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Ancient Technology Day
This year Cultural Coalition is proud to announce our participation in the 19th annual Ancient Technology Day at the Pueblo Grande Museum on March 9th, 2019. People have lived in the Valley of the Sun for thousands of years. Centuries before the invention of air conditioning, modern architecture or automobiles, ancient people learned to use…
Read MoreThe Art of Community Engagement!
We are so proud to announce a new collaboration with the City of Phoenix and Burton Barr Central Library. Cultural Coalition is presenting a free art gallery installation in the second floor gallery of the downtown library. This collection, entitled “The Art of Community Engagement”, is a celebration of the 25 years of community building…
Read MoreOrganic Growth
Board member Patricia Federico, a healer, is offering a blessing to Marlena. By: Marlena Robbins January 2019 will mark my 5th year working with the Cultural Coalition, Inc., as their Assistant Director and Grants Writer. In 2014, I had recently graduated with my Bachelor’s from Arizona State University. I remember sitting in my sorority sister,…
Read MoreWhy Mikiztli? [Meeh-keesh-tleeh]
This year the Cultural Coalition, Inc. has changed the name of the annual Dia de los Muertos Festival to “Mikitztli” because of the blatant commercialization and cultural appropriation of El Dia de Los Muertos theme and its related imagery. In order to better communicate and share this ancient indigenous cosmo-vision, we will decolonize the name of…
Read MoreThe Sagrado Series with Healer Patricia Federico
Last week Cultural Coalition held another event in the Ancestral Knowledge Lecture Series at The Sagrado Gallery in South Phoenix on Thursday, May 17. Patricia Federico presented a fascinating talk on her journey as a Curandera/Healer. The audience was captivated by her personal stories about growing up in Las Cuatro Milpas barrio of Phoenix and…
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