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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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Cultural Coalition Launches Online Museum

Zarco in front of a group of folklorico dancers wearing his masks

Mask Alive! Museum Features Hundreds of Masks Used By Arizona’s Performing Arts Organizations Cultural Coalition, Inc has announced the launch of its Mask Alive! Museum & Cultural Center (MAMACC), an online collection of masks, performance art related objects, exhibitions, and free pop-up art installations around the Valley. A dream of Cultural Coalition’s founders Zarco and…

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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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Eulogy to Diane Hunt Vanek

Two dancers. Mark in a fur mask in a squat position jumping in the air above Diane, sitting on the ground holding up a mask with fur

By Zarco Guerrero Carmen and I first met Mark and Di in the early 80s at Tuba City High School on the Navajo Reservation where we were both Artists in Residence. I remember the first time I saw Dancing Di dance, she fluttered around like a butterfly and could sting like a bee. She was…

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