chitresh Das Dance Company
Suppport for recording and preserving the Kathak solo dance as performed by internationally known Kathak dancer Chitresh Das accompanied on tabla by master Swapan Chaudhuri. The recording will take place during three performances in Berkeley (November 3 &4) and San Rafael (November 11). Goals of the video recording include producing archival footage specifically for the purpose of preservation and education, using full stage, dancer/musician interaction and close-up shots.
Roberto Borrell
Support for an instructional video project documenting the history of traditional Cuban popular dance and demonstrating its techniques. The video features Cuban dancer, choreographer and musician Roberto Borrell, and will document five traditional Cuban dance genres. It will educate the public regarding the history of Cuban dance and provide a context for understanding popular Latin American dance and music today.
Infrastructure, Conferences and Gatherings
California Indian Basketweaving Association
Support to plan and produce the 2001 California Indian Basketweavers Gathering to be held in June at the Tuolumne Rancheria in Tuolumne County. The 2001 gathering in central California will be modeled after nine previous such events held in California from 1991 - 1998 and in Reno, Nevada in 2000. The gathering will include an Opening Circle for blessing the event, unstructured time for weavers to meet and share techniques, a Learner's Circle for newer weavers, panel discussions on issues such as access to gathering sites and developing funding support for basketweaving projects and progress reports on the work of CIBA. Additionally, there will be an exhibition of the work of living California basketweavers, demonstrations, social dancing, videos on Native American issues and an area for basket sales.
United Cambodian Community Arts of Apsara
Support for the continued training efforts in classical Cambodian dance music for a pin peat ensemble that was assembled by project director Sophiline Shapiro in 1999. The goal of the project is to provide live musical accompaniment for the UCC Arts of Apsara dance group. Associated with this training will be a program of free traditional dance, music and theater workshops, poetry recitals and the promotion of the resident professional dance ensemble.
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