Posts by stirling anderson

El Puente Festival Returns to Tempe Center for the Arts

March 15, 2022

Featuring youth performance groups from around the Valley Cultural Coalition is excited to announce the 10th Annual El Puente Festival will return as an in-person event at Tempe Center for the Arts (TCA) on Sunday, April 10, 2022 from 2 to 5:30 p.m. After two years of live streaming this youth centric arts and culture…

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Cultural Coalition a WESTAF America Rescue Plan Awardee

January 19, 2022

In November of 2021, WESTAF (Western States Arts Federation) announced that Cultural Coalition was one of 44 awardees that were part of their American Rescue Plan Fund for Organizations (ARP). According the WESTAF press release announcement, “Aligning with the priorities of the National Endowment for the Arts (Arts Endowment), the WESTAF ARP program focused on…

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Cultural Coalition celebrated its 25 year anniversary in 2021

December 28, 2021

As this year comes to a close, we thought it would be a perfect time to take a look back over the last quarter century and how that has led to who we are today. The idea of Cultural Coalition began in 1996, with Zarco Guerrero and Carmen de Novais Guerrero, already established artists and…

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