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The name means “to remove worries.” Everybody has a “pena” and the mission of QUITAPENAS is simple: to make you dance and leave you without a worry.
This tropical Afro-Latin combo was born under the warm California sun. They borrow aesthetics from the radical 60s, 70s and 80s. Each song echoes a remix of history and invites one to engage in the liberating evenings of Angola, Peru, Colombia, Brazil and beyond. Don't miss this show - we are gonna have a great time!
*AFTS has implemented extra precautions including sanitation protocols for all shows.
One of Arts For The Schools founding tenants is to promote cultural understanding and learning. We have a deep commitment to equality and cultural learning. With a deep commitment to build community and cultural understanding, Arts For The Schools has for the last 36 years worked to promote cultural diversity and learning through our onSTAGE Live and Performing Arts programs. Arts For The Schools has 36 years of experience presenting and hosting culture performances and events in our service area in the rural communities of North Lake Tahoe. Since 2013, we have deepened our commitment to honor and celebrate our LatinX families, students and residents through hosting Latino and Mexican artists, performances and workshops.
Arts For The Schools is a 36-year-old non-profit with the mission is to inspire, teach and build our rural communities through equitable access to the arts and arts education. Arts For The Schools has partnered with local schools in our service area to teach visual arts classes since 1989 and has effective partnerships with regional schools to offer arts education courses. With the recent retirement of one of our long-time teachers, we are looking for a deeply committed art teacher to work with local students in K-5th grades.
The position would be responsible for teaching multiple classrooms and be available to teach 4-5 days per week, during school hours of 8:00am-3:00pm. The position is a contract position for the 21-22 school-year, with the potential to contract in future years. Reports to CEO. Independent work, with in-person meetings each week. Contract for 35 hours per week. Contract rate $40/hour. Deadline to apply August 23,2021 Minimum Qualifications:
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The Mexican Heritage Festival will honor Mexican and Hispanic cultural traditions and will be centered on Mexican music, and cultural and artistic traditions, while highlighting local businesses. The goals of the festival are to honor and celebrate Mexican heritage, build community ties and opportunities for cultural learning, and to provide economic opportunities for Mexican-owned and local businesses.
One of Arts For The Schools founding tenants is to promote cultural understanding and learning through the arts. We have a deep commitment to equality and cultural learning. Arts For The Schools has for the last 36 years worked to promote cultural diversity and learning through our onSTAGE Live Program for the public and in our Performing Arts Program for schools, by presenting and hosting culture performances and events in the rural communities of North Lake Tahoe. Since 2013, we have deepened our commitment to honor and celebrate our Mexican families and students, through hosting Latino and Mexican artists, performances and workshops. The festival is an extension of this ongoing work. Reports to CEO. Remote work, with in-person meetings each week. Contract for 20 hours per week. Contract rate $25-$27/hour. Deadline to apply August 16, 2021 DUTIES: Oversee and assist the leadership committee with all event-planning duties including:
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND ABILITIES:
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The group has two murals planned for this year in Kings Beach, CA and hopes to ultimately complete nine locations in Kings Beach, and expand to other North Lake communities in the near future.
“We hope the project will enhance community enrichment, identity, and cohesion, and the art will allow everyone in the community and visitors alike, to experience art in the course of daily life. As an added benefit, the project will highlight small, local businesses and this project is a special way to show how the arts can contribute to making local communities better.” says Eve McEneaney, Arts For The Schools CEO. The Mural Project plans to work with regional artists to design and paint the murals, as well as reserve a few for student groups, providing students with a hands-on learning experience.
Arts For The Schools has partnered with the Town of Truckee to develop the festival, that was originally scheduled for September 19, 2020 in honor of Mexican Independence Day. Mexican-owned businesses contact us to participate! We are looking for planning committee members, food vendors, musicians and table vendors!
***Watch for updates coming this summer about musical acts, opportunities to table or be a vendor.
Our programming focuses on providing economic opportunities for artists of color, artists of all ethnicities, of all abilities, genders, and sexual orientations. Through programming, we provide a public space for the messages of equality within the larger community and most importantly share this message with our young people, to promote a more inclusive, tolerant and equitable world.
Plan We are committed to continuing to uphold our tradition of cultural learning work, community building and equitable access. We are committed to promoting equality in our work for all people: people of color, indigenous people, people of all abilities and sexual orientations. We know we have more work to do. We are committed to finding ways to continue to expand equity within our programs, for the people we serve, and in the community, at large. We will further develop this commitment in our 2021 strategic plan and focus on localized strategies and action steps, to strive to build our rural community as a place of equity and inclusion.
Here are some ideas to teach your children about Black History:
1) Create a Black History Month collage with important historical figures such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama. 2) Join Tuesday, Feb. 23 Artists at Home: School Outreach Adapted from the museum’s summer program, “Artists at Home” is a digital interactive program designed to engage students with hands-on artmaking and conversations about African American artists and different visual art genres. Each hour-long session, led by an NMAAHC educator, encourages participants to make art using household materials and discuss the featured artist work. February’s sessions will focus on the works of Wadsworth Jarrell and word portraits. This program is for students from grades six–12. Admission is free; however, registration is required at https://nmaahc.si.edu/events/upcoming. 3) Re-enact a a black history month story book such as Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. For more details and ideas visit: https://kidactivities.net/black-history-month-activities-for-kids/
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