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Bay Area
The 50th anniversary celebration of Ohlone Park, to be held Saturday, June 1st, will salute citizen activists who founded the park in 1969 and honor the Native California Indians whose heritage, dating back thousands of years in the Bay Area, gave this treasured open space in Berkeley its name.
May 1, 2019
Bay Area
It is with a very heavy heart we share the difficult news on the passing of 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellow and California quilt-maker Marion Coleman. Marion has long been a part of the ACTA family, and her impact on the field of African American art, culture, and…
May 1, 2019
Visual/Craft/Material Arts
Bay Area
Listen to the artists from the 2018 Sounds of California concert tell their stories in detailed new radio features produced in partnership with Radio Bilingüe.
July 30, 2018
Music
Bay Area
In this Sounds of California Bayview concert on April 29, 2018, our musical artists ponder displacement, migration, and creating a new sense of home. They musicians hail from the Bay Area’s African-American, Vietnamese, Kurdish, and Chicano communities. Sounds of California takes place in the heart of the Bayview-Hunter’s…
April 25, 2018
Bay Area
The Hidden Legacy of Koto Music at a Japanese Internment Camp
October 5, 2017
Bay Area