ACTA's Living Cultures Grant Program:
Applications Now Open!
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The Program seeks to sustain and strengthen traditional arts with project-based grants of $5,000 to California nonprofits, tribal entities, and other organizations who work with fiscal sponsors.
DEADLINE: December 8, 2020
The Living Cultures Grant Program supports cultural projects involving any genre of traditional art—including but not limited to dance, music, foodways, material arts, and oral traditions. Projects must take place between March 1, 2021 and February 28, 2022.
To learn more about eligibility or read about our funders, please visit our website.
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El Programa de Becas para las Culturas Vivas de ACTA:
¡La Solicitud está abierta ahora!
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El Programa busca sostener y fortalecer las artes tradicionales con becas de $5,000 para proyectos a organizaciones no lucrativas, entidades tribales y otras organizaciones que trabajan con patrocinadores fiscales, en California.
SOLICITA antes del 8 de diciembre 2020
El Programa de Becas para las Culturas Vivas apoya proyectos culturales que involucren cualquier género de las artes tradicionales--incluyendo pero no limitado a la danza, música, conocimientos culinarios, artes materiales y tradiciones orales. Los proyectos deben realizarse entre el 1 de marzo, 2021 y el 28 de febrero 2022.
Para aprender más sobre la elegibilidad o leer sobre nuestros patrocinadores, por favor visita nuestra página de internet.
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Presented by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts |
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Sounds of California Boyle Heights:
Rola del Día
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Co-hosted by ACTA Program Managers Betty Marín and Quetzal Flores, this bilingual English-Spanish program will debut 10 original songs about the people, places, and cultural heritage of Boyle Heights, and hear from the local artists who composed them. The series will include 5 sessions, pairing 2 artists in each session. The first session aired on October 23 and featured music and interviews with Boyle Heights musicians Angelica Mata and Martin Saavedra. Click to view with the original Spanish audio or with interpretation into English.
Co-presentado por gerentes de programa Betty Marín y Quetzal Flores, este programa bilingüe en español-inglés debutará 10 canciones originales sobre las personas, lugares, y la herencia cultural de Boyle Heights, y escuchará de lxs artistas locales que las compusieron. La serie tendrá 5 sesiones, emparejando a 2 artistas en cada sesión. La primera sesión se transmitió el 23 de octubre y presentó la música y entrevistas con musicxs de Boyle Heights Angelica Mata y Martin Saavedra. Haz clic para ver con el audio original en español o con la interpretación al inglés.
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Online on Zoom and ACTA’s Facebook live channel!
October 30 - November 20, 2020
Fridays at 12 PM PST
Free and open to everyone!
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¡En línea por zoom y en el canal de Facebook en vivo de ACTA!
30 octubre - 20 noviembre
Los viernes a las 12 PM PST
¡Gratis y abierto a todo mundo!
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Building Justice from the Source: Traditional Artists Respond to this Moment
Race and (In)Justice
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Gullah Geechee elders have long taught that we “mus tek cyear a de root fa heal de tree.” Running through all of our contemporary challenges around race, policing, and extrajudicial killings of African American men and women is the common thread of our long, shared, and unreconciled American experience with race and racial (in)justice.
This national panel moderated by Heather L. Hodges (Executive Director, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor) brings together a group of emerging African American traditional artists and scholars from across the nation: Jake Blount, Sara Makeba Daise, Marquise Knox and Latanya d. Tigner. They are all deeply rooted in traditional culture and drawing on that powerful wellspring to offer important, contemporary social critiques of race, racial injustice and notions, of self-identity. Their work encourages us to shape new narratives around contemporary cultural identities rooted in traditional ways of knowing, living, and making art—yet keenly responsive to our current moment.
Join us online for this national panel!
Thursday
October 29, 2020
1 PM PST
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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 specifically with archiving field documentation.
Nestor (he/him) was selected from a pool of more than 30 applicants. We admire his longtime commitment to the musical communities of Los Angeles, and we are excited for his contributions to our Sounds of California work in Boyle Heights!
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Nestor is an aspiring multimedia storyteller from Whittier, CA and a recent graduate from UCLA, where he studied Chicana/o + Central American Studies and English, with a minor in Digital Humanities. During his time in undergrad he was heavily involved in student organizing and college radio, where he ran his own show for two years centered on documenting the oral histories of Latinx DJs based in Southern California. Nestor was inspired to learn more about archival work through his experiences doing community engaged research on LGBTQ+ nightlife in the greater Los Angeles area. In his free time, Nestor likes to water his plants and go crate digging for vinyl he can create mixtapes out of at local record stores.
What about the Sounds of California project excites you?
I saw the Sounds of California project as an opportunity for me to transfer the skills I developed in college as a radio host and oral historian towards documenting the stories and the sounds embedded in expressive cultures and narratives that can be felt throughout the community of Boyle Heights. What I find the most exciting about contributing to this project is the opportunities for artistic collaboration with the community members of East LA. I am excited to get to know the stories that exist and emerge in this unprecedented time that we are living in, and am looking forward to being part of the efforts that empower and amplify community voices— especially in a time where connecting and building community with others is more crucial than ever before.
What do you hope to learn during your time at ACTA?
Through my experiences with ACTA, I hope to develop more intimate ways of engaging with communities and how to foster genuine relationships with them, as well as learn a more personal and collaborative approach on storytelling and audio/visual documentation. I ultimately hope to strengthen my own practice of listening in detail—to pick up on the sounds that characterize the vibrant communities of Boyle Heights.
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ICYMI: La Ultima Parada on Shelter Together
On Wednesday October 21 we had the pleasure of hosting Maria Luisa Colmenarez of La Ultima Parada San Jose (2019 Living Cultures grantee organization) on our Shelter Together livestream! Maria shared some of how her family will be celebrating Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, at home this year under social distance restrictions. We were also treated to live music as Maria shared a celebratory dance that got us all up out our chairs and stepping to the sounds of the violin, played by her son Luis Xavier Garcia. Check out the full video here!
View all past Shelter Together videos here.
Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to hear about the next installment in this series!
Image: A handmade mask by Maria Luisa Colmenarez of La Ultima Parada. Still from the Shelter Together livestream.
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The Alliance for California Traditional Arts is the California Arts Council's official partner in serving the state's folk and traditional arts field. |
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