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February 8, 2021
Announcing the 2021 ACTA Apprenticeship Cohort
For the 21st year of the program, 21 new pairs were awarded
January 15, 2021
Faye Carol
Faye Carol was born in Meridian, Mississippi. Blues has been the soundtrack to her childhood, becoming intimately connected with the music as a young girl in the train stations of 1950s segregated Mississippi and through her mother and uncles’ Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland and B.B. King records. She began to study…
In light of this year’s movements responding to over-policing and the global conversation on how we can dismantle white supremacy in all our institutions, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts calls on our supporters and constituents to support campaigns that reallocate funding to basic human needs…
December 4, 2020
Healing Through Storytelling
With Uzo Nwankpa and Rhodessa Jones
December 1, 2020
Resilience in Motion
Moving the Traditional Arts Online
October 26, 2020
ACTA Welcomes Intern Nestor Guerrero!
We are excited to welcome Nestor Guerrero to the ACTA team as the Sounds of California Archives and Media Intern based in Los Angeles! Nestor will be working with our LA team on our Sounds of California: Boyle Heights program, assisting…
September 24, 2020
Sanando por medio del conocimiento cultural
Una serie de preguntas y respuestas con las artistas becarias de ACTA Luz Marlene Cordero y Dalila Mendez
September 22, 2020
Healing Through Cultural Knowledge
A Q+A with ACTA Artist Fellows Luz Marlene Cordero and Dalila Mendez
June 29, 2020
We Make it Our Own
A conversation on Drag and Community with the Imperial Court of Los Angeles and Hollywood
June 26, 2020
Māhū: Transgender Healers of Hawai’i
Storytelling with Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne
June 26, 2020
A Conversation Between Two Spirits
Featuring Artists and Advocates L. Frank Manriquez and Sipu Whittle
June 24, 2020
“Con tu verdad sales adelante.”
Queering the Bolero with Musician Mary Alfaro Velasco