Innovative Mosaic Silicon Valley Program Focuses on Creating Intercultural Performances that Redefine American Art SAN JOSE, Calif. -- June 11, 2020 -- Sangam Arts announced today it has commissioned grants to five new performing arts projects via its Mosaic Silicon Valley program. Each of these grants will enable Bay Area-based artists to create projects that
By Usha Srinivasan As our nation grapples with the public health and economic devastation wrought by COVID-19, we are also faced with another hateful enemy: racist hate crimes. Americans who have known no other home and owe no allegiance to any country but their own are being spat on and viciously attacked as they are
Mosaic Connect Episode #5: Stories that Move New Episode Intersects BharataNatyam with Modern Ballet for Storytelling; with Arabic Melodies to Create Intercultural Narrative SAN JOSE, Calif. – May 21, 2020 – Sangam Arts will host its next episode of Mosaic Connect - Stories that Move - on Monday, May 25th. Stories that Move will create
Join us for four hours of fun family activities hosted by Ohlone Culture bearers; Showcasing living traditions of our native people. Participate in regalia-making, story-telling, dance and more! Food trucks will have a variety of offerings for the whole family. Admission is FREE. Funded through an X-Factor grant from SVCreates
The Ohlone to welcome community to partake in living traditions, conversational practices, ancestral arts SAN JOSE, CA, MARCH 2, 2020 -- Mosaic Silicon Valley announced “Hummingbird Circle” today to honor and invite the descendants of the original inhabitants of Silicon Valley, the Native American Ohlone, to share their living traditions. Hummingbird Circle is in partnership
Panelists will discuss how organizations large and small can embody a collaborative spirit to reach broader audiences, harness change, mitigate risk, and build community, to accomplish more than any single organization could do alone. Panel moderated by Sangam Arts will include Ray Furuta, Chamber Music Silicon Valley Leigh Henderson, Teatro Vision Jessica Paz-Cedillo, School of
A day of ART and SOLIDARITY as we come together to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy by creating and sharing art in many forms.
$250,000 will support establishment of an annual multicultural festival in San Jose and year-round programming San Jose, Feb 11, 2020: Sangam Arts, a non-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen American communities through multicultural arts, today announced that it has received $250,000 in funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The funding
Precious Scars is a musical testament to the courage of immigrants in the United States past and present. The music draws upon the lives of and pays homage to the US- Japanese internees and their families. Ray Furuta, of part-Japanese origin himself, will be joined by Amr Salim and Vico Diaz to remind us of
Sangam Arts has been awarded $10,00 to create and launch "Hummingbird Circle" - a collaboration with Confederation of Ohlone People. This free, participatory event will debut at San Jose's St. James Park in late Spring 2020. Culture-bearers will share the Ohlone way-of-life through storytelling, regalia-making, and dance. Audience members will learn about historical and living