🌼NEW DATE + LOCATION!🌼 Healing Through Our Traditions: Art & Community Altar for the Eaton Fire 🌱 Join us at Akwaaba Food Forest for a free special program from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, in partnership with Hands in the Soil (@handsinthesoil). Together, we will create a community altar for collective healing from the Eaton wildfires. Pasadena sound artist/healing practitioner Yancy Comins, Altadena ceramicist Alma Cielo, and East L.A. altaristas Ofelia Esparza and Rosanna Esparza Ahrens will lead us in a creative and supportive process rooted in tradition. After making offerings with clay and paper, we will together build our community altar. This program is part of ACTA’s Traditional Arts Roundtable Series (TARS). Akwaaba (@akwaabafoodforest) is a community food forest demonstration site facilitated by the founders of Rhythms of the Village, a beloved music center and shop in Altadena that lost thier space in the Eaton fire. 🌸 This event is taking place at a community space that is also a private residence. Please only show up at the stated time: Sunday, June 8, 2025, from 4-6 pm. The Traditional Arts Roundtable Series (TARS) is a statewide program series produced by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts. TARS is generously supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture. P.S. This event Was previously set to take place at the lovely @arlingtonpasadena but they’ve had to close temporarily due to a contained fire on their property. 💛 Consider pitching into their GoFundMe for repairs, if you’re able! 📸: Master altarista Ofelia Esparza making paper flowers for an ofrenda. Photo: Oscar Vargas/ACTA. (fb)

🎶 ONLY ONE WEEK left until Canciones del San Joaquín, our upcoming concert in Fresno on June 7! This special one-night concert will premiere ten newly commissioned songs from local artists whose music reflects the complex beauty of the San Joaquin Valley. 🎟️ Get tickets today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/canciones-del-san-joaquin-tickets-1361270790579 The concert will feature a range of musical styles and genres, including Arpa Grande, Chilenas, Chicano Rock/R&B, Latin Jazz, Norteño, Mariachi, Nueva Canción, Mixtec Rap, and Son Jarocho.⁠ This is the second performance of ACTA’s Sounds of California: San Joaquin Valley initiative, a multi-year collaboration with Radio Bilingüe (@radiobilingue). ⁠ 🎟️ $10 / Free for youth under 18⁠ 📍 Fresno Memorial Auditorium⁠ 🕓 Doors at 4 PM | Show 5–8 PM⁠ 📞 More info: (559) 242-6183⁠ or actaonline.org/canciones ⁠ #Canciones #CorridosDelSanJoaquin #SanJoaquinValley #MixtecRap #ArpaGrande (fb)