Art Farm at West Dry Creek
ACTA Traditional Arts Roundtable Series:
Taking the Long View on Resistance and Resilience within Cultural Communities
Sunday, February 15, 2-4:30pm
321 West Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg
Please join us for a special gathering with the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA), an organization dedicated to sustaining cultural traditions and supporting folk and traditional artists across California. Through its Traditional Arts Roundtable Series, ACTA brings culture bearers, artists, and community leaders together for dialogue, learning, and shared storytelling.
This roundtable will feature Sonoma County culture bearers reflecting on resistance, resilience, and the role of cultural traditions in sustaining communities through challenging times. Featured speakers include Art Farm advisory board member Zeke Guzman and Yolanda Giron (Jardines del Pueblo and Ballet Folklórico Yolotl), traditional Pomo song keepers Bernadette Smith and Precious Thomas, and Cambodian classical dancer Charya Burt.
About the alliance for California traditional arts
In our increasingly fractured society, we believe ACTA will play a critical role in shaping a positive future for California where the unique value of every culture is respected, sustained, and appreciated. Through our programs, services, and funding opportunities for the traditional arts, we are weaving a more integrated, just, and empathetic social fabric across California. Founded in 1997, ACTA is a 501(c)3 non-profit and for 24 years served as the California Arts Council’s official partner in serving the state’s folk and traditional arts field.
California is a leading creative and cultural capital in the world. With 1 in 4 Californians identifying as first generation immigrants, our state is at the forefront of the country’s shift toward racial and ethnic plurality. We are home to an abundance of cultural traditions embedded in California families and communities. From Ohlone basketry to Japanese koto music, from Oaxacan mask-making to queer voguing competitions, we recognize California’s breadth of cultural practice as sources of social belonging, power, and justice.
ACTA is a statewide and national leader dedicated to supporting cultural practitioners and their communities. We travel up and down California from our offices in Fresno, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, reaching every corner of the state. We work in partnership with communities, learning from their own articulation of assets, needs, and aspirations in order to craft responsive programs and services. ACTA aims to serve as a bridge between cultural communities, providing opportunities for exchange, collaboration, and connection to new resources.
Since our founding in 1997 by cultural workers, arts administrators, and artists, we have distributed more than $12 million in grants and contracts to more than 2,000 artists and organizations throughout 52 counties in California and 28 U.S. states and territories.
We’re thrilled to be hosting these aligned partners for such a meaningful event.
We Can’t wait to welcome you!
