Events

You’re Invited: Free Programs at Tempe Center for the Arts

Cultural Coalition is excited to support the Small Island Big Song (SIBS) residency at Tempe Center for the Arts (TCA) from February 8 to February 10. Together with TCA and artists from SIBS, we have curated supporting programs that feature collaborations of artists from Arizona with visiting artists from Oceania, culminating a final concert performance…

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Indígena: A Latin American Indigenous Celebration

Indígena: A Latin American Indigenous Celebration Oct 9 5:30pm Free

Enjoy an evening celebrating the indigenous peoples of Latin America curated by Cultural Coalition, Inc. Explore the indígena artistic traditions of food, dance, music and storytelling with a local chef, ancestral dancers, and musical sounds from Latin America. Families are invited to participate in this free program with art-making activities throughout the evening.  Que vengan…

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Calaca Café: Zúm Zúm Zúm Reunion & Cultural Coalition Fundraiser

Calaca Cafe event flier featuring photos of 4 bands and a giant skeleton puppet

Baila con los muertos, at the Calaca Café!Presented by Crescent Ballroom and Cultural Coalition – Party with giant dancing puppets and Cucui trouble makers, for a historical Zúm Zúm Zúm reunion fundraiser concert and album release fiesta that features a musical line-up of global rhythms from some of the Valleys most popular bands! Audiences will…

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Día de los Muertos: The Untold Stories

Youth folklorico dancers in colorful dresses wearing calaca (skeleton) masks created by Zarco Guerrero

Join master sculptor and storyteller Zarco Guerrero as he shares untold stories of the Día de los Muertos holiday as told through his many masked characters on August 24 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The evening will begin with a storytelling performance by Zarco at the K’é Community Lab in Downtown Mesa. Next we’ll take…

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Mask Making Workshop

Back in April, Zarco and Cultural Coalition had some very cool visitors in the studio and at Rancho del Arte – a group of high school students and teachers from Silverton Public School in Colorado! This amazing group of students come from an EL or Expeditionary Learning academic model school. They were working on research…

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