One of California’s highly regarded Mexican folkdance companies, Compañia Mazatlán Bellas Artes (CMBA) is bringing their folkloric dance spectacle to Three Stages Performing Arts Center in Folsom, CA next week. Friday, May 18, 2012 7:30 PM Three Stages Folsom Lake College 10 College Parkway Folsom CA 95630 Phone: 916-608-6888 Tickets: $20 (children), $25-$39  https://www.threestages.net Under the artistic direction of 2011 Maestro Award winner Steven Valencia, twenty-six exceptional young dancers (ages 16-30) and a live Latin American music ensemble present a passionate rendition of Mexican culture and heritage, both past and present. For lovers of fine ballet folklórico dance, the “Cora

Wednesday evening was filled with poetry, music and activism when Rafael Jesús González (poet, professor, artist and bilingual studies innovator) read to a full house at La Raza Galería Posada. He was accompanied by flautist and Rooted in Community co-director Gerardo O. Marín and artist and activist Colin Miller. The event was hosted by Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun and opened with local writer JoAnn Anglin. She spoke of the group’s founding in 1993, its monthly writing group, monthly readings and of the group’s anthology, “Voices of the New Sun: Songs and Stories / Voces del Nuevo Sol: Cantos y Cuentos.”  González was introduced by Dr. Fausto Avendaño, a retire

“Folk & traditional artists are tradition bearers: people who transmit what they believe, know, do, and create with others who share a common heritage, language, religion, occupation, or region. These expressions are deeply rooted in and reflective of a community’s shared standards of beauty, values, or life experiences. Folk and traditional arts are, ultimately, passed on from one generation to the next and express a collective wisdom, rather than a unique personal aesthetic”. --- The Alliance of California Traditional Art La Raza Galería Posada’s new exhibition: “BALLET FOLKLORICO-LACE AND RIBBONS: The Making of Cultural Affirmation-Costumes from the Instituto Mazatlan Bellas Artes” ope

A México with bundles of tassels. A Mexico that is tame, quiet, wild, incongruous, strident, lighthearted.-Amalia Hernandez A Mexico that is a pure expression of roots, that convert themselves into reality though emotional sentiment Ballet Folklorico de Amalia Hernandez